The Best Music of May
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4.3 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Bad Bunny: "Después de la Playa" and "Otro Atardecer" from Un Verano Sin Ti
2. Kendrick Lamar: "N95" and "Mother I Sober" from Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
3. Ravyn Lenae: "Where I'm From (feat. Mereba)" from Hypnos
4. Julia Reidy: "World in World" from World in World
5. Ethel Cain: "Family Tree" from Preacher's Daughter
Our panel's additional recommendations for May:
• My Chemical Romance, "The Foundations of Decay"
• Flores, The Lives They Left
• Leikeli47, Shape Up
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From NPR Music and All Songs considered on Vars Gotrich, it is the best music of the |
| 0:07.1 | Mup Show and worth listening to album of the year contenders for 2022. |
| 0:12.6 | Let's start off with Bad Bunny. |
| 0:42.6 | From NPR Music and All Songs considered on Vars Gotrich, it is the best music of the year contenders for 2022. |
| 1:05.2 | From NPR Music and All Songs considered on Vars Gotrich, it is the best music of the year contenders for 2022. |
| 1:20.6 | Let the summer of September need to begin. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm going to start using that. |
| 1:27.1 | Good, good, good. |
| 1:28.1 | I am here with Honamriya Sayar, Jerusalem Truth and Rihanna Cruz. |
| 1:32.6 | What's up, y'all? |
| 1:33.7 | How do you hate? |
| 1:34.7 | What's up? |
| 1:35.7 | And like I said, we are discussing the best albums released in May. |
| 1:41.1 | Wombarano Sinti is the fourth solo album by Bad Bunny. |
| 1:44.8 | He also released Oasis with Jay Balvin in 2018. |
| 1:48.5 | And it has packed 23 songs, lots of great features. |
| 1:53.3 | Jay Cortez, Rahan Daro, Bamba Estereo, D'Amrías, Buzca Balala, but also just an incredible showcase for Bad Bunny's diverse palette. |
| 2:02.7 | Honamriya Sayar, you said something that caught my ear when you reviewed this album for pop culture happy hour. |
| 2:08.6 | That Bad Bunny wants to be part of the listeners everyday experience. |
| 2:13.1 | I love that. |
| 2:14.2 | And I really like that inside because there's many styles and moods and modes. |
| 2:19.4 | Wombarano Sinti really does seem to meet you where you are. |
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