The best new albums out Sept. 19

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Joan Shelley, Lola Young and the return of Sarah McLachlan. Kyle Meredith from WFPK in Louisville joins Stephen Thompson to chat about their favorite albums out Friday, Sept. 19.

The Starting 5:

- Joan Shelley, 'Real Warmth' (Stream)

- Lola Young, 'I'm Only F****** Myself' (Stream)

- Wednesday, 'Bleeds' (Stream)

- Sarah McLachlan, 'Better Broken' (Stream)

- Yasmine Hamdan, 'I remember I forget بنسى وبتذكر' (Stream)

The Lightning Round:

- Kieran Hebden & William Tyler, '41 Longfield Street Late '80s'

- Nine Inch Nails, 'Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'

- Lawrence Matthews, 'Between Mortal Reach & Posthumous Grip'

- Joy Crookes, 'Juniper'

- Joanne Robertson, 'Blurrr'

See the long list of albums out Sept. 12 and sample dozens of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson

Guest: Kyle Meredith, WFPK

Audio Producer: Noah Caldwell

Digital Producer: Elle Mannion

Editor: Otis Hart

Production Assistant: Dora Levite

Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.8	Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Kyle Meredith of WFP.
0:16.4	And Louisville. Welcome to the show, Kyle. Hi, Stephen. Thanks for having me here.
0:20.2	It is a pleasure.
0:21.3	Now, the music that we're hearing is from Buckingham Nix, the 1973 collaboration between
0:28.4	Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nix, right before they joined Fleetwood Mac.
0:32.5	Their only studio album as a duo has been out of print for decades, which is wild, considering how closely
0:39.0	it predates classic albums like rumors, but now it is finally back in mass circulation.
0:44.5	It's finally on streaming services for the first time.
0:47.2	Loved hearing it too.
0:48.2	You know, I will say the very first time that I heard this album, it was not them doing it.
0:52.0	It was the Andrew Bird, Madison Cunningham, where they covered the whole thing.
0:56.1	And because it wasn't around,
0:57.9	I just never hunted a doubt.
1:00.1	I loved listening to it, though,
1:02.0	and was surprised how fully formed
1:04.3	they were,
1:06.4	just like ready to go into Fleetwood Mac.
1:08.4	But she'll leave you,
1:13.6	crying in the night. Yeah, and often when you hear kind of the early works of a given artist, you'll hear them in their kind of fetal stages, you know, and they're not fully there.
1:35.3	They haven't quite found their voice.
1:37.3	But, I mean, this is like right before they were recording and releasing some of the, some, you know, rumors is still on the
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