Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Ethel Cain, Charley Crockett, J.I.D. : All Songs Thought of : NPR

Ethel Cain's new album, Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You, is out now.

Ethel Cain’s new album, Willoughby Tucker, I will All the time Love You, is out now.

Dollie Kyarn


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Dollie Kyarn

It is Friday, and when you could also be exhausting at work interested by what your music of the summer time is — or what it needs to be — over right here within the land of New Music Friday, we have been centered on the long run. Over the previous few weeks, we have been previewing dozens of the albums that hit streaming immediately, Aug. 8, with the intention to current to you, the listener, a brief checklist of potential new faves.

This week, we liked Atlanta rapper J.I.D’s extremely anticipated God Does Like Ugly, which is overflowing with options from Clipse, Vince Staples and Ty Dolla $ign to call just a few. Amaarae’s BLACK STAR is a futuristic album steeped in nostalgia (with a needed cameo from PinkPantheress). And Ethel Cain returns with a prequel to her epochal album Preacher’s Daughter; it is known as Willoughby Tucker, I will All the time Love You.

Stephen Thompson welcomes DeShun Nance from NPR Member station WJSU’s The Sipp to the present to debate these albums and extra favorites out this week. Take heed to the present starting at 3 a.m. ET proper right here or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Beginning 5

Amaarae

Amaarae.

Salomé Gomis-Trezise


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Salomé Gomis-Trezise

Our hosts share the backstories and finest songs from the next albums:

💿 J.I.D, God Does Like Ugly (Stream)

  • Advisable If You Like: EARTHGANG, Dreamville

💿 Ethel Cain, Willoughby Tucker, I will All the time Love You (Stream)

  • RIYL: Haunted homes, southern gothic

💿 Amaarae, BLACK STAR (Stream)

  • RIYL: Tems, PinkPantheress

💿 Charley Crockett, Greenback a Day (Stream)

  • RIYL: Sturgill Simpson, Sierra Ferrell

💿 Gordi, Like Plasticine (Stream)

New Music Friday is a characteristic of NPR’s All Songs Thought of podcast. Hear the dialogue on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Lightning Spherical

Big Freedia

Large Freedia.

Hunter Holder


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Hunter Holder

5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:

💿 Hayes Carll, We’re Solely Human

💿 Large Freedia, Urgent Onward

💿 Ashley Monroe, Tennessee Lightning

💿 Bryson Tiller, The Vices

💿 Ada Lea, when i paint my masterpiece

Pay attention to every album’s finest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.

The Lengthy Checklist

Cameo Blush

Cameo Blush.

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Rob Jones for Khroma Collective

For many who wish to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:

Digital/Out There

  • Cameo Blush, Grace In Movement EP
  • Phil Elverum & Arrington de Dionyso, GIANT OPENING MOUTH ON THE GROUND
  • DJ Okay, RADIO LIBERTADORA!
  • Mechatok, Huge Awake
  • Ninajirachi, I Love My Pc
  • Valesuchi, Futuro Cercano

Classical

  • Joe Hisaishi, Joe Hisaishi Conducts
  • Tamar Sagiv, Shades of Mourning

Nation/Folks/Americana

  • Bailey Zimmerman, Totally different Evening Identical Rodeo

Jazz

  • John McLaughlin, Stay at Montreux Jazz Pageant 2022
  • Tom Gershwin, Wellspring

Pop

  • David Franklin Courtright, Brutal Tenderness
  • Blessing Offor, Actual
  • Conor Matthews, Magic
  • Elijah Waters, Violence!
  • Good Charlotte, Motel Du Cap
  • Jonas Brothers, Greetings From Your Hometown
  • mgk, misplaced americana

R&B/Soul

  • Craig David, Dedication
  • Kaash Paige, KAASHMYCHECKS EP
  • Isaia Huron, CONCUBANIA
  • iyla, WEEPING ANGEL
  • Jenevieve, CRYSALIS
  • Lew Apollo, Idiot’s Gold
  • Majestic Arrows, The Magic of the Majestic Arrows (Reissue)
  • Odyssey, Odyssey (Reissue)
  • V/A, Stax Revue: Stay In ’65!

International

  • Skillibeng, Worldwide

Rap/Hip-Hop

  • Gunna, The Final Wun
  • DJ Premier and Roc Marciano, The Coldest Career
  • Mozzy, INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS 2
  • Younger Nudy, PARADISE

Rock/Alt/Indie

  • Galaxie 500, CBGB 12.13.88
  • Les Rallizes Dénudés, Jittoku ’76
  • Westside Cowboy, This Higher Be One thing Nice EP
  • Teethe, Magic of the Sale
  • The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
  • Thee Oh Sees, ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST
  • America, Hearts (Reissue)
  • Anamanaguchi, Anyway
  • Animals in Exile, Animals in Exile
  • BABYMETAL, Metallic Forth
  • Unhealthy Suns, Accelerator
  • Chris Staples, Do not Fear
  • Crypt Sermon, Saturnian Appendices
  • Area Medic, Give up As a substitute
  • Humour, Studying Greek
  • Lydia Evening, Parody of Pleasure
  • Delicate Orange, The//Glow
  • NEWMEN, Terminal Seaside
  • No Pleasure, Bugland
  • P.G. Six, The Nicely of Reminiscence (2025 Expanded Version)
  • Primitive Impulse, Piss It Away
  • Shepparton Airplane, Forecast
  • T. Hardy Morris, Synthetic Tears
  • The Royston Membership, Tune for the Backbone
  • Theurgion, All Beneath Heaven
  • Warburton, Hurricane
  • Wombo, Hazard in Fives

  • Host: Stephen Thompson
  • Visitor: DeShun Nance, The Sipp
  • Audio Producer: Noah Caldwell
  • Digital Producer: Elle Mannion
  • Manufacturing Assistant: Dora Levite
  • Editor: Otis Hart
  • Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed

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