World Communication’s Mark Pritchard and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.
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It is Friday, which suggests you could be hoping to listen to Atlanta rapper Younger Thug’s first album for the reason that conclusion of his year-long gang trial. That album, UY Scuti, was purported to drop in the present day, however the groundbreaking MC introduced this week that the undertaking had been postponed to someday in June.
However do not fret, as a result of if you happen to’re a hip-hop fan, in the present day delivered what could be the very best rap album of the yr to date: billy woods’ GOLLIWOG. NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson welcomed WXPN’s John Morrison to New Music Friday to go deep on the darkish, dramatic album, in addition to new albums by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Gen Z pop star PinkPantheress and far more.
Hearken to the present under and scroll all the way down to see our lengthy record of albums out Could 9.
The Beginning 5
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Our hosts share the backstories and finest songs from the next albums:
💿 billy woods, GOLLIWOG (Stream)
- Beneficial If You Like: Saul Williams, Cannibal Ox
💿 Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Tall Tales (Stream)
- RIYL: Radiohead, Boards of Canada
💿 PinkPantheress, Fancy That (Stream)
💿 MIKE & Tony Seltzer, Pinball II (Stream)
- RIYL: Lex Luger, Earl Sweatshirt
💿 Mclusky, the world continues to be right here and so are we (Stream)
New Music Friday is a characteristic of NPR’s All Songs Thought-about podcast. Hear the dialogue on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Lightning Spherical
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5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
💿 The Head and the Coronary heart, Aperture
💿 Jazzanova, In Between Revisited: Jazzanova Dwell
💿 Cuco, Ridin’
💿 Andre 3000, 7 piano sketches
💿 Cole Pulice, Land’s Finish Everlasting
Hear to every album’s finest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.
The Lengthy Checklist
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For individuals who wish to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Digital/Out There
- The Vernon Spring, Underneath a Acquainted Solar
- Kara-Lis Coverdale, From The place You Got here
- Duval Timothy, wishful considering
- Joe Goddard, Kinetic EP
- Wilson Tanner, Legends
- Chaos within the CBD, A Deeper Life
- Nils Frahm, Evening
- M83, A Vital Escape OST
- V/A, Planet Mu 30
- Dinamarca and Ángel Ballesteros, pachamami
- QUINQUIS, eor
- Nicolas Bougaïeff, Prime Funktion EP
- Ransum, Street Fever EP
Nation/People/Americana
- I am With Her, Wild and Clear and Blue
- Blake Shelton, For Leisure Use Solely
- Kristina Murray, Little Blue
- Jack Van Cleaf, JVC
Classical
- Barbara Hannigan, Electrical Fields
- Bomsori Kim, Bruch & Korngold
- Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Shostakovich & Britten
Pop
- Erika de Casier, Lifetime
- Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
- Maren Morris, D R E A M S I C L E
- Kaleo, Combined Feelings
- Kevin Olusola (Pentatonix), Daybreak of a Misfit
- Bebe Stockwell, Driving Backwards EP
- Amelia Moore, he is nonetheless simply not that into you! EP
Jazz
- Brandon Woody, For The Love Of It All
R&B/Soul
- Brandon, Earlier than You Go
- SAILORR, FROM FLORIDA’S FINEST
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Little Feat, Strike Up The Band
- Ringdown (Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan), Woman on the Bike
- Arcade Fireplace, Pink Elephant
- Deradoorian, Prepared for Heaven
- Provoker, Mausoleum
- Sleep Token, Even in Arcadia
- Moon Rituals, Aura
- Preoccupations, Unwell At Ease
- Moin, Stomach Up
- Sunday (1994), Devotion EP
- Maia Friedman, Goodbye Lengthy Winter Shadow
- The Marvel Years, Burst & Decay (Quantity III)
- Grownup Mother, Pure Causes
- Npcede, s/t EP
- Spacey Jane, If That Makes Sense
- Unwed Sailor, Merciless Entertaiment
- Xmal Deutschland, Reward: The 4AD Years
- Peter Murphy (Bauhaus), Silver Shade
- L.Mayland (of The Final Dinner Occasion), The Sluggish Fireplace of Sleep EP
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: John Morrison, WXPN
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editors: Otis Hart and Elle Mannion
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins
