
Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Justin Robinson and Rhiannon Giddens teamed up for some old school string band tunes.
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It is Friday, and meaning there is a respectable probability a portion of your favourite band simply launched a brand new report. Members of TV on the Radio, Carolina Chocolate Drops, boygenius, even Bon Iver’s touring band all unleashed solo or duo albums on the stroke of midnight.
NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson welcomed Brian Burns of North Carolina public radio staton WUNC to our New Music Friday podcast to debate the most recent from Julien Baker, Tunde Adebimpe, and a few well-known Tar Heels: Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson.
Take heed to the episode or stream our advisable albums beneath.
The Beginning 5

Torres and Julien Baker.
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Stephen and Brian provide the backstory and finest songs on the next albums:
💿 Julien Baker & Torres, Ship a Prayer My Method (Stream)
💿 Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Stream)
- RIYL: Carolina Chocolate Drops
💿 Tunde Adebimpe, Thee Black Boltz (Stream)
💿 Beirut, A Research of Losses (Stream)
- RIYL: The Magnetic Fields, Jens Lekman
💿 Sarah Siskind, Simplify (Stream)
- RIYL: Alison Krauss, Bon Iver
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

5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
💿 Davido, 5ive
💿 Adrian Younge, One thing About April III
💿 Avery Friedman, New Factor
💿 Jess Sah Bi, Jesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas
💿 Neil Younger, Coastal: The Soundtrack
Pay attention to every album’s finest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple.
The Lengthy Listing

Lucy Railton.
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For many who need to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Digital/Out There
- Lucy Railton, Blue Veil
- Divide and Dissolve, Insatiable
- Gryphon Rue, I Hold My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Glowing Water
- Hieroglyphic Being, Dance Music 4 Dangerous Folks
- jives, At Eternity’s Gate
- LDS, energy of two EP
- Olivia Belli, Intercosmia Vol. 2
- Quade, The Foel Tower
- Shell Firm & Older Brother, Shards
- Sieren, Emergence
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Arcy Drive, The Pit
- Batpiss, There’s A Place In My Thoughts The place We All Burn Alive
- Beddy Rays, Do What Ya Wanna
- Cumulus, We have Acquired It All
- Dallas Ugly, See Me Now
- Fotoform, Grief is a Backyard (Perpetually in Bloom)
- Funeral Industrial, useless earlier than i die
- Mild Chief XIV, Joke within the Shadow
- Heavy Lungs, Caviar
- Iron Lung, Adapting//Crawling
- John Dwyer, CHIME OBLIVION
- Johnny Pores and skin, s/t
- Kinsella & Pulse, LLC, Open ing Night time
- Little Barrie, Electrical Conflict
- Mamuthones, From Phrase To Flesh
- Melvins 1983, Thunderball
- Michael Marcagi, Midwest Child EP
- MIEN, MIIEN
- Thriller Dungeons, OPEN WORLD
- Pigeons Enjoying Ping Pong, Reside on the Capitol Theatre
- rapidly, rapidly, I Heard That Noise
- Sawyer Hill, Heartbreak Hysteria EP
- Scrounge, Nearly Like You Might
- Sunnbrella, gutter angel
- Swell, Too Many Days With out Considering (Reissue)
- The Concrete Boys, The whole lot’s Higher Than You
- The Comfort, Like Cartoon Vampires
- The Pale White, The Large Unhappy
- TV Sundaze, Plastic Luggage / Packing Tape
- Witch Put up, Beast EP
International
- Legado 7, L7X
- Wolfgang Pérez, Memorias Fantasmas EP
- Yzoula and Louis Fontaine, Des Animaux Pires Que Moi
Nation/People/Americana
- Ally Venable, Cash & Energy
- Chaparelle, Western Pleasure
- Henhouse Prowlers, Unravel
- Ian Munsick, Eagle Feather
- Taylor Rae, The Void
- Tony Vacation, Hold Your Head Up
- Tony Kamel, We’re All Gonna Reside
Rap/Hip-Hop
- Blu, Forty
- Chip, Grime Scene Saviour
- G Perico, LA Gangster: Gangsta Grillz
- Kool Keith, Karpenters
- Cappadonna, Godly Rich & Stunning
- That Mexican OT & Sauce Walka, Rooster & Sauce
- Millyz, Blanco 7
- Mozzy, Intrusive Ideas
- The Underachievers, Homecoming
- ThisisDA, Quick Life
- Trim, No Caller ID EP
- Wiz Khalifa, Kush+Orange Juice 2
R&B/Soul
- Keri Hilson, WE NEED TO TALK: LOVE
- Alex Isley, WHEN EP
Classical
- Stewart Copeland, Wild Concerto
Jazz
- Ikue Mori, The Bagatelles Vol. 4
- Mark de Clive-Lowe, previous current (tone poems throughout time)
- Rindert Lammers, Thank You Kirin Kiki
- Zeitgeist Freedom Power Alternate, Encourage // Radicalise
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: Brian Burns, WUNC
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editor: Otis Hart
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins