Automotive Seat Headrest.
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It is Friday, and you have to cross the time till catching the most recent (and apparently good!) Marvel film. How about counterbalancing these monoculture tendencies with some nice impartial rock albums?
Julie Bee, host of Amplified on Marfa Public Radio joins NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson to speak by Automotive Seat Headrest’s return, the latest albums from Samantha Crain, PUP, Jenny Hval and extra on our newest New Music Friday episode.
New Music Friday is a function of NPR’s All Songs Thought-about podcast. Hear the dialogue on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Beginning 5
Samantha Crain.
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Our hosts share the backstories and finest songs from the next albums:
- Automotive Seat Headrest, The Students (Stream)
- Samantha Crain, Gumshoe (Stream)
- PUP, Who Will Look After The Canines? (Stream)
- Jenny Hval, Iris Silver Mist (Stream)
- Jolie Laide, Creatures (Stream)
The Lightning Spherical
Cole Haden, Jack Wetmore, Aaron Shapiro and Ruben Radlauer of the band Mannequin/Actriz.
Kane Ocean/True Panther
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5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
- Lucius, Lucius
- Milkweed, Remscéla
- Mannequin/Actriz, Pirouette
- Souleance, Kebab Discothèque
- Clem Snide, Oh, Smokey
Pay attention to every album’s finest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple.
The Lengthy Record
Yuja Wang.
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For many who wish to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Classical
- Yuja Wang, Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos | Solo Works
- Black Violin, Full Circle
- Chloe Flower, I Love Me Extra
- Seong-Jin Cho, Ravel: The Full Solo Piano Works and Concertos
Nation/People/Americana
- Esther Rose, Need
- Eric Church, Evangeline vs. The Machine
- Hardy, Nation!
- Maddie & Tae, Love & Mild
- Peggy Seeger, Teleology
- Rebecca Lynn Howard, I am Not Who You Assume I Am
Digital/Out There
- Eli Keszler, Eli Keszler
- Loscil, Lake Fireplace
- Surgeon, Shell~Wave
- Alex Marsh, Trellis
- Anthony Naples, Scanners
- Anthony Pateras, Reise der Schatten
- Anysia Kym & Loraine James, Clandestine EP
- Asterisk, No Faculty
- Beatrice Dillon & Hideki Umezawa, Basho / Nonetheless Types
- Charlotte Plank, ClubLiminal
- Colombian Drone Mafia + Gibrana Cervantes, Memoria
- Gryofield, Akin/Mom EP
- Imryll Obscure, Blood & Love
- James Krivchenia, Performing Perception
- Messenger Women Trio, Genius Loop Duos
- Omid Geadizadeh, Like The Sea Is aware of Blue (مثل دریا که آبی را می شناسد)
- Peverelist, Pulse Decay EP
- Schiela, Who We Are EP
- Shine Grooves, Sequences For Fluttering
- The Balloonist, Dreamland
- Torn Hawk, Watching Warmth on Mute
- Flume & JPEGMAFIA, We Reside In A Society EP
World
- Ding Dong, From Ding Dong to World Ding
- Fuerza Regida, 111XPANTIA
- Mayorkun, Nonetheless the Mayor
- Meiko Kaji, Yadokari + Shura No Hana
- Sami Galbi, Ylh Bye Bye
- TWS, Attempt With Us
Jazz
- Enji, Sonor
- Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari, Journey to Nabta Playa
- Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin, Markku Ounaskari, Arcanum
- Deborah Silver with the Rely Basie Orchestra, Basie Rocks!
- Julia Úlehla and Dálava, Understories
- Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck, The Brahms Challenge
Pop
- Aly & AJ, Silver Deliverer
- Briston Maroney, Jimmy
- Låpsley, I’M A HURRICANE I’M A WOMAN IN LOVE
R&B/Soul
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Naturally (twentieth Anniversary Version)
- Xavier Omär, HunnyMoon Mountain
Rap/Hip-Hop
- Wretch, 32 House?
- Youngs Teflon, Preserve The Change
- Benny The Butcher, Excelsior
- Boldy James & Actual Dangerous Man, Conversational Items
- Diuragga, 77th
- doseone & Metal Tipped Dove, All Portrait, No Refrain
- Key Glock, Glockaveli
- Yung Lean, Jonatan
- Flowsik, Reload, EP
- Herbski, Periods
- Physician Bionic, The Island of Physician Bionic
- Teether & Kuya Neil, Yearn IV
- Tha Alkaholiks, Daaam!
- Ayvee, Chrysalide (Part III)
- Fatoni, Edgar Wasser & Juse Ju, BAWRS
Rock/Alt/Indie
Blondshell
Daniel Topete/Partisan
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- Blondshell, If You Requested For A Image
- Monnone Alone, Right here Comes the Afternoon
- Eli Winter, A Trick of the Mild
- Press Membership, To All The Ones That I Love
- Propagandhi, At Peace
- Suzanne Vega, Flying With Angels
- Kassi Valazza, From Newman Avenue
- Andrew Cushin, Love Is For Everybody
- Black Honey Cult, Black Honey Cult
- Bleed, Bleed
- Carriers, Each Time I Really feel Afraid
- Clover, Atlas
- Membership Evening, Pleasure Coming Down
- Dope Lemon, Golden Wolf
- Ember Knight, Embers Sings the Dr Bronner Cleaning soap Label EP
- Gringo Star, Sweethearts
- KiNG MALA, And You Who Drowned In The Grief Of A Golden Factor
- Lael Neale, Altogether Stranger
- Laura Hickli, darkish secrets and techniques
- Litronix, One A Day Retains The Physician Away
- Louis Philippe and The Evening Mail, The Street To The Sea
- Lucy La Nightfall, The Angel Despatched
- NewDad, Protected EP
- Paco Cathcart, Down on Them
- Panik Flowers, rearview EP
- Pet Symmetry, Massive Symmetry
- Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII
- Punchbag, I am Not Your Punchbag EP
- Pyramids, Pythagoras
- Wet Miller, Joseph, What Have You Carried out?
- Sally Potter, Anatomy
- SENTRIES, Gem of the West
- Sextile, Sure, Please
- Teether and Kuya Neil, YEARN IV
- Thanya Iyer, Tide/Tied
- The Supernaturals, Present Tunes
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: Julie Bee, Marfa Public Radio
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editors: Otis Hart and Elle Mannion
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins
