Mac Demarco, Nourished By Time, Earl Sweatshirt : All Songs Considered : NPR

Nourished By Time, the Baltimore born experimental electro-funk artist’s new album is called, The Passionate Ones.
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It’s Friday, and in approximately one week the doors will slam shut on eligibility for the 68th annual Grammy Awards. For some (read: our host), this penultimate week proved to be a strategic scramble. With big names like Earl Sweatshirt, Ghostface Killah, Kid Cudi, Laufey and even the prodigal Deftones establishing themselves as Grammy hopefuls, there was no way we could dig into everything in our New Music Friday podcast.

But we did highlight five albums — you could call them the nominees for Album Of The Week. Stephen Thompson and Tad Cautious from Vermont Public dove into new records that look beyond the Grammy frenzy, before discussing those big names that tend to dominate the internet in an extended Lightning Round.

The duo talk through Baltimore auteur Nourished By Time’s newest album, The Passionate Ones — a soulful lesson in disillusionment and hope, stitched together with some dance grooves. We also get into Mac Demarco’s most intimate and modest project yet, Guitar, and Kathleen Edwards’ Billionaire, which was co-produced by Americana luminary Jason Isbell.

Listen to Stephen and Tad discuss those three albums and more on the Aug. 22 edition of New Music Friday, wherever you get your podcasts.

The Starting Five

Greg Freeman

Justin Gordon

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Our hosts share the backstories and best songs from the following albums:

💿 Nourished By Time, The Passionate Ones

Recommended If You Like: Dijon, Astrid Sonne

💿 Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, That Wasn’t a Dream

RIYL: Nubya Garcia, Nels Cline

💿 Greg Freeman, Burnover

RIYL: MJ Lenderman, Florry

💿 Kathleen Edwards, Billionaire

RIYL: Laura Viers, Jason Isbell

💿 Mac Demarco, Guitar

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

The Lightning Round (Extended Cut)

Ten more albums we wish we had time to discuss on the podcast:

💿 Laufey, A Matter of Time

💿 Sombr, I Barely Know Her

💿 Ami Taf Ra, The Prophet and the Madman

💿 Deftones, private music

💿 BigXthaPlug, I Hope You’re Happy

💿 Teyana Taylor, Escape Room

💿 Night Owls, Versions II

💿 Kid Cudi, Free

💿 Earl Sweatshirt, Live Laugh Love

💿 Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele 2

Listen to each album’s best songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.

The Long List

Kathleen Edwards.

RUST + REBEL/RUST + REBEL

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RUST + REBEL/RUST + REBEL

For those who want to dig even deeper, here are the week’s new albums sorted by genre:

Classical

Gabríel Ólafs, Polar: Dusk
The Telegraph Quartet, 20th Century Vantage Points Volume 2: Edge of the Storm

Country/Folk/Americana

Eve Adams, American Dust
Lainey Wilson, Whirlwind (Deluxe)
Old Dominion, Barbara
Rún, Rún
Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, Horizons

Electronic/Out There

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Gush

Global

Adrian Sherwood, The Collapse of Everything
Lila Iké Treasure, Self Love

Jazz

Miles Davis, Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings
Paul Cornish, You’re Exaggerating!
Stella Cole, It’s Magic

Pop

Ava Max, Don’t Click Play
Lissie, Promises EP
Quannnic, Warbrained

R&B/Soul

Chambers DesLauriers, Our Time to Ride
Kwn, with all due respect EP
Mariah The Scientist, HEARTS SOLD SEPARATELY

Rap/Hip-Hop

Lupe Fiasco, Samurai DX (Deluxe Edition)

Rock/Alt/Indie

Arcadea, The Exodus of Gravity
Bikini Trill, Bikini Trill
Case Oats, Last Missouri Exit
Claire Morales, Lost in the Desert
Dean Johnson, I Hope We Can Still be Friends
Delicate Stev, Luke’s Garage
Dinosaur Pile-Up, I’ve Felt Better
Double Wish, Double Wish
Elliot Moss, Highspeeds (Expanded – 10th Anniversary)
Hand Habits, Blue Reminder
Hot Mulligan, The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still
Hunx and his Punx, Walk Out On This World
James Yorkston, Songs for Nina and Johanna
John Fogerty, The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years
Kerala Dust, An Echo of Love
Kingfishr, Halcyon
Minus the Bear, Menos el Oso (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Renao, Still Life
Royel Otis, hickey
Scree, August
Silje Marsh, Sun Will Prevail
Sir Chloe, Swallow the Knife
Small Shake, Platonics
Superchunk, Songs in the Key of Yikes
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Dreams of Being Dust
Three Days Grace, Alienation
TOPS, Bury the Key
Water From Your Eyes, It’s A Beautiful Place
Winter, Adult Romantix