MUNA
Dean Bradshaw
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Dean Bradshaw
Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music’s podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and highlight our favorite five in a brisk mix of clips, context and commentary.
The podcast is hosted by NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson, and each episode features a member of the NPR Music Network of public radio stations. This week, our guest is Celia Gregory, Morning Host at WNXP in Nashville. You can listen to her on-air weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. CT.
Scroll down to see which albums we discussed this week and links to our New Music Friday playlists, where you can hear singles from each album. Then scroll down to see the long list and Dora’s Corner, where NPR Music production assistant Dora Levite shares her favorite albums that didn’t make the podcast.
The Starting 5
Deb Never
Nikola Lilete
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🎵 MUNA, Dancing on the Wall (Saddest Factory)
- Recommended If You Like: Phoebe Bridgers, Chappell Roan
🎵 Aldous Harding, Train on the Island (4AD)
- RIYL: Cate Le Bon, Courtney Barnett
🎵 Deb Never, ARCADE (Giant)
🎵 Lykke Li, The Afterparty (Neon Gold)
🎵 Stephen Sanchez, Love, Love, Love (Mercury)
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
Broken Social Scene
Courtesy of Arts & Crafts
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Five more albums we wish we could have discussed on the podcast, recommended by NPR Music’s staff:
⚡ Ashley McBryde, Wild (Warner Nashville)
⚡ Broken Social Scene, Remember The Humans (Arts & Crafts)
⚡ Ray Bull, Please Stop Laughing (AWAL)
⚡ Anastasia Kristensen, Bestiarium Sombre (Intercept)
⚡ Amy Grant, The Me That Remains (Thirty Tigers)
Listen to each album’s best songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.
Dora’s Corner
Olof Dreijer
Bo Bannink
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Dora Levite is New Music Friday’s production assistant, an occasional All Songs Considered guest, and 17 years old according to her Spotify wrapped. Below are her picks for the best albums not featured on the show.
💿 Olof Dreijer, Loud Bloom (DH2)
💿 Loraine James, Detached From The Rest Of You (Hyperdub)
💿 runo plum, Bloom Again EP (Winspear)
The Long List
Cola
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Rock/Alt/Indie
- Cola, Cost of Living Adjustment (Fire Talk)
- The American Analog Set, Destroy Destroy Destroy box set (Numero Group)
- Gun Outfit, Process & Reality (Upset the Rhythm)
- Ellen Froese, Solitary Songs (Victory Pool)
- 37 Houses, When and How It Happened (self-released)
- Baby Jane, Winter Forever (Terem)
- Basement, WIRED (Run For Cover)
- Carla J. Easton, I Think That I Might Love You (Ernest Jenning)
- CROZ BOYCE, CROZ BOYCE (Domino)
- FIRE MAN, How to Erase Everything (self-released)
- Fireball Kid, Deer Path Turn To A Shortcut (Born Losers)
- Frozen Soul, No Place of Warmth (Century Media)
- Future Teens, Still Life (Take This To Heart)
- girli, Romantic Sadness (Believe)
- Guttersnipe, Extinction Burst (Night School)
- Jena Malone, Flowers For Men (self-released)
- Lee Lewis, HOWL EP (AWAL)
- Lucky Break, made it! (Fire)
- Rural France, SLOTHS (Safe Suburban Home)
- sadie, Better Angels (Bloody Knuckles)
- Simon Bromide & The Bromides, Forest Mountain Forest (Scratchy)
- Social Distortion, Born to Kill (Epitaph)
- Sumos, Luck EP (Meritorio / Safe Suburban Home)
- The Lemon Twigs, Look For Your Mind! (Captured Tracks)
- The Loft, Badges (Tapete)
- The Sleeves, The Sleeves (12XU)
Country/Folk/Americana
- Abigail Lapell, Shadow Child (Outside)
- India Ramey, Villain Era (Copaco / Blue Élan)
- Michaela Anne, These are the Days (Georgia June)
- Trippers & Askers, Tried to Do’s (Sleepy Cat)
Electronic/Out There
- Colombian Drone Mafia, Sueno en Flor (Space Talk)
- CORTIS, GREENGREEN EP (BIGHIT)
- Fiona Zanetti, Red Light Therapy (self-released)
- Fire-Toolz, Lavender Networks (Warp)
- Khôra & Mas Aya, Primordial Mind (Marionette)
- Laurie Anderson & Sexmob, Let X=X (Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music)
- Max Cooper, Feeling Is Structure (Manners McDade / Mesh)
- Y, Enter EP (SO)
- TYGAPAW, Together You Gather All Power Applied Worldwide (Tresor)
- Thaiboy Digital & swedm®, Paradise
Global
- Seu Jorge, The Other Side
- J Balvin, OMERTA (UMG)
- Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan, Express Ranjha (World Circuit)
- Ruben Ramos, Los Días de Calor (Cosmica Artists)
- Carín León MUDA (Virgin)
Jazz
- Alabaster DePlume, Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue (International Anthem)
- Bill Wells, El, El, El (Karaoke Kalk)
- Chris Potter, Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition)
- John Hollenbeck & GEORGE, Looking for Consonance (Out Of Your Head)
- Matthew Stevens, Matthew Stevens (Candid)
- Stix Hooper, Cookin’ Up The Groove (self-released)
Pop
- Clara Kimera, the plushies EP (Pack / Create Music Group)
- glaive & kurtains, God Save the Three (broke)
- Namasenda, Limbo (YEAR0001)
- Sabrina Song, Big Trick EP (Many Hats)
- Slowe, In Moments (Tru Thoughts)
- The Haunted Youth, Boys Cry Too (PIAS)
- Neil Diamond, Wild at Heart (Capitol)
Rap/Hip-Hop
- JWords, Sound Therapy (self-released)
- Black Milk, Ceremonial (Computer Ugly)
- Little Simz, Sugar Girl EP (AWAL)
- Thaiboy, Digital Paradise (Bank of Star Sound System)
- Action Bronson, PLANET FROG (Baklava Industries)
- AZ, Do or Die III (Mass Appeal)
R&B/Soul
- Brother Wallace, Electric Love (ATO)
- Chris Brown, BROWN (RCA)
Credits
Host: Stephen Thompson • Guest: Celia Gregory, WNXP • Audio: Noah Caldwell • Producer: Elle Mannion • Production Assistant: Dora Levite • Editor: Otis Hart • Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed • Executive Director: Sonali Mehta
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