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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.<\/p>\n
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 Nastia Voynovskaya<\/a> from KQED in San Francisco.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The Starting 5 <\/p>\n \n August Ponthier.<\/p>\n Julian Buchan<\/p>\n hide caption\n <\/p>\n toggle caption<\/p>\n Julian Buchan<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb5 August Ponthier, Everywhere Isn’t Texas (Nowhereland Sounds)<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb5 Brent Faiyaz, Icon (ISO Supremacy)<\/p>\n RIYL: Bryson Tiller, Miguel <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb5 Jill Scott, To Whom This May Concern (Human Re Sources)<\/p>\n RIYL: The Roots, Erykah Badu <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb5 STAYC, Stay Alive (High Up\/Kakao)<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfb5 The Paranoid Style, Known Associates (Bar\/None)<\/p>\n RIYL: Destroyer, The Mendoza Line <\/p>\n New Music Friday is a feature of NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast. Hear the discussion on the NPR App<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Lightning Round <\/p>\n \n Neba Solo and Benego Diakite\u0301.<\/p>\n Aboubacar Traore\u0301<\/p>\n hide caption\n <\/p>\n toggle caption<\/p>\n Aboubacar Traore\u0301<\/p>\n Five more albums we wish we could have discussed on the podcast:<\/p>\n \u26a1 The Olympians, In Search of a Revival (Daptone)<\/p>\n \u26a1 Hemlocke Springs, the apple tree under the sea (AWAL)<\/p>\n \u26a1 Neba Solo & Benego Diakit\u00e9, A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking (The Complete Sessions) (Etoile Audio\/Nonesuch)<\/p>\n \u26a1 Aaron Shaw, And So It Is (Leaving Records)<\/p>\n \u26a1 \u00c1sgeir, Julia (One Little Independent)<\/p>\n Listen to each album’s best songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify <\/a>and Apple<\/a>, or wherever you stream music<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dora’s Corner <\/p>\n \n Momoko Gill.<\/p>\n Sophia Poole<\/p>\n hide caption\n <\/p>\n toggle caption<\/p>\n Sophia Poole<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcbf Placid Angels, Canada (Oathcreations)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcbf Remember Sports, The Refrigerator (Get Better)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcbf Momoko Gill, Momoko (Strut)<\/p>\n The Long List <\/p>\n \n Danny L Harle, Oklou and MNEK<\/p>\n Josh Renaut<\/p>\n hide caption\n <\/p>\n toggle caption<\/p>\n Josh Renaut<\/p>\n For those who want to dig even deeper, here are the week’s new albums sorted by genre:<\/p>\n Country\/Folk\/Americana<\/p>\n Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives (Six Shooter Records)Caroline Jones, Good Omen (Big Machine)Clay Street Unit, Sin & Squalor (Monument Records\/Sony)Eric Church, Evangeline vs. The Machine: Comes Alive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (UMG)Stephen McCarthy, The Sky Chiefs (Chimney Bird Records)The Lone Bellow, What a Time to Be Alive (Burly Bellow)The Skychiefs, The Skychiefs (Under the Radar)Theo Lawrence & Melissa Carper, HAVIN’ A TALK (Bee & El \/ Warner)Tyler Halverson, In Defense of Drinking (CMDSHFT) <\/p>\n Electronic\/Out There<\/p>\n Anish Kumar, AK Cuts: Vol. 2 (Ninja Tune)Colin Self, respite \u221e levity for the nameless ghost in crisis (expanded) (RVNG Intl.)Colin Stetson, Greg Fox & Trevor Dunn, Nethering (Envision)DJ Tennis, fabric presents (Fabric)Felsmann + Tiley, Protomensch (Embassy One)femtanyl, MAN BITES DOG (entitii)Just Lil, distant shade EP (Boxset)KMRU, Kin (Editions Mego)Mastery X Houndstooth, Quantum Sound Houndstooth (Houndstooth)Quiet Husband, Lands (N3Wlow) <\/p>\n Global<\/p>\n Sun-El Musician, Under the Sun (DIY)Yoshiko Sai, Mikkou (black) <\/p>\n Jazz<\/p>\n Melissa Aldana, Filin (Blue Note)Myra Melford, the mundane uncanny (Infrequent Seams)Tomeka Reid, dance! skip! hop! (Out of Your Head)Colin Stetson, Greg Fox & Trevor Dunn, Nethering (Envision & Invada Records) <\/p>\n Pop<\/p>\n Danny L Harle, Cerulean (XL)Sarah Kinsley, Fleeting EP (Verve Forecast\/Fontana)Feng, WEEKEND ROCKSTAR (Interscope) <\/p>\n R&B\/Soul<\/p>\n Tiana Major9, November Scorpio (Empire) <\/p>\n Rap\/Hip-Hop<\/p>\n Ms Banks, SOUTH LDN LOVER GIRL (Believe)A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Before Artistry EP (300) <\/p>\n Rock\/Alt\/Indie<\/p>\n Converge, Love is Not Enough (Epitaph)Earth Tongue, Dungeon Vision (In The Red)Angel Du$t, Cold 2 The Touch (Run for Cover)Bat for Lashes, Fur and Gold (20th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue) (BMG)Cardinals, Masquerade (So Young)Chet Faker, A Love for Strangers (BMG)congratulations, Join Hands (Bella Union)Elsas, APORIAMOR EP (Lapsus)Erik Huey, Fort Defiance (Appalachian A.F.)Gogol Bordello, We Mean It, Man! 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