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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.

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 Amelia Mason, from WBUR in Boston.

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

🎵 Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds, Mutiny After Midnight (Atlantic)

• Recommended If You Like: Billy Strings, Tony Joe White

🎵 James Blake, Trying Times (Good Boy)

• RIYL: Sampha, Frank Ocean

🎵 Anjimile, You’re Free to Go (4AD)

• RIYL: Tracy Chapman, Hand Habits

🎵 Kim Gordon, Play Me (Matador)

• RIYL: Playboi Carti, Sonic Youth

🎵 Blessing Jolie, 20nothing (Thirty Tigers / RCA)

• RIYL: Joan Armatrading, Alanis Morissette

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

Five more albums we wish we could have discussed on the podcast, recommended by NPR Music’s staff:

⚡Morgan Nager, I’ve Got Nothing To Lose, and I’m Losing It (Little Operation) —Stephen Thompson

⚡Tinariwen, Hoggar (Wedge) —Amelia Mason

⚡Jorge Drexler, Taracá (Sony España) —Felix Contreras

⚡Fugazi, Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity) (Dischord) —Lars Gotrich

⚡The Tallis Scholars, Nico Muhly: No Resting Place (Outhere) —Tom Huizenga

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

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.

💿 Prostitute, Attempted Martyr (Mute)

💿 E L U C I D & Sebb Bash, I Guess U Had to Be There (Rhymesayers/Secretly)

💿 Cashier, The Weight EP (Julia’s War Recording)

The Long List

Classical

• Randall Scotting, Divine Impresario: Nicolini on Stage (Signum Classics)

Country/Folk/Americana

• Cat Clyde, Mud Blood Bone (Concord)
• Colton Bowlin, Grandpa’s Mill (Thirty Tigers)
• Sweet Petunia, Foggy Mountain (Righteous Babe)
• Tenderness, True (Amorphous Sounds)

Electronic/Out There

• Bentley Anderson, Valence (Digital Regress)
• Claire Dickson, Balance (New Amsterdam)
• Delphine Dora, l’ineluctable pulsation du temps (Marionette)
• Laurel Halo, Midnight Zone OST (Awe)
• Paperclip, Minimiser II (Peak Oil)
• Shy One, Mali (Touching Bass)
• Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy, Dying is the internet (Dekmantel)
• Terrence Dixon, When Stars Remember EP (Tresor)
• The Prodigy, Firestarter – x30 Vinyl Edition 12″ (XL)
• Unknown Mobile, Field Work (Pacific Rhythm)

Global

• Ana Tijoux & Dj Dacel, 97 (Altafonte)
• Yahritza Y Su Esencia, Metamorfosis (Sony)

Jazz

• Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM)

Pop

• googly eyes, paint me like one of your fav american girls EP (Pretty Swede)
• Jack Harlow, Monica Generation (Atlantic)

R&B/Soul

• Leven Kali, LK99 (Def Jam)

Rap-HipHop

• Ms Banks, SOUTH LDN LOVER GIRL (Believe)
• Bruiser Wolf & Sheefy McFly, PUSH & PAINT (Bruiser/FSH)
• NAS, Legend Has It.. Nas Feature Presentation (Mass Appeal)
• Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman, Miami Lice: Season Four (Rhymesayers)

Rock/Alt/Indie

• Alexis Taylor, Paris in the Spring (Night Time Stories)
• Annahstasia, Live at Glasshaus (drink sum wtr)
• Art School Girlfriend, Lean In (Fiction)
• Brigette Calls Me Baby, Irreversible (ATO)
• Crack Cloud, Peace and Purpose (Meat Machine)
• Cut Worms, Transmitter (JAGJAGUWAR)
• Daniel Romano, Preservers of the Pearl (You’ve Change)
• Footballhead, Weight of the Truth (Tiny Engines)
• Foy Vance, The Wake (Rounder)
• Haute & Freddy, Big Disgrace (DIY)
• Jason P. Woodbury, Jason P. Woodbury & The Night Bird Singing Quartet (Always Happening)
• Lamb of God, Into Oblivion (DIY)
• Mary Ocher, Weimar (Underground Institute)
• midori jaeger, (Un)planted EP (DIY)
• Ora Cogan, Hard Hearted Woman (Sacred Bones)
• Powerplant, Bridge Of Sacrifice (Arcane Dynamics)
• PUP, Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings) (Little Dipper/Rise)
• Soft Machine, Thirteen (Reissue) (Dyad)
• Sweet Pill, Still There’s a Glow (DIY)
• The Black Crowes, A Pound of Feathers (DIY)
• The Foot & Leg Clinic, Sit Down for Rock and Roll (DIY)
• The Monochrome Set, Lotus Bridge (Tapete)
• The Notwist, News from Planet Zombie (Morr Music)
• The Orielles, Only You Left (Heavenly)
• The Sophs, GOLDSTAR (Rough Trade)
• The Third Mind, Spellbinder! EP (Yep Roc)
• UnityTX, Somewhere, In Between… (Pure Noise Records)
• WAAX, Angel’s Mess (AWAL)

_{Credits
Host: Stephen Thompson • Guest: Amelia Mason, WBUR • Audio: Noah Caldwell • Producer: Elle Mannion • Production Assistant: Dora Levite • Editor: Otis Hart • Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed • Executive Director: Sonali Mehta}