
Justin Robinson and Rhiannon Giddens from Carolina Chocolate Drops have joined forces with old -fashioned string.
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It is Friday, and it means that there is a decent chance that part of your favorite group has just released a new disc. Radio television members, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Boygenius, even the Bon Iver tour group, all solo or duet albums at midnight.
Stephen Thompson of NPR Music welcomed Brian Burns from Caroline du Nord Wunc public radio to our new Podcast Music Friday to discuss the latest by Julien Baker, Tunde Adebimpe, and some famous Tar Heels: Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson.
Listen to the episode or broadcast our recommended albums below.
The 5 departure

Torres and Julien Baker.
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Stephen and Brian give you the background and the best songs on the following albums:
💿 Julien Baker & Torres, Send a prayer in my own way (Flow)
💿 Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson,, What did the merle said to the crow (Flow)
- Riyl: Carolina Chocolate Grops
💿 TUnde ADEBIMPE,, Thee Black Boltz (Flow)
💿 Beuve,, A study of losses (Flow)
- Riyl: magnetic fields, Jens Lekman
💿 Sarah Siskind,, Simplify (Flow)
- Riyl: Alison Krauss, Bon Iver
Friday’s new music is a feature of the Podcast All Songs considered to be NPR! Hear the discussion on NPR application,, Apple,, Spotify Or Wherever you get your podcasts.
Lightning

Five other albums, we want to have time to discuss the podcast:
💿 Davido,, 5ive
💿 Adrian Young,, Something about April III
💿 Avery Friedman,, New thing
💿 Jess Sah Bi,, Jesus Christ does not deed
💿 Neil Young,, Coastal: The soundtrack
Listen to the best songs of each album on our reading lists of the new Friday music Spotify And Apple.
The long list

Lucy Railton.
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For those who want to dig even more, here are the new albums of the week sorted by genre:
Electronics / there
- Lucy Railton, Blue sail
- Divide and dissolve, Insatiable
- Gryphon Street, I keep my diamond necklace in a sparkling pond
- Be hieroglyphic, Dance music 4 bad people
- Jives, At the door of eternity
- Lds, Power of 2 EP
- Olivia Belli, Intercosmia Vol. 2
- Quad, The Foel Tower
- Shell Company and older brother, Flashes
- Sieren, Emergence
Rock / Alt / Indie
- Arcy Drive, The pit
- Batpiss, There is a place in my mind where we all burn alive
- Bed rays, Do what you want
- Cumulus, We have everything
- Dallas Laid, See me now
- FotoForm, Sorrow is a garden (forever in bloom)
- Funerary commercial, Death before dying
- Gentle Leader XIV, Joke in the shade
- Heavy lungs, Caviar
- Iron lungs, Adapt // crawling
- John Dwyer, Oblivion of the Carillon
- Johnny Skin, S / T
- Kinsella & Pulse, LLC, Open night
- Little Barrie, Electric war
- Mamuthones, From speech to flesh
- Melvins 1983, Thunderbolt
- Michael Marcagi, Midwest Kid EP
- MINE, Mine
- Dungeons Mysteries, Open world
- Pigeons playing ping-pong, Live at the Capitol Theater
- Quickly, quickly, I heard this noise
- Sawyer Hill, Hysteria of sorrow EP
- Borrow, Almost as you could
- Sunnbrella, gutter angel
- Swell, Too many days without thinking (Reissue)
- Concrete boys, Everything is better than you
- Convenience, Like vampires of cartoons
- Pale white, The big sad
- TV Sunday, Plastic bags / packaging tape
- Witch post, Beast EP
Global
- Legado 7, L7X
- Wolfgang Pérez, Fantasmas Memorias EP
- Yzoula and Louis Fontaine, Animals worse than me
Country / Folk / Americana
- Ally venable, Money and power
- Hoom, Western pleasure
- HENHOUSE PROWLERS, Disentangle
- Ian Munsick, Eagle feather
- Taylor Rae, Emptiness
- Tony Holiday, Keep your head high
- Tony Kamel, We are all going to live
Rap / Hip-Hop
- Blu, Forty
- Chip, Saviorian Savior Savior
- G PericoThe gangster: Gangsta Grillz
- Kool Keith, Karpeniers
- Cappadonna, Rich and beautiful pious
- This Walka ot and Mexican sauce, Chicken and sauce
- Millyz, Blanco 7
- Mozzy, Intrusive thoughts
- Underperformants, Return home
- Thisda, Quick life
- Trim, No caller identification EP
- Wiz Khalifa, Kush + Orange juice 2
R&B / Soul
- Keri Hilson, We have to talk: love
- Alex Isley, WHEN EP
Classic
- Stewart Copeland, SAUVAGE CONCERTO
Jazz
- Ikue Mori, The Bagatelles Vol. 4
- Mark de Clive-Lowe, Present (poems of tone through time)
- Rindert Lammers, Thank you Kirin Kiki
- Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, Inspire // radicalize
Credits
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Guest: Brian Burns, Wunc
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Publisher: Otis Hart
- Executive producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice-president, music and visuals: Keith Jenkins