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On Cover The Mirrors, Ben Kweller remembers his late son, Dorian Zev, who died in a automobile crash at age 16.
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It’s Friday, and there are some outstanding new albums out on the earth at present. Enigmatic alt-pop star yuele launched one in every of our workforce’s favourite information of the yr. Stars vocalist Amy Millan returns with a set songs that can have you ever recalling “Ageless Beauty.” And Low’s Alan Sparhawk and Ben Kweller return with impeccable albums about residing with grief.
NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson welcomes Jackson Wisdorf from Member station KXT in North Texas to the May thirtieth version of New Music Friday. They get into the above albums, a solo outing from The National’s Matt Berninger and way more. Listen to the present beneath and scroll all the way down to see our lengthy listing of albums out this Friday.
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The Starting Five

Amy Millan of Stars.
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Our hosts share the backstories and greatest songs from the next albums:
Matt Berninger, Get Sunk (Stream)
- Recommended If You Like: The National
yuele, Evangelic Girl is a Gun (Stream)
- RIYL: SOPHIE, Cocteau Twins
Ben Kweller, Cover The Mirrors (Stream)
- RIYL: Pavement, MJ Lenderman
Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled By Turtles (Stream)
Amy Millan, I Went To Find You (Stream)
- RIYL: Stars, Broken Social Scene
The Lightning Round

Obongjayar.
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Five extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
Obongjayar, Paradise Now
Lionmilk, WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM
caroline, caroline 2
CIVIC, Chrome Dipped
Qasim Naqvi, Endling
Listen to every album’s greatest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.
The Long List

Sufjan Stevens.
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For those that wish to dig even deeper, listed below are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell (tenth Anniversary Edition)
Hear All Songs Considered‘s interview with Sufjan Stevens
- Pavement, Pavements (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Ty Segall, Possession
- Foxwarren, 2
- Faun Fables, Counterclockwise
- Shura, I Got Too Sad for My Friends
- Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped (Live)
- illuminati hotties, Nickel on the Fountain Floor EP
- KEEP, Almost Static
- Léa Sen, LEVELS
- Lung, The Swankeeper
- Matthew Young, Undercurrents
- MRCY, Volume 2
- Mt. Joy, Hope We Have Fun
- Planning For Burial, It’s Closeness, It’s Easy
- Sea Lemon, Diving For the Prize
- SWANS, Birthing
- The Minus 5, Oar On, Penelope!
- Trigger, Second Round
- W. Cullen Hart and Andrew Rieger, Leap Through Poisoned Air EP
- David Lowery, Fathers, Sons and Brothers
- Garbage, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
- guccihighwaters, Death by Desire
- Sally Shapiro, Ready To Live A Lie
Country/Folk/Americana
- Anderson East, Worthy
- Dylan Scott, Easy Does It
- Faith Eliott, dryas
- Josiah Flores, Doin’ Fine
- Moonrisers, Harsh & Exciting
- Preston Cooper, Toledo Talkin’
- The Shootouts, Switchback
- Watchhouse, Rituals
Electronic/Out There
- Bella Wakame, s/t
- Ellen Arkbro, Nightclouds
- Laura Cannell, LyreLyreLyre
- Etyen, My Goddess
- Jameszoo, Music for 17 Musicians
- Kathryn Joseph, WE WERE MADE PREY.
- Photographic Memory, I take a look at her and light-weight goes all by way of me
- Quantic, DJ-Kicks
- Repetition Repetition, Fit for Consequences: Original Recordings, 1984-1987
- StabUdown, Tinge of Ascension
- Tohji, zero-two
- Verraco, Basic Maneuvers EP
- WheelUP, Inner Light
- V/A, Não Estragou Nada
- Anyma, The End of Genesys
Global
- Braye, I Wish I Had More Time EP
- Chicarica, Invierno en la playa
- Maurice Louca, Barĩy (Fera)
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Heavier Yet [Deluxe Edition]
- Seventeen, Happy Burstday
Jazz
- Brad Turner Trio, It’s All So
- Pedrito Martinez, Ilusión Óptica
Pop
- Grace Potter, Medicine
- Mariah Carey, The Emancipation of Mimi (twentieth Anniversary Edition)
- Miley Cyrus, Something Beautiful
R&B/Soul
- Leon Thomas, MUTT Deluxe: HEEL
- The Budos Band, VII
- Tuxedo, Spring Bliss EP
- Honey Bxby, Raw Honey EP
Rap/Hip-Hop
- Oddisee, En Route EP
- Bruiser Wolf, POTLUCK
- Ovrkast., While The Iron Is Hot
- Aesop Rock, Black Hole Superette
- Billionhappy, DIǍO EP
- EBK Jaaybo, Don’t Trust Me
- Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams, TRAINSPOTTING
Classical
- Simone Dinnerstein, Complicité
- Anna Lapwood, Firedove
Credits
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Guest: Jackson Wisdorf, KXT
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editors: Otis Hart and Elle Mannion
- Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins
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