Noah Kahan, Kehlani and the best albums out April 24 : All Songs Considered : NPR Music : NPR

Noah Kahan

Patrick McCormack/Mercury

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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 Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, host of Vermont Public’s Now Playing with DJ Llu.

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

Kehlani

Kaio Cesar

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Kaio Cesar

🎵 Noah Kahan, The Great Divide (Mercury)

🎵 Kehlani, Kehlani (Atlantic)

🎵 Metric, Romanticize The Dive (Thirty Tigers)

• RIYL: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Paramore

🎵 Gia Margaret, Singing (Jagjaguwar)

• RIYL: Haley Heynderickx, Florist

🎵 Season 2, Power of Now (Upset the Rhythm)

• RIYL: Amyl and The Sniffers, The Beths

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

Carla dal Forno

Courtesy of Kallista

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

⚡ Quiet Light, Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 (True Panther)

⚡ Kiki Cavazos, Goodbye Blues (Jalopy)

⚡ Carla Del Forno, Confession (Kallista)

⚡ The Milk Carton Kids, Lost Cause Lover Fool (Thirty Tigers)

⚡ Trueno, TURR4ZO (Sony Music)

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

Friko

Adam Powell

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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.

💿 Friko, Something Worth Waiting For (ATO)

💿 James K, Friend Remixes (AD93)

💿 portrayal of guilt, …Beginning of the End (Run For Cover)

The Long List

Foo Fighters

Elizabeth Miranda

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Elizabeth Miranda

Rock/Alt/Indie

• Foo Fighters, Your Favorite Toy (RCA)
• Glen Hansard, Don’t Settle – Transmissions East (Plateau)
• Angelo De Augustine, Angel In Plainclothes (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Bad Operation, Everything Must Go (Community)
• Beatrix, We Swallowed the Sky (Nice Life)
• Death Lens, What’s Left Now? (Epitaph)
• Doug Gillard, Parallel Stride (Dromedary)
• Failure, Location Lost (Virgin)
• Hrishikesh Hirway, In the Last Hour of Light (Keeled Scales)
• Jesus Christ Taxi Driver, Taxi the Rich (Midtopia)
• Julia Cumming, Julia (Partisan)
• Lightning Bolt and OOIOO, The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral (Thrill Jockey)
• Lupo Citta, Inverno (12XU)
• Mildred, Fenceline (Memorials of Distinction)
• Mina Tindle, Compass (Rosa)
• Miss Grit, Under My Umbrella (Mute)
• Object Hours, Solved By Walking (Three Lobed)
• The Cab, Chasing Crowns (self-released)
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Acknowledge Kindness (Fire)
• The Saddest Landscape, Alone With Heaven (Iodine)
• The You in I, The I In You (self-released)
• tofusmell, All My Time (Hardly Art)
• Urq, This Dismal Village (Exploding in Sound)
• White Denim, 13 (Bella Union)
• White Fence, Orange (Drag City)
• Sepultura, The Cloud of Unknowing (Nuclear Blast)
• Tempers, Delusion (fear of luxury)
• Thin Lear, Many Disappeared (First City Artists)
• Gay Meat, Blue Water (Skeletal Lightning)
• April + Vista, Traditional Noise (Third & Hayden)

Country/Folk/Americana

• Dale Watson, Unwanted (Forty Below)
• Jackson Dean, Magnolia Sage (Big Machine)
• Jason Aldean, Songs About Us (Macon Music)
• Terry Allen and Jo Harvey, Allen Blood Sucking Maniacs (Paradise of Bachelors)

Electronic/Out There

• Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach, Gentle Hum (FUU)
• Alvarius B, Malarial Dream (Abduction)
• Cabaret Voltaire, But What Time Is It Really? (Memetune)
• Dynamic Forces, Metal Space (TECHNO)
• Étienne de Crécy, Warm Up Remixes (Pixadelic)
• Irmin Schmidt, Requiem (Mute)
• Mahatmos, Aurora Spectralis (self-released)
• Norah Jane & MOR.LOV, Godspeed (Tru Thoughts)
• Setting, Setting (Thrill Jockey)
• Terror, Still Suffer (Flatspot)
• Trace Monument, Hollow Land (Lame-O)
• Azealia Banks, Zenzealia (Pleasure Place LLC)
• Sully x Basic Rhythm, Model Collapse (FABRICLIVE)

Global

• Angelique Kidjo, HOPE!! (Parlophone / Warner)
• Joy Harjo, Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Mitchum Yacoub, A Way In (All-Town Sound)

Jazz

• Adam Schatz, Civil Engineering Vol 1 (Jealous Butcher)
• Alister Spence, Always Ever (Room40)
• Aneon, Dream Temperature (Tonal Union)
• Anna Ferrer, PA (La Castanya)
• Jordan Rakei, Between Us EP (Fontana)

Pop

• Dorian Electra, Dorian Electra (self-released)
• Meghan Trainor, Toy With Me (Epic)
• Lolo Zouaï, Reverie (Because)

R&B/Soul

• Gareth Donkin, Extraordinary (drink sum wtr)
• Vinson, Raw Honey (Soft Sweet Radical)

Rap/Hip-Hop

• Cadence Weapon, Forager (Six Shooter)
• Fatboi Sharif & Child Actor, Crayola Circles (Backwoodz Studios / Rhymesayers)
• P$C & DJ Drama, Gangsta Grillz: Still In Da Streets (EMPIRE)
• Shordie Shordie, More Than Music 3 (EMPIRE)

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Host: Stephen Thompson • Guest: Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, Vermont Public • Audio: Noah Caldwell • Producer: Elle Mannion • Production Assistant: Dora Levite • Editor: Otis Hart • Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed • Executive Director: Sonali Mehta}