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Stephen Thompson
Happy Friday, everyone. From NPR Music. It's NEW Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Ro Wildflower of KC in Los Angeles. Hey, Ro.
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Ro Wildflower
Hey. How's it going?
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Stephen Thompson
It is going well. I am excited to talk to you about many, many great new albums this week, including new records from Amine, Tune Yards, Rico Nasty, many, many more.
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Guest Artist
When you ain't a kid no more. I hope you don't thank less of me first.
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Stephen Thompson
I did want to acknowledge up front that probably commercially speaking, the biggest album of the year is out today. We are not going to talk about it because we didn't get an advanced cop time, but the country star Morgan Wallen has a new record called I'm the Problem. It has so many songs on it.
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Ro Wildflower
Oh, my goodness. How many songs are on that thing?
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Stephen Thompson
Don't quote me. It's like 37 or 38. He's put out eight songs from this album already.
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Ro Wildflower
Yeah. And I mean, look, you're not going to be lonely on your road trip. Let me tell you, it's a whole experience.
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Stephen Thompson
This is going to be one of the best selling, best, most played, most streamed albums of the year. He is a gigantic star. I write a column about the Billboard charts every week. For me, the question is, will he have the song of the summer?
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Guest Artist
Don't you back down, don't you run, stand your ground, stick to your guns.
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Stephen Thompson
He's had the song of the summer for the last two years. He had a song called Last Night two years Ago and he had that Post Malone duet. Because he's put out so many songs, he's kind of cannibalizing his own success a little bit.
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Ro Wildflower
Let's see what the summer has given us because Amine is making it pretty hot and heavy, you know.
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Guest Artist
In the garden. See, I was like 18.
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Stephen Thompson
Yeah. There certainly are a lot of contenders. And you kind of gave us an ideal segue into the first album we're gonna talk about. Amine has a new album. It's called thirteen Months of Sunshine.
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Ro Wildflower
It's like he know he's trying to manifest this summer vibe. You know.
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Guest Artist
Flower had to get sprawling. All my friends is having college fun. Me, I didn't have the college funds in. My head's where I be at. Couldn't let the petals die Just for fear at the leave you grow yourself a flower in the garden.
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Stephen Thompson
So Amine, he's a rapper. He's been around for a while. His very first single, Caroline in 2016 was a top 20 hit. His last solo album was Limbo from 2020. But he's put out kind of collaborative records since then. He's already had this success, but there is this kind of star making quality to this record. The lead track on this record is called New Flower, and that brings in Leon Thomas, who's kind of this big rising star.
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Guest Artist
Bury me before I'm a burden DIY to my conscious certain but the garden can't grow if it ain't got purpose Caring for The Sea Since 2014, I've been watering this every damn week. I didn't know where I be at. Growth came slow but it blew. Now we see that believe that you grow yourself a flower in the garden.
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Ro Wildflower
Because you have those collabs, you know, the Kaytranada collab.
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Ro Wildflower
It sounds familiar, feels familiar, and immediately made me hot. Like my. My body temperature went up. When the first track, I was like, oh, is the sun out? No, it's. It's still six in the morning over here. But it does that. And I think that's a really special quality. And I feel like his other projects have had similar qualities, but not as like, sharp.
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Stephen Thompson
To me. There are two vibes consistently come through on this record. They're juxtaposed in really clever ways. There's a 1, 2 on this record where you get a. A song called History, which is a collaboration with Waxahachie.
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Guest Artist
Every time we touch those sheets, every time, baby, we got some history.
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Stephen Thompson
It's bringing in the kind of melancholy guitar lines, kind of picking up on this vibe that recalls like Frank Ocean. And then it goes right into this springier, more insistent kind of dance rap banger called Vacay, which is just pure summertime joy.
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Guest Artist
Top list up in Mont Saint France. It's 98 degrees so the sunscreen known my boo only like boutique hotels. I booked that cause it bring Cornell poolside D and D, no sale. The sunset looks so past.
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Ro Wildflower
I love those because those I feel like bring you in. You're curious, maybe a little skeptical, like what am I going to experience? And then you're blown away.
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Stephen Thompson
There's a track called Arc de Triomphe that samples the streets.
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Guest Artist
Question the fuck you be on? Burning these Bridges, y' all niggas is nothing like my boy Leon.
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Stephen Thompson
He's choosing his producers really Wisely. I was listening to this record and there are a few tracks that give this kind of Bon Iver vibe. There's a song called Doing the Best I Can, and I love it. I'm a big Bon Iver fan.
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Guest Artist
I'm doing the best I can I'm doing the best I can I'm doing the best I I'm doing the best I can I'm doing the best I can I'm doing the best I I'm sipping on something strong I'm sipping on something strong Got me up.
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Ro Wildflower
We see Todo et moi on this. The legendary singer, songwriter, in my opinion, which is really, really exciting. That's on Images. It's just elegantly done. It's a surprising record. So you're like in the summertime vibe, and then you're like, oh, okay, it switches on me, but I'm still in it. Melancholy songs always make me happy. So I feel like it goes hand in hand. I love that.
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Stephen Thompson
That's weaved throughout the recurring theme of, like, forgiving yourself, of, like, assessing your life and giving yourself grace. There's a track called Be Easier on Yourself, and I think that is a great mindset for us all to carry.
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Ro Wildflower
Into this summer because we're going to be outside, we're going to be around people. You want to remind yourself that it's going to be all right and that you're out there connecting and moving. Don't overthink it, you know, just be present.
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Stephen Thompson
Be present, be outside, and give yourself grace. As we head into summer, that's the very appropriately named thirteen Months of Sunshine from the terrific rapper Amine. Next up, a new album from Guitarica de la Fuente. It's called Spanish Leather.
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Ro Wildflower
So Guitarica de la Fuente has an album coming out called Spanish Leather from Spain. Singer, songwriter, really, really popular now and kind of reinventing himself, like being rooted in the old but going straight into the future. That, like, folky, traditional Spanish style that is reflected and translated into something more modern and a little bit more relatable. But he's continuously going back and forth.
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Stephen Thompson
This is somebody who is straddling multiple worlds, right? He got his start, like, releasing songs on Instagram, kind of in that bedroom pop vein, along with other singer songwriters like Cuco or Omar Apollo, who are also straddling multiple eras and places and vibes. And at the same time, this is a leveling up record. This is somebody who's making a star turn and really showing you a lot of different sides of his sound at the same time.
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Ro Wildflower
I Don't get to hear it often. Like the heavy, heavy guitar and the folky sound, you know, you hear it from bands like Manos Gutierrez, but to hear Guitarica de la Fuente by himself, you know, in this way, it sounds like it's so raw and he's really exposing himself. I almost visualize just a light above him kind of in like in this.
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Stephen Thompson
Dark room, you know, just a tiny, dusty spotlight.
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Ro Wildflower
Yeah, a tiny, dusty spotlight. And some albums really pulls you into the room and then pulls you back into the past. Into a past that I have never really discovered. And so to me is like a new, familiar sound.
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Stephen Thompson
There's a track on this record called Puerta del Sol, which is bringing in heavy melancholy and that's juxtaposed really beautifully against a track like Pipe Dream, which has this hook that burrows under the skin. Pipe Dream is about, like navigating the tension between authenticity and illusion. He's kind of navigating the code, switching among these different worlds. Even though I'm not a particularly adept Spanish speaker, I really sensed that idea of occupying multiple spaces simultaneously.
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Ro Wildflower
One thing that stood out about Pipe Dream was the collision between the seduction of the old world and modern detachment. And I was like, oh, yeah, you're feeling it because of the authenticity of it, of how raw Guitarica de la Fuente is and how, like, honest. So the emotions are just going straight to you, whether you speak the language or not. I do strongly feel like music, it is a connecting thread to Ancestors. I mentioned that. It wasn't something that I was completely familiar with. Right. You know, as a Mexican American, the music that I grew up with in my household was mariachi, because my father was a mariachi singer. So like, that's what you hear in the mornings. And so that is what pulled me in to this project and to his music. It's that through line, that ancestral through line. So he's bringing us into lands that we may have never been to. I've never been to Spain. I'd like to more now, you know. And so it's like it's a self discovery for him, but also a discovery for us who may have never been there or considered going or like understood the music. He's bringing it to us and serving it to us in a really beautiful platter. The name of the record is called Spanish Leather and that's something that I do own. You know, that high quality, that deep, resonant smell that you get. And you're getting it with this high quality album.
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Stephen Thompson
That's Spanish leather. From Guitarca de la Fuente. We've got more terrific records to talk about this week, but first we're going to take a quick break. This message comes from Schwab At Schwab, how you invest is your choice, not theirs. That's why when it comes to managing your wealth, Schwab gives you more choices. You can invest and trade on your own. Plus get advice and more comprehensive wealth solutions to help meet your unique needs. With award winning service, low costs and transparent advice, you can manage your wealth.
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Stephen Thompson
It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Ro Wildflower from KCRW in la. Ro, tell me what you're working on at kcrw.
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Ro Wildflower
Oh man, kcrw. It is a beautiful home. I am on KCRW every single Wednesday from 10:00pm to 1:00am and if that is past your bedtime, I have like 10250 episodes archived on our very beautiful app. So that's what I do on kcrw. I have an all vinyl show on Dub Lab and that's a show called Nueve and I invite people to bring nine of their favorite records. So that's once a month, every fourth Tuesday of the month. But on KCRW you can find me every single Wednesday. So it's fun to share my love for Brazilian music, my love for new music from all over the world. It's one of my most fulfilling life experiences.
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Stephen Thompson
Nice. Well I just want to thank you. As somebody who lives on east coast time. I'm very grateful that you archive those shows because those shows are Starting at that's 1am to 4am my time. I'm glad that you archive it through the KCRW app which everyone should have. Next up On New Music Friday, new album from Tune Yards. It's called Better Dreaming.
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Guest Artist
Guided by bruises of the freedom kind Where I might find Another heartbreak Another heartbreak break Another heart break Another heart break oh, I feel it or feel nothing at all.
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Stephen Thompson
Tuneyards is Meryl Garbus and Nate Brenner. They've been floating around for 15 years now. This is their sixth album. And you know, I got a chance to see them play like a noon concert at WXPN last week, and I was really struck by how vital this band still sounds, how vibrant and wild and kinetic.
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Ro Wildflower
It's like funky groove galore. And I mean, I love Tune Yards and I love how Meryl Garbus and Nate Brenner weave their three year old's voice all throughout the album. It really like pulls you in like you're in their living room. Like your family.
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Stephen Thompson
When you have a three year old at home, you are living in an age of interruption, even if you are not distracted by your phone, even if you are not distracted by the state of the world. And there's such a sense of joy and wonder that comes through on this record. I mean, like, what better distraction than to get lost in these songs?
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Guest Artist
Seven years until we have the.
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Stephen Thompson
These songs are so catchy, so good. There is a track on this album called Limelight and I was, you know, I had not listened to this record before seeing her perform a bunch of these songs live. And as she was playing the song at wxpn, it was somehow like stuck in my head before it. Before it was even done playing.
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Ro Wildflower
Yeah, I may have played it on my show like six times already. And I'm only on once a week. So how did that happen? We don't know. But it's good. It's so good. It's a vibe. I love that they mentioned that distraction, depression and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. And yeah, boy, I'm like, this album. Album's the medicine. I listened over and over and over again and liked it more and more and more every time.
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Stephen Thompson
There's also a real sense of lyrical purpose to this record. There's a track called How Big is the Rainbow? We're just a couple weeks away from Pride Month. You know, it's a song about making room for all people. And that sense of purpose really pervades a lot of these songs. They definitely function as earworm dispensers where you don't have to listen that attentively or that closely to get a feel for the joy that permeates this record. But at the same time, if you do listen closely, you get a sense that these are people who care very deeply about the world and about humanity and empathy and using music as a tool to connect people.
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Guest Artist
You have become someone that I don't recognize. You twist reality Just bring it down your size.
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Stephen Thompson
Part of my process of trying to listen more attentively is not giving up on artists who are on their sixth album just because I feel like, oh, I already know them, I already know what that sounds like. I don't need to hear their new album because I kind of know their deal. And it's such a reminder listening to this like they are so on point. They're continuing to kind of level up in their sound. They're still trying new ideas. They're still, their songs are still shape shifting and like she's not out of ideas by any stretch of the imagination. And it's, it's just such a reminder, like, oh, tune Yards. What is it, 2011? No, it's 2025 and they're still making great records.
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Guest Artist
Down down down down now once more Born to fight the fighting for Turn away from those who hate you Turn.
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Ro Wildflower
It's definitely one of those albums that is preparing our, our hearts and our spirits to just be more open and to dive into that freedom that maybe is only expressed by a child, you know, and that's. The music is sophisticated, but it. You also get the peaks of their three year old in there and it makes it so human and special.
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Guest Artist
Promise not to be selfish Practice not cause you need it Promise you can be changed Promise you rearrange your brain for the next in life Promise not to be selfish Practice not cause you need it Promise you will try to be changed Strange to rearrange for the.
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Stephen Thompson
Lives of the next in life that's better. Dreaming new album from Toon Yards. Next up, Rico Nasty. Rico Nasty has a new album called Lethal.
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Guest Artist
She just got her body box Trying to keep up with the world I can never chase a nut he came even farther. It's Chanel. I'm cashing out Mixing diamonds in the pearls I can't give the time of day cause I'm only out at night Rico dressed in black they know it's a scary sight make her eat the.
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Stephen Thompson
Curve since she wanna boom so Rico Nasty, she's been around for a few years. She describes her sound as sugar trap, which suggests kind of what it sounds like, which is trap music, hip hop that is infused with, with a certain amount of rock and guitars and you know, she's Very, very genre fluid. And this particular record, Lethal, she's described it kind of as and billed it as her rap rock record. And even gone so far as to put this album out on Fueled by Ramen Records, which is a label that has really specialized in a lot of rock and pop punk sounds. And, you know, she's talked about her influences as including not only Rihanna, but also Avril Lavigne and Joan Jett. And you can really hear that fusion of sounds on this album.
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Ro Wildflower
I was surprised because sometimes you hear rap rock, you're like, okay, what am I going to get here? And I was like, we are in a garage right now. Like, is Trent Reznor over there watching us? Like, what's going on right now? And I loved it. Like, I thought it was cool. It did make me run a little faster.
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Stephen Thompson
Teeth Sucker is a good example of a song that brings in kind of that rap rock vibe.
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Guest Artist
You're the best at living.
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Stephen Thompson
There's a track called Son of a Gun that is clearly, like fully aggro rap rock. It's clearly influenced by nu metal in its sound. But at the same time, this is not, quote unquote, just a rap rock record. She still weaves in kind of TikTok friendly pop sounds. There's a song called on the Low where you can just imagine it being excerpted on TikTok and kind of having almost these Pink Panthers vibes to it.
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Guest Artist
No toddler take we taking our time.
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Ro Wildflower
It'S raw and it's unapologetic and it's sexy. It. It makes you feel some kind of way.
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Stephen Thompson
And who doesn't want to feel some kind of way?
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Ro Wildflower
Exactly. Especially coming into the summer, you know, it's lethal.
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Guest Artist
I ran up the money I left don't talk on the phone it's open I fill up the gap the truck that I pull up in Black face car leave a.
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Stephen Thompson
I think it's really telling that this album closes with a song called Smile that is so bright and sunny. It's a nice reminder at the end of this, you know, pretty brief kind of 34 minute journey through many different sounds and genres and styles that she's kind of coming out the other end of it refreshed and renewed. And I think that's kind of the experience of listening to this record.
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Ro Wildflower
Yeah, it's like a flower blooming. I love the femininity in it. And it's very clear that she's doing something different here.
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Stephen Thompson
That's lethal. It's a new album from Rico Nasty. We've got one more record we're going to talk about in depth. But first, let's take a quick break.
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Stephen Thompson
From NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Ro Wildflower from KCRW in Los Angeles. We've got a lightning round coming up of some of our other favorite albums out today, May 16, but we got one more that we wanted to talk about a little more in depth by the wonderful singer Lito Pimienta. It's called La Belleisa. This Alito Pimienta was born in Colombia and she's now based in Toronto. Put out her first album like 15 years ago, has won the Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian artist. Her last album in 2020 was called Miss Colombia, an absolute staple of year end best lists, including ours. You know, just this one wonderful set of electropop music. But as you can tell, listening to the little sample of this record that we just played, this is her collaboration with an orchestra. She worked with the Medellin Philharmonic Orchestra to kind of set her gorgeous expansive voice against these orchestral arrangements.
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Ro Wildflower
It was extremely cinematic from the jump, you know, gentle but strong, powerful and super free. Just to be able to dive into something that you've never done before and knock it all the way out the park. Like how do you go from electronic to classical? It's super bold and inspiring for a listener and a musician.
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Stephen Thompson
This album closes with a track called Busca la Luz, where I immediately just thought, wow, she's the Colombian Bjork. The way Bjork plays with a lot of orchestral sounds, but has this voice that swoops kind of magically over it. And then there's a track called Overturn with the parenthetical overtura de la luz eterna, which has this more ethereal, almost operatic quality to her voice. My big takeaway from this record is just, first of all, there's nothing this woman cannot do. But also, like, she is still expanding the boundaries of what she can do with her voice.
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Ro Wildflower
What Lido said about labeling her music blew me away, because she was. She said that no matter what style or genre of music I make, the result will always be regulated to the world music aisle in stores and the algorithm. Then why not create something that no one would ever expect from a Caribbean woman? And I was like, mind blown. Like, do what you want, Be free, and make an album that completely defies all of those categories. So she made an entirely orchestral record. It's like Fear. At least this.
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Stephen Thompson
That's La Bellesa translation, the Beauty. Very appropriately named from the wonderful Lido Pimenta.
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Guest Artist
Ro.
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Stephen Thompson
We could not possibly get to every terrific record out today, May 16, so we did want to do a lightning round of some of our other favorites. I'm going to kick us off with Matt Maltese. He's a UK singer songwriter who traffics in this kind of. Of witty classic pop. And by classic, I'm trying to conjure images of, like, early Rufus Wainwright, where there's like, a swoony timelessness to it, but he's also got these slick, polished, shimmery arrangements that are just enormously pleasing. Matt Maltese's new sixth album is called Hers.
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Ro Wildflower
Buses replace trains and highways replace lanes there's no replacing you die Miso Extra ear Candy. So another album that, to me, sounds like summertime, but inside of a video game, it is a fun, upbeat. It's super, super electric and a little extra in all the best ways. I love it. It's like lush, textured, and again, it feels like you're in a video game. And there are moments where the beats are, like, grimy and dark, and then other moments where you hear the soft chirping of birds. I was like, is this. Is this outside or is this on the record? And I had to pull my headphones off. I'm like, oh, my goodness, how did it go from there to this? Yes, sign me up.
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Stephen Thompson
Time drags on and there's nothing new to say. Ken Pomeroy is a Cherokee folk singer from Oklahoma who's about to spend the summer touring with Iron and Wine. And I'm with her, which should give you a sense of her overall sound, which is stripped down and intimate while evoking the sound of folk music and country and even occasional notes of Phoebe Bridgers. It's highly recommended. Ken Pomeroy's new album Is called Cruel Joke.
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Guest Artist
Take me for what I am no more the devil siding in the Bible.
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Ro Wildflower
I'm just a fierce on her arms.
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Guest Artist
We took her for a prayer.
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Ro Wildflower
The third album from Melbourne multi instrumentalist Don Glory is titled Paper Can't Rap Fire. This producer and composer brings us into the jazz room fusing in some funk and some soul, some R B and some samba, which really touches my heart. His music can be hard to describe, but it is even harder to forget. Let's go. That is Dawn Glory with a paper can't wrap fire.
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Stephen Thompson
I didn't know I died.
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Ro Wildflower
I didn't know.
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Stephen Thompson
Male that is spelled M parenthesis, H parenthesis. AOL is a wild Irish post punk band whose tense but stylish, anxious, clattering songs touch on intersectional feminism, global politics, the state of human empathy, you name it. The group's new album is the not very appropriately titled, Something Soft. So Ro, you and I listened to a lot of music in the run up to this conversation, a bunch of great new albums. We wanted to go out by kind of asking the question, like, what was your first favorite song of everything that you heard in preparing for this show?
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Ro Wildflower
I'm gonna give it to Afrofuturistic collective Mourning A black Star. They have a track titled Stop Lion 2. And that track, it literally made me stop on the street and start dancing. I was like, my neighbors are probably thinking, I'm a wild woman right now. The song is about perseverance. It's about acknowledging the journey and time spent and not worrying about the outside noise. And I was not worried about the outside noise. I was worried about what I was listening to within. I immediately had to play the record again. So Flowers for the Living will be their eighth album. I was blown away.
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Stephen Thompson
Morning a black star. One of the reasons I'm proud to say I was was born near Cleveland. Terrific, terrific band. I'm glad you shouted them out. I'm glad you shouted out that record. They're an easy band to kind of get lost in the din because they're so prolific.
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Guest Artist
Wear them crooks Wear them crooked Let them look let them look Let them look Let them look I have to do something for this family I created, you know?
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Guest Artist
I tried my best possible.
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Ro Wildflower
Effort.
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Stephen Thompson
There is nothing I can change. I really struggle to pick just one song from everything that we're talking about. Between that tune, Yards record, Matt Maltese has a really, really nice song. I'm gonna go with doing the best I can from that Amine record and how much that song exudes a sense of grace directed inward in a way that I really, really appreciated. It kind of opens with this beautiful sample of Amine's father talking to him. And that's a song that I'm gonna carry with me for a while that that's gonna wind up on my year end, you know, best compilation that I'll put together. It's one that I'm gonna keep going back to. Even though there are much summerier songs on that record and ones that I'm more likely to jam out of my car windows in the summer of 2025. That's a song I'm still gonna be listening to in the winter of 2025.
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Guest Artist
Got me up nah nah nah nah nah I'm trying to keep my head up strong being never folks now never been wrong to me but it's wrong for me to please and please don't wonder who gonna be there for me.
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Stephen Thompson
And that is our show for this week. Thank you so much. Ro Wildflower from kcrw. Thank you so much for taking time out of your week.
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Ro Wildflower
Yay. Thank you so, so much for having me. And I can't wait to dive in deeper to all these amazing records that are out today.
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Stephen Thompson
If you enjoyed this week's show, we always appreciate a positive review on Apple or Spotify or whatever app you're listening to right now. This episode was produced by Simon Rentner and edited by Otis Hart. The Executive producer of NPR Music is Soraya Mohamed and her boss is Keith Jenkins, NPR's vice president of Music and Visuals. We'll be back next week to talk about the new Stereo Lab album and more with Robert Moore from 90.9 the Bridge in Kansas City. Until then, take a moment to be well, throw your windows open and treat yourself to lots of great music.
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