Bon Iver lightens up on his new album, SABLE, fABLE.
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It is Friday, and which means dozens of latest albums magically appeared in your favourite streaming service on the stroke of midnight — together with the return of Bon Iver. SABLE, fABLE is the band’s first album in nearly six years and finds Justin Vernon in a markedly much less dour temper.
NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson welcomed fellow Wisconsinite Erin Wolf of Milwaukee public radio station 88Nine to debate the brand new Bon Iver album, in addition to a handful of different new releases worthy of your consideration.
The Beginning 5
Valerie June.
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Stephen and Erin provide the backstory and finest songs on the next albums:
💿 Bon Iver, SABLE, fABLE
- RIYL: Bon Iver, Bruce Hornsby
💿 Valerie June, Owls, Omens, and Oracles
- RIYL: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Joanna Newsom
💿 Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos
- RIYL: Geri Allen, The Flaming Lips
💿 Actual Lies, We Will Annihilate Our Enemies (out April 16)
💿 Kills Birds, Crave EP
- RIYL: Soundgarden, Helmet
New Music Friday is a characteristic of NPR’s All Songs Thought of podcast! Hear the dialogue on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Lightning Spherical
Jadu Coronary heart.
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5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
💿 Turnpike Troubadours, The Worth of Admission
💿 Daughter of Swords, Alex
💿 Jadu Coronary heart, Put up Heaven
💿 Casper Skulls, Equipment-Cat
💿 Nell Smith, Anxious
Hear to every album’s finest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple.
The Lengthy Checklist
Salif Keita
Lucille Reyboz/NO FØRMAT!
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For many who wish to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
International
- Charif Megarbane, Hawalat
- HHY & The Kampala Unit, Turbo Meltdown
- Kuunatic, Wheels of Omon
- Kwashibu Space Band, Love Warrior’s Anthem
- Salif Keïta, So Kono
- Savina Yannatou, Watersong
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Bedridden, Moths Strapped To Eachother’s Backs
- Cassia, everyone, outdoors
- Muddle, Loves You EP
- Chilly Specks, Mild for the Midnight
- Lifeless Pioneers, Po$t American
- Eyedress, Stoner
- fantasy of a damaged coronary heart, Chaos Practitioner EP
- Grandmas Home, Something for You
- HONEYMOAN, Pink Hell
- Idle Heirs, Life is Violence
- Johanna Warren, The Evening of the Wind
- Joni, Issues I Left Behind
- key vs. locket, i felt like a sketch
- Magnolia Park, Vamp
- Mamalarky, Hex Key
- Maria Usbeck, Naturaleza
- OK GO, And the Adjoining Potential
- Portray, Snapshot of Pure Consideration
- Public Physique, Finger Meals
- Spin Docs, Face Filled with Cake
- Tapeworms, Grand Voyage
- Tara Nome Doyle, Ekko
- Teen Mortgage, Satan Ultrasonic Dream
- The Album Leaf, ROTATIONS
- The Mars Volta, Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio
- The Wrecks, Inside EP
Nation/People/Americana
- Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton, Dwell on the Legion
- Jon Pardi, Honkytonk Hollywood
- Kolby Cooper, Love You, Goodnight
- Muscadine Bloodline, …And What Was Left Behind
- Trousdale, Rising Pains
Rap/Hip-Hop
- Berner, Carbon EP
- Deem Spencer, yung EP
- Ken Carson, Extra Chaos
- V/A, Gangster Music Vol. 3
R&B/Soul
- Galactic and Irma Thomas, Viewers With the Queen
- ADJA, Golden Retrieve Her
Digital/Out There
- Briain, Cognitive Dissonance
- Carlita, cloth presents Carlita
- Guilherme Granado Goat Unity, Ghost Parades
- isolee, Chopstick! EP
- James Vibrant, Imaginal
- Joshua Bonnetta, The Pines
- Konalgad, Membership Dream
- Larum, The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Half Two
- Lullahush, Ithaca
- Martinou, Linked EP
- Olivia Font, Invictam
- Riccardo La Foresta, ZERO,999…
- Röyksopp, True Electrical
- set dressing, i am unable to be alone tonite EP
- Tim Hodgkinson, Haiku within the Large World
Classical
- Kyiv Virtuosi, Alexey Shor: Composer’s Pocket book, Vol. 3
- Leif Ove Andsnes, Liszt: By way of Crucis & Solo Piano Works
- Nicola Benedetti, Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Main, Op. 61
Jazz
- Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air
- Poppy Daniels, Hold On Going
- V/A, Chet Baker Re:imagined
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: Erin Wolf, Radio Milwaukee’s 88Nine
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editor: Otis Hart
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins
