Hearken to albums from Courting, Etienne de Crécy, Charley Crockett and extra.

Charley Crockett.
Bobby Cochran/Island
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Early this morning, the “blood worm moon” lunar eclipse was seen in some components of North America. However that is not all that graced the Earth’s sky this Friday, March 14.
Matt Reilly of Austin public radio station KUTX joins NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson to debate the brand new releases that made their debut on streaming companies whilst you had been watching that eclipse. (Our hearts exit to those that stayed up all night time ready for Playboi Carti’s I Am Music, which lastly dropped after 7 a.m. ET.)
The Beginning 5
Twin Shadow.
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Stephen and Matt provide the backstory and greatest songs on the next albums:
- Charley Crockett, Lonesome Drifter (Stream)
- Twin Shadow, Georgie (Stream)
- Courting, Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Different Aspect To Inform The Story (Stream)
- Étienne de Crécy, WARM UP (Stream)
- Throwing Muses, Moonlight Concessions (Stream)
New Music Friday is a function of NPR’s All Songs Thought-about podcast! Hear the dialogue on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Lightning Spherical

William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes and Daveed Diggs of the band clipping.
Iddo Goldberg
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Iddo Goldberg
Six extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
- Playboi Carti, I Am Music
- clipping., Lifeless Channel Sky
- Womb, One is All the time Heading Someplace
- Circuit des Yeux, Halo on the Inside
- The Mexican Standoff, Hola, Texas!
- Spiral Deluxe (Jeff Mills, Yumiko Ohno, Kenji ‘Jino’ Hino and Gerald Mitchell), The Love Pretender
Pay attention to every album’s greatest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple.
The Lengthy Checklist

Lorainne James of Regardless of the Climate.
Darryl Daley
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Darryl Daley
For many who need to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Bambara, Birthmarks
- Blasé, BLABLABLA
- cleopatrick, FAKE MOON
- Coheed and Cambria, Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Consider
- Dana Gavanski, Once more Once more EP
- Das Beat, Frau Deadly
- Lifeless Rabbitts, Redefined
- Dorothy, The Means
- Edwyn Collins, Nation Shall Converse Unto Nation
- Flora from Kansas, Homesick EP
- Hekla, Turnar
- Huremic (Parannoul), Searching for Darkness
- KEG, Enjoyable’s Over
- Mia June, Mind Like Laptop
- Neal Francis, Return to Zero
- Neal Morgan, PAW
- Nico, Chelsea City Corridor (Dwell)
- of Montreal, The Sunlandic Twins (twentieth Anniversary Version)
- Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid Field Set
- Steven Wilson, The Overview
- The Faint, Clean Wave Arcade (Reissue)
- The Faint, Moist From Delivery (Reissue)
- The Loft, Every little thing Adjustments Every little thing Stays the Similar
- The WAEVE, Everlasting EP
- Weaving, Webs
Classical
- Jan Lisiecki, Preludes
- Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian, WITNESS
- Owls, Uncommon Birds
- Patrick Demenga, Knaifel: Chapter Eight
- Steve Reich, Collected Works 27-Disc Field Set
Nation/People/Americana
- Carly Pearce, Hummingbird: No Rain, No Flowers
- Rose Cousins, Circumstances of Love
- Ruston Kelly, Dust Emo Vol. II
- Warren Zeiders, Relapse, Lies & Betrayal
- ZZ Ward Liberation
Digital/Out There
- Loraine James (as Regardless of the Climate), No matter The Climate II
- anamē, Hopes & Fears
- Cinema Royal, Cinema Royal
- COUSIN KULA, AFTER SUN
- Golem Mecanique, Siamo tutti in pericolo
- Intensive Care + The Physique, Was I Good Sufficient?
- Joni Void, Each Life is a Mild
- Jorg Kuning, Elvers Go
- Ploy, It is Later Than You Suppose
- Zoe McPherson, Upside Down
International
- Anoushka Shankar, Chapter III: We Return to Mild
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Yarın Yoksa
- Valvin, Incoming
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
Philomena Wolflingseder
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Philomena Wolflingseder
Jazz
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet
- Artwork Pepper, Geneva 1980
- Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes, Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
- Hayes Greenfield, Gravity Unplugged
- Nicolas Masson, Renaissance
- Ray Suhy / Lewis Porter Quartet, What Occurs Subsequent
- Silke Eberhard, Trio Being-A-Ning
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells
Pop
- LE SSERAFIM, HOT
- Perhaps Glad Ending, Authentic Broadway Forged Recording
- No Guidnce, Confessions of a Loverboy EP
- St. Lucia, Fata Morgana: Daybreak
- Westislonely, Even a Worm Will Flip EP
- Yael Daila, EP
Rap/Hip-Hop
- Curren$y & Harry Fraud, By no means Catch Us
- Dano, Nuevos Trapos
- insyt., Dancing by Myself
- Jasiah, NO HOLDS BARRED
- PARTYOF2, we owe you a proof EP
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: Matt Reilly, KUTX
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editor: Otis Hart
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins