
Lucy Dacus launched her first album, titled Eternally is a Feeling, since boygenius’ large breakthrough.
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It is Friday, and meaning Lucy Dacus has launched her new album, Eternally Is A Feeling. Dacus is the primary member of boygenius to launch a solo file for the reason that trio blew up in 2023, and it is truthful to say she’s met the second.
A bumper crop of wonderful indie information joined Eternally Is A Feeling on streaming companies in a single day, so who higher to information us by means of this week’s new releases than Indie 102.3’s Alisha Sweeney. She joins New Music Friday host Stephen Thompson to speak a few festival-worthy lineup.
Hearken to the dialog beneath, and stream our beneficial new albums.
The Beginning 5

SPELLLING.
Stephanie Pia/Sacred Bones
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Stephen and Alisha provide the backstory and finest songs on the next albums:
- Lucy Dacus, Eternally Is A Feeling (Stream)
- Fragrance Genius, Glory (Stream)
- Nice Grandpa, Endurance, Moonbeam (Stream)
- Destroyer. Dan’s Boogie (Stream)
- SPELLLING. Portrait of My Coronary heart (Stream)
New Music Friday is a function 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

Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
- Alison Krauss & Union Station, Arcadia
- Yukimi, For You
- Palmyra, Stressed
- Hannah Cohen, Earthstar Mountain
- DJ Python, i used to be placed on this earth
Hear to every album’s finest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple.
The Lengthy Record

Butcher Brown.
Jacky Flav/Harmony Jazz
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For individuals who wish to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Jazz
- Butcher Brown, Letter from the Atlantic
- Alberto Novello & Rob Mazurek, Solar Eaters
- Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Dave Holland & Django Bates, After the Final Sky
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging
- Edison Machado & Boa Nova, s/t
- Joe Armon-Jones, All The Quiet (Half I)
- The Positive Fireplace Soul Ensemble, Gemini
- Vega Trails, Sierra Tracks
- William Hooker, A Time / Inside: Dwell on the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Amelia Barratt & Bryan Ferry, Unfastened Discuss
- Bag Folks, Bag Folks
- Bria Salmena, Massive Canine
- Butler, Blake & Grant, Butler, Blake & Grant
- CocoRosie, Little Loss of life Needs
- Lifeless Meadow, Voyager To Voyager
- Deafheaven, Lonely Folks With Energy
- Dean Wareham, That is the Worth of Loving Me
- Free Vary, Misplaced & Discovered
- Fusilier, Ambush
- girlpuppy, Sweetness
- JIVEBOMB, ETHEREAL
- Liz Stringer, The Second Excessive
- Mess Esque, Jay Marie, Consolation Me
- Mumford & Sons, RUSHMERE
- Photay, Windswept: Expansions
- Postcards, Ripe
- Quinine, First Ever Whippet On Acid
- Sacred Paws, Leap Into Life
- Sam Akpro, Evenfall
- Serebii, Dime
- Snapped Ankles, Laborious Occasions Livid Dancing
- Any person’s Little one, When Youth Fades Away
- The Darkness, Goals on Toast
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra, IC-02 Bogotá
- Wallows, Extra EP
Nation/People/Americana
- Cactus Lee, s/t
- James Elkington, Pastel De Nada
- lilo, Blood Ties
- Pug Johnson, El Cabrino
- Wryn, Shapes
Rap/Hip-Hop
- Boldy James & Antt Beatz, Hommage
- DaBoii, HEART OF A LION
- Lil Durk, Deep Ideas
- NAV, OMW2 REXDALE
- Nemzzz, RENT’S DUE
- poptropicaslutz!, the brand new 925
- yasiin bey (Mos Def) & The Alchemist, FORENSICS
- YT, OI!
R&B/Soul
- Aqyila, Falling Into Place
- Jessie Reyez, Paid in Reminiscences
- Q, 10 Songs
- Salin, Rammana
Digital/Out There
- aya, hexed!
- Backxwash, Solely Mud Stays
- CEM, FORMA
- Eiko Ishibashi, Antigone
- Hans Nieswandt, Fluoreszent
- John Foxx, Wherever You Are
- Kingdom, Molongi Kembo
- Lia Kohl & Whitney Johnson, For Translucence
- Logic 1000, DJ-Kicks
- Los Thuthanaka (Elysia Crampton), s/t
- Moomin, Into the Distance
- OHYUNG, You Are All the time On My Thoughts
- Pacific Coliseum & Teen Daze, Voice Wave
- Roger Doyle, We Who Dwell Underneath Heaven
- Sandwell District, Finish Beginnings
- S*** and Shine, Mannheim Hbf
- Steven Julien, TIME
- Ultan O’Brien, Dancing The Line
- Unspecified Enemies, Romance within the Age of Adaptive Suggestions
- V/A, Volcanic Tongue
- Wolfgang Flür, Occasions
- Yetsuby, 4EVA
Classical
- Andris Nelsons, Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Girl Macbeth of Mtsensk District
- Anton Mejias The Artwork of Reminiscence
Pop
- Ariana Grande, Everlasting Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Forward
- Carlos Santana, Sentient
- chloe moriondo, oyster
- Maya Delilah, The Lengthy Approach Spherical
- Ruger, BlownBoy RU
- Will Smith, Primarily based on a True Story
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: Alisha Sweeney, Colorado Public Radio’s Indie 102.3
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editor: Otis Hart
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins