New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 18
Rosalía's highly anticipated MOTOMAMI tops our shortlist of the best albums out on March 18. Daniel Sannwald/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Two of the year's most anticipated albums — Rosalía's MOTOMAMI and Charli XCX's CRASH — drop today, and both are bold, defiant pop wonders containing multitudes. We start this week's show by digging into the genre-hopping, head-swirling sounds of MOTOMAMI and talk about the ways Rosalía's sound and vision have evolved. We've also got the posthumous Drone Mass from the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, a joint project from the rapper Raw Poetic and producer Damu The Fudgemunk, the New Zealand pop group Yumi Zouma and more. NPR Music's Reanna Cruz joins Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody and NPR's Tom Huizenga, along with host Robin Hilton to share their picks for the best new albums dropping on March 18.
Featured Albums:
- Rosalía — MOTOMAMI
Featured tracks: "CUUUUuuuuuute," "BULERÍAS," "SAOKO" - Jóhann Jóhannsson — Drone Mass
Featured tracks: "Two is Apocryphal," "Take the Night Air" - Raw Poetic & Damu The Fudgemunk — Laminated Skies
Featured Tracks: "Open Roads," "Chewing Gum" - Charli XCX — CRASH
Featured Tracks: "Crash," "Yuck" - Yumi Zouma — Present Tense
Featured Track: "Astral Projection"
Other notable releases for March 18:
- Bladee & Ecco2K — Crest
- Broadcast — Microtronics, Mother is the Milky Way, Maida Vale Sessions
- Cypress Hill — Back in Black
- Mattiel — Georgia Gothic
- Midlake — For the Sake of Bethel Woods
- Ruth Slenczynska — My Life in Music
- Sonic Youth — In/Out/In