New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 20
Harry's House, the latest solo album from former One Direction singer Harry Styles, tops this week's shortlist for the best albums out on May 20. Lillie Eiger/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Harry Styles is back this week with his third full-length solo album. Harry's House is a genre-hopping ode to family and the comforts of home that finds the former One Direction singer dipping into soul and funk, jazz, rock and more. On this week's show we dig into the new music, talk about his evolution as an artist and how Styles contains multitudes.
We've also got a stunning debut album from the R&B singer Ravyn Lenae, jazz pianist Joey Alexander, a new collaboration between Boldy James and Real Bad Man and more. Contributors Christina Lee, Cyrena Touros and Keanna Faircloth join host Robin Hilton to share their picks for the best new music out on May 20.
Featured Albums:
- Harry Styles — Harry's House
Featured Tracks: "Music for a Sushi Restaurant," "Grapejuice" - Joey Alexander — Origin
Featured Tracks: "Remembering," "Summer Rising" - Ravyn Lenae — Hypnos
Featured Tracks: "3D," "Inside Out," "Xtasy" - Porridge Radio — Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
Featured Tracks: "Back to the Radio," "End of Last Year" - Boldy James & Real Bad Man — Killing Nothing
Featured Track: "Game Time"
Other notable releases for May 20:
- Charlie Hickey — Nervous At Night
- Craig Finn — A Legacy of Rentals
- Flume — Palaces
- Hanson — Red Green Blue
- Joe Rainey — Niineta
- Kronos Quartet — Mỹ Lai
- Lykke Li — EYEYE
- Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena — West Kensington
- mxmtoon — rising
- SOAK — If I never know you like this again
- Uffie — Sunshine Factory