New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 24
Atlanta rapper and singer 6LACK's first new album in five years, Since I Have A Lover tops our shortlist for the best releases out on March 24. Jack McKain/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Atlanta rapper and singer 6LACK's first new album in five years, Since I Have A Lover tops our shortlist for the best releases out on March 24.
Jack McKain/Courtesy of the artistIt's been five years since the Atlanta rapper and singer 6LACK dropped a full-length project, but he's back this week with the emotional and brilliantly produced Since I Have A Lover. We hear several cuts from across the album to open this week's show and talk about the ways 6LACK uses intimacy and honesty to, as Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody says, reveal the "complexities of Black men" in America.
Here The Songs
We've also got Lana Del Rey's long-awaited album Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, R&B singer Yaya Bey, deep drones from the Irish folk group Lankum and more. NPR Music's Ann Powers joins Moody, WBGO's Nicole Sweeney and host Robin Hilton as they share their picks for the best new albums out on March 24.
Featured Albums:
- 6LACK — Since I Have A Lover
Featured Songs: "Inwood Hill Park," "Cold Feet," "Talkback," "Chasing Feeling" - Lana Del Rey — Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Featured Songs: "Peppers (feat. Tommy Genesis)," "Jon Batiste Interlude," "Margaret (feat. Bleachers)," "Judah Smith Interlude," "A&W" - Yaya Bey — Exodus the North Star
Featured Songs: "when saturn returns," "exodus the north star" - Lankum — False Lankum
Featured Songs: "Clear Away in the Morning," "Fugue III," "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn" - Depeche Mode — Memento Mori
Featured Songs: "My Cosmos Is Mine," "Always You," "People Are Good," "My Favourite Stranger"
Lightning Round:
- Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily — Love in Exile
- Benny Sings — Young Hearts
- Caroline Rose — The Art of Forgetting
- Fall Out Boy — So Much (For) Stardust
- Kele — The Flames, Pt. 2
- Lemar — Page In My Heart
- Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary)
- Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro — RR
- Sophie B Hawkins — Free Myself
Other notable releases for March 24:
- 03 Greedo — Halfway There
- Angel Bat Dawid — Requiem for Jazz
- Babymetal — The Other One
- The HIRS Collective — We're Still Here
- Jimin — FACE
- Kate Davis — Fish Bowl
- Luke Combs — Gettin' Old
- Meg Myers — TZIA
- Nickel Creek — Celebrants
- Owl City — Coco Moon
- Purling Hiss — Drag on Girard
- Spectacular Diagnostics — Raw Lessons