New Music Friday: The best albums out April 12

Published: April 12, 2024, 7 a.m.

b'NPR Music\'s Sheldon Pearce and WRTI\'s Nate Chinen take you through the biggest new releases of the week, including Maggie Rogers, Shabaka Hutchings and more.

Featured albums:
- Shabaka, \'Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace\'
- Maggie Rogers, \'Don\'t Forget Me\'
- Lizz Wright, \'Shadow\'
- Leyla McCalla, \'Sun Without the Heat\'

Other notable albums out April 5:
- METZ, \'Up On Gravity Hill\'
- Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg, \'Accept When\'
- girl in red, \'I\'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!\'
- Future & Metro Boomin, \'We Still Don\'t Trust You\'
- Nia Archives, \'Silence is Loud\'
- V/A, \'My Black Country - The Songs of Alice Randall\'
- Still House Plants, \'If I don\\u200b\'\\u200bt make it, I love u\'
- Clarissa Connelly, \'World of Work\'
- Meshell Ndegeocello, \'Red Hot and Ra: The Magic City\'
- Bad Bad Hats, \'Bad Bad Hats\'
- Dave Douglas, \'GIFTS\'
- BODEGA, \'Our Brand Could Be Yr Life\'
- English Teacher, \'This Could Be Texas\'
- James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg, \'All Gist\'
- Mark Knopfler, \'One Deep River\'
- The Ophelias, \'Ribbon\' EP
- Tusks, \'Gold\'
- Raphael Sch\\xf6n, \'Heart Times\'
- Sunburned Hand of the Man, \'Nimbus\'
- Rejoicer, \'This Is Reasonable\'
- Aaron Lee Tasjan, \'Stellar Evolution\'
- Dolo Percussion, \'DOLO 6\'
- Baby Blue, \'Of My Window\'
- The Reds, Pinks & Purples, \'Unwishing Well\'
- Water Damage, \'In E\'
- Will Hoge, \'Tenderhearted Boys\'
- Jess Ribeiro, \'Summer of Love\'
- Sunbeam Sound Machine, \'Soft Signal\' EP

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