New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 3

Published: Feb. 3, 2023, 10 a.m.

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include RAYE's long-awaited debut, My 21st Century Blues, SYML's stirring The Day My Father Died, the return of Shania Twain and more.

Featured Albums:
1. SYML \u2014 The Day My Father Died
Featured Songs: "Chariot," "Howling (feat. Lucius)," "Lost Myself (feat. Guy Garvey)," "The Day My Father Died"
2. RAYE \u2014 My 21st Century Blues
Featured Songs: "The Thrill Is Gone," "Oscar Winning Tears," "Hard Out Here"
3. Joe Chambers \u2014 Dance Kobina
Featured Songs: "Gazelle Suite," "Caravanserai"
4. Young Fathers \u2014 Heavy Heavy
Featured Songs: "Geronimo," "I Saw," "Tell Somebody"
5. Shania Twain \u2014 Queen of Me
Featured Song: "Pretty Liar"

Lightning Round Picks:
Epik High \u2014 Strawberry
The Go! Team \u2014 Get Up Sequences Part Two
James Brandon Lewis \u2014 Eye of I
Robert Forster \u2014 The Candle and the Flame

Other notable releases for Feb. 3:
Ben Wolfe \u2014 Unjust
Best Fern \u2014 Earth Then Air
Fantastic Negrito \u2014 Grandfather Courage
Hamish Hawk \u2014 Angel Numbers
Loscil & Lawrence English \u2014 Colours of Air
M(h)aol \u2014 Attachment Style
The Psychotic Monks \u2014 Pink Colour Surgery
Somebody's Child \u2014 Somebody's Child
Sunny War \u2014 Anarchist Gospel
Tropical F*** Storm \u2014 SUBMERSIVE BEHAVIOR
Various \u2014 Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia


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