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

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

b'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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