New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 5
Q Marsden's debut album, Soul,PRESENT tops this week's shortlist of the best albums out on May 5. Willem Verbeeck/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Q Marsden's debut album, Soul,PRESENT tops this week's shortlist of the best albums out on May 5.
Willem Verbeeck/Courtesy of the artistQ Marsden drops his debut full-length this week, a collection of soulful songs steeped in analog nostalgia and '80s pop production, with an eye toward a slightly more warped and wondrous future. We open this week's show with Soul,PRESENT and talk about the ways Q embodies the past while making entirely his own.
Hear The Songs
We've also got an incredible new collaboration this week from the rapper billy woods and producer Kenny Segal, self affirmations from singer Emily King, the jazz group Artemis, yMusic and more. Contributor and host of the Artimacy podcast Keanna Faircloth joins Director of Editorial Content at WRTI Nate Chinen, NPR Music Editor Sheldon Pearce and host Robin Hilton as they share their picks for the best releases out on May 5.
Featured Albums:
- Q — Soul,PRESENT
Featured Songs: "WELCOME TO THE SOUL, PRESENT," "TODAY," "STEREO DRIVER," "LOVE" - Emily King — Special Occasion
Featured Songs: "Medal," "Who Wants My Love," "This Year" - Artemis — In Real Time
Featured Songs: "Empress Afternoon," "Penelope," "Timber," "Whirlwind" - billy woods & Kenny Segal — Maps
Featured Songs: "Soft Landing," "Facetime (feat. Samuel Herring)," "Waiting Around (feat. Aesop Rock)," "Soundcheck (feat. Quelle Chris)" - yMusic — YMUSIC
Featured Songs: "Three Elephants," "The Wolf"
Lightning Round Picks:
- Atmosphere — So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously
- Durand Jones — Wait Til I Get Over
- Magos Herrera — Aire
- Roomful of Teeth — Rough Magic
Other notable releases for May 5:
- The Album Leaf — Future Falling
- Armani White — The Road to Casablanco.
- Bailen — Tired Hearts
- Cian Nugent — She Brings Me Back to the Land of the Living
- Conway the Machine — Won't He Do It
- David Wax Museum — You Must Change Your Life
- Drain — Living Proof
- Ed Sheeran — - [Subtract]
- Gaby Moreno — X Mí (Vol. 1)
- Immaterial Possession — Mercy of the Crane Folk
- Onyx — Blood On Da X
- Rodney Crowell — The Chicago Sessions
- Rudy Royston — DAY
- Sam Sweeney & Louis Campbell — Shapes
- SBTRKT — The Rat Road
- Smashing Pumpkins — Atum
- SQÜRL — Silver Haze