It feels like the first major springtime release week of 2024. On this week's episode of New Music Friday, NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss the hotly awaited album by the wry-country-storyteller-turned-Grammy-winning-vibes-purveyor-turned ... wellness guru (?) Kacey Musgraves and the full-length debut by unclassifiable rapper and visual innovator Tierra Whack.
Plus: a comeback effort from one of the 21st century's most consequential pop stars, a jazz-punk collaboration that somehow manages to avoid feeling like a mashup, and more.
Featured albums
- Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well
- Tierra Whack, World Wide Whack
- Justin Timberlake, Everything I Thought It Was
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
Other notable releases for March 15
- Four Tet, Three
- The Black Crowes, Happiness Bastards
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
- The Dandy Warhols, Rockmaker
- Holly Humberstone, work in progress EP
- Flo Milli, Fine Ho, Stay
- Elcamino, The Game Is The Game