This week's episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered showcases artists stretching limits across a wide spectrum of genres. NPR Music editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre dig into the most exciting albums out May 10, 2024, from a juggernaut of the Mexican regional scene experimenting with song forms and sounds from across Latin America to an R&B singer getting loose after portraying a jazz icon to a blockbuster collection of contemporary indie artists pulled together for the soundtrack of a discombobulating movie rooted in the 1990s.
Featured albums
- Grupo Frontera, Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada
- Andra Day, Cassandra (cherith)
- Various Artists, I Saw the TV Glow Original Soundtrack
Other notable albums out May 10
- Yaya Bey, Ten Fold
- Les Savy Fav, OUI LSF
- I. Jordan, I Am Jordan
- Ryan Castro, El Cantante del Ghetto
- Amen Dunes, Death Jokes
- Arab Strap, I'm totally fine with it don't give a f*** anymore
- Brad Mehldau, After Bach II
- Brad Mehldau, Après Fauré
- Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance
- Chief Keef, Almighty So 2
- Conway the Machine, Slant Face Killah
- Dehd, Poetry
- Ghostface Killah, Set the Tone (Guns & Roses)
- Gunna, One of Wun
- How To Dress Well, I Am Toward You
- Jim White and Marisa Anderson, Swallowtail
- Kelsey Waldon, There's Always a Song
- Kings of Leon, Can We Please Have Fun
- Mick Harvey, Five Ways to Say Goodbye
- Morgan Guerin, Tales of the Facade
- Myriam Gendron, Mayday
- Orville Peck, Stampede, Vol. 1
- Pokey LaFarge, Rhumba Country
- Shannon & the Clams, The Moon Is In The Wrong Place
- Villagers, That Golden Time