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The best new albums out May 9

Global Communication's Mark Pritchard and Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

Global Communication's Mark Pritchard and Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

It’s Friday, which means you might be hoping to hear Atlanta rapper Young Thug’s first album since the conclusion of his year-long gang trial. That album, UY Scuti, was supposed to drop today, but the groundbreaking MC announced this week that the project had been postponed to sometime in June.

But don’t fret, because if you’re a hip-hop fan, today delivered what might be the best rap album of the year so far: billy woods’ GOLLIWOG. NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson welcomed WXPN’s John Morrison to New Music Friday to go deep on the dark, dramatic album, as well as new albums by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Gen Z pop star PinkPantheress and much more.

Listen to the show below beginning at 3 a.m. ET and scroll down to see our long list of albums out May 9.

New Music Friday is a feature of NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast. Hear the discussion on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Starting Five


billy woods.
billy woods. (Natalia Vacheishvili | Rhymesayers Entertainment)

Our hosts share the backstories and best songs from the following albums:

💿 billy woods, GOLLIWOG

💿 Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Tall Tales

💿 PinkPantheress, Fancy That

💿 MIKE & Tony Seltzer, Pinball II

💿 Mclusky, the world is still here and so are we

The Lightning Round


André 3000
André 3000 (Jamie McCarthy | Getty Images)

Five more albums we wish we had time to discuss on the podcast:

💿 The Head and the Heart, Aperture

💿 Jazzanova, In Between Revisited: Jazzanova Live

💿 Cuco, Ridin’

💿 Andre 3000, 7 piano sketches

💿 Cole Pulice, Land’s End Eternal

Listen to each album’s best songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.

The Long List


The Vernon Spring. (Saorise Fitzpatrick | RVNG Intl.)

For those who want to dig even deeper, here are the week’s new albums sorted by genre:

Electronic/Out There

Country/Folk/Americana

Classical

Pop

Jazz

R&B/Soul

Rock/Alt/Indie




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