On Cover The Mirrors, Ben Kweller remembers his late son, Dorian Zev, who died in a car crash at age 16. Lizzy Kweller/The Noise Company hide caption
It's Friday, and there are some remarkable new albums out in the world today. Enigmatic alt-pop star yuele released one of our team's favorite records of the year. Stars vocalist Amy Millan returns with a set songs that will have you recalling "Ageless Beauty." And Low's Alan Sparhawk and Ben Kweller return with impeccable albums about living with grief.
NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Jackson Wisdorf from Member station KXT in North Texas to the May 30th edition of New Music Friday. They get into the above albums, a solo outing from The National's Matt Berninger and much more. Listen to the show below and scroll down to see our long list of albums out this Friday.
Our hosts share the backstories and best songs from the following albums:
Five more albums we wish we had time to discuss on the podcast:
For those who want to dig even deeper, here are the week's new albums sorted by genre: