
New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 8
8 August - 38 mins explicitEthel Cain. Charley Crockett. J.I.D. Plug in to the week's top new releases with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and guest DeShun Nance of WJSU's The Sipp in Jackson, Miss.
The Starting 5:
• J.I.D, 'God Does Like Ugly' (Stream)
• Ethel Cain, 'Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You' (Stream)
• Amaarae, 'BLACK STAR' (Stream)
• Charley Crockett, 'Dollar a Day' (Stream)
• Gordi, 'Like Plasticine' (Stream)
The Lightning Round:
• Hayes Carll, 'We're Only Human'
• Big Freedia, 'Pressing Onward'
• Ashley Monroe, 'Tennessee Lightning'
• Bryson Tiller, 'The Vices'
• Ada Lea, 'when i paint my masterpiece'
See our long list of albums out Aug. 8 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Musi...