New Music Friday: Screaming Females, S. Carey - Vagabon Tiny Desk, More

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New Music Friday For Feb. 23 Friday's the day when lots of new albums come out and each week we try to help you make sense of the deluge with a quick run through the best of them. On this episode of New Music Friday, All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton talks with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson, Lars Gotrich and Joshua Bote about new releases from the Bay area crew SOB x RBE, the New Jersey noise rock group Screaming Females, The Lovely Eggs, S. Carey and more. Get This Week's Podcast Tiny Desk Vagabon: Tiny Desk Laetitia Tamko, the artist known as Vagabon, is a 25-year-old, Cameroon-born musician with a big, tenor voice just bursting with new musical ideas. We've seen her as a solo artist, with a band and, at the Tiny Desk, both solo and with a bassist. Her pride shines bright in her smile and as well it should. For someone self-taught and who's been playing for only the past four years, her arrangements are adept and thoughtful in an independent rock music scene that can often be lyrically lazy and texturally tepid. See The Tiny Desk Performance All Songs TV Alice Phoebe Lou Dives Deep In The Ethereal 'She' Video This extraordinary video, for the song "She," is from one of 2018's standout artists, Alice Phoebe Lou. The 24-year old South African singer is currently living in Berlin. Her strength as a singer and as a songwriter was bolstered by her time as a street performer around Europe as early as age 16. Her studio album, Orbit was released in 2016 and in 2017 a live version of "She" was included in the film, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story and shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. See The Video, Hear The Song All Songs Considered Janelle Monáe Bends More Than Gender In Two New Videos From 'Dirty Computer' Janelle Monáe has always been adept at shrouding herself in mystery. It's not that she wasn't keen on expressing the depth of her humanity; she just went the length of creating an android alter-ego named Cyndi Mayweather to do so. See The Videos, Hear The Songs All Songs Considered Let's Eat Grandma Reclaims 'Hot Pink' The teenage duo of Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth arrived in 2016 with a clutch of songs that were hard to define or describe, the work of two longtime friends who had obviously never sat down to debate the cohesiveness of their compositions. They never had to: I, Gemini celebrated its own contradictions - pastoral, urban, maudlin classical melody and chugging dance-floor fodder - and nurtured the idiosyncratic, massively gifted, intuition and vision of Hollingworth and Walton. See The Video

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