New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 21

K-Pop convention-breakers NewJeans drop their second EP this week, along with new ones from Andrew Bird, Fatboi Sharif, the super-stacked Barbie soundtrack, a rare Nina Simone recording and more.

Featured Albums:

1. New Jeans — Get Up

Featured Songs: "ETA," "Super Shy," "ASAP"

2. Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove — Decay

Featured Songs: "Designer Drugs," "Phantasm," "The 6th Floor," "Dimethyltryptamine," "Green Winged Shoulder Padding"

3. Andrew Bird — Outside Problems

Featured Songs: "Festivus," "Mormon House Party," "Mancey"

4. Various — Barbie The Album

Featured Songs: Dua Lipa, "Dance the Night"; Lizzo, "Pink"; Sam Smith, "Man I Am"; GAYLE, "butterflies"; Billie Eilish, "What Was I Made For"; Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice (with Aqua), "Barbie World"

5. Nina Simone — You've Got to Learn

Featured Songs: "Blues for Mama," "Mississippi Goddamn," "You've Got to Learn"

Lightning Round:

Blur — The Ballad of Darren

Lucki — s*x m*ney dr*gs (released July 14)

MJ Lenderman — "Rudolph" (Single)

Mother Tongues — Love in a Vicious Way

Other notable releases for July 21:

Allegra Krieger — I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane

Babyface Ray — Summer's Mine

Guided By Voices — Welshpool Frillies

Greta Van Fleet — Starcatcher

Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol & Whatsnext? — Turkish Hipster: Tales From Swing To Psychedelic

Nils Lofgren — Mountains

Paris Texas — MID AIR

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