New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 26

The best albums out this week include Lil Durk's Almost Healed, reflections on surviving your 20s from Arlo Parks and Miya Folick, Gia Margaret's Romantic Piano, a new Kassa Overall project and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Lil Durk — Almost Healed

Featured Songs: "Same Side (feat. Rob49)," "Therapy Session," "Never Again," "All My Life (feat. J. Cole)"

2. Arlo Parks — My Soft Machine

Featured Songs: "Dog Rose," "Bruiseless," "Purple Phase," "Pegasus (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)"

3. Gia Margaret — Romantic Piano

Featured Songs: "Ways of Seeing," "Cicadas," "Juno"

4. Kassa Overall — ANIMALS

Featured Songs: "Clock Ticking (feat. Danny Brown & Wiki)," "Still Ain't Find Me (feat. Tomoki Sanders, Bendji Allonce, Mike King & Ian Finklestein)"

5. Miya Folick — ROACH

Featured Songs: "Get Out of My House," "Oh God," "Cartoon Clouds"

Lightning Round:

Alex Anwandter — El Diablo en el Cuerpo

Anna Thorvaldsdottir — ARCHORA / AIŌN

Sparks — The Girl is Crying in Her Latte

Wande Coal — Legend or No Legend

Other notable releases for May 26:

Bayonne — Temporary Time

Henry Threadgill — The Other One

Janani Shankar — Hot & Cold

Kari Faux — REAL B*TCHES DON'T DIE!

Kevin Morby — More Photographs (A Continuum)

MeeeZ — [red album]

M. Sage — Paradise Crick

Matchbox Twenty — Where The Light Goes

Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells - 50th Anniversary Celebration

Maya Ongaku — Approach to Anima

Shirley Collins — Archangel Hill

Simply Red — Time

Water From Your Eyes — Everyone's Crushed

Wolf Eyes — Dreams in Splattered Lines

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