New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 26

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week, including the highly anticipated third album by Atlanta rapper J.I.D. and a massive Blondie box set.

Featured Albums:

1. J.I.D — The Forever Story

Featured Songs: "Dance Now," "Better Days," "Raydar"

2. Stella Donnelly — Flood

Featured Songs: "Lungs," "Morning Silence," "How Was Your Day?"

3. Miguel Zenón — Müsica De Las Americas

Featured Songs: "Opresion Y Revolucion," "Tainos Y Caribes"

4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — Let's Turn It Into Sound

Featured Songs: "Locate," "Have You Felt Lately?"

5. Blondie — Against the Odds: 1974-1982

Featured Songs: "Rapture" "The Tide Is High (Demo Version)," "Heart of Glass"

Lightning Round:

Carolyn Malachi — Counter Narratives

Julia Jacklin — Pre Pleasure

Regina Spektor — 11:11 + Papa's Bootlegs

Valerie June — Under Cover

Meechy Darko — Gothic Luxury

Other notable releases for August 26:

blackbear — In Loving Memory

Bret McKenzie — Songs Without Jokes

Chris Forsyth — Evolution Here We Come

Diamanda Galás — Broken Gargoyles

Embrace — How To Be a Person Like Other People

Eyedress — Full Time Lover

Ezra Furman — All of Us Flames

Ingrid Andress — Good Person

Marcus King — Young Blood

Muse — Will Of The People

Pantha du Prince — Garden Gaia

Pianos Become the Teeth — Drift

Sélébéyone — Xaybu: The Unseen

Spice — Emancipated

William Orbit — The Painter

Yellowjackets — Parallel Motion

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