New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 15

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Lizzo's Special, the ramshackle pop of Superorganism, beabadoobee, a genre-defying solo release from The Internet's Steve Lacy and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Lizzo — Special

Featured Songs: "About Damn Time," "Grrrls"

2. beabadoobee — Beatopia

Featured Songs: "10:36," "See You Soon," "Ripples," "Talk"

3. Steve Lacy — Gemini Rights

Featured Songs: "Mercury," "Helmet," "2geteher (Enterlude)"

4. Superorganism — World Wide Pop

Featured Songs: "Flying," "Teenager," "Black Hole Baby"

5. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad with Katalyst — JID 013

Featured Songs: "Juneteenth," "Summer Solstice"

Lightning Round:

Attia Taylor — Space Ghost

black midi — Hellfire

Lil Silva — Yesterday is Heavy

Interpol — The Other Side of Make-Believe

Other notable releases for July 15:

The A's — Fruit

Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart — Zenith/Nadir

Arp — New Pleasures

Elf Power — Artificial Countrysides

j-hope — jack in the box

JoVia Armstrong — The Antidote Suite

M. Geddes Gengras — Expressed, I Noticed Silence

Ozomatli — Marching On

Ronnie Foster — Reboot

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