New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 10

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Nature's World from the Chicago hip-hop duo Mother Nature, FKJ's VINCENT, a meditative album from Japanese composer Midori Takada and more.

Featured Albums:

1. FKJ — VINCENT

Featured Songs: "Let's Live," "Greener"

2. ELUCID — I Told Bessie

Featured Songs: "Ghoulie," "Smile Lines"

3. Nick Mulvey — New Mythology

Featured Songs: "Mecca," "Star Nation"

4. Mother Nature & Renzell — Nature's World

Featured Song: "Midnight Garden"

5. Midori Takada — You Who are Leaving to Nirvana and Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter

Featured Songs: "Kannon Daiji," "Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter (In the Morning)"

Lightning Round:

BTS — Proof

Flora Purim — If You Will (physical release)

Julius Rodriguez — Let Sound Tell All

Shearwater — The Great Awakening

Other notable releases for June 10:

Bloomsday — Place to Land

Carrie Underwood — Denim & Rhinestones

Free the Robots — Kaduwa

George Ezra — Gold Rush Kid

Joyce Manor — 40 Oz. to Fresno

Judah & The Lion — Revival

Mapache — Roscoe's Dream

Max Richter — The New Four Seasons

Moonchild Sanelly — Phases

Vance Joy — In Our Own Sweet Time

Yann Tiersen — 11 5 18 25 18

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