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NPR Music's picks for the best releases out this week include a potent new EP from the rapper Doechii, hyper-pop from Pussy Riot, roots salsa from Colombia's Meridian Brothers and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Doechii — she / her / black bitch
Featured Tracks: "Bitches Be," "Swamp Bitches," "Persuasive"
2. Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento — Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
Featured Tracks: "Bomba Atómica," "Metamorfosis"
3. AJ Suede — Oil On Canvas
Featured Tracks: "Growing Diamonds," "Wonder," "Monochrome"
4. Pussy Riot — MATRIARCHY NOW
Featured Tracks: "PRINCESS CHARMING," "PLASTIC," "POOF BITCH"
5. Planet Drum — In The Groove
Featured Track: "King Clave"

Lightning Round:
Alexia Bomtempo — DOCE CARNAVAL
Araceli Poma — "Agua de Olvido"
Art Moore — Art Moore
Various — Rise Jamaica!

Other notable releases for Aug. 5:
Bobby Shmurda — BodBoy
Calvin Harris — Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2
Fireboy DML — Playboy
Kokoroko — Could We Be More
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires — Old-Time Folks
Mall Grab — What I Breathe
Neil Young — Noise & Flowers
T Bone Burnett — The Invisible Light: Spells

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Maggie Rogers leveled up and Beyoncé dropped another album we'll think about all year. But Johnny Gandelsman also took us across America, Bear1Boss super-smashed rap and Caterina Barbieri found immanence in synths.

Featured Tracks and Artists:

1. Maggie Rogers: "Shatter" from Surrender
2. Beyoncé: "PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA" from RENAISSANCE
3. Johnny Gandelsman: "Surrender to the Adventure for Musician & Tape: 1. Blossom / American Dream" and "O for Violin & Voices" from This is America: An Anthology 2020-2021
4. Bear1Boss: "$$$" from Bear1Boss
5. Caterina Barbieri: "Canticle of Cryo" from Spirit Exit

Our panel's additional recommendations for July:

• Adam Kent, Tania León: Teclas de mi piano
• Gwenno: Tresor
• Kali Malone: Living Torch

See also:

• Maggie Rogers' summer mixtape sweats with sweetness
• Caterina Barbieri's rapturous electronica was forged in deep solitude

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Beyoncé's Renaissance isn't the only big release out now. NPR Music's other picks for the week's best new albums include Maggie Rogers' Surrender, the debut from DOMI & JD Beck and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Beyoncé — Renaissance
Featured Tracks: "PURE/HONEY"
2. Maggie Rogers — Surrender
Featured Tracks: "Want Want," "Horses," "Shatter," Different Kind of World"
3. DOMI & JD Beck — NOT TiGHT
Featured Tracks: "BOWLING," TAKE A CHANCE," "WHATUP," "PILOT"
4. Lava La Rue — Hi-Fidelity
Featured Tracks: "Don't Trip," "Motel," "Cry Baby," "Don't Come Back"
5. Florist — Florist
Featured Tracks: "Red Bird Pt 2 (Morning)," "Spring in Hours"

Lightning Round:
King Princess — Hold On Baby
Snarky Puppy — "Bet" (single)
Tems — "No Woman No Cry" (single)
Wilder Maker — Male Models

Other notable releases for July 29:
Amanda Shires — Take It Like A Man
Chat Pile — God's Country
Deaton Chris Anthony — Sid the Kid
Hayley Kiyoko — PANORAMA
Josh Rouse — Going Places
Obijuan & YUNGMORPHEUS — Slang Casino
Of Montreal — Freewave Lucifer fck
Phony — AT SOME POINT YOU STOP
$uicideboy$ — Sing Me a Lullaby My Sweet Temptation
Tedeschi Trucks Band — I Am The Moon: III, The Fall

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Due out this Friday, July 29, Beyoncé's Act I Renaissance has generated a massive wave of anticipation. In this round-table discussion, we breakdown why we're excited, why it matters and what we might expect.

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Flo Milli, Jack White, Rico Nasty, Joey Bada$$, The Sea And Cake's Sam Prekop and John McEntire, and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Flo Milli — You Still Here, Ho?
Featured Tracks: "Conceited," "Pay Day," "On My Nerves"
2. Jack White — Entering Heaven Alive
Featured Tracks: "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)," "A Tip from You to Me," "Taking Me Back (Gently)," "Queen of the Bees"
3. Rico Nasty — Las Ruinas
Featured Tracks: "Skullflower," "Messy," "Gotsta Get Paid," "Easy"
4. Joey Bada$$ — 2000
Featured Tracks: " Eulogy," "Show Me"
5. Sam Prekop & John McEntire — Sons Of
Featured Tracks: "A Ghost At Noon," "A Yellow Robe"

Lightning Round:
Beach Bunny — Emotional Creature
Jitwam — Third
The Koreatown Oddity — ISTHISFORREAL?

Other notable releases for July 22:
Ben Harper — Bloodline Maintenance
Channelers — Time, Space and Thought
Dawes — Misadventures Of Doomscroller
Imperial Triumphant — Spirit of Ecstasy
The Kooks — 10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark
Nina Nastasia — Riderless Horse
Oceans of Slumber — Starlight and Ash
ODESZA — The Last Goodbye
Pool Kids — Pool Kids
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Agitas Al Sol
RZA & Bobby Digital — RZA Presents: Bobby Digital and the Pit of Snakes
The Sadies — Colder Streams
She & Him — Melt Away: A Tribute To Brian Wilson
Tanya Tagaq — Tongues North Star Remixes
Thor Harris — Doom Dub II
Ty Segall — "Hello, Hi"

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from The 1975, Tiny Desk Contest contestant Danielle Ponder, The Black Angels and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:

1. Madi Diaz: "Hangover" (Single)
2. Danielle Ponder: "So Long," from Some of Us Are Brave
3. King Princess: "Cursed," from Hold On Baby
4. The Beths: "Expert in a Dying Field," from Expert in a Dying Field
5. The 1975: "Part of the Band," from Being Funny In a Foreign Language
6. The Black Angels: "Firefly," from Wilderness of Mirrors

Watch videos for each track and more at the All Songs Considered website.


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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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All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite new tracks of the week include a stirring collaboration with Margo Price, Mavis Staples and Adia Victoria, a "training montage" from The Mountain Goats and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Margo Price: "Fight to Make It (feat. Mavis Staples & Adia Victoria)" (Single)
2. The Mountain Goats: "Training Montage," from Bleed Out
3. Tianna Esperanza: "Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince" (Single)
4. renforshort: "i miss myself," from dear amelia
5. Wilder Maker: "Against Numbers (feat. Katie Von Schleicher)," from Male Models
6. Indigo Sparke: "Pressure in My Chest," from Hysteria


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R&B singer Brent Faiyaz's reflective Wasteland, Metric's epic Formentera, a meditative instrumental record from producer Apollo Brown and more make our shortlist for the best albums out this week.

Featured Albums:
1. Brent Faiyaz — WASTELAND
Featured songs: "PRICE OF FAME," "GRAVITY," "DEAD MAN WALKING"
2. Metric — Formentera
Featured songs: "Doomscroller"
3. Apollo Brown — This Must Be The Place
Featured songs: "Catching Moments"
4. Anna Butterss — Activities
Featured songs: "Doo Wop"
5. renforshort — dear amelia
Featured songs: "better off"

Lightning Round:
Burna Boy — Love, Damini
NoSo — Stay Proud of Me
rei brown — Xeno
Wu-Lu — LOGGERHEAD

Other notable releases for July 8:
Delicate Steve — After Hours
Emmanuel Jal — Shangah
The Faim — Talk Talk
Katy J Pearson — Sound of the Morning
Laura Veirs — Found Light
Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying... and the Dead!
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Toast
Rae Morris — Rachel@Fairyland
Rapport — Floating Through the Wonderwave
Tye Tribbett — All Things New
Tyshawn Sorey Trio — Mesmerism
Vancouver Sleep Clinic — Fallen Paradise
Wet — Pink Room

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including a surprising new single from Sylvan Esso, the L.A. rock duo known as Momma, the singer-songwriter Ondara and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Sylvan Esso: "Your Reality" (Single)
2. Nora Brown: "Little Satchel," from Long Time To Be Gone
3. Lindsay Clark: "Evening Star," from Carpe Noctem
4. Yard Act & Elton John: "100% Endurance" (Single)
5. Momma: "Motorbike," from Household Name
6. Ondara: "An Alien In Minneapolis," from Spanish Villager No. 3


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