New Music Friday: July 2

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out now include Chicago rapper G Herbo's 25, the wild euphoria of The Go! Team, singer Laura Mvula's first new music in five years and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The Go! Team — Get Up Sequences Part One
Featured Song: "Let The Seasons Work"
2. G Herbo — 25
Featured Song: "Demands"
3. Laura Mvula — Pink Noise
Featured Song: "Conditional"
4. Declaime and Madlib — In The Beginning Vol. 1
Featured Song: "Cool Ways"
5. boyband — Never Knows Best
Featured Song: "IRL"
6. Izzy Johnson — Earth Tones
Featured Song: "Existing"

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0:00.0	Capitalism touches every part of our lives.
0:03.1	Capitalism is a giant force that I don't understand.
0:07.2	I feel that it's a very safe system.
0:09.4	I am constantly in fear of losing my job.
0:11.9	It is our biggest success and our biggest failure.
0:14.6	On this special series from Thurline Capitalism.
0:17.5	Listen now to the Thurline podcast from NPR.
0:20.7	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered.
0:23.8	I'm Robin Hilton.
0:24.8	I'm here with Stephen Thompson.
0:26.7	Hey Stephen.
0:27.5	Hello Robin.
0:28.7	It is July 2nd and this is New Music Friday the day of the week.
0:31.9	When most new albums and EPs come out, it's a lot quieter this week compared to last week's
0:36.6	super stacked day of releases.
0:38.6	But we still got a lot of great stuff to tell you about, including new albums from G,
0:42.9	Herbo and Laura and Bula.
0:44.5	But we start with the Go team and their latest, it's called Get Up Sequences Part 1.
1:14.1	If you're interested in it, you'll find your sets at the contest for Real Man on C왙 TV
1:32.7	♡
1:37.8	All that's major is the game
1:41.7	It's not too bad
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