New Music Friday: July 24

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift's surprise new album, Folklore tops our list of the week's best releases, along with new ones from Lupe Fiasco, a 50th anniversary edition of Roberta Flack's debut album and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Taylor Swift — Folklore
Featured Song: "Seven"
2. Lupe Fiasco and Kaelin Ellis — House
Featured Song: "Shoes"
3. Lord Finesse — Motown State of Mind
Featured Song: "I Wanna Be Where You Are"
4. Roberta Flack — First Take (50th Anniversary Edition)
Featured Song: "Trade Winds"
5. Sparkle Division — To Feel Embraced
Featured Song: "You Go Girl!"
6. Jaguar Sun — This Empty Town
Featured Song: "Red"
7. Jess Cornelius — Distance
Featured Song: "Banging My Head"
8. Courtney Marie Andrews — Old Flowers
Featured Song: "Together or Alone"
9. Kamaal Williams — Wu Hen
Featured Song: "Mr. Wu"
10. Maria Schneider — Data Lords
Featured Songs: "Data Lords" and "Bluebird"

Other notable releases for July 24: Katie Dey — Mydata; Liza Anne — Bad Vacation; Logic — No Pressure; Lori McKenna — The Balladeer; The Naked And The Famous — Recover; PJ Harvey — Dry Demos; Shirley Collins — Heart's Ease; Thin Lear — Wooden Cave; Thomas Bartlett — Shelter.

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0:00.0	A Minneapolis business owner's daughter is called out publicly for racist anti-black tweets.
0:06.4	Fighting to save his business and trying to make amends, he calls on a prominent black Muslim leader for help.
0:12.8	He's an Arab Muslim.
0:14.6	And I said, but I'm here to learn. Tell me what to do.
0:18.1	To hear what happens next, listen to Code Switch from NPR.
0:22.3	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with Ann Powers.
0:27.5	Hello Robin.
0:28.9	It's new music Friday that day of the week when most albums come out, we go through a massive pile of releases and find the best ones for you to hear.
0:36.1	It's July 24th and we've got new ones from Lupe Fiasco, Courtney Marie Andrews and a whole bunch more.
0:42.1	But we start with a surprise release from Taylor Swift. It's called Folklore.
0:46.7	Please, pick some me in the trees.
0:53.2	I hit my bea good seven feet in the swing over the creek.
1:03.2	I was too scared to jump in, but I was high in the sky with pencil Vania.
1:15.7	Under me.
1:20.8	Are there still beautiful things?
1:27.8	Sweet tea in the summer, cross your heart, won't tell no other.
1:32.3	And though I can't recall your face, I still got love for you.
1:38.0	Your braids like a pattern love you to the moon and to Saturn.
1:42.5	Past down like folk songs, the love lasts so long.
1:57.6	This is Taylor Swift. Her new one is called Folklore and this song is called Seven.
2:02.6	And we go now live to NPR Taylor Swift correspondent Lindsey McKinna, who's been monitoring the situation on the ground.
2:09.1	Welcome Lindsey. What can you tell us about this?
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