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New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 21

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

K-Pop convention-breakers NewJeans drop their second EP this week, along with new ones from Andrew Bird, Fatboi Sharif, the super-stacked Barbie soundtrack, a rare Nina Simone recording and more.

Featured Albums:
1. New Jeans — Get Up
Featured Songs: "ETA," "Super Shy," "ASAP"
2. Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove — Decay
Featured Songs: "Designer Drugs," "Phantasm," "The 6th Floor," "Dimethyltryptamine," "Green Winged Shoulder Padding"
3. Andrew Bird — Outside Problems
Featured Songs: "Festivus," "Mormon House Party," "Mancey"
4. Various — Barbie The Album
Featured Songs: Dua Lipa, "Dance the Night"; Lizzo, "Pink"; Sam Smith, "Man I Am"; GAYLE, "butterflies"; Billie Eilish, "What Was I Made For"; Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice (with Aqua), "Barbie World"
5. Nina Simone — You've Got to Learn
Featured Songs: "Blues for Mama," "Mississippi Goddamn," "You've Got to Learn"

Lightning Round:
Blur — The Ballad of Darren
Lucki — s*x m*ney dr*gs (released July 14)
MJ Lenderman — "Rudolph" (Single)
Mother Tongues — Love in a Vicious Way

Other notable releases for July 21:
Allegra Krieger — I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
August 08 — Pretend It's Okay
Guided By Voices — Welshpool Frillies
Greta Van Fleet — Starcatcher
John Zorn — Quatrain
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol & Whatsnext? — Turkish Hipster: Tales From Swing To Psychedelic
Nils Lofgren — Mountains
Paris Texas — MID AIR

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, happy Friday from NPR Music.

0:01.7

I'm Robin Hilton.

0:02.6

It's July 21st, New Music Friday,

0:05.3

and joining me to talk about the best releases

0:07.2

out this week is WXPN's John Morrison.

0:09.8

Hey, what's up, y'all?

0:11.0

NPR Music Editor's Hazel Sills.

0:13.3

Hey.

0:14.3

And Sheldon Pierce.

0:15.7

What's good?

0:17.2

What's good is that we've got a super stacked

0:19.9

Barbie album that's out this week.

0:21.5

We've also got new ones from Andrew Bird,

0:23.5

a live performance from Nina Simone,

0:25.8

and a whole bunch more,

0:27.5

but we start with the band New Jeans.

0:29.3

Their latest EP is called Get Up.

0:32.1

This is the song, ETA.

1:29.3

So this is a relatively new K-pop group,

1:41.7

five member girl group who debuted last year

1:44.5

from the same company who unleashed BTS into the world.

1:50.0

And I think what has really set them apart is their sound.

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