New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 28

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

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Summary

The best albums out this week include new ones from Post Malone, Carly Rae Jepsen, composer and singer Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Joni Mitchell's surprise performance at Newport last year and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Post Malone — AUSTIN
Featured Songs: "Texas Tea," "Something Real," "Don't Understand," "Mourning"
2. Georgia — Euphoric
Featured Songs: "It's Euphoric," "Give It up for Love," "Live Like We're Dancing (Part II)," "Friends Will Never Let You Go"
3. Beverly Glenn-Copeland — The Ones Ahead
Featured Songs: "Harbour (Song For Elizabeth)," "People of the Loon," "Stand Anthem"
4. Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loveliest Time
Featured Songs: "Anything to Be With You," "Shy Boy," "Kollage," "So Right," "Stadium Love"
5. Joni Mitchell — At Newport
Featured Songs: "Both Sides, Now," "Just Like This Train," "Amelia (feat. Taylor Goldsmith)," "Summertime"

Lightning Round:
Chika — SAMSON: THE ALBUM
Madeline Kenney — A New Reality Mind
Paris Texas — MID AIR
Stevie Nicks — Stevie Nicks Complete Studio Albums & Rarities

Other notable releases for July 28:
Aphex Twin — Black Box Life Recorder 21f / in a Room7 F760
Bethany Cosentino — Natural Disaster
The Budos Band — Frontier's Edge
Bush Tetras — They Live in My Head
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah — Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning
The Clientele — I Am Not There Anymore
Darlingside — Everything Is Alive
Fly Anakin — Skinemaxxx (Side B)
Jessy Lanza — Love Hallucination
Nite Bjuti — Nite Bjuti
Travis Scott — UTOPIA

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Happy Friday from NPR Music, I'm Robin Hilton, it's July 28th and here
0:06.2	to talk about our picks for the best albums out today is Critic and Reporter Serena Turos.
0:11.2	Hey Robin.
0:12.7	Atlanta-based culture journalist Gavin Gottfried is also here.
0:15.8	What's going on, yeah.
0:17.1	And writer Latisha Harris.
0:18.8	Hi everybody.
0:20.1	So there's some pretty big releases out today.
0:22.0	Carly Rae Jepsen has a new album out now that we're going to talk about Joni Mitchell's
0:25.3	performance at the Newport Folk Festival from last year is finally out.
0:29.1	We'll hear a bit of that and a bunch more great new music, but we start with Post Malone.
0:34.3	Just a year after releasing his previous album, 12 Carat Toothake, he's back with a new
0:38.4	one called Austin.
0:39.8	This is the song Texas T.
1:00.1	Walking to the party in my neck is all we got the old bitch got from C.
1:06.6	Got them new gays and boots on my feet.
1:12.6	Punch the gas in my leg and falls asleep.
1:18.6	Ain't no harm because it's sweet, Texas T.
1:26.6	Watch Skeleton baby want to pull me.
1:31.6	Rack of companies really trying to call me.
1:34.6	Got these motherfuckers singing karaoke.
1:37.6	No one's genuine, but they go around my home.
	...

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