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New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 29

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, happy Friday from NPR Music and all songs considered.

0:03.0

I'm Robin Hilton.

0:03.8

I'm here with contributors Serena Turos.

0:06.4

Hey, Robin.

0:07.7

Keanu Fercloth.

0:09.2

Hey.

0:10.3

And Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody.

0:12.6

Yippee-tayee.

0:15.3

It's new music Friday, Tereek.

0:17.0

And we're looking at the best releases out now on July 29th, which means it's finally here.

0:21.9

Beyonce's Renaissance.

0:23.6

The way this over, this is the song pure honey.

0:26.8

Check my technique.

0:30.6

Coming from my technique.

0:34.6

You want to feel my technique?

0:38.8

It's pure bad bitches to the left.

0:43.8

Money bitches to the right.

0:47.2

You can be both me in the middle and so on.

0:51.2

Take it all out.

0:52.2

I just a little if you like it's pure.

0:55.4

It should cost a billion to look this good.

0:58.0

Okay, so before we get into it, there have obviously been a ton of rumors about the album and reported leaks.

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