New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 23

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

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Summary

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include a self-titled dopamine hit from Coi Leray, the return of Big Freedia, Kelly Clarkson, a debut from Tommy Prine and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Coi Leray — COI
Featured Songs: "Black Rose," "Bops," "Bitch Girl," "My Body"
2. Big Freedia — Central City
Featured Songs: "$100 Bill (feat. Ciara)," "Central City Freestyle," "Bigfoot," "Big Time"
3. Tommy Prine — This Far South
Featured Songs: "Crashing Again," "By the Way," "Some Things"
4. Kelly Clarkson — Chemistry
Featured Songs: "favorite kind of high," "my mistake," "skip this part"
5. Arthur Russell — Picture of Bunny Rabbit
Featured Songs: "The Boy With a Smile," "Picture of Bunny Rabbit"

Lightning Round:
Bishop Briggs — When Everything Went Dark
Lloyd Cole — On Pain
Portugal. The Man — Chris Black Changed My Life
Sleep Sinatra — Incorruptible Saints (feat. Televangel)

Other notable releases for June 23:
Amanda Shires, Bobbie Nelson — Loving You
Eliza Gilkyson — Home
Jason Mraz — Mystical Magical Rhythmical Ride
Kim Petras — Feed The Beast
Lunice — OPEN
M. Ward — Supernatural Thing
Peso Pluma — Genesis
Wallice — Mr. Big Shot
The Watson Twins — Holler
Wye Oak — Every Day Like the Last

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, happy Friday.
0:01.3	I'm Robin Hilton from NPR Music.
0:02.8	It's June 23rd, new music Friday.
0:05.2	And here to talk about the best releases out today
0:07.3	is in-care music sand powers, A&.
0:09.3	Hello.
0:10.5	WXPN's John Morrison.
0:12.6	Yo, yo, yo.
0:14.0	And contributor, Latisha Harris.
0:16.2	Hi everybody.
0:17.3	We've got new albums this week from Kelly Clarkson, Big Freeda.
0:20.3	There's a posthumous release from Arthur Russell
0:22.8	that we're loving.
0:23.8	But we start with Coil Arrays.
0:25.2	She's got a new self-titled album out now.
0:27.4	It's called Coil.
0:28.7	This is the song Black Rose.
0:58.7	Yeah, why they want to push me?
1:02.4	They know the case of Schnee.
1:03.8	Oh, it's always like this, you're black.
1:06.8	Oh, black gold, got my skimmed.
1:09.4	Oh, black gold, got my skimmed.
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