The Best Music of July

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Maggie Rogers leveled up and Beyoncé dropped another album we'll think about all year. But Johnny Gandelsman also took us across America, Bear1Boss super-smashed rap and Caterina Barbieri found immanence in synths.

Featured Tracks and Artists:

1. Maggie Rogers: "Shatter" from Surrender
2. Beyoncé: "PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA" from RENAISSANCE
3. Johnny Gandelsman: "Surrender to the Adventure for Musician & Tape: 1. Blossom / American Dream" and "O for Violin & Voices" from This is America: An Anthology 2020-2021
4. Bear1Boss: "$$$" from Bear1Boss
5. Caterina Barbieri: "Canticle of Cryo" from Spirit Exit

Our panel's additional recommendations for July:

• Adam Kent, Tania León: Teclas de mi piano
• Gwenno: Tresor
• Kali Malone: Living Torch

See also:

• Maggie Rogers' summer mixtape sweats with sweetness
• Caterina Barbieri's rapturous electronica was forged in deep solitude

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0:00.0	From MMPR Music and All-Songs Considered, I'm Lars Gotrich.
0:07.6	It's the best music of the much show and we're listening to album of the year
0:11.6	contentors for 2022. Here's Nike Rogers.
0:41.6	I'm here with Tom Heizuka Hey Tom, Vee Lars and Hazel Sales.
1:01.3	Hi Lars.
1:02.7	We are discussing the best albums released in July and book this month, this year, this
1:08.8	decade, this lifetime. It's all about Beyonce. We have been prepping, we have been praying.
1:15.0	We are going to talk about red assaults in just a bit, but Nike Rogers.
1:21.6	By the way, when I asked her about sharing a redly state with with Cream B, she said,
1:26.4	New Beyonce is literally good for everybody in the world. And I know we just featured
1:30.9	surrender on New Music Friday, but y'all, I'm in love with this record. It's worth hearing
1:37.7	many times. Yes, and it's one of those things where like, Nike Rogers had a little bit of
1:42.7	bival fame. She put out her debut album. It was very promising. There's like a good mix of
1:49.3	like, Fulke Pop music with electronics. That was very satisfying. It's one of those things where
1:54.4	you're like, they didn't blow all their creativity on the debut. That's usually what happens.
1:59.6	She took it far beyond what a second album can be. And I just, the album's tender. It's tough.
2:06.0	It's whirny. She has a way with production and songwriting that catches me off guard.
2:12.6	Well, this album, I think, it's just like this pop bulldozer of greatness. And you talked about her,
2:18.3	her last album, heard it in the past life from 2019. And I think sonically, actually,
2:23.1	and texturally, it's not totally unlike that. But here, everything is just super sized. I mean,
2:29.5	even the vocals get bigger, wider. I kept thinking it was kind of a cross between Bono and Katie Lang.
2:36.7	I mean, in this big, urgent, virtuosic delivery, it's a record that is amped up to 11 all the way.
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