NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Lizzo's Special, the ramshackle pop of Superorganism, beabadoobee, a genre-defying solo release from The Internet's Steve Lacy and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Lizzo \u2014 Special
Featured Songs: "About Damn Time," "Grrrls"
2. beabadoobee \u2014 Beatopia
Featured Songs: "10:36," "See You Soon," "Ripples," "Talk"
3. Steve Lacy \u2014 Gemini Rights
Featured Songs: "Mercury," "Helmet," "2geteher (Enterlude)"
4. Superorganism \u2014 World Wide Pop
Featured Songs: "Flying," "Teenager," "Black Hole Baby"
5. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad with Katalyst \u2014 JID 013
Featured Songs: "Juneteenth," "Summer Solstice"
Lightning Round:
Attia Taylor \u2014 Space Ghost
black midi \u2014 Hellfire
Lil Silva \u2014 Yesterday is Heavy
Interpol \u2014 The Other Side of Make-Believe
Other notable releases for July 15:
The A's \u2014 Fruit
Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart \u2014 Zenith/Nadir
Arp \u2014 New Pleasures
Elf Power \u2014 Artificial Countrysides
j-hope \u2014 jack in the box
JoVia Armstrong \u2014 The Antidote Suite
M. Geddes Gengras \u2014 Expressed, I Noticed Silence
Ozomatli \u2014 Marching On
Ronnie Foster \u2014 Reboot
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