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 — Special
Featured Songs: "About Damn Time," "Grrrls"
2. beabadoobee — Beatopia
Featured Songs: "10:36," "See You Soon," "Ripples," "Talk"
3. Steve Lacy — Gemini Rights
Featured Songs: "Mercury," "Helmet," "2geteher (Enterlude)"
4. Superorganism — World Wide Pop
Featured Songs: "Flying," "Teenager," "Black Hole Baby"
5. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad with Katalyst — JID 013
Featured Songs: "Juneteenth," "Summer Solstice"

Lightning Round:
Attia Taylor — Space Ghost
black midi — Hellfire
Lil Silva — Yesterday is Heavy
Interpol — The Other Side of Make-Believe

Other notable releases for July 15:
The A's — Fruit
Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart — Zenith/Nadir
Arp — New Pleasures
Elf Power — Artificial Countrysides
j-hope — jack in the box
JoVia Armstrong — The Antidote Suite
M. Geddes Gengras — Expressed, I Noticed Silence
Ozomatli — Marching On
Ronnie Foster — Reboot

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