New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 26

The best albums out this week include Lil Durk's Almost Healed, reflections on surviving your 20s from Arlo Parks and Miya Folick, Gia Margaret's Romantic Piano, a new Kassa Overall project and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Lil Durk — Almost Healed
Featured Songs: "Same Side (feat. Rob49)," "Therapy Session," "Never Again," "All My Life (feat. J. Cole)"
2. Arlo Parks — My Soft Machine
Featured Songs: "Dog Rose," "Bruiseless," "Purple Phase," "Pegasus (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)"
3. Gia Margaret — Romantic Piano
Featured Songs: "Ways of Seeing," "Cicadas," "Juno"
4. Kassa Overall — ANIMALS
Featured Songs: "Clock Ticking (feat. Danny Brown & Wiki)," "Still Ain't Find Me (feat. Tomoki Sanders, Bendji Allonce, Mike King & Ian Finklestein)"
5. Miya Folick — ROACH
Featured Songs: "Get Out of My House," "Oh God," "Cartoon Clouds"

Lightning Round:
Alex Anwandter — El Diablo en el Cuerpo
Anna Thorvaldsdottir — ARCHORA / AIŌN
Sparks — The Girl is Crying in Her Latte
Wande Coal — Legend or No Legend


Other notable releases for May 26:
Bayonne — Temporary Time
Henry Threadgill — The Other One
Janani Shankar — Hot & Cold
Kari Faux — REAL B*TCHES DON'T DIE!
Kevin Morby — More Photographs (A Continuum)
MeeeZ — [red album]
M. Sage — Paradise Crick
Matchbox Twenty — Where The Light Goes
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells - 50th Anniversary Celebration
Maya Ongaku — Approach to Anima
Shirley Collins — Archangel Hill
Simply Red — Time
Water From Your Eyes — Everyone's Crushed
Wolf Eyes — Dreams in Splattered Lines


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