Beyonce’s Renaissance and 14 other albums you should listen to in July

The return of Queen B isn't the only exciting thing on tap for the month

By Gabrielle Sanchez, Gil Macias, Jack Smart, Hattie Lindert, Peter Helman, John Everhart, Tim Lowery | June 23, 2022 | 9:00am

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Beyonce’s Renaissance and 14 other albums you should listen to in July

Bottom left: Black Midi, top left: Interpol, middle: Maggie Rogers, top right: beabadoobee, bottom right: Superorganism Photo: Atiba Jefferson

We’re officially entering the dog days of summer, which brings both blistering heat waves and a steady stream of new albums to help you beat said heat. That includes the return of Beyonce—nearly eight years after the release of her previous solo album Lemonade. Some old rock staples, such as Interpol and Metric, also have new sounds on the way, as do workhorses Ty Segall and Neil Young. For those tapped into the new wave of rock groups, bands such as Florist and Momma have their own releases scheduled. And we’re also in line for some glitzy pop in the form of Maggie Rogers, beabadoobee, and Superorganism, who’ve come to rescue us from thinking about the relentless sun.

Guided By Voices, Tremblers and Goggles by Rank [July 1]

Guided By Voices - Unproductive Funk

In our era of digital inundation approaching saturation, established acts are typically encouraged by their labels to take their time between releases, so as to not wear out their welcome with fan bases that seemingly grow more capricious by the day. Robert Pollard is the exception to this rule–or better said, the rules don’t apply to a man whose prodigious songwriting output is as remarkable as any the rock world has seen since the The Stones’ Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed went head to head with The Beatles’ White Album and Abbey Road. The stakes are smaller for Pollard and his band Guided By Voices, but his ambitions are no less crashing. On Tremblers, the band’s second LP of 2022, he emulates the buoyancy of Pink Floyd’s prog-psych bliss circa The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the ornate haze of The Kinks’ The Village Green Preservation Society, yielding yet another solid gold deposit in his astounding discography. [John Everhart]

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