In the absence of a new event album, pop stars spent July aiming for the zeitgeist, often by trying to reenact past glories Summer is the most pop of seasons, yet as far as pop albums in July go… there isn&#8217;t much! There are albums by pop-adjacent artists, like Porter Robinson or Clairo or Childish…

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