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\n\tBillboard<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0Friday Music Guide<\/a>\u00a0serves as a handy guide to this Friday\u2019s most essential releases \u2014 the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\tThis week: It\u2019s Over<\/em> and out for Summer Walker with the third and final album in her signature series, Kelsea Ballerini is taking stock of things with a new EP and Miley Cyrus rises from the ashes with a big soundtrack single.<\/p>\n \n\tSummer Walker, Finally Over It<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s been a four-year wait \u2014 but Finally Over It<\/em> is, well, finally here. The third and presumed final entry in R&B star Summer Walker\u2019s Over It <\/em>series, the follow-up to 2021\u2019s Still Over It<\/em> features 18 tracks spread over two discs, and follows a wedding theme \u2014\u00a0with the two discs titled \u201cFor Better\u201d and \u201cFor Worse,\u201d and the album art and visuals seeing Walker marrying an elderly white man, implying a hard exit from the world of dating and unsatisfying romantic relationships. The star-studded album features guests ranging from old collaborators Chris Brown, Bryson Tiller and 21 Savage to new friends Sailorr, Brent Faiyaz and Doja Cat, but Walker is arguably still best keeping it simple and solo, as on the unequivocal \u201cNo\u201d and the wrenching \u201cSituationship.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tKelsea Ballerini, Mount Pleasant<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tTwo years after her well-received Rolling Up the Welcome Mat<\/em> EP \u2014 and one year after the full-length Patterns<\/em> \u2014 country star Kelsea Ballerini is back playing the mini-album game with the six-track Mount Pleasant<\/em>. The abbreviated release is meant \u201cto capture a moment in time,\u201d says Ballerini in a statement, with \u201csix songs I\u2019ve written throughout the summer, marking a chapter of heavy self-examination, longing and stepping further into who I am as a 32-year old woman.\u201d The EP moves quickly but hits hard, with songs of jealousy, heartbreak and frustration written with Ballerini\u2019s typically vivid detail and delivered with her usual bite and tenderness. <\/p>\n \n\tMiley Cyrus, \u201cDream as One\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tMiley Cyrus has expressed a particular connection to the themes of the upcoming Avatar<\/em> sequel Fire and Ash<\/em>, after losing her Malibu home in the 2018 Woolsey Fire: \u201cHaving been personally affected by fire and being rebuilt from the ashes, this project holds profound meaning for me,\u201d Cyrus shared on Instagram, thanking director James Cameron \u201cfor the opportunity to turn that experience into musical medicine.\u201d She does so this week with the new ballad \u201cDream as One,\u201d a stately anthem of love and endurance that refuses to ascribe the concept of \u201chome\u201d to any particular building or place, as Cyrus sings to her partner: \u201cYou are my home\/ No matter\u2005where I go.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLewis Capaldi, Survive <\/em>EP<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s been a big moment for U.K. pop in the past couple months, with the global breakout of Olivia Dean, a big new RAYE. hit and the return earlier this week of Charli XCX, with two new songs from her upcoming soundtrack to Emerald Fennell\u2019s Wuthering Heights<\/em> adaptation. Into this moment steps Lewis Capaldi, the formerly Billboard Hot 100-topping singer-songwriter and supreme balladeer \u2014\u00a0who took the better part of the last two years on a break from touring and recording, for the betterment of his mental health \u2014 with his four-track Survive<\/em> EP. There\u2019s no major swerves with the new release \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s\u2026\u2026 songs,\u201d was Capaldi\u2019s helpful description of the EP on The Graham Norton Show<\/em> \u2014\u00a0but it is rousing with its pervasive sense of perseverance, even through heartbreak on the climactic lighter-waver \u201cAlmost.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tJessie Murph, Sex Hysteria (Deluxe)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tJuly\u2019s Sex Hysteria<\/em> album marked something of a commercial breakthrough for Jessie Murph, making the top 10 of the Billboard 200 \u2014 helped by the success of breakout single \u201cBlue Strips.\u201d This week, the retro-minded 15-track set gets an eight-track bonus disc on the set\u2019s official deluxe edition. The new tracks include the gently soulful and rueful \u201cI Stay I Leave I Love I Lose,\u201d the Amy Winehouse-like, hungover and heartbroken \u201cEasy Sunday Living\u201d and the previously released kiss-off \u201cI\u2019m Not There for You\u201d \u2014\u00a0already another Hot 100 hit for Murph \u2014\u00a0and should get fans who\u2019ve finally calmed down from the original Hysteria<\/em> all good and bothered again. <\/p>\n \n\tDominic Fike, \u201cWhite Keys\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe always-buzzy Dominic Fike has a big weekend coming up, making his debut as one half of Geezer (alongside Kevin Abstract) at Tyler, The Creator\u2019s Camp Flog Gnaw festival. In advance of the performance, Fike today shares \u201cWhite Keys,\u201d a new-old song that was a formerly unofficially released fan favorite, produced by John Cunningham. \u201cI had forgot about this song and the internet somehow dug it up for me,\u201d Fike commented on the playfully shuffling, lightly forlorn mini-banger in an IG post<\/a> announcing its release. Abstract showed up in that post\u2019s comments to proclaim: \u201cgay boy returns.\u201d <\/p>\n\n