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A quick note before the this podcast.
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Skylar Rochelle
Contains explicit language I had a bad.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Habit of missing lovers past.
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Stephen Thompson
Happy Friday, everyone. From NPR Music, it's New Music Friday. I am your host, Stephen Thompson. I'm here with Skylar Rochelle from 90.9 the bridge in Kansas City. Hey, Skyler.
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Skylar Rochelle
Hi, Stephen. Thank you so much for having me.
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Stephen Thompson
It is a pleasure to have you. I'm so glad you're here. So the elephant in the room this week is the new Taylor Swift album, the Life of a Showgirl, which we are not going to discuss in depth on this episode.
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Skylar Rochelle
Well, so obviously we are taping this earlier in the week, but I know that you got an extra special early listen to the record, and I'm curious to hear what you think.
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Stephen Thompson
Yeah, I got to hear it bunch of times in the roughly 48 hours leading up to its release. And as you can imagine, NPR has lots of coverage rolling out in the next few days, so I will keep it brief. Basically, Taylor Swift has hinted that this was going to be kind of a back to bangers record. She produced it with Max Martin and Shellback, who worked with her on her early pivots into pop music, and I think that comes through here. But the Life of a Showgirl still, I think, fits thematically with songs from her more. I kind of describe it as her more autumnal era with, you know, albums like Folklore and Midnights and the Tortured Poets Department. It's just more contained and compact, more brightly produced with more overt moments of Joy. It's 12 songs in a little more than 40 minutes. Those 40 minutes are pretty big on drama and grandeur. It's definitely a record about falling in love with her fiance, Travis Kelce. But it's also bringing in notes of nostalgia, songs about father fame, as well as a few simmering grievances. It is Taylor Swift, as the title kind of suggests. It's a record about the state of Taylor Swift. And if that interests you, you've probably been listening to the Life of a Showgirl instead of listening to this show.
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Skylar Rochelle
Well, I can't wait to listen to it, especially considering that she's essentially an honorary Kansas City and now. But yeah, I also hear that you're going to be giving even more of a take on pop culture Happy Hour, which I also can't wait to hear.
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Stephen Thompson
Yes, I'm talking to Anne Powers in depth on PCHHH this coming Monday. We've already recorded that discussion, so I can tell you with complete confidence that it's a great conversation. I think it has something for casual fans and serious swifties alike. But for now, let's kick off our show. It turns out there are many non Taylor Swift albums out today, October 3rd, starting with Dodie. Dodie's new album is called Not For Lack of Trying.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
No one could ever know me like you do I've tried Nothing's quite like holding you was in the dark but now I've seen the light as it turns out life is simply black and white angel baby Mrs. Angel baby Mrs. Darling angel baby Mrs. Darling angel Baby Mrs. Darling angel Baby, Mrs.
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Skylar Rochelle
So dodie is an English singer and songwriter and she is absolutely fantastic. She first gained recognition releasing original music and ukulele covers on YouTube. She's been doing that since 2007, so she's definitely been around. And this new record, Not For Lack Of Trying, is a really beautiful companion to 2021's debut, built a Problem. And it just sort of continues to draw on these themes of love, loss and, you know, mental health and societ pressures. All the things that sort of come up with growing up in more of a digital age.
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Stephen Thompson
Yeah, I mean, she's definitely somebody who has come of age on the Internet and kind of makes music that speaks to that, you know. But she's also, you know, she's been at this long enough. She wrote this album as she was about to turn 30 and that helps kind of inform a lot of these songs. I mean, one of my first kind of thoughts listening to this record is I think there it shares some kind of basic DNA with the Icelandic singer Levi, a singer songwriter whose music is informed by jazz and folk music and show tunes. Kind of a theater kid to me. And I'm not here to, like, dump on Levi, but to me it's like if Levi. If there was a little bit more looseness to it, if it was a little bit less bound to tradition, if it felt. It feels more personal to me.
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Skylar Rochelle
Yeah, absolutely. I completely agree. This record does such a great job of carrying that sort of playful energy, but then also taking in that sort of emotional weight that comes, you know, with coming of age. And the song I Feel Bad for your Dave comes to mind.
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Stephen Thompson
Yes.
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Skylar Rochelle
Yeah, it's got that really sort of like playful bossa nova sort of style to it, and it just does a really good Job showcasing her knack for that sort of musical storytelling that she's so well known for, but then also taking, like, a harder look at, you know, critiquing people's social behavior.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Davos 7:9 on the couch he finds a little fire in his heart Thumb sunglass He writes what no one asked and feels a little better Feels a little clever. David's the kind of guy to lose a friend over a board game. He doesn't get stubs his toe lets everyone know that he can do a push up Then he'll do a pushup. Dave, I feel bad for you Dave, don't you know it could be better Dave.
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Stephen Thompson
I appreciate how many different directions she's able to take sonically over the course of this record. There's a track called the List, which is kind of channeling, you know, kind of esoteric, extremely inventive, dramatic singers like Kate Bush and Tori Amos, you know, with these gorgeous strings attached. And I appreciate as much as she kind of comes out of the, like, one performer with a ukulele world of YouTube performing, but she also has a real knack for songs that have a certain amount of grandeur to them.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Thomas calls me when it's still outside and my face looks tired But I only care a bit I truly see him in a softer light still wonder if we might But Christ, I cannot count on it.
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Skylar Rochelle
Following her debut, this record definitely seems like she's taking a little bit more of a cinematic approach. Like, for example, on her song I'm Fine, there's this really beautiful sort of cinematic ebb and flow that sort of mirrors this internal struggle of saying I'm fine, but then also internally going back and forth with sort of the underlying feelings.
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Stephen Thompson
Yeah, it understands that the phrase I'm fine is one of the most loaded two word phrases in the English language.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Big D cries in the ICLOUD Big Brave Girl 29 Now I'm fine Now really I'm fine Now I'm fine.
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Stephen Thompson
So that is not for lack of trying. It's a new album by Dodie. Next up, the artist Blue Lake has a new album. It's called the Animal.
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Skylar Rochelle
So Blue Lake is the musical project of Jason Dungan, who is currently based in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. The Animal is the fifth album from Blue Lake, and it traverses this really unique intersection of ambient and Americana spaces and also just has this really distinct Nordic aesthetic, which I find really compelling.
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Stephen Thompson
We talked about Blue Lake on this show back in January when Jason Dungan put out this gorgeous EP called Weft. And, you know, just those beautiful instrumentals that seem to be drawing not only from so many different sounds. You mentioned ambient and Americana. There's just folk and jazz and all these styles woven through these pieces. They're really gentle and graceful and beautiful, but there's also this expansive quality to them. You think about a song like Flowers For David, which is just this hypnotically beautiful song, you know, with the drones and guitars. It's really lush and rich and a word that we used when we were talking about Dodie, and we may even use it again by the end of this episode. Cinematic.
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Skylar Rochelle
I do think it's important to mention that this is his first record that's recorded with a full band in a studio. So I definitely think that contributes to that sort of fuller, more expansive sound. But also it definitely still retains that intimacy that his previous work has had. I was trying to think about how to describe this record, and the best way I can describe it is I feel like it's just really a Touch Grass album, you know?
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Stephen Thompson
Yeah.
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Skylar Rochelle
It's just, like, completely immersive and. I don't know, it's definitely something that I would want to turn on if I wanted to be. Feel present or grounded or. You know, it just really sort of invites you to bask in that feeling.
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Stephen Thompson
I like a Touch Grass album. I think that's a great way of putting it. I sometimes use the phrase, like, Sunday morning listening. And I think in many ways, Blue Lake makes Sunday morning music. It's kind of contemplative. It's music that really accompanies taking the opportunity to take a step back, maybe survey the natural world forgotten, you know, hurl your devices into the sea and just like, to use kind of a cliche, be present. But I also appreciate the way that it's not just hanging in the background. You talked about the fact that he's working with a full band here, and I think he takes full advantage of that in the song strand. It's got this atmospheric jangle. The strings are kind of getting under your skin, and the song builds to kind of the closest that this record comes to a cacophony. You know, that you get a swell. You're getting a song that not only takes a journey, but reaches a destination. And I think that's really important.
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Skylar Rochelle
I actually wrote that exact sort of phrasing in terms of this song as well. It honestly sort of reminds me of, like, the sort of build of, like, cicadas at the peak of summer. You know, it sort of, like, starts out like this slow drone and then it sort of builds in this omnipresent feeling and sound. It's really, really gorgeous.
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Stephen Thompson
That is Blue Lake. Blue Lake's new album is called the Animal. We've got more records we're going to talk about, but first let's take a quick break.
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Stephen Thompson
From NPR Music, It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Skylar Rochelle from 90.9 the bridge in Kansas City. Skylar, tell us about the work you're doing for the Bridge.
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Skylar Rochelle
Yeah, so I'm currently living in Brooklyn, New York, but the show I host is back home in Kansas City. I host the Z Show on Saturday nights from 8 to 10pm and I've actually been doing it since my senior year of high school, which just feels absolutely wild. The show's pretty free form. It's sort of like a college radio vibe, but I try to dig into like newer and emerging artists. And then also the Bridge has such a strong focus on supporting the local music scene in Kansas City because we really do have such a great one that I also try to make sure to bring that into my show as well. Yeah, I just feel super lucky to be able to share music with folks every week. And if you're not in Kansas City, you can still catch it anytime on the Bridge app or@bridge909.org along with us other specialty shows.
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Stephen Thompson
I Love that you're able to kind of stay attached to your community through public radio, even as you're living in Brooklyn. It's like you're getting the best of both worlds.
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Skylar Rochelle
Yeah, it's true. It's been really wonderful. They've let me do it through college, high school. It feels like a really. I'm glad they've stuck with me.
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Stephen Thompson
That is wonderful. All right, next up, we have got a new album by Snooper. Snooper's new album is called Worldwide.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Is it what you care for? Bring myself to all about. I know what you want to talk about. Buzz women. I know nothing about chance, circumstances or seven days a week a way I didn't realize Confirmation registration. So.
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Stephen Thompson
So Snooper is a punk band from Nashville. They're recording for Jack White's Third man label. And Snooper, as you could probably tell from the. The small excerpt we just played is such a mix of intensity and fun. You know, Snooper live show is kind of carried out with enormous amounts of theatricality, including giant paper mache puppets. They've got this mascot that's a huge green bug. There's a. This isn't necessarily a super serious band, and I think that's part of the fun. It's kind of Gen Z dirtbag vibes all the way down. All just kind of brash, supercharged silliness in these songs that come out as kind of grinding, frenetic blurts. They're very often in kind of the one to two minute range, but there is a sense of playfulness to it that really allows it to hang together as more than just blurts of intensity. There's also kind of a sing songy quality. There are gang vocals. There's just. There's big fun, silly energy. And I think there's always space for that.
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Skylar Rochelle
Yeah, absolutely. And as. As a Gen Z member, I can definitely confirm I just find their music like in your face in a really fun way. Like, it's just got sort of that really like ball of energy sound that's super refreshing and almost like a release at sometimes. And you know, I had the pleasure of catching these guys live back at south by Southwest in March and their live set, like, it's just sort of something that you need to see to believe. Like, that is truly where the magic is. People just go absolutely nuts for these guys.
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Stephen Thompson
Did they perform? I mean, south by Southwest, you're often just like running from gig to gig. Did they trot out any puppetry or was it kind of stripped down?
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Skylar Rochelle
Oh, yeah. They brought out the what they call the Mosh Quido.
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Stephen Thompson
That's their bug mascot.
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Skylar Rochelle
Yeah, yeah. They call it the Mosquito, which is pretty fun.
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Stephen Thompson
The songs, I mean, there were a number for a record that kind of blows by in less than half an hour. There are a bunch of really memorable songs and memorable hooks. There's a track called Star 69 which is just blistering in this kind of cracked and distorted way. You know, the guitars are scraping and, and blasting and it's all just, just this big scrappy energy. And then the vocals from the singer Blair Trammell are coming in and there's like this sing songy quality to them and I think that juxtaposition is really important. It's kind of like salt, fat, acid heat. You want a little bit of each.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
What did you say? 543 Directory an enemy machine talking to me.
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Skylar Rochelle
It definitely feels as though like the songwriting's also grown a bit more personal. Like if you look at the song Pom Pom, which is just a super fun, high energy lo fi track with like these jagged guitars, like pounding drums and like, you know, sort of like chanty vocals much like that resemble cheerleading. It sort of takes a little bit more of like a serious approach and sort of like thematically it's sort of about like wanting to be your own cheerleader and just like being a little bit more positive and like. But also like understanding that you don't need to take yourself that seriously. Which I think is what this band is all about. Like they're here for a really good time.
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Stephen Thompson
That is Snooper. Their new album is called Worldwide. Next up, a new album from Molly Nilsson. Molly Nilsson's new record is called Amateur.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Every Hugo Girl, no one touches it.
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Skylar Rochelle
So Molly Nilsson is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician based in Berlin. And she's known for these really incredible minimalist arrangements that sort of is often categorized as the darker retro inspired synth pop that also has some 80s influences, if that makes sense.
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Stephen Thompson
Oh, absolutely.
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Skylar Rochelle
She has this very formal, understated vocal delivery, but then is also very good at balancing that with pretty serious like lyrical depth. Amateur is her 12th studio album and released on her own label, Dark Skies Association. And something important to note, I think is that that she sort of dubs it as, quote, a jubilee for losers.
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Stephen Thompson
I love that phrase.
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Skylar Rochelle
Right.
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Stephen Thompson
What so many of these albums are about this week is this idea of kind of, you're just doing your best. Molly Nilsson called this album amateur. And one thing that she's kind of talked about in the run up to this album Is that the original meaning of the word amateur in Latin is more like devotee. It's not necessarily like somebody who doesn't know how to do something. And she views being an amateur as like pursuing your joys and pursuing your joys without regard for quote, unquote excellence, pursuing passion projects. And I think that ties into a lot of the themes that we've talked about with the Doty record with. Even with the Snooper record, you know, embracing your mistakes, living your mess, living your truth. And Molly Nilsson, I think, really gets to the core of that idea in these songs. Even as she's kind of burying her vocals under these big synths, you still get a sense of that energy and that approach.
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Skylar Rochelle
Yeah, 100%. I mean, if you look at the track Valhalla, it really encapsulates all of those themes that we're talking about. She has this really cool line alongside crashing drums. She says, it's going to get better now, you'll see. Going to be much better off without me.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
It's gonna get better now, you'll see. Better off without me.
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Skylar Rochelle
The drums also like, really help amplify that emotional weight of that delivery. And she does this really cool thing of sort of living in that happy, sad space.
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Stephen Thompson
Truly one of the prevailing emotions of our day. There is like a. A prevailing sound of this record. Right. You mentioned the 80s influences we've talked about, the. The big synth hooks that drive a lot of these songs. But within that, she's still reaching sonically, she's still expanding sonically. And you get several musical hairpin turns over the course of this record. The song Classified, which has this kind of liquid electro pop feel, her voice is really distorted and distant as these synths are kind of noodling and booping around her like crazy. And I appreciate that there are these shifts that take place over the course of the record that really kind of keep your mind from wandering, I guess.
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Skylar Rochelle
The Way I Feel is Classified.
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Stephen Thompson
That is Amateur, the new album by Molly Nilsson. We've got one more album we're going to talk about in depth as well as a lightning round of some of our other favorite albums out today, October 3rd. But first, let's take a quick break.
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Stephen Thompson
It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Skylar Rochelle from 90.9 the bridge in Kansas City. We've got one more album we want to talk about in depth, as well as a lightning round of some of our other favorite albums out today. Before we get to that lightning round, let's talk about Leon Vinehal. Leon Vinehal's new album is called In Daytona Yellow.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Feel the air, respond.
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Stephen Thompson
So Leon Vinehal is a British DJ and producer. He's been around for a few years. This is his third full length album and he's kind of taking more of kind of a James Blakey atmospheric electropop approach than he's ever really taken before. Leon Vinehal has always been an experimentalist and he's always made music that is clearly part of a multidisciplinary approach. His first album was accompanied by a novella and a bunch of short films. You know this one, you know he's exploring more vocal collaborations, more spoken word. And thematically, I cannot tell you, Skyler, how much this record fits in with the themes that these other records that we've been talking about have. Here's a quote from Leon. It's about the rejection of perfection and embracing vulnerability. I wanted to let go of that pressure to say goodbye to a former version of myself and move forward. This record is so of a piece with what we've been talking about with Dodie and with Molly Nilsson. Even traces of Snooper when you can make out the words.
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Skylar Rochelle
This record was a really, really cool listen. I sort of love that Vinehal is still using this very experimental framework, but then also incorporating more traditional like songwriting and pop structures to it. Specifically the song Romantica featuring Kenzie Tth. I feel like it's definitely more of sort of that like upbeat dance floor focused track with that sort of straightforward pop song structure, which I think is super fun and a really good time. But then also if you juxtapose it by looking at a jagged promise, which is super short, I think it only comes in at like a little over a minute. It's just like this very more introspective and emotional track that features his very own vocals too, which I think is something that he wanted to incorporate more in this record in terms of being more vulnerable.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
You say you wanna die serious but death comes cheap when the expensive living is a sin Plunging your hands into.
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Stephen Thompson
The till this record on several occasions he quotes Leonard Cohen, you know, he says, you know, there is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in. That's a famous Leonard Cohen quote. And that kind of serves as a little bit of a mission statement on this record that I think works really, really effectively. But at the same time, you know, he's also still, you know, he is a house music producer and several of these songs just work as pieces of electronic music. There's a track called Whip featuring Jeshi, you know, which has this kind of low, I would say like tricky ish rumble warped and foreboding sample about our concept of the self. It's very heady music. It still works as dance music, it still works as electro pop music. But there's a searching quality to it that I think really serves him well.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
I sit here by myself I don't need anyone else oh glitters ain't gold Top floor sitting on shelves I don't need anyone's help Put a straw Whip cold like ass and what you think this is Go flip the script Climb new heights get to these days I'm sinking pits I'm egotistic Hot plate, spin.
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Skylar Rochelle
Them dishes and I think that also comes through in Mirror's Edge featuring Poison Anna. It's got this very sort of hypnotic, ghosty almost quality to it that sort of explore this tension between self love and ego essentially I think. But it's got like this really cool central sort of four note synth loop that contributes to like this sort of of anxiety that I think comes through in a really interesting way.
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Stephen Thompson
That is Leon Vinehal. Leon Vinehol's newest album is called In Daytona Yellow Now Skyler. Even in a week when Taylor Swift's new album is blocking out the sun, there are still tons of great new albums worth hearing this week. So many in fact that we couldn't possibly get to them all. So we're going to do a quick lightning round with some of our favorites. I'm going to kick us off. Sean Cary is probably best known for his work playing drums in Bon Iver. But he's been releasing his own gorgeous music under the name s Carey since 2010. His new Soul Project is a lush and beautiful four song EP. If you feel nostalgic for Bunnyver's debut album, the strumming in the song Watercress is bound to trigger memories of songs like Stax. The whole thing is just gorgeous. That is Sean Carrey s Cary and his new ep. It's called Watercress Sun, Kiss, Tangerine.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Sky. That helps you grieve in a field.
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Stephen Thompson
It's early fall.
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Skylar Rochelle
So Grammy winning vocalist Leticy pays tribute to her lifelong hero on For Dinah, which is a stunning homage to the legendary queen of the blues, Dinah Washington. The album blends Washington's timeless charisma and attitude with Lettucey's personal neo soul tinged jazz touch. The album really just reimagines and breathes new life into her classics as well as Those deeper cuts I.e. lettuce and her new album is For Dinah.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Won't be because I ain't trying if I never get to heaven Won't be because I ain't trying.
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Stephen Thompson
Alpha Mist is a genre obliterating producer, rapper, piano player, songwriter and labelhead from London. His music straddles hip hop, dance music and improvisational jazz. And as that description suggests, it's extremely unpredictable from song to song and even from moment to moment. Alpha Mist's new album is called Roulette.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
I ain't trying to hear I must have been buzzing when you speak it's like you're trying to win something. Flesh and blood you can be my big cousin we try forget everything we can't forgive nothing.
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Skylar Rochelle
Los Angeles musician Izzy Hagarup, who records as Prune, is back with System, an album that feels raw, intimate and emotionally charged. It shifts these quietly haunting moments to these really big explosive bursts of energy and really digs into these themes of dissociation, fear and everything that sort of follows those emotions. Izzy approaches talking about her mental health with this kind of unfiltered honesty and pairs her really striking voice with these creative arrangements that really hit you right at the core. And the whole thing really just comes across as as brave and deeply human. It sort of reminds me of something that you're like you're overhearing something almost too personal to share, but it's sort of like impossible to look away from. And that is Prune's new album, System.
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Stephen Thompson
Finally, if you dug Snooper and want some punk that is even more aggressive, even more in your face with a dose of righteous fury, allow me to call your attention to a band from Atlanta called Upchuck. Upchuck is led by an electrified singer named K.T. thompson, who once went viral for getting hit in the head with a shopping cart during a show. A photo of her screaming into a microphone with blood on her face actually adorns the COVID of Upchuck's first album. The new one sounds like the work of a band whose music would spawn the type of mosh pits that get shopping carts thrown into them. Upchuck's new album is called I'm Nice.
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Musical Artist (performing lyrics)
Now.
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Stephen Thompson
And that is our show for this week. Thank you, Skylar Rochelle, for taking time out of your week at 90.9 the bridge.
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Skylar Rochelle
Thank you so much, Stephen. I really appreciate it.
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Stephen Thompson
If you enjoyed this week's stream, we always appreciate a positive review on Apple or Spotify or whatever app you're listening to right now. This episode was produced by Noah Caldwell and edited by Otis Hart. The executive producer of NPR Music is Soraya Muhammad. We'll be back next week to discuss new music with Celia Gregory from WNXP in Nashville. Until then, take a moment to be well. Be patient with friends who only want to talk about Taylor Swift and treatment yourself to lots of great music.
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