Lyra Pramuk’s “Rewild,” from her newest album HYMNAL, is likely one of the songs we will not cease taking part in this week.
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Leonardo Scotti
Chances are high you were not anticipating to get a brand new album from Stereolab this 12 months. The a lot beloved avant-pop group hasn’t launched any new music in 15 years. However they lately lit up the Stereolab fan-world with information that Immediate Holograms On Metallic Movie, the band’s eleventh full-length, will arrive on Might 23. On this week’s Contenders, we hear the primary single, “Aerial Troubles,” a music that touches on quite a lot of acquainted themes for Stereolab, with warnings about out-of-control consumerism, a dying planet and a future that appears more and more bleak.
We have additionally obtained probably the most unpredictable and thrilling rock cuts of the 12 months from a band referred to as feeble little horse, a relentlessly infectious earworm from the artist Yaeji, the digital composer Lyra Pramuk and extra.
NPR Music editor Hazel Cills joins host Robin Hilton as they replace our working record of the 12 months’s greatest songs.
Featured artists and songs:
1. Stereolab: “Aerial Troubles,” from Immediate Holograms On Metallic Movie
2. Yaeji & E Wata: “Pondeggi” (single)
3. Snuggle: “Mud” (single)
4. feeble little horse: “This Is Actual” (single)
5. Lyra Pramuk: “Rewild,” from Hymnal
