#808 Album Review Roundup (St. Vincent, Tony Allen & More) Plus How to Save the Music Ecosystem

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As spring releases continue to sprout up, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot can't wait to share their opinions on some new music. Plus, they interview researcher and writer Ron Knox about how the music ecosystem can be saved, and why breaking up "Big Music" is the answer.

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Featured Songs:

St. Vincent, "Daddy's Home," Daddy's Home, Loma Vista, 2021

St. Vincent, "Down," Daddy's Home, Loma Vista, 2021

St. Vincent, "My Baby Wants a Baby," Daddy's Home, Loma Vista, 2021

St. Vincent, "Candy Darling," Daddy's Home, Loma Vista, 2021

St. Vincent, "The Melting of the Sun," Daddy's Home, Loma Vista, 2021

Morcheeba, "Namaste," Blackest Blue, Fly Agaric, 2021

Morcheeba, "Cut My Heart Out," Blackest Blue, Fly Agaric, 2021

Morcheeba, "Say It's Over (feat. Brad Barr)," Blackest Blue, Fly Agaric, 2021

Morcheeba, "Sulphur Soul," Blackest Blue, Fly Agaric, 2021

Molly Sarlé, "Human," Karaoke Angel, Partisan, 2019

Tony Allen, "Très Magnifique (feat. Tsunami)," There Is No End, Blue Note, 2021

Tony Allen, "Mau Mau (feat. Nah Eeto)," There Is No End, Blue Note, 2021

Tony Allen, "Coonta Kinte (feat. ZelooperZ)," There Is No End, Blue Note, 2021

The Chills, "Scatterbrain," Scatterbrain, Fire, 2021

The Chills, "Monolith," Scatterbrain, Fire, 2021

The Chills, "Worlds Within Worlds," Scatterbrain, Fire, 2021

The Chills, "Caught in My Eye," Scatterbrain, Fire, 2021

Molly Sarlé, "Gypsy," Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Session, Partisan, 2020

Celine Dion, "It's All Coming Back To Me Now," Falling into You, Columbia, 1996

Mountain Man, "Moon," Magic Ship, Nonesuch, 2018

Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams ," Rumours, Warner Brothers, 1977

Tune-Yards, "Hold Yourself," Sketchy, 4AD, 2021

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0:00.0	Oh, Shr. We're talking with antitrust researcher Ron Knox about how the musical ecosystem can be saved.
0:32.0	I'm Jim De Regattis. And I'm Greg Kott, but first we're sharing
0:35.8	our opinions on four new album releases. side autographs in the visitation room.
0:48.0	Waiting for you the last time inmate 502.
0:55.0	That is home.
1:00.0	That's a track called Daddy's Home, the title track from the new St. Vincent album,
1:08.0	her seventh album, Annie Clark out of Texas, the early Baroque Pop Sound of 2007's Marry Me. That was her debut album. I remember her vividly
1:18.0	on tour as an opening act with Arcade Fire right around that time. She was doing gigs with Sufion Ste. with player before she even established herself as a solo artist.
1:33.7	The big breakthrough came out in 2011 with Strange Mercy.
1:37.8	2012 Love the Giant.
1:39.5	She collaborated with David Byrne.
1:42.0	She followed it with a
1:43.0	self-titled album in 2014, in 2017, there was mass deduction
1:48.0	which paired her with Jack Antonoff.
1:50.0	This is the start of a new phase in her career. Antonoff, of course, had been well known for working with Taylor Swift and Lord.
1:58.0	And with each album, it should be noted that St. Vincent tends to reimagine and reinvent herself. That was the latest
2:05.5	reinvention. Now she's doing it yet again with Daddy's home. The reference
2:10.6	there is to her father who had returned home from prison after serving 12 years for his involvement in a multi-million dollar stock manipulation scheme.
2:20.7	This is her first overt reference to it on her recorded work, where she's sort of
2:26.2	assessing that period in her life. And this album has a very much of a 70s vibe.
2:31.9	We're going to talk about it some more in a minute, but let us play a
2:35.3	track from it. It is called Down from St. Vincent's new one called Daddy's Home
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