A Punjabi space epic and a laid-back throwback — NPR's favorite music of February
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Featured songs: "Spud Infinity" and "Dried Roses"
2. Raveena — Asha's Awakening
Featured song: "Mystery"
3. Pusha T, "Diet Coke"
4. Joyce DiDonato — EDEN
Featured song: "The Unanswered Question"
5. caroline — caroline
Featured song: "Dark blue"
Other notable releases for February:
• Hurray for the Riff Raff — LIFE ON EARTH
• Mitski -- Laurel Hell
• Erin Rae — Lighten Up
• Chris Farren — Death Don't Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Los Bitchos — Let the Festivities Begin!
• Saba — Few Good Things
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From M.J.R. Music and All Songs Considered Unlars Got Rich and I'm here with Am Hours. |
| 0:08.3 | Hello. |
| 0:09.8 | We're Reseller Russo. |
| 0:11.8 | Hey. |
| 0:12.8 | And Rihanna Cruz. |
| 0:14.8 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:15.8 | It's the best of month's show and we're listening to album and song of the year contenders |
| 0:21.1 | for 2022. |
| 0:22.1 | It's never too early to read the two leaves. |
| 0:25.1 | What you gonna take? |
| 0:39.0 | What you gonna take? |
| 0:49.2 | This is Big Thee for at least a double album called Dragon New Warm Mountain. |
| 0:56.0 | I believe in you. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm not quite sure where you're supposed to pause for emphasis but the song here is |
| 1:03.0 | Split Infinity. |
| 1:04.6 | This is the band's fifth album. |
| 1:06.3 | Its members have released several solo records in the last few years. |
| 1:11.3 | So this is a very prolific bunch. |
| 1:14.6 | Some powers what makes this Big Thee double album all 81 minutes of it worth diving into? |
| 1:21.6 | Well I mean anything Big Thee does or anything any member of Big Thee does is definitely |
| 1:27.5 | worth a dive but this is a this is that cool mountain spring that you dive into and you |
| 1:34.9 | never can see the bottom at the same time you can see everything living in it. |
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