All Songs Considered: Charli xcx, Mike D, Boards of Canada
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
NPR Music’s Lars Gotrich joins host Robin Hilton.
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Featured artists and songs:
(00:00) Intro
(01:18) Charli xcx: “Rock Music” (Single)
(07:30) Starflyer 59: “I’m Disappointed” from Disappointed EP
(12:22) Mike D: “Switch Up” (Single)
(19:53) Black Swan Network: “The Shell” from The Early Music, Vol. 1
(25:30) Hannah Cohen: “Golden Chain” (Single)
(31:55) Boards of Canada: “Introit/Prophecy At 1420 MHz” from Inferno
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| 0:00.0 | What are we doing here? |
| 0:01.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:01.9 | A show? |
| 0:02.8 | I guess so. |
| 0:06.3 | This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music podcast, where you will find this show. |
| 0:11.8 | New episodes of this show every Tuesday. |
| 0:14.0 | We've got Alt Latino every Wednesday. |
| 0:16.4 | And of course, New Music Friday closes out every week. |
| 0:18.9 | NPR Music also home to Tiny Desk |
| 0:21.5 | Editor and Curator of All Things Loud and Soft. |
| 0:27.4 | I don't like the dramatic pause. And soft. Lars Gotrich. |
| 0:33.5 | Hey, Robin. |
| 0:35.0 | So we nerd out about all kinds of music stuff on this show on all songs considered. |
| 0:39.1 | Sometimes it's a debate about a band or some trend or something like that. |
| 0:43.2 | Or sometimes it's a conversation like the one we had recently with Beck. |
| 0:46.9 | And sometimes it's just to play the music that we're loving and to share it with each other. |
| 0:51.4 | We keep a running list of the best new tracks of the year, |
| 0:54.3 | and we like to update it every other week or so. |
| 0:57.0 | That's what we're doing on this episode of All Songs Considered. |
| 1:00.8 | We each brought some stuff. |
| 1:03.0 | Lars, I am certain that whatever you brought is next level. |
| 1:06.9 | Oh, okay. |
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