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All Songs Considered: Gracie Abrams hits a wall, more best new songs

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Our latest mix of the week’s best new songs includes a moody reflection on burnout from Gracie Abrams, rising L.A. duo Evening Elephants, the elusive electronic collagists Ear and more.  

NPR Music’s Dora Levite joins host Robin Hilton.

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Featured artists and songs:

(00:00) Intro

(01:45) Gracie Abrams: “Hit the Wall”

(08:10) Zoh Amba: “Eyes Full"

(14:18) Jazmin Bean: “Darling”

(21:57) Ear: “Ne Plus Ultra”

(27:46) Evening Elephants: “A Digital Touch”

(33:07) Knats: “Carpet Doctor (feat. Geordie Greep)”

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0:00.0

This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music Podcast, your one-stop shop for all things in the music verse that are good and great.

0:09.1

We've got new drops of this show, new episodes of All Songs Considered every Tuesday, along with Alt Latino on Wednesday's New Music Friday at the end of every week.

0:18.3

On this episode, we are talking about the best new songs of the

0:22.8

week in Pure Music's Dora Levitt.

0:25.5

Hello, Robin.

0:27.0

How was your weekend, Dora?

0:28.3

Did you spend the entire weekend listening to the massive Drake drop that we got at the end of last week?

0:33.9

You know, I spent the entire weekend saying, I really need to listen to all three

0:37.7

of the Drake albums. And I really need to focus because I think it would be really funny if I

0:42.5

picked only three Drake songs. One from each record. Yeah, one from each record, obviously. And then I

0:48.5

never found the time. It's a lot. I actually did listen to all three albums. It's just too much. It's too much music. There were little moments as I was listening along where I thought, if I heard just this one song out of context, I think that's pretty great. That's a pretty great song. But it's just too much. It all just starts to blur together and it just became a big audio mush. Yeah.

1:15.0

He's going to be all over the, he's going to be like the number one spot through the number 10 or 20 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 when the latest charts come out.

1:20.7

I thought it was funny of all of the songs that I listened to and all of the lines in those

1:26.3

songs.

1:26.6

I thought the most appropriate

1:28.0

line was, all the numbers are final, no t-shirts, no vinyl, y'all about to make me richy

1:34.8

like Lionel.

1:39.2

First of all, that, honestly, that's a pretty great line. And yes, we're all, we're all about

1:44.0

to make you very very rich well

1:46.1

I actually have been spending a lot more time listening to stuff that is on the billboard hot 100

1:50.9

I've been trying to listen to more pop music like popular music and maybe that sounds ridiculous

1:57.1

to most people but I don't listen to a lot of pop music I never really have listened to top 40 radio or anything but I don't listen to a lot of pop music. I never really have listened to Top 40 radio or anything, but I've been finding a lot of stuff that I genuinely enjoy. Maybe we'll do a whole show about like how to love pop music. But one of the artists that I've been listening to a lot more lately because we just got a new single from her is Gracie Abrams. I don't know if you've heard the new single yet.

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