All Songs Considered: José González's hope, Jungle's sunshine
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
NPR classical critic Tom Huizenga joins host Robin Hilton as they update their running list of the year’s best songs.
(00:00) Intro
(01:03) Jungle: “Carry On” from ‘SUNSHINE’
(07:42) Gabriel Kahane & Roomful of Teeth: “Not Even the Dead” from ‘Elevator Songs’
(14:23) Quiet Light: “Self Tape” from ‘Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2’
(23:34) Tanya Tagaq: “Imiq” from ‘Saputjiji’
(31:13) José González: “Etyd” from ‘Against the Dying of the Light’
(37:49) Giya Kancheli: “Middelheim” from ‘Kancheli: Ex contrario, Middelheim & Tsutisopeli’
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| 0:00.0 | Are we doing a show? Is that what this is? |
| 0:02.4 | I think it's called All Songs Considered? |
| 0:06.3 | Ah, yes. |
| 0:08.8 | This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music Podcast, your one-stop virtual music club, |
| 0:17.5 | where you can hang out hear about all the new albums and songs we're excited about and other |
| 0:21.4 | conversations happening in the music verse, APR music. Also, where you will find the musings and |
| 0:28.3 | reviews of classical music editor, Tom Heisinga. Robin. You're more than a classical music |
| 0:35.5 | editor, though. You've got some of the broadest taste of music of anybody I know. |
| 0:40.2 | Well, life is short. You might as well listen to all of it, right? |
| 0:42.9 | All of it, and that's what we're going to be doing on this week's show. All of the music. |
| 0:48.4 | All the music that's ever been written. So sit back. |
| 0:51.4 | Alphabetically. |
| 0:52.1 | Yeah. No, on this episode, we're talking about the best new |
| 0:56.3 | songs of the week. We keep a running list of the year's best songs, and we update it every other |
| 1:01.8 | week or so on the show. I thought we'd start with a new one we got from the band, Jungle. Oh, yeah. |
| 1:07.6 | Were you familiar at all with Jungle? I cannot believe that it has taken me this long to get on the jungle bandwagon, but I am |
| 1:16.1 | rooting and tooting on the top of the bandwagon, and it's amazing. |
| 1:21.1 | You're fully on board. |
| 1:22.4 | Fully. |
| 1:23.1 | So this is a trio from Britain. They make this fantastically retro, but also very forward-looking, |
| 1:29.2 | I think, sort of soul and disco music. They had this really big hit a few years ago called Back on |
| 1:35.1 | 74 that largely blew up because it had its incredible video. I mean, it's a great song, |
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