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Best new songs: Mitski, Father John Misty, Kim Gordon, more

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week we're obsessing over the hilarious and harrowing “Where’s My Phone?” from Mitski, a slightly softer solo cut from Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, the confounding but wondrous wordplay of Father John Misty and more.

NPR Music editor Hazel Cills joins host Robin Hilton.

Featured songs and artists:

(00:00) Mitski: “Where’s My Phone?” from ‘Nothing’s About to Happen to Me’

(09:29) Robber Robber: “The Sound It Made,” from ‘Two Wheels Move the Soul’

(16:01) Father John Misty: “The Old Law” (single)

(24:44) Kim Gordon: “NOT TODAY,” from ‘PLAY ME’

(31:39) Tinariwen: “Sagherat Assani (feat. Sulafa Elyas),” from ‘Hoggar’

(37:21) Vero: “100 Calls,” from ‘Razor Tongue’


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0:00.0

Hazel, how are you doing up there? Did the storm hit you hard?

0:05.0

It did hit me hard, but I guess it hit New York hard, but I didn't leave my house.

0:10.0

I was surprised that people were even leaving their house on Sunday.

0:13.0

I was like, I thought we had all collectively agreed to stay inside and hibernate.

0:18.0

Did you go to the store beforehand and all the shelves were completely

0:21.8

bare? No, I went to the store on Friday during the workday. I was going to go Saturday. And I will

0:29.4

say it was pretty crazy, but it was stocked. I don't know if New York has the same problems as the

0:37.1

suburbs or something. I don't know. It wasn't the same problems as the suburbs or something.

0:38.5

I don't know.

0:39.0

It wasn't too bad here, actually.

0:40.8

Well, I went earlier in the week, too, and it was totally fine.

0:44.6

I did think, oh, maybe I should get one more thing, and I went to the store.

0:49.4

I guess it was Saturday, early afternoon, and it looked like Whoville after the Grinch has stolen Christmas.

0:57.1

Like, it was completely bad.

0:58.9

There were some poor souls wandering the aisles, looking for stuff.

1:02.8

And I thought, oh, I feel so badly for anybody who waited until the last minute because it was, yeah, totally wiped out.

1:10.2

It was bad. You know the thing i don't get is everyone's

1:13.6

obsession with toilet paper like that's the thing that the store runs out of first like what's everyone

1:19.8

doing yeah i don't know i guess it is the kind of product where it's like if you don't have it it's

1:24.0

quite stressful or i don't know if you have a large family or something. I don't know.

1:27.5

Yeah. I, yeah, that's crazy. Well, we're going to talk about some of the best new songs that we've been listening to. You know, the year started off kind of quiet as far as music goes. We did that preview show. We wanted to like look ahead and talk about all the great new albums we knew were coming,

1:44.3

but we really didn't know a lot at that point. But just in the last week or so, we've had this

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