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New Mix: Anna B Savage, Daisies, Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet, more

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including songs from Anna B Savage, Daisies, Pest Control, Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet and more.

Featured Songs And Artist:
1. Daisies: "Is It Any Wonder," from Great Big Open Sky
2. Anna B Savage: "The Ghost," from inFLUX
3. Pest Control: "Total Distraction," from Don't Test The Pest
4. Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet: "In Transit," from Signs of Life
5. Mohamad Zatari Trio: "Black Tea," from Istehlal
6. Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily: "To Remain/To Return," from Love In Exile

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's also considered I'm Bob Boylin in a room with Lars Gottfried, a J-Bob, a nice to see you.

0:06.5

Yeah, and this happens. Now we're doing this once a month, so at least I get to see you at the

0:11.6

top of every month. I try to come into the office. We have these concerts and stuff that are fun.

0:18.4

I saw there's this little band called Util that I came into the office for. They're pretty,

0:23.6

I think that's all places. And for those, this will come out before that comes out, but

0:30.3

Bano and the Edge were here and did something very special. I'm not going to tell you about.

0:34.4

It was great. I loved it. They took up the challenge really, really well.

0:40.1

One of the things that we're going to try to do is play music. Like you always do Viking choice

0:45.4

and turn me on a lots of music. We're going to go back and forth and stuff, and sometimes it's

0:50.0

out there music. But you can start off with something that feels like it could be on a normal

0:55.3

episode of Ross Hong's concert. This one's for their normades, everybody.

1:02.0

Bob, you didn't listen to radio in the early 90s. No, I stayed away from music.

1:08.5

Obviously you're listening to NPR because you were directing all things considered at the time.

1:13.6

But I was listening to radio in the 90s. I have very fond memories of like

1:21.8

turning the radio down low late at night, listening to the pop station in Atlanta, which was

1:27.6

start 94. They would play things like Sophie B. Hawkins and TLC and six pints, no the richer,

1:38.3

and things like that. I felt like a thing that I wasn't allowed to like because little

1:43.2

boys were allowed to pop music, which is so silly. But as a young boy, surrounded by a bunch of

1:50.7

other boys, you have to turn the dial down just a little bit and those are the college radio

1:58.8

station, which turns you on to this whole other world of music. Yeah, that was what was lacking in D.C.

2:04.3

That died here. That's why I didn't listen to music on the radio.

2:08.2

So the first barring I'm going to play is a group called Daisies. They feel like the

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