New Mix: boygenius, The National, Baaba Maal, more

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the return of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus as boygenius, The National and more.

Featured Songs and Artists:
1. boygenius: "$20," from the record
2. The National: "Tropic Morning News," from First Two Pages of Frankenstein
3. Niklas Paschburg & lùisa: "Darkside of the Hill," from Panta Rhei
4. Miss Grit: "Lain (phone clone)," from Follow the Cyborg
5. Baaba Maal: "Agreement," from Being
6. The Hackles: "Damn the word," from What a beautiful thing I have made

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0:00.0	For M.P.R. Music, your connected doll songs considered by Boilin with a most wonderful
0:05.2	surprise new music from Boy Genius.
0:08.6	On Friday the trio of Julian Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers released three new songs
0:14.5	and they announced their first full-length album.
0:17.0	It's called The Record.
0:19.3	That album's out at the end of March and if you don't know Boy Genius, just know that
0:23.5	these three incredibly talented musicians became friends and put together what seemed like
0:28.5	a one-off project in EP in 2018, individually they're among my favorite 21st century
0:35.4	music makers and having them together is just a thrill.
0:39.6	I'm going to play one of the three songs from Boy Genius.
0:42.1	This one you'll hear Julian Baker take the lead on a song called $20.
0:47.7	Any origin of the song?
0:49.0	Well, that's kind of up for discussion beginning here with Phoebe Bridgers.
0:54.2	Hey, we're Boy Genius and 20 bucks with my idea.
0:57.3	As if.
0:58.3	As if.
0:59.3	20 bucks was actually your idea.
1:02.4	No.
1:03.4	The most integral part of the song that is defined, the titularly defines it, is your lyric.
1:10.3	I was like, I want to write a riff in 7 The Rocks and then I sent it to you all.
1:15.5	And we did.
1:16.5	Yeah.
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