New Mix: Dry Cleaning, Jesca Hoop, Alex G, Rubblebucket, Jake Blount, Marlon Williams

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares an anthemic call to action from Jesca Hoop, a song for a stressed-out brain from Dry Cleaning, and two tunes inspired by television shows.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Jesca Hoop: "Hatred Has a Mother," from Order of Romance
2. Jake Blount: "Didn't It Rain," from The New Faith
3. Alex G: "Runner," from God Save the Animals
4. Rubblebucket: "Morning in the Sun" (Single)
5. Marlon Williams: "Thinking of Nina," from My Boy
6. Dry Cleaning: "Don't Press Me," from Stumpwork

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0:00.0	For MPR Music, you're connected to all songs considered by Bob Boylin with a song that's
0:04.3	a moral call to action.
0:06.9	The artist is Jessica Hoop, an artist we've been following since 2006.
0:11.2	She did her tiny desk concert in 2020, and then she did one with Iron and Wine back in
0:15.8	2016.
0:17.5	Jessica's here today to introduce us to a song called Hatred Has a Mother.
0:23.3	Hatred has a mother is an anthem, it's a rhythm driven anthem, and I get your mind right
0:30.9	kind of a track.
0:33.0	Now you've got to get your mind right because we are sharing the world with a great many
0:40.5	people, a great many intelligent people who have different ideals.
0:49.2	And this comes along with challenges that if we're not careful, could drive us into division
0:58.3	and despair and into making enemies of people that we could otherwise get along with.
1:07.4	I've been personally very challenged, I think.
1:11.3	Many people around me have been very, very personally challenged by the device of forces
1:16.0	at work.
1:17.0	And so in this song I'm going for curiosity, understanding, asking more questions and
1:24.9	giving answers, aiming for compassion and trying to find a place for everyone in the
1:31.6	world somehow.
1:33.8	The song was inspired by Anita Franco's tune Revolutionary Love and also by the book
1:40.8	Cicino Stranger and Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valerie Korra.
2:10.8	The song was inspired by Anita Franco's tune, which was inspired by Anita Franco's tune
2:40.8	Revolutionary Love by Valerie Korra.
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