New Mix: Lorde, Pokey LaFarge, The Go! Team, Azure Ray, More
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🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Lorde: "Solar Power" (Single)
2. Illuminati Hotties: "Pool Hopping," from Let Me Do One More
3. Azure Ray: "Bad Dream," from Remedy
4. The Go! Team: "A Bee Without Its Sting," from Get Up Sequences Part One
5. The Goon Sax: "Psychic," from Mirror II
6. Lea Thomas: "Howl," from Mirrors To The Sun
7. Pokey LaFarge: "Get It 'Fore It's Gone," from In The Blossom of Their Shade
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| 0:00.0 | Marine biologist Mara Hart studies the love lives of lobsters, which includes a lot of foreplay. |
| 0:06.4 | He'll sort of stroke her with his antenna and his walking legs. |
| 0:10.4 | Love stories from the ocean. That's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR. |
| 0:15.1 | For impure music, you connected to all songs considered I'm Bob Boylan. |
| 0:18.8 | Hi, this is Lord, and you're about to listen to my brand new song, Solar Power. |
| 0:23.9 | I started working on the song in the summer of 2019. I wrote it |
| 0:29.6 | on a tiny, tiny little keyboard on Martha's Vineyard. I just had an incredible summer day |
| 0:36.4 | and wanted to capture that feeling. Then I took it into the city to Jack Antshof studio, |
| 0:41.7 | and we slowly started piecing it together. We had Matt Chamberlain Drum on it, which was |
| 0:48.3 | such a career highlight for me, and had friends come and sing. I had Phoebe and Claire from the states, |
| 0:56.1 | and it started to come together. One of my favorite things about how the song sounds is the |
| 1:04.0 | awesome guitars, which are played on a fender Jaguar, a guitar that we discovered in Neil Finn's |
| 1:11.3 | studio in Auckland, and quickly became kind of the sonic fingerprint for this album. So that's |
| 1:20.0 | kind of the vibe. I hope you love it, like I love it. I hope it gets you excited for summer. |
| 1:25.2 | This is Solar Power. |
| 2:25.2 | Yeah, come in my baby. |
| 3:26.0 | Come on and let the blues begin. |
| 3:28.0 | I think three times when you feel like you're getting this. |
| 4:28.0 | Oh, Lord, in the song called Solar Power, featuring the voices of Phoebe Bridgers, |
| 4:41.9 | Clareau, and more, in a Lord newsletter. She said her new album would be called Solar Power, |
| 4:48.4 | and it would be out in 2021. So stay tuned. Let's continue this summer theme. Let me bring in |
| 4:57.1 | my music, Marissa Luruso, and she's going to take us to some Illuminati Hotties. |
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