New Mix: Regina Spektor, a Son Lux collaboration with David Byrne and Mitski, more

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Mitski, David Byrne and Son Lux, the return of Regina Spektor and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne: "This Is A Life," from Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Regina Spektor: "Becoming All Alone," from Home, before and after
3. Suz Slezak: "Loneliness Is Measured," from Our Wings May Be Featherless
4. Kevin Morby: "This Is A Photograph," from This Is A Photograph
5. Sharon Van Etten: "Used To It" (Single)
6. Superorganism: "Teenager (feat. CHAI & Pi Ja Ma)," from World Wide Pop

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0:00.0	For MPR music, you're connected to all songs considered. I'm Bob Boylin with wonderful news.
0:05.3	I have a collaboration between Mitski, David Burn and Sunlux, three great minds in one song.
0:12.5	The collaboration is part of a soundtrack to a film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Shiner called
0:17.7	Everything Everywhere All At Once. The soundtrack is out on April 8th and scored by Sunlux.
0:25.0	It also includes collaborations with Randy Newman and Moses Summdey. Here's David Burn
0:30.0	on how this trio of artists came together for the song This Is A Life.
0:35.0	I knew the Sunlux folks for quite a while being a fan. So when they reached out to me and said they
0:43.9	were doing the score for this film that the Daniels had were doing and that they wanted a song at the end
0:51.6	would I consider participating in that I immediately said yes. And then the Daniels jumped in and I saw
0:59.6	a rough gutter of the film which is kind of mind blowing. I had to say it bent my head around.
1:06.3	So I which made me more excited about it. And then they said oh would you do it as a duet with Mitski
1:12.5	which made it even more tempting. And yeah I said of course of course this is really exciting.
1:18.8	We talked about what the song might be. They were going to write the basic part of the song.
1:24.7	We talked about what it might be that although the film is completely insane, multi-dimensions and all
1:34.2	all kinds of genres mashed together I said at the heart it's a very emotional moving thing that
1:41.7	that happens by the end of the film. And I thought that should be reflected in the song at the end.
1:47.9	To remind you that you've actually there is a heart to this craziness. And that's kind of what they
1:54.8	came up with with this song. Mitski did the main vocal and I was tasked with kind of weaving my
2:05.2	voice around hers either adding harmonies or singing in the spaces between her lines which is what I
2:13.1	did. So I wrote some stuff to go in the spaces some words for that and this and it all worked out
2:20.4	really well. It was very nice it's very moving. I'm a big fan of hers and she's on tour now.
2:27.3	I think I'm going to miss it because I'm going to be on stage. Well next time.
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