New Mix: Soccer Mommy, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Nils Frahm, More

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite tracks of the week include a classic murder ballad reimagined by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, a new collaboration with Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm, Soccer Mommy and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Soccer Mommy: "rom com 2004" (Single)
2. My Idea: "Stay Away Still," from That's My Idea EP
3. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Nathan Salzburg: "Stagger Lee" (Single)
4. Hana Vu: "Maker" (Single)
5. Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson: "In A Cistern," from Refuge
6. F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm: "Desert Mule," from 2X1=4

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0:20.1	All one word.
0:21.5	Thanks.
0:22.5	For NPR music, you connected to all songs considered I'm Bob Boyland.
0:26.0	I'll start off today's show with new music from Sophie Allison, best known as soccer
0:31.5	mommy.
0:32.5	She put out a new single last week and it's filled with twisted sounds and really poppy
0:36.4	hooks.
0:37.4	The music was produced with BJ Burton.
0:40.0	He's best known for his work with Boni Ver, Sylvan S.O. and even Taylor Swift and Charlie
0:45.2	X. The X.
0:46.6	Here's soccer mommy to introduce her song, Rom Com 2004.
0:51.5	When I first wrote Rom Com 2004, I made this really poppy demo.
0:57.8	I just had this idea in my mind of early 2000's Rom Com music and I kind of wanted to channel
1:06.6	that and ended up didn't really do anything with it until we reached out to BJ Burton
1:13.5	to just kind of take it and turn it into something totally different.
1:18.8	I just thought it would be cool to like go from having this 2000's sounding pop song
1:26.4	and kind of bring it into the future a little bit and make it something totally different.
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