New Mix: Steady Holiday, Ada Lea, Wet Leg, More

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite new tracks of the week include an amped-up Steady Holiday, late-'70s, post-punk sounds from Gustaf and Wet Leg, the calming guitar of Lanterna and more.

Featured Songs:
1. Steady Holiday: "Love Me 2" (Single)
2. Gustaf: "Book," from Audio Drag For Ego Slobs
3. Wet Leg: "Chaise Longue" (Single)
4. Ada Lea: "damn," from one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
5. The Colorist Orchestra & Howe Gelb (feat. Pieta Brown): "Sweet Pretender," from Not On The Map
6. AHI: "Danger," from Prospect
7. Lanterna: "Aix," from Hidden Drives

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0:00.0	Good question. That's a really good question.
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0:39.6	Now in mid-2021, Dre Babinski, the artist known as Steady Holiday, took another look at that song
1:01.6	and decided to crank it up.
1:03.8	It's called Love Me 2.
1:06.3	Which is a song about mortality and asking yourself how you want to live.
1:11.3	Not in the abstract, but how do you want to spend today?
1:14.4	How do you want to feel?
1:16.3	It's pretty existential and I suppose it makes sense that the original song is Mel and
1:20.4	Colley, but it isn't meant to be morose.
1:23.5	Quite the opposite really.
1:24.5	It's meant to be a celebration of life and being direct about what you want to make of it.
1:29.8	So I decided to have a do-over and make a version that leaves no room for interpretation.
1:35.8	I call it Love Me 2 and it's loud and joyful and adolescent.
1:41.3	My band and I recorded it live with Tim Armstrong from Ranset.
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