New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon, ANOHNI, yeule and more

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Hazel Cills share their favorite new tracks of the week and highlight this year's new Tiny Desk Contest winner, the Springville, Utah, band Little Moon.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Little Moon: "Wonder Eye" (Single)
2. yeule: "sulky baby" (Single)
3. Sweeping Promises: "Eraser," from Good Living Is Coming For You
4. Cola: "Keys Down If You Stay" (Single)
5. ANOHNI & The Johnsons: "It Must Change," from My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
6. Chris Farren: "Cosmic Leash," from Doom Singer

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0:00.0	For MPR Music, you're connected to all songs considered.
0:03.5	I'm Bob Boylan, I'm in Washington, DC, and in New York City.
0:07.3	Hazel Sills, MPR Music Hazel Sills, hi.
0:10.3	Hi.
0:11.4	We have, I think, some pretty good music today for everybody.
0:15.3	I think so too.
0:16.2	And I want to start off, Hazel, you are well aware.
0:19.7	I know of our tiny desk contest winner
0:24.1	that we announced this week, Little Moon.
0:27.3	Hell yeah.
0:28.8	And that song that they did called Wonder Eye, just knocked me out.
0:34.0	We had many judges, including myself, Bobby Carter,
0:37.4	Albena from KXP, Sharon Vanette, and Sudan archives, and Baby Rose.
0:43.7	And it was unanimous.
0:45.0	Like, everybody heard this song and just were totally bold over by it.
0:49.3	And that hit you when you heard it.
0:52.0	Yeah, I mean, it's such a, like, I listen to the band's interview
0:56.1	with all things considered with R.I. Shapiro.
0:58.6	And they talked about where the idea for that song came from.
1:01.5	And this idea of it being about multiple deaths,
1:05.6	and realizing that death is happening all the time
1:10.4	with your past self, with your beliefs, with judgments, and things like that.
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