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New Mix: Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb, Protomartyr, The Antlers, more

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including two surprising and wonderful collaborations.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Ólafur Arnalds (feat. Ella McRobb): "and we'll leave it there..." (Single)
2. The Antlers: "I Was Not There" (Single)
3. Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani: "Ta Nyé," from Les Égar​é​s
4. Lauren Early: "Good Girl Bad Boy," from Don't Take My Dream Away
5. Protomartyr: "Make Way," from Formal Growth In The Desert
6. Faten Kanaan: "Ebla," from Afterpoem

Transcript

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0:00.0

Frontier music, you connected all songs considered I'm Bob Boylin.

0:03.9

The internet can be beautiful sometimes.

0:07.2

Those words are on the opening screen for a new video by Oliver Arnold's and

0:12.1

Ella McGrab.

0:13.7

Just a few weeks ago, they were a thousand miles apart and had never met.

0:18.9

And now, thanks to the internet, they created something really beautiful.

0:22.7

It's a song called, and we'll leave it there.

0:25.4

So, opening today's show of new music, the story of a magical collaboration with

0:30.1

London's Ella McGrab and in Iceland, Oliver Arnold's.

0:55.4

I usually write a lot of stuff in sound checks.

1:02.3

I think I just get kind of tired of playing my own songs all the time, like not sound

1:06.7

checking.

1:07.7

So, a lot of the time, I'm just improvising stuff in sound checks.

1:12.0

And essentially, where a lot of my songs come from, these moments, they can be very beautiful

1:18.5

moments you're alone with a concert hall.

1:21.1

Like you get to kind of feel the room and play with it and you're getting to know this

1:26.3

new place, the day it's inspiring.

1:28.5

I travel with a videographer who makes some content for short, the media and stuff.

1:32.8

And he filled me in the sound check and we just put it on Instagram the next day and

1:37.3

didn't think much of it, you know?

1:39.3

I mean, I'd been working on this for a bit.

1:40.8

Is there a title?

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