The Best Music of March
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
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Summary
Featured Music:
1. Kilo Kish: "DISTRACTIONS III: SPOILED ROTTEN" from AMERICAN GURL
2. Jenny Hval: "American Coffee" from Classic Objects
3. Soul Glo: "Jump! (Or Get Jumped!!!) ((by the future))" from Diaspora Problems
4. rusowsky, "pikito"
5. Jóhann Jóhannsson: "The Mountain View, the Majesty of the Snow-Clad Peaks, from a Place of Contemplation and Reflection" from Drone Mass
Other notable releases for March:
• Lous and The Yakuza, "Kisé"
• Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song
• Charli XCX — Crash
• Rosalia — MOTOMAMI
• Emmanuelle Parrenin — Targala, la maison qui n'en est pas une
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From MNGAR music and all songs considered I'm Lars Gotrich, it's the best music of the month |
| 0:05.6 | show and we're listening to album and song of the year contenders for 2022. Let's start off with Kielo Keish. |
| 0:35.6 | I am here with Hazel Sales, Hi Hazel. Hi Tom Heisenga. Hey Lars, great to be here. |
| 0:53.0 | Anna Maria Sayer, What's up? And Leticia Harris. Hi Lars. Leticia's pick leads off Arcia today. The |
| 1:02.8 | album is American Girl by Kielo Keish, Mara Listen to the song, Distractions 3, Spoiled Rotten. |
| 1:09.8 | She's known for her features on songs by Gorillas and Vince Staples and Vince Staples returns the |
| 1:16.4 | favor on this record. Leticia, tell me why American Girl is your favorite album of March. I often |
| 1:22.9 | refer to this whole remote where remote living thing is like living in a simulation and a video game |
| 1:29.0 | and it's been really exciting to hear Kielo Keish replicate that and hear how someone else |
| 1:33.2 | processes that concept. So aside from it being really really fun to listen to, I think it's just a |
| 1:38.2 | very interesting study of the culture that we're in right now, the very weird microcosm of the |
| 1:45.1 | Digosphere, just kind of how we're a little addicted to our screens and whatnot. How it's |
| 1:49.3 | hard to like break away and she does a really good job of combining the internal anxieties of |
| 1:55.7 | living with like the Sonic anxieties of living. So it's like a very overstimulating jam packed |
| 2:00.4 | album that's really really fun for me. The interludes include a lot of chiptune and eight bits so we |
| 2:06.7 | feel like we are inside this simulation for this game that she is put together for us. That was |
| 2:12.9 | the part that I connected to but the thing that I think really gels this record together is that |
| 2:17.9 | she's finally figured out the low key sound that she's going for. It's not big, it's not |
| 2:22.5 | boistress. She wants you to hear her. I mean that record begins with a sound of money sliding down |
| 2:28.7 | an arcade game slot, you know. And for me it seems like it's kind of a dark game that she's |
| 2:34.0 | playing on this record too with these troubled themes of greed and consumerism. But along with |
| 2:40.6 | that you get this smorgasbord of sounds from Electro Pop to songs like Choice Cowboy that if you |
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