The Best Music of October
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🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Open Mike Eagle: "Burner Account" and "For DOOM" from Component System with the Auto Reverse
2. Natalia Lafourcade: "María la Curandera" from De Todas las Flores
3. Plains: "Hurricane" and "Abilene" from I Walked With You A Ways
4. Víkingur Ólafsson: Robert Schumann's Study in Canonic Form, Op. 56, No. 1 and Béla Bartók's 3 Hungarian Folks Songs from Csík, III. 'White Lily' via From Afar
5. Maral: "Mari's Groove" from Ground Groove
Our panel's additional recommendations for October:
• Palm, Nicks and Grazes
• Loyle Carner, hugo
• Moin, Paste
More from NPR Music:
• Interview: Open Mike Eagle
• Review: Plains, I Walked With You A Ways
• Víkingur Ólafsson: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
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| 0:00.0 | From M.Kara Music and all songs considered on Lars Gotrich, it's the best music of the bunch show. |
| 0:08.0 | So, here's who's in my eddle! |
| 0:30.7 | I am joined today here by Sheldon Pierce, hey Sheldon. |
| 0:58.8 | Hello, Laura. |
| 1:00.8 | And Marissa Laruso. |
| 1:01.8 | Hey, hi. |
| 1:03.8 | And y'all it's getting close to year and less season. |
| 1:07.8 | Are y'all ready? |
| 1:09.8 | No. |
| 1:10.8 | No. |
| 1:11.8 | There's too much great music, Lars. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, I'm still coping, I guess. |
| 1:20.8 | Okay. |
| 1:21.8 | Well, we've got a couple months left in the year, but the NPR music staff is here to share some of our favorite albums released in the year. |
| 1:27.8 | And I'm going to be here to share some of the songs that I've released in October. |
| 1:30.8 | Open Mike Eagle is a rapper originally from Chicago, but it's been based out of LA for a minute. |
| 1:36.8 | I've always been drawn to his introspection and intricate wordplay and his new album called component system with the auto reversed players with nostalgia in a way that I haven't heard too often. |
| 1:50.8 | Sheldon, tell me about this record. |
| 1:53.8 | I think Eagle is one of my favorite rappers, not just because he's like a preternaturally gifted lyricist, as you mentioned. |
| 2:01.8 | Or because he has like a dry sense of humor and great comedic timing, but because he has like this willingness to like turn that piercing wit inward and sort of dissect his whole life in a way that really feels like a reckoning in 2020. |
| 2:17.8 | Like he released an album called enemy trauma de force that sort of wrestled with his entire life coming apart. |
| 2:24.8 | Even in that moment, he was able to sort of find the laughs in it. |
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