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The Contenders, Vol. 10: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Our biweekly update of the year's best tracks is a mix full of "the hurries and the worries" from Alkaline Trio, wistful reflections from Lake Street Dive, Cindy Lee's sprawling double album and more.

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Featured artists and songs:
1. Alkaline Trio: "Teenage Heart," from 'Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs'
2. Lake Street Dive: "Twenty-Five," from 'Good Together'
3. Les Savy Fav: "Void Moon," from 'OUI, LSF'
4. La Luz: "Poppies," from 'News of the Universe'
5. Cindy Lee: "Wild Rose," from 'Diamond Jubilee'
6. Four Tet: "Loved" from 'Three'

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0:00.0

Jasmine Morris here from the StoryCorps Podcast. Our latest season is called My Way.

0:05.4

Stories of people who found a rhythm all their own and marched to it throughout

0:09.2

their lives. Consequences and other people's opinions be damned.

0:13.2

You won't believe the courage and audacity in these stories.

0:16.4

Hear them on the StoryCorps podcast from NPR.

0:19.6

You know what, I feel like people are going to kind of get both sides of the coin on this show you know I listen to your picks

0:31.0

Dauw Taylor Amin. Hi Robin you know when I listen to your picks D Dau Tylar Amin.

0:32.6

Hi Robin.

0:33.3

You know, when I listen to your picks, Daud,

0:35.8

I don't know, a therapist could tell us a lot about maybe

0:38.4

where you and I are in our lives when they listen to these picks,

0:41.5

but your songs seemed very unsettled, full of questions, and

0:48.0

mine seem more like, more settled but sentimental and kind of reflecting, like yours are still working on wherever it is

0:54.8

they're going and mine have kind of arrived and are looking back I don't know I think that's

0:59.0

a diagnosis of somebody peering down the barrel of middle age and somebody who is living in the

1:06.3

absolute center of it.

1:08.3

Well let's start with the alkaline trio.

1:09.7

This is a cut I know you want to play.

1:11.3

Yeah, I've been thinking for the past couple of days about different mutations of emo.

1:16.8

I saw Claire Rousie play in DC a couple of days ago.

1:19.8

I gotten used to saying Roussey, but she introduced herself and it's rousie.

1:23.0

I was just going to say I thought it was Rousse.

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