The Contenders, Vol. 13: The songs we can't stop playing this week
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
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Summary
Featured songs and artists:
1. Wilco: "Hot Sun," from 'Hot Sun Cool Shroud'
2. Charli XCX and Lorde: "The girl, so confusing version with lorde" (single)
3. Sondre Lerche: "You Are Impossible," from 'Two Way Monologue (20th Anniversary Edition)'
4. Omar Apollo: "Plane Trees" (feat. Mustafa), from 'God Said No'
5. Remy Bond: "Summer Song" (feat. Air) (single)
6. Cassandra Jenkins: "Petco," from 'My Light, My Destroyer'
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| 0:28.0 | Stephen, I know you don't pay much attention to what's happening in the world of music. |
| 0:33.0 | No, no. |
| 0:35.0 | Why would I? |
| 0:36.0 | But I don't know, have you noticed how many veteran artists |
| 0:40.0 | have come back with new music just this spring and early summer. |
| 0:44.8 | Like artists who, if they put an album out, say 15 or 20 years ago, |
| 0:49.0 | like, you know, would have been a real stop the press's moment, like Caribou has new music, |
| 0:55.0 | Fantagram, Ray La Montee, Moby, Snow Patrol. |
| 0:59.6 | But it even goes back farther than that. |
| 1:01.8 | Like I really loved this kind of 90s slow core band called Idaho. |
| 1:07.0 | And Idaho's like here have our first album in 13 or however many years. |
| 1:11.6 | The Dirty Three was one of my favorite bands of the 90s. |
| 1:14.7 | They just put out an album. I just saw I was at the folk implosion just put out their |
| 1:18.5 | first album in 25 years and like look I expected there to be a little bit of a floodgates situation in |
| 1:25.4 | 2024. I think the Hollywood Writers Strike, I think pushed a lot of music that might have come |
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