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All Songs Considered

The Contenders, Vol. 16: The songs we can't stop playing this week

All Songs Considered

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Music

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We update our running list of the year's best songs with the shapeshifting rock of Caleb Landry Jones, Angélica Garcia's dystopian grooves, a searing look at infidelity from Damien Jurado and more.

Featured songs and artists:
1. Caleb Landry Jones: "Hey Dawn," from Hey Gary, Hey Dawn
2. Angélica Garcia: "El Que," from Gemelo
3. Damien Jurado & The Fremont Abbeye: "Sheets ('24)," from Sheets ('24)
4. Laura Marling: "Patterns," from Patterns In Repeat
5. Carlos Ares: "Cigarra," from Peregrino
6. Melt-Banana: "Stopgap," from 3+5

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I don't know if I've told you this I can do a perfect Halsey.

0:21.4

Perfect.

0:22.4

Oh, okay. Well we got to hear that. No, we I know

0:25.0

You got to get in the right mental state.

0:28.0

It's it's not talking it's singing.

0:31.0

Oh, doesn't Ariana Grande have a whole thing?

0:34.0

Yeah, she's got a whole bit.

0:35.0

Yeah, she can do she do a whole thing?

0:37.0

Well, she can imitate any, well, not any, but like most pop singers.

0:40.3

Most pop singers.

0:41.3

Yeah.

0:42.3

And so she'll go on the tonight show and Fallon will throw some name out for her to imitate.

0:49.0

Well, that's weird because he hasn't invited me. Well, have you ever noticed that there are those actors out there who, they're pretty much just being themselves.

1:01.0

You know, every role, it's just like if you met them in real life that is

1:04.7

exactly like they're like a Mark Wahlberg type you know. You know like Anthony Hopkins

1:11.8

or Merrill Street who even are they right they can be they can be anything

1:15.8

But you watch someone like say Forrest Whitaker I bet Forrest Whitaker is pretty much Forrest Whitaker because he's forest Whitaker in every single role that he's in.

1:23.2

Right and I'm actually thinking of one actor in particular Caleb Landry Jones

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