The Contenders, Vol. 18: The songs we can't stop playing this week

All Songs Considered

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Reflections on regret from beabadoobee and Bon Iver, deep sonic meditations from Nala Sinephro and Jill Fraser, and more updates to our running list of the year's best songs.

Featured songs and artists:
1. beabadoobee: "California," from This is How Tomorrow Moves
2. Bon Iver: "S P E Y S I D E," from SABLE
3. Mabe Fratti: "Kravitz," from Sentir que no sabe
4. Jem: "Come On Closer," from Finally Woken (20th Anniversary Remastered Edition)
5. Nala Sinephro: "Continuum 3," from Endlessness
6. Jill Fraser: "Beautiful Summer," from Earthly Pleasures

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0:16.4	Give a little, get a lot in return, visit Plus.NPR.org. I won't lie to you, I've been playing way too much of the last of us.
0:27.0	The video game.
0:29.0	I finished part one.
0:31.0	Okay. Last of us part one. And now I'm doing Last of Us Part 2, and it's pretty harrowing.
0:37.0	Dang.
0:38.0	And gut-wrenching.
0:39.0	I mean, it's deeply satisfying fighting with zombies.
0:44.0	That's a very big part of it.
0:45.4	But the story is such a huge, is really the main thing,
0:48.8	and world exploring.
0:50.1	There's this point where one of the characters dies and then you spend about half an hour just going through their house.
0:56.7	Oh, that's the game.
0:58.3	Going through their personal things like and
1:05.0	and it's not like well can I just skip this and go back to fighting zombies
1:08.0	it's it's gut wrenching it's really.
1:11.0	Yeah I'm not a gamer at all but if I'm reaching for a video game it's
1:15.5	the complete opposite of what you're doing it's like animal crossing it's like
1:18.9	yeah planting planting tulips in the yard and going fishing and talking to my animal friends and yeah.
1:27.0	There's actually a game called unpacking that you might really like.
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