The Contenders, Vol. 2: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Japanese Breakfast (Michelle Zauner) is back with her first new album since her memoir, Crying in H Mart, blew up. We've got the first single from it, plus a Sufjan Stevens-produced Denison Witmer track and more.

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Featured artists and songs:
1. Deep Sea Diver: "Shovel," from Billboard Heart
2. SPELLLING: "Portrait of My Heart," from Portrait of My Heart
3. Japanese Breakfast: "Orlando in Love," from For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
4. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, "Hop Bico" from Yarın Yoksa
5. Denison Witmer: "A House With," from Anything At All
6. DARKSIDE: "S.N.C," from Nothing

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0:00.0	Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have outlined their plans to slash the federal workforce with the help of a team of, quote, small government crusaders.
0:08.2	What's in store for federal workers and how are they planning for change?
0:11.5	This January 1A's dot-gov series guides you through various government agencies and the people working for you.
0:17.9	Listen to the 1A podcast from NPR.
0:20.7	For NPR music, it's all songs considered. We are not
0:23.9	Robin Hilton. I'm Dawood Tyler Rameen, an editor at NPR Music. And I'm Ann Powers, critic and
0:29.3	correspondent. We're here because our beloved Robin Hilton is down with a little bit of an illness,
0:36.1	and we are swooping in like the superheroes we are.
0:39.0	Poor guy.
0:39.8	He made it one show into the new year and then got struck down.
0:45.1	Maybe if we put our heads together, we could like, I don't know, become Robin-ish, Robin-esque for...
0:50.7	Oh, sure. A Voltron-esque proposition.
0:55.4	But it's fun to be on this show because we got to talk about songs that we love, and you've got a really good one to start us out, I think.
1:03.5	I know. I was so, so happy to come back to work after the winter break and be greeted with this banger in my inbox.
1:09.8	There is a new record
1:10.9	from one of my faves,
1:12.4	Deep Sea Diver,
1:13.5	Jessica Dobson by birth.
1:15.2	Her new record is called
1:16.4	Billboard Heart.
1:17.6	It is out February 28th
1:19.1	and this song is called
	...

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