The Contenders, Vol. 20: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We update our running list of the year's best songs with more calming sounds from Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, the electronic artist Jon Hopkins, Muno singer Katie Gavin's new solo album and more.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Jónsi: "Flicker," from First Light
2. Katie Gavin: "Aftertaste," from What A Relief
3. Jon Hopkins: "part viii - nothing is lost," from RITUAL
4. Katie Malco: "Fatal Attraction (feat. Laura Stevenson)" (Single)
5. Clairo: "Add Up My Love," from Charm
6. Max Richter: "Movement, Before All Flowers," from In A Landscape

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0:16.2	You know, Stephen, I've actually had the refrain of a song
0:19.5	looping in my head all week, and it's a song
0:22.3	that I would not know about if it were not for you.
0:24.7	Was it easy now by Joan Shelley?
0:26.6	No, but I was going to ask you if you have been listening to lots of Joan Shelley, because
0:30.4	you said on last week's show that if you're listening to lots of Joan Shelley, it's sort of a red
0:34.7	flag.
0:35.2	It's time for a wellness check.
0:37.0	It's time for a wellness check. I mean, I don't know, sometimes,
0:39.7	you know, if I'm starting out in a steady enough mental state, that can just like bring me down
0:45.8	to something even more soothed. Right. Yeah, it's the sedative on top of the set. Yeah. It doesn't
0:51.1	necessarily have to be like, in case of emergency, break glass.
0:55.6	Yeah.
0:55.9	It just always helps.
0:57.3	Yeah.
0:57.5	Well, the song that I've had looping in my head is Find Love by Clems Night, and it's specifically the refrain of that song.
1:06.9	Fine love.
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