The Contenders, Vol. 21: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In the final update to our running list of the year's best songs, we've got the cathartic rock of Kassie Krut, a nerve-settling collaboration between the singers SOAK and Gordi, Ethel Cain and more.

Featured songs and artists:
1. Kassie Krut: "Reckless," from Kassie Krut
2. Gordi: "Reverie," from Lunch At Dune
3. Katy J Pearson: "Save Me," from Someday, Now
4. Freak Slug: "Ya Ready," from I Blow Out Big Candles
5. Hildegard: "Bach In Town," from Jour 1596
6. Ethel Cain: "Punish" (single)

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0:18.5	How are you feeling? I got to be honest, I don't feel great.
0:22.2	Oh my God.
0:23.4	Yeah.
0:24.0	My daughter trafficked this into the house.
0:26.9	And she got over it really quickly, and I feel like I'm going to get over it quickly, too.
0:31.3	I know.
0:32.0	I have a friend who's kind of goopy, kind of new agey, and every time I get sick, she's like, well, are you taking
0:39.3	this? Are you taking like oil of oregano? Are you taking like elderberry syrup? And I'm like,
0:44.2	I'm like, Rachel, I love you so much, but it's a calm and cold. There's no cure for it. You
0:51.4	just have to ride it out. Like, that's just the way that it is. Goopi? Do you know what
0:56.6	Goop is? The Gwyneth Paltrow said? Yes. Like, like, like, new agey, like, you know.
1:02.6	I didn't know that was a shorthand for healing crystal. Yeah. Yeah, in my world. I love that.
1:08.7	I'm going to start using that. Goopy.
1:11.6	What do you got?
1:13.6	Why don't you just pick something to get us going here?
1:14.1	Okay.
1:17.4	Can I ask you a question to lead into this song that I want to bring? Yeah.
1:17.7	Okay.
1:18.7	Do you know of those places that you can go to and you can, like, throw axes against the wall or, like, you can like break things and like get out your
1:28.8	aggression. Oh my God. No. Do you know what the okay. So I exist. The ax ones definitely exist and I feel like
1:34.7	I've heard people who've gone to sites at least in New York City where you can get out your
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