The Contenders, Vol. 8: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

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Summary

Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, joins All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton to update our running list of the year's best songs.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Ekko Astral: "Baethoven," from 'pink balloons'
2. Nubiyan Twist: "Carry Me (feat. Seun Kuti)," from 'Find Your Flame'
3. T-Bone Burnett: "He Came Down," from 'The Other Side'
4. Bien et Toi: "So Long (feat. Paris Texas)," from 'London Safari II'
5. Bnny: "Missing," from 'One Million Love Songs'
6. Chanel Beads: "Unifying Thought," from 'Your Day Will Come'

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0:27.0	Brittany, Luce, a good day to you.
0:29.0	A good day to you too, I like that.
0:31.0	Yeah, it's a good day.
0:32.0	Anytime you're hanging out with
0:33.7	friends and playing great music is a good day. Brittany for people who don't
0:38.1	know you you host NPR's it's been a minute where you talk about everything from you know
0:42.4	the heavier news that's breaking in the world
0:44.1	to what's happening in popular culture and that includes music we had you on the show back
0:49.6	well said been a couple months ago at the top of March and we've wanted to have you back ever since so welcome.
0:55.2	Thank you. It's good to be back. I was so excited when you asked me to come back.
0:58.0	Yeah, absolutely, of course, of course. So I've been thinking a lot this week about how so much of the music we love reflects the times that we're living in and I mean that's not a deep revelation. It's always been true of music. I realize that. But when I listen to the stuff that we want to share with everyone today, I just saw so much of what's been happening in the world, I saw so much of it reflected in the music and also a
1:24.8	reflection of what's been going on internally with people, you know, in their
1:29.4	personal lives because of the state of the world. You know, like it all just, it felt like this music is
1:35.5	carrying a lot of weight. I could absolutely see that. I could absolutely see that. I even noticed
1:39.7	listening to the songs that I had picked that I was like oh there's definitely there's a grooviness to these songs that felt or I could see feeling like a response to sort of like what's happening outside like I'm just going to try to or like maintain
1:55.6	some inner peace or contain inner turmoil? Yeah I mean that's the thing I think that
2:00.6	happens a lot when we do these shows. Themes emerge that we didn't really intend.
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