The Weekly Mix, Vol. 786 - Best Laid Plans
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
DJ Kevin Cole curates tracks from some of the best albums of the year so far, songs from highly anticipated upcoming releases, and a few mind-benders from artists playing one of the best music festivals of the year, Iceland Airwaves. You’ll hear Arlo Parks, Ty Segall, Courtney Barnett, Hollis, Wet Leg and more!
1. No-No Boy - The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming
2. Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
3. Nation of Language - This Fractured Mind
4. Durand Jones & The Indications - Witchoo (feat. Aaron Frazer)
5. Arlo Parks - Hurt
6. Little Simz & Cleo Sol - Woman
7. Emma-Jean Thackray - Say Something
8. Ty Segall - Harmonizer
9. Sleigh Bells - Locust Laced
10. The Vega Bodegas - All My Fish Are Dead
11. Squid - Narrator (feat. Martha Skye Murphy)
12. TORRES - Thirstier
13. The Weather Station - Tried To Tell You
14. Mogwai - Ritchie Sacramento
15. Ya Tseen - Knives (feat. Portugal. The Man)
16. Yola - Stand for Myself
17. Courtney Barnett - Rae Street
18. HOLLIS - Less Like
19. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Aces
20. Black Pumas - Colors
21. El Michels Affair - Murkit Gem
22. Madlib & Four Tet - Road of the Lonely Ones
23. Bicep - Sundial
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Kevin Cole, and this is KXP's The Weekly Mix Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Summer is pretty much over. |
| 0:05.6 | September is here. |
| 0:06.7 | Pretty soon, the year's going to be coming to an end, and we're going to be asking you |
| 0:10.3 | to tell us your top 10 albums of 2021. |
| 0:14.0 | So, for today's podcast, I'm going to get you into the zone with an early year-in review. |
| 0:19.7 | I'll look at some of the best albums that have come out so far, |
| 0:22.6 | plus feature tracks from some of the most anticipated albums still to be released in 2021, |
| 0:28.5 | plus a few tracks from artists playing this year's highly anticipated Iceland Airways Music Festival. |
| 0:34.9 | We're going to start with one of my favorite songs of the year, a remarkable song about the Georgie Gawa Orchestra, |
| 0:41.1 | a big band that formed inside a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. |
| 0:46.7 | It's from No No Boy. |
| 0:47.9 | The song is The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming. |
| 0:51.0 | Music in Wyoming. |
| 1:03.8 | The flyer red musicians need it. |
| 1:07.3 | So young Yonet grabbed this silver mouthpiece. |
| 1:14.6 | Track down a kid who brought a trumpet to Pomona. They headed on a free two-year lease Joy Terra Oka, Ne Takashida |
| 1:21.6 | Went to the tryout, she was only 16 |
| 1:24.6 | With some girlfriends to cheer her on their club was called the Roddells |
| 1:29.3 | Mom said if you keep up the school joy you can sing |
| 1:33.3 | Georgi Gawa Oji Nise |
| 1:40.3 | He towed up the coast and even played Japan |
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