Viking's Choice 2020: The Year In Loud, Weird And Wonderful

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Spanish punk, metal-sampling rap, Kenyan grindcore, Russian synth pop — this is how NPR Music's resident Viking coped, raged and soothed himself in 2020.

Songs featured on this episode:
• Accidente: "Lo que importa" from Canibal
• Backxwash: "Spells" from God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
• Aisha Orazbayeva: "Oliver Leith: Blurry Wake Song" from Music for Violin Alone
• Maral: "Bushehr" from Push
• Moor Mother: "Circuit Break" from Circuit City
• Стереополина: "Последнее свидание" from Институт культуры и отдыха
• Claire Rousay: "Two Things" from Both
• Meurtrieres: "Alienor" from Meurtrières

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0:00.0	LifeKit is rethinking New Year's resolutions.
0:03.5	All this January, we're thinking about both really big and really small changes.
0:08.7	If you're wanting to change up your life and start fresh, we've got you covered.
0:12.5	If you're looking to just make your home a little nicer, we got you there too.
0:16.2	Listen now to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:27.4	For NPR music, it's also considered with our annual exploration of the weird, the loud,
0:35.8	wonderful, yes indeed, the wonderful and yes indeed, it's Vikings choice and this is accident.
1:05.8	Yes indeed, Vikings choice and I'm joined by Lars Gottrich.
1:31.2	This is a 10th year doing this.
1:36.4	Maybe more possibly.
1:37.9	We've been doing this so long Bob.
1:39.8	We've been doing this so long and it's so sad not to be able to do this with you in
1:44.0	a studio.
1:45.0	Yeah, we crank it pretty loud.
1:47.0	Yeah, we're just going to say.
1:49.4	And speaking of loud, let's tell people what Vikings choices for those who don't know.
1:53.6	This is music that you have fallen in love with over the year.
1:56.8	This is music that likely isn't on many people's lists.
2:01.0	Right, yeah, I spend a lot of my time listening and reading about it and just generally loving
2:08.6	punk, metal, experimental music, ambient, drone music that is not of this world, very
2:15.8	cosmic, psychedelic music, but I also like top 40 pop, but that's not what we're doing
2:20.4	here.
	...

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