Lyra Pramuk’s “Rewild,” from her newest album HYMNAL, is likely one of the songs we won’t cease enjoying this week.
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Leonardo Scotti
Likelihood is you were not anticipating to get a brand new album from Stereolab this 12 months. The a lot beloved avant-pop group hasn’t launched any new music in 15 years. However they just lately lit up the Stereolab fan-world with information that Instantaneous Holograms On Metallic Movie, the band’s eleventh full-length, will arrive on Might 23. On this week’s Contenders, we hear the primary single, “Aerial Troubles,” a tune that touches on a number of acquainted themes for Stereolab, with warnings about out-of-control consumerism, a dying planet and a future that appears more and more bleak.
We have additionally obtained one of the unpredictable and thrilling rock cuts of the 12 months from a band often known as feeble little horse, a relentlessly infectious earworm from the artist Yaeji, the digital composer Lyra Pramuk and extra.
NPR Music editor Hazel Cills joins host Robin Hilton as they replace our working record of the 12 months’s finest songs.
Featured artists and songs:
1. Stereolab: “Aerial Troubles,” from Instantaneous Holograms On Metallic Movie
2. Yaeji & E Wata: “Pondeggi” (single)
3. Snuggle: “Mud” (single)
4. feeble little horse: “This Is Actual” (single)
5. Lyra Pramuk: “Rewild,” from Hymnal