Lyra Pramuk’s “Rewild,” from her newest album HYMNAL, is among the songs we will not cease taking part in this week.
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Leonardo Scotti
Chances are high you were not anticipating to get a brand new album from Stereolab this yr. 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 track that touches on a variety 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 received one of the vital unpredictable and thrilling rock cuts of the yr from a band often called 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 checklist of the yr’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