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starting with moon us and their new

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self titled record the song is called

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whatever

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i think anything maybe you agree

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that mona has just been like overdue

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for their big break out if i

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think that to twenty seventeen moon of

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it out song called know called place and that song

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is such an anthem for anthem kind of safety

2:14

and sanctuary the queer people are always looking

2:16

for looking a hostile world beautiful songs

2:18

kind of ahead and then they put other

2:20

software album feel like the world did not play catch

2:22

up and then of course this

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year then upload phone

2:26

have such a fun featuring city reuters

2:29

never thought of a year maybe a sign of

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the are huge banger mindedness my to

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talk algorithm

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oh my recovery

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that it refers on on this album and i just feel like

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now luna is truly undeniable

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and this is just such a rock solid

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hop album top to bottom

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yeah and minute it kicks off with success on

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slams right into that's on

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what i want wishes we have

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lot conversations run and for music about the song

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of the summer season and for the world

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the son the summer is somehow it was

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his nineteen eighty five fit run out of seville

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woodland bad thing was i'm totally

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here for but for me my song

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of summer right now is what is want by munaf

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from this record but this record has a lot textures

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to it right there that single anything that me

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that sounds little bit like time

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in

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the navy

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after mellower our the

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record

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we takes journey along the way

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but man when it hits it's

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it's really hard there

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are lot of big feelings on this record

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a lot of like big thing one moment

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and then yeah more like sensitive thoughtful

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moments like you mentioned there are love song

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third dance floor bangers something

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else that i feel like is really wonderful about this

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record is that it's as has such a distinctly clear

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perspective like one the members

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of the ban said that soaks up on is the

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kind of fun for young people to have their for skaters

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to which think it's very sweet and

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just like a thing that we have not had

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an office in for music he and

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his sons are necessarily like quote unquote

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fried and some third

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love song server brakes on for like finding

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yourself songs on but they just

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all come from this queer perspective and yeah i

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just think that's really meaningful and frankly is

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something that therefore

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yeah when i first heard what i was

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outside all man is deliberation for

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me love

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how free and it makes you you feel like i can hear

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this know all summer long and can't can't wait to dance,

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get somewhere and just get out and dances

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since the are outside now you know,

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grooving

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to all summer long yeah

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we needed this record isn't quite as

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here that's munaf their new self

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titled album as out today let's go next

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to give beyond the singer devi on has

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has album called it does or takes

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the song is called must me

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the

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give or take is technically give

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the ons debut album but he's already

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gotten so many major lox and accolades

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right drake has featured him twice

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before justin bieber has

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seats them and the somme peaches which what

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number one that is already grammy

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nominated my arms over

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i could swear so

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it really is for all these reasons

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race why this album kind sounds

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like it's coming from a season that to be completely

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on as it sounds like somebody who's already

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put in his time give or

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take is exploring these

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things as he will have the know love

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and loss of course nothing like is

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pristine a we've been waiting for so long

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for of only albums

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from devi on and on

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think this monroe nutley hearing was susan

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news and special interests

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luscious about his voice

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bring it about these of was that we can all relate

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to the know that long game and

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lamenting over love the then at the same time

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you know i'm dizzy and have this us

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so is that journey that

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he going through i think it's probably

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the a steady than right now

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obama a call it our and be moan

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because his emotional

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that's right i

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love that and i saying that comes

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down to the specificity

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and his writing because there are

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moments where i feel like he

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might be looking at everybody else

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is text messages like and holy

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matrimony in particular it's

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the conclusion to this album he's

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taking a look around at this wedding

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that never was and all the imagery

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that pulls out like the blast at seat oh he's

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never wearing invitations

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right is

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it might seem like he is painting

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and it's higher picture here but then there

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are also moments were caught

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on like in chicago freestyle by

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drake where he santa letters and into

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his world where in all honesty he's

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trying to find love on the road

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and the kind of seems like a hopeless prospects

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and in so in that respect he's giving us

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a glimpse into his sex messages so

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there's something very very old school about

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it that can't quite pinpoint but

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it is such an interesting balance between

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production should say which is very

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content

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very rmb that's the singer

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give me on his new album is called give

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or take let's go next to soccer

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mommy soccer mom is got new album called

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sometimes

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this is your third full length and it was

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produced by daniel up him who

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makes very experimental electronic

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music as monitors point never but

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he also did for example the score for the some

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unsaid gems and he worked on the latest album by the

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weekend so kind of and all over the place

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collaborator when i first heard

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that he was working with the allison

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who is for mommy on this release

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i was honestly it a little surprise

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it seems like an interesting choice and

11:29

but i think that her last record color theory

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really proved very be an artist who is very

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interested in using the studio settings

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like build a whole world around her music and

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she's interested in using sound and freedom

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unexpected ways which think also

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in love with him feel to fucker

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mommy has the fake kinda very spot

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on early two thousand and sell

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just stay and a friend of

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mine had this may think it's true that as producer

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then you'll have it in is really good at finding like

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doing great depression and anxiety during the two

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the zoos writing this record they keep

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the music to some really food and strange places

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on records

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yeah you mentioned early two thousands nostalgia

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it's interesting how much this record feals

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also like we're kind of refracted

12:53

nostalgia for lot of the sounds of the nineties

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i heard lot of chew gaze influences

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like kinda early nineties shoe games music filtered

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through you get some pics easy get some nirvana

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you get little bit of nine inch nails and

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portishead here and there it's just interesting

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how much music

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is reflected on this record

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while still sounding very current

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harper lee i think she is is really good at like

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mining that influences in the making it sounds

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extremely of the moment and i threw

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her vocal delivery like she has a slayer unaffected

13:25

even the nothing but she's singing a really

13:27

heavy and complicated and i feel like that

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such a hallmark of her son that really come through on

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the record to

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soccer mommy soccer mom his new album is

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called sometimes for ever we

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still got a few more records we want play for new music

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and we are looking at some of the best new albums

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out to date june twenty fourth next

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up is jimmy hours singer

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jimmy allen has new album called to

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the thrive dishonest called was

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and

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he goes , there is

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is reason we know is is is

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you may get past that

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get your right foot eleven

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know about on the wonderland are you

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like

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oh it

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will be a resume

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viewing , cinema

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the dog

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imagine if money

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were talking about jimmy allen now

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right after soccer money because she grew

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up in ashville

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but jimmy you know was born in

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we encounter moved to nashville

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when was about twenty two years old and

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with this third release how he

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struggled with some personal things as far as

16:11

mental health live on song settle

16:14

on that you know talks about is kicking

16:16

back and just relaxing when

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things tend get overwhelming

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and little bit too much he mentioned in a

16:23

recent interview yes

16:25

he struggled with mental health as

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a teenager who needs thirteen he was diagnosed

16:29

with bipolar disorder and that's

16:31

something that is at this point being

16:33

open with the bitter think so especially

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right now

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oh

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all

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the way

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meaning all types of genres together

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on his record that is super cool

17:11

you know hip hop biggest and latin flavor

17:14

and it's he's got chuckle pesos

17:16

with actually featured see my brain and

17:18

see pain in

17:20

you know one that i can definitely here on all

17:22

sides the radio plan the country

17:25

the hip then top forty and everywhere

17:27

else

17:51

yeah well you mentioned the different guests and sales

17:53

on this record there's song on this record

17:56

called on my way which is a

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duet with center for lopez up

18:00

from the suffering soundtrack

18:02

to be j lo rum tum marry me

18:05

i would say i'm a big fan of believe

18:09

, i'll have to expect and

18:11

so i just i love to see how to

18:13

see different sides he's he's

18:15

coming out like he is big country star

18:17

at this point he has had major major country has

18:20

and a lot of his songs kind of coming at you from

18:22

the direction of kind mainstream countries

18:24

stars like sam hon sir thomas

18:27

threats but it really reaches

18:29

beyond that as and kind of expands

18:31

the boundaries of country music in ways that

18:33

i really appreciate his garnering

18:35

brand new audience with the way

18:38

he's bringing in several different

18:40

genres nicest i can appreciate

18:42

that to me allen

18:44

his new album is called to the drive

18:47

we're going to close out this week so with the lightning round

18:49

but first we've got one more pick the

18:51

new album from the rapper loop a fiasco

18:53

is called real music in xy

18:56

on the song as auto boto

18:58

featuring the ira

19:34

i honestly my mind

19:52

jeremy as against i on his lucy

19:54

fiascos first album in

19:56

four years it's also his second

19:58

as an indie artist working with the label

20:01

thirty tigers so think

20:03

it's good reminder is any that even

20:05

though loop a started his career

20:07

as this major label force

20:09

alongside the like kind a was he's

20:12

always been very independent minded

20:14

as an artist having grown up in

20:16

chicago skis seen

20:18

the said street lights of music actually depicts

20:20

first hand it's lived reality for

20:23

folks including his brother and therefore

20:25

he talks about how like drill music

20:27

scares him because he knows what happens at

20:29

be ended that road saddens

20:31

of being recurring theme in the album but i do

20:33

appreciate how he's approaches

20:35

it from different angles there's this really

20:37

powerful spoken word

20:39

intro by i used to jake oh that's

20:42

right says with how the drill

20:45

music and since becoming like a symptom

20:47

of all these social political realities

20:49

though by the time we get to the title

20:51

track loop a fiasco himself paints

20:53

and much more broad

20:55

impressionistic strokes and his

20:57

overall tone overall tone like little

20:59

bit weary is a he doesn't sound like

21:02

righteously and signet anything he just as

21:04

tired and that and the song as if he just

21:06

likes as long drawn out side

21:08

yeah

21:46

having my back and as shows

21:48

all the new one

21:49

and which see approach to provide a straight news

21:52

story years old now it isn't

21:53

read version of you know we've come long way

21:56

from kick plus he's talking about

21:58

the really really import games

22:00

like mentions the socio political

22:03

themes in racial injustice

22:05

and all of their and think is package sit

22:07

in a way that's really going make people think

22:10

about the word the common out of

22:12

his mouth unless one super powerful this

22:14

record

22:15

wondering that also really struck me as

22:17

that for all the experiments

22:19

he's and he's done throughout his career

22:21

and has seized and to the major

22:23

label says sam and now exited having

22:25

been with atlantic for however many years

22:27

i think they're still traces the old with fiasco

22:30

still intact as if he's trying to remind you yeah

22:32

i'm the same person you know i've just grown and evolved

22:34

as artist i think it has particular

22:37

during the second half i said are writing

22:39

down all the enemy references and song

22:41

seattle because i was like yes this is

22:43

the guy who names like live in the third

22:45

when he was on tiny west said

23:09

anyone with a

23:13

, like soldier remember

23:15

what us us conceal

23:17

how on and of when i go

23:19

to ask cargoes

23:22

and i think that's also because of the producers

23:24

of the album's primary producer is

23:26

a soundtrack and he was actually responsible

23:29

for kick closeness with his breakout

23:32

hit however many you sicko sell

23:34

this kind of shows like the full size

23:36

and scope of what loop a fiasco

23:39

capable was a ,

23:41

is teaching at mit next year so

23:43

the guy sympathetic advice consensuses

23:46

impulses you know the drill

23:48

music and zion from the rapper loop

23:50

rapper fiasco we couldn't get to every

23:52

worthwhile album out june twenty fourth

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so going give you quick lightning round of some

23:56

the other releases out today tiana

23:59

wednesday ah

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yeah definitely want highlight ella fitzgerald

24:03

at hollywood bowl which happen in

24:05

august nineteen fifty eight and

24:07

is the only our loan where she sings

24:09

taught to tell the irving

24:11

berlin songbook and was released

24:14

sure about this record is as he's gotten together

24:16

with rangers and doctor paul in the

24:18

first time we're anyone had

24:20

ever performed in album from top to

24:22

bottom with full orchestra

24:37

they're actually releasing vinyl record

24:39

that's purple with like yellow splashing lox going

24:41

have already ooh yeah

24:44

so this is super special album that all the

24:46

ella fitzgerald fans are going want

24:48

happen their collection the

24:49

referral are so what's your are letting on picked

24:52

my pick

24:53

barbarism my kitty alice careers

24:55

katie was lead singer of the dc punk

24:57

band priests a really wonderful

24:59

and sadly now defunct fans and

25:02

this is her first full length solo album

25:04

which she wrote and produced and

25:06

performed and mixed the entire thing herself

25:09

it is a delightfully weird record would

25:11

say the first time i looked into it i found a

25:13

kind of challenging and but in a way

25:15

that really made me wanna spend more time with

25:17

it in a way that really intrigues me i

25:19

thought there's an element of lead collage

25:21

to the way that she put these tax together very

25:23

noisy but i really think it's record

25:25

that is was digging into and sitting with

25:27

little bit

25:49

christina my picks this

25:51

week this die dear silas

25:53

so silas first got hit deer

25:55

silas way and i contributed

25:58

among many esteem contributor it's

26:00

to npr music list of best songs

26:02

albums and next have spice other rappers

26:05

that list is called the south cost them to say

26:07

i was really stoked to hear from contributor

26:09

david dentists who recently interview

26:11

on that dear silence has come out with another

26:13

project if we that album is called

26:15

it's giving so love and it is

26:17

an album of smoke acclimation

26:20

it'll

26:20

be used in your ,

26:24

hometown , shows

26:27

the vermont producer in proud me know

26:29

when i'll try to go to say he

26:32

is hoping it'd be like well you

26:34

feel he's he's not going to as

26:37

i mentioned it was as very busy released

26:39

week we are not able to get to absolutely

26:42

everything i know marissa you wanted to talk

26:44

about the new regina spektor record that's

26:46

called home before and after it's really beautiful

26:49

after my favorite album of last year

26:51

favorite rouge off tubs vulture princess getting

26:53

reissued with bonus tracks there's

26:55

a really terrific country singer named luke combs

26:57

he's got new album called growing up mercer

27:00

you was zola jesus fan absolutely

27:03

there's zola new zola jesus record the already

27:05

and mysterious artist known as zola jesus

27:08

has artist new record called are com and

27:10

if you're curious about new baz luhrmann

27:12

movie elvis it is baz very

27:14

mixed bag it have seen it the

27:16

soundtrack album drops today with seen very

27:18

eclectic mix of old new sounds

27:21

but for my official pick i'm going to go

27:23

to my grave singing the praises of

27:25

the kentucky singer songwriter joan shelley

27:27

her music evokes all the kindnesses

27:30

and comforts of home or

27:32

once again she's working with the wonderful

27:34

guitarist and her partner nathan salzburg

27:37

it's just partner collection of gentle beauty

27:39

it's called the spur let's hear little bit

27:41

of hear or just

27:58

that

28:00

itll do it for new music friday piano farkas

28:03

kristina li marissa russo thanks so

28:05

much for joining me thanks steven

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