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This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music Podcast, your one-stop shop for all things in the music nerdverse. You get new episodes of All Songs Considered in this feed every Tuesday. Alt Latino, we've got that every Wednesday. And then we close out every week with New Music Friday. NPR Music also, where you will find the much better than anything I could ever possibly do reviews and writings of Sheldon Pierce. Sheldon.
Hello, Robin.
This is when you're supposed to say, no, come on, man. It's actually true, isn't it?
Hey, hey, I don't want to lie to the people.
So, Sheldon, we just had, let's see, we did the best songs of the year so far. That was a week or two ago. We did a couple theme shows. on road trip songs and Rosé Wave. But it's been a minute since we just shared some totally new stuff.
Yeah.
The new songs we're loving. So that's what we're doing on this episode. The best new songs out now. And I want to start with a song that just dropped from Beba Doobie.
Okay.
In fact, this show is going up a little late today because I really wanted to play the song. It is so good. And we couldn't get it until noon Eastern. So that's why the show is going up a little late. It's called Switchblade. And it is the second single from Biba Doobie's upcoming album, Pylon. I've only heard the singles that are out. There's this one and there's one other one called Sun Is Set. But so far... I think this is some of the best stuff she's ever done. Again, the song is called Switchblade. We'll check it out here and we can talk more about it when we come back.
Life with blinders doesn't seem to fit the pace Do you start the fight or take the flight? Feeling upset, can I choose to find a friend? Growing up just means everything up again Take my switch, play it self-defense
So good, Beeba Doobie did not need to level up. but really leveling up here, I think, on this one. So 90s, an era I am always happy to revisit. Love the guitars, nice and gritty. There's like an urgency, a drive in this song and in the other single, I think, that I've not quite heard in any of her earlier work. Just like a slightly sharper edge. I mean, this isn't an entirely new sound for Biba Doobie, but the last couple of records definitely leaned more pop.
Yeah, yeah. This sounds a lot more like the early, like the breakout stuff. Yeah. In terms of its almost grunginess. There's a scuzzy quality to this song that has, she has sort of distanced herself recently. You say leveling up. I think of it as sort of like finding your center. It feels more like moving forward. directly inward and having a greater understanding of what your music does and reaching your full potential that way there is some quality to this song that feels inherent to all of her best music and like she is tapping directly into that the balance of sort of light and dark the way the vocals sort of hover in the air but the guitars are so heavy and yeah it's They're just a little dirty, right?
There's a rawness to it, and it plays with the idea that, like, vulnerability can be both sides of that coin.
Yeah, I mean, that's what the song is about in some ways. Biba Doobie has said that, you know, it's about trying to find your way in the world and, like, you know, when you're up against something... Do you run or do you fight? How do you manage your anxieties and your doubts? You know, do you just live with blinders on or do you acknowledge what you see around you and maybe try to do something about it? And at the end of it all, it's about understanding that, you know, the path towards self-acceptance and happiness and
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