Lizzy McAlpine, Víkingur Ólafsson plays Bach, and more of the week's best songs
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What’s the opening introduction and overall theme of this All Songs Considered episode?
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This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from NPR Music, your weekly escape from everything else that's happening in the world. NPR music also where you will find The world's most dangerous music curator. Tom Heisinger.
Do you think that has never been introduced as the most dangerous you know, I'm just making the world safe for classical music one day at a time.
But I think that your whole vibe with music is just a little different from everyone else's because yes, you're the classical music editor. for MPR music, but your tastes run really, really broad. You and Lars. I think you and you and Lars have I think
Well, I I just think that you should be open to all kinds of music. I've always felt that way and um not gonna change now.
Well we get into all kinds of stuff on all songs considered. That's right. Uh but this week we are going to play some of our favorite new cuts. That are out now. I want to start with an artist who's been putting out music for nearly a decade now, but admittedly I've only just started paying attention to. Sen Morimoto. Do you know Sen Morimoto? No, I don't. So this is gonna be a discovery for me. So they're based out of Chicago. Their music is it's a little bit of everything, you know, uh a little hip hop, a little rap, a little RMB, jazz, pop, electronica, I mean kinda all over the place. But I'm I always will go for an artist who keeps you guessing. You know, you just you never know quite where they're gonna go with their music.
I think a lot of Sen Morimoto's stuff up until now has been a lot bigger. More expansive sound, um just more like busier, ornamented sound. They've got a new album coming that is much more restrained. Quieter. In fact, Sin Morimoto has said that they want it to be an antidote to the accelerated pace of life in this world of Doom Scrolling. I'm done with that. Yeah. So much like all songs considered, we are atonic for all of that, I think, or I hope. The album from Sin Morimoto is called Time Is On Your Side. Oh. And the song that I wanna play from it it just came out, it's called Chewing Gum.
Okay.
All of this, all of this is new now, like an angel flew down till the sunset. Kiss you. Who now coming up the blue clouds Baby's in a new star Wanna wanna make two smiles?
I believe in true love. Found it in a huge crowd.
Who is Sen Morimoto and why is his new single “Chewing Gum” worth a first‑listen?
La la la balusa Total waves crashing in a slow dance I just want to hold it. Baby on the dry Right. Cool down the whole blood.
If
you
feel me, tell me that you feel the same. All this, all of this is new now. Like a need to fall down. Saw the sun falling down upon the ground. I'm on the news now. First one on the moon's ground. One day step for food now. I believe in true love. God and love. Baby. I believe in truth. Mm. Live true What's do though?
You feel me? Did you feel sick?
Okay. Oh. Yeah.
I love how off kilter everything is in it. It's like they recorded uh all the tracks and then shifted everything just a little to the left or the right. You know the beats just a little off. The guitars
are just a little off. Yeah, that the guitar that kind of propels it is got this syncopated rhythm going on. But I do like the The subtle arrangement of it all, there's like the little punctuation from the synth horns and then the the kind of the slithery guitar line that comes in there that adds uh like a little cotton floaty cloud sound, but a really nice chill little love song.
Yeah, I think it's just about enjoying the the simple pleasure of the company of uh of somebody else, but maybe more than that, allowing yourself to enjoy that and not get too swept up in just the mess of life. You know, uh somebody once said that the The real tragedy of life is not that it's so short, but that we are so easily distracted from actually living it.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What’s the opening introduction and overall theme of this All Songs Considered episode?
0:01–4:00
2
Who is Sen Morimoto and why is his new single “Chewing Gum” worth a first‑listen?
4:00–13:59
3
How does Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson reinterpret Bach’s “Air on the G String” for a modern audience?
13:59–23:36
4
Why does Lizzie McAlpine’s song “The Crowd” resonate as a tribute to her late father?
23:36–32:19
5
What makes Scottish singer‑songwriter Beth Taylor’s rendition of “My Lagan Love” stand out?
32:19–40:41
6
Who are the LA band untitled (halo) and what’s the story behind their shoegaze track “Easy Rider”?
40:41–46:11
7
Who is composer Inti Figgis‑Visueta and what is the concept behind her piece “Samara (Maple Seed) III – Find Roots”?
46:11–46:56