music Emotion Is The Engine That Drives Sugarland's 'Bigger'NPR - Jewly HightNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. During its initial run, from the
music Kadhja Bonet's 'Childqueen' Tucks Genius Into Idiosyncratic CornersNPR - Tom MoonNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Kadhja Bonet's Childqueen opens
music Angelique Kidjo Gives New Life To Talking Heads' 'Remain In Light'NPR - Marcus J. MooreNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. In 1983, Angélique Kidjo moved Paris
music On YOB's 'Our Raw Heart,' The Lightness Is DevastatingNPR - Jason HellerNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. In an interview with Cvlt Nation
music River Whyless' 'Kindness, A Rebel' Examines The American ExperimentNPR - Bob BoilenNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. When I heard the burbling synth
music Erin Rae's Tender 'Putting On Airs' Is For The Space BetweenNPR - Ann PowersNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. What is the thought you think before
music Liz Vice's 'Save Me' Savors Beauty And The DivineNPR - Jewly HightNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Categorizing an artist as a gospel
music Neko Case's 'Hell-On' Conjures A Constellation Of EmotionsNPR - Stephen ThompsonNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. There are billions of voices in
music Natalie Prass Lays A Blueprint For 'The Future And The Past'NPR - Brittney McKennaNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. In 2015, Natalie Prass plumbed depths
music 'Sink' Into Sudan Archives' Soulful, Unconventional MusicNPR - Sidney MaddenNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Over the course of her young career,
music Public Enemy Gets Grooved By The Keepers Of Latin FunkNPR - Felix ContrerasNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. They have gone to the deep well
music Kamaal Williams' 'The Return' Is An Elastic And Funky DebutNPR - Piotr OrlovNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. The Return, keyboardist and producer
music Joshua Redman, 'Still Dreaming,' Pays Emotional Tribute To His FatherNPR - Nate ChinenNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. There's a tension in Joshua Redman's
music Now, Now's Sparkling 'Saved' Captures Pop At Its Most IntimateNPR - Lars GotrichHave you ever been in the car, scanning radio signals for signs of life, and thought about the stories behind the headlights passing on the highway? There's life in those spaces, in close quarters, alone
music Low Cut Connie's 'Dirty Pictures (Part 2)' Pumps Blood Into Rock And RollNPR - Alison FensterstockAcross five albums of piano-driven rock and soul, Low Cut Connie has proven masterfully fluent in the foundational languages of Western pop, living at the crossroads where the church house meets the roadhouse,
music 'Deran' Returns To Bombino's RootsNPR - Jason HellerIn the 2010 documentary Agadez, The Music And The Rebellion, director Ron Wyman explores the culture of the Tuareg people of North Africa — specifically their music. As pointed out in the film, one name
music Mary Lattimore's 'Hundreds Of Days' Reinvigorates The ImaginationNPR - Grayson Haver CurrinIn the assorted realms of indie rock, Mary Lattimore is the monarch of instrumental harp. During the last decade, she has recorded or toured with the likes of Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, The Clientele Sharon
music Kelly Willis, With Some Distance, Is 'Back Being Blue'NPR - Jewly HightIt's not surprising when contemporary artists invoke Loretta Lynn as a template. But country icon's younger sister, the urbane country-pop balladeer Crystal Gayle, is a far less likely reference, particularly
music Brent Cobb's 'Providence Canyon' Is Full Of Swampy GroovesNPR - Jewly HightNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Throwback soul and honky-tonk never
music Flora And Fauna Explode In Sarah Louise's 'Deeper Woods'NPR - Allison HusseyNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. For as long as humans have roamed
music Ry Cooder, 'The Prodigal Son,' ReturnsNPR - Tom MoonNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. From the beginning of his career
music Reggie Watts' New Electro-Pop Album With John Tejada Is Wajatta FunNPR - Piotr OrlovNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. It's hard to think of a more surprising
music Simone Dinnerstein's 'Circles' Shares A Common Language With Bach & GlassNPR - Tom HuizengaNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. At first glance, Philip Glass and
music DJ Koze's Grip On The Uncanny Grooves With 'knock knock'NPR - Michaelangelo MatosDJ Koze doesn't do anything like anybody else, including growing more conventional. It's tempting to call knock knock — his first album of original material since 2013's woozy knockout Amygdala — the dance
music Parker Millsap Just Wants 'Other Arrangements' To Get Stuck In Your HeadNPR - Jewly HightNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. If you peruse interviews that Parker
music Unlikely Duo Venetian Snares And Daniel Lanois Makes Unhinged Music TogetherNPR - Grayson Haver CurrinNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Bandcamp playlist at the bottom of the page. Daniel Lanois and Venetian Snares are two very
music Everything Is Malleable In Shakey Graves' 'Can't Wake Up'NPR - Nina CorcoranNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Texas singer-songwriter Alejandro
music Belly's 'Dove' Refines A Lifetime Of ChangeNPR - Stephen ThompsonNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. So many 1990s alt-rock hit-makers
music Gaz Coombes Is The 'World's Strongest Man'NPR - Annie ZaleskiNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Gaz Coombes thrives on progress.
