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Olly Alexander's Polari is an exploration of queer identity that includes songs like "Cupid's Bow."

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  • Music

Olly Alexander deciphers queer identity on Polari

The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in secret during periods of criminalization.

March 09, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Benk
FKA twigs — the English singer, dancer and actor Tahliah Debrett Barnett — is out with a new album, <em>Eusexua</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

FKA twigs is out with a new album inspired by underground raves

FKA twigs — the English singer, dancer, and actor Tahliah Debrett Barnett — is out with her third studio album, Eusexua.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • Juana Summers,
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Following her death, SOPHIE's family says she left behind a collection of hundreds of unreleased songs, as well as a follow-up album to her debut. But the album wasn’t finished.

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  • Music News

How do you finish a visionary artist’s final album?

The electronic music producer’s family and collaborators spent three years completing the album SOPHIE with the pieces she left behind after her death.

September 28, 2024
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  • Hazel Cills
Jamie xx

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  • Music

Riding the ebb and flow of dance music, Jamie xx found his place again

After nearly a decade, the English producer returns with a new solo record influenced by isolation and the ever-growing popularity of electronic dance music.

September 23, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Kallao and
  • Miguel Perez
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  • Music

8 Tracks: You don't need a deity to pray — just transcendent music

Luiza Brina spent 10 years developing an album of nonreligious prayers. NPR Music's Lars Gotrich dives into newly released music from Brazil, featuring Milton Nascimento, Amaro Freitas and Anitta.

June 03, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich
Thursday's first song in 13 years, "Application for Release From the Dream," is a soaring, searing return.

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  • Music

8 Tracks: Post-hardcore band Thursday returns, plus glammy metal and skate-punk

Thursday's first song in 13 years leads off this edition of 8 Tracks, which we'll have to call 10 Tracks because there's been too much good music lately.

April 15, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich
Over 90 minutes, the <em>অন্য (ONNO) </em>compilation surveys India's experiment music scene: pulsing noise, avant-pop, freak folk, astral synths and surging industrial.

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  • New Music

8 Tracks: The old technology that can fit in your pocket — and connect worlds

The cassette is not only a tool of communication but also one of creation. This week on 8 Tracks, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich celebrates new music released on his favorite format.

February 12, 2024
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich
Beth Gibbons' first solo album, <em>Lives Outgrown</em>, is out May 17.

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  • New Music

8 Tracks: Portishead's Beth Gibbons is a 'passenger on no ordinary journey'

Gibbons returns with a solo album, Lives Outgrown, and a song that wonders beyond this life. On this week's 8 Tracks, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich listens to songs that explore what happens next.

February 07, 2024
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich
Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra captures a complicated reality on their new song, "Colossus of Roads."

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  • New Music

8 Tracks: Hurray for the Riff Raff's twang is heart full, but heartbroken

Alynda Segarra examines our frailty and resilience with an unsparing, yet tender cadence. This week on 8 Tracks, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich looks at lyrics that stand on their own as poetry.

January 31, 2024
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich
In her 2015 memoir, <em>Girl in a Band</em>, Kim Gordon credits The Shangri-Las' speak-sing style as an influence on her own. The '60s girl-group's lead singer, Mary Weiss, died last week.

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  • Music

Kim Gordon raps her shopping list — it's hot and terrifying

Sonic Youth's co-founder took her cues from a '60s girl-group but forges a new lane. NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich functions as your antidote to the algorithm in eight tracks to know this week.

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich

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  • Music Features

PinkPantheress, IRL

The artist doesn't need TikTok anymore to prove she can make a hit. Her debut album, Heaven Knows, makes it clear she's ready to conquer worlds beyond the web.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
TOKiMONSTA performs at the 2022 Coachella music festival.

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  • Music Interviews

Brain surgery left TOKiMONSTA unable to understand music. Now every song is precious

Electronic music producer and DJ Jennifer Lee — aka TOKiMONSTA — underwent two brain surgeries in 2016 that temporarily stripped her of her ability to understand words or music.

October 02, 2023
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Alan Palomo is in his element at L.A.'s Vintage Synthesizer Museum.

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  • Music

Surrounded by synths, Alan Palomo is teasing out a new kind of sound

For much of his career, Alan Palomo has coaxed sounds from synthesizers and been at the forefront of the chillwave genre. With his fourth album — and his solo debut — he's changing it up.

October 02, 2023
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By:
  • Christopher Intagliata
Romy

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  • Music

For Romy, dance music is best when it 'pulls your heart out'

The British musician and member of The xx talks about her debut solo album, Mid Air, and performs brand new songs live for World Cafe.

September 07, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Kallao and
  • Miguel Perez
In his work with Stars of the Lid, Brian McBride helped transform listeners' understanding of the potential of ambient music.

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  • Obituaries

Stars of the Lid co-founder Brian McBride has died at 53

In his work alongside bandmate Adam Wiltzie, McBride warped and wondered at new pathways for ambient music.

August 30, 2023
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  • Lars Gotrich
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