| | | | | | The season of list-making, specifically (for us) lists about the year's best music, is rapidly descending. But before the craziness begins over who had the best album or song in 2017, we thought we'd look back at some of our previous top-ten lists to see if they even hold up. As you can imagine, some albums we once thought were great have since lost their luster, while others haven't aged a day. On this edition of the program we're joined by NPR Music's Marissa Lorusso and Stephen Thompson to talk about why some records age better than others, and whether it matters. | | Hear The Discussion And Songs | | All Songs Considered Guest DJs: Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile By now you may have heard of the intercontinental, surprise collaboration between Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, for an album called Lotta Sea Lice. The two singers have been mutual admirers for a while and kept bumping into one another at various festivals. Their guitar-based rock songs are laced with a shared sense of humor, and that was part of what got them creating music together. On this edition of All Songs Considered, Kurt and Courtney join host Bob Boilen in our Washington D.C. studios. They'd just finished performing a Tiny Desk Concert and sat down to talk about some of the music they love by other artists. Hear The Discussion And Songs |  | All Songs Considered After 'Waves Of Sad-Joy,' Red River Dialect's 'Kukkuripa' Radiates Light There's always a hint of sorrow to Red River Dialect, a feeling of unworthiness in the face of beauty, an existential bleating set to lushly orchestrated folk music. David Morris leads the London-based band (which has roots in Cornwall), and its last album, Tender Gold And Gentle Blue, ushered in a quietude befitting the title. But while touring with Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg in the U.K., Morris says he found a new energy after "waves of sad-joy." Broken Stay Open Sky, due in February, is the result, and its first single already feels like a burden lifted. Hear The Song |  | Tiny Desk Aminé: Tiny Desk Concert Considering all the unique monikers MCs have concocted throughout the history of rap, Aminé - Adam Daniel's middle name by birth - isn't all that strange. But that hasn't kept him from becoming the hip-hop artist with the hardest-to-pronounce name of the moment. He's been called everything from anime (as in Japanese animation) to amino (as in the acid). But after watching the Portland native perform three songs from his Good For You debut album, with a four-piece band and background singer crammed behind Bob Boilen's Tiny Desk, Aminé (pronounced ah-MEE-nay) should be hard to forget. See The Tiny Desk Performance |  | First Listen First Listen: Sharon Van Etten, '(it was) because i was in love' It's a common trajectory for musicians to start out sounding tentative and insecure, only to bloom into battle-tested, fully formed talents. That's surely been Sharon Van Etten's story, as she's transitioned from a quavering solo artist into a muscular rock 'n' roll frontwoman - the kind you'd see stalking festival stages or popping up at the Bang Bang Bar on the last season of Twin Peaks. But Van Etten's 2009 debut, because i was in love, doesn't actually sound tentative or insecure. Instead, it functions as a sort of concept album about tentativeness and insecurity - about examining tiny interpersonal details until they become all-encompassing. Hear The Full, Remastered Album |  | | | | | | | |
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