April 2021

Togolese singer Akofa Akoussah died in 2007 aged just 57 and this – originally recorded and released by the French label Sonafric in 1976 and… Read More »Morning song#Akofa Akoussah# I Tcho Tchass

New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding’s 2014 eponymous debut was a lean collection of pleasant yet dark, distinctly gothic folk songs. With “Imagining My Man,” the second single off… Read More »Morning song#Aldous Harding#Imagining My Man”

Today The Reds, Pinks & Purples skewers modern indie fandom with the ironically titled “The Biggest Fan” – the 3rd single from the upcoming Slumberland… Read More »Morning song#The Reds, Pinks & Purples#The Biggest Fan

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we take a musical journey honoring the genius of Kraftwerk‘s Florian Schneider, who died May 6, just a few days after… Read More »Morning song#Kraftwerk#Trans Europa Express#

Low have been making warm, harmonic music since the early ’90s. Their songs are often inspired by their personal lives, as the band told us… Read More »Morning song#Low#Lies

“I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees,” Matt Berninger sings on “Bloodbuzz Ohio,” the National‘s lead single from its first studio album in… Read More »Morning song#National#Bloodbuzz Ohio#