Katie Presley
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This week's All Songs Considered features our favorite music from debut albums released in the first half of 2015.
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This week's show features new bands (The Arcs, featuring Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys), new music (from Widowspeak and Joan Shelley) and amazing stories (from — and about — Beauty Pill).
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A careless bout of littering has unexpected consequences in the silly, psychedelic new video from No Joy, "Everything New."
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This week's show features six new songs brewed at maximum strength, including the return of Beirut, a premiere from Chelsea Wolfe, a road trip summer jam and more.
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Patty Griffin turns an unreleased Karen Dalton song into a full-throated, gospel-tinged revelation with "All That Shines Is Not Truth."
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This week: results from our survey about the songs that bring tears to your eyes. Hear listener submissions, as well as personal picks from the All Songs crew.
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The rock trio's first album since 2005 sounds as fresh and vital as a debut, but also as nuanced and skillful as the work of three players with a decade-long, inimitable rapport betwixt them.
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Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz spend their second album feeling and defining the contours of each other's voices, trading verses, lines and leads. They call it "blood harmony," which about sums it up.
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Shara Worden's music sounds both micro-orchestrated and entirely, ecstatically spontaneous. Every song here is a mission statement and a directive; each is propulsive and demanding of full attention.
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As implied in her second album's title, the Finnish songwriter makes haunting, revelatory music for hidden places. Wagner sings for the dead; she digs past the heart of any matter and into bone.