On this week’s All Songs Thought of we replace our working record of the songs we won’t cease enjoying — tracks we love a lot, they’re contenders for the very best of 2024. This contains new sonic adventures from Wilco, a long-lost monitor from Sondre Lerche, singer Omar Apollo’s deeply affecting reflections on the circle of life, an ode to friendship from Charli XCX and Lorde and extra. With NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson and host Robin Hilton.
Featured songs and artists:
- Wilco: “Sizzling Solar,” from Sizzling Solar Cool Shroud
- Charli XCX and Lorde: “The lady, so complicated model with lorde” (single)
- Sondre Lerche: “You Are Inconceivable,” from Two Manner Monologue (twentieth Anniversary Version)
- Omar Apollo: “Airplane Bushes” (feat. Mustafa), from God Stated No
- Remy Bond: “Summer season Tune” (feat. Air) (single)
- Cassandra Jenkins: “Petco,” from My Mild, My Destroyer