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Viking's Choice

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Comic book artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity) illustrates the music of Viking's Choice. Horns up! Daniel Warren Johnson hide caption

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Comic book artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity) illustrates the music of Viking's Choice. Horns up!

Comic book artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity) illustrates the music of Viking's Choice. Horns up!

Daniel Warren Johnson

Where heavy metal, heady psych, dreamy ambient, furious punk, chooglin' rock, twinkly emo and cotton-candy pop music all come to freak out. All of these disparate sounds make sense in the brain of NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and are documented on his Viking's Choice newsletter.

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Nov. 26 Mixtape: Briefly

Peter Lenz, "Breathe"
Mother Nature, "Flower Talk"
Iara Rennó, "Iroko (Axé que vem do Pé)"
Valentina Magaletti & Susumu Mukai, "Ikea Moment"
Maple Fyshh, "君がどんどん離れて行く (You are Leaving My Mind)"
Throwing Muses, "Drugstore Drastic"
Aisha Vaughan, "No Past, No Present, No Future"
Master Yayat & Tedi Kurniadi, "Reundeu"
Sam Amidon, "I'm On My Journey Home"
James Brandon Lewis, "Five Spots to Caravan"
OVA, "Rainforest"
Juana Molina, "Hope"
Two Inch Astronaut, "Check Please"
Mekons, "You're Not Singing Anymore"
Kaatayra, "Valhacouto de Lírios"
perila, "ways"
990x, "Crates"
Julia Holter, "The Laugh is in the Eyes"
Mirrored Daughters, "City Song"
Tsuki No Wa, "Air Ship LZ 129"
Colin Self, "respite for the tulpamancer"
Rose City Band, "Seeds of Light"
ZOMIE-CHANG, "イジワルばかりしないで"
Hourloupe, "Old Country Tune"
Vashti Bunyan, "If I Were (Demo, 2001)"
Passepartout Duo, "Kissing in the Park, Briefly"
Anna Ferrer, "Glossa a Menorca"
Saint Etienne, "Half Light"
Sweet Wreath, "Honey Bathing Lemon Rinds"
James Blackshaw, "Unraveling in Your Hands"