New Mix: alt-J, Loney Dear, Amythyst Kiah, Bnny, More
Clockwise from upper left: Bnny, alt-J, Amythyst Kiah, La Luz, Loney Dear Courtesy of the artists hide caption
On this edition of All Songs Considered, I have the first new music from alt-J since 2017. The song, "U&ME," comes along with the announcement of their upcoming 2022 album, The Dream. Another favorite artist from the last decade, Loney Dear, put out an album earlier this year that I totally missed but completely love. The album is A Lantern and a Bell, and I play the song "Go Easy On Me Now (Sirens + emergencies)."
Amythyst Kiah was working with Rhiannon Giddens when I last saw her at the Newport Folk Festival in 2019, in their project called Our Native Daughters. Amythyst Kiah's new solo album is called Wary + Strange. On that record is a song I first heard performed with Our Native Daughters titled "Black Myself." Now she's teamed up with Moby for a stunning reworked version, which I feature on this week's show. La Luz is a surfy-sounding trio from California. They've got a new song that knocked me out from their upcoming self-titled album — it's called "Lazy Eyes and Dune."
And two artists new to me — and hopefully equally thrilling for you — are Bnny, a Chicago musician with an ethereal sound, and Hyd, who has teamed up with Caroline Polachek for a song very much inspired by ASMR or autonomous sensory meridian response.