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Terrestrial Doom: 30 Songs For Our Age Of Anxiety

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Best Music Of 2019

Terrestrial Doom: 30 Songs For Our Age Of Anxiety

December 11, 2019 • This year-end playlist showcases the music that best captured 2019's ever-wary mood, presented here in three 10-song movements of personal anxiety, global dread and moral resolution.

Bon Iver's i,i appears on NPR Music's best albums of August. Graham Tolbert/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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NPR Music's Top 12 Albums Of August

August 30, 2019 • Lana Del Rey balanced bleak beauty with real insight, Young Thug's So Much Fun culminated his influence and Bon Iver offered an album just in time for autumn.

Carly Rae Jepsen. Her song "Too Much," from her fourth full-length, Dedicated, is on our list of the best tracks out in May. Markus & Koala/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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NPR Music's Top 20 Songs From May

June 3, 2019 • May surprised us with a Jarvis Cocker reinvention and Sleater-Kinney's blistering return. And, yeah, it was really hard to choose just one Carly Rae Jepsen bop.