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Viking's Choice: Big Feelings-Metal, Japanese Jazz, Easygoing Psych

The title track from Arctic Sleep's Kindred Spirits appears on this week's playlist. Jennifer Weiler/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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All Songs Considered

Viking's Choice: Big Feelings-Metal, Japanese Jazz, Easygoing Psych

August 13, 2019 • Stream a playlist of metal, free jazz, hardcore, emo, psych and weirdo-pop to upset your stomach, but in a good way.

Viking's Choice: Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, More

Clockwise from upper left: Ahmed Ag Kaedy (photo: Konrad Waldmann), Psychedelic Speed Freaks (photo: Anna Aguirre), Catherine Watine, Keith Fullerton Whitman's modular synthesizer. Courtesy of the artists hide caption

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Viking's Choice: Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, More

April 9, 2019 • After a few months taking care of his newborn, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich is back with buzzing Ethiopian hymns and Tuareg folk songs, but also white-hot psych-rock and a modular synth frenzy.

Viking's Choice: Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, More

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