The FKA twigs reduce “Room Of Fools” is on our shortlist of the 12 months’s finest songs (to this point).
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Jordan Hemingway
All of it goes by so quick! On this week’s present, with the midpoint of 2025 upon us, we hit pause to take inventory of the 12 months’s finest songs to this point. We have got pop bangers from PinkPantheress and HAIM, a slow-burner from Lana Del Rey, dystopian rap from clipping. and extra.
NPR Music editors Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce be part of host Robin Hilton to share a wildly incomplete record of the songs they’ve nonetheless acquired in heavy rotation.
Featured artists and songs:
1. PinkPantheress: “Stateside,” from Fancy That
2. HAIM: “Relationships,” from I stop
3. clipping.: “Hold Pushing,” from Useless Channel Sky
4. Lana del Rey: “Henry, eat on” (single)
5. Oklou: “Blade Fowl,” from choke sufficient
6. Miya Folick: “This Time Round,” from Erotica Veronica
7. Fragrance Genius: “It is A Mirror,” from Glory
8. FKA twigs: “Room Of Fools,” from EUSEXUA
9. Lucius: “Gold Rush,” from Lucius
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Weekly reset: Summer time afternoon on the pool
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Hear new songs from previous episodes within the All Songs Thought-about playlists in Apple Music and Spotify.
