The Best Music Of August: NPR Staff Picks
Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year? In August, we got vulnerable with James Blake, leveled up with Foxing, cooed with PinkPantheress, discovered an obscure Polish composer via pianist Lucas Debargue, memorialized a member of Injury Reserve and went back in time to Lee Morgan's weekend residency at the Lighthouse.
Songs heard on this episode:
\u2022 James Blake: "Life is Not the Same" from Friends That Break Your Heart
\u2022 Foxing: "Beacons" from Draw Down the Moon
\u2022 PinkPantheress, "Just for me"
\u2022 Lucas Debargue: "Nostalgie du pays" from Zal \u2014 The Music of Mi\u0142osz Magin
\u2022 Injury Reserve: "Knees" from By the Time I Get to Phoenix
\u2022 Lee Morgan: "Absolutions (Friday, Set 2)" from The Complete Live at the Lighthouse
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