While Bob was last week for AmericanaFest, I was hiding under a pile of covers fighting a case of Hand-Foot-And-Mouth disease (it's as Medieval as it sounds). But show business never sleeps, which means Bob made it back home, I recovered and we're back in the studio this week to geek out over our favorite new music.
Bob kicks things off with a big surprise: is singing! The ambient pioneer and producer hasn't released a vocal record in years. But he was lured back into the studio to record a new track by the Portuguese rock band . It's called "Love Without Violins" and Eno says it's one of the only times you'll ever hear him utter the word "love" in a song.
I follow with a cut all about those late-night hours when you're alone with your thoughts and fear the worst about yourself. Appropriately enough it's called "Savages" and it's from , the Brooklyn-based musical project of Paul Hammer.
Also on the show: Bob is so overwhelmed by the insanely warped sounds of a new song that he scarcely notices its profoundly bleak lyrics; Australian singer has a searing, slow-building rock anthem to an old flame; turns 82 and celebrates with some of the darkest music of his incredible, 50-year career; And the folk-pop duo covers what they call one of the sexiest songs of all time: 's "Wicked Game."
-- Robin Hilton
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