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Music features, reviews and "first listens" from NPR. Find more music at WUNC's Back Porch Music.

The Thistle & Shamrock: New Late Summer Sounds

Published September 25, 2020 at 10:22 PM EDT

This week it's a late summer, early harvest as Fiona Ritchie puts together an hour of new releases. Featured artists include Anadama, Skerryvore, The Black Brothers, and Luka Bloom.

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Taylor Swift set a new record this week with, well, records. The vinyl kind.

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Taylor Swift, whose latest album is now the first to surpass one billion Spotify streams in a single week, has smashed another record as well.
Taylor Swift's confessional 'Tortured Poets' would have benefitted from an edit

Ken Tucker

Though Swift performs a range of experience and emotions, the music on her 11th album feels thin and is often in service of lyrics that could have used a red pencil.
In a collection of 40+ interviews, author Adam Moss tries to find the key to creation

Ari Shapiro

Author Adam Moss interviewed more than 40 creative minds to find out how they went from a blank page to finished work of art.
St. Vincent offers tension, release and sonic 'jump scares'

Terry Gross

"I'm not playing with persona," St. Vincent says of All Born Screaming. "It's a really a record about life and death and love. That's it. That's all we got."
Taylor Swift and 'Tortured Poets' smash the Spotify album streaming record

Anastasia Tsioulcas

On Friday — the day Swift released her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department — she smashed the all-time Spotify record for most album streams in a single day, with more than 300 million.