World Cafe Playlist for 06/17/2024

Robyn joins host Talia Schlanger

Back in 2018, Robyn released her first new album in 8 years, Honey. While making it, she was dealing with the end of a relationship and the death of a long-time friend. On the World Cafe, as a part of a June Pride month series of encores, hear a conversation with Robyn from around the time when Honey was released. She explains how she used dance and psychoanalysis to cope and to create.

This is an Encore

Today’s Playlist

Rufus Wainwright “I Don’t Know What It Is” Want One

Robyn “Honey” Honey

Robyn “Missing You” Honey

Robyn “Because It’s In The Music” Honey

Robyn “Human Being” Honey

Robyn “Ever Again” Honey

Donna Summer “I Feel Love” I Remember Yesterday

k. d. lang “Constant Craving” Ingénue

Tegan and Sara “Girls Talk” The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Courtney Barnett “Pedestrian At Best” Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Indigo Girls “Peace Tonight” Come On Now Social

Brandi Carlile “Closer to Fine (ft. Catherine Carlile)” Barbie: The Album

Brandi Carlile “The Things I Regret” WC Recording

Ray Lamontagne “Step Into Your Power” Long Way Home

Jackie Wilson “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” Higher And Higher

The Dip “Doing The Thing” Love Direction

Laufey “From The Start” Bewitched

R. E. M. “Leaving New York” Around The Sun

Hour Two
Little Feat “Fat Man In The Bathtub” Waiting For Columbus

The Decemberists “Oh No!” As It Ever Was, So It Wil Be Again

Calexico “Cumbia de Donde” Edge of The Sun

Clairo “Sexy to Someone” Charm

Death Cab For Cutie “Little Bribes” The Open Door – EP

Lo Moon “Waiting A Lifetime” I Wish You Way More Than Luck

Lo Moon “Thorns” Lo Moon

Alex G “Runner” WC Recording

Richard Thompson “Persuasion” WC Recording

Tears for Fears “Sowing The Seeds Of Love” The Seeds Of Love

Ginger Root “No Problems” SHINBANGUMI

Peter Bjorn & John “Second Chance” WC Recording

Kacey Musgraves “Cardinal” Deeper Well

Buffalo Springfield “Sit Down I Think I Love You” Buffalo Springfield

Paris Paloma “labour” Cacophony

Roxy Music “Take A Chance With Me” Avalon