World Cafe Playlist for 12/23/2020

World Cafe Staff’s Best of 2020 hosted by Raina Douris

The staff of World Cafe listens to A LOT of music. And today, it’s a two-hour roundup of the team’s favorite songs released in the past year. We’ll hear music from new bands, like Bonny Light Horseman, established artists, like Gorillaz – Plus, the one song that every single World Cafe staffer put on their list. Tune in to hear that track and the rest of the Best of 2020 picks.

*Lido Pimienta “Nada” Miss Colombia

Perfume Genius “On The Floor” Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

EOB “Shangri-La” Earth

Christine & The Queens “People, I’ve Been Sad” La vita nuova EP

Haim “The Steps” Women in Music Pt. III

Kathleen Edwards “Hard on Everyone” Total Freedom

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “What’ve I Done To Help” Reunions

Tame Impala “It Might Be Time” The Slow Rush

Gorillaz “Aries (feat. Peter Hook and Georgia)” Song Machine: Season 1 Episode 3

Bonny Light Horseman “Deep in Love” Bonny Light Horseman

Chris Stapleton “Starting Over” Starting Over

The Weather Station “Robber” Ignorance

Hour Two
*Bruce Springsteen “Letter To You” Letter To You

Tim Heidecker “Fear of Death” Fear of Death

Shamir “On My Own” Shamir

Taylor Swift “Cardigan” folklore

Fleet Foxes “Can I Believe You” Shore

Phoebe Bridgers “Kyoto” Punisher

Waxahatchee “Lilacs” Saint Cloud

Devon Gilfillian “The Good Life” Black Hole Rainbow

Bob Dylan “Goodbye Jimmy Reed” Rough and Rowdy Ways

Kurt Vile “How Lucky (with John Prine)” Speed, Sound, Lonely KV – ” EP

Arlo Parks “Hurt” Collapsed in Sunbeams

Katie Pruitt “Expectations” Expectations

Best Coast “Everything Has Changed” Always Tomorrow

Fontaines D.C. “A Hero’s Death” A Hero’s Death

*Optional Song