NPR: All Songs Considered

This week's mix of essential new songs includes a surprising collaboration between Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, Dan Deacon without the vocal effects, M. Ward and more.

A posthumous release from Mac Miller, Halsey's Manic and Little Big Town's Nightfall top our shortlist for the best new albums out this week. Featured Releases: 1. Bombay Bicycle Club — Everything Else Has Gone Wrong Featured Song: "Is It Real?" 2. The Innocence Mission — See You Tomorrow Featured Song: "The Brothers Williams Said" 3. Halsey — Manic Featured Song: "You Should Be Sad" 4. Little Big Town — Nightfall Featured Song: "Sugar Coat" 5. Mac Miller — Circles Featured Songs: "Blue World" and "That's On Me" 6. Mura Masa — R.Y.C. Featured Song: "Teenage Headache Dream" 7. 070 Shake — Modus Vivendi Featured Song: "Divorce" 8. Alice Boman — Dream On Featured Song: "Who Knows?" 9. Bill Fay — Countless Branches Featured Song: "Filled With Wonder Again" Other notable albums out on Jan. 17: A Girl Called Eddy — Been Around ; Algiers — There Is No Year ; And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — X: The Godless Void and Other Stories ; David Dondero — The Filter Bubble Blues ; Della Mae — Headlight ; Holy F*** — Deleter ; The Marcus King Band — El Dorado ; Of Montreal — UR FUN ; Pinegrove — Marigold ; Theophilus London — Bebey ; Whyte Horses — Hard Times

The annual festival in New York gathers a dozen bands from around the world to shake up your listening habits. On this edition of All Songs Considered you'll hear extraordinary music from South Korea's Together, we share our favorite discoveries from globalFEST 2019.

Our sprint through the week's best new albums returns with music from the genre-bending artist known as Poppy, Irish singer-songwriter David Keenan, Echosmith, Field Music and more. Featured Albums: 1. Poppy - I Disagree Featured Song: "Fill the Crown" 2. Alexandra Savior - The Archer Featured Song: "Saving Grace" 3. David Keenan - A Beginner's Guide to Bravery Featured Song: "Unholy Ghost" 4. Georgia - Seeking Thrills Featured Song: "24 Hours" 5. Echosmith - Lonely Generation Featured Song: "Lonely Generation" 6. Craven Faults - Erratics and Unconformities Featured Song: "Slack Sley & Temple" 7. Field Music - Making A New World Featured Song: "Money is A Memory" Other notable releases for Jan. 10: Apocalyptica — CELL-O ; Beach Slang — The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City ; Hawktail — Formations ; Josephine — Music is Easy ; Mick Jenkins — The Circus ; Selena Gomez — Rare

Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton look back at the first year of the program, which turns 20 years old this month. On January 3, 2000, All Songs Considered became National Public Radio's first online-only program. The show's origins came from the interest of those little music snippets played between news stories. As director of All Things Considered at the time, choosing those music "buttons" was Bob Boilen's job. The amount of mail that came his way inquiring about those buttons was astonishing. It just seemed our audience was starved for new and exciting music, and so began our journey. On this episode of All Songs Considered , we listen back to some of the early music we played on the program. We'll paint a picture of what it was like to connect to the internet in the year 2000, how we choked people's bandwidth by producing a multimedia show filled with not only music but photographs and text. We'll also look at what it meant for NPR to take a chance on doing "a music show for your computer" in the days before iPods, iTunes and YouTube. At the time, when it came to music, the internet was mostly used to download songs illegally so you could burn a CD.