Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway 379 - Natalie Merchant - Sister Tilly

Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.

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Song Exploder

Episodios

Natalie Merchant - Sister Tilly

Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait

Charli XCX - Camera

Mitski - Your Best American Girl

Suki Waterhouse - Back in Love

Key Change: Questlove on Prince

Metric - Victim of Luck

Hayley Kiyoko - Girls Like Girls

Key Change: Tatiana Maslany on "Faceshopping" by Sophie

Paul McCartney - Ripples in a Pond

Hot Chip - Boy From School

Key Change: Emma Straub on ‘69 Love Songs’ by The Magnetic Fields

The xx - Crystalised

Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Father and Son

The Memory Palace: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alibi

Jack Harlow - Say Hello

Key Change: Baz Luhrmann on "Time After Time"

Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Silvana Estrada - Como Un Pájaro

Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth

The Marías - No One Noticed

Leon Thomas - Mutt

Key Change: John Green on "You'll Never Walk Alone"

Hit-Boy and Nipsey Hussle - Racks In the Middle (feat. Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy)

Air - Playground Love (feat. Gordon Tracks)

Key Change: Rian Johnson on Wagner's 'Das Rheingold'

Jessie Reyez - Goliath

Key Change: Demi Adejuyigbe on The Strokes

Clipse - The Birds Don't Sing

Buckingham Nicks - Frozen Love

Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

A-ha - Take On Me

Lady Gaga - Abracadabra

Key Change: David Chang on "I See a Darkness"

Ethel Cain - Nettles

Sam Fender - People Watching

Key Change: Jia Tolentino on "I Love You Always Forever"

Jay Som - Tenderness

Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down

Gigi Perez - Sailor Song

Key Change: Jason Schwartzman on the ‘Rushmore’ soundtrack

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

Little Simz - Free

Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees

Anohni - 4 Degrees

Jeff Tweedy - How to Write One Song

Lorde - Sober

Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Lizzo - Still Bad