8 Tracks: Hurray for the Riff Raff's twang is heart full, but heartbroken
Alynda Segarra examines our frailty and resilience with an unsparing, yet tender cadence. This week on 8 Tracks, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich looks at lyrics that stand on their own as poetry.
8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time.
Bob Dylan's The Lyrics, 's , 's Yale University Press' — it's only in the last few decades that book publishers have begun to treat lyrics as an art form in itself. So when I saw that , a renowned literary magazine, to two new songs, I let out a little cheer. Alynda Segarra examines our frailty and resilience with an unsparing, yet tender cadence — their music, always evolving, responds to the contour of their words.
