Song Exploder
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.
Episodes (374)
Charli XCX - Camera
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Mitski - Your Best American Girl
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Suki Waterhouse - Back in Love
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Key Change: Questlove on Prince
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Metric - Victim of Luck
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Hayley Kiyoko - Girls Like Girls
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Key Change: Tatiana Maslany on "Faceshopping" by Sophie
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Paul McCartney - Ripples in a Pond
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Hot Chip - Boy From School
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Key Change: Emma Straub on ‘69 Love Songs’ by The Magnetic Fields
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The xx - Crystalised
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Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Father and Son
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The Memory Palace: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American
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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alibi
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Jack Harlow - Say Hello
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Key Change: Baz Luhrmann on "Time After Time"
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Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
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Silvana Estrada - Como Un Pájaro
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Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
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The Marías - No One Noticed
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Leon Thomas - Mutt
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Key Change: John Green on "You'll Never Walk Alone"
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Hit-Boy and Nipsey Hussle - Racks In the Middle (feat. Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy)
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Air - Playground Love (feat. Gordon Tracks)
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Key Change: Rian Johnson on Wagner's 'Das Rheingold'
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Jessie Reyez - Goliath
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Key Change: Demi Adejuyigbe on The Strokes
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Clipse - The Birds Don't Sing
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Buckingham Nicks - Frozen Love
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Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
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A-ha - Take On Me
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Lady Gaga - Abracadabra
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Key Change: David Chang on "I See a Darkness"
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Ethel Cain - Nettles
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Sam Fender - People Watching
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Key Change: Jia Tolentino on "I Love You Always Forever"
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Jay Som - Tenderness
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Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down
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Gigi Perez - Sailor Song
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Key Change: Jason Schwartzman on the ‘Rushmore’ soundtrack
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Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
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Little Simz - Free
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Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Anohni - 4 Degrees
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Jeff Tweedy - How to Write One Song
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Lorde - Sober
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Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
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Lizzo - Still Bad
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Key Change: Samin Nosrat on Ani DiFranco
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MJ Lenderman - You Don't Know The Shape I'm In
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