World Cafe Playlist for 01/01/2025

New Years Day Needledrop with host Raina Douris

You can’t predict what will happen in 2025, but you might be able to predict what it’ll sound like. Ring in the New Year with songs from new albums coming out this year, from artists like Sports Team, Sharon Van Etten, Ringo Starr, Bartees Strange and lots more. A look ahead at the music of 2025.

Listen to the session here.

Today’s Playlist
The War and Treaty “Stealing Kiss” Plus One
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory “Afterlife” Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Franz Ferdinand “Audacious” The Human Fear
Ringo Starr “Thankful (feat. Allison Krauss)” Look Up
Tamino “Babylon” Every Dawn’s A Mountain
Phoenix “1901” WC Recording
Bartees Strange “Sober” Horror
The Weather Station “Neon Signs” Humanhood
Horsegirl “2468” Phonetics On and On
Sports Team “Condensation” Boys These Days
Baio “Needs” WC Recording
Mandrake Handshake “The Change and The Changing” single
Wilder Woods “Hide Anymore” Curioso
David Gray “Plus & Minus” Dear Life
Doves “Renegade” Constellations For The Lonely
Saya Gray “Shell (of a Man)” Saya

Hour Two
Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” The Bends
Alanis Morissette “All I Really Wanty” Jagged Little Pill
D’Angelo “Brown Sugar” Brown Sugar
Pulp “Common People” Different Class
Oasis “Wonderwall” (What’s The Story) Morning Glory
Molly Tuttle “Million Miles” When You’re Ready
LCD Soundsystem “Disco Infiltrator” LCD Soundsystem
Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.” Demon Days
Fiona Apple “Better Version Of Me” Extraordinary Machine
Hippo Campus “Souls” WC Recording
Father John Misty “Chateau Lobby #4 (In C For Two Virgins)” I Love You, Honeybear
Jamie XX “Loud Places” In Colour
Tame Impala “The Moment” Currents
Alabama Shakes “Gimme All Your Love” Sound & Color