Request Line: How to Deal With 2020
The Pitchfork Review
Pitchfork
3.3 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A few months ago, we launched the Pitchfork Request Line, asking listeners to call in with requests for music to soundtrack whatever is going on in their lives. On this episode, Pitchfork Editor Puja Patel is answering your requests along with Contributing Editors Rawiya Kameir and Philip Sherburne. They take calls from a midwestern transplant who’s nostalgic for her suburban D.C. hometown, a Mancunian looking to recapture the feeling of his city’s famously vibrant live music scene, and a father who’s teaching his kids music history by way of Willie Nelson. They also discuss the music they’ve been turning to for comfort during a difficult year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Pitchfork Review. I'm Pooja Patel, the editor of Pitchfork. |
| 0:09.3 | So over the past few weeks, we've asked listeners to call in and tell us a little bit about what's |
| 0:15.1 | going on in their lives and what kind of new music they're looking for to help soundtrack it. |
| 0:23.2 | Thank you so much to everyone who did. |
| 0:27.3 | It's been really nice to get a peek behind the curtain of your lives. |
| 0:34.3 | And today, we're going to play some of those voicemails and try to help out with a few recommendations of our own. |
| 0:37.8 | To do that, I'm joined by two of our contributing editors, |
| 0:44.7 | Philip Sherburn and Rauia Kamir. Hey, Pooja. Hi. So we're going to start with a listener who has been feeling a little bit homesick after so many months of not being able to get |
| 0:49.5 | back to where she grew up. Let's hear the first message. Hey, Pitchfork. My name is Rose. I live in Illinois currently, but originally I am from |
| 0:59.6 | Prince Rogers County, Maryland, which is a suburban county of Washington, D.C. A very super unique place, |
| 1:06.0 | super defining of just who I am and all my dearest loved ones still live in that area for the most part. |
| 1:14.0 | And I had always thought I'd moved back home right after grad school, but I fell in love. |
| 1:20.5 | And I love with my girlfriend here. I'm in Illinois, which I adore. And also, you know, |
| 1:25.6 | always a part of me is a little bit homesick for Maryland and just my home. |
| 1:29.5 | And so I generally try and go visit as much as I can. The pandemic can't visit. So I haven't seen my family in almost a year, which for me is not normal. |
| 1:39.0 | So, yes, I'm looking for like music for homesickness that doesn't make you more homesick. So I was, you know, deep into the |
| 1:45.0 | Phoebe Bridgers sad girl phase of the early summer and looking for something that makes you |
| 1:51.7 | relish and feel nostalgic for home without feeling heartbroken for home. But anyway, this is a really |
| 1:58.3 | cool feature and I hope you all have a great day. Goodbye. Well, first of all, Rose, thanks for calling. But anyway, this is a really cool feature, and I hope you all have a great day. Goodbye. |
| 2:01.7 | Well, first of all, Rose, thanks for calling. I am a fellow Marylander born outside of Baltimore. |
| 2:08.4 | I actually went to school in PG County. For listeners who don't necessarily know where it is, |
| 2:14.3 | is that it is immediately adjacent to Washington, D.C. And it is the last stop on |
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