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U2, Black Pumas, Big Thief & Wilco
Host Hrishikesh Hirway invites musicians to break apart one of their songs, with U2 dissecting their track ‘Cedarwood Road’.
Host Hrishikesh Hirway invites musicians to break apart one of their songs, and then piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Included in this episode Bono & The Edge remembering the skinhead culture of their teen years in the U2 track ‘Cedarwood Road’. Black Pumas take apart their song ‘Colors’. Big Thief on ‘Cattails’ and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco breaks down ‘Magnetized’.
Musician and presenter Hrishikesh Hirway delves into the archive of Song Exploder, a podcast that's spent the last ten years asking artists from across the musical spectrum to lay bare their process.
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