The Best of Car Talk

On this week's All Songs Considered: A premiere from Beach House, the first-ever solo project from Damon Albarn, and a brand new song from singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten. It's the snow-day edition of our show. With the District buried under a late-season blanket of ice and frigid air, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton were stuck at their respective apartments, left to record the show in their home studios. But Bob warms things up at the top of the program with "Gouge," a breezy sounding cut from the appropriately named duo Eternal Summers. Robin follows with Slow Club, a group from Sheffield, England that makes equally warm, joyful sounds on a brand new cut called "Tears Of Joy." Also on the show: Sharon Van Etten's latest album, Are We There? isn't out until the end of May, but we've got an early glimpse of it with the song "Taking Chances"; And after years of playing in Blur, Gorillaz, The Good The Band And The Queen (and many other projects), Damon Albarn returns with his first-ever solo record, called Everyday Robots. Plus, the disarmingly sweet sounds of Death Vessel; and Beach House take strange recordings made in space and turn them into music for a compilation called Space Project.     Gouge Artist: Eternal Summers Album: The Drop Beneath   Tears Of Joy Artist: Slow Club Album: Tears Of Joy (Single)     Ejecta Artist: Death Vessel Album: Island Intervals     Everyday Robots Artist: Damon Albarn Album: Everyday Robots playlist     Saturn Song (Beach House) Artist: Various Artists Album: Space Project     Taking Chances Artist: Sharon Van Etten Album: Are We There