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The Austin 100: Bodywash

By Stephen Thompson

Published March 17, 2020 at 5:00 AM EDT

Hometown: Montreal, Canada

Genre: Pop

Why We're Excited: The appellation "dream-pop" gets thrown around like so much confetti, but Bodywash earns it in a big way: You don't listen to "With Heat" so much as drift amiably on a cloud that contains its essence. All the elements here — especially those softly reverberating guitar whooshes and twinkly synths — are calibrated for maximum comfort as Rosie Long Decter's voice eases you into a woozily sated slumber.

Listen to Bodywash's "With Heat"

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Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)

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