Sonos Radio and Host Hanif Abdurraqib Launch Fourth Season of Object of Sound, Featuring Björk, Carly Rae Jepsen, Danielle Ponder & More To Be Announced

Latest Installment of Acclaimed Music Podcast Begins Today, With In-Depth Conversation From Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist & Multi Grammy-Nominee Madison Cunningham: LISTEN

New Episodes Drop Weekly Through Dec 16th, Blending The Eclectic Curation of Freeform Radio with Textural Storytelling, Personal Interviews, Profound Questions & Playlists

Today, Sonos Radio launches the fourth season of Object of Sound. Hosted by poet, essayist and critic Hanif Abdurraqib, this next installment of the acclaimed podcast will continue to bring listeners in tune with the music shaping culture, as each episode blends the eclectic curation of freeform radio with textural storytelling, and interviews featuring Björk, Carly Rae Jepsen, Danielle Ponder and more upcoming guests to be announced. Beginning with a deep conversation from singer, songwriter, guitarist and multi Grammy-nominee Madison Cunningham out now, the series will further guide its growing audience to newer ways of listening. As Vanity Fair praised of previous Object of Sound seasons, "Abdurraqib doesn't just listen to songs – rather, he seems to absorb and metabolize them. He can intimate what we should be listening to and which conversations we should be having before the rest of us…The resulting interviews feel intentional and expansive."

Spanning 14 episodes, new installments of Object of Sound's fourth season will drop weekly on Fridays, delivering personal interviews, profound questions and unparalleled playlists from now through December 16th.  

Listen to all episodes of Object of Sound anytime, from any device, on Sonos Radio in the Sonos app, the Sonos Radio website, and on all major podcast platforms:

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"Object Of Sound was something that began as a dream in 2020, something that we learned to do well as we were doing it, as we were building an audience of eager listeners, and as I got to become a more eager listener myself," says Hanif Abdurraqib, who was named a MacArthur Fellow and a finalist for the National Book Award in 2021, and awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2022. "Now, as we embark on season four, I feel like we're in the best position we've ever been in terms of audience, in terms of bringing in people who are excited to talk about the nuances of their work. We're in a good groove, and I'm glad to be locked in once again."

After the success of three seasons that have featured Brittany Howard, H.E.R., Jack White, Jazmine Sullivan, Mavis Staples, Moses Sumney, Questlove, Sharon Van Etten, Sufjan Stevens, The National's Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger, Yaeji and dozens of other artists and cultural figures to date, Abdurraqib's hope is still for Object of Sound to uncover more questions than answers, building a community around new music to fall in love with. Having explored everything from the evolution of Afrofuturism to what makes a great cover song, "This is not your average music-discussion podcast…experiences of music become memoirs, of the host and of his guests. Abdurraqib's encyclopedic love and understanding of music is infectious, and applied with delicate care" (The New York Times). 

Object of Sound is produced by Jemma Rose Brown, Kathleen Ottinger and Scott Newman at work x work, Hanif Abdurraqib, plus Joe Dawson at Sonos, and is one of Sonos Radio's flagship series. Bringing together more than 60,000 broadcast radio stations with over 100 exclusive, original stations and shows, Sonos Radio represents the broadest selection of radio available around the world. Additional programming includes a slate of brand new, artist-focused podcasts such as America's Dead - a journey to understand the Grateful Dead's endless impact on music, culture and consciousness - as well as Margo Price's Runaway Horses, featuring interviews with fellow trailblazers such as Bob Weir, Emmylou Harris, Amythyst Kiah, Swamp Dogg, Bettye LaVette and Lucius.

Praise For Object of Sound

"This is not your average music-discussion podcast. In the hands of the poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib, experiences of music become memoirs, of the host and of his guests. Abdurraqib's encyclopedic love and understanding of music is infectious, and applied with delicate care” - The New York Times 

"[Object of Sound] features fascinating, insider conversations with musicians, but deliberately operates outside the churn of a press cycle, or the coldness of the algorithm…The resulting interviews feel intentional and expansive, and Abdurraqib relishes these opportunities to burrow into the underexplored aspects of an artist's oeuvre and career, and locate where their 'shared investments' lie" - Vanity Fair 

"Object of Sound is a playground for Abdurraqib to explore how music shapes culture in impassioned conversations…Abdurraqib is a master at bringing seemingly disparate figures together in accessible and beautiful ways through his writing and curating" - NBC News

"Though there are limitations to modern music discovery, Abdurraqib seeks to snap himself out of those limitations by asking questions of his friends and fellow music listeners. This is what Object of Sound is for: people who want to engage in a music community to break from the tools that define our current media habits" - Forbes 

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About Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore and he is very sorry.) His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. He released Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest with University of Texas press in February 2019. The book became a New York Times Bestseller, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. His second collection of poems, A Fortune For Your Disaster, was released in 2019 by Tin House, and won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Prize. In 2021, he released the book A Little Devil In America with Random House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The book won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize. Hanif is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.