Billie Eilish is the most recent artist to grace NPR’s well-loved Tiny Desk live performance collection. On December twelfth, Eilish visited the Washington, D.C. set to carry out 4 re-imagined tracks from her 2024 album Hit Me Arduous And Mushy: “The Greatest,” “L’Amour De Ma Vie,” “i love you,” and “Birds Of A Feather.” She carried out alongside a small band together with her brother and lead producer, Finneas, on guitar; Andrew Marshall on drums; Solo Smith on bass; and Abe Nouri on piano.
NPR’s Anamaria Sayre wrote of Eilish’ present: “Every breath is so full of indulgent melancholy, hopeful regret, at 22 years old she’s become a captivating fixture of what it means, or rather what it feels, to love and lose simultaneously.” The pared-down setting is a far cry from Eilish’ present Hit Me Arduous And Mushy tour, which started in September in North America and can make stops in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand in 2025.
Hit Me Arduous And Mushy, which Eilish launched in Could 2024, has obtained widespread acclaim from each followers, who despatched the album to No. 1 on the Billboard charts in additional than 20 international locations, and critics. The document is up for six totally different awards on the 2025 Grammys: Album of the Yr, Greatest Pop Vocal Album, Tune of the Yr and File of the Yr. This 12 months, she gained each Tune of the Yr and Greatest Tune Written for Visible Media for her Barbie: The Album providing “What Was I Made For?”
Since NPR held its first Tiny Desk in 2008, they’ve hosted numerous artists and bands on the intimate stage. Previous to Eilish’s present, latest performers included the forged of Broadway’s Stereophonic, the rapper Doechii, the Americana group Outdated Crow Medication Present, and indie rocker Rosie Tucker.
Hearken to Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT.
