Clockwise from upper left: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay of LUMP, Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest, Childish Gambino, Ages And Ages Courtesy of the artists hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artists In the days since Chidlish Gambino debuted – as well as online – fans and music critics have been trying to unspool what it all means. On this week's show, NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael joins us to try to make sense of 'This Is America' and to explain why people will be dissecting both the song and video for months. Also on the program: Pure pop joy from the Portland, Ore., band Ages And Ages; the guitar-and-pop bedroom project of Brooklyn-based artist pronoun; and Car Seat Headrest gives guitar rock a jolt of new life on the song 'My Boy (Twin Fantasy).' All that plus the soaring, multi-layered anthems of Cautious Clay; dance-pop looper and beat-maker Alice Ivy; and a new collaboration between Mike Lindsay of the band Tunng and singer Laura Marling that they call LUMP. Embed Ages And Ages • Song: Needle And Thread Ages And Ages frontman Tim Perry says he wrote this bouncy pop romp when he began to question which was better: Life in a bubble or life tethered to a 24-hour news cycle with soul-crushing headlines. 'I see our current polarized socio/political/cultural environment as one continuous, tattered and crusty piece of fabric - and here I am with my needle and thread, not so sure how or even if I want to weave myself into it all.' Embed pronoun • Song: Wrong pronoun is otherwise known as Alyse Vellturo, a Brooklyn-based artist who says she chose the name to reflect her need to work alone.