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Albin Lee Meldau: Tiny Desk Concert

Albin Lee Meldau possesses a thunderous, deeply affecting voice, which he uses to tell some utterly dark, but demonstrably cathartic, tales.
Albin Lee Meldau performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 12, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

Few singers can command an audience's attention quite like Albin Lee Meldau. When I first saw him perform, at a church in Austin, Texas during South By Southwest last March, it felt like the entire audience was on the

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