{"id":3543282,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3543282/?format=json","airdate":"2025-08-22T12:26:39-07:00","show":64355,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64355/?format=json","image_uri":"https://www.kexp.org/filer/canonical/1588181844/22496/","thumbnail_uri":"https://www.kexp.org/filer/canonical/1588181847/22497/","song":"Planet Desperation","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Car Seat Headrest","artist_ids":[],"album":"Live on KEXP","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":["KEXP"],"label_ids":["89e0503e-96f0-41b4-835f-2c542b7fcb44"],"release_date":"2025-08-22","rotation_status":"R/N","is_local":true,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"At nearly 19 minutes, \"Planet Desperation\" is the penultimate track off The Scholars.\n\n\"[Will] Toledo has been transparent online about living with long COVID, and while the age of the flagellating 'pandemic album' has largely passed, the ivy-clad world of The Scholars was deeply informed by a still-ongoing period of what Toledo describes as a 'scholarship of faith' brought on by his illness.\"\n\nHe said of the the themes of faith on this album: \"[I no longer felt like], \"Oh, I'm just a secular person, I have this academic interest in religion. For the most part, I believe in science. I believe in voting blue. I believe in the stuff that my parents kind of unquestioningly believed in as well. I'm kind of seeing a bigger picture, and a lot of it is not about faith at all. It's about doubt, and it's about these structures that I held as sacrosanct and unquestioningly followed — I'm starting to doubt them a lot more, and trying to figure out what life looks like without those particular walls.\"\n\nRead more from this interview: https://tinyurl.com/4ztcf6d9","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}