{"id":3573855,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3573855/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-04T09:32:17-08:00","show":65020,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65020/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Policy of Truth","track_id":"80b4109f-d937-3f3c-863b-e0694bef7aa6","recording_id":"8897f48f-7e5e-44ad-b814-325dc32edd4a","artist":"Depeche Mode","artist_ids":["8538e728-ca0b-4321-b7e5-cff6565dd4c0"],"album":"Violator","release_id":"0644af17-471f-3736-830c-888b3205c009","release_group_id":"71f1482e-e63f-3b2c-811b-939f62708f2a","labels":["Sire Records"],"label_ids":["be0fec81-5c18-4494-8bbf-0d81dec006bf"],"release_date":"1990-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Policy of Truth is from Depeche Mode’s 1990 album ‘Violator’, our album of the week!\n\nWhen recording the album, the band decided to try a new approach to recording. Alan Wilder said, \"Usually we begin the making of a record by having extensive pre-production meetings where we decide what the record will actually sound like, then go into a programming studio. This time we decided to keep all pre-production work to a minimum. We were beginning to have a problem with boredom in that we felt we'd reached a certain level of achievement in doing things a certain way.\"\n\nMartin Gore told NME, \"Over the last five years I think we'd perfected a formula; my demos, a month in a programming studio, etc. etc. We decided that our first record of the '90s ought to be different.\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}