{"id":3574381,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574381/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-05T16:42:37-08:00","show":65031,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65031/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Human Performance","track_id":"cf3c861e-778e-4e26-acac-cc688f8c5eb1","recording_id":"6154afb7-7ff0-435c-9a99-2eb8546b8978","artist":"Parquet Courts","artist_ids":["e01755e3-58ab-4a5b-a9e9-a0a3bd3dff4c"],"album":"Human Performance","release_id":"cd3ca3d6-8f45-494f-8249-1af38eafbd40","release_group_id":"3353a8a0-a5ab-4970-b34e-090afcc2bba7","labels":["Rough Trade"],"label_ids":["2276f06e-f65a-4d61-9dee-9f95ff4b775c"],"release_date":"2016-04-08","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"This track finds singer-guitarist Andrew Savage troubled by his lack of religious faith. \"Ultimately the song is about living in the company of one's own shame,\" he told NPR. \"Perhaps it was the years spent as an altar boy that gave me an inclination toward repentance and atonement. I've never been a believer, but I can understand the appeal of faith, especially when it includes the promise of unconditional love and forgiveness. Human Performance is about the absence of that faith, and how haunting it is.\"\n---\nCheck out Parquet Courts' 2018 KEXP In-Studio performance: https://bit.ly/3dyHvQJ.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}