{"id":3594075,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594075/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-21T15:27:07-08:00","show":65440,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"For Now I Am Winter","track_id":null,"recording_id":"f3192763-086c-46a6-ad83-5bc71c0fe585","artist":"Ólafur Arnalds feat. Arnór Dan","artist_ids":["6655955b-1c1e-4bcb-84e4-81bcd9efab30","02d6d00b-1f27-4781-bc51-cbd3e7b45a58"],"album":"For Now I Am Winter","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"3e4c0fe3-e9f5-42e2-b907-42dc234fe793","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2013-02-22","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"If the sublime vocals sound familiar, you may have heard Arnór Dan singing the vocals to Ólafur Arnalds' Broadchurch soundtrack. If you haven't yet, check out \"So Close\" here: https://tinyurl.com/229ss22z, and \"So Far\": https://tinyurl.com/bd9jmypa\n\nArnalds performed songs live from this album in a stirring in-studio here at KEXP in 2013; relive that magic here: https://tinyurl.com/29tj35ua\n\nThe living, breathing aspect of Arnalds’ music is more evident here than on his previous six years’ worth of albums and EPs, which makes Winter easily his most straightforwardly accessible and mainstream-leaning effort to date. Which is impressive: he juggles so many clashing elements and aesthetics that it’s a wonder he can stand up straight. \n\nArnalds began his music career playing drums in hardcore bands (the charmingly named Fighting Shit among them), before turning to a head-trippy combination of ambient electronic and minimalist classical, landing somewhere between prog rock and post-rock. It’s quite a concoction, balancing the elegant precision of classical overtures with loose-limbed, mechanical clank and clatter. The beats aren’t exactly block-rockin’ — more like grains of sand that Arnalds turns into pop pearls. https://tinyurl.com/3x69ry37","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}