{"id":3595423,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3595423/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-24T16:34:45-08:00","show":65466,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65466/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"White Winter Hymnal","track_id":"497e332f-3f81-3a4e-af05-ea8d3158ef1d","recording_id":"c835a61b-dcdb-41be-82d8-e52b4a1c8d0b","artist":"Fleet Foxes","artist_ids":["fa97dd36-1b82-43d7-a6e4-2adeafd59cef"],"album":"Fleet Foxes","release_id":"d99d7f59-44ad-4fbd-a837-0dc00576f01b","release_group_id":"af9a5099-04c5-3aaf-b0d1-fa160bd92e02","labels":["Sub Pop Records"],"label_ids":["38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474"],"release_date":"2008-06-03","rotation_status":null,"is_local":true,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde, the head of record label Bella Union, was considering shutting the label down due to financial troubles, but after hearing a demo version of \"White Winter Hymnal,\" he was motivated to continue going on and signed Fleet Foxes to the label based on how much he liked the song.\n\nRaymond reveals, \"[A friend] sent me this demo of a track called 'White Winter Hymnal.' I played it when I went back to my room that night. This was when I was just about to give up doing Bella Union, if you could believe I would do such a thing, and I heard this track and thought, 'I have to sign that band.'\n\n\"That saved my life, that song. And I wrote to them that night, a very, very, very long letter and I heard back from Robin, the singer, within a couple of days.\n\n\"It just turned out he was in Norway too, visiting some family, we met up and we got on like a house on fire and here we are I suppose. The Fleet Foxes thing really did change my life in every single way, because it gave me the belief.\" https://tinyurl.com/yv5mk87x","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}