{"id":3596705,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3596705/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-27T12:34:48-08:00","show":65489,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65489/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space","track_id":"270b4cb1-bf86-3d11-b27a-7aa57a055d12","recording_id":"26820471-555a-4577-a88b-f76e2af54b73","artist":"Spiritualized","artist_ids":["65041e06-83d2-4987-ae52-c17a915fc82a"],"album":"Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space","release_id":"02c019fd-a51a-48b2-bd8f-a64803537dc1","release_group_id":"c88c77da-b9f9-34b9-abdf-ad3cec875aca","labels":["Arista"],"label_ids":["c62e3985-6370-446a-bfb8-f1f6122e9c33"],"release_date":"1997-07-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"In 1995, Jason Pierce – frontman and creative engine of Spiritualized – broke up with his long-time partner (and Spiritualized keyboardist) Kate Radley: a bitter enough situation even before learning that she had married The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft in secret during the same year. Despite Pierce’s claims that many songs from Ladies and Gentlemen were fully written before the fact, the effect that these revelations had on his performance on-record is palpable. The completed album is so unreservedly (and unapologetically) flooded with a melodramatic sense of loss (in words and in delivery) that it’s impossible to ignore its creative context.\n\nThat voice at the beginning of this song is attributed to keyboardist Kate Radley.\n\nhttps://www.spiritualized.com/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}