{"id":3632442,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3632442/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-22T17:19:48-07:00","show":66252,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66252/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Close To Me","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"The Separate & Mark Lanegan","artist_ids":[],"album":null,"release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":null,"rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Six Degrees of Robert Smith/The Cure!\n\nMark Lanegan's collaboration with The Separate (also known as The Separate Orchestra of Skin and Bone) resulted in this track for their 2012 album, Orchestral Variations. \n\nThe Separate is a musical project and album title featuring the work of orchestral arranger and violinist Fiona Brice. The project's primary release, The Separate: Orchestral Variations Vol. 1, is a collection of contemporary pop covers reimagined for string quartet and guest vocalists. The album features a string quartet as the central ensemble, replacing standard pop instrumentation with orchestral arrangements.\n\nHigh-profile alternative vocalists contributed to the project, most notably Brian Molko of Placebo, who performed a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' \"West End Girls\". Other featured vocalists have included this track with Mark Lanegan.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}