{"id":3641687,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3641687/?format=json","airdate":"2026-04-13T20:42:01-07:00","show":66446,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66446/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/e9116215-455b-4cd4-a97b-e6750745c06a/21535433590-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/e9116215-455b-4cd4-a97b-e6750745c06a/21535433590-250.jpg","song":"Magnétique","track_id":null,"recording_id":"74866926-d166-4729-942c-4983806c7344","artist":"La bande-son imaginaire","artist_ids":["eb92ba5b-89a3-4e4a-86af-d2e110bfe442"],"album":"Mezcal a pleno vuelo","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"675a680e-faa7-4507-9343-750078b8df25","labels":["[no label]"],"label_ids":["157afde4-4bf5-4039-8ad2-5a15acc85176"],"release_date":"2018-04-05","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"La Bande-Son Imaginaire’s “Magnétique” lives up to its name with a beautifully measured pull. Released in 2018 as part of Mezcal a pleno vuelo, the Oaxaca project places itself in a zone where synth-driven darkness, cinematic pacing, and nocturnal sensuality all converge. The Bandcamp release and streaming listings point to a group rooted in Mexico but reaching toward a wider dream of coldwave and electronic post-punk, and “Magnétique” feels like one of those tracks where atmosphere is not background but structure. It draws the listener in gradually, through tone, pulse, and suggestion. That magnetism is not flashy. It is patient, which makes it more persuasive. The title promises attraction, but the song’s deeper strength lies in ambiguity: what exactly is being pulled toward what, and with what consequences? Tracks like this work because they avoid explaining too much. Instead, they let texture do the emotional labor. La Bande-Son Imaginaire seem especially attuned to that method, treating electronic instrumentation not as sterile machinery but as a medium for mood and tension. “Magnétique” feels poised between seduction and disorientation, as if desire itself had become an electrical field. It is sleek without being empty, dark without becoming blunt, and memorable precisely because it knows how to let a song unfold like a spell rather than a declaration. \u2028Listen: https://labandeson.bandcamp.com/track/magn-tique","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}