{"id":3665017,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3665017/?format=json","airdate":"2026-06-07T17:02:21-07:00","show":66928,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66928/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"I Am This Thing","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Robyn Hitchcock","artist_ids":[],"album":null,"release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":null,"rotation_status":"R/N","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Robyn Hitchcock has announced a new album, The Confuser, which will be out July 24th on Tiny Ghost Records. Depending on how and what you count, this is around his 23rd long-player and features Jeremy Fetzer (guitar), Todd Bolden (bass), and Eric Slick (drums), plus Robyn’s old Soft Boys bandmate Kimberly Rew.\n\n“Can you recall first realising that you were basically just a tenant in your body: that it’s not yours in perpetuity? (Can I, for that matter?),” Robyn muses in a lead-up to talking about “I Am This Think,” the album’s first single. “It came to me in the summer of 2022, a golden age all of its own. I was standing waist-deep in the chilly English sea on Compton Bay, my favourite Isle of Wight beach, and found myself singing it, splashing about in the waves like a 5-year-old. I was that age when I first visited the Island, so perhaps being back in those waters for the first time since the pandemic triggered that song.”\n\nhttps://www.brooklynvegan.com/robyn-hitchcock-announces-new-album-the-confuser-shares-i-am-this-thing/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}