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With their third brilliantly crafted and ingeniously intricate album, Temples have found new ground and a deeper, darker creative well. A glorious technicolor infuses much of the album but there is a David Lynch-ian undertone that adds a gravity to Hot Motion’s soaring moments. “It felt like there was a darker edge to what we were coming up with and we wanted to make sure that carried through the whole record,” said bassist Thomas Walmsley. “It’s not a ten track, relentless rock record from start to finish, it’s got a lot of light and shade and more tender moments, but that heavier, darker sound is something we wanted to explore further.” https://bit.ly/2KMonkM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347466, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347466/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:07:23-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/7c34970e-b509-4a59-aace-da8927ff1f4b/7039866254-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Long Division", "track_id": "7a65521f-0c20-31b8-b26f-4e2244fa15f0", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Death Cab for Cutie", "artist_ids": [ "0039c7ae-e1a7-4a7d-9b49-0cbc716821a6" ], "album": "Narrow Stairs", "release_id": "7c34970e-b509-4a59-aace-da8927ff1f4b", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "2008-05-13", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In October 2007, producer and guitarist Chris Walla said that Death Cab for Cutie's new album \"is in full swing; we're six songs in.\" He went on to say, \"thus far it's pretty weird and pretty spectacular; lots of blood. It's creepy and heavy... we've got a ten minute long Can jam, and had you suggested that possibility to me in 1998, I'd have eaten your puppy's brain with a spoon.\" In a Billboard piece, Walla described the album: \"It's really weird. It's really, really good, I think, but it's totally a curve ball, and I think it's gonna be a really polarizing record. But I'm really excited about it. It's really got some teeth. The landscape of the thing is way, way more lunar than the urban meadow sort of thing that has been happening for the last couple of records.\" Walla went on to say, \"[It's also] louder and more dissonant and [...] I think abrasive would be a good word to use. [We were influenced by] heavy, sludgy, slow metal [and] synth-punk band Brainiac.\" Ben Gibbard commented, \"I just don't feel like we really have anything to prove of it other than to ourselves and to making a record we really enjoy.\"\n\nIn 2011 Walla stated, \"the master plan for Narrow Stairs was to be as invisible and hands-off as a producer as I possibly could. I was really interested in seeing what would happen. When we started that record, we had been on tour for the better part of two years. All we could remember was being on stage and playing. So the whole idea was: what happens if we’re just on stage and we play, except we’re in the studio and we’re recording?\" Walla added \"Narrow Stairs was very much a commitment to just crashing through the songs as we recorded them, like four people in a room.\" https://bit.ly/2YhwVTv", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347468, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347468/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:11:12-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/296e29f3-3cce-4eb9-9f4d-a126aab4e545/11403616244-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Closer", "track_id": "d2024b68-4a05-4345-aa0b-4b060855ce9d", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Tegan and Sara", "artist_ids": [ "d13f0f47-36f9-4661-87fe-2de56f45c649" ], "album": "Heartthrob", "release_id": "296e29f3-3cce-4eb9-9f4d-a126aab4e545", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Vapor Records" ], "label_ids": [ "dd58c28f-554d-4d76-be30-2d3aab070b3a" ], "release_date": "2013-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347469, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347469/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:14:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Tilted", "track_id": "8fadb3ae-3cfa-4a45-b95d-f7ae985682ec", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Christine and the Queens", "artist_ids": [ "9c90ffbf-b137-4dee-bfcc-b8010787840d" ], "album": "Christine and the Queens", "release_id": "da1032a8-97b0-416c-a3b6-75dff76a4e9c", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Neon Gold" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2015-10-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Héloïse Adelaide Letissier was born on 1 June 1988 in Nantes, France. Her father, Georges Letissier, teaches English at the University of Nantes and specialises in Victorian era literature.[ Her mother taught both French and Latin at a local middle school.[14] Her parents recommended writers such as Sarah Waters and Judith Butler, whose works served both as inspiration and reference in Letissier's youth. Letissier studied theatre at École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), moving to Paris in 2010, where she concluded her studies. When she visited London in 2010, she was inspired by the work of local drag queen musicians, including Russella, who accompanied her in one of her early concerts. They then became her \"Queens\" as a backing band. She dedicated many of her creations to them and to all transgender individuals, describing her genre as \"freakpop.\" https://bit.ly/2LtIN1h", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347470, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347470/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:19:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Palm Springs", "track_id": "ffba06e1-f099-4357-af27-9d32b2543abc", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Astronautica", "artist_ids": [ "f949535a-d686-4f51-82aa-cb894f0995f8" ], "album": "Gemini", "release_id": "e9b6a1d8-e13e-4c66-b9a5-9542d2963b02", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Alpha Pup Records" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2016-01-29", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Edrina Martinez, better known by her stage name Astronautica, is an experimental electronic, indie, hip hop, and beat music producer. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California, and signed with Alpha Pup Records, an independent label co-founded by Daddy Kev of Low End Theory. She produces music using Ableton Live, Akai APC40 MKII, Novation Launchpad Pro, Push, and Novation Launchkey 61. https://bit.ly/2XbThEK", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347471, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347471/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:24:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 347472, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347472/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:27:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Murder", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "New Order", "artist_ids": [ "f1106b17-dcbb-45f6-b938-199ccfab50cc" ], "album": "Thieves Like Us/Murder 12\"", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Factory Benelux" ], "label_ids": [ "477945ba-d0b6-41b4-8c0a-935344a6366c" ], "release_date": "1984-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This track was only properly released in Belgium, so the song has really taken on an intense “hidden gem” status. Released on the Factory Benelux label in 1984, it is an instrumental piece that contains samples of dialogue from the films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Caligula. It was recorded in winter 1982 during the sessions for the band's second album, Power, Corruption & Lies.\n\nThe B-side is an instrumental version of the previous single by the group, \"Thieves Like Us\".\n\n'\"Murder\" was only released in Belgium as a single, but was available in the UK on import and made number 92. As such, it is the band's only release to miss the UK Top 75.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347473, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347473/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:30:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "At Home He’s a Tourist", "track_id": "6b6fb48f-f03a-3349-bdb5-d52ede23f596", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Gang of Four", "artist_ids": [ "d8661c02-f423-4d72-8044-40ff05daf7a1" ], "album": "Entertainment!", "release_id": "ba5f41ea-f20c-3a77-9522-5c129a3f15bd", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "EMI" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1979-09-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The album's artwork was designed by band members Jon King and Andy Gill. The cover, designed by King, shows the influence of the Situationist International, a group which became famous during the Paris '68 student-led revolution in France. The cover depicts an \"Indian\" shaking hands with a \"cowboy\" in three heavily processed versions of the same image, based on a still from one of the Winnetou films starring Lex Barker and Pierre Brice, which had once been popular in communist East Germany as critical narratives of capitalism. The faces are reduced to blobs of red and white — that is, to the stereotypical racial colours. A text that winds around the images reads, \"The Indian smiles, he thinks that the cowboy is his friend. The cowboy smiles, he is glad the Indian is fooled. Now he can exploit him.\" In this way, it approaches themes of exploitation, but taken with the lyrical content of the album, it may also point to simplistic depictions of ethnic, social or political conflict in the media as \"cowboys and Indians\". <br><br>\n\nThe album's back cover depicts a family whose father says, \"I spend most of our money on myself so that I can stay fat\", while the mother and children declare, \"We're grateful for his leftovers\". On the album's inner sleeve, small photographs depicting scenes shown on television are interlaced with text illustrating what the band suggests are the misleading subtexts of media presentation: \"The facts are presented neutrally so that the public can make up its own mind\"; \"Men act heroically to defend their country\"; \"People are given what they want.\" https://bit.ly/2HCIHAE", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347475, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347475/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:33:55-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/e0d7ede8-85be-4a35-8a13-34204d0ec1dd/23362381215-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "No Bullets Spent", "track_id": "dba0a63c-5467-4cb6-a043-815754e6d3c2", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Spoon", "artist_ids": [ "84eac621-1c5a-49a1-9500-555099c6e184" ], "album": "No Bullets Spent", "release_id": "e0d7ede8-85be-4a35-8a13-34204d0ec1dd", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Matador" ], "label_ids": [ "229bd4be-8cd7-442c-85b0-5007ea353abc" ], "release_date": "2019-06-19", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This new track will live alongside a dozen other tracks from across the Spoon catalog in the upcoming best-of collection, Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon. \"The idea of doing a best-of came to us a couple times,\" Daniel says in a press release announcing the record. \"First I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but at some point I remembered that when I got my first Cure record it was Standing on a Beach. When I got my first New Order record, it was Substance. That was how I met those bands, and I moved backwards from there but I still listen to those comps.\" https://n.pr/2Xbs8BK", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347478, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347478/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:37:30-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/1e083c71-1e90-4d2d-81e2-8676b4c38096/19913056980-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "MJ", "track_id": "57d69f01-ac67-442a-9697-e4893edba2a7", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Now, Now", "artist_ids": [ "e3c24e1c-1e43-403b-8407-90c8c4107098" ], "album": "Saved", "release_id": "1e083c71-1e90-4d2d-81e2-8676b4c38096", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Trans Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d35da0bc-91df-4fee-81c1-f18b0f3a18da" ], "release_date": "2018-05-18", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Brad Hale and KC Dalager a.k.a the Minneapolis electro-pop duo Now, Now, have shared a new song called \"MJ.\" The groovy and big-hearted dancefloor filler premiered at DIY, who confirmed that the title are indeed the initials of a pop legend.\n\n\"This song was written from the perspective of me speaking to Michael Jackson about a deteriorating relationship. He’s my childhood idol and someone I looked up to that has influenced my life. I felt he was someone that was a connecting point between me and someone else, only to realize that was used as a connecting point between that person and another person. So this song is me venting to Michael about that situation.\" https://bit.ly/2NnDSl8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347480, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347480/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:41:25-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 347481, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347481/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:43:46-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/0ece57aa-7bf7-4051-9a2d-c7346e67af90/22971458972-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Don’t Wanna Let You Go", "track_id": "0fe15878-f3ac-4c6c-9827-9a1010aa87e6", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Imperial Teen", "artist_ids": [ "7d478bd2-d228-46a8-8a7c-ef68a61fd339" ], "album": "Now We Are Timeless", "release_id": "0ece57aa-7bf7-4051-9a2d-c7346e67af90", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Merge Records" ], "label_ids": [ "5a4f8d65-681e-4a1f-85a8-a874c9513888" ], "release_date": "2019-07-12", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The band wrote and recorded the new album in the cities the individual members have geographically gravitated to: New York City, the Bay Area, Denver, and Los Angeles. Themes of time and movement, averting and succumbing to crisis, dealing with loss and pain are all represented on the record, but what rings triumphant is the undeniable joy and catharsis that come from the band’s spontaneous and improvisational approach to making music together. In strict keeping with the band’s roots of creating seemingly clean, pop presentations as a springboard for dramatic themes of loneliness, triumph, suicide, success, and failure, Now We Are Timeless moves us into a realm of inevitability for the band. Limited edition LP pressed on blue marble vinyl. https://bit.ly/2NkLfKa", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347484, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347484/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:47:32-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/b5be52c1-9c7c-4e7e-a8c2-5e2de309a11d/21164902564-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Blind", "track_id": "7057f151-1601-3abf-b710-6bbb32efc339", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Hercules and Love Affair", "artist_ids": [ "b62ecfe7-b2e6-4d40-b7d2-8f12d3f51ed6" ], "album": "Hercules and Love Affair", "release_id": "b5be52c1-9c7c-4e7e-a8c2-5e2de309a11d", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Mute Corporation" ], "label_ids": [ "68523539-169d-481a-984d-8cc997fb6ea2" ], "release_date": "2008-06-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Blind\" was written by Anohni and Andrew Butler. The song began as a poem by Butler before it was recorded by Anohni. https://bit.ly/2Jh2nLl <br><br> The music video was directed by Saam Farahmand and features English actress Jaime Winstone walking through a Greek ritualistic orgy. Doric columns and a lot of swirling mist are seen throughout the video. https://vimeo.com/2841788", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347486, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347486/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T15:54:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", "track_id": "e51373e2-8ec1-3dac-8954-51802c74346c", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Sylvester", "artist_ids": [ "4d3b710b-a5f0-4772-97db-f09e47fbc6d8" ], "album": "Step II", "release_id": "eedf263a-089e-4824-b913-bb9e2e4b2a2a", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Fantasy" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1978-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In 2019, \"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)\" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". <br><br>The song was originally recorded as a mid-tempo piano driven gospel song, however after producer Patrick Cowley saw a rehearsal of the song at San Francisco's city disco, he offered to remix the song. The result was one of the pioneering disco records using some electronic instrumentation and effects, following closely on \"I Feel Love\" by Donna Summer which heavily used electronic instrumentation ahead of its time. These 1970s songs using electronic instrumentation would have an influence on 1980s and 1990s dance music, which in turn, would have an influence on dance music in the next century. https://bit.ly/2XBayvw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347487, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347487/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T16:00:10-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 347489, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347489/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T16:01:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Love Yourself", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Sufjan Stevens", "artist_ids": [ "01d3c51b-9b98-418a-8d8e-37f6fab59d8c" ], "album": "Love Yourself/With My Whole Heart", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1950-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Sufjan Stevens is celebrating Pride Month (which begins June 1) with the release of two new songs. The first, \"Love Yourself\" is based on a sketch Stevens originally wrote and recorded in 1996. A limited edition vinyl version of the songs is available TODAY. A portion of the sales will go to two organizations that offer support for LGBTQ and homeless children: the Ali Forney Center in Harlem, N.Y., and the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit, Mich. <br><br>This is Sufjan Stevens' first new music since releasing the single \"Lonely Man of Winter\" in 2018. He also contributed the songs \"Mystery of Love\" and \"Visions of Gideon\" to the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name. https://n.pr/2Ifzkav", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347490, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347490/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T16:05:19-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/4ea2da09-19d6-4342-94c1-1ac3969ad2e2/23351400472-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Not the News", "track_id": "8fa82422-d286-4121-9727-0cdf97dc675d", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Thom Yorke", "artist_ids": [ "8ed2e0b3-aa4c-4e13-bec3-dc7393ed4d6b" ], "album": "ANIMA", "release_id": "4ea2da09-19d6-4342-94c1-1ac3969ad2e2", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "XL Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "14221f01-8939-4ea0-b8f1-b5a21beae80a" ], "release_date": "2019-06-27", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Thom Yorke will perform at The Paramount Theatre on October 20, 2019. <br><br>Yorke wrote Anima following a period of writer's block and anxiety. Inspired by seeing electronic musician Flying Lotus improvising live with loops, Yorke and longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich developed Anima through live performances and studio work. Yorke would send Godrich \"sprawling\" unfinished tracks and Godrich would edit the tracks into shorter samples and loops, which Yorke wrote vocals to. They performed several Anima tracks, including \"Not the News\", on the Tomorrow's Modern Boxes tour. Radiohead drummer Philip Selway contributed \"sped up drums\" to \"Impossible Knots\", and Atoms for Peace drummer Joey Waronker appears in the end of \"The Axe.\" <br><br> Anima comprises electronic music with \"layers of electronic fuzz and deconstructed noise\". Yorke said the themes include anxiety and dystopia: \"For some reason I thought a really good way of expressing anxiety creatively was in a dystopian environment.\" The title Anima, a reference to the psychotherapist Carl Jung's concepts of the anima and animus, came from Yorke's \"obsession\" with dreams. https://bit.ly/2YjNgHr", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347491, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347491/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T16:09:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Smalltown Boy", "track_id": "706df609-434c-31c9-808a-2fb9c6c98cc1", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Bronski Beat", "artist_ids": [ "27acebf2-5440-42a7-9db6-19ad2c9dea38" ], "album": "The Age of Consent", "release_id": "e9f31b3d-67e7-425f-9d0b-67a67bd489f8", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Metronome" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1984-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The song is a popular gay anthem and was a big commercial success, reaching number 3 in the band's native UK. An official music video was shot and released later in 1984. https://bit.ly/2xhz0TI <br><br>The narrative video features band member Jimmy Somerville as the boy who has experienced the issues described in the lyrics. Seen on a train, he is contemplating his childhood through flashbacks and the events that have caused him to leave his parents' home.\n\nAt a swimming pool, his friends (played by band members Larry Steinbachek and Steve Bronski) dare him to approach a boy that he is attracted to, for which he is later attacked in an alley by a homophobic gang led by the young man he had approached at the swimming pool. A police officer brings him back to his home. It is implied that the boy's parents learn of his homosexuality for the first time through this incident and are shocked, but only the father seems unsupportive. The boy is then shown hugging his mother goodbye and catching a train to London, on which he is reunited with his friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=88sARuFu-tc", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 347493, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347493/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-28T16:13:00-07:00", "show": 5786, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Santorini", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Donny Benét", "artist_ids": [ "b5902d08-cc36-4748-bc78-d2090cc7ec9a" ], "album": "The Don", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1950-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Benét was exposed to music from an early age as his father Antonio Giacomelli Benét was an Italian Disco accordionist and taught Donny to play the accordion and the electric bass. Benét played his first shows as an accordionist and synth player in Italian bands around Sydney until in the mid-2000s when he moved to Las Vegas to perform solo Tom Jones covers and disco classics at the Airport Hilton Ballroom. He returned to Australia in 2010 and played in Jack Ladder's band The Dreamlanders and began recording his own songs in his father's home studio Donnyland Studios. In 2011 he signed with Rice is Nice records and released Don't Hold Back, which was received with interest from Australian music media, publications praising Benét's sincere take on 80's pop music. <br><br>Benét's music mostly consists of synthesizers, but also features electronic drum machines, saxophone and electric bass, all of which (excluding saxophone) are played by Benét and looped through ableton software in both his recorded works and live shows. Benét cites among his influences Jan Hammer, proponent of the Moog synthesizer and creator of the Miami Vice soundtrack as well as 80's artists Alan Vega and Prince. The sexual nature of his lyrics arise from his experiences playing Tom Jones covers in the Airport Hilton Ballroom, Benét writing that he \"had to sexualise his songs a lot more to keep (the audience) interested, make them a little bit more risqué, and I think that carried over to my own songs.\" In a 2018 interview he explained, \"I'm kind of always poking the piss at what a poor lover I am or you know, fictitiously what a great lover I could be.\" https://bit.ly/2XaZ4KT", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
