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Fog has become a full-fledged band, rounded out by drummer Andy Sells and bassist Casey Rosebridge. A closeness exists between the three which belies the tried-and-true method of an accomplished solo artist enlisting hired guns; in conversation, Rosebridge half-jokes that the band has been mistaken for a throuple.\n\n\"On a purely musical level, Mt. Fog exists as somewhat of an anomaly in Seattle’s contemporary music scene. (That’s not to say they are the only band that fits the bill; there are a handful of notable exceptions to this rule.) In a vast and endless sea of rock bands—ranging in quality from adequate-but-dull to legitimately great—Mt. Fog lies in the space between classical and the modernist avant-garde; mostly devoid of six-string guitars and standard song structure; containing old-world mysticism and something far beyond the present day in the opposite direction.\" https://tinyurl.com/bdfre76p", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594109, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594109/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:44:27-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3594108, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594108/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:43:41-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia902900.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b-20814408898_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902900.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b-20814408898_thumb250.jpg", "song": "undir", "track_id": "8d3b87da-1efd-4d40-b600-da20b55a879d", "recording_id": "b98efa7c-aaf8-46de-82d1-cb0fdf5a4382", "artist": "Ólafur Arnalds", "artist_ids": [ "6655955b-1c1e-4bcb-84e4-81bcd9efab30" ], "album": "re:member", "release_id": "79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b", "release_group_id": "8c1144c4-2dbc-470b-af0d-bcc24a27eb59", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2018-08-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594106, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594106/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:40:06-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Good Night, Day", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3e15618f-e946-4849-840c-cade2395f236", "artist": "Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra, Anthony Weeden", "artist_ids": [ "8a399a51-6b93-448e-82c0-f86c83602605", "578c1e77-4756-44dd-86a9-b1e71a5b635e", "61421ca3-727a-4974-bdd5-a21a080be43b", "0f2a0a99-d3e8-4cec-b289-964243010840" ], "album": "Orphée", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5a35595d-05c5-48df-bbd1-777aac538ae2", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2016-09-16", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The music of Orphée is inspired by Jean Cocteau's film of the same name, Ovid's interpretation of the Orpheus myth, and Jóhann Jóhannsson's own life changes, specifically his relocation from Copenhagen to Berlin.\n\nThe album includes contributions from Jóhannsson (on piano, electronics, pipe organ, and electric organ), Hildur Guðnadóttir (on cello), the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra (conducted by Anthony Weeden), and the Theatre of Voices (conducted by Paul Hillier). https://tinyurl.com/2nja8bzm\n\nIn the traditional Greek myth, the grief-stricken musician Orpheus journeys to the underworld to reclaim his dead wife, Eurydice, charming Hades with his lyre. He almost succeeds, but loses her forever by looking back at her before they reach the surface, defying the god's single condition and succumbing to his own grief and doubt.\n\nBack in 2017, our beloved Jóhann, along with his friends in American Contemporary Music Ensemble, graced KEXP with a heartbreakingly beautiful in-studio session. You can check out video from that performance here, https://tinyurl.com/yru5r65u, and enjoy photos here: https://tinyurl.com/3vjermb4", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594105, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594105/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:35:21-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803205.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-f5e83da8-678d-4d54-b3ae-c2e051167a4c/mbid-f5e83da8-678d-4d54-b3ae-c2e051167a4c-9233011263_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia803205.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-f5e83da8-678d-4d54-b3ae-c2e051167a4c/mbid-f5e83da8-678d-4d54-b3ae-c2e051167a4c-9233011263_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Jim Cain", "track_id": "cb1eabf0-470f-38cd-a37b-5ecfe2c94fd6", "recording_id": "129ef3be-434e-4855-a95e-1fb4ff921df1", "artist": "Bill Callahan", "artist_ids": [ "c309d914-93af-4b3f-8058-d79c75ea89da" ], "album": "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle", "release_id": "f5e83da8-678d-4d54-b3ae-c2e051167a4c", "release_group_id": "67caf928-e13e-35fb-9faf-2777c007d59f", "labels": [ "Drag City" ], "label_ids": [ "b5d3c9c7-5f73-4ebc-b400-e5075c9101a4" ], "release_date": "2009-04-14", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Kevin Cole's favorite album of 2009! https://kexp.org/50\n\nBill Callahan began performing under the band name Smog; this is from his second album under his own name.\n\nThis song was written about crime-fiction author James M Cain, famous for books such as Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and The Postman Always Rings Twice.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594104, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594104/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:30:54-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Making It Through", "track_id": "a5f48a7e-0d0e-4463-835a-7ce14402a16b", "recording_id": "671f48cc-fb53-4b7f-a94b-ce537d410c0b", "artist": "Angie McMahon", "artist_ids": [ "2ce4f102-23e6-42c4-84a2-3c13d24e1b66" ], "album": "Light, Dark, Light Again", "release_id": "58b77702-5b84-474d-bc45-725fb0361499", "release_group_id": "ef4d5b18-655e-400d-9a21-900ed81ac650", "labels": [ "AWAL Recordings Ltd", "Gracie Music" ], "label_ids": [ "1a59ec10-ab09-450c-86ec-04f1796be3fd", "db617dbc-dd3a-43a3-85bf-06c7d81060b2" ], "release_date": "2023-10-27", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Guardian's Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen writes, \"Light, Dark, Light Again is a record of this moment, capturing something true about the time we live in and the way in which so many of us exist. There is fear and unease in these songs, but there’s also a quiet determination and reclamation of the mind and the self.\n\n\"This beautiful, soothing record shows McMahon’s skills not only as a songwriter and storyteller but as a wise guide for the busy and anxious modern mind. Another cliche, perhaps, but it’s true: these songs are an invitation to slow down, to listen, to observe, to accept, to exist among the madness of it all.\" https://tinyurl.com/4jnnsxhp\n\nAngie performed a sublime performance live in our studios, hosted by Kevin Cole; check it out here: https://tinyurl.com/3ev79kh5", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594101, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594101/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:25:59-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia904500.us.archive.org/6/items/mbid-8ecf178e-5039-39b9-883a-3edbacbd732e/mbid-8ecf178e-5039-39b9-883a-3edbacbd732e-4870397687_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia804500.us.archive.org/6/items/mbid-8ecf178e-5039-39b9-883a-3edbacbd732e/mbid-8ecf178e-5039-39b9-883a-3edbacbd732e-4870397687_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Sister Winter", "track_id": "6950274f-fc1c-3113-a0a4-cbf10ceebb9f", "recording_id": "653dcdc9-e7d1-42b4-a284-7f2ea0a1430c", "artist": "Sufjan Stevens", "artist_ids": [ "01d3c51b-9b98-418a-8d8e-37f6fab59d8c" ], "album": "Songs for Christmas Sampler", "release_id": "cc9a659e-e706-486f-b8fc-f11cb1984a9e", "release_group_id": "a3cac6e5-1c69-3807-80d3-7380c8539965", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2006-10-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Songs for Christmas, stylized as Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas on the cover, is a box set of five separate EPs of Christmas-related songs and carols recorded by independent musician Sufjan Stevens between 2001 and 2006.\n\nThe EPs had been given as gifts to friends and family of Stevens over the past six years, except for 2004 when he was too busy recording the Illinois album. Though the first three EPs had already been available on Sufjan Stevens-related fansites for several years, Songs for Christmas is the first official release of these EPs.\n\nMost of the tracks are versions of traditional Christmas songs, with a number of original compositions such as \"Sister Winter\" and \"Star of Wonder.\" Sufjan Stevens has developed a reputation for being a devoted Christian and many of the songs he chose for inclusion on Songs for Christmas are religious in nature, including his original compositions. https://tinyurl.com/msf8y938", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594100, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594100/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:23:24-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802900.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b-20814408898_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902900.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b/mbid-79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b-20814408898_thumb250.jpg", "song": "re:member", "track_id": "7cc8a6f1-980f-4381-a1eb-bfa9d355a433", "recording_id": "7748940e-6d43-40b3-a123-5467e3e89468", "artist": "Ólafur Arnalds", "artist_ids": [ "6655955b-1c1e-4bcb-84e4-81bcd9efab30" ], "album": "re:member", "release_id": "79130656-278a-4916-a576-bd9afcff0a7b", "release_group_id": "8c1144c4-2dbc-470b-af0d-bcc24a27eb59", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2018-08-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594099, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594099/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:20:00-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3594098, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594098/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:19:43-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Þú ert sólin", "track_id": "ea0559a7-9cfb-344b-9e47-9b830b06f9cd", "recording_id": "64a113cd-51f4-456a-acab-1a1ee0606a6e", "artist": "Ólafur Arnalds", "artist_ids": [ "6655955b-1c1e-4bcb-84e4-81bcd9efab30" ], "album": "…and They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness", "release_id": "5df7a5f1-1a85-4461-b8cd-2b8b3c390aed", "release_group_id": "aee639f8-876d-4fac-9c52-759d4efeeca9", "labels": [ "Erased Tapes Records" ], "label_ids": [ "0cd6e3cb-aea6-4060-9ebd-21b534a864a6" ], "release_date": "2010-05-07", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Ólafur Arnalds is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop.\n\nArnalds is also the former drummer for hardcore punk and metal bands Fighting Shit, Celestine, and others.\n\nIn 2009, Ólafur also formed Kiasmos, an experimental techno project, with the Faroe Islands' Janus Rasmussen from the Icelandic electro-pop band Bloodgroup, announcing his electronic debut album in 2014.\n\nIn 2013, Ólafur composed the score for the 2013 ITV series Broadchurch, for which he won the 2014 BAFTA TV Craft Award for Best Original Music. https://tinyurl.com/3zenkccr", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594095, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594095/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:14:49-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800302.us.archive.org/12/items/mbid-653617f7-c764-4f52-a4ba-e6a130a6c87d/mbid-653617f7-c764-4f52-a4ba-e6a130a6c87d-5409164245_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800302.us.archive.org/12/items/mbid-653617f7-c764-4f52-a4ba-e6a130a6c87d/mbid-653617f7-c764-4f52-a4ba-e6a130a6c87d-5409164245_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Falling", "track_id": "2fc08ca1-1857-3b52-b3c2-f513838482da", "recording_id": "50cf569d-61dd-46c2-b2b5-8ad99fa90b47", "artist": "Julee Cruise", "artist_ids": [ "3b7865df-3c91-48dd-9126-a71e0dfe7f8d" ], "album": "Floating Into the Night", "release_id": "653617f7-c764-4f52-a4ba-e6a130a6c87d", "release_group_id": "2eaf4eef-f6bb-3fff-a4e2-79d639bde1d0", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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Love is about communication, facing differences and difficulties, and dealing with them. I guess that’s what Dreamstruck is about: a shared declaration of love.\" https://tinyurl.com/yc7bbtv4", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594090, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594090/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:07:13-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Dark Day", "track_id": "31ea2588-276c-4899-8419-da3d17f14a82", "recording_id": "bc04511f-b43e-42ab-92f1-c2744f24feec", "artist": "TR/ST", "artist_ids": [ "b8e3d1ae-5983-4af1-b226-aa009b294111" ], "album": "Performance", "release_id": "c63adc0c-22f3-4cca-a62d-7469eca4e814", "release_group_id": "3a003e64-3f0b-4d71-9248-a343ff347962", "labels": [ "Dais Records" ], "label_ids": [ "ba3abcfa-1808-41d6-8b8b-9bb06c0f772e" ], "release_date": "2024-09-13", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Fun fact: TR/ST (previously known as Trust) is the Canadian electronic music project of Robert Alfons. It was formed as a band in 2010 when Alfons met Maya Postepski of Austra.\n\nSoon after the release of their debut album, Postepski left the band to focus on Austra's growing commitments, as well as her own solo project, Princess Century. https://tinyurl.com/4zcxb4ju\n\nPerformance is the fourth full-length studio album by Alfons, and sinks even further into the nasty synth-pop psychodrama that the project has pioneered and, finally, perfected across over a decade of evolution.\n\nRecorded in Los Angeles, where Alfons now resides and spends time gardening, the songs seethe with dread, lust, reckoning, and abandon, backlit by the light pollution of a thousand dead end city streets. Alfons co-produced the collection with versatile composer and producer Nightfeelings, achieving a thick, smoky balance of eerie synths, fog machine low end, and bruised, crooning voice. https://tinyurl.com/d6vjbawd", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594087, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594087/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:02:56-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Dancing on Volcanoes (Stone Club remix)", "track_id": "bf0d16a9-49dd-461d-b2bd-b13ab9c33f15", "recording_id": "64efa39a-5bcf-4d38-a0c1-aae1fad29af9", "artist": "Gwenno", "artist_ids": [ "8f5b15bd-0777-4564-9801-17462e5ff715" ], "album": "Utopia (Remixes)", "release_id": "a7299f6b-2773-4aae-a521-c9b58643067c", "release_group_id": "dd2d4d59-8575-4e98-b1f5-30f13279a884", "labels": [ "Heavenly Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "696ee2f4-c486-4e7a-80f4-cfd85193677a" ], "release_date": "2025-11-25", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Of the inspiration behind this track, the Welsh singer-songwriter reveals, \"Jarvis Cocker dancing alone on stage, surrounded by dry ice, perfectly conveying the loss of our congregational dancing and drinking in small venues with a slight swing of the hip and flick of a hand... dancing 'til 5am at Le Mandela restaurant in Grangetown, Cardiff... the Pet Shop Boys' perfectly aimed observations on modern life... the spirit of Johnny Marr on guitar, his echoes of the Celtic sea passed down through the generations... the need to dance as a cathartic act... it's all here - Dancing on Volcanoes!\" https://tinyurl.com/3ekk65wk", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594085, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594085/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T15:57:28-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Hopefulness of Dawn", "track_id": "0438ab37-1534-4932-9b5e-d938d10fd083", "recording_id": "a1d9b2e6-967e-44de-b351-fc93100194b3", "artist": "Austra", "artist_ids": [ "af9e8d94-d471-4f91-82c7-250c22545162" ], "album": "Chin Up Buttercup", "release_id": "a1b398ab-90d1-4e64-9207-850dc57ecb22", "release_group_id": "86724f48-b08b-4083-a0eb-5e970fe4ead9", "labels": [ "Domino Recording Co Ltd" ], "label_ids": [ "10976a5f-b74f-4407-8437-44374c0e0cfa" ], "release_date": "2025-11-14", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Austra will be at The Independent in SF on Saturday, January 24th, and The Crocodile in Seattle on Tuesday, January 27th! \n\nKatie Stelmanis, aka Austra shares, \"In the early days of the pandemic, Toronto was in lockdown more than any other city. In the depths of winter, that meant there were months at a time where none of us were able to see our friends. There were no outside walks, because it was too cold.\n\n\"I had a bubble with my new partner who was raised in rural France and who knew about all this Eurodance that had never really made it to Canada. Every weekend we’d get together and amid the cold and dark we’d blast Eurodance in my apartment and dance.\n\n\"It was the best antidote to the world we were living in, and those songs offered us a healthy hit of endorphins to combat the dark isolation. I wanted this feeling of euphoria to exist on my record, and here it is in the form of 'Hopefulness of Dawn.'\" https://tinyurl.com/5ae9pjdd\n\nCheck out this gorgeous in-studio session Live here at KEXP back in 2017! https://tinyurl.com/2aru7mxb", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594083, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594083/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T15:53:19-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Sleep Paralysis", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Daníel Hjálmtýsson", "artist_ids": [ "9b8516d4-8af9-4265-8cee-a0c9745bf954" ], "album": "A Piece of Broken Glass", "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": "Something you might not know about Icelandic wonder Daníel Hjálmtýsson: \"I have a Bachelor's degree in teaching social studies, science, physics and biology and I've been doing that for about 10 years now along with my musical work. Having an education in another field has proven vital to providing for my family, especially during this past year.\n\n\"Teaching teenagers and working with hundreds of personalities throughout the years has also helped me grow and evolve as a person and as an artist. They're awesome and it's a privilege to be able to help young minds evolve. If I wasn't teaching and making music, I´d want to study art, design and creative writing. Or at least I plan for a further education but I can't imagine my life without music. That is just absurd to me.\" https://tinyurl.com/yc6xyzn9\n\nCatch Hjálmtýsson's sublime 2023 in-studio session in our sparkling Live Room at KEXP here: https://tinyurl.com/yf2hsw5n", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594082, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594082/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T15:47:18-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "You Want It Darker", "track_id": "138bbe06-e068-4aa0-b223-f7e7537f37b3", "recording_id": "206feb71-4841-4abe-85ca-8e0c622d308c", "artist": "Leonard Cohen", "artist_ids": [ "65314b12-0e08-43fa-ba33-baaa7b874c15" ], "album": "You Want It Darker", "release_id": "dd15903e-0ee7-45ec-aba1-2fc7b3a44e19", "release_group_id": "99599db8-0e36-4a93-b0e8-350e9d7502a9", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "2016-10-21", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This track was first previewed on June 2, 2016 when a segment was played during an erotic asphyxiation scene near the end of Season 3, Episode 5 of the BBC drama series Peaky Blinders. \n\nYou Want It Darker is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on October 21, 2016, by Columbia Records, 17 days before Cohen's death.\n\nThe album was created at the end of his life and focuses on death, God, and humour, and met critical acclaim. The title track was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance in January 2018. It was Cohen's last album released during his lifetime and was followed by the posthumous album Thanks for the Dance in November 2019.\n\nAfter touring extensively between 2008 and 2013, Leonard Cohen began to suffer \"multiple fractures of the spine\" among other physical problems, according to his son and producer Adam Cohen. Due to Leonard Cohen's mobility issues, much of You Want It Darker was recorded in the living room of his home in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, then sent by e-mail to his musical collaborators.\n\nCohen has said his condition helped him eliminate any distractions during the recording of the album: \"In a certain sense, this particular predicament is filled with many fewer distractions than other times in my life and actually enables me to work with a little more concentration and continuity than when I had duties of making a living, being a husband, being a father.\" \n\nDespite his medical condition, Adam Cohen said that \"occasionally, in bouts of joy, he would even, through his pain, stand up in front of the speakers, and we'd repeat a song over and over like teenagers.\" https://tinyurl.com/2s475kuh", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594080, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594080/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T15:43:42-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "I See a Darkness", "track_id": "b33ce7a5-0bab-3964-a0d1-4faa4c80f45b", "recording_id": "7685acee-e8e5-46c5-842f-1356544fdc6e", "artist": "Johnny Cash", "artist_ids": [ "d43d12a1-2dc9-4257-a2fd-0a3bb1081b86" ], "album": "American III: Solitary Man", "release_id": "2e40496a-7ed6-396b-ad9f-cf356f0f728e", "release_group_id": "98dd2686-39cc-31e9-9637-fa4e612e038e", "labels": [ "American Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "f5be9cfe-e1af-405c-a074-caeaed6797c0" ], "release_date": "2000-10-17", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "I See a Darkness is the sixth studio album by American musician Will Oldham, and his first album under the name Bonnie \"Prince\" Billy. It was released by Palace Records on January 19, 1999. The album features appearances from Bob Arellano, Colin Gagon, Paul Oldham, David Pajo, and Peter Townsend.\n\nJohnny Cash recorded the titular track on his 2000 album American III: Solitary Man, with Oldham providing background vocals. https://tinyurl.com/efjzsdku", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594079, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594079/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T15:37:45-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3594077, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594077/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T15:33:00-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "In My Dreams", "track_id": "f0b76c61-9cdb-4bcc-b5f3-1fc55149d5d4", "recording_id": "0592ab1d-84db-46f1-b498-ac1f1445f06c", "artist": "Girls of the Internet & The Gospel of Thomas feat. 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