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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=42280&ordering=-airdate
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The two budding musicians met while studying at the famous Austrian University of Music and Performing Arts Graz [Kunst-Universitat Graz (KUG)]. Since their debut EP Not Good Enough (2019), they’ve released the album Since Always and Forever (2023) and the EP Good News (2024). These projects explore themes of self-acceptance, love, vulnerability, and optimism, with a sound that shifts between soothing melodies and vibrant grooves.\n\nfreekind. is devoted to creating music that reflects their own evolution and pursuit of inner harmony, while inspiring others to embrace their own journeys of healing and connection. They are currently directing their spirit into their next project. https://tinyurl.com/4u6wrfnd", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594153, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594153/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:53:20-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Wind of Change", "track_id": "38171809-b960-4451-aa4e-2cf628cd6eea", "recording_id": "59aecf4f-420e-4ac2-9bdd-6ef9895746fb", "artist": "Nightmares On Wax feat. 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Bravo formed her first group, an all-girl group called B.o.B, at 16 years old, and was part of the hip hop scene in her hometown, Lund, in the 90s. 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Check out all the nominees here, and vote for your favourite! https://mmeawards.eu/en/\n \nDella is known for her dreamy alt-rock/pop, focusing on raw lyrics, and is the first artist nominated from Cyprus. Her dark, dreamy music oozes with emotion, and her lyrics are known for their raw, honest, and at times, self-deprecating nature. In May 2025 Della signed with Louvana Records, and released her EP 13 in the summer. https://tinyurl.com/yz9ssu8c\n\nOn stage, the Cypriot artist and her band keep audiences on their toes with songs that shift from intimate, stripped-back moments to full-blown, electrifying chaos.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594145, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594145/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:37:39-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601709.us.archive.org/19/items/mbid-0796bd96-0e2f-47c3-8cc0-bdb7ecf69206/mbid-0796bd96-0e2f-47c3-8cc0-bdb7ecf69206-43709493711_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801709.us.archive.org/19/items/mbid-0796bd96-0e2f-47c3-8cc0-bdb7ecf69206/mbid-0796bd96-0e2f-47c3-8cc0-bdb7ecf69206-43709493711_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Winter’s Empty Pages", "track_id": "d546a000-ce81-4847-af2d-8f4a14fdffd5", "recording_id": "de8ec2bd-78d5-49d5-afb3-f8263c9222db", "artist": "Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter", "artist_ids": [ "254b5419-1819-49c9-abcf-6e9b8210ebf4" ], "album": "Forever, I’ve Been Being Born", "release_id": "0796bd96-0e2f-47c3-8cc0-bdb7ecf69206", "release_group_id": "38a03ae6-266b-4404-8f10-f4383b20d923", "labels": [ "Southern Lord" ], "label_ids": [ "3b78c7e5-6292-4f6b-b921-bdcbe681ea27" ], "release_date": "2025-11-28", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter are playing some upcoming shows, including Oakland, CA on January 14, and Tacoma, WA on January 16. https://tinyurl.com/4599dd5e\n\nSeattle artist Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter make a breathtaking return with their fifth studio album and first release since 2011’s ‘Marble Son.’ With mesmerizing gothic and psych-tinged Americana soundscapes shaped by haunting vocals, bittersweet melodies, intricate guitar work, ornate flourishes, and poetic lyricism, Sykes, Phil Wandscher, and company weave an extraordinary tapestry of timeless alt-country that leaves an indelible impression. -- Chris Sanley, KEXP", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594144, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594144/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:35:00-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800506.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-7eb0dd9e-829a-4b3c-a748-9e424eae1bc9/mbid-7eb0dd9e-829a-4b3c-a748-9e424eae1bc9-28675842896_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800506.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-7eb0dd9e-829a-4b3c-a748-9e424eae1bc9/mbid-7eb0dd9e-829a-4b3c-a748-9e424eae1bc9-28675842896_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Winter Song", "track_id": "48b75abb-7893-35b1-9530-9528d9c1f386", "recording_id": "d670e4c4-4ddf-4030-a0dc-a501c7543570", "artist": "The Head and the Heart", "artist_ids": [ "98cb416e-5271-484c-ab3b-6bed6b4aae12" ], "album": "The Head and the Heart", "release_id": "7eb0dd9e-829a-4b3c-a748-9e424eae1bc9", "release_group_id": "d51ffb84-a158-4a1f-ab76-99fc6f372344", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2011-04-16", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Head and the Heart is the Seattle band's first studio album, released on April 19, 2011 on Sub Pop. A deluxe edition of the album was released in August 2011 and included \"Chasing A Ghost\" (live), \"Josh McBride\" (Live), and \"Rivers and Roads\" (live).\n\nInitially, the band had self-released the album in June 2009, selling it at concerts, by word of mouth, and through local record stores. In the ensuing months the album sold 10,000 copies.\n\nTheir music plays heavily on the trio of vocal harmonies, piano and violin melodies, and prominent drums and percussion.\n\nIt was the top-selling album of the year 2010 for the independent Sonic Boom Records in the band's home neighborhood of Ballard, Seattle. https://tinyurl.com/55mxnrxc", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594141, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594141/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:32:35-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "White Winter Hymnal", "track_id": "bb124894-75a2-36b6-8e02-8ebc84656b2d", "recording_id": "c835a61b-dcdb-41be-82d8-e52b4a1c8d0b", "artist": "Fleet Foxes", "artist_ids": [ "fa97dd36-1b82-43d7-a6e4-2adeafd59cef" ], "album": "Fleet Foxes", "release_id": "47862230-f810-361c-838a-a1faf043ae95", "release_group_id": "af9a5099-04c5-3aaf-b0d1-fa160bd92e02", "labels": [ "Bella Union" ], "label_ids": [ "2e72153d-8eb0-49a3-8b18-3a054d2c7f33" ], "release_date": "2008-06-16", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde, the head of record label Bella Union, was considering shutting the label down due to financial troubles, but after hearing a demo version of \"White Winter Hymnal,\" he was motivated to continue going on and signed Fleet Foxes to the label based on how much he liked the song.\n\nRaymond reveals, \"[A friend] sent me this demo of a track called 'White Winter Hymnal.' I played it when I went back to my room that night. This was when I was just about to give up doing Bella Union, if you could believe I would do such a thing, and I heard this track and thought, 'I have to sign that band.'\n\n\"That saved my life, that song. And I wrote to them that night, a very, very, very long letter and I heard back from Robin, the singer, within a couple of days.\n\n\"It just turned out he was in Norway too, visiting some family, we met up and we got on like a house on fire and here we are I suppose. The Fleet Foxes thing really did change my life in every single way, because it gave me the belief.\" https://tinyurl.com/yv5mk87x", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594138, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594138/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:28:41-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Smile You Send Out Returns to You", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "4f61c071-b158-4df3-94df-659ca97905da", "artist": "Constant Follower", "artist_ids": [ "e1b44eba-3a97-4554-856b-35c318844a23" ], "album": "The Smile You Send Out Returns To You", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5c24f6bc-3619-45ad-b93b-acb268235816", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-02-28", "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Constant Follower is the band formed around Scottish songwriter Stephen McAll. His brand new album came out in February of this year, following on from the critically acclaimed 2021 Neither Is, Nor Ever Was.\n\nMcAll reveals, \"Music is all about feelings for me. So, when I’m creating, I’m only thinking about feelings, about conveying a feeling. The words are a mechanism for delivering feeling so I’m not overly concerned about making sense if it conveys what I’m trying to. If I’m thinking too much about words or performance or accuracy, then I’m losing what’s most important to me.\n\n\"I know I’ve hit the mark if I’m listening to my song and I’m feeling it in my belly.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594137, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594137/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:24:24-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Don’t Fall Asleep", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "51ae1349-b378-49cd-82c9-3f94087430a5", "artist": "Jacob Alon", "artist_ids": [ "86621e68-ef8f-45ac-a6d0-b1824beb2666" ], "album": "In Limerence", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "255d20ed-05cb-48b7-b547-dbe392513011", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-05-30", "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Kevin's favourite album of 2025! Jacob Alon is a Scottish singer-songwriter born and raised by a young single mother in the quiet suburbs of Fife. Alon began writing songs in school as a way of making friends laugh, but never considered a career in music possible until much later. While studying medicine at university, Jacob found themself deeply confused and unhappy, only finding joy when making music. To the disapproval of their family, they decided to drop out and pursue their true dream full-time.\n\nNow based in Edinburgh, Jacob’s story is one of estrangement, homelessness, but ultimately, perseverance.\n\nAlon crashed with super producer Dan Carey while working on new music, of which an overarching theme will be limerence: the state of intense romantic longing for someone who often does not reciprocate. Those who have experienced limerence will know it can lead to obsessive thoughts – an infatuation that overlooks any flaws or, indeed, turns those flaws into an attractive trait. https://tinyurl.com/yrstpr4n", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594135, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594135/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:21:47-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800904.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-be5a9ea0-26fa-39ab-a1b8-d5677027810d/mbid-be5a9ea0-26fa-39ab-a1b8-d5677027810d-21923132852_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800904.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-be5a9ea0-26fa-39ab-a1b8-d5677027810d/mbid-be5a9ea0-26fa-39ab-a1b8-d5677027810d-21923132852_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Day Is Done", "track_id": "aa738ec0-2554-3d7f-9f38-1165a65c7874", "recording_id": "42dd6c50-8989-44d4-813f-8afe23a2f75f", "artist": "Nick Drake", "artist_ids": [ "99ea432a-e3d8-42cb-9d5e-db316a6a8458" ], "album": "Five Leaves Left", "release_id": "be5a9ea0-26fa-39ab-a1b8-d5677027810d", "release_group_id": "b9c4fc17-0dc5-3aa5-b1b9-08e1446e5bea", "labels": [ "Hannibal" ], "label_ids": [ "7fd6a368-1932-4621-88e1-9a71929ee9b9" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Five Leaves Left was recorded between May 1968 and April 1969 at Sound Techniques in London, England. Engineer John Wood recalled that \"[Drake] would track live, singing and playing along with the string section\" without the use of any overdubbing.\n\nThe studio's environment was also an important factor as it had multiple levels to it which enabled the creation of interesting sounds and atmospheres.\n\nAmong his various backing musicians, Drake was accompanied by Richard Thompson from Fairport Convention and Danny Thompson of Pentangle. Robert Kirby, a friend of Drake's from Cambridge University, arranged the stringed instruments for several tracks while Harry Robinson arranged the strings for \"River Man.\" \n\nThe title of the album is a reference to the old Rizla cigarette papers packet, which used to contain a printed note near the end saying \"Only five leaves left.\" https://tinyurl.com/yad35w8a", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594136, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594136/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:17:25-08:00", "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": 3594130, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594130/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:13:57-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "New Day", "track_id": "000dc237-ed31-4eef-ae00-e1a202bf7ad7", "recording_id": "9e7690bb-e409-40d5-ba98-acc1f4596234", "artist": "Liz Cooper", "artist_ids": [ "699a5d91-d4a1-458d-8406-ec9c94cf6c4d" ], "album": "New Day", "release_id": "b27058ec-b5d4-427d-bfa3-0d6784ea3547", "release_group_id": "fbc86c8d-9a51-423a-9b22-8db8956e094d", "labels": [ "Sleepyhead Music" ], "label_ids": [ "20f62298-3fcb-4d62-8b6c-653bba59191a" ], "release_date": "2025-09-17", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This track sees the Nashville-based Cooper explicitly considering her path over recent years, weighing her sense of self in the present against who she once was.\n\n\"'IDFK' is about the connection of the past in the present,\" she explains, \"the connection between who the main character in the song showed me I am and the person I am becoming, the feeling of a memory and intimacy across time and space. This is a love song to a friend and to myself.\"\n\nThat journey is cleverly documented in Wes Sterrs’ single-shot music video for the track, which features Cooper in a dimly lit car singing the track into a voice notes app. \n\n\"I wanted to capture the songwriting process, emotional process and nostalgic longing of memories about someone I miss.\n\n\"I’m singing into my phone voice memos thinking about this person, writing the song and taking a moment before directly talking to them when I make eye contact with the camera. I eventually close the door and chapter and step into the next car, the next chapter. I wanted this video to feel dramatic yet hopeful and wanted to challenge myself by doing it all in one full take.\" https://tinyurl.com/zdzyr5cm\n\nYou can catch that video here: https://tinyurl.com/kb8baf3t", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594129, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594129/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:10:30-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800203.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-2f3eb520-4126-40a7-9089-6876a2c45b67/mbid-2f3eb520-4126-40a7-9089-6876a2c45b67-2285513543_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800203.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-2f3eb520-4126-40a7-9089-6876a2c45b67/mbid-2f3eb520-4126-40a7-9089-6876a2c45b67-2285513543_thumb250.jpg", "song": "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "track_id": "d46141e2-3593-3218-b4ee-af053e8a6020", "recording_id": "f87a0c54-60ef-4db1-9628-96677504692d", "artist": "The Smiths", "artist_ids": [ "40f5d9e4-2de7-4f2d-ad41-e31a9a9fea27" ], "album": "The Queen Is Dead", "release_id": "2f3eb520-4126-40a7-9089-6876a2c45b67", "release_group_id": "d8dde278-482c-3cc8-a530-fea70476f3a5", "labels": [ "Sire Records" ], "label_ids": [ "be0fec81-5c18-4494-8bbf-0d81dec006bf" ], "release_date": "1986-06-23", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In 1993, guitarist, Johnny Marr, told Select magazine that he thought this was \"the best song\" that he had ever heard: \"I didn't realise that 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' was going to be an anthem but when we first played it I thought it was the best song I'd ever heard.\"\n\nIn the same interview, Marr revealed that the song's intro was lifted from The Rolling Stones' cover of \"Hitch Hike\" by Marvin Gaye. The Velvet Underground also swiped this intro for their song, \"There She Goes Again.\" \n\nMarr recalls, \"There's a little in-joke in there just to illustrate how intellectual I was getting. At the time everyone was into The Velvet Underground and they stole the intro to 'There She Goes Again' - 'da da-da-da, da-da!' - from The Rolling Stones' version of 'Hitch Hike,' the Marvin Gaye song. I just wanted to put that in to see whether the press would say, 'Oh it's the Velvet Underground!' Cos I knew that I was smarter than that. I was listening to what The Velvet Underground was listening to.\"\n\nThis song appeared to play and record itself. \"We did it at the start of the day,\" Marr reminisced to NME in 2011. \"It was an enjoyable 40 minutes. When we all got together, one-two-three-four, it was the first time all four of us had heard what it sounded like. It was magical. Someone told me that if you listen with the volume really, really up you can hear me shout 'That was amazing' right at the end.\" https://tinyurl.com/etm7kv64", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594124, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594124/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:06:55-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "See a Little Light", "track_id": "9e1a48a0-266c-3445-b4c3-b48a22ed9094", "recording_id": "99fc093e-f51c-4483-8363-350f881c5b3a", "artist": "Bob Mould", "artist_ids": [ "d7f5305a-15fc-4af4-a61b-f6f45510cc8f" ], "album": "Workbook", "release_id": "1a547adc-c99e-4c55-87b1-5d7da769d743", "release_group_id": "ae6ae7de-a78f-32e5-9dcf-d3bf8b5827c8", "labels": [ "Virgin Records America, Inc." ], "label_ids": [ "1644d8bc-b558-447f-82eb-5d6829988156" ], "release_date": "1989-05-02", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Bob Mould is going on tour! Playing San Francisco on Saturday, April 5th at the Fillmore Theatre and Seattle, WA on Monday, April 7th at The Neptune. Get your tickets here: https://bobmould.com/tour/\n\nBob Mould is in his fith decade of making music, having released 15 solo albums since his solo debut, Workbook. Between his time as a solo artist and with the bands Husker Du and Sugar, Mould has been an innovator for the punk rock scene with 24 studio albums across a 40 year span.\n\nMould remembered writing this song following the break up of his band Husker Du: \"This just fell out of the sky. Coming out of the breakup of Hüsker Dü and a year on the farm , writing nonstop mostly by myself, that was one of the brighter moments of that writing process.\n\n\"I don't know if it was inspired by a sunny day or one of the chickens on the farm. But what an optimistic song given how isolated I was and how shocking life after Hüsker Dü was for me. I was living a singular, solitary existence. I wouldn't say my relationship at the time was hopeless, but it was pretty far out of reach that anything positive would come. So I'm seeing a little light. Not a ton! [Laughs] Just a glimpse of hope.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594121, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594121/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T17:03:04-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Shine a Light", "track_id": "0e15b162-0624-3779-a99c-63ed9418530c", "recording_id": "90929d20-02ed-4408-8faa-fa87f83b87bf", "artist": "Wolf Parade", "artist_ids": [ "b7ddce8b-9e5c-46bd-9d33-41b134ce1a7f" ], "album": "Apologies to the Queen Mary", "release_id": "4b002b0e-3d58-4fea-a980-4b0577b32508", "release_group_id": "d147f6f8-1ca1-3df0-acd9-3c81808f2822", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2005-09-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "According to interviews with the band, the album is named after an incident in which the band was removed from the ocean liner Queen Mary for breaking down the door of a ballroom and staging a violent séance. https://tinyurl.com/ysv4h3pc\n\nIn 2022, KEXP's Martin Douglas wrote a thoughtful retrospective essay about this album; you can read it here: https://tinyurl.com/3fcukwyy", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594119, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594119/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:59:42-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "What Light", "track_id": "bbe1ae28-a1d0-38ac-bbd6-ad0f27129936", "recording_id": "cd1a47bf-7690-47db-b1e0-feccc4618f3c", "artist": "Wilco", "artist_ids": [ "9e53f84d-ef44-4c16-9677-5fd4d78cbd7d" ], "album": "Sky Blue Sky", "release_id": "2d3e91af-fcb6-4652-a7be-e10ab1ac890d", "release_group_id": "1aa7ce82-1b74-3f83-b426-531edf4d4284", "labels": [ "Nonesuch" ], "label_ids": [ "c69cac59-f512-4edc-ab2c-d04c22dbce20" ], "release_date": "2007-05-15", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Originally announced on January 17, 2007, at a show in Nashville, Tennessee, this album was the band's first with guitarist Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone. Before its release, the band streamed the entire album on its official website and offered a free download of \"What Light.\"\n\nThe band sought to be more direct with this record than the previous two, resulting in a more mellow album. Tweedy attributes the lyrical directness to his listening to material by The Byrds and Fairport Convention while recording the album. He disliked the reliance on studio effects on previous albums, saying \"I got nervous about the technology on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. If you need a certain amp or pedal to make a song what it is, it isn't a song.\"\n\nMany of the album's songs were recorded in a single day, with the band reaching a consensus on how each song should sound. https://tinyurl.com/y3w4b3th", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594117, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594117/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T16:55:21-08:00", "show": 65440, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65440/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Dying of the Light", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Noel Gallagher", "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": "acoustic, live version\n\n\"The Dying of the Light\" was released as the fifth and last single off Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' second album, Chasing Yesterday. The song can be described as a slow tempo melancholic look back at times past.\n\nGallagher first confirmed that he was working on a follow-up to 2011's Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in August 2013. He said, \"I've got tons of songs left over from the last one. I'm writing, putting stuff together. Yeah, I'll definitely make another [album], that's for sure.\" In October, he revealed that he was ready to start recording the album, explaining that he was \"just waiting now for availabilities of my band and producers\" to begin.\n\nIn February 2014, former Oasis producer Mark Coyle revealed that Gallagher had written between 50 and 60 songs for the new album, which he was in the process of \"whittling down into an album.\" https://tinyurl.com/4dzkdya3", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
