I mean - never buy a book that is featured on Fresh Air. Terry Gross has made bad books sound way too intertesting, certainly much more than they are.
But it has exposed me to music over the years.
It was there I first heard Dar Williams back in 1993. It was there I found Mountain Stage, from West Virigina Public Radio, and heard so many artists - though mostly folk and bluegrass.
KEXP in Seattle exposed me to Kerala Dust.
Apparently they've been around for years, but via Berlin. They are part art rock, part electronic(a), part just rock rock.
I've been sampling their stuff, though first heard them via KEXP. The show they put on there - linked here - honestly sounds better than their records, including the track I selected "That's How the Light Gets In".
The rest of which I've been listening is equally low key, electronic semi-monotone.
There are some early 80s post punk vibes here, but honestly they seem to break into more originality as they go. The lead vocalist has a tenor-baritone (verse-chorus) thing going on, I would say similar to Matt Johnson from The The. Or maybe more accurately compare him to Matt Berninger from the National. The drums are uncomplicated yet perfect.
I'm totally digging this.
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