KEXP audio producer Roddy Nikpour on WU LYF's return
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
KEXP producer Lilly Ana Fowler talks to fellow producer Roddy Nikpour about WU LYF's cult following and the Manchester's band new song “A New Life is Coming,” released after disappearing for more than a decade.
Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
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| 0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. |
| 0:04.3 | Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. |
| 0:07.2 | From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, |
| 0:12.0 | a podcast about the songs we just can't get enough of lately. |
| 0:15.3 | This is Lillianna Fowler, and this week I'm filling in for Evie Stokes |
| 0:18.4 | and talking with Roddy Nickpore. |
| 0:20.8 | So you are like a full-on professor, huh? That is something that... This week I'm filling in for Evie Stokes and talking with Roddy Nickpour. |
| 0:20.9 | So you are like a full on professor, huh? |
| 0:23.8 | That is something that I am paid to do is to teach the youths how to make podcasts very much |
| 0:29.0 | like this one. |
| 0:30.0 | Nice. |
| 0:31.0 | So you chose a song to talk about. |
| 0:33.4 | So the song I have today is by a band called Woo Life. |
| 0:37.0 | It's called A New Life is Coming. |
| 0:39.2 | Six minutes long. |
| 0:40.5 | I dug it. |
| 0:41.7 | But then I started looking into the band. |
| 0:43.2 | I had not heard about the band before. |
| 0:45.2 | And it seems this is a mysterious band from England that's come back all of a sudden. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, they have a strange kind of cult following. |
| 0:54.2 | They're from Manchester, UK. |
| 0:56.2 | Before I get into the story, I would say, |
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