KEXP DJ Vitamin D on New Zealand’s Arjuna Oakes
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Host Evie Stokes talks with Vitamin D about musical journeys and Arjuna Oakes’ new track “Motel.” Oakes’ new album While I’m Distracted is out now on London-based label Albert's Favourites.
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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, |
| 0:11.0 | a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to. |
| 0:14.0 | This is Eby Stokes, and this week I'm talking with my friend Vitamin D. |
| 0:17.8 | All right, you have a new track that you're going to share with us. |
| 0:20.8 | What did you choose for today? and vitamin D. All right, you have a new track that you're going to share with us. |
| 0:22.1 | What did you choose for today? |
| 0:23.8 | Arjuna Oaks. |
| 0:25.5 | The track's called Motel. |
| 0:32.4 | You were telling me, too, that you're familiar with his past releases, like his EPs. |
| 0:33.8 | How did you find this one? |
| 0:35.0 | Was it a YouTube find? |
| 0:36.6 | Or do you remember? |
| 0:40.1 | Man, may have been or it may have been a Spotify. Like, I go to the new artist section all the time and like, let's see what's up. Let's |
| 0:45.4 | see what's out there, you know? I find a lot of stuff sometimes on the Discover Weekly playlist. |
| 0:50.4 | Do you ever dig through that one? Yeah, Absolutely. It's funny how your algorithm knows. |
| 0:54.5 | And a lot of the time, like, it'll suggest the same shit to you over and over again. |
| 0:58.3 | But that Discover Weekly playlist can be a good way to find stuff. |
| 1:01.3 | So this new album, while I'm distracted, and I said it's an album about fighting for your |
| 1:06.0 | innocence and you're right to be a vulnerable and honest human. |
| 1:10.0 | It sounds like it. |
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