From Independent Music Station, K-EXP, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.

This is Eby Stokes, and this week I'm talking with KexP's music director, Chris Sainly.

Hi, Chris.

Hi, thanks so much for having me back.

You have a new song that you're going to share with us today.

What you got?

I am so excited to bring in Anastasia's villain. I cannot get enough of this song.

I was first introduced to her back in 2022 with the single Midas.

I had a dollar for each time. From that point, from my back, you stepped on my back.

From that point, it was just kind of like, who is this person?

Who is this voice?

I cannot wait to consume even more.

And then last year, she released an EP that was essentially like a prelude to her debut album that just came out, which is stunning.

And that that hooked me even further, especially the track Sunday off of that collection.

So you want to be the only one to touch me. And she just has these really one

To touch me right here.

And she just has these really, like, beautifully rich, haunting vocals that will punch you in the gut.

Just like the range, the vibrato, the tone, everything about her voice is so commanding, whether she's delivering it in a really, like, delicate manner or with a lot more gusto, like she's just going to have you in her grip, no matter what she's singing or what she's saying. And so she just released this debut album, Tether,

via Drink Some Water. And this track, Villain was the lead single that came out prior. And it

starts off with this just like really beautiful guitar picking. And from that point really builds.

And her voice, of course, just kind of builds along with the instrumentation as you've got this really

great crescendo going on you've got strings and horns that come into the mix and just you're hanging

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