KEXP Music Director Chris Sanley on Montreal Artist Thanya Iyer
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Chris Sanley, KEXP’s music director, joins host Evie Stokes to talk about the upcoming Pop Montreal music festival and one of the acts she looks forward to seeing there – Thanya Iyer. The two talk about Iyer’s new song “I am here now” from her album TIDE/TIED, out now on Topshelf Records.
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| 0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. |
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| 0:07.1 | This is Evie Stokes, and I've got a podcast to recommend that's perfect for music lovers like you. |
| 0:12.2 | Every week, Life in Seven Songs host Sophie Bairman talks to some of the world's most interesting people about the music that's framed their life. |
| 0:19.5 | Hear from people like NPR host, Mary |
| 0:21.6 | Louise Kelly, and White Lotus actor Natasha Rothwell, as they describe key moments in their |
| 0:26.7 | life through music. Listen to Life in Seven Songs every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.5 | From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to. This is E.B. Stokes, and this week I'm talking with my friend Chris Sainley, our music director here at K-E-X-P, who is headed to Pop Montreal Festival this year. Yes, and I cannot wait. I'm so excited to head out there. And you have a new pick that you're going to share with us today, an artist that you're |
| 0:57.3 | excited to see while you're at Pop Montreal. |
| 0:59.5 | Yes, and I'm excited to bring a Montreal-based artist into the full today. |
| 1:05.0 | And it is a new artist to me, admittedly, though she just released her third studio album this |
| 1:10.5 | year on top shelf, |
| 1:12.0 | entitled Tide Tide, and that is the stunning Tanya Iyer. And so I'm really excited to bring in the |
| 1:18.9 | song, I Am Here Now. This song has saved my life on more than one occasion this year. I am |
| 1:26.6 | somebody that experiences panic attacks pretty regularly, |
| 1:30.0 | and this is a song that I've been able to go to in those moments to really just, like, ground me, |
| 1:36.5 | and help me find my peace. And I am just eternally grateful for this song. And it's, it's quite fitting |
| 1:44.0 | that it's had that particular effect on me, |
| 1:46.6 | as I am here now is a meditation on reconnecting with your body and being present |
| 1:51.9 | and trying to do that in a world that feels as chaotic as ours does. |
| 1:58.2 | And sonically, it's just this lush, kind of jazz-tinged experimental pop tune that brings |
| 2:06.4 | in elements of folk and ambient music to just a really breathtaking effect. And you've got her |
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