KEXP Music Director Chris Sanley on upcoming 2026 releases
In Our Headphones
KEXP
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Host Evie Stokes talks to KEXP Music Director Chris Sanley about upcoming 2026 releases including Robyn, Lucha Luna and Ratboys.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Evie Stokes and you're listening to In Our Headphones. So excited this week, we get to welcome back the one and only Chris Sainley, K-EXP's music director. Hey, girl. |
| 0:10.7 | Hey, Evie, so excited to be back as always. |
| 0:13.4 | 2026 is shaping up to be a year full of really fun new releases. Is there anything you're particularly excited about? |
| 0:20.4 | Let me catch my breath because there's so much I'm excited about. I there anything you're particularly excited about? Let me catch my breath |
| 0:21.8 | because there's so much I'm excited about. I mean, we're still very much in the early days of the |
| 0:27.2 | year, so I feel like there's a lot of albums yet to be announced and some kind of like what feels |
| 0:33.5 | like teaser singles of what I'm hoping will turn into album announcements. But for what we know |
| 0:39.5 | about, I think it's going to be another really good year of new music, which praise be, |
| 0:44.2 | that is what we need. I think top of list for me and maybe for you, if I'm guessing correctly, |
| 0:50.5 | is new Robin album. First record since her 2018 album Honey. |
| 0:55.8 | She had a little teaser track for us last year, dopamine. |
| 0:59.7 | I know it's just dopamine. |
| 1:01.9 | Doop, dope, dope, dope. |
| 1:03.9 | But it feels so weird to me. |
| 1:06.0 | Here we are with the announced details. |
| 1:08.0 | Sexistential is going to be coming out in March via Young and Konichuah. The song, Talk to Me. Just hit me up and talk to me, work up a vibe. |
| 1:19.1 | Sometimes I get so lovely. |
| 1:22.0 | My go-to, like, I need to dance. I need to get moving. I need to get out of a funk. Robin will |
| 1:27.3 | always deliver in those moments. Have you spent much time with this one yourself? I have. And I just, I think she's perfect. She's a perfect performer. I've been such a fan for so many years. I mean, like, you know, since first record, listening to it on the bus on my way to school as like a tween. you know, so I can't wait to hear. I'd love to see |
| 1:45.7 | how she's evolved of the years. She's a dance floor queen, as she said in the past. Absolutely. Yeah, |
| 1:50.2 | I'm so stoked. And she does always make us wait in between albums, but it's always worth it. And I think |
| 1:55.2 | that's because she really just does take her time to make sure she's going to deliver something |
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