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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Dusty Henry, KEXP’s Associate Director of Editorial, sits down with host Evie Stokes to talk about ambient pop and other music he listens to around the house. He also talks about one of his favorite records of the year so far: Oklou’s Choke Enough and her single “thank you for recording.” Choke Enough is out now on True Panther Sounds.
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Associate Director of Editorial: Dusty Henry
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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 | From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, |
0:11.2 | a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of lately. |
0:15.0 | So Dusty Henry, our associate director of editorial at K-E-X-P, |
0:19.7 | is here to chat with us today, and you have a new song that you want to |
0:22.7 | share what you got yeah this is a song called thank you for recording by okay lu she's a french |
0:29.7 | based electronic artist uh she bought an album earlier this year called chokinuff and it's one of my favorites |
0:35.5 | of 2025 so far tell me, tell me about this record. |
0:39.5 | Yeah, so, okay, Lou, she's been around the French European underground for a few years. |
0:45.5 | She's classically trained on piano and cello. |
0:48.8 | She had a big breakthrough in 2020 with her mixtape called Galore. |
0:52.2 | This record was described to me as ambient pop. |
0:54.4 | So I'm kind of in that ambient space often, |
0:56.1 | and I didn't know what ambient pop even really could mean. |
0:59.7 | But I also live with two self-described pop girlies. |
1:04.4 | So that's a genre that I've been resistant to in the past, to be honest, |
1:09.1 | and I've softened up a lot in recent years. |
1:11.6 | So I've been kind of trying to find my own way into it. |
1:14.6 | I hear a lot of Taylor Swift. |
1:16.6 | It's another day waking up alone. |
1:20.6 | But we were something, don't you think so? |
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