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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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Host Evie Stokes talks with KEXP staff writer Martin Douglas about fake British accents, art school kids and Cincinnati’s fun, post-punk band Artificial Go’s “Lasso.” Artificial Go’s new album Musical Chairs is out now on Feel It Records.
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0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. |
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0:07.2 | From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, |
0:11.8 | a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to. |
0:14.6 | This is Eby Stokes, and this week I'm talking with Martin Douglas. |
0:17.9 | So, Martin, you're a staff reporter at K--XP, and you chose a new track that you're |
0:21.8 | going to share with us today. What do you have? This one is titled Lassow by the band, |
0:27.1 | Artificial Go. So Artificial Go is a band from Cincinnati, right? They are, which I, |
0:33.5 | before, before, sorry to, sorry to cut you off there. I feel like you were about to say something. But the funny |
0:40.1 | thing about that is that their singer sings with a fake British accent. And so like when I read that |
0:47.6 | they were from Cincinnati, I was like, okay, well, what's the deal with the singer? Is she from England and kind of immigrated to Cincinnati? And it's like, okay, well, what's the deal with the singer? Is she from England and kind of immigrated to |
0:57.5 | Cincinnati? And it's like, why would a person do that? But then I, but then I realize that |
1:05.6 | the band themselves are basically from Cincinnati. And it's like, oh, this is a fake accent, which is, first of all, it's a really great fake accent. |
1:15.9 | And secondly, it's pretty fun. |
1:18.2 | I feel like American bands with fake British accents kind of went by the wayside in the last 10, 15 years. |
1:25.9 | Who else can you name that's done that? |
1:28.6 | Anybody? |
1:29.4 | Man, I can't name any off the top of my head, but there were so many post-punk bands from the late 70s throughout the 80s that kind of used that fake British accent. |
1:40.7 | Yeah. |
1:41.0 | It's kind of like the British bands that would use fake American accents because they're |
1:46.1 | trying to, you know, cross over into that market. |
1:49.7 | Yeah. |
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