PEL Presents NEM#248: Lande Hekt: Lucky to Be Indie
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Lande started in the 2010's in the British punk-pop group Muncie Girls, with six releases (mostly EPs), and began her solo career in 2019. We discuss "Coming Home" (and listen at the end to the title track) from her fourth solo album Lucky Now (2026), "80 Days of Rain" from Going to Hell (2011), and "Learn In School" by Muncie Girls from From Caplan to Belsize (2016). Intro: "Gay Space Cadets" from House Without a View (2022).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Gusto, online payroll and benefit software built for small businesses. |
| 0:05.6 | This episode is sponsored by Game Time, a great way to get tickets to see your favorite artists live. |
| 0:18.0 | You are listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. |
| 0:22.1 | My name is Mark Clinton Meyer. |
| 0:23.6 | My guest for episode 248 is Landy Hecht. |
| 0:27.0 | She started in the British punk group Muncie Girls, which had six releases between 2011 and 2020, most of these EPs. |
| 0:34.7 | She released her first solo album in 2019, |
| 0:40.3 | you're right now hearing perhaps the most popular song, |
| 0:41.7 | Gay Space Cadets, |
| 0:43.4 | from the third of those solo albums, |
| 0:45.7 | 2002's House Without View. |
| 0:48.6 | She's just released her fourth solo album, |
| 0:50.6 | and we'll be discussing Coming Home in that new album, Lucky Now. |
| 0:53.1 | Then we'll look back to 80 Days of Rain from her second solo album, Going to Hell, in |
| 0:57.6 | 2021. |
| 0:59.4 | We'll back to Learn in School by Muncie Girls from From Kaplan to Belsize from 2016. |
| 1:07.1 | We'll conclude by listening to the title track to the new record, Lucky Now. |
| 1:11.3 | For more information, see Landyhecht.co.com. |
| 1:15.6 | For more about this podcast, see Nakedlyexaminedmusic.com. |
| 1:20.5 | And to support the effort, getting you an ad-free feed, and my episode notes, |
| 1:24.9 | please support me at patreon.com slash nakedly examined music. |
| 1:30.7 | All right, I will play it a little bit of gay space cadets from House Without |
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