Seattle Band Black Whales on Deary’s Dreaminess
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
DJ Larry Mizell Jr. fills in for Evie Stokes this week to sit down with Seattle band Black Whales. The duo talk about their love of dreamy music, raiding their dad’s record collections, and how it led them to falling in love with music like London group Deary. Deary’s “Seabird” comes from their 2026 album, Birding, out now via Bella Union.
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| 0:00.0 | Experience the magic of music discovery through live performance on the Live on KexP podcast, |
| 0:06.1 | now with audio-only versions of every session we share on YouTube. |
| 0:10.2 | Listen at kexp.org slash podcasts on the KexP app or wherever you listen to podcasts, made possible in part by BECU. |
| 0:20.3 | This is in our headphones. This is In Our Headphones. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Larry Myzel Jr. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm in for Evie Stokes today and I'm joined by Alex and Greg of Seattle's own Black |
| 0:28.2 | Wales. |
| 0:29.8 | We just heard Luke Temple's Echo Park Donut, very dope. |
| 0:33.7 | And I loved this other song as well. |
| 0:38.9 | Seabird by Deary. |
| 0:40.5 | What can you guys tell me about that? |
| 0:41.2 | Wow. |
| 0:47.1 | I mean, so that's when I pulled into the list when thinking of songs we could talk about. And that's when I just magically stumbled, like, tripped across. |
| 0:53.2 | It's just kind of going back in time a little bit. |
| 0:56.6 | My father's a European immigrant, and he's like a self-described collector. |
| 1:03.6 | Okay. |
| 1:04.0 | So he would often show up in my childhood with just huge, like, liquidation levels of like CDs just you know |
| 1:13.2 | you'd buy them sight on scene |
| 1:14.7 | so as a kid I'd just dig |
| 1:16.7 | through them and I came across |
| 1:19.1 | you know it's how I discovered like |
| 1:20.5 | everything from I mean there'd be |
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