Sharlese: Nina Belief, Gwendoline, Police des mœurs
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Janice Headley chats with her work BFF Sharlese, host of Mechanical Breakdown, about the four (dark) songs playing in her headphones lately. They also chat about World Goth Day, airing all day on KEXP Wednesday May 22 (and available on the archive for two weeks after). Plus, KEXP Music Director Chris Sanley returns from Radio Camp with a standout release recently added to KEXP’s rotation.
Songs featured:
- Nina Belief – "Siren of Silence"
- Gwendoline – "Conspire"
- Police des mœurs – "Commencement"
- Eleven Pond – "Watching Trees"
- Fontaines DC – "Starburster"
Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones 2024" playlist on Spotify, or on the KEXP website.
Listen to Mechanical Breakdown with Sharlese, every Friday night (Saturday morning) from 1-3 AM PT, or anytime on the two-week archive, at KEXP.org, or the KEXP App:
https://www.kexp.org/shows/mechanical-breakdown/
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In Our Headphones. |
| 0:05.0 | Your chance to discover the songs KEXP |
| 0:09.3 | D. J's don't want you to miss. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Janice Hedley. I'm Isabel Kelly and this is your |
| 0:16.1 | never-ending source for new music discovery from listener-powered K-E-X-P.X P. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to In Our Headphones. I'm your host Janus Headley. |
| 0:29.0 | Every week my co-host Isabel Kalelei and I chat with a different KEXP DJ and find out what's been playing in their |
| 0:36.2 | headphones lately. And this week I am thrilled to be joined by the host of Mechanical |
| 0:42.4 | Breakdown and also my work BFF, |
| 0:45.4 | Charlise. Hi Charlise! Hi Janice, thanks for having me. Of course I wish I could |
| 0:51.4 | have you as my guest every week. |
| 0:53.0 | That might get a little bit isolated from, but we'll isolate people. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | They won't understand our jokes. |
| 1:02.0 | So, Charlize, for any listeners who haven't checked out your show yet, can you tell us a little bit about mechanical breakdown? |
| 1:09.0 | Sure, so mechanical breakdown is just a show that I had been thinking about for a really long time before |
| 1:16.0 | it actually aired on K-X-P. I had just been coming across a lot of music that just |
| 1:23.0 | you know darker styles and was from all around the world and I just I don't know I |
| 1:30.9 | love I love the darkness. |
| 1:33.7 | Basically the show is post-punk EBM |
| 1:38.3 | Wave and synth and the reason why I say Wave and synth |
| 1:41.0 | is because it's a broader way of saying like minimal wave, |
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