Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of the Morning Show on KEXP, is "When the Lights Go" by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, from the 2022 album When the Lights Go on Nice Age.
Over the past decade, Orlando Higginbottom has been thriving under the name Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. The British producer scored a Grammy nomination for his collaboration with Bonobo, and has released several singles and EPs since his 2012 debut LP Trouble.
Ten years later, he shares his sophomore full-length, When The Lights Go, which he says is "about love and the end of the world."
"“I think that the record starts and all the ideas are quite direct, and then it gets murkier and murkier as it goes on,” he told Rolling Stone UK. But as we move further away from the lockdown, the apocalypse isn't quite as front of mind. “It’s kind of nice to get this material off my chest. The next record I’m working on is much more hopeful. I’ve come out and I’m very far over the other side now.”
