IXNA has been played on NTS in shows including Séance Centre, featured first on 22 August 2018. Songs played include Ridi Ridi & I Remember Now.

IXNA is the name of Jay Cloidt and Marina LaPalma's "imaginary band" who formed at Mills College while studying under David Behrman and Robert Ashley in 1978. Mills College is known for an irreverent approach to composition which has generated some amazing records, evidenced most strongly in playful classics by Behrman and Ashley.

It's not hard to hear how that influence and prism-opening aesthetic has informed Knotpop, whose confection of Marina's skillfully pert and dippy vocals with Cloidt's bubbling basslines,…