Adrian Quesada on Swedish Folk Rock band Junip
In Our Headphones
KEXP
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Adrian Quesada joins host Evie Stokes to talk about touring with Latin instrumental band Hermanos Gutiérrez and an old song he still takes inspiration from — Junip’s “Always.” The song is from Junip’s debut album Fields, out on City Slang.
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| 0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. From Independent Music Station, K-EXP, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to. I'm Evie Stokes, and this week I'm chatting with Adrian Casada, and Adrian, you just performed live in studio performance at KexP. |
| 0:21.5 | And you've been through before. |
| 0:23.0 | Do you have fun today? |
| 0:24.0 | Always have fun here. |
| 0:25.0 | It's really, really cool. |
| 0:26.2 | And the vibe in there is incredible with the lights. |
| 0:29.0 | And everybody here's so gracious and awesome. |
| 0:31.2 | So you have a new song. |
| 0:33.1 | Well, a song that you're going to share with us today. |
| 0:35.7 | You brought Junips Always. and this is not a new |
| 0:39.3 | song. It's about 15 years old. And I'm wondering why you chose this one. I'm a big fan of Junip. |
| 0:46.3 | And funny enough, I actually saw their, I think they did a K-E-X-B taping that was really good that I saw here. |
| 0:52.3 | But I'm a big fan of their sound. I love the minimalism |
| 0:57.2 | of a trio and how it's like saying more with less. It sounds like eight people if you're |
| 1:03.6 | listening to them. But they have such this like sprawling, like epic cinematic sound with just three people and the songs are so uh just so |
| 1:13.9 | beautiful and kind of everything is a little bit understated which i love too especially vocally like |
| 1:18.6 | there's so much emotion and everything but it's not like beating you over the head you know it's so |
| 1:24.1 | there's a little bit of mystery to it and um kind of kind of these like bittersweet emotions. So I'm just a big fan. And this album is from 2010. It was their debut record. Of all the songs on that record fields, why this one in particular? Why did you choose it? I don't know. You know, it's funny enough, I'm actually not the most lyrical person. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't write lyrics and I don't sing. |
| 1:47.0 | So like I, I latch on to just like emotion first and foremost. |
| 1:53.0 | I don't really, it takes me a while to like really, and sometimes I latch on to the emotion so much that I actually don't ever really know what they're saying in the song. |
| 2:01.6 | And I do, I do, you know, know a little bit of what they're saying in the song, but I don't know what. |
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