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In Our Headphones

KEXP DJ Greta Rose on Peruvian shoegaze band Los Membrillos

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

KEXP DJ Greta Rose joins host Evie Stokes to talk about the Latin American band Los Membrillos and their track "Millones De Colores," or millions of colors which, Greta says, is perfect for this fall weather. "Millones De Colores" is off the band's first album Distimia.

Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
Associate Director of Editorial: Dusty Henry
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0:00.0

In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave.

0:04.3

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0:07.1

From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones,

0:11.6

a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.

0:15.2

This is Evie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with my friend Greta Rose.

0:19.4

Hi, Greta.

0:20.3

Do you have any favorite genres, things that you play heavily on your show? You know, someone wrote in this weekend. They were like, oh, I always like your show. You play a lot of like female-based artists. And I was like, maybe that's it. Like that's really like the tying thread together because I really do hit a lot of genres. Cool. Well, you have a new song that you're going to share

0:38.1

with us, something you brought along today. Tell me about it. Yes. So this is from a Peruvian

0:43.4

bass band, Los Mambrios, and the name of the song is Miones de Calores. It is from their debut

0:52.0

self-released album, DeStemia.

0:55.5

And I chose the song because, if I'm interpreting correctly, I believe the translation is millions of colors.

1:04.0

And they are referencing in the track title, kind of like the layering of guitar.

1:08.4

There's a lot of cool texture in the vocals and a melodic baseline.

1:13.7

Very MBV slow dive, if you will. But I also think the song sounds like that. It feels very

1:20.0

like kaleidoscopic, millions of colors like crystal reflecting in the sunny room, colors

1:26.9

dancing around.

1:28.6

What is it about the band in particular?

1:31.0

What about this album really drew you in to choose this?

1:34.4

Honestly, the first time I heard this album, I was on a walk or I was on a run.

1:39.6

And it just hit, just hit right.

1:43.0

It was kind of, I was near Lake Washington, and the fall leaves were out.

1:48.5

And I was like, I love this song.

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