KEXP DJ Tory J on Chicago’s Snooze
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
KEXP DJ Tory J joins host Evie Stokes to talk about writing to music, math rock and Snooze, a happy heavy mathy band from Chicago. The two talk about Snooze’s new song “On a Superposition” from their album “I Know How You Will Die,” which was self-released earlier this year.
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| 0:00.0 | In Our headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. |
| 0:04.3 | Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. |
| 0:07.1 | From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, |
| 0:11.8 | a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of. |
| 0:15.5 | This is Evie Stokes. |
| 0:16.6 | This week, I am happy to welcome my friend Tori Jay into the studio to talk about a new song with me. |
| 0:23.5 | Tori, you are one of the two hosts for Sounds of Survivance, which airs on Sunday nights, Monday mornings from 3 to 5 a.m. |
| 0:32.7 | It's an indigenous music show, and we are so excited to have you here to share a song with us. What did |
| 0:39.7 | you bring today? The song I wanted to show is on a superposition by the Chicago-based, |
| 0:46.8 | hmm, it's funny with snooze because I've heard them called Mathcore. I've heard them called |
| 0:52.7 | Math Rock. I've heard them called Happy Metal. I've heard them called Math Rock. I've heard them called |
| 0:54.4 | Happy Metal. I've heard them called so many things. But, you know, as any artist would say, |
| 0:59.5 | they're snooze. And they're from Chicago. And this is from their album. I know how you will |
| 1:03.8 | die, which came out in April this year. I saw that they are self-proclaimed happy, heavy, |
| 1:10.1 | mathy, a happy heavy, mathy band from chicago absolutely |
| 1:14.1 | that sort of encompasses everything you just said right yeah yeah and if you take one listen if you just |
| 1:19.1 | spend a i think the album runtime is like 52 minutes if you just sit there for 52 minutes and you hear |
| 1:24.2 | then you'll hear all of that technicality. You'll hear all of the |
| 1:28.0 | catharsis that is given weight by that. Yeah. How did you discover snooze? Actually, they're one of |
| 1:35.1 | those bands that has been recommended to me in the past, but I just never got around to listening to. |
| 1:39.9 | But then, funnily enough, they had a lot of crossover or like a lot of fans in the Prague metal subreddit. |
| 1:49.1 | And so again with internet stuff. |
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