In Our headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of. This is Evie Stokes, and this week I am talking with my friend Tori Jay, who's a DJ here at K-EXP.

Tori, thanks for coming. You want to tell us a little bit about the show that you host?

Yes, yeah. Hello, everyone.

I'm happy to speak to you today in Kunaikhtuk, the language of my ancestors from the mouth of the Kwonaut River on the coast of Washington State gives a little bit of context to the show that I host Sounds of Survivants, our global indigenous radio show.

Tell me about what you play on your show.

I love to play everything in the indigenous metal scene, everything in the hip-hop scene.

I play a lot of indie pop music from indigenous Australia, etc.

Everywhere.

Oh, jazz.

That's the other one.

I'm such a huge fan of jazz music.

All right.

You brought a song that you're going to share with us today.

I want to hear what you have.

Mod the Moth with Burial of the Patriarchs.

It's from her album, The Distaff, which came out in February. Tell me about Mod the Moth.

Yeah. Mod is based, or Mod the Moth is the alter ego of Amaya Lopez, Cardameno, who's based in Scotland, but is Spanish-born. And I found this album, and this is some fun

lore about Tori J's that, like I, like everyone here, I scour the internet for new things to listen to,

but one of my favorite blogs to find new metal music is Angry Metal Guy. And they just have,, you know, they just like with any good critic, like they don't always hit with me. But they gave the distaff a five out of five score, which is like they only do that like once a year. So I was like, I might as well give this a shot. And I did. And I was so glad. Have you spent a lot of time with the album? Oh, yeah. Like, it's, well, it's such an artful work

that I have to be in a certain place to listen to it. But there have been many a time, well, it's

because it demands your attention. And I think that you'll hear this in burialariola the Patriarchs, like the ways that mod the moth just commands attention through sometimes like really sophisticatedly simple vocal melodies that travel that traverse the harmonic spectrum in such a profound way in just three notes. And that

virtuosity is something I'm always interested in because I think that music, like any language,

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