Seattle Band Plash on Totorro’s Mesmerizing Math Rock
In Our Headphones
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Host Evie Stokes sits down again with Seattle band Plash to get nerdy about some of their favorite math rock. This time the band brings in a song from the band Totorro (no, not the Ghibli character) and their song “Matthew’s Bridge.” The band talks about being labeled a “math rock” band themselves and talk about the future of the group. “Matthew’s Bridge” is from Totorro’s 2025 album, Sofa So Good, out now via Recreation Center.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in our headphones and I'm your host, Evie Stokes, back today with Plash, a band that's based in Seattle. |
| 0:07.0 | It's lovely to have you back again. |
| 0:09.0 | Lovely to be here again. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.0 | So excited to hear what you brought along with you today as a song from a band named Totoro out of Ren, France. |
| 0:18.0 | So let's listen to it and then we'll chat some more after the song. Sound good? |
| 0:22.0 | Sounds great. Okay. Here's Matthew's Bridge. |
| 0:40.3 | Okay. The The I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:55.0 | The I'm I'm I'm |
| 1:11.6 | I'm |
| 1:12.6 | I'm |
| 1:13.6 | I'm The |
| 1:30.3 | The I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm I'm I'm going to I'm I'm |
| 2:18.3 | I'm |
| 2:19.3 | I'm |
| 2:20.3 | I'm gonna I'm curious, why did you decide to feature Totoro today? |
| 3:11.2 | Well, I've known about them, I think, since their first record dropped in 2014, if I'm not mistaken. |
| 3:18.8 | And they've always kind of been labeled as maybe like a bit of like a math rock band or at least an instrumental band, which is true. |
| 3:27.2 | But most of their songs are really the way they write. |
| 3:31.5 | It's kind of more so storytelling without the lyrics. |
| 3:35.6 | And they achieve that pretty well just because their writing ability is like so cohesive in the instrumental fashion that it's like lyrics are not necessary. |
| 3:48.6 | And that's similar to what the song that Jesse brought in, you know, it's it very much tells a really good story. |
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