No Filler Music Podcast - Best of 2021 - Part One

Episode Date: December 6, 2021

We kick off our countdown of favorite tracks from the year with 10 tracks ranging from deep jungle techno to psychedelic pop. Tune in each week of December as we countdown our Top 40 Tracks of 2021. Tracklist: Yot Club - Hole Bloodslide - Trap Door GHENGIS TRON - Pyrocene Forrest Drive West - Dualism Peggy Gou - I Go Hush Forte - FRUSTRATION (feat. Saint Lyor) Psymon Spine - Modmed Kings of Convenience - Love Is A Lonely Thing (feat. Feist) Cass McCombs - I Followed The River South To What Sweet Trip - Chapters AJ Lambert - I Summon You (Spoon cover) --- Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Q was actually in this house in my guest room. See, that's not that word. So yeah, we probably could have, we could have done an episode together. But we could have. We had more important things to do. So anyway, so that was fun. It was nice seeing you. It was good times, dude.

Really good times. But here we are. We're back just in time for our, I mean, this is, we're recording this on December 1st. So it's a perfect way to end the year with, as we said, our year-end wrap-up, just like Spotify Q. Yep. We're wrapping up the year. This is the best time of year, dude. Yeah, I love it.

I love it. So we've done this a couple of years in a row now. And basically it's just a what you heard type episode once a week for four episodes. So we're going to have, actually this year we're going to increase it from last year. We're going to have 40 tracks total, so 10 tracks each. We're counting down in no particular order, our favorite tracks from 2021. Actually, I take that back. I think we're saving our best five for the last episode, but the rest of it's just going to be kind of shuffled.

Well, brother, you know what? I'm going to tell you right now I did not prepare for that. Just save your best five, you know, put those aside. Well, okay, but here's what I'm doing. And I think you should do the same, Jeff. I'm going to do just right off the top of my head picking songs for these episodes. I don't have five picked out for today.

The 20 songs that I'm bringing this year have been on repeat all year. That's how they make it on my list. These are all bangers, dude. They're all worthy of being considered favorites. All right. Well, I'm saving my best five for the last episode. Okay.

Well, yeah. So I'm going to do kind of like we, Kind of like how we approach the Watcher Herds. You know, it's just going to be like a DJ set kind of thing where we're just kind of bouncing off each other, keeping the flow going, you know? Yeah. So, you know, I've got a first, my first pick in mind

because I'm going to start us off today. But from that point on, dude, who knows what I'm going to play? It's just going to be a free-for-all. All right, cute. Well, before we do that, let's remind the people out there that they can get 15% off their T-S-to-T. dot com order if they use promo code no filler 15 at checkout we've been telling you that for a few weeks now it's still true you can still get that discount perfect time of year for holiday shopping

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And that's T-S-to-T, my friend. Hey, let's say it in unison this time. All right, this is something that as twins, you know, we should be really good at saying stuff in unison, just like the Grady Twins on the Shining Q. The hell is that? Come on now. We're going to say this in perfect unison. All right, Q, here we go. Ready.

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All right, Q, so you're on deck first, you know, as per usual, with these types of episodes. We're just going to jump right into the tunes, and it's just going to be a blasty blast, man. So here we go. What do you got for us? What's your first pick from your list of best of 2021 tracks? All right.

Well, I'll start by saying that this is a list of favorite artists. You know, like this isn't necessarily my favorite songs by these artists because I'm also trying to bring songs that I haven't brought as what you heard picks. I'm bringing some repeat artists, but, you know, this is just a love fest, dude. You know, like artists that I grew to enjoy their company over this past year. And according to my Spotify wrapped for this year, number one on my list is Mr. Yacht Club. It's just Yacht Club, not Mr. But I fell in love with his song called Waterfall that came out on a little EP that he was

at least called Nature Machine. That came out last year. He is a bedroom DIY pop kind of artist. And he's just been dropping little EPs and singles throughout this year. And there's just something about his music, dude. It's very early 2000s, you know, chill wave kind of. And like his vocal stylings are very like nostalgic for me. And he hits all the right notes, dude.

And I do want to give a quick shout out to the Nice Guys label. That Nice Guys is the label that released his stuff. They've been releasing his stuff for a while. I have found so many great artists through Nice Guys. So I just wanted to give them a quick shout out. And he just released, I want to say like a couple days ago, a brand new single. So just in time, dude. Here we go.

First pick of the year. This is Jock Club and his latest single. hole. Yeah, it's a throwback to some of like the bedroom kind of indie pop that we covered on New Dusts quite a bit, our music blog in the 2010. I'm getting a lot of flashbacks. Yeah, to that kind of music. Yeah, it's the vocal delivery, right? Like, I always go back. I always use this term to describe it and I mean it as a huge compliment because I love the, I love the, like the lazy delivery. When it's done right. Yeah. You know, I mean, you know, there's, There's hints of Julian Casavancos in there.

Yes. You know what I mean? Same with a lot of his songs. And then he always brings in that like reverby, like twangy guitar. He brings that in. Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, dude, that's my favorite. That was a great addition.

I love it, man. So, yeah, again, nothing but love for Yacht Club. His name is Ryan Kaiser. And I also have been really digging his playlist that he has public on Spotify. I've mentioned it a few times on. What You Hear episodes. I've found a lot of great music through it. Actually, dude, our first, what you heard of 2022, I'm going to be bringing a song that I found on his playlist. It's the yacht 100 is the name of the playlist. Give it a follow if you want to listen to some more great

tunage in this vein. He listens to a lot of stuff like what he writes. You know, I mean, I guess probably a lot of people do. So if you're looking for more like Lofi, Chill Wave, Bedroom Pop, check out yacht club check out his playlist yacht 100 we're going to hand it off to you dude what are you bringing so so do you have your five picked already for today or you're going to just wing it no yeah i've got i've got my five picked for today unless you know i'm compelled to play something based on one of your songs right we've you know we've done that before to try to keep the flow and the vibes going right um because this is a mixtape queue just like we're saying or what you heard you know it's got to it's got a nice flow you know that's right

It's important. All right. So I do have my starting song, though. So I am not sure how I came across this group. Probably I related artists to some other band that I listened to. But this is a really interesting group. It's kind of a super group, if you will, because it's made up of members from kind of well-known bands. So the band is called Bloodslide. And they're kind of a, they're classified as new gaze queue, which I think we've talked about that before, but it's just an offshoot of shoe gaze. But I can't remember what the characteristics are, but go ahead. I think it's more like, let's just, you know, a cue, let's find it. Are we talking in you gaze? In you gaze, just like new metal, right? Okay. So it originated in the 2000s, directly influenced by the shoegays scene. I think it's literally just kind of a way to group new shoe gaze artists, honestly,

because I think, and we've talked about this before, how like, shoe gaze has sort of evolved and stuff, right? So it's not sure. Exactly, you know, just carving copies of my bloody Valentine and slow dive and so like that, right. Anyway, so most interestingly about this group is that the lead singer, her name is A.J. Lambert, and she's the granddaughter of Frank Sinatra. Whoa. Didn't see that coming. Yeah, right. Me neither. I was like, let me read that again. So, and Q, I have a closing song for us if you don't have one, because listen to this. And her debut album called Careful You, So she's a solo artist as well, right? She did a cover of I Summon You by Spoon, and it's great. It's really good.

So that'll be our closing. Is this a 2021? No, it's not. It's not. Okay. That's okay. That's all right. We'll have some leeway with our, with our extras.

Yeah, this is our show queue. We can do whatever we want. Anyway, so Bloodslide is A.J. Lambert, Focles, and Bass, like I said, granddaughter of Frank Sinatra. She probably loves hearing that attached to her name every time it said. Mike Wallace is on drums of the band Preoccupations, which I've brought to this podcast quite a bit. He's a great drummer. It's like a post-punk Canadian band.

And then Greg Ahee is on guitar. He is in a band called Proto Martyr, which I've never listened to, but I'm sure they're great. And then here's another kicker cue. This record, and this is just a self-titled EP that came out this year, this record was produced by a man named Sunny DePerry, who has produced. animal collective before. And also the band Dive. Right. So two bands Dive as a Shugay's band that we've talked about on the show before as well.

They're a favorite for sure. For a lot of people, I think, for a lot of Shugay fans, dive is up there as far as contemporary. All right, Q. So like I said, this band is called Bloodslide and they had a self-title EP that came out this year. I'm going to play a song on here called Trap Door. That's awesome, dude. Yeah, I was blown away by this. this record. And the funny thing is that's the most, um, kind of post punky song of the,

of the record. A lot of it is, is more kind of subdued and too gazey. And there's another track that's kind of almost like synthy, technoy. So they're kind of all over the map, but that's what's what's great about it. Because it's just, you know, this is their introduction to the world as a group and they're showing just how like varied their sound could be. And her voice is great. You know, she's got a very traditional vocal delivery. And it works. And it works really, really well with what they're doing, you know. Yeah, and I really liked the changeup. Yeah.

It like a minute and a half with the change up, the drums and the... And the guitar. And then the next, and then the guitar changed again. And it felt more like a, like I said, post-punk, like the, you know, angular guitar work. It kind of makes you think of like Interpol or something like that, you know. So really cool. I could see why they would get tagged in the New Gay's umbrella because it's kind of, they're kind of all over the map.

Yeah, exactly. Kind of mixing up genres. Exactly. Cool. But yeah, really cool. It's four tracks, like I said, so it's a pretty quick listen. But, yeah, that was Bloodslide, and that was a song called Trappdoor off their self-titled EP.

All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back at you. What you got. All right, man. This one's a doozy. I think you're going to love this. I hope that you haven't heard of these guys before. It's a band called Gangus Tron. I just, I didn't actually listen to him.

I saw the name pop up just now. I think I might discover Weekly actually. I was like, that's a funny name. Yeah, that's all I did basically. But yeah, Dream Weapon, right? Dream Weapons is the album. And this is actually my introduction to Gengistron, but they've been releasing music for about 13 years now.

They are like a post-punk, almost like post-hardcore, you know, there's some metal-esque moments and their early stuff. Okay. This album, I think if you're a long-time fan of Gengistron, this one's different. It's a little bit different than the role of stuff. It's not as heavy. Kind of like listening to Old Kaven versus Antenna. You know what I mean?

Okay. This one's more synth-heavy, but it's got like a lot of awesome like angular guitars and stuff. I thought it was a great, it would be a great companion to that song by Bloodslide that you just brought, dude. So this song blew me away when I first heard it, man. The whole album's a banger. So this is again a band called Genghis Tron. The album's called Dream Weapon. This song is called Piracine.

Casa Blancas vibes again, dude. I know, man. But what's great about him is he's got a lot of different, he's doing a lot of things with his vocals, which is kind of cool. He's not just doing a straight Casablancus. But yeah, I'm also hearing, hear me on in this queue. What do you think about this? Holy fuck. Oh, yeah.

Maybe a little bit. With like the kind of that like percussive synth. sound that almost sounds like a drum pad type thing going on but yeah that's that's cool man that's a i you know it sounds to me like um and i think we've actually kind of already had this discussion throughout the year it's it seems kind of like the the indie sound of the 2010s is in 2000s those two are kind of merging almost like the the bedroom pop and the post punk stuff of like the strokes yeah kind of that you know it's kind of merging a little bit with a lot of these new bands that are coming out.

A lot of the stuff that you've been bringing throughout the year for what you heard, you know, kind of what I would classify as just like just that classic indie sound. Yeah. You know, the 2000s and 2010s. Yeah. Now, these guys have been around for, again, 13 years. But they're kind of, they're kind of shifting gears and going a little.

Like, I mean, there is some straight up some screamage. You want to hear some screamage? Yes. Listen to, well, dude, you'll probably love their debut album, up the house, which came out in 2008. But, yeah, this album Dream Weapon, it's nothing but this, like, synth-tinged, like, post-hardcore metal stuff. Solid record all the way through.

Highly recommend it. Well, that's the song that was recommended on my Discover Weekly Q, the one you just played, so. Piracy. Yeah. So there you go. Nice. All right, man.

Pass it back to you, sir. What you got for us. All right. So, Q, I'm not going to try to flow from that. Because honestly, I don't think I have anything that flows from that. So I'm going to have one-80s here, which, you know, sometimes you've got to do that. Sometimes you've got to do it 180. So this is an artist that I brought this year to what you heard.

I'm bringing a different EP. This guy's actually pretty prolific. So this is a East London producer that goes by Forest Drive West. And earlier this year, I brought. brought a one of his earlier, uh, EPs, persistence of memory.

I brought a track off for that. So anyway, um, he, you know, between last year and this year, he's put out one, two,

three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine EPs. Now, probably when you add those up, it's about two,

like two records worth or whatever. But anyway, like I said, he, you know, he, he cranks them out, right?

Um, so I'm going to play a song, I'm going to play the Okay, well actually, let me back up and I assume that people know what I'm talking about since I brought this earlier this year, but this is a, and it's pretty obvious right from this first second of the song, but this is a techno,

jungle, like ambient IDM kind of artist. Now I'd like to do an episode here where we dive into the history of jungle electronic music because I think I'm a big fan of it. Maybe I'll look into that here a little bit while we listen to this and kind of talk about what the characteristics of it are. And we're going to have a brand new calendar year, dude, to figure out what the hell to jam to jam to for, you know, for the next 12 months.

For 2022. Very true. Yeah, man. Let's do some jungle EDM. I think our month on down tempo was a lot of fun. So, okay. This song is called dualism off of the dualism EP. Just terrific, brother. I love it.

You love it? Love it. Just put you in a trance, man. I love it. Yeah. Let me say this, dude. Uh, now you, you got me into Andy Stott. Yeah.

I love when it's done right, like the echo. Uh-huh. On the percussion. Yeah, like the, the reverb and stuff like that, yeah. Yeah. When it's done right, it makes, it, it feels like, it feels cold. You know what I mean? Like, it feels like you're in a long, echoey hallway or in a warehouse or something like that.

Yeah. It's, it just, I don't know, it just, it gives off those really, like not unsettling. Like, like, yeah, I know what you mean. I know exactly what I mean. And I like, I've always, I've always been drawn to, to the darker, if you want to call it, darker sounding electronic, deeper, I guess, deeper, electronic techno stuff like this. Like I said, this is considered like atmospheric. Yeah.

Techno and jungle. It makes you feel like you're in like some, like an abandoned something, abandoned mall, abandoned warehouse. Yeah. Yeah. You know, abandoned concert venue. I don't know. No, I know exactly. Like liminal space.

Yeah. Okay. I could see that. You know what I? So, jungle is a genre of dance music cue that came out of the 90s UK rave scene. That makes sense. Emerging from breakbeat hardcore, the style is characterized by rapid breakbeats, heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples, and synthesized effects combined with deep basslines, melodies, and vocal samples.

So yeah, that's what I like. I like the deep bass lines. I am a sucker for that kind of stuff. And like we talked about, Andy Stott is an artist that we covered back in January of this year. Kind of falls into that category. So yeah, we did like a trio to kick us off this year. We did, it was a rewind episode, but we brought back our Amon Tobin Brickolage episode, Arms and Sleepers, Black Paras 86, and then just kind of a sampling of some Andy Stott stuff.

So yeah, go back and listen to those episodes if you liked this kind of music. And yeah, it's just, I can't get enough of me. man, I've been dancing around the house to this song all year, dude, all year. I would love to see that, man. You're never going to see it. So, sorry. Let's take a quick break. All right, so I'm going to hand it back to you, Q, what you got?

Well, this is exciting, dude, because I've got a song that I think will pair really well with that. It's a little more upbeat and happy. So this is an artist. She is a South Korean-born DJ and producer. She goes by Peggy Gou. So she started out as a DJ. During the 2010s, she became internationally renowned for energetic DJ sets, which dreamily flow through various styles of techno, house, and electro.

Her own tracks are vibrant, joyous productions that echo vintage, deep house, and post-disco without sounding like a throwback. That's a pretty great description of her sound. Yeah. Just recently discovered her. I really love what she does. This is her latest single. Again, her name's Peggy Gou.

This song is called I Go. Every single, goddamn second of that. I know you would, do. Peggy Gew. So, yeah, the description you said earlier about how she's doing the disco, I guess the disco and like synth sound, it's like 80s synth and like a disco kind of vibe. Yeah. But doing it in a way that sounds, that doesn't sound.

Like a throwback is how they put it. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, it sounds fresh. Yeah, really good. So she reminds me a lot of, I feel like it's like an homage to Detroit Techno, you know, like the origins of Techno, right? Right.

And you can definitely, you can hear how this was born from a DJ, you know, who seamlessly transitioned from Techno, House, and Electro in her DJ sets. like you can it feels like a DJ it feels like a mashup right like it felt like to me like you could feel like those DJ transitions yeah yeah throughout the song which yeah all her stuff's like this nothing but love for Peggy Gou a lot of what she's doing here I feel like Mr. twin sister does exceptionally well where there it's a throwback to sort of that that what's I what to call the ballroom um dance scenes of the 80s where this kind of 80s dance music was really popular.

I learned a lot, Q, by watching a show called Pose, by the way, really good show. Anyway, cool. Talks about the ballroom, 80s ballroom culture. Anyway, yeah, it kind of reminds me of kind of like Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound. Exactly. Miami Sound Machine. I love, dude, that it's making a comeback with some of these indie electronic musicians.

It's great. So again, that was Peggy Gue and her latest single, I Goode. All right, dude. Moving right along. All right. So I'm going to switch it up here. I was going to play another track, but I'm going to try to keep the flow going. And I guess this is not at all.

It seems to flow well in my mind. So I'm going to do it. A vastly different universe of artists, though. But, okay, this is an artist that I came across on a, just sort of like an emerging 2021 artists, like indie artists. like indie artists playlist or something like that. It's a Florida-based hip-hop artist and rapper

named Hush Forte. Now, as we know, we don't really bring rap all that much on this podcast, but I am always looking to expand my horizons on rap, right, and my appreciation and love for it. So when I get the chance to listen to a new artist or something like that, I'll do it, you know. Same here, man.

Anyway, this song is off of his album, Look Closely, and it features another artist named Saint Liar. And I'm just going to hit play here, Q. This song is called Frustration. Killer track. I fucking loved every second album. Killer track, man. I can't wait to listen to more from this guy.

I haven't heard. Yeah, their whole record's great. Oof. The whole record's great. So, again, that was hush forte with another singer that did the same. second verse, Saint-Lyre, another rapper. And then they actually credit, I'm looking at this lyric website and they credit somebody named Q who did that other part, that third kind of rap.

And then the person that closed it out that we just heard was somebody that goes by Sophie the homie. So this was like a collaboration with several different artists. But anyway, yeah, that's one of those songs, dude, that just immediately became an earworm. And I just, I couldn't stop thinking about it in my head. There's so many moments where you're just like, whoa, you know, like it catches you off guard. Yeah, they change up the song, like so many different times. Like, it's just so cool. Yeah. Everything about it's great, man. The lyrics are great. The beats are great. Yeah, that was

awesome, dude. Awesome song. So again, that was hush forte. That song was called Frustration. All right, Q, throwing it back to you. What you got? All right, so I'm going to bring another track from an artist that we featured on what you heard earlier this year. This is a group called Simon Spine. I think this was our Good Vives Bart edition, what you heard. We brought a song of there was called Jump Rope. You remember that one, right dude? Yeah, I remember this record art for sure.

Well, it's great about this group. You know, from one track to the next, it's going to have some different vibes. They have two different I mean, I would almost say two different lead singers because they kind of swap lead. Kind of like Aerolyn Doia and

I reckon Glambach Bell from Kings of Convenience. So, yeah, Jump Rope has their female vocalist front and center. I seem to remember having a hard time pronouncing their name, so I'm not going to even try it. But this one I'm going to bring is another favorite of mine off the record. So the album's called Charismatic Megafauna. And this one's got the male lead front and center. So again, this artist is called Simon Spine. A song's called Mod Med. Yeah, that intro was off the charts, Kim.

Great. Great. Yeah, dude. Just a solid, dancey banger, man. Yeah, the thing is, like, I would have listened to that without the singing. Like, the instrumentals were so great. The backing stuff was just so awesome. Yeah, dude.

You're really cool. And that's, you know what? That just goes back to what's, what's, like, the trends, I guess, if you want to call it that, with, you know, new artists, you know, just recycling disco and dance in, like, the coolest way, dude. You know, like, would you consider this dream pop? No, but I feel like it might maybe has characteristics of dream pop. Yeah, I'm trying to think, you know, I'm trying to like, they sound a lot like Mr. Twin Sister to me. Okay.

Yeah, I can see that. Just the disco band, you know. Yeah, the music. Yeah. Sure. Yeah, and that's just, you know, just a lot of great music coming out. Refreshing and perfecting those, like, disco and like heavy dance beats and vibes, you know. Yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of great, great music coming out this year, for sure.

So again, that was Simon Spine, and the song was called ModMed off of charismatic megafauna. All right, man. Pick number four for you, what you got. Q, we couldn't have, we couldn't have planned this better because you mentioned Kings of Convenience. So, of course, we can't do a best of 2021 without doing Kings of Convenience, right? They are my top artist of the year, according to Spotify. There you go. Anyway, we did a full episode on this record.

So there's a lot, you know, we talked about a lot of, a lot of music from this, this new record, peace or love, which is their first record in 12 years. But yeah, I will point you back to that episode, came out in July if you want to hear more about these guys. And we've also, we've done, we've talked about these guys quite a bit throughout the history of the podcast. Like, they're a mainst day, dude. Why Dis Boy Live made an appearance on our best of 2020?

Of last year. Yeah. Yeah. We did an episode on Quiet as the New Loud as well, way early on in the podcast. And right on an empty street. Yeah. So we've done everything but declaration of dependence. Anyway, so I'm going to play another track, Q.

And this is one of the ones that I think we wanted to play, but it got pushed aside. So this is another track that features Feist, which is another cool thing about these guys. They've actually collaborated with her before on the record right on an empty street. So anyway, I'm going to play the whole song, dude, although it's universal. That's the same people we shouldn't do it. Oh, no. Don't do it. Well, I'm going to split this up then.

And hopefully we can skirt. Fine by me, man. I'll listen to Kings of Convenience all day or day. It's a short song, so it's not going to be too long. But I got to hear the ending. The ending is the best part for me. So here we go. All right.

This song is called Love is a Lonely Thing by Kings of Convenience featuring Feist. If you want someone to enter in your life, show a part of your work they can dream about It will seem a fair idea If you make it their idea Go back to your corner, let them come Patience is the hardest thing to have to learn. I'll seem like oceans.

When these I have burned. Goshing your time. So we'll see him. Love to grow. Man, they are just a freaking warm, snuggily blanket. And a ray of sunshine. There's nothing better. On your face.

Nothing better. And this song, to me, was just a classic. Kings. I mean, they're so consistent anyway, but like this just kind of threw me back to the stuff that they did with Feist on right on an empty street. Like the lyrics, the guitar, uh, Irix great voice. Yeah, man. I recently made like a playlist of all their, all their songs. And I, minus the remix album, because it's kind of hard to find a playlist that leaves that one out. Yeah. And yeah, dude, it's consistent, but like never a dull moment. There's really not a lot of songs that, sound the same. You know, it's the same great acoustic driven music, but yeah, dude, I mean,

they're, they're incredible, dude. They're just incredible songwriters, beautiful storytellers. And they write just such simple love songs, you know. Yeah. Sometimes not about, always about love, sometimes about heartache and stuff like that. But this one sounds like it's just a simple love song about, you know, you got to kind of be patient with, you know, when you're, when you're trying to kind of get a new relationship started, right? Yep. Talking about rushing in will ruin all. You must bide your time.

Sill a seed and water and wait for love to grow. Love is patience. Love is kind. Love is patience. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, I'm going to play the rest of the song out because the way that they close the song lyrically is just fucking beautiful, man. I love it.

And it's one of my favorite parts on the record. All right, I'm going to fade us back in where we left off. Again, this is love is a lonely thing. by a Norwegian folk duo Kings of Convenience Love is gifted you Love can be that love is not true Love is pain and suffering Love can be

Once you've known that magic Who can live without it? I love it speaking truths man And you know what I just noticed all three of them chime in at the end. It's rare to hear to hear both of them. Yeah, I think I might actually go Oria, Iric. Actually, Oria, Feist, Iric.

And then all three of them harmonized at the end, which is really cool. That's cool, dude. I don't know if they ever have done that in the past. Yeah. I mean, I guess they harmonized together, but like with Feist, you know? Like, I don't think they've done that where all three of them chime in. That's beautiful. But the lyrics, man.

Love is pain and suffering. suffering, love can be a lonely thing. Once you've known that magic, who can live without it? It's intoxicating, man. It's the idea of like, you know, better to have loved and lost than to have never loved it all, right? That old trope. Right. But yeah, it's just a beautiful song. I love it when Feist, uh, collaborates with them. It's so cool that she, that she joined them on this record because, you know, this was their first record in 12 years. Clearly they're, they're long-time friends. Yeah. I mean, what a perfect pairing, right? I know, man.

Anyway, so that's a top, top five record for me. Anyway, yeah, all right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. And this is your last pick, right? It is. All right. All right. So I'm not too familiar with this guy's entire discography, but I know you're a fan of him as well. Cass McCombs.

Yeah, yeah. I've brought him as of what you heard before. Yeah, a long time ago, dude. Like probably in the first year of our run with this. podcast. He has an album that came out this year called Tip of the Sphere. And as far as like replayability, this might be the number one song for me for the year, dude. I cannot get enough of this song. The song structure is it's, it's just repetitive through and through, but in the coolest way possible. So have you listened to any of this album, Joe? No, I didn't realize he put out a new record.

Yeah. So just a solid singer songwriter. I'm just going to let the music speak for itself. this is Cass McCombs, an album of his called Tip of the Sphere. This song is called I Followed the River South to What? Yeah, man, he's channeling so many great vocalists of the past, you know. It's just a great, great singer-songwriter, like you said. Yeah. Just really talented. Yeah, and it's all about the lyrics, right?

Because it's just repeated over and over, you know. It doesn't change. It just keeps repeating. reading those phrases, you know, with different lyrics on top of that, that one line that he repeats over and over, if I had your dollar, he'll say, you know, if I had your dollar, I'll show you what I mean, I'll take you anywhere. You wouldn't wonder why. I'll show you how to feel. Yeah, is he harmonizing with himself there? I don't know. Because there's definitely some harmony there. Yeah, maybe for the, for the recordings, but I'm sure he's got, you know, a solid backing

band to harmonize with him. Yeah, I, I listened quite a bit to his, to a record that he, probably the record that I brought the track from for what you heard. Bum, bum, bum was the song. Yeah, so Mangey Love was the name of the record. It was really good, just solid, solid. And just a wide range of kind of styles and stuff like that that he incorporates, you know. Yeah. I really like this line here. he says, does the devil ever come a knocking on your sleeping bag? If he ever does, I'll offer him a drag. If I had your dollar, you'll make my doggy wag. Yeah, it's really cool.

Great. I just, I love the, so the song fades out with another like three and a half minutes of just like fooling around kind of guitar solo, kind of picking. And it just fades out as like an instrumental outro, which is really cool. I mean, that's four solid minutes of just repetition, you know. There's no verse chorus, verse square. It's all the same. Yeah, really cool.

All right, dude, that's my first five to ring in the holiday season and the end of the year. What you got for us, dude, to end the episode. I am bringing another track from this band. I brought them as a what you heard a couple months back, a few months back, called Sweet Trip. Yes. I've actually brought them from what you heard years ago, too. Anyway, yeah, I'm just going to play another track off this record. This was their first record in a few years.

And the record is called A Tiny House in Secret Speeches, Polar Equals. And this is just another one of those like perfect, more dream pop than shoegaze, even though those are kind of the same thing. But what they do really well is sort of incorporate like more synthy, dancey elements into their shoegaze, which makes them kind of different. Yeah. So this song is called chapters. It reminds me a lot of slow dive and how they harmonize with each other. I love that, dude. And yeah, you're right. It's a really cool mashup of, I mean, like classic early 90s kind

of shoegays stuff, but with way heavier on the dance, you know, synthy stuff. Yeah, and these guys first showed up toward the end of the 90s. Oh, wow. But yeah, I'm going to read this. This is a good description. It's a lush, spacious mixture of dream pop, ambient, techno, and drum and bass. And then they also kind of fuse in some, like, glitchy type stuff, too. Yeah.

Which is kind of cool. Yeah. You know what that kind of reminded me of, dude? And I don't know if they're even still making music together. But you remember Cock and Swan? Yeah. Yeah. Group from Seattle.

Yep. Yeah, similar vibes. Cock and Swan felt like they were always a little bit darker. Oh, yeah. Well, there we go. One down, three to go. That was a good collection of tunes right there, quite a wide range, which is, you know, the goal. We don't want to just play the same stuff over now again.

Now, dude. Although we do definitely have our go-to. We were actually comparing our Spotify wrapped rundown earlier today. And, yeah, between the two of us, our most listened to genres pretty much, like, describes the podcast, which, obviously. Of course they will, right? But yeah. My, my number one top genre, which is interesting, but no surprise anybody who listened to this podcast, video game music. Not surprising at all, dude. Yeah, it's what I listen to most when I'm working, followed by, here we go, shoegaze, vapor wave. There it is. Soundtrack, which I guess just soundtracks in general,

and then ambient IDM. So that was my top five. Kee, what were your top fives? You know what? I was happy to see Neo-psychadialized. on there, you know, because I'm discovering more great artists under that umbrella. Number one was ambient for me because when I first started WGU at the end of last year, I got heavy into dark ambient stuff, like probably three months straight. The majority of my day was listening to dark ambient stuff. Post-punk is number two, then neo-psychedelic, dream pop, and indie rock. There it is. Well, there you go, dude. I think we covered them all. And Spotify right there.

They make a distinction between Shugays and Dream Pop. So there you go. Yeah. So yeah, next week we'll bring 10 more tracks. We'll just keep this train going. To close out the year, we'll do this every week for the next three weeks. And yeah, it's just going to be a lot of great music coming at you. So once again, don't forget, go to ts.t.com.

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Let's wrap it up, friend. So again, we'll be coming at you with 10 more favorites from this year next week. and oh, Trev, you got an outro for us. Oh, yeah. Okay. Let me tee this up again. So I just thought this was cool. So like my first pick was a band called Bloodslide.

And as I mentioned, the singer is A.J. Lambert, who is the granddaughter of Frank Sinatra, daughter of Nancy Sinatra. She has an album that she put out her first album, Careful You, came out in 2019, where she released a bunch of singles. or covers. She released a bunch of covers. One of them was a spoon cover. And, you know, if you listen to this show, you know, we love Spoon. So, of course, we're going to play this. This is really cool.

Mega fans of Spoon. And that's cool that her first album was covers. That's a bold move. And I just fucking found, let me see if this is what I think it is. It's got to be a cover. So she just released another single, which is a cover of a twin sister song, dude. Kimmy and a Ricefield. Sweet.

I think. I mean, that's such a unique name. That has to be a cover. Anyway, but we're going to play her single of I Summon You, which I think was on Gimme Fiction. Yes, it was. It was. It was gimmie fiction, yeah. All right. So this is going to close us out. Here is A.J. Lambert covering Spoons I Summon You. And we will talk to you guys next week with another set of 10 of our favorite tracks from the year. And yeah, that's it. My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin. Talk to y'all next week.