No Filler Music Podcast - Best of 2021 - Part Three

Episode Date: December 20, 2021

Perhaps our most diverse collection of tracks so far in our Top 40 Tracks of 2021 countdown, week 3 brings everything from progressive metal to a 70s disco throwback. Tune in next week for our final picks of the year. Tracklist JW Francis - Maybe Bay Ledges - Not Now Maybe Never 79.5 - Club Level Ben Prunty - Kelp Caves Fiddlehead - Joyboy Gojira - New Found Kings of Leon - 100,000 People Bad Math - Tunnel NewDad - Blue The Lazy Eyes - Where's My Brain??? --- 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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Yeah, man. We're rounding second base, right? Rounding second base. I feel like we brought some good tunes so far, dude. Yeah. I think I mentioned this on the first one we did at the beginning of the month, but this to me is more about just showcasing the artists that I have discovered that I fell in love with, you know? Yeah. Like some of these artists, some of these tracks that I'm bringing aren't necessarily like

the quote unquote top tracks of the year for me. Sure. You know, just great tunes from great artists, especially the ones that I just discovered this year. I'm bringing a bunch of artists back that you may have heard earlier in the year on what you heard. But, you know, this is just like a celebration of their music, dude. Yeah. And, you know, it's usually a good way to showcase, you know, up and coming fresh faces, right, that maybe put out their first record this year. Right. At least with a, you know, we tend to gravitate toward indie musicians a lot, right?

just kind of the music that we're into. Yep. So, you know, it's always a good way to get more, you know, get their name out there and introduce, you know, hopefully introduce you to a new artist or two, you know. Yeah, dude. I hope so. Anyways, brother. You've been drinking any tasty tea lately, brother?

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It's pretty awesome, dude. You see all the individual ingredients, you know, and the aroma, dude, while it's brewing, just forget about it. So yeah, we are partnering with TSTT right now, and if you use the promo code No Filler 15 at checkout, you will get 15% off your purchase. Yeah, and if, you know what, if it's too late for Christmas shopping or you've already bought gifts because you're a go-getter, you know, get yourself the sampler flight, you know, check out their other gift packs and variety packs and stuff like that. They got a bunch of, dude, I'm going to have to hopefully it'll get in by now.

next week. But I did order that holiday pack. And I also bought a gift for my wife. So T-S-to-T, man. It's starting to seep into my life. Or should I say steep into my life? Oh. Look at that, brother. You did it. Professional. Use the promo code, no-filler 15 at checkout and you will get 15% off your order. That's T-Sat-com. A bold tea for a bold U. All right, Q. Let's kick you. off our countdown. So I went first last week, which means you're going first this week. What do you got for us? I feel like I'm going to kick it off kind of like you did last week with Magdalena Bay. Okay. You might not be floating, but you're going to be hopping and squirreming. Toe tapping? Just toe tapping, man. So I've brought this guy before. His name's J.W. Francis.

And he's been dropping singles all year. So this is one that I've been jamming to for a while, because this one was released as a single. So, just going to let the music speak for itself, kicking us off right. This is, again, an artist who goes by J.W. Francis. This song is called Maybe. I feel like we're just like a broken record with all of our picks here. But, you know, you can't escape the Julian Casablanca's vocal comparison. Yeah.

Like, it's just right there. Like, now what I like about what this guy is doing, J.W. Francis and like some of these other artists that we've talked about, it feels like the indie bedroom pop, whatever you want to call it or whatever, is sort of like incorporating some post-punk stuff from the 2000s like Julian's delivery, right? Right. A lot of that with that vocal delivery for sure. But with some like newer elements. Like there's almost like some down tempo type stuff. that song. The bass line was killer. Yeah. But, you know, he had some like, almost like jazzy kind of stuff that made me think of like down to those stuff. It could have been a sample or, or just something that he created on his, his keyboard or something. But yeah, yeah, like the drumming in the, in the, in the, in the bass was what was killer. Yeah. And he's, you know, he's really like, playful with his, his recording, too. Like he was, I don't know if you heard, he was like,

kind of like, making noises with his mouth during, like, part of it. Just like kind of using it as like an instrument. Yeah, I was hearing that. Yeah. Yeah, really cool, dude. Yeah, that's cool. A big fan of this guy. I actually, I didn't realize that he released a full-length album.

So I'm going to have to dive into it. But there's been a few singles of his that I've been enjoying throughout the year, this one being one of them. So again, that is J.W. Francis. The song is Maybe. And the full-length album is called Wander Kid. And that's it, dude. That's how I'm going to start it off.

passing on to you well i've got the perfect segue and this was my my planned first song so it just happens to go really well with what you just brought to the table but another i'm bringing another bedroom pop indie pop artist it seems like that whole that whole thing the whole concept of like hey i just started making music in my bedroom like that's literally his his biography on spot it says, Yeah. Hey, I'm Zach.

Bay Ledges is a project I started in my bedroom a few years ago. Like, that's his, that's it. That's his bio, right? But like the bedroom, the bedroom pop thing to me,

started around the 2010s, right? Like when we were doing new dust. Or at least you started to hear the term used more like bedroom pop, right? With like Tyco and washed out and Toro Imoa. Yeah, the only reason we were calling a bedroom, you know,

Tyco isn't a bedroom pop artist. He's, you know, a... That's true. IDM type dude. But he was making his tunes with just, you know... Stuff that you could run out of your... Yeah, you didn't have to have a studio. Yeah, and use just your, you know, your personal laptop and synthesizer, and that's all you need to.

Sure. Yeah, exactly. Yep. So anyway, this guy, his name is Zach, but he goes by Bay Ledges. And I'm going to play a track here off of a single that... he put out called Waterfalls, and the name of the song is called Not Now, Maybe Never. Now, he's doing something with his voice. That's not actually, you know, his voice, it's got some effects on it or something like that. But just putting that out there. Like, if he listened to other

tracks on his. So again, that was Bay Ledges. That was a song called Not Now, Maybe Never, off of his EP Waterfalls. Yeah, what did you think about it? We can keep talking about the song. Yeah, yeah, dude, so big fan of the, I mean, it was very, like, nodding back to, I don't know, like, almost disco. Not disco. Well, I mean, it's not the right word. Yeah, I mean, but maybe it was, you know, it was almost like in the same building at least as like a chill wave song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like 80s synth pop. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

But that to me seems like what, these bedroom pop artists. typically do. I mean, it's exactly like we were saying, like with Toro I'ma and washed out, like these guys are just making these tunes in their bedroom with synthesizers and stuff, mixers and whatnot. So like, yeah, I mean, it's continuing. And I feel like TikTok has kind of led to a rise, like a platform for these types of artists to get out there. You know, they can throw a quick little ditty on TikTok, you know. Dude, it's kind of crazy how, like, I'm reading more and more, a artist blows up because their song was just on some random TikTok video. Yeah, because, like, with TikTok, like, I think you can, I've never made a TikTok.

I don't know if I ever plan on doing a Q. But I know that, like, you know, you hear music on TikToks and stuff, and you actually see the name of the song in the corner. Right. So I think a lot of people, they see a really popular video that uses a song. and then they want to make their own version of that video and so they're going to use the same song and then it's if it's a trending thing to do on TikTok then you know there goes your song you know just blew up anyway well that was great man yeah he's got a bunch of a bunch of great stuff like that he he's you know he's put out a bunch of little EPs and stuff between like this

year and last year and yeah he's been doing it since around 2016 so anyway again that was bay ledges and I'm going to throw it back to you you, Q, what you got for us. All right, man. So I'm bringing an artist and a song back into the fold. They actually weren't going to make it on this list this year, but I think they'll pair really well with Bay Ledges. So this is an artist, it's a trio.

They go by 79.5. They're from New York, and they are straight up like 70s funk. It's just good shit, dude. Like, it's retro, but in like all the right ways. There's no cheese about it. So this is a song of theirs. It's just a single. Came out earlier this year.

This one got stuck in my head, dude, and it just pops up every week or so, probably. All right. So again, the artist is 79.5. This song is called Club Level. It was just a faithful call back to the 70s, I guess. Like, it wasn't trying to do anything, like, new. with that sound. Like it was just spot on, you know?

Yeah. But it was great. I freaking loved it. It kind of reminded me of, like, earliest year vocals reminded me of that, um, Strawberry Switchblade band that you brought.

Oh, yeah, dude. And that was an 80s group, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. But,

um, you know, like the saxophone and stuff. The vibe of it kind of reminded me of some stuff that Steely Dan does. Oh, yeah. Good call, dude. You know,

it's always hard to compare any band to, Steely Dan, but I mean, the same vibe like that, what the imagery that you may like conjure up and you listen to a song like that, you know? Like a swanky piano lounge or something. But yeah, I mean, that's like this is the aesthetic they're going for right down to like how they dress and. Yeah, and the look of the album art and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They've got it, got the aesthetic down and everything. So yeah, really cool. So that was 79.5. The song was called Club Level. And I'm, dude, we're a rapid fire in this time, dude. Passing it back to you. Last week was a slow burner, dude. We took our time.

But you know what? I managed to get it down to like 70 minutes, which is pretty, that's pretty typical. You know what? I don't know how I did it, but. You must have trimmed a lot of the fact then. Well, yeah, we were recording for like almost two hours. Yeah, that's what it was. That tells you how much, how much of the words that come out of our mouth don't need to be said, you know?

Yeah, right. All right. All right, dude. Are you going to pivot us? I feel like we need to pivot. Yes. I'm going to pivot us, but, you know, I think we all know by now. I love listening to video game stuff, right?

That was my number one genre on Spotify Rapped for this year. But if I'm going to bring a track to No Filler, that's a video game score, I, you know, I try to make sure that it kind of falls somewhere in the realm of like the types of styles that we bring to No Filler, right? Yeah. So last week you brought. that Japanese breakfast. Yeah, it was a Japanese breakfast video game score. So, like, that's a no-brainer, right?

Because we've actually featured her on the show before. But anyway, this guy, his name is Ben Pronti. And he, I guess, made a name for himself with the score that he did for a game called Faster Than Light, FTL. Oh, I've seen this. You must have showed this to me. Probably. I probably shared the, yeah.

But, yeah, it's called FTL. It came out in 2012. Right. So he's been doing this. for a while. This year, he provided the score for a video game called Subnautica Below Zero. Now, I haven't played the game, and that's usually the case for most of the stuff that I listen to, video game stuff that I listen to. But, um, so yeah, this is his longest score that he's ever done. It's over two hours long. And the way he describes, I'm going to have him, uh, this is from

the bandcamp page. He says, vintage synths, Kalimba, granular synthesis, whatever that is, lots of reverb and the occasional water phone, all come together to evoke the mystery and loneliness of planet 4546B. It sounds like it's an open world survival type game and you're on this planet with water, right? It's a water planet and you're just exploring. Yeah, exactly. You're exploring the depths, right? That's all you need to know.

So this song is called Kelp Caves. And again, it's on the soundtrack Subnonica Below Zero by Ben Pronti. Man, I feel like even if you didn't tell me what the game was about, images of like the deep ocean. Totally. Would have popped up in my head, man. Yeah, he nails it, right? Really well done.

He nails the atmosphere and everything. Yeah. So, yeah, if you like that, I'm going to point you back to our episode on Lossel and our episode on Kieln. Yeah, that's good called. Yeah, we've done a couple of like ambient artists. Atmospheric.

Ambience. With some, you know, electronic beat elements to it. Right. And that's what I like about this particular song. I mean, like I said, the record is over two hours long. So like there's a bunch of, there's a lot of just ambient ambient stuff, right? but sometimes I'll throw in like some some beat behind it, right? Yeah, and Kieln does some similar stuff where it's just like the most like natural sounding electronic music.

It's so hard to describe. Yeah, yeah, but that's kind of what makes Lossel, Lossel, right? And same with Kiel. And Kieln, yeah. Yeah, because, you know, with Kieln, they like do field recordings and stuff like that. Right. And they manipulate the field recordings to turn it into a synthesizer, turn it into like a drumbeat or whatever. Anyway, what I love about video games, if you're going to listen to the soundtrack from an indie video game,

it's probably going to have an indie musician behind it, right? Yeah. And so you're getting to kind of hear artists that might not do what a traditional video or movie composer would do, right? So anyway, that guy, his name is Ben Prunty. If you like that, you'll like everything he does. But again, that was the soundtrack for Sub-Nautica below zero and Q, I imagine you're going to pivot us once again. I mean, I could actually bring Southern that's kind of similar, but I'm not, dude. I'm going to switch it up. Okay. So this is another band that you might be familiar with from a previous episode. It's an emo post-punk band called Fiddlehead. Fell in love with their album between the riches earlier this year.

I brought a song and there was called Heart to Heart at one of our earlier What You Heard's. Dude, this is just one of those moments, one of those bands and one of those albums where it just makes me happy that early 2000s

style emo is still kicking. And these guys have only been around for, I mean, maybe six or seven years, not that long, you know, compared to the that what was it the second wave emo yeah second wave was was um like jimmy world no jimmy world well jimmy world was like they had their foot in in both waves or whatever second and third yeah okay but like second wave was like what are they called promise ring and like yeah yeah american football

stuff like that yeah anyways um here's another great song from the album so uh again this is an art artist called Fiddlehead, and this song is called Joy Boy. And this sound will just always put a smile on my face, man, and just bring back just a wave of nostalgia. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, that's a great track, man. Yeah. Call me Joy Boy, dude, because that's what just happened to me.

Yeah, man. Filled with Joy. Dude, the whole album is fantastic. Yeah, I remember the song that you brought earlier in the year was another killer track. Yeah. But yeah, so that, their sound, at least in that song, reminded me of a lot of the tooth-and-nail type bands that we like,

Slow Coming Day. And I don't remember if Hamerlind, maybe, a little bit. Amberlin had such a unique sound, but yeah, similar. But, like, I don't remember if Hay Mercedes was on slow-coming, or on Tooth-A-Nail. But, I mean, that kind of third-wave emo sound. Yeah. That's great, man. I don't have to cue up that record.

It's fantastic. So, again, that's Joy Boy. The artist is Fiddlehead. The album is Between the... the richness. One of my favorite artist discoveries of the year, hands down. Yeah, that's great, man. I love it. Yeah, really looking forward to hearing more stuff from them. All about it. All right, man, passing it back to you. What you get? Dude, we're like a well-oiled machine today. Love it. All right. You know, it was bound to happen, Hugh. I'm bringing some metal.

Oh, man. I mean, of course, right? Oh, man. That's one thing you can count on me that you you won't get from Q, video game music and metal, at least on this podcast. You will never hear metal from me. That's just it, man. Well, I'm trying to get you to, you know, I'm trying to get you into the fold here. I just don't listen to it on my own. Well, we'll see. Actually, I'll say this. The closest I think I'll ever get to listening to metal on my own is, Queens of the Stone Age?

No, it's the shoegaze. What do they call it? Oh, doom, doom gaze? Doom gaze, yeah. Yeah. That's the closest I'll ever get to enjoying metal. But that's, you know, could be like a gateway drug, Q. I feel like Queens of the Stone Age, that record, songs for the dead, songs for the death. Songs for the deaf.

Son of it. That's another, every time. Between Britt Daniels and songs for the death. I know, that was the joke. Okay. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah.

It's because there's a song on the record called a Song for the Day. Sure. Anyway, I feel like, genuinely, I think that record was my gateway into metal outside of Metallica. Like my intro to metal was Metallica, right? Well, it's probably a lot of people, right? Queens of the Stone Age was the first, that album was the first album that I, like, actually enjoyed screaming. Yeah. On a record, dude.

Before that, I just didn't understand it. And that probably ages me a little bit. That's it, dude. Why don't you, uh... What more do you need to know, man? It's time to listen to more metal. All right. Well, here we go.

Bring it on, dude. Let's hear it. All right. So I'm bringing a band that's actually been around for a while. They're called Gojira, which, you know, is, I think, like, the Japanese name for Godzilla or something like that. They were called Godzilla originally and changed their name to Gojira. Anyway, they are... a French heavy metal band. So I have only really listened to, like, their first record and then this record.

So, like, you know, there's a lot of stuff in between that I'm not familiar with, right? But at their first record, or at least, their first one under the name Gojira, at least, Terra Incognita, came out in 2000. And it sounds a lot different than their new record this year that came out called Fortitude. dude. And, you know, if you were to throw all the labels that have been thrown on them before, and, you know, this is kind of a joke about metal. Some of the subgenres are kind of funny. Technical death metal, progressive metal, groove metal, and post metal. Okay. Technical death metal. Is that like the same as saying, I mean, death metal. I mean, death metal. Yeah, probably. But, you know, I think it's just death metal, but, like, highly.

Maybe more like math rock kind of. Yeah, something like that. right? Anyway, so I wanted to read what people were saying about this record because I wanted to get a sense of like, did this record, is this a change from their typical sound, blah, blah, blah, right? And a lot of the reviews I'm reading, uh, Kerrang with an exclamation mark, it's a very well-known, like metal publication. And, you know, from what they're saying about this record is that it's, It's a lot of what they're known for, but also like it's a more approachable album for maybe people that weren't into, you know, maybe technical death metal or whatever, right? Anyway, I'm going to play a track off of their new record, came out this year, which is actually a postponed record. It was supposed to come out in 2020, but the pandemic kind of slowed down.

So we got a 2021 release instead. Nice. So I'm going to play a song here called. Newfound. Get ready to fucking rock, dude. Getting some corn vibes. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

I like that, though. That was great. Okay. Well, this is what I'm talking about, Q. Now, forgive me. Would you consider that, like, industrial? No. Why?

Well, is it because, like, that kind of effect they have on the guitar? Yeah. sounds like a drill or something like that maybe yeah that's what i always i don't think it's industrial metal like to me like industrial metal is like nine inch nails or something like that okay i think with industrial metal it incorporates like synths and stuff like that into it it's more like electronic type stuff sampling sequencer lines stuff like that but like Marilyn manson falls under that fear factory nine inch nail stuff like that anyway so you were joking i think because it was a it was a callback joke and you said something

sounds like corn. Yeah, no, they don't. But no, no, but I will say that, like, there are elements of new metal in this particular song. So, you know, okay. You could say that that makes it sound like corn a little bit. I know, man, right? That's what I said. Yeah. I'm still so, like, oblivious to, to metal. All you got to do is just, just listen to it. Give it a listen. Yeah. Okay. You don't got to, you don't have to worry about what genre is this. Like, you know what? Just listen to it. It's all good. Let me read this. This is, uh, this is from the Rang review at the end here.

This is how they close this review. They say this is an important album, not only because it extends Gojira's palette and cements their place as one of metal's most skilled and uncompromising bands. They're also one of the most inspiring as they call for strength, for action, and above all for fortitude. Hang in there, and Gojira will be right beside you.

Hey man, that's how I feel about metal, dude. It got you. So is there for you. Metal's got your back. Anyway, so that was Gojura. The record is called Fortitude. That song was called New Found. And we can only pivot from here, Q, because you don't have a metal song on your list.

I don't, man. I'm really torn. Really torn here. I'm what to play next, man. How do you flow from a song like that? All right. It's decided. Here's what's happening, brother.

I'm bringing a song from our old pals, Kings of Leon. No, I didn't realize because I pretend like they don't exist anymore that they put out new music. Well, I have to give a shout out to our old buddy Mitchell for sending this song my way earlier this year. Whoa, so they put out a whole new record. Yeah.

Holy crap. Yeah, so here's the deal. If you go as far back as our, what, third episode, fourth maybe, you would know by now that we kind of lost faith and hope in Kings of Leon a while ago. And it's just, I think it's because for us,

we became mega fans of Kings of Leon when their first album Youth and Young Manhood came out. And then into AHA Shake Heartbreak too. And Aha Shake Heartbreak. And then they just blew up and their sound changed, you know? And you can't, you can't be mad at them for that. No, you can follow them.

But I just... They're on a major record label. They got numbers to hit. They're one of the biggest bands of the last decade. They were definitely, yeah, they were at the top, top, too, for a little bit.

Like, they had some huge singles that really skyrocketed them. I mean, should, man. Like, the last 15 years, they've been one of the biggest bands in the world, I'd say. Crazy. And we saw them in a tiny little music venue

in Deep Ellum when they were touring for Ahashe Carpric, you know, and they still had the beards and the bell bottoms and stuff. And they were just... I think we were... We must have caught at least two shows for their youth and young man. I think you're right.

Yeah, maybe youth young manhood. Actually, we saw them open for the strokes. That was the first time we saw them. Yeah. Remember that? Anyway, so we've seen them like three times. Anyway, so let's just ask this question. Let me ask this question, Q.

Okay. Is it time to pay attention to Kings of Leon again? I'm going to admit that I haven't listened to this album. I have listened to the one song that Mitchell sent me, and it was just one of those, like, moments. I was just like, all right, I see you. You know, I see you guys. Oh, you're back.

Yeah, exactly. You know, I think with Kings of Leon, like, their sound has always been Kings of Leon. Yeah. But the types of songs that they started to write just were completely different from the really aggressive, like, raw type stuff that they were doing on Youth and Young Manhood, right? And that's why we didn't, that's why we straight away. The nitty, gritty bluesy stuff. Yeah.

Yeah. But anyway, I respect them for who they are. I'm just going to say that. Yeah. And so this is an album called When You See Yourself. And I'm going to give another shout out to Mitch. Old buddy Mitch. He shared this song with me a while back.

And yeah, man, it's just one of this. I'm just a great song, dude. I think it's a, I'm not going to call it a 180, but it's pretty different from Gojira. Oh, I'm sure it is. All right. This song is called 100,000 people. Like welcoming an old friend back into my life

I feel like this is exactly what Day would sound like 18 years after their first record You know what I mean? Like this seems like a natural evolution Like it's a mature sound It's more mature The the lyrics are very like

You know And you think now man heard They're singing about freaking trannies and stuff You know There's literally a song called tranny On the record Right You know what I mean

And like testosterone like you know what's the song what's that song you know pistol of fire and like oh yeah four kicks you know there were early 20 something yeah exactly they were singing about what they would sing about for their age group but like but his voice man his voice will always be

it's so such a compelling voice and it always has been like yeah he's got one of the greatest voices in in music to come out the last few decades right last couple days I agree this version of it and the version from Yeah young manhood You know

This one's a more like Subtle He's not he's not screaming Yeah You know But yeah And I I gotta give a shout out

As always to Um Oh god I wish I knew their names Off the top of my head I know Caleb Uh drummer Nathan

He he is such a great drummer Dude I love his drumbeats Yeah yeah And it's it's Four same dudes right Oh yeah I mean they're You know

What three brothers and a cousin Exactly yeah Yeah dude Yeah, that was great, man. I may have to cue this record up and just catch up with my buddies. We should give it a go. Yeah. So again, that song was 100,000 people by Kings of Leon.

The album is called When You See Yourself. And what we got, three songs left? Yep. All right, dude. Okay. Where are we going to go from here? This might be a nice transition. You're going to bring another artist from our past back into the?

I am actually, yeah. By the past, I mean earlier this year. Okay. But this is one of my favorite records of this year. And one of my favorite discoveries, you may remember this band. They're called Bad Math. And they are a, I believe a shoe gaze, I guess you could call them New Gay's band from Hong Kong. And this record is just like so special, dude.

I love it so much. So I brought a song called Walls to an earlier what you heard. And I just want to bring another track from this record. So the album is called Missing Narrative. And I'm just going to let the song speak for itself. So this is the opening track off of this record. And it's called Tunnel. And you're right to call it New Gays because there's like,

there's the proper shoegaze. There's the dream pop. And there's like, there's like some math rock elements to that. Yeah. I was going to clarify, like, I guess the only shoegays thing about it is maybe the vocals. And I feel like that almost makes it fall more under the dream pop umbrella. Yeah. But there was kind of that wall of sound. A little bit, maybe.

But not the traditional, like, like guitar type sound. But, you know, really, they're kind of like a, they're kind of like an indie dream pop. It reminded me of letting up despite great faults a little bit with the Sinty stuff. Yeah. And then some more like technical. like math rock kind of guitar stuff towards the end there. Yeah. And this is like,

that's great. Yeah. What I like about them is just, they're just very stripped down, like straightforward, really simple songs, but like they're just so well done. And like,

I don't know if you picked up on the, like that little break in the middle where it was like this quote. Oh yeah. It almost sounded like somebody speaking through like a, like almost like a dystopian movie or something like that. Yeah. Like a quote.

But anyway, the quote, itself, I actually found the lyrics. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but like, I'm just going to read this part of it, at least. The light at the end of the tunnel is probably the headlight of another train approaching us from the opposite direction.

Like, almost like a defeatist type attitude. Maybe it's like, oh, the light of the end of the tunnel, you know, we're about to escape the tunnel. Oh, it's just a train coming to, you know, obliterate us. Interesting. Anyway, I like, if you wanted

to pull up the lyrics and read that little quote. It's very, I don't know, it's just really well done to insert that in the middle of the song. Anyway, so that song was called Tunnel. The band is called Bad Math. The record is called Missing Narrative, and that's probably one of my top five records of the year, for sure.

Yeah, I'm queuing it up, dude. I gotta give that a listen. It's fantastic, dude. And it's, you know, eight tracks, 38 minutes, really, really good. There's a lot of great stuff coming on Hong Kong. A lot of great stuff.

Yes. All right, Q. This is your last track. It's my last track for the day. What do you got? So I'm going to stick in the Dream Pop vein. It's a group called New Dad. It's all one word.

And they just released an EP earlier this year called Waves. It's a little six-track EP. And yeah, this is just one of those catchy. Like, it's super pop, super popy, like heavy on the pop side of the Dream Pop. just super I mean just a fucking earworm dude get ready so again the artist is new dad

EP is called waves this song is called blue I don't know what if there's any truth to this but like it just feels like there's just a really there's like an indie revival

I don't know resurgence I don't know something like that but maybe it's something to do with the pandemic or something like that and these musicians are just have more time to write tunes or something like that in their freaking bedrooms right but this yeah that's a great track and you know goes goes into exactly what we've been talking about the last couple weeks where it's like either we're just drawn to to female musicians this year or just they're they're dominating you know i love it dude the lyrics

lyrics are great yeah lyrics are great too man she's just like she's just dealing with like a a bummer of a partner. While you took your time, you wasted mine. I said, I wanted you. You said you felt too blue. And while you were making up your mind, I lost mine. We don't like the same things.

I want to dance and you just want to drink. I want to talk and you just want to sit alone and think. This person sounds like a bummer, dude. And she's just like letting them know about it. Like, you know what? I got to speak my mind for once. Anyways, the whole EP is great, dude. just a little six-track EP.

They did just release a new single not that long ago called Lady Bird. So I feel like they're queuing up to drop a full length pretty soon here, which is great. Nice. So again, the artist's new dad. That song was called Blue. And how are we going to wrap this one up, dude? What's you got for us? I got a banger to close this out, Q.

Because that's the only way to end an episode is with a banger. I agree. And there's no doubt in my mind, Q. you're going to absolutely love this. So if you've been listening to the show for a while, we all know that Quentin loves psychedelic rock. Yes, sir. In like the first year, I feel like, of episodes,

you know, we used to do what you heard segments at the end of every episode or the beginning, depending on when we switched it around. I feel like what you heard is just always changing. Anyway. Yeah. We brought one song each. Yeah, every week. Every episode.

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, for like the longest time, it was always psychedelic rock after psychedelic, every single episode. Yeah, and that's really all I was listening to. Yeah. That's it for like a year straight, psych rock new and old. Well, boy, do I got something for you, Q. So these guys are called The Lazy Eyes, and they are a psych rock band from Sydney, Australia. and as we know of Australia, Q, they produced Tame Impala, right?

They did produce Kevin Parker of... Straight out of Perth. Yeah, Perth, Australia. Anyway, I just wanted to bring that up real quick because the comparisons to Tame and Pala and King Gizzard, which I confess I've never really gotten into all that much. Oh, they're great. But I know that they're really, really great. Yeah, they're great, and they're all over the place.

Every album is going to sound different. Anyway, I wanted to quote, I think this is one of the guitar players of this band, Lazy Eye, because I like how they embrace it. Anyway, they were interviewed by NME magazine, and they said, you know, they're asking about the comparisons that Damon Pollan King gives it, right? And he says, he being Itte Sashar, of course I fucked it up, is one of the guitar players. And he says, it's hard not to wear your influences on your sleeve. When we were young, those bands were some of our heroes. So I get it. Nice. That's awesome.

We might not even be a band if it wasn't for Tame and Giz. They've paved the way for a lot of young artists. There are so many artists who hit it big in Australia but don't attract much of an international following. It's inspiring to see them tour around the world, drawing huge crowds. The comparisons aren't something to be afraid of. You know, I like that. Nice. Brace it. Pay some homage to your heroes.

For real, dude. Take it as a comfort. And I think, you know, he's absolutely right. point out that like team and paula sort of put the eyes of the music world on Australia you know especially Perth and stuff like that definitely him and Courtney Barnett dude anyway all right Q we're going to let this play out a little bit because it's got a bunch of cool parts to it so here we got this song is called Where's My Brain from EP2 by the lazy eyes for my friend nothing to snuff about it's a stuff about it's a stuff about out. And they were pulling from all kinds of great styles of modern psych rock. And I mean,

yeah, I think modern, all psych rock stays true to how it's always sounded. You know what I mean? Like it, it always comes from a 70s kind of headspace. Yeah. And they're bringing in like, one of my favorite modern psych rock bands, the sound carriers. I talk about them all the time. Yeah. With the like, organ sounds and the vocal stylings and harmonizing. Yeah. Love that stuff, dude. Yeah, and of course the breakdown at the end.

Yeah, that dual guitar stuff. Yeah, dude. The song is six minutes, 39 seconds long. So, you know, it's a jam song, right? Yeah. Just like any good song should be, really, think about it. But yeah, so the song was written, like, it's a bit heavier than some of their other stuff. So like the lead singer Harvey Gerotti, let us just say Gerotti.

He said it was written, we were getting into heavier music, and our live set was really lacking some MASH music. So they wrote this as a song for people to mash to basically during their live sets. You mean Mosh? Yeah, I said MASH too during their live set. Anyway, that was not a female vocalist, by the way. Oh shit. I thought it was at first.

No, it's not. It's just a, uh, Harvey just hits the high notes, I guess. Harvey Gerardi. But anyway, kind of reminded me, you know, not, not, they didn't remind me that, but I mean, the higher registered vocals of a psych rock band reminds me of temples, although I don't really care for them anymore. But anyway. But yeah, dude, they also put out a single, I think earlier in the year called Fuzz Jam,

another great, another great track. Anyway, if you like that, just cue their songs I mean they're all just really good like that just great 70s psych rock you know what more do you need really awesome so again that was

a song off of EP2 by the lazy eyes the song was called Where's My Brain and that's it dude that's how we wrap up our third week that means we got one week left got one week left dude so you're bringing your top five of your favorite

That's right. I have, and let me tell you something, dude. I've been shuffling this list around for the last three weeks. So like some songs were kicked up. Some were kicked down. But yeah, this is it. This is the last five. So in my opinion, these are some of my favorite tracks of the year, the last five that I'm bringing at least.

I don't know where you're, where you ended up because you just kind of, it could just be sort of the, the table scraps or whatever, yeah. Nah, dude. Yeah. No, dude. I got some great ones coming up for our last. Our last hurrah. Well, all right.

That's next week. It'll be our last 10 as we count down our favorite tracks of 2021. And then we're going to kick off next year with, well, you know what, Q? There'll be a perfect opportunity to talk about them next week. And that's all I'm going to say. So anyway, yeah, tune in next week. We got 10 more tracks for you for our last episode of the year. Like we said earlier, go to t-sat-tie.com.

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