No Filler Music Podcast - Best of 2022 - Part Two

Episode Date: December 16, 2022

Join us all December as we count down our favorite tracks from 2022. trauma ray - Liftoff Pet Shimmers - Edge Lord RIP Swirl - Nonsense The Soundcarriers - Saturate Omit - Grivo Spoon - Astral Jacket Amos Roddy - Matsutake SUSS - Shimmer Vitesse X - Therma Maxima Fievel Is Glauque - The River DOMI & JD BECK - WHATUP This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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New members only. Not available in remote locations. See additional terms at one peloton.com slash home dash trial. And welcome to no filler. The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. my name is Quentin with me as always is my brother Travis and y'all are getting a double dose uh you y'all are getting some double men twins this week dude that is yeah you know you and I should have been on a double men commercial cue do you want me to bring up the fact that we were this close to stardom brother but you were too boohoo backstage during our

backstage. I think it was like, yeah, I don't think it was a stage. No, I know, we didn't make it that far. But we were supposed to be, I say supposed to because that was my fate, Treve, and you ruined it. The kid on Honey, I blew up the kids. Yes. So the sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

I mean, who knows how close we actually got to being cast, but we did have a callback. We made it to the callback. callback. Yeah, we had a callback audition. Yeah, and Travis, you were just, you're just crying too much. You know what? You were too upset. How do we know that it wasn't you that was crying? Because they put us in, I always wore blue, you always wore red so that our mom could tell us apart. All right. Well, anyways, how did that, uh, doublement, you guys are getting a double mint, you're getting a double mint twin explosion this week because you guys are getting double episodes.

Yeah, which is kind of, you know. This is the second of that double episode. That's right, which means it's like Wednesday, right? It's Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah. Whenever Travis decides to post this one. Which means, dude, think about this, man. You're about to get another one in another few days, dude.

Yeah. You know, because the next, well, is that how that's going to work? Yeah, that's how that's going to work because we'll record the other one at some point. Three episodes within one week. So, you know what? tis the season, right? That's right. And we're in a gifting mood.

We are. And we're actually going to try to stick to our word here, Q, and do this in a rapid fire manner. So, yeah, we'll try to keep the banter to a minimum. But you started last week, or part one, I should say. So I'm going to kick us off with part two here. And this band is no stranger to no filler. Well, they've appeared once, I'll just say that. They were on an earlier watch-heard episode,

and I sat on this particular album, which had already come out at that point because I wanted to save it for the best of episodes. So I played something off of their self-titled EP, but I'm talking about a band called Trauma Ray, who, you know, they fall in the vein of this gruntletes. Revival, Shugays, New Gays is a term, sometimes you'll hear. But, yeah, just another solid alt-rock grunge revival band.

And they are from Fort Worth, Texas, Q, so they're in my neck of the woods. And yeah, they put out an EP back in May called Transmissions. I'm going to play the first track off the record. And Q, it's appropriately titles for what we're about to do, which is Lift Off. So here we go. Oh. This song is called Lift Off. Perfect.

What's happening with the, like that 90s grunge revival? Man, they're blending in so many different styles of 90s rock. I've heard that riff before, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the thing that we've said before. It's like, you know, when you're listening to bands like narrowhead or soul blind or bleed, which is, you know, another side project of some of the narrowhead dudes. It's just like your brain is trying to figure out and place this stuff because they have the sound down so perfectly.

Yeah. That it just, it, it's a song you've heard before. You know, that's the best way to describe it. It makes it a really fun listen. And it's not in like a cheesy way. It's not a blatant rip-off. Yeah. Right, exactly.

It's not a rip-off. This new, this new iteration of grunge bands. And this, this song is a perfect example. of that. What they do is it seems like they're taking the alt rock grunge guitar sound and tone. And then the vocals are shoegaze dream pop vocals. And that's not what grunge bands are doing in the 90s, but that's what they're doing with this revival. It's the soft dream poppy vocal, shoe gaze vocal, but with like heavy grunge, you know, sometimes like hardcore, like fleshwash, which he brought last week, type songs, right?

Well, and I was getting some, like, Catherine Wheel vocals, just in the breathiness of it. Yeah, and, and, you know, and, you know, that nice long intro, the way I like to visualize a song is like the intro was the liftoff cue, and then they switched to that nice soft, like, smashing pumpkins kind of guitar. Now we're in space and floating, you know.

Anyway. You've reached the cruising altitude. Anyway, so that was Trauma Ray, and that song was called Lift Off. Check out their EP that they put out this year called Transmissions. Yeah, just, you know, that's a band to follow for sure because I'm sure they'll be putting out. Hopefully more stuff like this. They have a handful of EPs.

They don't have a full-length record out yet. I think that was a good way to start us, Q. That put us in, you know, in orbit. You know, we're floating in space. So what are you going to do for us now here? Well, what's your first pick? All right, man. So this group.

I discovered earlier this year. I brought a song from a single of theirs from 2019 to one of our Watcher Heard's earlier in the year. The band is called Pet Shimmers. That a very like animal collective vibe only and that they're very, it feels like a collective. You know, like there's a lot of really cool stuff going on with all the different vocalists in the group,

very experimental. I brought a song called Supernatural Teeth. And they just dropped a single, in June of this year called Edge Lord. Yeah. And yeah, I remember back when I brought that that song earlier this year, you know, I'd said,

you know, I can't wait, like I'm really excited to hear what these guys do next. And they didn't disappoint, dude. So I'm going to play track one from this, I guess we could call this side A, because this is a little two-track. EP from Pat Shimmers, this song is called Edge Lord. Despite feathers for living proof

and the whole bunch confetti through said how could I have the clue when you were ready new, it's all new as the portrait revealed itself so soon and ever later stereotyed

on the off the head of soul so there was a second there were, you know, they kicked into some other part of the song

and I thought that I had somehow hit play on on Spotify and like had another song playing in the background.

That's how like, you know, different it was or like, I guess, I don't want to say disorienting because it wasn't that strange of like an injection of some of their sound. But like, yeah, it was kind of this, which, you know, Animal Collective does stuff like that all the time as far as like switching things up, you know, adding some really, you know,

weird kind of sound. Yeah, that's what I like about about Pet Shimmers. I love the harmonizing. Yeah. Do they have different singers or is it mainly that guy? Because yeah, like you said, I'm counting like eight, seven, seven people. Yeah. At least in this one picture.

No, they definitely go back and forth at singing. But usually it's harmonizing together like that, at least in the stuff that I've heard so far from them. But it's kind of hard to place a finger on their sound. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, yeah, what do you call that? Art rock, art pop. Avant Garde. Oh, bedroom pop.

Lofi. There we go. Lofi. I'll take Lofi. You know, yeah. Yeah, bedroom pop. I love it more accurate. But, I mean, I feel like bedroom pop, at least back in the 2010s, like when we had our music blog, bedroom a lot of time spent one person, you know, in their literally, you know, in their bedroom or whatever.

Yeah, that stemmed from like Tyco, Toro Imoa washed out. Yeah, the chill wave side of it at least. Yeah. Yeah. But like bands like, you know, with bedroom pop, I also think of artists like Mac to Marco, right? Like that stuff he was making early on, which was just really like lo-fi indie rock, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Now it's just a style, I guess, that can be sort of blended in with anything. Because they're experimental too, for sure, right? Oh, yeah, big time. Cool. So yeah, again, that was Pet Shimmers with their single Edge Lord, and Rapid Fire Drive pass it right back to you. What'd you got? All right.

Here's another artist that I brought for what you heard. Not too long ago, maybe a few months ago. So this is a Berlin-based musician that goes by the name Rip Swirl. His actual name is Lucas Seifert, or Seifert. effort or say fair maybe but what I really liked about this record that he put out it's called blurry came out a few months back is that it it blended a lot of different things you know there's some like ambient electronic more passive kind of tracks on it and then there's tracks that kind of have like this really classic like 90s almost down tempo vibe to it and

And so he kind of, in the same way that a lot of indie bands right now, like indie rock bands are bringing back the grunge sound, there's a lot of bands that are bringing back the more classic era of electronic music from like the 90s, like that sound of dance music. And, you know, the Y2K era, like electronic music, right? And he's one of them. Y2K. Dang, dude.

Nice. You remember that? Nice callback, dude. Yeah. I haven't heard it referred to it that way in a while. I survived the Y2K. Scare. Those were dicey times, man. Go ahead, sorry.

Don't forget to reset your computer or whatever it was that you were supposed to do. Yeah. Don't turn off your computer or something like that. Make sure your computer's on. I don't remember what the deal was. All the nuclear weapons were going to go off at the same time. Yeah. Because the computer wouldn't know what to do.

you know, the date read zero zero for some reason. And that's what happens when a computer malfunctions is it just triggers everything. Yeah. It does the worst possible thing it could do. None of that happened, obviously. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, so that era of electronic music, right? And I played a song called Love Song, which had kind of a massive attack vibe to it.

At least I had more of like a darker kind of, I say dark, but you know, that more mellow kind of electronic sound. This one is a little bit more, I don't know, you know what, Q, you tell me what you think this, this reminds you of. So here you go. This song, again,

by the artist Rip Swirl. This song is called nonsense. Spot on, dude. A lot of, reminds me a lot of that Y2K, tang, that's early 2000s, electronic music where a lot of times they were using really,

like hip-pop kind of beats on on these kind of you know kind of I'm going to say lo-fi dude lo-fi sounding like synth loops and stuff reminds me a lot of aim I think we brought a few of his songs I think it's one guy back when we did sidetracks or it was either sidetrack episode or it was your what-you-heard track for the toska episode I think oh yeah I think early early because you know we try to bring like similar artists for what you heard I think a lot of times definitely for side tracks but yeah yeah but yeah where you know it's very hip hop heavy with the beats or you know kind of reminds me of even like early bonobo early bonobo yeah yeah yeah yeah uh down tempo kind of stuff yeah yeah yeah good stuff here's a perfect couple of perfect

sentences from the pitchfork review. So shout out to Sam Goldner, who, uh, who reviewed this record on pitchfork because I think he, he nailed it here. This is headphone music for late night bus rides. The lonesome soundtrack for the long drive home after leaving the club a bit earlier than everyone else. Nice, man. Dude, that actually kind of made me nostalgic for bus rides. Yeah, I was, yeah, I used to read that because I, you know, when we first move up to here, I was a vet tech. in Seattle and I would hop on I it took me three buses to get from Renton to Seattle and I would hop on there early morning when I hopped on that first bus dude and I would just throw on headphones and listen to music the whole way there dude well if you ever take a night bus ride this is your this is your soundtrack

yeah it's perfect dude that's a great descriptor for it and then here's another one just to close it out talking about the record it's nocturnal mood captures the playful sophistication of early 2000s electronica as seen through the fashion damaged club culture of today. And I think that's a, maybe that's what I, what I'm actually saying, you know, when I say like, because playful sophistication is a really good way to describe artists like Aymond Tobin, Orbanobo, or, you know, even massive attack, right? Like, there's this, there's this, like, vibe or there's this quality to it that just makes it seem

elevated I guess I don't know maybe it's the jazz elements of it or something like that that's definitely what elevated Aiman Tobin for sure all right Q well that's again Rip Swirley yeah that was great dude if you like that the whole record's great and like I said there's actually some tracks on here that are kind of more

ambient which is kind of cool and he's got some guest vocalists that show up on a handful of the tracks too. So there's actually quite a wide range of vibes on this record, including ones like that song and the one I brought to what you heard, which is more in this kind of early 2000s era, electronica vein. But I'm just saying there's a lot more to that record than just that sound too. So check it out. And I'm going to pass it back to you, Q. What do you got for us? Who's going to bring the first 180? Hmm. Well, now you may be second guess what I'm going to bring next.

I don't have any ma's sugar in store for us, Q. Thank God. Or anything like that. So, you know, you can rest of the shirt. All right. Well, you know what, dude? I think this vibes well, so it's not going to be a 180. This podcast is no stranger to this group.

One of my favorite groups of the last several years, the sound carriers. I just talked about them a few weeks ago, man. And if I remember correctly, they dropped their first single for this record at the very end of 2021. Yeah, it was called Waves, which is actually. the first track on this album. So it got me stoked because I knew that coming down the pipes in 2022 would be a full length album. I remember the hype, dude.

Dude, yeah. So the sound carriers, they're that, like, they've got that 60s pop, like, loungy, posh vibes, you know? Like, they've just perfected that sound. Yeah, it makes you think of, like, you know. Lava lamps and Shad Carpet. Go-Go Boots. Go-Go and mod dancing and mod fashion.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. And same with, you know, this 90s grunge revival that we're hearing. It never feels like a copycat. So this album came out in January of 2022. So this is like one of the first new albums of the year that I heard. Didn't disappoint.

I love everything these guys do. And you know, dude, I'm purposely trying to like pick artists that I've not already gushed over a million times. for my final five of the year. So obviously this album could make it in my top five of the year, but I'm purposely bringing them a little bit earlier so that I can play, you know, some different artists that you may not have heard of

for my top five picks. So anyways, here we go. The Sound Carriers, the album is called Wilds. Song I'm bringing is Saturate. That was just a, like, Flower Child 60s pop song, man. almost like Mamas the Pappas or something. That's it, dude. That's the song carriers.

And they do it so well, dude. But what I was going to say was like, yeah, with some of their earlier stuff, it had more of like a loungy, jazzy kind of 60s hippie vibe. That song that you just played, yeah, was more of like your almost like Greenwich Village era, like fulky, like Mamas and the Pappas and stuff like that vibe. Yeah. And, you know, they even had a, they threw in a tambourine for good measure, you know, just to really seal the deal. Yeah, and the organ, you know, like the organ. And the organ, yeah, man, pitch perfect. Yeah.

And they've, they've been progressing towards this sound ever since Harmonium came out in 2009. And yeah, that's the thing about this group, dude. If you like that vibe, if you like that style, I mean, just go through their entire discography, dude. It's nothing but fantastic songs. Yeah, one after the other in this style. I think my favorite record is Celeste, which was their second album and came on 2010. Just something about that one, dude. And yeah, and Tropicalia.

I mean, they're just all great. And this is one of those groups, like, they take their time releasing albums. It had been eight years between this one that just dropped and in Tropicalia. You know, so they're kind of like, for me, it's kind of like when Kings of Convenience releases an album. It's like, oh, man, fine. It's an event, you know. And you just know it's going to be good. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, there only once was on our best of our top 100 from the 2010s, which was off that Celeste record. So you must have threw that one on there. Oh, yeah. So yeah. Long time favorites. So anyways, that was the sound carriers in the top 10, I think, for me, favorite bands, always in forever. I love them.

Love what they do. That song was called Saturate. and I'll pass it back to you, brother. All right. So it's no secret cue that we like shoegays, you know? We love it. This whole year has been lots of shoegays, you know, lots of 90s-era bands. Pretty much nothing about that, man.

Yeah. And we've also talked about some of the, you know, the heavier side of shoe gaze. And there's a term for it, Q. But let me just read this quick bio. So this band is called Grievo, and this is another Texas band. This is a trio from Austin. I just think this is funny because they're not embracing the term that we know and love, but I'm just going to read this sound.

This is on their Spotify bio. Within the title sound waves and bleak timber, Grievo forges a distinctive personal connection that challenges the modern definitions of due metal and shoegades. Why don't they just go ahead and see? called doom gaze, you know, embrace it. Yeah, this is a, this is a, a doom gaze band in the same vein as like, uh, uh, we did an episode on spotlights this year. Uh, we've talked about Pincey Slow, who have kind of the darker side, a little more kind of, uh, alt rock, but, you know,

doom, the doom metal side of it is just the, uh, as they say here, slow methodical hooks. And yeah, here's another good sentence. I like letting other people say things, Q. Grievo combined slow, methodical hooks and warm tube amplifiers to artfully reestablish the link between heavy guitars and down tempo pop. That's a good way to describe that. I'm intrigued. And that's kind of what DoomGaze does, right? It's slower tempos, heavier guitar sounds with the more kind of shoegaze vocals.

So here we go. This is a really great record. This one's been sitting on my best of 2022 playlist almost the entire year. I think I stumbled upon them and decided to save it. This is the title track off of their record omit. Yeah, dude, they should have just come out and set it, man. Doomgays. Yeah, what I like about Doomgays, you know, besides the fact that it's two of my favorite subgenres is,

I think the two blend really, really well together. I think the wall of sound type shoegays stuff, when like kind of slowed down and like you kind of take your time with it and stuff like that. I think it creates more to like that atmosphere and that like the mood and the way that wall of sound kind of like wraps itself around you. I feel like when it takes its time with it like that and like is really like intentional and stuff, I think it's great. And that song is a perfect example with that.

Yeah, and you're right, it does pair really well with, like, the more heavy metal side. Like, it really draws you in and envelops you in a really cool way. Yeah, and with a band like Spotlights, they are a little bit heavier. They actually do some proper metal in their songs. You know, there's really no metal, quote unquote, in this Grievo. record, but the pacing of doom metal, that sludginess is kind of there, like it's there under the surface a little bit. Yeah, I just think it works really well. And this record, there's not a track under five minutes. There's, you know, there's a song that's about, you know, almost seven and a

half minutes long. So like that's also kind of on par with a doom, a doom metal song. Like if, you know, If the tempo's kind of on the slower end, you know, it's going to take a little bit to get to that first chorus, you know what I mean? So that's why these songs are nice and long, you know, but I like it. I like when a song has breathing room and stuff like that and can sort of take its time. Well, you're all about the runway, dude, and the cruising altitude. I like runways, man. Anyway, so that band was called Grievo. That record came out earlier this year.

It's called Omit. Check them out. And Q, I'm going to pass it back to you. What do you got? All right, man, I'm going to do it. I'm going to bring a track from Lucifer on the sofa. All right, here we go, inevitable. Yeah.

And I'm having trouble picking which one, dude. So tell the listeners out there who aren't. Oh, my bad. Yeah, I always just assume that people are on the same page that all I have to do is bring up the album name, and we all know who we were talking about. Spoon. Always in forever. For both Travis and I, one of our favorite fans.

Yeah. They have to be in the top five for me. Always and Forever. And they dropped an album called Lucifer on the Sofa back in February of this year. I fell in love with it through the first lesson, dude. Actually, it was, I want to say I was driving. It was like a road trip kind of thing. It was like a day trip.

I took with Sarah somewhere she was going to drop off some products. for her company and it was a long drive and I think she fell asleep in the passenger seat. So I queued up this album, you know, and it was just me in the road and a brand new spoon album. And it's a short and sweet record, you know, and it's just, I think it's a perfect spoon record. And I love how short it is. You know, it's just compact and you're there with it and you love it and it's over. And it's a, you know, it's spoon doing what they do best, right? Which is just crank out these great riffs and hooks.

and Brit just, you know, being Brit. He's one of the best to rock vocalists of all time, I think. And Jim being Jim. Yeah, and Jim being Jim. Yeah, his drum beats and everything else that he provides with the recordings of these songs, dude. Yeah, they're great, dude. They're just such a great pair. So, yeah, dude, I think I'm going to play one of the lighter songs, like one of the quieter ones.

Because, you know, they brought, they brought, there super catchy riffs, you know, this kind of riffs in songs you're always going to hear on a spoon record, but this track is a little bit different, and that's what I love about it. It's a little acoustic track, dude. So this one is track eight on the record. This song is called Astral Jacket. I think it's a sound of talks. I think it's a perfect spoon song. On a perfect spoon record, man.

Yeah, it really kind of showcases what they've always done really well. you know there's always like the you know the manipulation on on the vocals to make it almost like you know uh sort of like you know adding like the delay on it and like the kind of choppiness to it yeah yeah they've always kept it simple you know their songs are always just straightforward simple and it's like delivery as far as far as verse chorus goes and you know the melodies are always simple but yeah then they then they they put their stamp on it with that you know They're always have like, it feels like they have a, it's very playful vibe like in the studio, you know? And you can tell that they always have fun and experiment in the studio and a lot of that stuff.

Yeah. Makes this way on the album. There's a lot of like manipulation that happens when they're mixing it all together to kind of add something different to it. They grab, they grab your attention. They know how to keep it, right? Because they're always doing something a little bit different to like kind of make you pay attention and sort of catch you off guard and something. like that. And even on a straightforward simple song like that, they still managed to do it. Yeah. And like I said, dude, you know, it's a perfect spoon album. And that rings true in like the

flow from track to track. Like this song among the rest of the album, like this is towards the end of the record. By this point, I mean, it's just, you're just like, man, I, like, I think I say, we say this every time a new spoon record comes out, but you fall in love with the band all over again with every record. And that happens with this one, just with the way that it flows and the journey that it takes you on. As cheesy as that sounds, this is a really great example of how they do that. Well, yeah, it's one of those bands that, you know, kind of like we were saying earlier, with every record they put out there at the top of their game again, you know what I mean? Like they've never, they've never faltered, you know? Well, that's the thing. Dude, they've been around so long and they've

since the 90s. They have that cult following status. to where if they wanted to, they could phone it in for the rest of their career and just spit out more, you know, cookie code or spoon albums, but they don't. They easily could with their status in the indie world, but they don't, you know. They're constantly evolving and you can tell that they love being spoon, right? Like they love doing what they do. And I appreciate that about them. All right. Well, we got four more songs to play. dude. We're so really bad about rapid fire. Yeah, it's hard to do. It's hard to keep it, keep it short. So this is a Portland-based composer who mostly does video game soundtracks. And this particular

video game, I've never played before, but I'm a fan of this particular musician. His name is Amos Roddy, and the video game is called Citizen Sleeper. It's just really solid, hypnagogic. pop, if you will. And I thought of Boards of Canada or Tyco in a little bit here and there. All right, so here you go. The song, again, is off the video game soundtrack Citizen Sleeper. And this song is called Matsutaki. Loved every second of that, dude.

Every millisecond. I'm telling you, man, video game soundtracks. It is sort of like an untapped source for this type of electronic music, right? Forget that it's part of a video game. Like, you know, we're not talking about, you know, Mario. You know what I mean? That's what people think of when they think of video game music. Like it's, it is electronic musicians who are typically making video game soundtracks these days.

And like he was saying, he was inspired by boards of Canada. that sounded like a Tycho or a Boards of Canada type song, right? Very much. Yeah. That hypnagogic pop style of like minimal electronic music. And the whole record's like that, man. If you look at 11. It'll be millisecond of that.

Cue up the record, man. It's very long. It's like 23 tracks. It's an hour and 10 minutes long. And it all sounds like that, man. Here, let me just read this and then I'll pass it off to you in the spirit of rapid fire. here's some descriptors and I think they apply perfectly to that particular song his work has been described as hypnotic by the Washington Post fantastically atmospheric by IGN unique and peaceful by

the guardian and communicates a kind of hope beyond hope by vice nice and yeah that's that's a good way to describe it I think that's a good way to describe a lot of that subset of electronic music like the kind of lo-fi, hypnotic-agic pop. It's fantastically atmospheric. I think that's a good way to describe it. Yeah, that's great. All right. So again, that was Amos Roddy, and that song was called Matsu-Taki off of the Citizen

Sleeper video game soundtrack, and I'm going to pass it back to you. And we've got two more tracks, three more tracks, Q. I'm just going to go right into this one man because it's a really good companion to that song and this is weird because I feel like and I've tried to search back through our episodes to see if I have in fact brought music from this group before and I I can't see I don't see their name anywhere in our past episodes this is a group called Suss S-U-S-S-S I've never that's not ringing a bell They look old with you. Well, they've been doing this for a while.

It looks like Jeff Bridges combined with Robert Plant. Well, let me read this. Actually, this is a super short and sweet sentence that describes what they are and what they do perfectly. It said the idea started with two words, ambient and country. Interesting. Yeah, so their music popped up for me. in some random ambient playlist when I was, I was really into like dark ambient kind of music

when I first started back in school. That was just like my soundtrack for studying was just like dark and heavy ambience. And these guys found their way on one of those playlists. They've been dropping a lot of singles lately and most of their singles are like five songs, you know. So they're like little albums. This one came out, it's called Heat Haze.

came out back in June of this year. And this is more of just like one of my favorite groups of the last year because they released another record not that long ago back in November called Winner Was Hard. And all the songs are just great, you know, so I'm not really, really I'm going to try to pick a song that just kind of showcases what they do. So here we go.

This is Suss. And this track is called Shimmer. Very hypnotic. kind of put you in a trance, you know. Yeah, and it's that super twangy, like, slide guitar that they bring into a lot of their stuff. Do they ever sing, or is it all instrumental? It's all instrumental. Interesting.

That's cool because for the longest time, when I think of the term ambient and country, I've always gone to this record by Harold Budd, who we've talked about before. plenty of times. He's an ambient composer. They share playlists. They're on the same playlist. Yeah. They show up with Harold Budd a lot. Yeah, there's a record in particular called By the Dawn's Early Light. That is a Harold Budd record. And it's kind of that same. It's got the slide guitar.

But yeah, that came out in 91. Yeah, 1999. That's funny, but I just hearted this. Oh, you're going to love it. A couple weeks ago. You're going to love it. So it's really interesting. I don't know the full story behind the record, but you see how there's a few tracks on there that say poem, right? It's literally a poem.

So like there's a story that's being told, like the spoken word kind of stuff. But yeah, then it's got that great, really beautiful slide guitar. The funny thing about slide guitar, hey, I'm not a fan of country music. I think I've said it before on this. So I associate twang with a style of. music that I really don't like, right? But man, when it's, what it's done and like a twang can be very like emotionally impactful for some reason. I don't know why. Yeah, really good music to just kind of cue up in the background. Pass it back to you as your last song for the day.

And coming off of Amos Roddy and Suss, here is our 180 for the day because this is on the polar opposite spectrum of music. It's not masuga or heavy metal or anything like that. But it is kind of very dancey electronic music. This artist has appeared on this pod this year. I brought a track from hers on what you heard. But she goes by the name Vitess X. And she is a part of the 100% Electronica family, which if you are a fan of electronic use, you probably, and like vapor wave and that kind of stuff, you probably have heard the name,

or at least the name George Clanton, and that's his record label. But anyway, Oh, yeah, nice. What I love about her, and here we go again, dude, we're bringing back the 90s. This is from her Spotify bio.

Vintas X has captivated her fan base with retro futuristic sounds and blissful vocal melodies that transport you to a dimension both foreign and familiar. Proudly taking her seat at the intersection of modern rave and 90s nostalgia, the New York bass producer and DJ is arriving at a new sonic frontier that is both wildly invigorating and emphatically seducing. I said this last time we played a track by her,

but what's interesting about her is that she started out her music career playing guitar and bass in punk shoegays and chill rave bands, which is really cool. So she has that background, right? She comes from that scene. And then she just sort of became a DJ after that and then has sort of evolved into what she's doing now. So I'm going to play a track off of her record that came out in March of this year called Us Ephemoral.

And this song is called Therma Maxima. You know, she was harmonizing with herself there. Mm-hmm. The, like the background vocals kind of gave me the shot A vibe. Mm-hmm. I never thought about that. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, I mean, that classic kind of drum and bass drums in the background too, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. And, yeah, her vocals are very, breathy, kind of dreamy. So, you know, it's no surprise that she has some shoegays experience on her resume, as it were. Yeah. I mean, it's just, I feel like it's a good, a good time to be a fan of, if you're a fan of 90s

music, it's coming back in a great way with indie rock and even electronic music. I mean, you know, like with my earlier track from Rip Swirl, you know, like, you know, with music, everything goes in cycles, right? And so, like, we're in a pretty, pretty good spot right now as far as like, music has kind of made a full circle back to, back to Y2K and the 90s and stuff like that, which is, which is great because I love that era of music. And I've been waiting for good rock music to come back. and I feel like it's back. Electronic music has always been great. It just evolves and changes and stuff like that. Yeah.

Good. You know, think about it. In the 2010s, we had the chill wave and we had the hypnagogic pop of Tyco and like electronic music has always has always been good, I think. But now it's kind of going back to, going back to kind of like nodding back to the 2000s and 90s and something like that, which is great. Yeah, that's good stuff, dude. So, yeah, Vitess X is the name of that artist. Check out her record, Us, Ephemoral. And yeah, I'm throwing it back to you.

How are you going to close us out here, Q? All right, dude. So once again, man, I was planning on saving this track for a little bit later on, but I think it pairs well with that one. And this group is something else, man. They go by Fival is Glock or Glauque. I don't know how to say that. I saw that pop up, that name pop up recently.

Yeah. So they've got an interesting little story here. I'll read real quick. Read it real quick. Is that a play on like Fival Goes West? Am I guessing, yeah. My guess is. This French singer and visual artist, Ma Clement, met American songwriters.

or Zach Phillips in 2018 as he reeled from a concussion after colliding with a Brussels street lamp. What? Okay. So he, I don't know, maybe he was on a bicycle or something. Something happened. He bangs, he crashes into a street lamp and she runs over and helps him out. That's what it sounds like to me. You met him as he was reeling from this concussion.

Anyways. Interesting. It's one of the stories, man. So the first album of theirs that I heard a track from. just came out just last year called God's Trashman sent to write the mess and it's man it's like very DIY

it sounds like it's recorded on like a cassette super cheap mics yeah sure bedroom pop but like low five it's very like jazzy and just really really like caught my attention and now I haven't actually listened to their full-length record that came out this year. I actually didn't even know that it dropped, but I heard a single from it.

But this album is called Flaming Swords. Basically, they got better equipment. You know, they got to go into an actual studio and drop a record. And, man, dude, I'm so excited to hear more from them. So this track I'm going to play. actually doesn't appear on the full length. So again, it came out earlier this year on a single. So here we go.

This is, again, Fival is Glock, and this song is called The River. Education did me, I know I said I'm a tribe. He responded. She wants to fake a lie. Said you, sir, took him by. I don't wish you were. Sweet you are. She was made any place in time.

I don't torture me. But in the river, you know. I don't have words for that. That's great. That was amazing. Right? So unique, too. Yeah.

And they kept... It was hard for me to figure out when to fade out. I just wanted people to see it. Yeah, because they kept surprising you, you know? Like, all sorts of stuff going on in left turns and stuff. And I love the playfulness between her vocals and the saxophone. Mm-hmm. If that was a saxophone.

Yeah, I don't know. my wind instruments dude yeah but yeah I like her her cadence her delivery you know with the lyrics it's almost like dry cleaners yes you know yeah yeah or

that band I brought a few weeks ago I brought I bought the record immediately oh yeah yeah I know what you're talking about like oh man floaty floaty the band was called floaty yeah so the funny thing

Because now I remember where I saw that name recently. They were on my release radar this week. So they just put out a new record or a new EP or something called Flaming Swords. Yeah, dude. So I haven't even listened to that album yet all the way through. I was only just familiar. I only knew about the single that they released earlier. But I think it is worth mentioning too that.

So I mentioned that their album from last year, God's Trashman sent to write The Mess. very like recorded live you know very uh DIY and kind of harsh on the ears because it's cheaply done but yeah yeah among others stereo lab took note and asked fival to support them on a full US tour that's a perfect match man it is a perfect match yeah and so yeah that I think that's where they're how they're you know where the how they're finding this success now is is even on a really cheaply recorded record. It's this kind of stuff, you know, like really unique, different kind of jazzy stuff. And there's almost some some math rock vibes to it as far as like the fast tempos and

whatnot, the switching it up and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, really good stuff. It's just great. Yeah, probably a top five discovery of this year. And dude, I'm just, I'm bringing all the, all the goodies early this year just because I'm, I'm kind of like, I'm kind of, I'm kind of just flowing from, from song to song. But that's all right, dude. You know, I'm still saving really good ones for, for our last episode of the year.

Yeah. Cool. So yeah, that's it, dude. That was a good, good collection of tunes, I feel like. Well, all right. Yeah. So, that was it. We don't have an outro song for today, but that's okay.

Actually, you know what, dude? I think I can pull one out for us because, um, I, nephew-in-law. We share tunes all the time with each other. Okay. And he sent me, I think he just gave me the album to listen to. Yeah. So I'll just pick a song from the album.

Kind of in the same vein, it's kind of jazzy. And it's a group called Domey and J.D. Beck. And I was getting, so he thought it kind of reminded it was kind of in a MacD. Markovain. Okay. I was getting some Michael Franks. vibes. Ooh.

Very like easy listening, jazzy kind of stuff. Cool. So, yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll fade out with, with the track from that album of theirs. It's called Not Tight. Just came out in July of this year.

So, uh, let's see. Yeah, I'll just, I'll just play the second track on the record, uh, to fade us out.

So, yeah, next week we'll become an issue with another, well, even less than a week from now, dude. in like five days, five, six days, four days maybe. We'll be coming as to you with ten more tracks,

some more of our favorites from this year. All right, Q. Well, shout out to Wesley. Thank you, dude. Keep sharing the tunes with me, man. I love it. Again, this artist is called D.D. Beck. And let's fade out with track two.

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