No Filler Music Podcast - Best of 2023: Part Three

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

Join us as we continue our countdown of favorite tracks from 2023. Tracklist Drop Nineteens - "Gal" JW Francis - Swooning Meerna - I Believe In You Leo Takami - As If Listening Chris Christodoulou - Tropic of Cancer Catherine Wheel - Salt (Norfolk Mix) Wilco - A Bowl and A Pudding Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If You Insist Yves Tumor - Heaven Surrounds Us Like A Hood Jesse Kivel - Beech Hill Meditation Drop Nineteens - The Price Was High Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis. And I'm Quentin. And this is our third installment of our best of 2023 episodes where we are both bringing 20 tracks total over the course of

you know the last two episodes and the next two episodes Q that's how it works through the end of the years I think what you mean said. Through the end of the years yeah it's kind of what I meant to say I got some good ones dude and I've got an artist that if if this song does to you what it did to me

then I'm gonna watch you fall out of your chair when I play it I don't have room to fall on my chair in this little corner that I've made for myself. You'll find a way to do it, dude, when this song plays. It's great. But that's my last pick. So you're going to have to stick around to find out if you're listening out there, what I'm talking about.

Edge of my seed over here. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, if you're not careful. You're going to fall out before I even play the song, dude, if you're not care. Well, yeah, I've got a pretty wide range in sounds I'm bringing tonight. So me too, me too. Yeah, I'm bouncing around quite a bit here. Okay, so I'm going to start first here, and we're going to rapid fire queue, just like we've done so many times this year.

Rapid Fire tunes. This artist I'm going to start us off with does not need much of an explanation if you've listened to this podcast for a while now because they've showed up quite a bit. They showed up earlier this year when they released a single for this record. we did a whole episode on their record Delaware and I am of course talking about drop 19s queue they put out a brand new record

did did we end up bringing that a song from that I think it was an intro track yeah yeah so I think we I think it was Scape of Flow is what we played whenever that came out but the new record it's called called Hard Light, came out in November. So pretty fresh still.

And what's important about this is that, you know, this is their first record in a long, long time queue. Probably close to 30 years now. So we've talked about this. A lot of these like shoegaze bands from the 90s have kind of regrouped and put out new stuff. You know, Hum put out a new record 2020. we talked earlier this, I think last month, about, what was the other band that I brought a new track from?

Oh, slow dive, right? So we've just been getting a lot of new records from these classic shoegays and dream pop groups from the 90s. So here's another example of that cue. And this was tough, man. I was sitting on this one track called The Price Was High leading up to this episode. Like I was planning on playing that. But it just didn't feel like. a drop 19's song.

I don't know how to describe it, but like I wanted to play one of the tracks off of this record that felt like a classic drop 19s track since it's been so long since we got new music for them, right? So I'm switching it up here. I'm going to play, maybe we'll have the price with size our outro track. But anyway, here we go. So this is track number three on drop 19's new record Hardlight. This song is called Gal. have not heard any of that record yet. Really good record, man. It's like it's one of those just like, it's an experience, you know?

Like I know that's a cliche, that sounds stupid. But like it, from track to track, there's a lot of different ideas that they're exploring and like sounds that they're kind of tapping into. It's not like I said, the song I was sitting on for the longest time, but it had more of like a new wave kind of heavier sound, which was awesome. But I wanted to, you know, I wanted to play a track. that felt like a classic drop 19s track because some of that's on here right which is which is awesome yeah yeah that was great but yeah definitely check it out um if you like that kind of soft or shoegaze sound

i think they're really good at that um and yeah it's just awesome to hear new music for them so again that was drop 19s that song was called gal their brand new record is called hard light and i'm going to throw it to you q what do you got for your first pick all right i'm going to change it up a little bit. So this guy's no stranger to the pot either. I featured one of his tracks a couple years back. His name's J.W. Francis. Really been digging his stuff lately.

Everything he's been dropping is great. And earlier this year in January, so way earlier this year, he dropped an album called Dreamhouse. And we're going to play a song from it, dude. All right, here we go. This is track five on the record. This song is called Swooning. That's the feel good track of the year right there, Q. What a doozy.

I love the guitar work. Like that first little solo kind of had like a surf rock kind of vibe to it. And then that last little ditty at the end there. That's just great, man. This album is chock full of really cool guitar stuff, man. That's what I like a lot about him. His guitar pickings. his voice, and I probably say the same thing when you brought his track earlier this year,

but his voice kind of has like a Julian Casa Blanca's vibe, but maybe like some like Bradford Cox of deer hunters a little bit. I was getting some Neva de Nova. Sure. Yeah. I'm not all that familiar with Neva de novo, but yeah. Yeah. I think we did a sidetrack, dude. We did a sidetrack on Neva de Nova.

Oh, yeah, that's right. It was, it was that winter where we decided to do like. like somber indie pop. Like we did the shins, we did cold play, we did. Gotcha. I can't remember who else, but we did, we just covered a, one of any of the albums. You said that was a side track, right?

Side track episode? Yeah, yeah, a little small one. Yeah, like he's got like the garage, the garage rock kind of aesthetic almost like to the, or sound. Mm-hmm. All right, that was J.W. Francis. The song was called Swooning. The album is Dreamhouse.

else. Pass it back over to you, brother. All right. So here is another artist that showed up earlier this year on the pod. Back in February. So our February episode, possibly the March episode, depending on when it came out. But Mirna is the name of the artist. I don't know that that is her name.

No, it's not. So that's just the name of the group. So it's essentially this singer-songwriter Carly Bond. This is her group. And she has just one of the most beautiful voices that I've heard in a while, dude. Here's a little write-up here on her Spotify bio that I think describes this album perfectly. It says Mirna pairs songwriter Carly Bond's dusky dexterous vocals with sensual, technically refined compositions. that reference Neo Soul, classic R&B,

and the passionate side of indie pop, with influences as diverse as Chadeh, Kate Laban, Minnie Ripperton, and Talk Talk. Damn. Shadee for sure. And you'll hear that on this track. But man, this is such a fun track, dude. And it's just going to blow you away, dude.

So get ready. Ready. All right. So again, the artist is called Mirna. The album is called So Far So Good. This track is called I Believe in You. Out in its execution. Like you could tell she really spends her time,

her and the producer, whoever else worked on this album, like track by track on each song. She just threw in a lot of really cool little tiny things throughout each verse and in the chorus. Very cool. Yeah. Did you hear like that? There was like a clip of like some kids kind of screaming in the background. Yeah.

They just kind of, they snuck it in, very playful. And I thought the guitar solo was like purposefully like almost like discordant and stuff like not. There was something off a little, just a little off key about it. I thought that was a saxophone, dude, or a wind instrument of some kind. It might have been a, it might have been a synth. It kind of sounded like a guitar to me. Yeah, I thought that too. It sounded like they purposely recorded it with like a crappy.

microphone or something. Yeah, and it was kind of off-key, but I feel like that's kind of in line with the lyrics. She's talking about, it sounds like she's talking about some sort of romance that is a little bit, you know, off or not what she's wanting. And that, you know, the guitar solo was a little off too, you know, so maybe, maybe I'm reading between the line, like reaching here, but I mean, that's kind of how. I mean, you might not be because, like I said, like it really does seem like they they really took their time and like, I mean, right here, dude, this is what, in that bio, technically refined compositions. There we go. There we go. That's it. Here it is. So this is all I got about her. Let me just read this one sentence here. I know we're trying to rapid fire. But this is

all I got here because I think this makes sense. So as her Bond grew up in the Bay Area with poetry and music, her main ways to escape and process her feelings. She self-soothed with a cassette of Whitney Houston's self-titled album and eventually began learning guitar and writing songs over own in high school. So she's been doing this, you know, her whole life. And it, you know, these songs have that kind of classic 80s R&B vibe to him in a lot of the way that the way that she sings and stuff. It almost sounds like you're, you're listening to some of those, you know, amazing female R&B artists from from the 80s like, you know, like your, you're Janet Jackson's and and your Whitney Houston, stuff like that. So. And,

Yeah, shot eight, dude. You can hear that kind of sort of voice, that jazzy kind of voice. Anyway, amazing record. Came out in October, so again, a pretty fresh one. Again, this artist is called Mirna, and the record is called So Far So Good. That song was called I Believe in You. And Q, I believe it's your turn to bring another track. What do you got?

All right, this one's pretty fresh as well, dude. This is an album that came out in October. So, not sure how I stumbled upon this record, but this is a Tokyo guitarist and pianist. This name's Leo Takami. And this is like a jazz fusion, really like ambient record called Next Door. It's fucking great, dude. Really enjoyable. I think you'd really like it.

Very heavy on the jazz guitar. stuff really like let me just you know what let's I'm just gonna read what pitchfork said about it they'll do it justice says Leo Takami finds joy in simple melodies played in a straightforward manner though his compositions often leads somewhere unexpected the jazz guitarist and pianist keeps his tunes as rounded and safe as kindergarten toys intriguing so I'm just going to play track two for you This song is called As If Listening. That might be the first like smooth jazz, although let's not call it smooth jazz. It might be the first like, I don't know, jazz guitar player like that to be featured on the show.

That style of like jazz, I guess. You know what that style of jazz is? That's our dad's jazz, man. Yes, that is our dad's jazz. And just specifically our dad. Yeah. Not trying to throw all dads under that bus there. Yeah, yeah.

Well, the funny thing is, you know, the one time we did feature a guitar, you know, did an episode dedicated to like a jazz guitar player. It'd probably be the Larry Carlton episode that we did with our dad. With our dad. I mean, and we focused on Larry Carlton solos from Steely Dan songs, right? Yeah. So it wasn't exactly jazz like that. And then we've also done an episode on Jeff Beck,

but he's obviously not not really a jazz guitar player either but anyway cool but yeah I like it man right that's awesome yeah it took a while to I don't know if you noticed but like so the beginning of it was him on the keyboard the piano and then he

played the same riffs on guitar and then that transitioned into that super heavy guitar solo kind of jazzy stuff So it's pretty cool, cool progression in the song. And the songs from, you know, from track to track are, they're different, man. Like they vary quite a bit. So it's not, that's not all you're going to get, right?

Yeah, that's awesome. So it's definitely worth, it's worth a listen for sure. It's a really good record. Sweet, man. Well, dude, I'm glad you did that because now I'm switching up my list here. I've got a perfect track to pair with that. And I was hesitant. Awesome.

on whether or not I was even going to bring this as one of my best best of for the year. But perfect companion to that. So for a different reason. But this is, all right, Q, this is no surprise to anybody listening, who's listened, I should say, for a while now. If you're a long-time listener, you know that I listen to a lot of video game soundtracks. Nobody's shocked by that. Do you ever?

Specifically video game scores. I like movie scores too, but there's something about video game soundtracks. Anyway, because it attracts every type of musician is what I found. And this is an example of one of those. One of those, yeah, one of those, you know. This is an example of that. So this guy, his name is Chris. Doudulu.

I guess the type of not. Chris Christodulo. Yeah. Dude, you tell me, you look at this and tell me how you pronounce this. Chris Christadalu. Cristadalu? Anyway. Chris Christadulu.

Yeah. He's from Greece. So there's probably a more appropriate way to pronounce that. But anyway, he, what I like about his scores that he does is he features, he features his guitar work pretty front and center. So I thought this would be a good follow up to that track of yours, Q. So I'm playing

something from the soundtrack of a game called Risk of Rain. I've heard of that game. Yeah, well, I've never played it. I think I've played this actually. Okay. Well, then you are no stream to this music. No, I haven't. Is it a new game? No, it's not.

So technically it did not come out this year. So I'm kind of cheating a little bit here. Yeah. This is the 10th anniversary, 10-year anniversary. This game's been out for a decade. And so is this music? So again, this isn't exactly new music, but he did a whole... I have played in Risk of Rain then, yeah.

Okay, cool. Yeah, it's fun. Well, he did a whole remaster and re-release of the record. So it's kind of new, right? At least that's what I'm going to say. So here we go. This song is off the Risk of Rain returns remaster record. and the song is called Tropic of Cancer.

Yeah, it's such a cool way to blend genre with the heavier side of... Well, that's the thing, like, you know, I say this a lot about video game scores. If you didn't realize that that was for my video game, I mean, that's just like a straightforward, you know, you put that in the same camp as like, I mean, obviously the technical prowess isn't exactly there, but like of a Steve I or a Joe Satriani or... Right, right. You know, he's not... I'm not trying to say that his skill level is near those guys,

but I'm just saying it's that same vein of guitar-driven instrumental fusion kind of stuff. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, really cool. And yeah, I mean, it's actually... What do I think it up, man? Disaster piece? Yeah. Yeah, but that's even heavier on...

It's just 8-bit, but like, discreet. but like distorting right bit kind of stuff yeah but what I like about Chris Christodoulou is he's actually laying down a guitar track there you know that's he's actually

paying the guitar which is cool so anyway Chris Christodoulou and that's that album is Risk of Rain returns the remastered soundtrack to the video game

of the same name that song was called Tropic of Cancer and I'm going to throw it back to you of Q now Now where do we go? We've done back-to-back, instrumental guitar tracks.

I feel like we've got to mix it up here. Well, I'm going to do a little cheating too, dude, since you did. Okay. Because, I mean, it's Catherine Wheel. You know what I mean? Whoa. Well, I actually brought one of these songs. So they did a remaster of some early, early EPs.

It's called the Norfolk remasters. Yes, I remember enjoying this quite a bit when it came out. Do we masters count, Q? Do they count for a new release? I mean, yeah, they kind of do, right? Just because it was recorded decades ago doesn't mean it's not a new track to everybody hearing it for the first time. Would you say that the quote-unquote new Beatles song is a new Beatles song?

Oh, that's a good, you know what? Josie Records sure thought so because they put it on their new release shelf. It technically is. I don't know if you know how they like got that. Yeah, because it was just recently produced and piece together, right? Yeah, and like some of the bits and pieces of George Harrison, guitar work and bits and pieces of a John Lennon song that he never finished. They were able to like clean up their recordings with the help of like AI

because like this, the recordings were just, you know, they're messing around in there. I just, you know what, man, I don't, I don't like it. I really don't like it. Yeah, I know. I know people, I mean, I just feel like John Lennon would not be, not be down with this. You know what I mean? The first new song with all, it's technically a new song with every member of the Beatles on it.

So it counts as a new song. I get it, but like. And this is just, this is only the beginning, dude. Right, right, right. Yes. The whole like like this. You think about it. You think about it, dude.

Using people's voices, AI-generated voices of actors and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, Carrie Fisher showed up in a Star Wars film as her younger self again. You know what I mean? The actor that played the general or whatever was in like, you know, entire scenes of him, you know, essentially like resurrected in CGI form. Yeah, like you said, it's not the first time. There's going to be all sorts of, we're going to be here a new Jimmy Hendricks song soon.

You know what I mean? And stuff like that. David Bowie. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like it. Like finishing songs that they didn't finish. Like just pulling.

Yeah. And having AI finish it for us. It's like, I just, I don't like it, man. I don't like. Especially with all the, you think about it too,

like who's making, who's making profits off that stuff? It's like the, the whole thing with the actors strike and stuff like that where it's like, you know, they fought to try to, and I think they were successful with like, preventing studios.

from just like scanning a digital avatar of an actor and then just using them. Right, without their consent. Yeah. Or just in perpetuity. It's like, yep, here's $200 for letting us scan you and we're just going to use you on the background of movies for forever.

You'll just be some guy in an audience or something like the audience member at a sports game movie or something like that. You know what I mean? It's just weird. I don't like it. We're doomed, Q. We're all doomed is basically what we're going. what we're getting at here.

All right, well, on that note, what have we got here? So these were EPs that were originally released back in 1991 from Catherine Wheel. The EPs are She's My Friend and Painful Thing. I'm going to bring a song that I didn't bring last time because, like I said, it's Catherine Wheel and they were all good. And yeah, I think we're going to let this slide, man. I think it counts. I'm with you.

Yep, this counts. It's new music. I mean, in terms of people being able to hear it for the first time, right? For sure. All right, here we go. This is Catherine Wheel. This song is called Salt. Man, I just, I love their, I love their music.

And I love that this is from that era of Catherine Wheel. Like there's a, you know, with, my favorite record. This is pre-ferment. Yeah, pre-ferment, but like ferment sounds a lot. like this. You know, Chrome is probably my favorite record of theirs. And that, you know, the production quality is higher. Like, it's louder, you know, kind of, you're really like, so we did an episode on Chrome if you want to go back and listen to it. But, you know, the way that it's like the perfect way to describe it is it's like shoegaze plus grunge. But their earlier

stuff is, you know, more softer like this, almost kind of a, you know, it's more alt-rock dream, dream, dreamy. I mean, I don't want to say dream pop. But like, you know, it's the softer shoegays side. Dream poppy, I guess, jangle poppy with fuzz. Jingle pop with fuzz. And I think we've definitively concluded, was it last year that we spent pretty much the entire year in the 90s? Yeah.

We spent a lot of 2020 in the 90s. It was decided and it still holds true. I think 90s was the best decade for Rock, man. Yeah. It's hard to. it's hard to argue that in terms of like just the variety of rock music that was coming out in the 90s like what yeah the way that rock kind of disappeared not really but you know in the 80s it was nothing but synth like synth heavy everything and then what emerged from that was like

rock reborn in so many ways yeah of course you had talking heads and r em in a bunch obviously you had a bunch of stuff in the 80s it was great but you know you could argue the r em was kind of like a precursor to the 90s stuff, right? You know, the all rock stuff. Anyway, but yeah, I just think in terms of like 90s, just a variety of 90s, rock sounds that, yeah, in the 90s. The genres that spawned from that era, that is still has such a heavy stronghold on the sound of rock and roll today, dude, it's just bonkers.

And yeah, these, dude. There's just eight songs. We got eight new songs in a way from Catherine Wheel this year. And these were released as EPs, right? But like hard to find. I don't think they've been remastered. I don't think they pressed them. No, but they were released.

They were released. Okay. Yeah. Hmm. They're B-sides. Okay. So yeah, that was Catherine Weill, technically a song from 91. remastered in

2023 so we're bringing it and our best of the year because it's Catherine Wheel Mm-hmm All right Pass it back to you brother What are we on our fourth one fourth pick here?

I got two more tracks All right Okay I could have sworn I brought a track from this record but I think we missed a month of episodes and you know

I put out that bonus episode with Adrian. We had some like, you know, we had, there was some stuff going on and we couldn't record something. And I think this, this record was intended to show up on that episode. So, this is the first time that we're talking about this, Q. Wilco put out a new record this year. Yes.

And it's great. Of course. I haven't listened to it. Well, dude. It's, of course it's awesome. It's Wilco. Of course. And.

Jeff Tweedy. Come on. Or, uh, Land Ho. if you're a Parks and Rec fan. I think that was the name of their little... Their fake band on Parksman. Or at least Jeff Tweedy's fake band. Anyway, so they put out a record

end of September called Cousin. And yeah, dude, there's just... This is one of the best indie bands of all time, right? Indy Rock. This is like... When you think of indie rock, I feel like Wilco came out and was putting out

music like at peak like when indie meant a certain sound i feel like the indie rock sound like your spoons and your you know your shins and your wilcoes right like they're kind of in that camp right and they're just amazing man i i saw them live a few years ago one of the best shows i ever seen i actually saw them on their uh what was what was the name of what was that record that they put out those sky blue sky yes i saw that i saw that i I saw him then play at, it was South by Southwest that year. Wow, man. That was 2007.

Yeah, dude, fresh out of high school. It was phenomenal show, man. But they're just prolific, man. They put out so much stuff. Anyway, just, you know, I feel like with the way he writes songs, the structures, his lyrics, the way they sound, it's just a, it's like getting a hug from an old friend, cue. again this is wilco off of their new record cousin this song is called a bowl and a pudding what a cool song super interesting beautiful right the way he did that there yeah that kind of the echoed voice the echoed voice and then in the second verse the echo was heard first mm-hmm yeah yeah man

there's something yeah cool again just a beautiful full composition. You know, I love a good runway too. And that's like minute, I think, and a half before you start singing. Yeah, just incredible. And yeah, dude, this is, we've said this before about artists, you know, or it's like, man, I'm just glad I'm on the planet at the same time as this guy. I think Jeff Tweety is one of those musicians, man.

I just think he's, you know, he's one of the best. And this group is a whole, because, I mean, the whole band is great, but, you know, Tweedy. Special shout out to, you know, Tweedy, I think is just amazing. One of the best songwriters of our generation for sure. I was going to say, dude, I just got to throw this out there. I think for me, dude, I'm most stoked about sharing this planet with Jack Black and Kyle Gass. Yeah, dude.

Tenacious D. Yeah. One of these days, I would love to catch a Tenacious D show. My brother-in-law, Isaiah has seen them probably like three or four times. Wow. He's a huge, he's a huge tenacious defense. Dude, speaking of, so I watch these, this video, this YouTube channel, her channel is called The Charismatic Voice, and it's like a vocal coach opera singer, and she just records

herself doing reaction videos to singers, right? And her whole thing is that, you know, she's not all that familiar with rock, so she does a lot of rock reactions just because, you know, it's funny and interesting. And she has, she breaks down the vocals and stuff like that, really, really awesome. But she did a episode on tribute. And so, like, I just saw that music video for tribute recently because she basically has the video playing and then she's reacting to it. Man, what a, so fucking funny, man. What an awesome song. Yeah. I mean. Dude, I've said this a million times and like, say what you want about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, whatever weight it carries, or if it carries any at this point anymore.

They got to be in there. They have to be. Yeah. That there's no better way to like end that chapter and of humanity. Well, so is Weird Al in the in the Hall of Fame? I don't know, actually. Because he could be in there. He should be in there.

Not that they're the same, but I mean, it's, you know, comedy. rock, I guess. Tenacious D is legitimately an incredible rock band. Yeah, totally. 100%. His dude, he's an amazing vocalist. Yeah, yeah. All right, man.

So, it's my turn. It is. And I'm actually going to play a song that I brought earlier this year, because I like it so much, man. You know, if it's one of your best of, it's your best half, you know? I think it, yeah, it fits the bill, dude. so and it's a chance to play a like a fulksie americana song again because we don't play a lot of those one could even call this country uh the group is called jason isabel and the 400 unit

album's called weather veins so yeah i brought this track early this year it's kind of sound familiar but man i just i love the lyrics i love i just love this just fucking great song man so here we go this song is called if you insist can i sit with you a while i don't want to be a stranger anymore and you won't even have to smile we can talk about the rain i can't seem to stop something stupid like the football game or i can tell you where to shop Running out of rose the tab You insist on being lonely Let me put you in a can

You're looking for something easy Do you need to feel the life Of the tears through your life Like a catacole My mom You insist on being lonely Can you leave a couple smokes Boy howdy

It's a good song Yeah I remember it From earlier this year It touches on the The lyrical tropes of country music that I often make fun of, but, you know, this is a good, this is a good country song. It's, it's probably an example of like talent. I don't know.

I have no room to talk about country music because I'm just not in that world. But here's the thing. All I hear is the pop-y country stuff. The pop country, right. Yeah, exactly. Which is the country tropes cranked up to tin. You right. With smothered in barbecue sauce.

Yeah, barbecue stains and all that's dirt roads, all that stuff. But anytime I, you know, if I hear the word mama, I'm probably hearing a country song. And I heard that name, the mama jumped out. But anyway, I like the lyrics in this, you know, you call the attention to that particular lyric right here. She got so tired of putting out fires, she just laid down in the flames. Yeah, dude. We've all been there, you know. Yeah, and he's singing about his mama.

His mama. Spen every day alone in the house of noise and names. Sounds to me like mama was a single parent. Single mama, yep. Anyways. Heartache. Trial trials, tribulations. Tribulations.

Barbecue stains, yeah. Good stuff. Is the record pretty much like this or? It's, yeah, it's like this. Okay. Yeah, heavy, heavy lyrics, you know, at times, he's got about a lot of, you know, a lot of poignant things that happened in the world for the last few years. In a lot of them. Yeah, good stuff.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. The song was called If You Insists Off His Album, Off Their Album, Where They Rains. All right, Tray, if this is your last pick of the night. What you got? All right. There can only be a 180 from that, since country music does not appear on this podcast very often. And this is a 180 for sure. All right.

So this is the song that I was teasing in the beginning of the episode that by the end of this track cue, you're not going to be wearing socks. That's all I'm saying. that. So shout out to Adrian, who you know, he was on this podcast a couple months ago. He turned me on to this artist. They go by the name Vestumur or Yes Tumor. I'm not sure how to

pronounce it. But I'm going to let the pitchfork right up on this record kind of describe it. So this is a very long record name, so I'm going to say it right now. this record is called praise a lord who choose but which does not consume or simply hot between worlds this name of the record um and here's a here's a little one liner here the art rock artur's last album is a glistening richly detailed world that feels like a culmination of their ever escalating

talent and ambition. And this song, Q, is definitely ambitious. It's a good way to describe it. And I was just blown away by it, man. Blown away by this track. And here is kind of another phrase that jumped out of me here that I think describes this record really well. It is an ecstatic fusion of alt rock and R&B. So I was kind of reminded a lot of blood oranges. music just to give you another vibe here. But here we go. So I'm going to jump into this track here and strap it in, dude.

I'm strapped, man. I'm ready to go. Let's do it. We're about to go on a ride. All right. So again, the artist is named Vess Tumor. This song is called Heaven Surrounds Us like a Hood. It's okay. You could just restart. Pretty epic song, right? Yeah. Super, super unique and different the way he approached that song. Really, really cool.

Yeah, those, you know, I think it's the, you know, those vocal tracks from that boy. Yeah. It just kind of stops you in your tracks, you know, like when you, especially the way that they're mixing that, the lyrics, just everything about it, man. And the way the song changes, too. Like, that nice little guitar strumming acoustic guitar type thing almost sounds like a Zeppelin track. Yeah. Like, Secret of Heaven or something like that.

I was getting some M83 vibes at some points of that song. Early M. 83. But the funny thing is that that song stood out on this record in terms of like it's not all that like sweeping and epic sounding. Like, you know, he was kind of gone for almost like a, you know, rock opera type thing with that song, I feel like. But the rest of it, there's really poppy, catchy songs on this record, dancey kind of stuff. But yeah, it kind of reminded me of blood orange a little bit.

But man, it blew me away. So, yeah, check that record out. Again, the artist is named Vestumor, if I'm pronouncing that correctly. I'm not going to say the name of the record in full again, but it's basically, you know, praise a lord. if you want to just stop it at three words. It's like, you know, 15 words, I think. Anyway, check it out. Vestumer, definitely an album to stop and pay attention to.

All right, Q, I'm sorry that you have to follow that. Could be kind of hard, but this is your last track. What do you got? All right, I'm bringing a track from an artist named Jesse Cavell. Okay. I actually brought a song of his. I don't know if it made it on our best of for 2020. Probably did because I still revisit the song.

I love it to death. The song is called Northside. But that was back in 2020. He just released a record this year back in November, actually. It just came out, November 10th. And it's great. And this song, I'm pulling this one. because it's kind of out there

compared to how his normal sound is even for the rest of the record. Yeah, anyways, dude, I'll just let the song speak the words. All right, again, this is Jesse Cavell. The album is called Life and Death at Party Rock. This song is called Beach Hill Meditation. You just went

went right on and followed up that track, you know, with a great one. I think you could do it. That's a great way to close the episode. I think that was an excellent closer. Well, that song stands out on the record. I mean, I'm not saying it stands out in a way. It's like it's the only song that's good.

What I mean is like, I guess it's kind of like what you were just saying with that song you just brought. Like it's, it's, it's, it kind of stands out on the record. It's kind of out there, especially for the kind of music that he, that he writes. Yeah, such a cool track. Yeah, I liked it. Had a little bit of electronic. in there that he kind of snuck in some synths and stuff. Is that

what made it different? Like, or most of his songs more? Yes. That is, yeah. Okay. Okay. He's one of my favorite singer-songwriters that I've discovered in the last few years. Good times. Good times. That's how we're going to wrap it up for tonight.

But we do have an outro track, Trave, right? Did you got one picked out for us? Yeah, I'm going to play another drop 19s track for us here, Q. Nice. Because I, this is the one I was intending to play for the longest time until just recently when I decided to switch it up. But, and I think you might understand why. Because it does, it doesn't sound like a drop 19s track.

It's a killer track. And so it'll be a great way to close us out here. But anyway, so yeah, man, we got one more episode for this year. So we will bring our final 10 picks. and again this has not been in any order. I'm saying it's tough, man. I feel like I brought all my favorites. I feel like I may have blown my best, my most favorite picks already.

But I'm sitting on at least a couple more that are really solid. I mean, hey, you know, it's all good. Everything that we're bringing. It's all good. In my opinion, it's decent. But, yeah. Anyway, so tune in in a couple weeks. We will close out the year.

then 2024, it's going to be kind of a return to the more traditional no-filler episode format. So that's all I'm going to say. Okay. Yeah, so I got one more track here. To close us out, this is going to be another track from Drop 19's brand new record, Hard Light. And until next time, follow us on Instagram, search for no-filler, reach out to us on Instagram, I should say. and of course, as always, we are a part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

I feel like we don't see that every week or every episode. But yeah, pantheonpodcast.com, home to many great music-related podcast here, just like ours, you know? And yeah, again, we'll come at you here in another couple weeks for our final episode of the year. Thanks, as always, for listening. My name is Travis. And I'm Gwen. And this song to close us out is called The Price Was High by Drop 19s.