No Filler Music Podcast - Best of 2024 - Part One

Episode Date: December 1, 2024

Join us every week in December as we count down our top tracks of 2024. Tracklist Yot Club - Pixel MGMT - People In The Streets Julia-Sophie - lose my mind Chelsea Wolfe - House of Self Undoing Fake Fruit - Más O Menos Fake Fruit - Long Island Iced Tea MILLY - Past The Glow kinoue64 - Pikopiko kinoue64 - 無​関​係​図 Skee Mask - Reminiscrmx Eden Aurelius - Want 2 World News - Hell Hole Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood - Live On Boston Harbor This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and this is our first episode in our look back at 2024. Both bring in five tracks each. This is our best of the year, episode one. And we're going to release one a week throughout December. So we're going to be bringing 40 tracks total, top 40. Stoked. I'm stoked. I'm stoked.

And you know what's cool about this? Now that we're not releasing, episodes every week on the rig makes it that much more special that we're doing this. This is our gifts to you, our year-end gift. You know what, dude? And this is what spawned the What-Jardard format. Is that true? I think so.

You might be right. Yeah, because we thought, you know what? I think you're right. I think it's cool to just bring a bunch of tunes on an episode. Let's start doing What You Heard's where we just bring songs that we've been listening. to in between recordings. Yeah, that's true. That spawned from the best of episodes.

Yeah, if you listen to early, early episodes, What You heard used to just be a segment at the end of each episode, where we just bring one track each. And then, yeah, I think you're right. I think the year-end format basically turned into the What You Heard format. But anyway, yeah, so this is going to feel like a Watch-Hard episode. But it's all new tracks that were released throughout the year. I always feel the need to preface by saying that this is not a, I'm picking what I think are the 20 best songs of 2024.

Right. You know, there's other publications, music publications where you can find their definitive, here are the top tracks of the year. This is my favorite songs from either artists that I discovered this year or, you know, my favorite artists who happen to release new material this year. Right, right. Yeah. And in some instances, dude, I'm bringing tracks that aren't even necessarily my favorite off the album because I don't want to spoil the album for you. I want you to get intrigued and listen to the album yourself. Yeah.

Well, yeah, that's, I think that is true. I think we say that every year. It's like if you want, there's plenty of publications like you say, Q, that are going to put out a more objective, like, here's the best of 2024. And you're going to get your Beyonce record on there. According to music critics, here's the best of the year. Exactly. We're not music critics, dude.

Yeah, that's not why you listen to this podcast. This is more our take, you know. So if you like this podcast, chances are you going to like what our favorite tracks are of the year. If you want to get a music critics take on what the best of 2024 is, you know, take your pick. You've got plenty of publications out there, probably plenty of podcasts out there that are a little bit more objective. But like, this is just what we like. You know what I mean? So I think it's going to be good, good stuff, Q.

I'm, dude, I'm really excited. I got lots of good tunes. And you're going to kick us off. So what do we got? Well, this is a familiar face to no filler. Yacht Club is the name. I'm pretty sure you brought him last year to the best out too, Q. It's possible.

And maybe even the year before that. He had a little EP called Nature Machine, came out in 2020. That's when I first got turned on to this guy. And he's just been steadily releasing really good tunes since then. Also turned me onto the Nice Guys record label, which also has a lot of really good, like, up-and-coming artists under the same vein. So Yacht Club released an album this year called Rufus.

And I'm going to bring... Also, you know what, dude? Let's just throw this out there. Singles are up for grabs at our best of. I know we try throughout the year to bring the songs between the singles. But yeah, I'm going to be bringing some singles for our best of. Fair enough. And this is one of them, dude.

This is a freaking solid track. You're going to love this, man. All right, here we go. Yacht Club. The album is called Rufus. This song is called Pixel. Yeah, I feel like this is a good evolution from like the last Yacht Club track I heard. because like my I remember my last assessment of him was like he's doing like the bedroom pop kind of stuff with like the lofi kind of voice right the lofi vocals and stuff like that he's still very much that yeah he still got that that style on his vocals and stuff but like I feel like the song itself is a little bit more complex than than your straightforward kind of indie bedroom pop track you know the guitar so little guitar little guitar deal

Did he there at the end was kind of cool. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, and he's got a little bit of insight on that on his website. It says here, with the Oat Club's second full-length Rufus, Ryan Kaiser is expanding his sonic palette and challenging his own established modes by collaborating. You know what? This is what happens with a lot of, you know, lo-fi bedroom artists like Tyco, right? Uh-huh.

Where they start bringing in other musicians who end up being. being like a main staple in the group, you know? Yeah. So with that, I'm excited to hear what else he's got for us coming down the pipes. So yeah, that's how I'm kicking things off, brother. You're going to keep it in the same vein, or are we going to pull a 180? I mean, I wouldn't call it a full 180, but definitely a change of pace. So I don't think this band has ever appeared on No Failure, but it has appeared in everyone's

daily lives, I think, because this is one of those bands that you hear everywhere you go. I'm talking about MGMT at Q. Oh, man. I didn't know they're still doing stuff. They're still doing stuff. And, you know, this is the group. They had a massively successful record back in 2008 called Oracular Spectacular. Dude, that's on kids.

Yes, kids. Kids, an electric feel. You hear it. Like, I hear it in Target. I hear it in, you know, well, I'm mostly Target here. But I'm just saying, like, you hear it, you know, department stores. You know, it's just one of those songs that has become a stable in, like, our culture. It's part of the Zite guys, dude.

It's never going. It's not going anywhere. Right. Both electric feeling kids, they both have, you know, around 800 some odd million plays on Spotify. or like they're knocking on the door of like a billion plays. Like it's that level of a hit, right? So they put out a new record this year. And I was like, you know what?

What do they sound like? I wanted to see. Like, are they still doing that same kind of thing? And the answer is no, Q. The answer is no. They are sounding a little bit different. And I thought this song was really cool. So here we go.

This song, again, is by MGMT. So this song is called People in the Streets. Showing your things that you can't unsee and the sense of unknowing what. Anything happens to be. And just as the sun comes out again, something is blocking light, but it's all right.

Inside still glowing. That was awesome. dude. Yeah, it really jumped out of me when I heard it the first time. Because, you know, they're so, like, in my head, they are so tied to that sound from, you know, from 2008. From so long ago. That's funny. Yeah, from so, so long ago. And they've, you know, they've put out, I mean, shit, that was their first record. Now, I remember congratulations came out in 2010 and it was still kind of that's similar sound. But since then, they've put out five records, six records.

You know what I mean? You know, part of me wants to go back and maybe see, I bet you they've explored all sorts of styles, you know what I mean? Yeah, man. I was getting some David Bowie vibes a little bit from his voice. Yeah. Yeah, totally. But anyway, I just, the lyrics were cool.

The story they're telling is kind of interesting. Yeah, just a good, solid track. So, yeah, that was MGMT. they put out a record back in February. So earlier this year called Loss of Life. That song was called People in the Streets. And I'm going to throw it back to you, Q, where we go from here. All right, man.

Have you heard of an artist that goes by Julia Sophie? That's ringing bells, Q. Julia dash Sophie. Yeah, so it says on her bandcamp page, this sums it up here. Electronic music with heart from the singer of candy, What? The hell's candy. I don't know.

Okay, never mind. I guess that doesn't sum it up at all. Yeah, and then that sentence even becomes even weirder. Music with heart from the singer of candy says, and Little Fish. That's not a sentence, too. That sounds like it was AI generated sentence right there. Cool, twisted, open, and bare. Okay.

That's a little bit more succinct. She dropped an album this year called Forgive Too Slow And it's freaking awesome, dude So this is like electronic? Yeah, so it's heavily electronic I don't really know How else to describe her music, dude? It's kind of hard to pin it down

So I'm just going to let the music But it's under the electronic umbrella I'm maybe I don't know, dude, it's like I said Let's just see. Yeah, let the music speak for itself Julia Sophie The album is called

Forgive Too Slow It came out in July and this song is called Lose My Mind So I'm switching up my tracks for today at you because I've got the perfect

follow up to that song but yeah it's kind of like a little bit of glitchy glitch is kind of what they call it but yeah interesting so the album is

just her singing on the record? Yeah, yeah. This is actually her debut solo album. Okay. Yeah, it's very, like, intimate like that, very, like, raw personal lyrics. Yeah, so here's a good little quote on it.

It says, aching and ambitious, forgive too slow possesses a primal drive that mirrors the anxiety of its lyrics with sharp synths and danceable production. Influences range from New Wave to Folk Confessional, to house to avant-garde 80s pop.

It's great, dude. There's some more, like, I don't know, quiet storm vibes in some of the songs, from Strade kind of vibes in some of them. But, yeah, a lot of it is just very, like, and it's about, like, relationships and heartache and stuff like that. It's really good, dude. Definitely a solid debut album.

Cool. All right, man. So you're going to keep us in this vein? Yeah, so I've got a purpose. Perfect follow-up to that, Q. And let me shout out, well, I have the opportunity here. Also, I'm recovering from a cold, if that's, my voice might be a little bit off, but anyway, just putting that out there. So, as you know, Q, I went to Denver recently for a wedding. We stuck around a few days just to kind of hang out. And we went to Boulder, and I popped into

this record store called Paradise Found. And I want to get by a few days. shout out to them because it was awesome market store. And what I really appreciate... Did you find your paradise, Jeff? I found... Yeah, actually I did. I found a copy of Thievery Corporation's mirror conspiracy, which I've been looking for forever. Anyway, so they handed me a pamphlet after I made the purchase.

And they actually printed out this little booklet that had their staff picks of the best of 2024, which I thought was kind of cool. The fact that they even invest in literally printing out, like, it's a little, like, legit little booklet with like lots of pages and stuff. Like each of the staff's like picks at best of 2024. It was really cool. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah. So anyway, of course I'm going to check some of these out. So in a way, this is John's pick.

John, who works at Paradise Found in Boulder, Colorado. Let me read what he said. So this is a another female. producer, electronic musician, who goes by the name Chelsea Wolf. And I'm going to read what he said. The latest Chelsea Wolf album finds her and producer Dave Setech, taking the listener on a dark journey of self-examination and discovery. Trip-hop elements are brought in to add to Chelsea's bedrock, industrial goth metal mix,

creating very layered soundscapes, wherein new wrinkles can be discovered. with each listen, a compelling and bewitching work. So there you go, Q. I think that's a good, a good summary of this sound. Industrial, goth metal. But it's also kind of electronic, like I was saying. So I will let the song speak for itself here. And I want to seek you if you pick up on any sort of influence here.

That to me is pretty obvious. has been confirmed, but I'll get to that later. All right, here we go. So this is off of Chelsea Wolf's latest record called She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She. Really confusing record name. Come again. Exactly.

The name of the record, I'm going to say it again. She reaches out to she reaches out to she. And yeah. Anyway, so this song is called House. of self undoing. Every second on that, dude. Hell yeah. That's what I'm talking about.

Love it, man. I love those drums, just that driving force behind that beat. Yeah. That was freaking awesome, dude. It was very like brooding and dark and like gothic. Oh, do you mean a dark journey of self-examination? That's exactly what I mean, dude.

I'm glad that someone else was able to put it that way. Yeah. So I'm just going to read this because this makes perfect sense. I'm reading from the Wikipedia now. When asked for 10 songs that influenced the album, Wolf named Depeche Mode's Waiting for the Night, the Smashing Pumpkins, Daphne Desin's, Bjork's Bachelorette, Madonna's Frozen, 9-inch nails, the hand that feeds, massive attacks, teardrop, Lowe's, Rome, Always in the Dark.

here we go radio heads where I end and you begin TV on the radio's staring at the sun and Alasha de Salas anywhere on this road so wait this was her own she picked the fact that she had 10 specific songs like that that she was influenced by for this record she definitely was going into this album with a very specific sound she wanted yeah and I think you can definitely hear the Tom York influence in her voice for sure and nine inch snails like in that like industrial sound. Yeah. That was great, man.

Is the whole album like that? Yes. Awesome. And Depeche Mode, like the, you know, the kind of the goth, Depeche Mode, darker kind of synth wave stop. Anyway, massive attack, obviously with the trip hop influence. Obviously, yeah. So anyway, really awesome.

Again, the record is called She Riches Out by Chelsea Wolf. Came out in February of this year. Solid, solid record. And again, shout out to Paradise. found in Boulder, Colorado. Go check them out if you're in the area. All right, cute. I want to throw it back to you.

Where do we go from here? All right, man. I think this is one of the ones I'm most excited to bring to the best of for the year. Because this album is so freaking awesome. So the band's called Fake Fruit. It's a post-punk band from Oakland, California. Does that name bring a Beltriff? I think you brought them at some point.

You know what? I think I brought, they must have landed on my best of for 2021. if I had to guess. For 2020. They released a self-titled in 2021. They do a little bit of that back and forth kind of male singer, female singer, you know, kind of duet kind of stuff. But not in all their songs.

And the majority of the songs on this latest album of theirs is led by the main, is led by the female vocalist, Hannah Ham Diomado. Man, it just a solid, like, high-energy punk record. And I'm going to bring two tracks because you have to hear, like, just the two sides of the coin that they're bringing between her vocals and Alex's vocals. And, man, dude, I can't wait for you to hear this shit, dude. All right, here we go.

So this is Fake Fruits fairly recent release. Came out in August of this year. Mucho mistrust. And yeah, we're going to... So here's the thing. These songs are back to back on the record. Okay. Which is something that I think is worth knowing.

Here we go. All right. So this first song is called mass ominos. That was great. Yeah, that was great. I love the spoken word thing there at the end. That was cool. Very Courtney Barnett, dude.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really, yeah, she brings that kind of like cadence and vocal stylings throughout the record. Freaking love it. I am going to take the risk for this episode, Traff, and I'm going to keep in that whole song. It's only two minutes. Okay. If their record label decides to drop it, what's the record label? What's the record? Car park records? They don't care. Okay. They'll be fine. If it was like universal or some massive record, yeah, then we'd be getting, we'd be getting to knock on the door, you know. Yeah, I do. All right. So I don't want to talk too much about it because I'm going to go straight into the next track, dude. All right. I had other things to say, but I'll save it for later.

You know, I did say it because this next song is very different, so I don't want you to forget. Okay. So I, I, you know, obviously it's like kind of a punk song, but I feel like it had some like thrash metal energy to it. That's all I wanted to say. Okay. Awesome. All right, man. So you're, dude, you're gonna fucking love this man. I love the guy, Alex, hit the difference in the stylings between the two. and they do kind of do it back and forth on this one. It's just like, it's mucho-boino, brother. And like you said earlier, this is the very next track. It's a very next track.

Actually, let's just do a little quick, like a little fade in, okay? I'll do the very last few seconds of Maso Minos. And we're going to fade into Long Island Ice Tea. That's, I think those two songs, like, especially with them being back-to-back, is a good representation of like what you're going to get out of this album. Yeah. They remind me the way that they kind of hand back and forth to each other kind of reminds me of one of my favorite records from last year,

Baritalia's Tracy didn't. Oh, yeah, man, I forgot about that. You remember how they would have that kind of back and forth on the same track, you know, where they'd pass back forth to each other and kind of harmonized each other. Yeah, I've always liked that, man. I like when, if a band can pull it off, it's great. shout out to Plink 22.

They used to do that. They probably still do it. But, you know, Bar Italia is obviously a very different style than these guys are more like trip hop or down tempo and indie rock or something like that. But same kind of like dynamic between the two singers, which is, yeah, when it's done right, like it's amazing.

Yeah. Yeah. It's just really. It's, yeah. And dude, and here's another interesting thing. This is the first time that you hear this guy's voice. And this is track seven on the record.

Wow. And it's because I went into this album, like, excited because they did a lot of this in their, their self-titled from 2021 and I'm like, halfway through the record. I'm like, where is this guy? Does he ever sing solo? Yes, Venetian Blinds, which is the next song on the record, is all him. And it's freaking awesome, dude. It's great, man. Really, highly recommend this record.

Sweet. So, all right, man. You're going to keep this energy going, or are we going to switch it up? Um, we're going to switch it up a little bit, but I mean, maybe in the same, in the same building. So I know you're familiar with this group, Q, um, Millie. Yes. I was hoping that they wouldn't appear on your, on your list. So I'm glad to.

Hang on. Let me see. I don't think they're on there. Nope. Okay, good, good. All right. So, um, they have appeared on this podcast before. I remember bringing your track from their 2022 release.

called Our First Four Songs Plus Wish Goes On. They did not appear on our best of. I thought they perhaps did, but maybe not. But I know that we brought something from them before. But basically, they are in the group of musicians right now putting out, you know, I would put them in the Grunge Revival group of musicians. But they are more, and this is kind of part of this Grange Revival. It seems to be a good mix of Grunge Plus emo.

And this group would fall under that category for sure. So they put out a new record in June. Of course they did it, Q. That's what the whole purpose of this town is. Of course they put on new record. Yeah, what year? Did this come out? 2024.

You know. But back in June, they put out of a record called Your Own Becoming. And this song is just fantastic Q. So here we go. Again, this group is called Millie. This song is called Past the Glow. I love it, man. Man, let me just tell you, it makes me so happy that new generations are clearly into the music that was coming out in, you know, mid-90s, early 2000s.

And they're carrying the torch, dude. It's a beautiful thing. Totally. Totally. And like, I mean, here's the thing, dude. It's because this is what they're hearing probably, like, as they're growing up. This is... I was getting some heavy Weezer vibes.

Yes, totally. Man, yeah, freaking great, dude. Yeah. I mean, this is the classic rock for them, if you want to think of it that way. Oh, God, dude. I know, I know, man.

But I just saw a... This made me feel really old. I saw a post on Reddit, and it was like a Nintendo 64 and a bunch of games. And the post was, oh, I just found this in my parents attic

should I play these games it's just like this is from back when they were in college should I play these games like just some kid Are the games actually on the cartridge Yeah like how do I How do I do this

But yeah So like you know Our generation Gen X and our generation Our kids are going to listen to 90s music obviously You're probably going to play Some grunge

Some legit grunge to Ronan at some point, some 90s grunge, 90s old. Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah, you're going to bring them up right. So anyway, but yeah, I said grunge revival. Really, it's just like you said, it's a 90s alt rock grunge. That sound, basically every style of rock that was put out in the 90s, bands, there are a lot of indie bands that are, like you said, picking up the torch and doing their own spin on it.

And this is, yeah, Millie is a perfect example of a band that's doing it really, really well. And you know who else is doing it great? is funny because it kind of rhymes wishy, which is that band I brought as like an intro track a few, what you heard's back. No, no, you brought a full track, dude. That was one of your picks. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. The intro to that episode was Jack White. Well, I'm definitely bringing another track from that album at some point for our best of, because yeah, awesome. Another great, great example of that. It's a great time to be a fan of 90s rock right now because not only do you have new bands putting out music that sounds straight from the 90s. You also have a lot of 90s

rock bands putting out new records, new material. So anyway, all right, let's throw it back to you, Q. Where do we go from here? All right, man. It's another example of an artist who dropped several little EPs and albums this year, and I was so hard for me to pick one. And this is, I think I've discovered this artist on one of those band camp articles where they're like, well, a lot of publications are posting articles about how like Shuge's is having a moment right now.

Mm-hmm. And this artist, he goes by Kinu 64, all one word. It's from Hiroshima, Japan, really doing some cool stuff with, and you know, we say this all the time.

Shoe gaze works with any and all genres. It's even kind of hard to really pinpoint other than like, quote unquote, wall of sound, you know, uh, Drinched in Reverb, that kind of thing. That's what makes Shugays, unless you're going to go the straight My Bloody Valentine route and do the slide,

uh, glide guitar. Yeah. That Kevin Shields created. It's kind of hard to pinpoint the, to sound. But I would say this, this music fits,

fits under the umbrella. And it's, man, it's really hard to, really hard to describe his music, too. So I'm just going to let it speak for itself, dude. Really not a lot out there on this artist. This album is called New, New, New. I wonder if it's his newest stuff. Came out in June.

There's only four tracks on this little EP. I'm going to play track three off the record. This song is called Pico Pico. Yeah, really interesting. mix of styles. You're going to get that from track to track, dude. It's really hard to narrow down, like how to describe. There's some, like, video game chip tune type influence in there.

Yes. The guitar, um, is more. The guitar stylings are great in all these songs, dude. Interesting. I like how he goes by, you know, he put the numbers six and four at the end of his name. That's no coincidence, right? You don't think so. And he's got, you know, one of the songs on the record is called Game Boy, right?

Oh, okay. Okay. So. Yeah. And one of his other albums he released earlier this year called, I can't say it, Shiawasi Ni Kurason. That felt pretty good. I felt pretty good about that.

That's, you know, that was perfect. Did you like that? Perfect. So what's interesting about that one, and based on a comment by a band camp user, there was a, this like AI voice called Hatsun. Hatsuni Miku that he used throughout the album. Hatsuni Miku is a vocaloid software voice bank developed by Krypton Future Media. It's supposed to be like the voice of a 16-year-old girl.

And he uses it throughout the whole album. Interesting. But in a really cool way. So anyways, like, it's so different from album to album. He's dropped a lot of stuff in the last few years. That's really cool. because that's that's man that's that's that's interesting dude yeah just yeah that using an AI voice like that do you want to hear like two seconds of it let's let's let's let's do it let's just

a quick listen because I really like this stuff too actually using it like another instrument well yeah like I wonder if he's like pitch shifting it and stuff like that or or if you can have it to just I mean this this user on band camp straight up recognized that that was Hatsuni Miku Yeah, well, I just wonder if you can have this AI, like, sing. Because how would it, how would you have to tell it what to sing? Well, I don't think this is really like a quote unquote, like a true AI where you can like ask him to say stuff. It's a voice bank. Oh, okay.

So he's probably, yeah, like you said, probably bringing it in and just like ship. Yeah, it's part of it like a synthesizer. Okay, got it. Yeah. Interesting. But yeah, that's, yeah. That's interesting. Yeah.

Yeah, really interesting stuff this person's doing. And at the rate, they're dropping albums. I'll be able to listen to something new pretty soon here. So anyways, that was Canoey 64. And I'm going to pass it to you, brother. What you get? Okay. This is probably the first, the closest thing to a 180 that we'll get on this episode.

So I brought this producer, DJ, a few months. back. His name is Ski Mask. And he put out a new record this year. Ski Mask said that? I wonder how many people got that reference that you just did. There you. Probably, probably, probably nobody. But so let me read the bio here. So, Munich Germany's Brian Mueller produces base heavy experimental techno under the name ski mask. So he apparently used to go by the name scientist, S-C-N-T-S-T-S-T, which was brighter and more accessible

than the ski mask stuff. Under ski mask, his tracks are heavier and more cerebral, placing more of a focus on intricate yet insistent rhythmic patterns. So I just really like this style. It's kind of it's kind of like IDM-esque, but a little bit more like techno forward, I guess. Yeah, this song in particular is a little bit more kind of atmospheric and a little bit, yeah, definitely like hypnagogic a little bit. So here we go. This again is Ski Mask and this record is called Resort. And this song is called Riminisk Remix.

is how I want to pronounce that. Here we go. I know you'd like it. Just some, like drum and bass? Yeah. Stilings with the drum, like Eamon Tobin or something. Yeah.

Maybe not as intense as some of Tobin's beats, but... I'm always a fan of that kind of stuff. I love drum and bass, especially... I like it when it's paired with more, like, softer kind of atmospheric types of. I feel like it's an interesting contrast, you know?

Yeah, man. Which is, I've always liked Math Rock, because I feel like Math Rock, is a similar kind of thing where it's like a lot of times the guitars are very clean and drums are doing something really, really chaotic and different. And complex, yeah. And complex, yeah. I always think it's an interesting contrast when that happens.

And like drum and bass typically does that. Yeah, he classifies this record on his band camp, at least as ambient, breakbeat, drum and bass, electronic hip-hop techno. So the record itself, you know, has a lot of different styles on it. there's some more tracks like this and then there's some more like straight up electronic type stuff but yeah i've always i stumbled upon this guy a few years back like he's just got really interesting really interesting mix of of sounds uh but it's all kind of under that sort of idm kind of umbrella you know so anyway ski mask again that record was called resort that track was called

rmnisk rmx kind of kind of hard to you can't really pronounce that, but anyway, check it out. All right, Q, I assume we're doing another 180. Nope, we're going to switch it up, dude. Now that I heard that track, I want to play something on the same vein for my last track for the episode. Trev, have you heard of an artist named Eden Aurelius? Nope. All right, man, well, you're in for treats.

This is, let's see, I'll just read this here. This is the initiatory release on the co-clear label, a stunning debut by Brooklyn-based artist Eden Aurelius. Plateau, which is the name of the album. Well, it's really like a single, because there's two tracks and then two remixes on it. Three tracks, one remix. Plateau is a lacework of chiller, dub techno, and ambient sparkle.

Crafted via recorded material, astute sampling, and live instrumentation. I think you're really going to like this draft. I'm ready, dude. way more ambient than that heavy drum and bass stuff you just brought, but definitely in the same vein. Here we go. This is the second track off the EP. This song is called Want2.

Always a fan of IDM stuff, ambient stuff like that, Q. It's good. It's just good background music, you know? I feel like I'm in some sort of like, you know, I'm in the future and some sort of like floating around and some, I don't know, I just, you know, it's a good, it's a good vibe, these kind of songs, you know. Well, and this one too, man, you have to listen to it with some headphones because that track was just dancing all around my brain, dude. Like the way that she mixed it, just oscillating between each, you know, left and right channel just the whole time, just really cool stuff going on in that track.

If this is brand new stuff that an artist that hasn't really been doing this for a while is dropping, man, it's going to be really good. Like, even the background image on the band cap for this record, that's kind of what it feels like, which is interesting because that's almost got that, there's a term for that style that was popular in the 2000s. You would know, Mr. Design. 2000s design trend. What was it called? It was a Y2K kind of thing. Oh my God, dude. It's slipping my mind.

Can we just call it the Y2K aesthetic? We can. We can't, cute, but I want to get the actual term here. Oh, Frutiger Arrow. Oh, of course that. But no, it's, it's, if you typed in Frutiger Arrow into Google, you would know exactly. I wouldn't even know how to spell that, Travis. Frutiger, F-R-U-T-I-G-E-R, and then let Google fill it out the rest of it for you.

Frutiger Arrow, yeah. Okay. That style. Oh, Jesus, yeah. We all remember it. Think, uh... That album art's not like that at all. I didn't say the album art.

I said the background on the band-camp page for the album art. The background on the band-camp page, this is actually for the record label. This band-camp page is co-clear record. Got it, got it, got it. All right, anyway, but that's kind of what I made you think of, like, Frugal arrow, shiny, spherical kind of like. Yeah, cleans. Yeah, exactly.

Anyway, just getting a little nerdy here for you, Q. But, yeah, good stuff. Good follow up from ski mask. But I'm going to bring us home with some rock, Q. I'm going to close us out with, we're going to circle back to our wheelhouse. So I brought this group possibly earlier this year, maybe last year. But it's a little three-piece band called World News and really awesome guitar-driven rock music. They put out a EP called Escape back in May.

And so I've been sitting on this one because I didn't want to bring this to our watches because I knew this was going to be a best of pick. All right. Again, this band is called World News. This song is called Hellhole. Getting some like 80s new wave, like tears for fears kind of vibes. A little bit. Interesting that you say that, Q. Because they actually, it's interesting, they made a point to, to tag this record on

Ben Camp with just the tag 80s. So. Okay. Wow. Alt. So they have alt, alt, alt, alt, rock, 80s, indie, indie rock. jangle and then London because they're from London. But yeah, definitely some jangle.

Not necessarily that track, but a lot of his guitar style, Alex is his name. He's the singer and guitar player, is kind of like dire straits a little bit, some of it. But yeah, very guitar-driven indie rock, which is great. You know, I always love hearing a guitar solo. You've got to look hard to find those these days in most indie songs.

Indeed. But yeah, just solid melodies and riffs that these guys come up with, or this guy, I should say. Although, when you look at the picture of the band on band camp, there are four guys, but on this record in particular, it's only three guys listed. So maybe they kind of mix up the roster a little bit, or they dropped a guy or something like that. But for this record in particular, it's just a three piece. So Alex on vocals and guitar, Rory Evans on bass. They could be related.

and then Matt or malt the fuck kind of name uh malt hitting on drums just a solid solid little EP five tracks check it out again the EP is called escape that song was called hellhole by world news all right cue that that wraps it up for our first best of 2024 part one dunzo we'll be coming back next week with part two and i got to pick five more tracks here because I don't have my, I don't have my list, you know, curated like years. I'm sitting on a, just a bunch, dude. So I guess that's something I should have said earlier. These are not in order.

Sometimes I, in years past, I've, like, put them in order. You know what I mean? Like, we're like, part four is going to be my top five. That's too hard to do, man. Especially when, like, we kind of like to flow from track to track between our picks. Yeah, because I actually bumped a track today. Same here, dude. So that I could play something that followed one of your picks.

So I'll bring it back next time. So yeah, check us out on Instagram. Reach out to us, I should say. That's the best place to get in touch with us. If you have a pick, what's your best track? What's your best album, favorite album of this year? Send it to us on Instagram and we might sneak it in to one of these episodes, maybe as an outro track or something like that.

But since we don't have that right now, Q, How are we going to outro us out? What are we going to do? Do we play another track from somebody? Do we do? What do we do? You know what, dude? Actually, let's do this.

Because I have, I starred one of Fleet Fox's live recordings from, they released live on Boston Harbor this year. Yeah. Back in June. And this was actually a recording from back when they first released. shores or shore. So not only is this not a live recording from 2024, but this isn't even a song from, like this isn't even a new Fleet Fox's song.

But I loved the sound of, this is Raggedwood, which, I mean, what did that come out on? Helplessness Blues or was that? I think Raggedwood was before that. The self-titled, yeah, Fleet Fox is from 2008. So this is by no means. a new song. But this live record came out this year? Okay. Came out this year. So, you know, new to us.

Unless you happen to be at the Boston Harbor when this, you know, and you got to catch Fleet Foxes do this live. Anyways, anytime Fleet Fox releases anything live of theirs, I don't care if it's just the audio or if there's a video of it as well, I'm going to, I'm going to watch the entire thing. Yes. Yes. Their concerts are always great. Yeah. So this is just. a really great example of, you know, they take a song that was, that's 16 years old now, and they're still bringing it to their concerts. And they're, yeah, they're doing it right, dude. So yeah. And that's, like you said, you can actually watch this too. So like if you're a Flan of Feet Fox is definitely go find it on YouTube. You can watch the entire concert. It's great. Yeah, Flea Fox is live on Boston Harbor. So yeah, we'll fade us out with a live recording of

it would from that concert. And yeah, until next week, thank you, as always, for listening. My name's Quentin. And I'm Travis. You know, take care. Grab holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrant Sets, our special selection has something for every style and price point.

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