No Filler Music Podcast - Best of 2025 - Part One

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

It's the most wonderful time of the year! That time again for our best of countdown where we bring 10 tracks each week of December, our favorite tracks from 2025. Tracklist Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane Alex G - Real Thing Winter - Without You 회사AUTO - Aegina Akasha System - Super Cell Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror pôt-pot - 22° Halo HUNTR/X - How It's Done PinkPantheress - Girl Like Me terraplana - hear a whisper (feat. Winter) Radiohead - Videotape (live from Berlin) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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often overlooked hidden gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Travis. I got my brother Quentin with me. And this is our first year-end countdown episode, Best of 2025. Our favorites, Traff. Yeah. And that's another thing I always like to just stress here. Like, this isn't the music podcast where you want to get like, I don't know, a music critic's choice of like objectively what's the best of 2025. This is about, songs and even artists that we like that put out music this year, you know, I'm not even necessarily bringing the best song on the record, you know, because I want, I want our listeners to give those albums a listen. Yeah, and, you know, it's possible that the best track on the

record was played earlier in the year in one of our other episodes, right? So, because I, I definitely got some, uh, some, uh, returning artists here that made it to the best of that I, that I play it at some point. But yeah, this is, so basically all month of December, five tracks from each of us on each episode. So that's 10 tracks and episode. I mean, it's basically like a watch-a-heard format, but this is just tracks that came out this year.

So, yeah, I mean, we've done it every year, probably going back to, I don't know, 2019 or so, maybe earlier than that. Yeah, something like that, man. Yeah, we've been doing for a while. Yeah, doing this for a while. And this format is what led to us decide to do watcher herds as a full episode that's true because we used to do watcher

herds at the end of each episode that's true you're right man because we had such a blast doing these episodes yep because it's just it's just rapid fire like just nothing but tunes dude and that's what's so great about it so enough you happen right let's get to it that's right so who's going to go first i'm going first trava all right because i got i got a doozy for us and um yeah Courtney barnett no stranger to this pot okay yep She's a freaking powerhouse, man. Everything she does, to me, is just badass. I love her music.

And she just dropped a single October 15th. So it's pretty new, pretty fresh. And it's a freaking doozy, dude. I love this track. You can't not like it, man. Here we go. This is Courtney Barnett's Stay in Your Lane. I know you're trying to help me.

I know you're trying to help me. I know you're trying to help me. Feels like I'm going backwards. Each day I preach my practice and still it seems I wasn't ready for this. Let this thing out of my head Clean my wings, I do my best It's part of my favorite t-shirt

I don't know if this is working Because now I'm dreaming of the worst case, best case Feel like a fish on a hook I'm crying like a child would And now I'm here I might as well Just go through the bed Rip this thing out of my head Clip my wings

Got to get it's on my chest There's never would happen in my hands Great little angler guitar solo to end it out of my head. Great little angular guitar solo to end it out. Had a little bit of like surf rock vibe to it with like some dual guitar tones there. That was awesome. Yeah, I mean, she's always had such like a punk rock kind of sensibility. Oh, yeah.

But like these songs are so much more than that, you know? It's her lyricism, man. Yeah, obviously one of the best songwriters of the, I think so, yeah. Of this decade, you know, or of this century, my bad. I want to expand that of this century, dude, you know. Dude, I was getting some spoon. Yeah, and there with a guitar. Yeah, yep, yep, some red Daniel vibes.

I was thinking that, too. No, she plays guitar as well, right? She's the guitar player. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I knew that. So I'm actually not sure if this is going to be, if this is leading up to a new, you know, like a new album coming out or not. Yeah.

But if Corny Barnett's dropping something, I'm going to listen to it and I'm going to love it. So, yeah, I thought that would be a cool way just to kick us off for this best of for 2025. So I'm going to pass it to you, Trave. Were you going to pull a 180? No. No, no, no, I've got a good follow-up to this. So I think a lot of people have become familiar with this particular artist recently. We've featured him on the podcast for sure, maybe a couple times.

He goes by the name Alex G. And he is, you know, kind of a, I don't know, I used to think of him as like a lo-fi bedroom pop type artist back in the day when he first started putting stuff out. Now he's, you know, he's making soundtracks for movies and stuff. he's done a couple 824 films he did we're all going to the world's fair and he also did i saw the tv glow which was a really really bizarre movie did and i would not recommend it um i think it had a very particular audience that it was aimed toward as far as contemporary weird movies go my go-to thought is horse girl i saw that you know that was pretty interesting was weird yeah anyways it was that that kind of? Yeah, it is. It is. Yes, yes, yes. Isn't that a band? Yeah, Horsegirl is a band that we've

actually featured on the, yeah, they may have been on the best of a few years back. Anyway, so he put out a record way back in July. So here we go. The song is called Real Thing. I went out looking for a real thing. Didn't notice it was hanging by the door. Didn't leave a message or anything. Yeah, she doesn't want to wait. want to wait for me no more walking in the city with the real thing no one tells you what the real thing is for making up a story for you know you spelled the real thing all over the floor

Driving on the highway from the highway from the old place, got a license for the real thing, on the desk Hoping I can make it through to April On whatever's left of all this label cash No, I never thought I was the real thing There were certain tests I thought that I would have Maybe when you're older, you can give me that. Love it, man.

I thought of, like, MJ Linderman. M.J. Linderman, yeah. Yeah, that kind of thing. Well, that's just kind of, kind of blowing up right now. A little pan flute type thing that's kind of in the background, takes you by surprise a little bit. Yeah. This made it on to pitch, pitchforks. I guess year-long work.

list that they have going that's basically I think they've had this basically up the entire year but it's like best music of 2025 so far and every month they update it so this was this made it to their July list I guess but the way that they phrased it so this is his first record under RCA so his major label debut and you know the way they phrase it bedroom pop intimacy with big budget production anyway so yeah Alex G. The record was called Headlights, came on July. That song was called Real Thing. And I'm going to throw it back to you, Q. If you've been listening to this pod for, I mean, any amount of time, you could probably, even if you have just been listening for a couple months, you probably know by now, but that one of my favorite dream pop acts from the last 15 years, lighting up despite great faults. not bringing now they've been dropping new tunes this year and I haven't given a proper listen yet so maybe they'll make it in one of these later episodes but I'm bringing a band in the same

vein kind of it just you know what similar vibe similar like it puts me in the same headspace and you know what I think I feel like a big part of that reason drive is if you take a look at this album cover so I'm bringing a song from an album called adult Romantics. Man, I swear I've seen that album art. From a band called Winter. Ooh. Now, Travis?

Okay. Interesting, my friend. Here's why. Now, let me show you this. The self-titled debut album from letting up despite great faults, dude, looks so much like it. Look up, I swear there's a Boards of Canada album that looks like that. So it's, it looks like it's a young couple that it's embracing and kissing.

That's the album cover. And to me, this is that, that letting up despite great fault, self-titled album, that's such an iconic record cover art in my mind. He's got like a luchadora mask on. He's holding like one of those helium balloons and she's like kissing him through the mask. Anyways, this album by Winter, the cover just immediately reminded me of that. And they just happen to be kind of in the same vein. This is Winter.

The song is called Without You. Call me a cupid romantic You'd whispered You'd whisper a question Touch the granite You call me Cupid Romantic You whisper

The question Touch the granite Who are you Are you when I'm not with you? The city has turned a different shade. It feels so strange without you. All of the streets, spell your name. I feel so strange without you.

My face. I see you bejo in the becos in my car Oh, I, I'm

on the walls of my court Who are you? Who are you when I'm not with you? The city has turned to different shade. I feel so strange without you.

It's a dream pop at its finest cue. That doesn't get any dreamier than that. So, Winter is, it's the name of the singer, Samira Winter, I believe her name is. And she's going to make an appearance later on this episode, Q. I'm just going to say that. What? Oh, is she in, like, featured in one of the songs? Yeah, she is.

Yeah, but I don't want to mess with the flow I've got going on here. But anyway, that's why my ears perked up, dude. Cool. But yeah, man, great, great track. Yeah, I like, too, she's, you know, she brings her, like, bilingual roots, I guess. If you want to, I don't know what that. Which is cool, because she sings, you know, she sang part of that in Portuguese. Yeah, yeah.

Yep, great track. Gives me the same vibes with, like, you know, the, and this is, like, a touchstone. and a lot of dream pop acts where it's just that like whisper quiet almost vocals, you know. Yeah. Letting up, despite great faults, does that all the time. I mean, what's funny is so does my bloody Valentine. So, I mean, that's, that's a, even just in the broader shoe gaze, you know, genre, that's a staple in it. And that's, I mean, that's, there's where the dreamy comes in, you know, just those whispery vocals.

That's right. Yeah. All right, dude. Pass it back to you. all right i'm going to give us our first 180 so this project i'm calling it a project because that's kind of how he's referring to it so this is a a vapor wave artist that goes by the name auto and of course he has a couple of uh like japanese characters in front of those names in front of that name because he's a vapor wave artist and you have to do that so they do

you have to yeah you have to uh so he's he started this project at the beginning of the year called Memory Eternal. And here's how he describes it on his band camp release page for the first record in this series. So he says, Memory Eternal is what is said at Greek funeral services. We all don't know how much time we have left, especially myself. So this album is a reminiscence on my appreciation and gratitude towards life. there will be more versions of memory eternal that are coming up this year one album every month until I can't make any more music and he's put one on every month so so you know so he just

put out memory eternal 11 so what does he have cancer or something because he's like especially me I ain't gotten a lot of time I was thinking that too so it's possible but basically every record it's very like nostalgic type stuff so he even says here picture above is me is of me as a kid So he has pictures of himself as a kid on every single record under this release or under this series. So I'm pulling a track here from Memory Eternal 5. So this is May's release. And does this look like anybody in particular to you, Quentin? Kind of looks like us.

We have a very similar picture that was taken. I remember those picture days for Little League Baseball. Yeah. So basically he's, you know, he put out a, for his fifth release in this series, it's, you know, it's him. It's like the Little League headshot that you get. And he's saying here, this is the most nostalgic sounding album out of them all. It's very 1990s. Every track has a different vibe. And he says, the fifth album hits on something very special. I am the baseball kid on the cover from the 90s. Hope one of these tracks is a grand. slam for you. So here you go. I'm going to play the very first track on the record, and I'm probably going to mispronounce this. This song is called Aegina. I don't know. I'm going to be. You know,

Oh, that's it. Short and sweet. Loved it, man. Love it. I mean, yeah, just vapor wave, man. Hmm? I love it. Why?

Why do we love it so much? Well, that's the funny thing, dude. So this kid, I mean, he's probably about our age, right? I mean, you can tell him from that picture, he's got to be about our age. Yeah. So obviously, you know, probably born in the 80s. He said he loved video games. There's something about this, I think that's why, and especially right now, dude, for our age group,

Like, we are extremely nostalgic right now. I know I am for the 90s. And I feel like part of the reason is because of just how much the world, you know, changed from the 90s to even through like the 2000s and 2010. Like we were the last generation to grow up without Internet. The Internet, yeah, basically. I mean, we grew up with it. Yeah, we were young when we first found us way into our house, you know, with AOL.

but yeah man everything changed after that but we grew up like alongside it and like saw the entire like evolution of it right like we were we aged along with it so like this kind of music just like just just go straight back to like childhood video games kind of sounded like the soundtracks like the donkey Kong the donkey Kong soundtrack kind of sounded like this uh you know Nintendo and Sega Genesis soundtrack kind of sounded, had these sort of like 32-64-bit sound. You know, that's why we like this stuff so much. And anyway, so I've literally been listening to this guy's music the entire year, because he's put out an album every month, and I've been listening.

And, dude, it's like over, you know, over 10 tracks a record. So, I mean, he's on track to put out, like, probably close to 150. tracks probably by the end of the year. Dang. So if you put all these on a playlist and shuffle, it's a good time to, for sure. Because it's all kind of varying degrees of this type of chill kind of vapor wave stuff. You know what I mean? So anyway, I just thought that was a cool project to highlight just because of how ambitious

it was and just how prolific the dude has been. So yeah, he's from Seattle, by the way, Q, so he's from the neck of the woods. Nice, nice, nice. All right. So surely we'll do another 180 Q. I feel like we've been pretty chill today. This is a very laid-back intro to our best of 2025. So who's going to mix it up first?

Not me, dude. And I'm only bringing this because of what you just brought to the table. All right. Because I was going to save this for another day. But so, Trev, I have you to think for getting me into this artist. You're welcome. A cautious system. No, I think you're the one who got me into this, dude.

What? And I've been trying to think of who this was. Yeah, dude, this is you. This is all you, dude. For real, no, dude. Yeah. No, because I was like, I was just like Jonesen for a particular type of electronic music. And you showed me Yiga, or is that how you say his name?

How dare you? Do you know what I'm talking about? Yippa? Not Yipa. Oh, yeah. Yagia. Yagia. And I said, give me more of that.

and I'm pretty sure you introduced me to Akasha System. Actually, I know what it is, dude. I think you were listening to this Silk to Dry the Tears compilation record. That's right. That I brought, yes, I brought a song from Octo Octa. Oh, right. See, we figured it out. GeoMind from 2020 was the first album of Akasha Systems that I...

First of all. Got into. Thank you for reminding me, dude, because I forgot... I was trying to think of the name of this artist. Yeah, because I was wanting to listen to. Well, so this is a, I don't know, down tempo dance electronic. I don't know.

I don't want to say IDM, but they're interested. Intelligent dance music. You don't have to be ashamed. And I think, Trave, you probably know what I'm talking about with this. Sometimes they kind of stray away from the vibes that you like, and then they just hit the club hard. And they drop singles for a while that are just nothing but like four on the floor bangers. and I've just been kind of waiting for him to get back into his lane.

And he finally did it, man, with this latest release. I mean, I got no, I got no beef against house music, though, I did. Me neither, but it's like, but it's like they get on this tangent where it's like, I'm doing this now. And it sounds nothing like what they've been doing. You mean like Tim and Paul's any record? I don't even, that's not, why? I don't even want to talk about it. Yeah.

Yeah, dude. Talk about $1.80. Yeah, but anyways, you're going to love this track. No doubt. And I think it's a good follow-up to Alex G. I don't have to hear it. I don't know. It's going to be a great follow-up because I know what kind of music this guy puts out. And this is the first track. Yeah, so Akasha system is really good at doing that build-up, you know, and adding those layers, which is we talk about that all the time with that. That's the kind of electronic music that we really appreciate them, you know, on the down tempo, like in that vein, where it's just, it's about layer building and just slowly, like, getting to a point and just taking you on a journey. So here we go. This is a cautious system. The song is called Supercell.

So, I'm going to be able to be. You know, You know, You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm not you know I'm

I'm I'm On I'm I'm I'm So, you know, I'm going to

Smoke. bread and my buttercue as I like to say sometimes yeah and you can tell he was still taking this summer or that yeah wasn't just going to cycle back to what yeah I mean that's about halfway through the song so yeah I mean it's a good follow-up from auto the last track we played and it's in the same vein for sure it's a bit hypnagogic for sure yeah hypnagogic dude I think yeah hypnagogic pop IDM vapor wave to a lesser extent show wave from the you know 2010s or whatever from the early yeah yeah it's all kind of the same eyebrow i feel like the first artist that i remember getting into

this that's that did this kind of thing was was calm trues probably oh yeah the first one that i really enjoyed and like and thought that it was like oh man this is like this is different you know yeah but like i'm about to i'm about to coin a genre right here on the filler would it make sense to call this stuff intelligent synth wave because I feel like it's the same

like vein as like synth wave with like the the synth sounds that they use like the you know the the type right and it's not a Kivinsky or whatever and it's not because you know the whole point of the

the term IDM or whatever is you know trying to say that it's it's dance music but it's not a club banger type as you always like to say for on the floor type situation right it's it's more it's a little bit more subdued and then synth wave has a very in like outrun and all that kind of stuff has a very specific like we think kivinsky right like yeah i think you said that earlier like this is not kivinsky but it's like the same it's like in the same building i feel like but just less i yeah i agree with that you know what i mean yeah i don't

think it's going to take off draft probably not but you got to shoot your shot you heard it here first you know yeah awesome all right well i'm going to wake us up to you awesome a little bit i'm going to pick up the pace at least so uh i think it's been a long time since this artist appeared on no filler but i know we brought at least one track from this guy at one point perfume genius I had him in my best of, like, my dump playlists of potential bestos. I haven't actually given it a listen yet. Dude, perfume genius had to have shown up on our music blog back in that. Yeah, I think he did.

I think, yeah, because the queen, I believe queen, which is his number one song, 2014. This must have been the tail end of New Dust, dude. Yeah, yeah. Because we were about, we were closing up shop. How long has he been around, though, since before then? Well, 2014, I mean, that's the first one I remember, but, um, yeah, I guess he goes back further than that. 2010 is his first full length of my son.

But I remember this record, this album are too bright. So anyway, he put out of record back in March called Glory. And this song is, is a standout to me from the, the record in terms of the way that it sounds. And I think it's just a fucking solid track. So here you go. There's the first track on the record, the first single as well. This song is called It's a Mirror. What do you get from a stretch in your eyes

and that you mean you spiraling with no one to hold? Coming the floor with the light from a cigarette song It was making you sick in my own It's warm Down Where do I get out of being in the staff? But still running high when the man's at the door? Polishing boots down the line in the basement when I should be riding outside of my home.

It's a mirror It's a mirror It's a mirror holding tear Taking focus off the rise It's a cord It's reaching for us One below is forever you go It's a siren, one foot crying, breaking into soft and still

Is the diamond, my whole life is hoping just outside the world To learn down can I can't Can I get off with a real history and let every echo just sing to itself Can I move on without knowing specific?

awesome man awesome maybe it's been so long since i've listened to a perfume genius track but that to me was something a little bit different than like he yes what he was at least what he was dropping no no no and that's what i yeah that's what i'm saying like this track sounds different than anything else on the record so really wow man yeah good really good and it had kind of a i have a 90s flare to it the song structure and stuff It reminded me of like bright eyes or like, I don't know. Yeah, but it, you know, Ben Queller or something.

Lots of, lots of textures and like, I like the little twang guitar in the background that would come in and out, the harmonizing. Dude, the twang and guitar is, is coming back. It is, dude, it is. With, like, I've mentioned him twice now, M.J. Linderman, you know, those kind of acts. Yeah. Folky, senior songwriters. Yeah, I mean, some of these songs on this record are just like these beautiful, like, ballads almost.

like he's got he's got quite the range too on its voice so anyway it's a mirror that was the the opening track to glory which came out in march by perfume genius and where do we go from here cue because i've i've got a guaranteed 180 i think yeah i think we're i think we're going there right now dude okay i think we're taking a 180 so this is an interesting group and i actually don't I gotta say I haven't really listened to a lot of their stuff But I just threw this song on here because I just loved it so much I haven't even listened to the whole album that that was dropped by this group But um and actually I'm gonna need some help pronouncing this one dude

So this is a group called pot pot pot pot pot now one of those o's has a little A little carrot on top One of those little guys huh Yeah Pot pot Wow interesting Yeah Yeah

Let me see if I can find How to pronounce Pot pot Pot pot that I like that I'm just throwing out guesses Because how many How many ways can you pronounce an O

You know Poe Right But it's got a Pote pot But it's got a little thingy It's got a little carrot on top I know

That's what I'm saying Maybe that's an O Pote pot Yeah We sound like a bunch of Dumb Dums here dude Well they're from Ireland Oh, I'm sorry.

They're based between Lisbon, Portugal, and Cork, Ireland. Five-piece psych drone rock band. You know what? It's just going to have to be how we say it. Pot, I'm just going to go with Pop Pot. That's just terrible brother. It's fine. Dude, you know what?

It's fine. I'm out with it, man. That's Poppot from now on. They dropped an album in September called Warsaw 480 kilometers. You heard that right? Yeah, man. let's just let the music play and speak for itself. It's just track two off the record.

This song is called 22 degree halo. Delirium stuck in my head Delirium, stuck in my head and shout about it. Delirium, Stuck in my head Dernelioro Stuck in my head

and a shower pain I am watching I am watching singing thinking things I should be I don't know I can't see me sweetly, sugar, sweet day Strait, dearly sweet day Dolea, stuck in my head

Doleaum Stuck in my head and a shout about it Stuck in my head and a shadow body. To be young. Stuck in my head Delebeio Stuck in my head and a shadow body I am watching, singing, taking since I should be.

I am walking, singing, sweet day, sweet day. Excellent, sweetly things I should be. Loved it. Yeah, I love a good, like, just like, a driving, just like melody and beat, right? That's the word, brother. I was going to say the same. Yeah. I like that. I like it when a band does that. And, like, what I liked about this, the way, they, they never changed it. It never went anywhere, which is, you know, could sometimes sound like an insult, but, like, I think that's what made it effective. Right. Yeah. And, you know, I did a lot of times. And it was that particular drumbeat. And I love. love it i i love me a good drumbeat where you're hitting the side the you're hitting the rim uh as you're instead of doing a hi-hat or ride symbol or whatever you're hitting the rim yeah it almost has like a it sounds to me like a ticking clock i don't know i've always loved that kind of drumbeat

yeah um yeah that was my the same reason why i i you know i love this song because it just sounds like a melody that could just that could just go on forever yeah yeah you know what i mean Yep. And I like melodies like that. And I feel I got to listen to the rest of the record, you know, because I'm curious what else these guys. Because, yeah, I mean. Well, let me read this little write-up on Bancamp.

So this is about this LP specifically. They infuse the propulsive grooves of Crout Rock, as in like, can think can from the 70s, with a phosphorescent psych rock radiance all underscored by harmonium drones. Hypnotic male-female vocal harmonies and deep layers of rough-hewn texture. I mean, that summed up that song, I think, pretty damn well, dude. Hypnotic Harmonium drones. Yeah, the male-female vocal harmonies always kind of, if they do it, right? If they're going for that, it can be really like, yeah, kind of jarring almost.

I always go back to this. This is going to be such a tangent, dude. but it reminded me of it there's this clay animation Mark Twain Clay animation Clay animation Mark Twain I don't know what it was

if it was just like ever ever saw the light of TV or if it was just like a straight-to-video something but there is this scene where they're talking to Satan and Satan's voice is a male and a female

at the same time She's ringing bells. Listen to this, dude. Welcome to the mysterious stranger. What? Hello. Who are you? See?

Wow. An angel. What's your name? Satan. We should put this in the... I love that, dude. Dude, yeah, we watched that. I've seen that.

that clip, dude. Back in my, I probably showed it to you that, dude, because back in, I don't know, 2007 when I lived in Austin with, you know, Larry and Chris in the gang. Sounds right. There was this really cool VHS only, like old school rental store. And we, yeah, we rented this, that Mark Twain, Claymation, and got high off of our fucking gourds. And yeah, dude, that just that scene always stuck with me because how creepy see. Yeah. That was a great. choice for Satan's voice. Excellent. Excellent,

dude. Anyways. And how the face was shifted and stuff, like take on, check on whatever form it wants to. That's fantastic, man. Anyways, this kind of stuff reminds me of that. Okay. The hypnotic male-female vocal harmonies.

Mm-hmm. Anyways. I love a good male-female vocal harmony. Samezies, dude. Yeah. All right. So where do we go from there, man? Here we go.

dude this is the 180 of the evening so i'd like to first apologize to any parents of young children because you have probably heard this song a lot this year but it is hard to talk about the music of 2025 and not talk about k-pop demon honors cue oh god now i'm telling you right now, brother. Well, first off. Is this going to me that soda pop song? No, no, no. We're not doing a son-upap.

No, no. That's about how far we got in the movie. Okay, so you've seen this then. Let me just give you a little backstory here, Q. Okay. So my wife and I, Kara, we've always been Pixar fans for a long, long time. And Pixar has been dropping the ball lately, dude. I agree.

They're, they're, they just haven't produced a hit in a while. Sony animation, however, has, is the studio to watch nowadays. And they're the ones who made K-pop Demon Hunters. They did that it was like a Netflix movie that, man, I'm trying to remember the name of it. It had a weird name. Something about the Mitchells versus the machines.

I was about to bring up, I was about to say, who made the Mitchell and Machines? That was Sony animation studios. I love that movie. Okay. So that's that's them. And then they also did... That's so funny that you...

I was just thinking about that movie. Yeah, they also did the Spider-Man, Miles Morales, the two Miles Morales films. Yeah. Into the Spider-verse, all that stuff. Anyway, so, you know, we like watching, you know, digital animated films. So, and this thing got so much buzzed. We finally watched it. And I was blown away, dude.

So it's a fantastic movie, really amazing visuals. And then the songs have just blown up and sort of taken on their own, you know, in the life of their own, basically. So this soundtrack, at least, holds the highest debut on the Billboard 200 chart for soundtracks released in 2025, debuting number eight, and is the first soundtrack of 2025 to reach the top 10. It is also the highest charting animated film soundtrack album on the chart, since Metro Boom and Spider-Man across the Spider-verse.

That's not what I wanted to read. Whatever. so I'm not the one to talk about K-pop this is my first if you want to call this my first introduction to K-pop that's probably accurate right so same there is so much more about the the musicians that make up this fictional band and sort of where they're drawing influence from and all that stuff we're not going to get into that but we are going to play a song here because I'll be the first to admit to you these songs are earworms and They're stuck in my head and what can I say?

I'm a fan. So here we go. Can you see the YouTube video? Yep. All right. We're going to watch this here. So if you want to, you know, if you want to pull it up and watch how long you can, but we're going to watch the video, which is actually just the scene from the movie, for the song,

How It's Done by the fictional group, Huntrix. Here we go. You came at a bad time, but you just crossed the line. If you want to get wild, okay, I'll show you wild. Better come right, better like trying, get into a level, because you might die, never the time, trying to start a battle. Bleeding isn't in my blood, pias hook with what I do, do, do, yeah. Party, I'm bloody, I'm naughty, naughty, but sorry,

and when you pull up, I pull up a little late to the party. La, la, la, la, la, I can know that I was bored for this. There ain't no point in the void in it. Unnery to be. Blue-pitcher, all becky, all right to becky. Logging you out like a lullaboy. Hear that sound ringing in your mind.

Better sit down for the show, because I'm going to show you how it's done, done, done. Hey! Hot tricks don't miss, how it's done, done, done. Hot tricks don't quit. How it's done, done, done. Run, run, we run the towel. Oh, wow, I was out.

Turn it up is going down. Hot tricks, show this how it's done, done, done. Yeah, something about when you come from the crowd that's so humbling, huh? Captain you wiggled, a bunch of good did you and Idria are poking here way. Nelt into us. Run up, you're done up, we come up from sun up to sun, so come out to play. Wanting away, we wanted a million, we killed it, but really you wanted okay. Heels, mills, blade.

Blade, mascara, fit check for my neck pump error. Need to beat my face to make it chew inside with mirror mirror on my phone. Who's the baddest? Ah, hello. Knocking you out like a lullaby. Hear that sound ringing in your mind. Better sit down for the show cause I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you.

How it's done, done, done. I don't talk but a bite, but a venom. Stin' facts, you know that's how it's done, done, done. Okay like I know I ramble, boys with my words like a ramble. To bless when it's just to look natural. It's how it's done, done, done. Hear our voice unwavering till the song to freeze some night. Making fear, afraid of breath, till the dark be so long.

How it done, done, done. One, one, we run the down. Oh, one, playing our song. Now, is Huntricks a real K-pop group? No, I mean, it's kind of. I guess now they kind of are. Yeah, so, I mean, they, you know, they have played, you know, they were on Jimmy Fallon and performed one of the songs from the record.

So, I mean, that's kind of what's impressive about it. It's like, you know, it's a fictional band Huntricks, but there are, you know, obviously real musicians, singers behind the group here. And they're able to perform these songs live, you know, and, you know, what's impressive about, I'm going to probably mispronouncing it, E.J. I think is the, E.J. is the notes that she's able to hit. She had a pretty high note in that song, but I think the one that she gets a lot of praise for is one of the notes that she hits in the song, Golden. But anyway, I, obviously, this is not a realm that I, that I dip my toe in. too very often but this particular song kind of reminds me of some of the stuff that you and i grew up listening to in like the t rl days you know what i mean like the kind of poppy yeah boy bands for sure like the soda pop song kind of it's a boy pop type yeah i'm a soda pop seja boys other shodja boys or whatever they're called but um you know this is kind of a it's a it's a well

what's interesting is that for this song like the rapping is pretty impressive actually yeah really cool um but anyway never thought i'd bring a song like this to no feeler but here i am q and again like this is it's it really is hard to to not talk about this movie when it comes to music in 2025 like this was a worldwide phenomenon you know i'm saying so anyway there you go hunt tricks how it's done and now it's time for another 180 i would assume although you brought that what was that Pink Panthers or whatever? Pink Panthers? I was going to play that same track just now.

There we go, bro. Because here's the thing. I fucking love this track, man. I can't get enough of it. And I try not to bring the same tracks, you know, for the 20-25 best of. But, you know, this is my last pick of the night. And I think it's a great follow-up to that track. And it's just such a freaking awesome song, dude.

so we're kind of you know and i just brought it like a few watcher herds ago so apologies to to anyone out there who uh you know who was hoping to get nothing but but 10 fresh tracks from us tonight but i mean dude i can't help it so this is yeah pink panther's her album fancy that was dropped in may and yeah man we're gonna play we're gonna play track two this song is called girl like me something about this fucking song dude. I'm pushing on me out of the choking move. Are ya, are you be all right?

I'll be all right. Why aren't you tired of the way? Let it all go. Let it all go. Let it all go. Let it all go. Let it all go. Let it all go.

I never liked up when you to me do me like it out. I never liked up when you do me let it all go I never liked up when you do me like let it all go I'm never light up when you let it all go I'm not a final way we're moving no hesitation when I remove this I'm going to grow up my home I have things to take from days I think of staying up with you and club is miss the bus home

think of me you can't pay for therapy Nothing left to plead You spent all your credit It's hard to Yeah, it all go, man. Just in terms of... Yeah, just a blast, man. So you said that she writes all of her stuff, right?

Yeah. And there's something... Because, yeah, you covered this... track not too long ago not that long ago i think it was the i think it was the october what you heard she she was like the billboard women and music like producer of the year by billboard women and music back in 24 so yeah that's that's yeah that's that's high praise did yeah yeah she went from like you know DIY bedroom kind of stuff she was doing with you know with uh with the with the the uh... the uh... programs and whatnot so she've been doing it for a long time and she blew up i think

on TikTok or something, and then the rest is history. That's cool. So, yeah, man, I can't get enough of that track. Love it. It's pretty catchy. Yeah, just dope. Thought that was a good follow-up to Huntrix for sure. Definitely.

And now we're going to, I say we, you know, ran out the night with the 180. I mean, yeah, it's hard not to. I thought, yeah. I mean, so I already teased it earlier, but I'm going to close us out with another track featuring Winter. This is actually a. a band. I brought a track earlier this year from this group. They're called Terra Plena. And they are a, and this is, you know, it makes sense that they worked with Winter.

They are a Brazilian shoegaze band, Q. So there. Here I go. And they put out a record this year called Natural. And it was produced and mixed by American musician Juju Ashworth. who was introduced to the band by fellow Brazilian-American artist Samira Winter. So there you go. So she introduced him to this producer who produced the record, and then she appeared on this track that we're going to play. And I think this is going to be a good track to close us out on here, Q.

So here we go. Again, this is Terra Plana featuring Winter. This song is called Hear a Whisper. Remember who's who I'm who are who I don't want to be able to Let's let's see, abacare everything that's

going to disover, will forgets ... ... ... Hear a whisper under your breath you won't forget

Echoes won't let go When you're all alone, old songs break you back home. And then you wonder... I think a lot The time from that she's

a girl I can celebrate number number of self see a flora

Yeah, man, great Yeah, man, great track. And yeah, once again, you know, like you were saying earlier, bilingual, she's going back and English, She's going back and forth from Portuguese to English, which is cool. Now, was she singing along with the group? Maybe the backing vocals is the singer of Terraplena. But, yeah, I think that might be, I mean, mainly her singing. Cool.

Yeah, I mean, loved it. That's, I mean, yeah, and there's been a lot of music coming out in that vein for, I feel like over the last five, six years, that kind of, I don't know, flavor of whatever you want to call that. You just put it under the indie rock umbrella and call it a day, you know. But yeah, I mean, they're classified as a Shugays group. I mean, I don't know, maybe a little bit here and there, but I don't know. I wouldn't really call them Shugays. Maybe some of the earlier stuff was, but I just feel like that term gets tossed around pretty liberally these days.

And it gets tossed around pretty liberally on this podcast. Definitely. We're guilty of it. But, I mean, you know, it's hard to not classify her vocals as dream pop vocals for sure. Yeah. So maybe that's why they get that label on them. But, yeah, I think the song that I brought from this group was the very next track on the record, Toto Dia, which if I remember quickly, it was a lot slowed down and quieter. So, but anyway, dude, it's just good indie rock, man.

I feel like we've said this quite a bit this year. It's a good time to be a fan of rock music again, I think. Amen, dude. You know, I think there's a lot of really interesting things happening in the indie rock world, whether it be the like the grunge revival, you know, that's happening like the post grunge, grunge, kind of interesting blend of, of, you know, narrowheads, the group that I always think about, but like bands like that under that umbrella, which I will be bringing a track from one of those groups for sure. I'll probably save there for my, for our last episode, because I try to do my top five,

at least, the very last episode. And that could be a, that could be an extended episode here if we get Mitchell to join us. Yes, dude. I was going to say, because like, we got to do. Yeah, and I think he deserves at least to. At least five. You know, he needs to bring at least five. That's what I'm saying.

So good luck, Mitchell. You have to pick five tracks from this year. It's hard enough picking, uh, nearing it down. Yeah, I know. I was going to say that's a tough one. But, um, yeah, hopefully he'll, he'll bring some country tracks, cute. Because that's, that's his bread. You know, this is B&B.

That's his B&B for sure. And, you know, a genre that I need to be educated on. I feel like, you know, you know, it's funny. dude I just there's this uh he's on TikTok possibly Instagram as well but I forgot the name of his like what he goes by but it's this guy that like mashes up songs in like interesting ways a little track of nothing but country musicians saying the word cold beer or ice cold beer but it was nothing but dude i got to find it maybe that's it'd be funny if they threw in the uh that bill burnham track about they did they did they did and that's what

makes it hilarious because that is a oh here it is dude a song about pandering here it is i'm gonna play it for you i'll put it in the show in the episode dude it's fucking hilarious uh because this is this is what i make do i make fun of this all the damn time yeah me too uh here go. Ice cold beer But that ice cold beer Ice cold beer Cold beer

Cold beer Coal beer With an ice cold beer Ice cold beer Cold beer Cold beer Cold beer Ice cold beer

Ice cold beer Cold beer Cold beer Cold beer Co beer, cold beer, ice cold beer, cold beer, ice cold beer, ice cold beer, hot beer, warm beer. That's hilarious, man. Jesus. Yeah, there I ruined it. Yeah, he's great, man. I mean, that's the funny thing is like, you didn't, you didn't ruin it. You just highlighted that, how blatant.

Not just cold beer, but ice cold beer. Yeah, sometimes it's cold. Sometimes it's ice cold. I think the last guys had warm beer. But yeah, I mean, defend it, Mitchell. No, I'm just going to. But that's the thing. This is. Yeah, of course.

But this is where I'm, where my idea of country music is in this box, dude. This is the box that I have country music in, this kind of stuff where it's just like, to me, just like the most obvious, like, pandering to a particular audience. who they just want to hear, they just want to hear songs by cold beer, dude. Yeah. And dirt roads and all that stuff. Like, that's, that's it. Throw those types of, you know, that imagery in a song,

and I'll show up with my freaking cuisies and shit and my tailgate, and I'll just, you know, I'll rock out. But, you know what, dude, they're not, they're not, this is going off in its hands for cue, but a sidetrack, as we used to say. I feel like if you, if you're showing up to a concert to hear this kind of music, you're not there for the music, dude. No, you're there for the cold beer.

And you're there for the vibes and the cold beer. You don't care that there might be two or three songs you're going to hear that night by the same artist that has the word cold beer and dirt road in it. But it doesn't matter, dude. They're not there for the music. Anyway. All right, man, that's it. First episode in the bag.

One episode down, we got three more. You know, I got to figure out a way to sneak in some metal because I got to represent metal at least once. And yeah, I mean, I got something for, for my, I got a few. tracks to represent metal for sure so stay tuned for that metal heads out there dude first of all we did this one year and in a way we can maybe kind of do it you remember that year we did like best musical moments or something we would close every episode would like and i think we had the post malone nirvana cover thing that he was doing yeah part of me just wants to play like

A clip from, have you seen the clips going around of Radiohead's first show? No, no, no. That they've done in like seven years or so. Let's do that, man. That's a good call. Yeah, they're touring right now. They're not coming to America from what I can tell. Yeah, that we could even do an oasis, you know, since they're touring again.

Yeah, let's do that. I'll pick one of the tracks that I've found some clips of them. But man, dude, you're going to talk about just like those guys, there, there's nobody else like him did in terms of like when those guys get on a stage together for sure man holy crap so yeah those tickets must have cost if a freaking kidney dude all right so yeah next week we'll come at you with our next uh batch of tracks uh as we say goodbye to 2025 what a year huh cue what a year at least we got good tunes you know exactly all right so we're going to fade out with Radiohead live?

I'm going to just pick a track from Radiohead set list from a couple weeks back. Cool. Yeah, because it's incredible. So the dude still got it, Q, of course. Of course he does. Of course he does.

Why wouldn't he? Of course, he's been putting out all sorts of music under, what do they call? The smile. Yeah. The smile. Yeah, I mean, he hasn't stopped. Neither of the other guys.

So, all right. We'll come about you guys next week with our next 10, like I said earlier. Reach out to us on Instagram if you'd like. Just search for No Feel the podcast. Follow us on the Pantheon Podcast Network, as always. And, well, yeah, thanks for listening. You all take care. my way

I never stop me just who lives me challenge now again this is one When I'm a long, you know, no.

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