No Filler Music Podcast - Best of 2025 - Part Three

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

Join us for part three of our best of 2025. This episode brings dream pop, alt metal, a little bit of jazz, some Americana, and a whole lot more in between. Tracklist Hotline TNT - Break Right Ganser - Left To Chance Ganser - Ten Miles Tall They Are Gutting A Body Of Water - sour diesel Bleary Eyed - Smile Tortoise - Organesson Night Tapes - baby girl (like n01 else) Deftones - ecdysis Frankie And The Witch Fingers - Fucksake Alison's Halo - Tangled Up Inside Madison Cunningham - Wake (feat. Fleet Foxes) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Weird Al Yankovic, and you're listening to The Pantheon Network. Welcome to No Filler, the music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms, the fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. my name is Quentin with me as always my brother Travis and this is part three of our best of favorite tracks of 2025 this is kind of weird dude because we recorded this out of order you know yeah have we actually recorded our last one with Mitchell what was that was that last week last week I think it was last week so we're like I'm like all over the place with my with my picks you know because yeah and I don't know about you man but

I can never like actually narrow down my favorite five of the year as we try to for our last episode of the year bring our favorite favorites. I can never do it, man. I mean, it's an impossible to ask you. I mean, seriously, I mean, just in general, if anybody ever asked me, hey, what's your favorite band? There's no way to answer that. There's no way. Same with favorite tracks of the year, man. There's too many good ones. I mean, I always have like a handful of bands that I can confidently say are some of my favorite bands of all time but it's impossible to pick a favorite that's like having to pick a favorite child although i you know i suspect most parents probably do have a favorite child right they would never tell the other they would never no no exactly so

exactly i don't want to say it out loud in case one of my other favorite bands here's me say it you know but yeah i've got i've got i've got five good tunes for for tonight as well dude i got yeah i'm i'm i'm bringing some jammy jams tonight dude it's gonna be it's gonna be great i'm excited this is technically our last episode that we're recording in 2026 if you think of that because we're I'm jumping ahead you know why I did because I you're gonna be proud of me I already have a working best of 2026 playlist that I've started already and I've got three songs on there dude wait huh well I know but here's here's why a lot of bands are starting to release singles for records that are coming out next year so I'm like let me put this on this and I'll because I'm

to come back and listen to the whole record once it comes up. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's true. I'm trying to get a head to queue. I don't want to be in the pickle. I've got my what you heard dump already for next year, you know, because we're not doing any other watcher hurts for the rest of the 2025.

So I've already started my, you know, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, what you heard dump. I've got a lot of hangovers, too, that just, I didn't play. Oh, dude. Yeah. So I do. I do. I have that all the time. Yeah.

And you know what? You know what's going to happen, Jeff? It's, we are recording this on December 13th. I guarantee you, there's going to be a handful of unbelievable tracks that drop before January 1st. It happens every year and we're going to have to, I'm just going to have to tag it on to my, you know, my, my, my, my what you heards for next year and be like, we missed, this is one we met, I missed out on for 2025. And we always say this too. Like, that's why it's impossible to do a best of for a year. Unless you're somebody a music critic and you get, you get paid to listen to nothing but music, it's impossible to listen to all of it.

I guarantee you there's a record out there that was my true favorite of 2025 that I just haven't heard yet. Do you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do. So anyway. But yeah. All right. So this is it.

I think you guys know the drill by now. And if you don't, you'll figure it out real soon. Q, they already. Oh, okay. You don't know how to tell them. You will figure it out. So, Trave, you're kicking us off tonight. What's you got?

All right. Well, I'm going to kick us off with a band that's no stranger to no filler. I think he may have made it onto our best of list, probably his last record in 2023. I'm talking about Hotline T&T. Oh, nice. Yeah, that album for sure made it. I think it was, you're right, 2023.

There's that yellow album cover. Yep, cartwheel. It's got like, it looks like a barbed wire kind of spiral looking thing. Yeah. So anyway, so he put out a record in June called Raspberry Moon. So these guys are like a Brooklyn-based indie rock bedroom. I mean, they're kind of, we talked about bands like this. A couple episodes back, M.J. Linderman is similar.

Well, it's a band that you were talking about. I don't remember if this was one of my picks or one of your picks, but there was a band that came up, Alex G., and that's what it was. So like that, in that same vein, right? Yeah. So the labels they put on this record, though, on band camp at least, rock grunge rock indie rock shoe gaze that so there you go and so we'll see which one of these this song sounds like so there you go again this song is called break right

Thank you. Break right You're done the idiot from inside Which time I hate that you call Gap size the only rise Moonlight the guitar hides If you could suffer my bad night the music time

in spite your lines in bare with your wife not quite really, really good. I love the piano. Yeah, that came out of nowhere. I love a good rock track with a piano, dude. I think that's why we like Spoon so much. Or at least that's why I fell in love with the early Spoon. stuff where they snuck in the piano there's just something girls can tell yeah girls can tell big

time i think that's when they first started doing it really yeah yeah and then you know into the next you know two or three releases after that but yeah yeah man it's just a solid record they've been i think everything hotline t&T has put out i've been interested in going back to a 19 in love it was i think the first one that i that i listened to that was back in 2021 so they've been pretty prolific i mean they've almost putting out a record every year just a solid record man Again, this album was called Raspberry Moon. That song was called Break Right. And what you got for your first track, Q?

You said you got bangers tonight. Let's hear him. You want to go straight into the bangers, huh? All right, let's do it. I mean, hey, you know, it's your call, dude. Oh, man. Yeah, now I'm just sitting here thinking, like, is this my five for the night? Or do I want to switch it up, man?

Only you can make that decision. All right, dude. Yeah, let's do the banger straight off the rip. this is an art punk band from chicago art punk whatever that means dude uh the group's called ganser shoe ganser what the heck is that is that supposed to be a shoegaze joke i don't know what i'm doing it was terrible do what i can do what i can't i don't think i can recover from that um i derailed you completely i don't think you can recover from that uh i'll see what i can do Let's just play it, dude.

I'm not even going to, you know, there's no point in trying to describe it. Let's just do it. Let's just listen to it. Animal Hospital is the album. So, yeah, dude, get ready for this. This shit's awesome. Here we go. This one's called Left to Chance.

You know, Oh. Oh. Oh. I don't know. that you know you can't meet. Set the beat that you walk when you move down the street. Who you mean?

Who you mean? Who you mean? Who you meet? Yeah. Love the chance, love the chance, love the chance interactions, love the chance, love the chance, interracians. Looking for nothing, forward or stopping, slow and no edit, got it to start.

Looking for nothing, forward, no stopping, slow it, no stop it, slow it, got it to start. These seven goals that you know you can't mean. sympathy that you walk when you move down the street who you need who you need who you meet yeah that's a chance that's a chance

Look at a chance You're a wretion Yeah, I think Yeah, I think art Yeah, I think art punk is a good way to describe it. see also they have the no wave label on them, which is interesting. No wave. There's a weird mix of like, like, I think it's funny no wave because there is a little bit

of new wave in it, I feel like, of like kind of an electronic, the spoken word monotone kind of thing. Yeah. Just basically like this is something that you'd walk into some weird like art exhibit and you do this. Art installation. Yeah. Yeah.

In the background on loop. of some like video installation or something that's art punk bro exactly but like you said this is different than the rest of it oh yeah yeah yeah what's the rest of it sound like is it more like is there any sort of like yeah you want to hear here's what i was thinking about bringing yeah let's listen to a smidge this one's called let's hear smidge this one's called 10 miles tall this is the first one i i saved to my best of Staguerre Stagging,

straight right, bending, ride, bending, auto, Starting Done Better down

Chasing Shadows Chasing shadows across the land Chasing shadows across the land Just a taste. So she's not a singer, is what we've gathered. I love it, man. Which is funny because I absolutely fell in love

of that group, dry clean, remember? Oh, dude, yeah. Oh, this is not that at all. Yeah, yeah, dry cleaning, sorry. Where it was literally just spoken word. Yeah. But Gorillitas is the group I was thinking of. And Spotify's search algorithm can take a walk, dude.

Because I typed in Dreams of Little Green Men. The song is called Debbie Dreams of Green Men. And that didn't fucking show up for that search. But anyway. But no, Gorillotoss is way more chaotic and like really art rock type stuff. But similar kind of vibes. Yeah, I remember. Yeah.

Anyway, yeah, it's cool. I like that the last track you played almost sounded like they had Bob Dylan come on the right on the track. What? I don't know, that one sung part by the guy. I almost sounded a little Bob Dylanish, but I'll be the only one he thinks that probably. That's different than most of the stuff that we've brought this year. Indeed. All right, man, back to you. So I am going to play a group. I don't know if they've ever shown up on no filler, but I've, I feel like they've jumped into my radar a few times because the name of this group always stands out. They are gutting a body of water. Yeah, dude, this was getting some hype. And people were really anticipating this one on the Shugay subreddit.

Yeah, well, it's really good, man. Yeah. It's different. Yeah, yeah, really different. So here we go. This is the second track off the record. The record is called Lato came out in October. A lot of October releases, too, dude.

You got to wait until the end of the year to hear the good stuff. Seems like, indeed. All right, here we go. This is the second track. The song is called Sour Diesel. Please Oh, and the sun and it goes Please I'll just poke at the moon till it's worse First person let me love you like I don't I sit tight kid because you never know alone

First person let me love you like I don't I sit tight because you never know alone Turned Turned for whenever that is But to me It's For whenever

that needs But to me The street Has been frozen only for my score See for the I can't I can't

I can't I know a man I can't see what I can a man

I can't uh... Love it's different. We've been saying we've been saying this all year, dude. This is what I like about rock bands, right now, the indie rock bands. It's such a hodgepodge, man. Yes, I was just thinking that. You know what I mean?

of like of rock from the last two decades three decades really has it always been like that dude i don't feel like it has i feel like something it's i don't think so either most like decades have a distinct new sounds that comes around and i don't know you know it's not a bad thing i think it's really cool what's happening we could write out a fucking dissertation uh on on on why that might be dude but i there's there's a lot of interesting takes on on why that is dude but but yeah but it makes sense man it really does why because like you just said every decade seems like it had it had its thing like a signature like fashion right at the sound of the music that you associate now we're just tossing salads dude now it's all hodgepodge man yeah and that

makes sense when you think about culture right now you know and like the internet yes yeah exactly of of being able to just jump from one song to the next streaming indefinitely you're yeah you're going to get exposed to so many different genres exactly they are gutting a body of water and the song was called sour diesel i'm going to throw it back to you cue all right man well speaking of the shugay subreddit we're no strangers to it and speaking of hodgepodge dude let's let's get your take on this one uh so this group is called bleary-eyed really fun stuff dude really interesting um this album dropped in july It's called Easy.

We're going to play track 40. The song is called Smile. Life has been I see what I love to know I do I didn't know any picture and see you're in the world

I see you're in the sky so there's a lot of the world I see is more than the one I'm looking like a night of time Let's see a little smile It's just a visit on the chestnut I can't see a storm in a while I'm looking at a night time

It's a town It's a time It's a star, shout, no, and it's cool. I mean, that was truly shoo-gays in the sense I couldn't hear his voice by the sound, yeah, really buried in the mix there. Yeah, dude. Consider my ear, my eyes bleared. consider my shoes gazed

yeah it was good so they're interesting they're from Philadelphia as well so getting a body of honor is also a Philly shoe gaze group what are they what are they put in that's all those cheese steaks

they're eating huh I love what it says here dude that little description it says fuzzy computer gazee whatever songs and then it just says self-love self-acceptance maybe they don't even know

how to describe it huh yeah well I got another shoegaze song keep but I'm going to save it. Yeah, let's mix it up. I want to give us our first 180. Good, good, good. Because that's what I'm good for.

You can count on me to do that at least once. So this group, man, I know they've shown up on this, on this show before. Let me check the feed to confirm. Yes, they have. So they were on, let's see, they were on the knob fiddling edition of what you heard back in 2023, is what I called it. March of 2023. So this group is called tortoise. and they are a iconic band

they've been around forever since the 90s and yeah you probably recognize the album art because they're just so and they're just so interesting The Catastrophist was the name of the album The song that I brought Cinnica as the song that showed up at least back in March

Oh okay It might have shown up on an episode that got dropped because that's the one time they're showing up on Okay Because I remember Yeah, Seneca was on standards And I think I brought that one But I'm pretty sure, at least I've listened to TNT, which is their 98 record.

Yeah. But anyway, they put on a new record called Touch, and it's really interesting, man. It's kind of jazzy. Yeah, that's what I remember about them, even their old stuff. Yeah, it's kind of like instrumental, kind of experimental, so really different than all the stuff we brought so far for our best of. So here we go. I'm going to play. Again, this record is called Touch.

Came out in October. when I tell you Kulana October releases. This song is called Organescent. We're going to be able to be. You're going to be able to be. We're going to be able to be. We're going to be able to be. You know,

I'm trying to We're going to be able to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to We're going to be able to be. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. We're going to be able to be. We're going to be able to be. I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be able to be. I loved every second of it, man, we needed some, some instrumental, some jazz, sound We need to sneak it in for, yeah, for the best of.

Yeah. I mean, I feel like this is just a rabbit hole that I need to fall into. This style of whatever you want to call it, man, this reminds me of another group that, what, Jaga Jazzist? Yeah, well, yeah, okay, I was going to bring that up. Yes, like the composition. And, yeah, a little bit on the style of jazz. Definitely reminding me of Jagged Jazzist. It's like the drum and bass type drum beats, right?

snarky puppy mm yep there's there's a little bit of like math rock in there kind of the dmb drum bass the electronic yeah synth type stuff and then like for this song at least that guitar tone was just such a clean classic sounding guitar like jazz guitar tone and everything just meshed together so perfectly man it's just a fucking thing of beauty i mean apparently you know these guys are are just legendary. So there's their Spotify bio says Tortus is widely considered one of the most influential music groups

of the last 40 years with a wide reaching impact on the contemporary music scene. Pitchfork says, imagine a graphic showing all the bands the five members of Tortoise were in before they came together and then all the bands they went on to play with after.

And then they kind of listed all of them. Tortoise would be like the choke point of all of these groups. The one project that has elements of all these sounds but is never defined by nor committed to any of them so they just like members from this group have been in like psych rock bands post-punk bands you know jazz electro jazz bands and that's why they sound like they sound like you know because these guys have gone out and done so many different things across a bunch of different groups with all a bunch of different types of sounds and then they come together and make this like really

interesting hodgepodge mix, you know, of all of those things. Awesome. So anyway, there you go. There's our 180 for the day, which means we might get another 180 from you, Q. What do you got? Well, let's see, dude. Let's see. Yeah, so have you heard of a band called Night Tapes? Boy, I think I have. Yeah, hold on. Let's bring it at night tapes. I think this is actually a good follow-up, dude. Okay. Because I'm getting like some Portishead vibes. Okay. From this, at least from this from night tapes from night tapes sign me up for that this is all this is the only it's all I know from them okay I haven't really dove into any of their other stuff but let me just read this real quick this this sums it up really well blending atmospheric nighttime soundscapes

Travis that's up your only okay I love nighttime soundscape astral synth work multi-fidelity recordings and dreamy guitars night tapes is a southeast London project making an envelope pushing Escapist Dream Pop. You don't like this, dude. I'd love my Avalub's Push, you know. Yeah, dude. So this came out in September.

It's called Portals slash Polarities. It's a double slash, you know, like in a HTTP, you know, like in a URL. I know about those. You know what I'm saying? So I don't know if that makes a difference.

So this song is called baby girl, parentheses, like no one else. I'm in the undercurrents beneath the cities are who used to be past a scenery Under the water we swim Her silence speaks in the strangest way you are just

Manish in her eyes I'm a baby girl like new one is You're not gonna pay with newness Don't you want to change the way Step into my world I'm a baby girl I know this Stranger in the world

No one Don't you want to change the island Change my own Change my Envered in the quiet. Enveloped in the quiet. For the cause At your words

How else Could we stay strong I'm a baby girl Like nobles You're not going to play with nobles Don't you want to change the Stick a fork in me, dude.

You like that? Done, done, bro. Done. Definitely more massive attack. Okay. Than Portish Head. But yeah. Love it, man.

Or like 0-7, you know, whatever, that one song that was on. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What was the name of that? Garden State. Guard State. Not any means of the state. Garden State.

Garden State. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. No. Good. Good.

Good. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing wrong with that. Everything right about it. I love it, dude. Well, you'll like the rest of the album, actually. Of course I will. If it's all that, if that's what it is. It's what it is. Yep. Yeah, dude. Definitely massive attack inspired. For sure. I did it. You know what? We're rapid firing tonight, bro. What'd you got? All right. Well, I mean, this was of course was going to show up on my best stuff. If you listen to the show, I brought one of the singles off this record earlier, probably right when it came out, deaf tones put out on a new record this year. Come on, of course.

We're going to play a track from this record. It was a really good record. Solid, solid entry from a legendary band, a band that is inspiring a lot of those, the grunge revivalist groups, hands down. So there you go. I'm going to play track three on the record. This is going to be another proper 180 from that last. track for Shal. Here we go. This, uh, I don't know how to pronounce it. I don't even know if it's

an actual word. This song is called E.C. Dicis. Something like that. E.C. and D. Yeah, ectyces. Yeah. It makes me think of Ectoplasm. Your guess is because of mine. All right, here we go. Track three. I don't know how to pronounce it. Can we sit here silent? Just hoping to survive. Cut through acreage divide And it's finally Entirely again Lost in hold of our blood

Shake sun falls away Descending through our blood Inside these waves Rivers rising So old streams dividing What can you cut its way through the valleys While devouring it entirely again This is because I may

Face on time To end I said deep to run it Inside these are winds The flames are alive The claim that are right These things are divine The claim their environment

I'm Oh Oh my love Rusted from love my blood Great, dude.

Didn't we do a whole album, a whole episode on them? And all, we did. Okay, and now, so I'm not, I haven't really gotten into them. Okay, still haven't done it. This is different, right? Then they're all stuff. Wasn't he like super, wasn't his vocals a lot different? Yeah, he was a, he's a screamer.

But I mean like, but no, hang on. You know, you got to think, they go back to the 90s, man. Okay. They were like one of the, he's one of the best vocalists of rock music history period. Didn't he do almost like a whispery, weird kind of thing? Yes, he did. And that's kind of what he's known for. There's not really too much of that on this record.

All right. I guess that's fair. But, um, but yeah, he's known for his vocals and how he kind of, It has that sort of like, yeah, soft to very loud, screaming, vocal range. There's definitely some screaming on this record. There's a little bit of it on this track. But that was great. I mean, their sound has evolved a lot over the decades.

Around the Fur, I think it's the episode that we covered. The album that was 1997. Yeah, the album that we covered. I don't know why, but like the word episode and album is almost interchangeable to me because we devote our episodes to albums. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway. But yeah, I think that was the first episode this year, or was it 2024?

You might be right. I think you might be right, dude. I think around the fur was this year. Let's see. Nope, that was last year. Fuck, dude. They all just landed in. This year flew by.

I really did. It's insane, man. Yeah. Shit. So anyway. All right, so there you go. That was death. Deftones, if you're a fan, you've listened to this record, so I'm not bringing anything new to your ears.

But hopefully I introduced some of you out there to something you hadn't heard this year by a legendary rock band. So again, that was Deftones, private music. That song was called Esidicis, if I'm going to try to attempt to pronounce it. All right. So, Q, you got two more. I got one more. What do you got for us? This is tough, dude.

Pressure's on. This is fucking tough. Pressure's on. What do I want to do, man? Because like we said, at the beginning of this episode, this is really our last recording of the year. Right. Okay, we switched him up. We recorded episode four, or part four last week.

So this is it, man. I got two more tracks to bring for the rest of the year. You know, a cue. We got a whole other year. 26 right around the corner for you to bring tunes. That's true. That's true. That's true.

That's true. All right, dude. Just, you know what? Just because this is just a blasty blast of a song. I'm going to bring it. I think I've probably brought a track from this group before. Frankie and the Witch Fingers? Nope.

Oh, maybe. I have. I have. Remember when I was, I think it was going to be first. Okay. So this is a start, a psychedelic band? I mean, not so much anymore, dude. I don't know what happened.

But this album, now I haven't. Okay. So the album of theirs that I'm familiar with is almost 10 years old. Okay. Heavy Roller came out in 2016. This album art is amazing, dude. The album art, the one that's killer. For the new album?

Just for all of it. Their entire just guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, dude, very psychedelic. But now, this latest album, I don't know when it changed because I haven't really been keeping up with them. But it's almost like, it's giving me like some hives, vibes.

Just like in your face. Okay. You just got punched in the face. Yeah. So I don't know if maybe they just, you know, got some new members. in the band and they just kind of switched it up but you know i'm liking where it's going because it's just it's just that fun like hives style punk rock whatever i don't know what's called you let's just do it uh this one's called trash classic that's the name of the album dropped in june

and it's called fuck sake I've seen the way to get out, your rabbit don't smell for me. It's time to dig their way out, out of the turf, bed. What do you think, what do you get for, folks say? You've never seen your sing-out, your appetite may sicker. So freely don't mean you are bodies that transmit What do you think? Where do you get the fuck?

Yeah Never falling in a row coming. Desperated by a new job shop band. We're on the say of the level we're learning it's hard ways Out for Fox's sake Out for what's say cool Until you Shut down

Inside the haines of a cloud There is a grave-priced bubbling We're breathing in and never out Until we don't speak What do you think? What do you get? Definitely What do you think

What do you get for fuck to say Definitely hives inspired for sure, or that, it looks that energy, the garage rock energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even the OCs a little bit. The OCs have some tracks like this. Well, same with the album art, dude. Yeah. I mean, the OCs are all over the map, obviously, and we did an episode on them, me and Mitchie.

a few months back that's kind of showcased obviously they they don't they can't put them in a box you know they have a lot of different sounds uh genres that they cover but it sounds like maybe these guys do too so like this just seems like the psychedelic psychedelic umbrella of just like noise you know what I mean just like noise rock yeah yeah dude uh experimental just a blast man the whole albums like that kitchen sink you know yeah awesome well that yeah I mean there's a whole record like that? Yeah. Yeah, dude. Okay. Yeah. So that's what they did. They said, let's just put out a fucking fast, you know, kind of punkish. And that's the thing, dude, like I said, haven't kept up with them. They could have been, maybe they've been doing this for years. Right. Yeah. That's great.

Anyways, yeah, fun stuff. Definitely reminded of OCs and the hives. Yep, groups like that. Yeah, dude. All right, man. Last pick of the year, what you got? You know, it's funny. I keep saying that. it's not yeah there's a whole other episode people yeah but there's a whole other episode there's a whole other episode kind of like we say we record these out of order so we're we're kind of there is one more episode we swear coming right after this one man it's a doozy it's 15 tracks because we got mitchell and you know what hey it's gonna be a two-parter friends because we've recorded it was like two hours long we're gonna split it into two so you got potentially two more oh it's happening dude i'm not i'm not dropping a two hour

doing it too. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right. All right, man. So this is a group. I'm sure they showed up. In fact, I know they did. Because I recognized a song on their new record, and I was like, I know I've heard the song. And that's because it was kind of a remake of one of their songs. They re-recorded one of their older songs. Interesting. So this was on, yeah, one of our Watcher Hertz, Q. You might have brought this group. Allison's Halo They're a sort of iconic

I don't want to say iconic I use that word too much They are a A More obscure but very beloved Shugay's group And they were And they dropped a new album

They did and it's great It's a little EP It's called Skywide Dude I brought a song Of theirs from like 1998 Yes you brought a song called Dozen Have they not done anything since then

Very very little has come up from them if anything it might have been that this record it was their only record so they put out a new EP and they re-recorded dozen uh and it's called 96 i'm not going to play that track does it's called dozen 96 so anyway this is a man she's got such a beautiful voice you could say it's angelic you know halo right you could say that i did and um so yeah i'm I'm just going to let the song speak for itself. So this song is going to be a change of pace, especially from which fingers. So here we go.

All right, this song is called Tangled Up Inside. You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to I don't know. I'm going to be able to be. I don't know. I'm going to be.

I'm not. Outline skin Sketches and charcoal Capture every curve A nude on the paper Light scatters in scatters in

You're sailing with sleeping A shimmer on my lips I kiss me for leaving I thought you were a make believe You can never have seen that I'm umbling mind On way

I've never slept that night Feeling it's just breathing Listen to me. Fucking great, man, I've got to talk about this, because this has happened a lot recently. You know, a band goes, what, what is it now, 30 years or something? Just about, yeah.

In between, and then they come back and it's like nothing happened. It's like, you know, I'm remembering of the softies I brought and now my theirs at our bust of last year where I think they did the same thing was like a 30 year hiatus and it's like they just come back and it's like they just pick up where they left off

it's awesome too I mean there seems to be a new audience plus the old audience that wants to hear the new stuff from the old from the band like there's an audience for shoegaze right now for sure obviously clearly

but I'm just saying like I've, from what I understand, like, slow dive and my bloody Valentine is getting a lot of attention from Gen Z right now. Because of, duh, I mean, yeah, of course you're going to love it. So I'm just happy that I think that, I think potentially that's why bands like Drop 19s are putting on new records. Obviously, Slow Dive can put out a record whenever they want. You know, they put out a new one last year. They're, you know, My Belly to Valentine, who knows, they might put out something new. they're touring right now or at least they're they're doing their shows i've seen some really

cool clips dude shoe gates bands from the 90s are putting out records left and right dude so and that's that's great man and are they keeping in touch you know like are they are they still making music without recording you know it just i'm curious about this kind of stuff what do you mean okay so alison's halo yeah the group the group behind it is it the same members and if so did they go 30 years without? Like, did they remain close? Were they still like just having fun making, have they been making music this whole time and just decided to actually release some music again, record?

You know, you know what I'm saying? Because you can, if you're close with people and you make music with them, you can be jamming together all the time. It doesn't mean you're going to be releasing stuff, you know, you're going to be doing your jam sessions. Yeah. And keeping that up if you remain close. I'm just curious about it because they just, you know, it's like nothing changed. It's like they picked up right where they left off.

Well, all right. So I'm learning something here. I should have done some research. That's, dude, you know what? That should be our tagline. No filler. We should have done some research. Well, so these aren't brand new tracks, but they are newly recordings of tracks that they unearthed.

from an old rehearsal session from 96 now okay so it's not that they're but it's still the group it's not like these are these are recordings from 96 right right right i got you except for a dozen i actually said that dozen was re-recorded the reason it's called dozen 96 is that is the actual version from 96 anyway but i'm just this is them basically what they're phrasing is like yeah we found these old tapes and we wanted to breathe new life into them so we're re-recording them and releasing it as an EP. So it's not like it's new tracks. But, I mean, to me, a lot of times when bands do this, that means they're like, all right,

let's put this out there and then let's make some new tracks. You know what I mean? Right. Let's get our, you know, let's get, let's get, you know, get the, get the wheel spinning again, like start to make, just make sounds together as a group again, you know, even if it's like playing tracks that are 30 years old. But anyway, this is a group from Arizona, which is

interesting. You don't hear too much of an Arizona shoegaze scene. So but yeah, they had a little, you know, they played a few shows back in November, so I missed an opportunity to see them back in November, so I just missed him, man.

So anyway, but yeah. So again, that was Allison's Halo. That was a song called Tangled Up Inside off of their EP skywide and all right Q what do you got for your very last track

of this episode at least last track of the year for you but not for our listeners for no feeling whatever all right dude I'm gonna bring I'm gonna bring our first like just fulky singer songwriter stuff

I don't think we've had it yet for our best ofs good good just some good old I don't know what to call it Americana Mitchell I'm sorry I think last time I said I called some in Americana

and you were like No, dude, no. Mitch. Apologies if this isn't true Americana. But I feel like it is. And you know what? What the fuck am I talking about? Do let's do it.

Let's just play it. So this guy's been around for a while. He's been dropping an album since the 90s. His name's Pete Droge. I heard of him. He's from Seattle. You have? Yeah, I've heard of him.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. So he dropped an album this year called Fade Away Blue. Really, really pretty album. I believe most of it is about his family, and I want to say he was an orphan. Man, I got to get this right, dude. Because I heard he was interviewed on NPR. It's about relationships with himself, with the parents who raised him, with the mother who didn't,

because she passed away, like, right before he, like, when he was really young. So, yeah, anyways, a really vulnerable album, really pretty stuff. He wrote this song, actually track one. It's called You Called Me Kid. I believe it's about his dad before his dad passed away. So, yeah, dude, this will be a good one to wrap it up. So here we go. Pete Droge, you called me kid.

Two, three, four. My world was inside out, no idea what I was about. But then you saw me just as I was, a child in a daydream, trying to catch your slips. dream. You called me kid, and I can't thank you enough for what you did. You called my kid, never in this life could anybody find a more generous, so precious gift to give. I got this picture of us on the beach holding my hand and up our reach

we're running fast away from a wave and maybe trying to chase We got smiles on our faces You called me kid And I can't fake you enough for what you did You called me kid Never in this life Could anybody find a more gender is so precious gift to give It's good to be.

Great, great song to close us out with Q. Dude, did you realize that he's the guy that's saying, If you don't love me, I'll kill myself from the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack? What? What? Because I knew I recognized that name. That's awesome, dude. Yeah.

that's up I fucking love that song dude that's off of his 94 record necktie second holy shit awesome man so we've been listening to this guy since we were a kid I love that song dude

and it's a weird it's a weird lyrics but I love that song yeah yeah the guy needs to to pump the brakes a little bit it's a little nice guy you know yeah great song

Americana for days for days, dude. Yeah, let's wrap this up with some flea foxes. You know, we just brought that episode back in November. Yeah, good call. I mean, shit, we had two Fleet Foxes episodes in November. Tactically, yeah. Rewind.

Yeah. Yeah, I figured we could close this out with a Madison Cunningham song that features Fleet Foxes in it. Just a great track. Another, another great song for 2025. and that's it dude we're done you know behind this behind the curtain we're not we're done but we still got two episodes left that are going to drop before the year if you consider it because it's it's going to be a two-parter oh i know but they're already listening to this one cue so this

one's already dropped they're listening to it there's two more to come out is what i'm trying to say oh yeah that's right because yeah this is part three yeah uh so yeah just to confuse you even more folks out there listening right But, yeah, I think next year probably be more of the same in terms of our cadets, right? You know, probably two episodes a month. Maybe not, though, dude, you know? Remember I just told you something that might be... That's true.

Might be coming down the pike for me, dude. That's true. You might have some more free time on your hands. Yeah. Okay. We'll see. We'll see. All right, well, that'll do it for part three of our best of 2025.

stay tuned for part four which will be in two parts so you got two more episodes coming yeah and I'm just going to drop them like I don't know maybe a couple days apart maybe just back to back you know that's a good call that's true you know no need to that's true so yeah be on the look out for that and then we'll come at you in the new year all right well check us out on if you want to reach out to us that's the best place to do it we've got 15 more tracks to wrap out and we'll have Mitchie on to close out the year with us. All right. Well, thanks, as always, for listening.

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