No Filler Music Podcast - EP 26 - No Filler Favorites From 2018

Episode Date: December 30, 2018

From doom metal to Thai-inspired funk, we each bring 5 of our favorite albums from 2018 to the table and play a song from each. Tracklist: 1. Graham Coxon - Lucifers Behind Me 2. Khruangbin - Evan Finds the Third Room 3. YOB - Ablaze 4. Hayley Heynderickx - The Bug Collector 5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Hanoi 6 6. Echlo - Got Me Drinking 7. Mr. Twin Sister - Echo Arms 8. Courtney Barnett - Hopefulessness 9. Yimino - Cartoon 10. Wand - The Gift For more info, check out our show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/favorite-albums-of-2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is Christmas. Yeah, you're right, dude. I didn't even realize that. Merry fucking Christmas, brother. Oh, thank you. Thank you. You as well. So this episode's going to be a little bit different.

I guess for those of you who don't know, usually on this podcast, we pick one album for an episode and then we dive in to the tracks. pick songs that weren't singles and share them with you and kind of talk about why we love it so much. To round out the year, we decided for our last episode of 2018, what we do is kind of go through and pick some of our favorite albums of the year, maybe some artists that surprised us and share some of our favorite tunes from that record. So it's going to be a music-heavy episode. I'm excited about it, dude. And yeah, and then we'll get back into Radiohead at the start of 2019. So let's just get right into it, man.

A lot of the artists that I chose, a few of them are actually artists that I covered as What You Heard's from previous episodes. So I'll kind of reference the episode that that was on if you want to go back and listen to another track from that. You can dive back and listen to some of our older episodes. Let's start with you, Traff. Oh, actually, you know what, dude? My bad.

Let me mention the artist that our intro clip was from. That's a band based out of Houston named Kronbin. Did you ever get into them, dude? Never even heard of them until you mentioned them yesterday or the day before, I think. well I won't go into it too much because they're actually one of my picks for you know one of my favorite albums that came out this year but they just released a a little single um it was limited release press on like green vinyl uh they did their own version of vinscarraldi's uh Christmas time is here now is it a Christmas album or did

they do only stuff from that no no it was just it was just those two songs okay So side A, it's two different versions. They released two different versions of the same song, basically. The B side is called version Mary. Version Mary. Version Mary. That's clever. Clever.

Clever. Anyways, dude. Let's start with you. Okay, so not all of my picks are going to be previous what you heard. but this one, this one is. So, episode five, going way back. I talked about this show, this Netflix show that I was watching at the time called The End of the Fucking World. And this sound, this...

What was episode five? Why don't you share with our listeners what artists we covered on that episode, brother? So episode five was our Totska episode. That was my, that was my, what you heard for that week. and what I like about this show, and I think I mentioned this, but this was such a long time ago that I might as well kind of remind you if you haven't seen this show. Have you seen this show?

I still haven't seen it. Still haven't seen it. Yeah, definitely worth a watch, man. It's great. It's a UK show and it takes a lot of influence from American cinema, Hollywood. So what's great, and so with that comes, you know, blues and, you know, do-wop and, like, that 60s-era American rock and blues kind of soul influence. That kind of music runs throughout the entire show. And Graham Coxon, who did the soundtrack, as in Graham Coxon of Blur fame, right?

everybody remembers Blur from the 90s, right? So this guy was the guitar player for Blurr. So anyway, he sort of, basically what he said is he heard a couple of tracks that were going to be featured on the show and saw a couple of scenes and then just started writing music for it. And the result is this like just really, I mean, it's standalone great album, you know, it's not, it's songs with, with, you know, words, you know, lyrics.

It's not a score per se. I mean, there are a couple of instrumental tracks, but you could go and purchase this album and just play it without ever having watched the show. And it's a great, great album, just, you know, on its own. So anyway, the track I played on episode five was called In My Room. And it has a very, very different,

than the song that I'm going to play today. And let me just, I thought of this the other day, and I think it works well, as a way to describe this album. I feel like it almost, it sounds like a mashup between a Wes Anderson soundtrack and a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack. All right, so this song is called Lucifer's,

behind me. Love that kind of music, man. Yeah, I did. So much. It's like that Spanish influence, surf rock kind of stuff. Right, exactly. But again, if you know. So who's singing in that?

That's Graham Coxon. Really? Yeah. Man, you're right. It sounded nothing like the other one you played for us. Right. From the soundtrack. That was great.

Yeah, it's awesome, man. But yeah, there's, there's, you know, tracks like that, sprinkled throughout there's tracks like hit on but i mean for most part there it's it is a consistent like uh that 60s kind of you know it's got 60s that that's just what you think when you put this this album on and it's perfect for the show and again man you got to watch the show it's it's it's fucking great man it's it's i'll give it a world yeah it's it's uh it's a dark comedy dude maybe we should uh just without any reference just continue to throw in home alone uh home alone quotes like I just did just throughout this whole episode.

Okay. Dude, that went right over my head. But now I see what you did there. All right, well, this is perfect, dude. This is a good transition into the artist I'm going to cover next. Again, Kronbin. Her little taste of their cover of Christmas time is here. Again, they're a trio based out of Houston.

Man, they're just so fucking cool, dude. If you ever get a chance to see them live, they just own it. And so they pull influence from 1960s Thai funk, specifically like Thai music. Interesting. And they just have, so yeah, that's specifically on their first album, which I don't know how long ago it came. They only have two albums out. I won't go into details there. they have a really cool mix of like soul like some surf rock psychedelic and funk their album that came out in

January of this year called contodo el mundo they are they kind of pull influences from india it's more of like a middle eastern flare um you know funky and soul stuff it's so good dude a lot of most of it's instrumental um there's a few tracks on there where they do more of like a spoken word thing. There's really not too much actual singing on the album. But one of my favorite songs on the record is track seven. And I'm just going to play the whole song, dude. It's four minutes. It's kind of lengthy, but you just got to listen to the whole thing to really enjoy it. So this song is called Evan Fines the Third Room. Funky, but really like original too. Like if I'm

I mean, if that's kind of the norm of like Thai funk music, I mean, that's awesome. Yeah. I know. It made me think. So specifically it says, like if you read about it about their influences, they pulled from Thai funk cassettes is what it says and a lot of articles on them. So, you know, I don't know who, you know, who joined the band first, you know, how long they've been, they've known each other. you know or who decided to to go that route but yeah they just they just stumbled upon some cassettes

in Thailand maybe and you know fell in love with the style and then just kind of went with it the rest of the album you like the his guitar playing shines through even more like throughout the rest the rest of the rest of the album this one is definitely more of just a a groove song you know it's kind of repetitive um but like he's basically just shredding licks throughout the whole record. His riffs are really awesome. Yeah, I like the spoken word stuff toward the end there. Yeah, man, really good stuff.

You'd like pretty much anything from these guys. All right, what do you got for us, brother? So I tried to pick, you know, a little bit of, it was hard to narrow this down to five. Also, I realized that I really didn't listen to, I didn't, I didn't listened to very many new songs in 2018. I listened to a lot of... Yeah, so, you know, that's what I was worried about when I was, you know, thinking the songs for the...

Yeah. For this episode. But yeah, I found enough. I didn't realize, you know, like, I would just go to an artist that I really like and check and see if they had any, like, singles or anything that came out this year. Yeah. Right. Kind of went that route for some of it.

Right. But, so, anyway, that's neither here nor there. Okay, so it wouldn't be a recap for me, a 2018 in review list if I didn't have some metal on here, right? Dude, I was so hoping to hear some metal today. Well, you're going to hear some. Seriously. You're going to hear some doom metal. So this group, I admit I don't know too much about them other than I know that they are sort of this legendary.

cult following uh... uh... dune metal band uh... they go back to ninety six so they've been doing this for a very long time uh... and they they had a ten year run and then they took a break

not sure what the break was for but two years later they they reformed and they've been sort of releasing material on and off since then so this album actually uh... made

decibel magazine's best album of the year. So decibel is just metal magazine. And it's a pretty safe bet that whatever they pick for their best album is going to be rock solid. And this is definitely the case for this album. But what I like about these guys is that, like, you know, do metal is more known for kind of the slower-paced, like more... Let me just read a decibels review.

I'm going to take a couple of lines from their review for this album, because I think it describes this album perfectly, and it does a really good job describing doom metal in general. So here we go. Vocalist guitarist Michael Scheitz's spirit is deeply entwined with Yob's elemental doom. when his soul aches, his riffs dredge pain from a bottomless sludge pit. But Yob's albums... Dude, fucking read me.

But Yob's albums mostly unfold like a storm rolling over their neighboring Willamette forest. The trees can only surrender to the tempest. Under dark skies, the gales may bend the branches. But once the storm passes, soft moss and dormant flowers, sprout from the rain. I mean, yes, it's a little bit kind of poetic and stuff, right? But I mean, I mean, look,

that, you know, we talk about what we, what kind of visuals and stuff we think of when we listen to music, right? We do it all the time. Hey, it's really well written, dude. It is well written. That's why I wanted to say it. But I think it does a great job.

I really hope that when I listen to this. Let me tell you, dude. You're going to be like, damn. I get transported to this to this forest, dude. You are. you're going to say, shit, it's like a fucking storm passing over a forest.

All right, just, but no, let me just comment real quick. So, you know, what he's saying is like, you know, doom is, is sort of like, I understand what he means by like a slow moving storm. It's kind of rolling over.

You know, it's like dark. Yeah. It's slow. But it's also like, at the same time has like elements of like, of some beauty, right? And you're going to hear that in his vocals on this track and just the song structure and everything. This is a solid intro to Doom Metal.

If you've never really, if you've heard the term and then not really, you know, tried it out before, I think this track is a good example of what Doom Metal is. So this song is called A Blaze, and it was on Yob's 2018 release, R. Raw Heart. What are your thoughts, man? I'm always interested to hear your thoughts on metal.

And I'm going to say it like what I always say, dude. I appreciate it. I really cannot get into it, man. I can't. All right. You got to start explaining. You got to start spaining yourself, dude. Because, dude, my explanations always fall apart because, I mean.

To, okay. If you don't, I'm just, I don't know, I just, I'm disheartened. I appreciate what they're doing with, with the beats and. With the beat. The beats. I like what they're doing with the beats. All I'm saying, my point is, dude, like, I don't know. For one, I don't know the difference between due metal and, you know, all the other metals.

That's fine. You don't have to know the difference. Just, you know. I don't know. I don't know what to appreciate about it. Let me just ask you one thing. Because this is, I think this is, this will tell us everything we need to know. Did the song make you feel anything?

Not a thing Oh my God Not a thing dude Well then yeah I don't know Metal is just not for you man Because How are you not

Uh I'm blown away by that I mean I almost want to read the lyrics Because they're probably Just about as cheesy as I imagine they are Oh my God Alright Drink from the Goblet

Okay I'm sorry I don't think I played enough Dungeons and Dragons Dude To get into it Is it not always Are all the lyrics Are all lyrics about Satanism?

Lucifer's hoof? Look, man, metal is a outlet for exploring the darker themes of fucking life and shit, man. Yeah, get it? I said the same thing on the Black Sabbath episode, dude. And like choosing the Black Sabbath track, you know, as the first song. for that for that album for the Black Sabbath Right yeah Those lyrics are just too much man

You well I mean That's what thing You either You're either compelled by that Or you're not so I will say I'm always a fan of the gutter roll Like Can't do it man

But like I always I always appreciate that And I was hoping that that That this song would have some of it And it did And it made me yeah Well so I tend to like the the metal That isn't nothing

but the guttural, you know, vocals, but I like it, you know, thrown in every once in a while. I think it does add something to the song. But anyway, we're going to move right along because, I mean, I've got nothing else to say to you about this. I think I appreciate more like melodic grindcore. Are you serious? No, I'm quoting from that Mike Judge film extract.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Dude, yeah, yeah. It's like, we're called God's cock. It's pronounced God's cock. Yeah, all right. All right. All right, man.

Fine, we'll just fucking move along. Yeah. Yeah. You've fucking, you've killed my spirit. I'm sorry. Dude, you know what? Let me say this. I, it makes me happy that that song makes you happy.

Okay. So, do that. All right. I'm happy for you. Let's just, let's just move along, dude. I'm struggling with what to do next here. I mean, actually, you know what, let's just pull a 180. And I'm going to play.

I featured, well, I'm not going to say. So remember the singer-songwriter, Haley, Heinrich? Remember when I had struggles pronouncing that last name on our episode seven? There's an X in there. Haley Hendrix. X is at the end. Sounds German. she's from Portland and she's just a like a folk you know singer songwriter she has a really pretty like a really pretty finger style like her her picking technique is really interesting on our kings of convenience episode I played the first track on her debut EP well it wasn't her debut one but her like her first full length which

came out in March of this year. It's called I Need to Start a Garden. Her first track was called No Face. Did I already say No Face? Did I already say that? I don't think so. Okay, yeah. Well, okay, let me see that part again.

Her first full length came out in March of this year. It's called I Need to Start a Garden. And I'm going to play the second track on that for today. And yeah, dude, let's pull a 180. Let's back off of that. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of 180s because my tracks are all over the place. Yeah, I was hoping for that today.

All right, so here is track two on Haley Hendricks' album. I Need to Start a Garden. This song is called The Bug Collector. There's a son you swear to God the fucker's out to get you and I digress. Because I'm a song.

make you the perfect morning I try my best to scoop the slugger out the wind I'm past life out to get you I must make you the perfect east inside a jam That's gorgeous She's doing things

She's doing things That remind me of Parts and transitions And stuff that the Kings of Convenience Boys Yes I was thinking that too. Yeah.

You know, she threw in the, that, I guess was it trumpet or something. Yep. And just her vocals are just gorgeous, man, beautiful. Yeah. I really like her lyrics too. That's something I always appreciate is clever, you know, witty. Uh-huh. It's like vulnerable but like confident at the same time.

You know, like to write lyrics like this. My favorite is verse two. She says, and there's a praying mantis prancing on your bathtub, and you swear it's a priest from a past life out to get you. Yeah, I definitely was paying attention to that as well. I love that. Yeah.

I love that, man. That's just, that's great. But let's nerd out for a second, man. Like, this is what I love about music. We just went from doom metal to this. And both songs, I, you know, would say moved me. I know that you weren't really moved by the metal song. But both songs, what got me was the vocals in both of them.

And like that, you know, that track from Yob is an example of how, like, you know, emotional vocals can be thrown into a metal song. You know, metal's not all about, you know, the grunting and the, and the, guttural, you know, screams and stuff. Like, you can have really moving vocal work in a metal track. And then the next song we play is from Haley Hendricks here. And obviously beautiful, gorgeous vocal work from her, too. So, you know, that's what I love about music, man.

Yeah. That's what it comes down to, man. I feel like we've said that so many times on past episodes. And just being able to discover new. music all the time man like like we're all we're just this is all we're pulling from from brand new stuff you know i mean brand new from this year you know and this time next year we're going to be doing it again with all the stuff we heard in 2019 yeah that's right so let's move on brother what you got okay so uh this this is going to uh sound very familiar because we talked about

this in a very recent episode uh this was my what you heard for episode 23 when we talked about talking heads. This was that instrumental jam session type album that Unknown Mortal Orchristia put out called IC-01 Hanoi, Hanoi being the city that they recorded this album in it's in Vietnam. But anyway, you know, since we talked about this pretty recently, I'm not going to go too far into it other than just to kind of remind you that this is sort of like experimental like jazz jazz rock type stuff like fusion almost. But it's very reminiscent of some Miles Davis type stuff, bitches brew, you know.

So yeah, the track I played on the What You heard a couple weeks back was Hanoid 2. but it didn't feature the saxophone, and I wanted to make sure that I represented that. So, because that's what's cool about this album. He's got his dad on the saxophone, Ruben Nielsen, which is the singer, frontman for Unanomortal Orchestra. But anyway, so let's just play it.

This is Hanoi 6. Here we go. And that's my favorite kind of jazz, dude. Just that moody, moody jazz. Was that a didgeridoo that I heard? It's possible. No, not did you do? Hang on, not did you redo.

What's the name of that? It's that mouth harp thing. Yeah, I think it's called mouth harp, actually. Yeah. But no, actually, I think that's the... I appreciate it that they threw that in there. That is this guy... Well, that's one of the cool things about this album.

They had this local musician, this famous, well-known Vietnamese musician. That's probably what he was playing. a so truck is how it's pronounced, but it's a small flute founded Vietnam. My guess is that's what that was.

Maybe. That was great. I loved it. Yeah. What I like about that is, like, you can tell that's, you can tell that was a jam session, right? Like that, that, that is a jam session recorded, right? Like,

yep. Because, you know, it's very, very repetitive But what I like about it is like the way that that Chris Nielsen again his father who was playing the saxophone you know he he sort of introduced the saxophone sort of earlier in that track but like it was more in the background

sort of like this background piece that you just kind of heard you just could have heard like a little tease on most of it and then he kind of stepped in and took the solo but man yeah just great jazz right like when I heard that and you know I know we don't like to do singles on on this podcast but that is the only single from this album but it's it's nine minutes almost 10 minutes long it's the longest track on the record but you know it just it's it feels like what it is which is a jam session you know

that's why it's 10 minutes long you know it's just these guys are just working that that that groove and that melody you know it's just it does have some some bitches brew vibes for sure. Definitely, definitely. But yeah, yeah, I was, this is definitely one of those albums that caught my, my interest this year and that I kept playing over and over again, because it was just so out of left field, you know, like, unknown immortal orchestra is very, very well known for their sort of their psychedelic kind of throwback vibes. And so when they put out, and this is definitely psychedelic. Like I would describe that as a psychedelic

sort of dreamy jazz type stuff, right? But it's not something you would expect to hear from them because it's instrumental and it's a jam set. And I just love that a band is still doing that, going into a studio, doing a jam session and then releasing it.

Like, I just, I love that. All right, so let's move on to your next pick, Q. All right, so I don't know if you're NPR airs Q. You've heard of Q? I'm talking to Q right now.

You're talking to Q. But have you actually heard the radio show? No, I've not. It's great, man. It's a guy that interviews artists, you know, whether it's music, TV,

you know, theater. Kind of, you know, it's an interview show and they always get pretty in-depth, you know, about either like an album process, or stuff that the artist was going through or whatever.

And then they'll always do kind of a live performance in studio. I don't know about always, you know, depending on who his guest is. But I think it was just this past month, or maybe late November. He interviewed a artist who, well, let's see. He interviewed an artist named Chloe Charles, who actually goes by XVI. Chloe now. So she just kind of moved the letters around and her first name, Chloe. She kind of rebirthed herself, I guess, if I can use that term as an artist just this past year. She's actually pretty damn popular. Like she kind of climbed the ranks in like the jazz like vocal scene.

And then just kind of got burnt out and she kind of got, you know, really candid and, like, vulnerable. Talking about, you know, just the struggles of being a, you know, famous musician and decided to kind of just completely, you know, start from scratch. So she ditched her, her Chloe Charles name just, you know, because with that came, you know, all the, all the struggles and and all that. And now she goes by Eklow and just wrote an entire album, kind of with songs about, you know, the depression and the struggles and kind of moving forward. And the album's all over the place. It's a really, really impressive album. I think it's only like six or seven songs. The album's called Echo Location.

And, I mean, like from track to track, you know, there's just some good. classic like soulful jazz kind of songs and then there's more like dance uh kind of like beat heavy songs um the song i'm gonna share is track two uh it's just a really really good like soulful like them the musicians that play with her just phenomenal uh this song is called got me drinking I just want to face a sweet affair One night stand me and my I just want to say how amazing is that drum fill Did

Right I know I think that's Let's just say that that's that's my favorite Favorite drum fill of 2018 right there Dude I mean Yeah I was that shit he was doing on that Dude you know

I talk about the finessing the high hat You finesse the shit out of that high hat brother Yeah dude definitely With those accent notes and Double and tripling up on the high hat high hat yeah dude honestly that uh his drumwork is what like there was the thing i remembered about the song and like made me want to like listen to more of the album honestly um right that and of course her vocals are beautiful a lot of the lyrics throughout the song are uh you know again they

they tackle like depression and um you know fighting that kind of stuff and um it's great man it's it's a really impressive, I mean, I'd say debut, but she's been, you know, Chloe Charles has released albums for years now, but, you know, this is her, her new, her new thing, you know, it's great. It's really, I'm really excited to hear more stuff from her. And this is a brand new album. It just came out in November, so. Yeah, so, you know, I don't know, I mean, this is obviously by accident, but there's, there's actually a lot of sort of soulful and, like, like funky type stuff on this episode here. Yeah, and a lot of female vocals, too.

Like, I didn't even do that on purpose. Right. So speaking of which, perfect segue for my next pick, which is Mr. Twin Sister. One of my favorite groups to come out over the last few years, I've been, I guess we both have sort of been following them since almost the beginning. We saw them,

I can't remember the year, but it was, we saw them open for the morning benders, maybe back in 2010. And so, yeah, eight years ago, which is nutty to think about. That's nuts, dude.

But, but, yeah, of course, they were called just twin sister back then. They changed their name to Mr. twin sister.

And we're going to do an episode on them at some point. And we can go into sort of the story behind that. But I was blown away by them back then. And every piece of music that they put out is just, it's one of those bands that like, you know, I have to stop what I'm doing and listen to the new track, you know, whenever they put something new out there. Yeah.

But to me, these guys are the most like genuine, like an authentic talent. You know what I mean? as far as it's just these guys are such accomplished musicians and when they get together

and make music it's just it's a lot of it's a lot of disco influenced sort of psychedelic almost it's a lot of dreamy

dreamy type dreamy poppy disco funky jazzy sort of influence. And, you know, they've also kind of flirted with electronic stuff too. So like they're kind of,

they have a lot of, their songs vary in sound and stuff, but it's all very like cohesive. Like there's, and there's also, there's no mistaking her voice, right? She's got one of the most unique voices, I think, to come out in a long time. So anyway, this, this is a single that came out.

with it was a just a a two-track single that they put out a few months back called the power of two was side A and Echo Arms was side B I believe so anyway this this song is called Echo Arms That's some good disco man I just love it man

I love it so much but yeah so yeah again so it's sort of this dreamy sort of disco type stuff, right? And that's kind of, that's sort of the main genre, I guess, that you could throw them under. But, man, I just love the way that they compose and structure their songs, you know. All right. So, yeah, anyway, again, so the vocalist, her name is Andrea Estella.

And I think she's probably my favorite, one of my favorite vocalists of all time. I'm just going to put that out there. I would put her up against anybody, dude. I just love it. So anyway, that's that, man. So that's, again, that's Mr. Twin Sister. And that song was called Echo Arms. So, Q, we're getting done.

We got two more. I got one more. So let's hear your next pick. Yeah, so moving on with the female singers, man. Courtney Barnett. I just got into her in the last couple years. Did you ever give her a good listen, man?

No. You should. As far as vocals go, she's kind of more like, it's not about her voice, it's about her lyrics. She's another one of those really clever, you know, really smart lyricist.

And I love her style of music. It's kind of, it's almost grungy. I don't know how to describe it, but she just came out with an album in May called Tell Me How You Really Feel. And actually, you know what, dude, I would put her in, like, the Bob Dylan category as far as, like, lyrics. And, like, kind of how, like, it kind of rambles on, like, her style and, you know, in her lyrics. I'm going to play the opening track on this album. it is called hopefulness yeah I guess I can kind of see

you said grunge was that her describing the way she looks or I mean yes she wears a lot of plaid but I'm talking more about the the music like her music yeah okay yeah that's what I was checking because yeah I agree the guitar

the guitar playing was sort of sort of had that, yeah, did have like a 90s, not necessarily. But yeah, maybe grand, yeah,

a lot of her songs are in that, in that, have those vibes, you know. I thought that was a really cool opener for, for an album. I like that kind of strip down, like the bare minimum drum is,

in that song. It's really, it's almost just snare and bass. You know, and some, and some tom's. but uh is it mostly sort of um more mellow stuff like that or no no no okay i love everything that she she does is worth listening to man um and she really hasn't been around for too long um

so yeah i'm excited to see what what she does next dude she's actually born in 87 man she's our age all right man what you got for us okay so my last track um so i'm I wanted to sort of represent this style of music because I would say if I were to look back and pick one genre or sound or whatever that I probably listen to the most, it would be this more sort of lo-fi, ambient, electronic sort of boards of Canada-esque hypnagogic type. electronic music, right? So, I don't know much about this artist. I think it's actually two electronic producers based on, they don't have a website, they don't have a Wikipedia page,

but they go by Yamino. And based off their band camp, sounds like it's two producers, Gerald and Henry. That's all I know. I don't know last names or anything. But they started back in 2001, and they are based out of London. And they put out a new album this year, which, you know, their last one came out in 2013 before that. And the funny thing is the album that I've been listening to the most this year is actually their very first album came out in 2003. called The Evolution of Bulbous and the Polymorphic Nightmare.

So it's got a lot of cool stuff on it. But like I said, I'm glad that they came out with an album this year because I wanted to represent them on this episode. So anyway, this album is called A-E-N-G. I'm not sure how to pronounce that. Ang. Eng, yeah. So I'm going to play a track here called Cartoon.

So that's the kind of stuff that I code to. It's just perfect background music, really good for, you know, focusing on something or just, you know, like I said, perfect for working, really. But yeah, yeah, that's just a good, just a good sort of example of that more, you know, the phrase ambient electronic music, usually a company. something like this, but ambient, I guess the only reason ambient is used is because it's more laid back electronic music as opposed to like, yeah. But, you know, when you think of ambient, you may think of like the sounds of nature,

sort of like world music, you know? But that's not. Usually when I think of ambient music, it's music that doesn't have a beat. Right. So I guess ambient and electronic is, going to be more laid-back electronic music that still has a beat, right? But, yeah, you know, we've played some music like this before, I think, on the podcast.

But anyway, if I were to sum up 2018 with a type of music that I've been listening to, it would be that type of music. So that's why it got the number one slot. What a segue, because, well, I mean, if I, okay, you know this already. brother. What's the music I've been listening to most this year? Psychedelic rock. That is correct, sir. Yeah. By far the favorite band that I've discovered over the past year in the psych rock category would be a band called WAND. I had them as of what you heard for our food fighters. I played a song called Lower Order. I actually played a K-E-X-P. I played a live clip from a K-E-X-P performance.

That's an album called 1,000 Days, came out in 2015. They just released an EP this year back in May called Perfume. It's got like five or six tracks on it. Dude, so I'm just going to play the whole song. I love everything that these guys are doing. They're also really prolific, man. They usually release, you know, a few EPs and some singles throughout each year. And, you know, they're just always cranking out tunes. So, this is track three on their perfume EP. It is called The Gift. Way to close out the episode, man. Yeah. Good stuff, man. I feel like the first WAND song that I heard was almost like heavy metal.

Yes. They have an album called Ghalem. Yes. It's way more, way heavier. That's right. Yeah, there's a song called Floating Head that I'm familiar with that has some heavy metal in it, you know? Yeah, they change their sound a lot. But that's what's cool about it.

It's all sort of psychedelic, right? They've mostly been psychedelic. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's what they. But they sort of incorporate, yeah, they incorporate these different sounds into it. Yeah, it's good stuff, dude. I love the drummer, too. I love everything that he does behind the kit.

Yeah, that's WAND. And, yeah, dude, that's our each throughout five songs that we, from artists that we really enjoyed this past year. And this is going to be the last episode of the year. dude. Yeah, man. It's been a year of laughs and good music. Yeah, man, a full year of no failure. So,

next year, at the top of the pops, we're going to cover Kid A's Amnesiac, right? That's right. I'm ready, man. I'm ready to get... I'm ready for Hilda the Thief, dude. I'm ready to get into that. That's, yeah, that's my favorite, that's probably my favorite radio head album. Mostly because that's the one I'm least familiar with, honestly.

You're in for treats. But Amnesiac's one of my favorites too, so it's going to be a doozy. So again, wanted to wrap up the year, just going back, listening to some songs that we enjoyed this year. we'll throw all the tracks up on our website and the show notes for this episode so that's no filler podcast.com I think I'm going to throw a link into that Q interview with Echlo too and yeah that's going to do it for us this 2018 thank you to everyone who's been keeping up with us this year

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