No Filler Music Podcast - Lo-Fi Daydream - Beach Fossils

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

We learned about a new subgenre while researching this record: "twee pop". The term is used to describe music that is simple and innocent, with boy-girl harmonies, lyrical themes about love, and catchy melodies. It's the perfect way to describe Beach Fossil's debut 2010 record. Written, recorded, and produced by frontman and Beach Fossil's founder Dustin Payseur while longing to escape his new home in New York, the album is the perfect antidote to anyone longing for summer, the innocence of youth, and a desire to escape the day-to-day grind of life. Tracklist: Vacation Twelve Roses The Horse Wide Awake Youth (The Other Side Of Life Piano Version) Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. A bold tea for a bold you. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week we're doing beach fossils. And both of these artists came up around the same time. And they're both happened to fall under that indie pop dream pop label. Yeah. And as we as we talked about pretty extensively last week, like Beach House is sort of responsible for defining and shaping the dream pop term of like the 2010s, right? Like taking the dream pop of the 90s and sort of like redefining it, reinventing it. So it's possible that the Beach Fossils, at least in 2010, this record that we're talking about, the self-titled debut record may not have been considered Dream Pop when it hit. Like, I don't know if that's a term that we've just started using for this sound, like after Beach Fossils and other bands started to sort of like make this sound synonymous with Dream Pop.

Because what I was, you know, I was reading some articles and stuff on this record and people were calling it low. and they were using terms like surf rock right jangly pop right jingly pop all the rage yeah fuzzy lofi pop that's what a lot of um you know dream uh i almost called them dream pop beach house like their first two records were super lofi and that was the term that that kind of got thrown onto them right so it's what they did with teen dream that sort of brought it into like the next level and made it a little bit more like polished and poppy and stuff like that. So with this record, it's definitely lo-fi. That's a good term to use for this record.

Oh, it's lo-fi, dude. It's lo-fi. And I think what's cool about the lo-fi sound is that, you know, I guess around this time, we were hearing more self-produced, self-recorded records in either this kind of indie-pop vein or in the chill wave movement that happened at the same time, all because those kind of programs and, you know, more computing power, I guess, was more readily available. And then it turned into this whole like sound that some bands to this day just are doing purposely, right? Like purposely releasing recordings that sound cheaply recorded, even if they aren't

necessarily done at home. Yeah, it's like, it's the, it's the whole like aesthetic. So Teen Dream, which is what we covered last week, the album from Beach House, came out the exact same year as this self-titled debut by Beach Fossils 2010. And I think the main difference between the two, you know, coming up around the same time in the 2010s with that Dream Pop label slapped on them. Like you said, Lofi, but Beach Fossils also has this really great jingly, like surf rock vibe. Yeah. that's definitely absent in other bands that we're trying to do this and absent from that classic reinvention of Dream Pop that Beach House did.

Well, so many, yeah, I think this is why you and I sort of associated this more surfy indie rock stuff with the Dream Pop label, because this is all we heard around the 2010s when this kind of music was kicking off again. a lot of them had that that surf rock element and like the harmonizing like real estate like real estate or uh the drums did you ever get into them dude similar stuff yeah that sounds familiar yeah the drums yeah or like uh what was that other band we saw them open for um well we saw twin sister open for uh uh oh morning benders morning benders but the one that the band that the band that open for them, Colts.

Oh, Colts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they all in like Sea Pony. There's a bunch of them. But yeah, this band kind of falls under that and this record especially. But for some reason, this one has always stuck with me. I've always loved this record.

I think I talked about this a little bit on our 200th episode, where we talked with our old blog mate, Josh Stewart. And we played actually a track from this record. We played youth. and I talked about how like this record is just like synonymous in my brain with like summer of 2010 because that's like I just had this this album on repeat and I just remember driving around listening to it. It's got the perfect like it just feels like summer, you know? And the stuff he's thinking about is like nostalgic youthful type themes and like longing for that. youth. I mean, that's the name of that song, Youth. But there's a lot of, there's a lot of songs

like that. We're going to play some of them and talk about the lyrics and stuff. You're definitely not alone in that, dude. Like, I mean, I don't know if that was something he purposely set out to do. I mean, he's got the name Beach in his, you know, in the band name. You know, we haven't mentioned it. This is actually just one dude. Yeah, for this particular record. Yeah, it was all self, it was like Travis said last week, this is a straight up Dave Grohl, recording, producing, and playing all the instruments for that first foo fighters self-titled. Same thing here. It's all one guy. Yeah, he produced it too. So written, produced and recorded by the frontman and founder of Beach Fossils. His name is Dustin Pace here. And yeah, that's, I mean, that that right there just screams bedroom pop, if you

will. I mean, I know bedroom pop has almost become a, like a genre in itself that has its own kind of sound, or at least now, right? There's like a sound associated with bedroom pop. But, it's the same idea that like DIY record you know that you just put out apparently he had just moved to new york in 2008 when he was putting this music together and like actually i'll save this quote for later he kind of talks about what this record meant for him but it was interesting that like he moved to new york and started writing music that was like a form of escapism for wanting to escape New York, which I thought was funny because it's like, it's like, you just got here, dude. What's the deal?

But, you know, my guess is that, you know, if you grew up in another part of the country that's not New York City, you know, and maybe you're longing for that small town vibe or something, you know? Yeah, you're going to be missing it real quick once you move to New York. Yeah, unless you're just all about the taxi cabs and the pizza. I mean, that's all New York is, right? Taxi cabs and pizza. All right, well, dude, let's go ahead and jump right into it, man.

Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. I think this is a good transition, too, because the first song we're going to play is vacation. Yeah. And, you know, speaking of like summertime vibes, MPR did a review on this song back in June of 2010. And it says straight up, song for a summer vacation. It says, vacation in particular isn't just a summer song. It's a deep summer song.

A Coke slurpy and a summer song. scorcher or a sloppy cannonball at a public pool. So here's the thing. Like I think with a lot of these songs, it definitely has that surf rock sound like we talked about. But the lyrics might not necessarily be all like fun in the sun, you know. So we'll have to, we'll have to dive into the lyrics here a little bit. All right. Let's do it, man. Let's let's dive into our first pick. So this is track three on the record. This song is called Vacation. Yeah, man, it just evokes like your carefree summertime lounging, right? Yeah, well, like, yeah, he's taught, like, the song is like, he's talking about wanting to just get on a bus and, and, like, leave, you know, get out of town.

And, like, gazing out his window and, like, looking at, you know, the scenery as it passes your window. Like, really simple, like, longing for, for leaving the city, right? I mean, leave the city behind. That's one of the lyrics, right? So this is him being like, I want to get out of New York, right? Like, I want to just get the hell out of here. Take a little vacation. But yeah.

But let's talk about, like, his delivery. So, like, it's very monotone. It reminds me of Lou Reed a little bit, like Velvet Underground kind of stuff. Yeah, it's that kind of, like, sleepy delivery. Yeah. But what I've always liked about Dustin and this record is his, is his guitar playing. Like the drums are super simple, like literally like a drum machine, right?

Like when he would do shows before he brought on extra bandmates, it was just his little drum machine up there with him. But like, his guitar riffs are what, to me, make these songs so memorable. And like, because his vocal delivery is so like sleepy and kind of monotone, it's the guitar that really like speaks, right? And like, yeah, his guitar riffs are what are the most memorable to me. Yeah, they're great, man. So I like this just to wrap this up with another quote from that NPR article.

I like what it says here. Forget complex songwriting. It's the laziness that makes it work so well. And its finest accomplishment rests in how the spirit of vacation is so effectively captured. The humdrum of the presence, the eager momentum of travel. and the way the future always seems brightest right as you get the hell out of Dodge. Yeah. Well, here's a quote from him from another interview queue.

Beatsperminant.com. And the guy asking, the guy interviewing him, asked, he goes, I thought of it as a very non-New York sounding record. I live in California, and it seemed almost like a bridge between the two places. And he said, when you were writing it, did you ever think about it in those terms? because it was so different from the typical Brooklyn sound. He says, yeah, when I was recording it, I was listening to a lot of psychedelic music and twee music. Now, I've never heard that term.

T-W-E-E. Let me look this up real quick, Q. I know what that is. British. Oh, jangle. Maybe jangle pop. Okay, listen to. Dude, we just learned a new genre.

Tui pop is a subgenre of indie pop that originates from the 1986 NME compilation C86, characterized by its simplicity and perceived innocence. Some of its defining features are boy-girl harmonies, catchy melodies, and lyrics about love. Dude. So sounds like kind of like, uh, pop type stuff, right? Yeah, like that yee, yee, I hate saying it. Oh, the French stuff. French pop.

Yeah. It sounds exactly like that. Yeah, he says he wanted to combine psychedelic and, and Tui, and he says the record was a product of that, which makes sense because psychedelic is the California sound super dreamy and relaxing. That's a big one. And it's definitely, that is, that is a dreamy and relaxing is, or you know, that's dream pop, I guess, right?

And the, I mean, dare I say beach boys? Well, yeah, we'll do. We'll talk about the beach boys sound when we do real estate next week for sure. Yeah. Because they tap into that big time. It's that surfy guitar. But yeah, there is a little bit. harmonizing with himself on this record.

I don't know if it was on that song, really, but... I like how he does it. Yeah, I think it's good. I like how he does it. Yeah, it's really unique. Speak, dude, speaking of dreamy and relaxing, you've been drinking any more chamomile tea from Tiesta? So I'm all out of the lavender and camomile, dude.

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And that's TST to T, my friends, a bold tea for a bold U. All right, Q. Let's get back. Let's get to the next track here. we are going to jump down a few tracks here. So this song is a little bit more, it's not as simple as vacation. So a lot of these songs are super straightforward, kind of like he said, Tui, right? Like really simple, kind of has that dreamy love song kind of vibe to it, right, with some catchy hooks and stuff. 12 Roses, I think, is a little bit more complicated.

And I've always liked this song. And it's real quick, dude. It's two minutes, 20 seconds. So we're going to probably play a good chunk of it. But here we go. This song is called Twelve Roses. How would we be listening when we're slipping? It's hard not to play the whole song.

But I love that song, man. I really do. I love how it, I'm not. not going to say simple. I'm not going to say simple. I'm trying to say it because it's not a simple song. But I like how the melody follows this very like repetitive kind of like up and down or like sort of trajectory. I don't know if that makes any sense. But like he he's adding layers and stuff to it kind of like a almost like what we like about down tempo tracks. But I love how he sort of his vocals and his guitar are sort of taking turns almost because like there's a there's

there's almost like a verse that's just his guitar and I'm going to call it a verse because like I said his guitar is very expressive um and I love how he harmonizes with himself he's got a he's got a very he's actually hitting a pretty you know we talked about the last track it's kind of like that sleepy vocal delivery but on this track hum drum yeah on this track he's he's actually hitting some high notes, if you will, when he's harmonizing with himself. Also, let's just appreciate the effectiveness of a little tambourine action, dude. Yeah. It's so simple. It works. So great, especially for this style, you know, these vibes. How many singer-songwriters out there are doing exactly what he's doing where they're like, you know, I'm just, I'm writing some music. I need a drum track.

Let me just do like this really simple drum machine thing. And you can hear it. Like, it's just really simple drums because he's not a drummer, you know? Right. But it works for the sound and the, the tweet. I'm going to start using that term because I like that. I just learned it. But it's great, it's great that like maybe you can't afford a drum set, but you can probably afford a tambourine, you know, so you can throw in an actual real world instrument, which is cool, you know, just something so effective that you can add to a song, even if you're trying to do all this low budget, you know, at home. Get yourself a tambourine. We all love it. who doesn't love tambourine?

I would say nobody. Right, Brett Daniel? Jim? Here's an interesting quote. So this is, this, speaking to the time when this record came out and all the other indie bands that were doing this kind of thing, this is a New York Times,

a music critic, his name is John Caramanica, caramanica, something like that. Who knows? He goes, stop me if you've heard this one before. One Man Band makes hazy but surprisingly sturdy pop-influenced indie rock with mild seaside flourishes. And that almost sounds like a, this is just a dime a dozen, right? Yeah.

But he goes on to say, how this sort of music became a cliche in the space of just the past year or so speaks to the speed and density of the internet. Now, you and I were all over this, right? This is the music blog era. This is what we touched upon, yeah, on our 200th episode when we talk all about the music blog era. Yeah, he says, and yet the self-titled Beach Fossil's debut manages to not feel overly 2009. So he's handing him a little bit of a compliment there at the end saying that like, and this is kind of what I was saying earlier is like for some reason this, this record stands out amongst the rest of him because I think of, I think it's his, his song structures and his guitar, playing just rose above it. Like it made it just a little bit more interesting.

Yeah, here's a perfect quote for that, dude. Drowned and Sound, a little review. So this is a feature called Lost Ten of 2010. Number two is Beach Fossil. So this guy, I guess, is going through listing albums that he thinks were, you know, overlooked in the 2010s. Okay, yeah. So, yeah, so he mentions, you know, he talks about how a lot of there,

a lot of people in the, in the, in the, like central United States, a lot of the bands coming out around that time were a dime a dozen, kind of like this other guy had been saying, lists out some of the bands. Wild Nothing. The drums are featured here. Dumbum Girls. Frankie Rose and the outs. Never heard of them.

But he says here, Dustin Pacier's uncanny knack of making the most simplistic everyday occurrences seem unconventional and unerringly complex sets him apart for many of his contemporaries. And that's it, dude. It's, it sounds kind of simple on the surface, right? But if you pay attention and you do pick up on those complexities and the really interesting and unique guitar riffs and song structure and the way he vocal harmonizes with himself, everything about it is just, yeah, it's, that's what sets this album apart. And reason why we keep going back to it, you know, same with, I think Josh had similar kind words to say about it. Yeah. There's a nostalgia, I think, just with this sound in general. And like,

you know, the, it's not really hypnagogic, but. I was about to say it, dude. Hey, man. So it's our first mention of hypnagogic of 2022. Well, I think we could put, I think we could have several different genres in hypnagogic pop, you know, one being chill wave and like the stuff that Tyco was doing. Right. The other being the stream pop stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We could say that. I think it's just the nostalgia that you get from it. Yeah. Nostalgia that you can't really necessarily pinpoint why it's nostalgic, you know? Yeah. I mean, sure, it sounds like a 60s jangly surf pop record, but is that why it's nostalgic and hypnagogic? I don't think so.

Yeah, I guess the problem with that, though, is that, like, hypnagogic pop is supposed to be, it's nostalgic because it feels nostalgic the day that it comes out versus I'm nostalgic for this record because I heard it a decade ago. and I associate, I guess, fucking 12 years ago, and I associate that summer and stuff with the sound, right? Yeah. So maybe it's not truly hypnagogic, but, you know, I think you guys get the idea. We love to really, uh, beat the dead oars. Pick it apart.

Is it dream pop? Is it hypnagogic pop? Is it shoegaze? Is it a great record? That's the most important thing. Yes, it is. Are the non-singles great? You bet you.

What's the next one, man? What are we doing next? Okay. So we're going to pick it up a little bit. But this song is a little bit more up-tempo, if you will, a little bit more feel-good. So we're going to jump to track 9 here. This song is called The Horse. It's a classic Tweed song, Q.

It's crazy, you know, listening to a song like this 12 years later, how familiar it sounds, right? Because so many bands have been continuing to do this kind of style. But like we've been saying, it's an out. album that's worth, you know, keeping in your back pocket all these years because there's always, there's something that I notice on a song every time I listen to it and like I appreciate. The songs are just so catchy, you know, they're really, again, his guitar hooks are just like killer. You could, this, this album could be instrumental. I mean, it really could. Not that his, not that I don't like it. I love his voice. I think his harmonizing is great.

Me too. I like it a lot. But his, his, his, the music is, I think. think what what made it so strong. But yeah, talking about like, you know, since I just learned the word I'm going to use it just nonstop. But the, the Tweed, there's a kind of be a better word, but the Tweed song structure or whatever, it sounds like it's sort of that like simple love song type themes and stuff, right? I mean, listen to the opening line here. I couldn't talk to you, but I'd love to walk with you. I mean so tweet that's just straight up classic we all know it dude I think he's I'm trying to figure out this metaphor here like this one I understand he says I drop from the sky right as you say goodbye I feel like he's saying like maybe he's he's like dropped from the sky yeah I drop from the sky right

as you say goodbye to me meaning like I'm I'm envisioning this guy at a party he wants to talk with this girl uh but he's like he's up in the clouds or something like that cloud nine maybe and finally he gets the courage to talk to her but she leaves right here's what my interpretation was when he's hanging around her he's yeah like you're saying floating on cloud nine he's he's just like in a whole other world when he's around her when he gets to hang out with her yeah he feels like he's floating up in the clouds and as soon as she says goodbye and leaves he's a drop out of the sky because yeah that magic is gone as soon as she says bye but this is where he loses me cue the horse the horse with your head to the sky.

Will you turn back again? The horse is no longer there. I don't know if he's trying to see like... I don't know. That's the name of the song. I'm trying to... We went from like, you know, he's floating around in the sky and stuff

to like there's a horse running around. So, looking up there now. I don't know if it's like, you know, isn't there like a phrase like the horse is out of the stable or something like that? Once you can't put the horse back in the stable once you take it. No, no, dude. We'll have to ask Dustin Pace here what the hell he was talking about with the song.

But anyway, there's some horse metaphors going on that I can't, I'm not following. You can teach a horse to Winnie, but you can't, I don't. I don't remember. There's a few. You mean like you can lead a horse to water? Yeah. You could whatever the fuck. Yeah. No, that was it, dude. That's what I was thinking of. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a drink. Something like that. Something like that.

That's it, dude. We figured out on that. That's the whole. So is he the horse in this or is the girl that? a horse. I don't think he'll ever know, dude. It's up to you to interpret, I guess, huh, Kew? It could be whatever you wanted to mean. By the way, we went from like a simple love song to something about a horse with its head in the in the sky. Anyway, he's a horse and he's in love. That's all I got now. All right. Anyway, again, man, I know I keep speaking of horses and beating them to death. I love the guitar, right? I'm a sucker for his guitar. His guitar stylings are great. That's what, that's what I remember when I think about this record is like I I remember the guitar riffs and that's kind of what

what I associate with this record those those hooky catchy guitar lines all right so we're going to play the last song here this is a nice quick episode cue so I think this is my favorite track on the record there is a level of like I don't know this song I think steps it up a notch as far as like It's not your simple, straightforward surf rock indie pop song like some of the rest of the stuff on this record. This song, I think, is a little bit more serious. It's like a little bit slower, if you will. But I just, I love this song, man.

All right, this is our last track here off the record. This song is called Wide Awake. Yeah, man, this album really could have been a lost one, you know, like that I was alluding to in that review. I don't know how many people paid attention to it when it came out, but it's, I mean, it holds up. Even 12 years later,

even after so many other bands have come and gone that sound just like this, it holds up, man. Yeah, I mean, Teen Dream came out the same year, right? So like, they were just, I'm trying to think of the analogy here, man. I wish you could do it. I got one, dude.

I got one. Yeah, go ahead. It's kind of like, that movie equilibrium the exact same year as the Matrix very similar vibes

Yeah yeah okay I was also trying to remember a specific movie reference where it was like there's a movie that came out that everybody thought should have gotten the Oscar

but it went to some other movie It's like if your movie came out the same year that the Star Wars came out or something like that How about ants versus a bugger? life, man. Come on. That was around the same time. There's a clear winner. There's a clear winner. Which one? I'm a Pixar fanboy. Oh yeah. Me too. It's hard not to be

written. But anyway, yeah, I mean, there were bands that got more ink and more attention. I mean, when you've listened to Team Dream, go back to last week's episode, you can hear us talk about it. And then you listen to this subtitled record. It's almost like Beach House was already, I mean, they were. There were already two albums ahead of Beach Fossils, if you will. And Beach Fossils, Dustin, was sort of exactly where Beach House was on their self-titled, right? As far as, like, lo-fi, a little bit more self-produced. He didn't have, he didn't have subpop behind him, right? So, like, there's a reason that some of these, some of these records and bands got more attention. Because they had the power. They had the

record label power. But that, I think that tells you how great this record was. The fact that it was self-produced, the fact that it was this guy's debut and we're still talking about it. You know, real estate had already come out with their self-titled the year before. Days is their big record and that's what we're going to talk about next year. That came out the year after. So, yeah, all this was happening around the same time and he made a name for his little group. He's kind of like Taman Paula. I mean, this is a weird, I don't know, I don't know why I thought about this, but like, Tame and

Paula was also just Kevin Parker, right? And then he named himself Taman Pala because he wanted to be thought of as a band. Right. And then he did bring on more people later. But Beach Fossils did exactly that. Like he brought on more bandmates for the very next record. But the fact that he put this out by himself is damn impressive, you know. Oh yeah. I'm always impressed by that kind of stuff with what artists can do. It just speaks to what a great songwriter he was. And why, why Beach Fasles are still putting out records to this day. Like, they came out with, with a interesting. Yeah, I just saw, I noticed that a few days ago.

Yeah, a piano version of, it's kind of like a compilation record. Last year called The Other Side of Life, and it's all piano versions of his music. Goes all the way back to, it's got a song from Beach from the self-titled on their youth. Pretty cool. And it's got a nice jazz, jazz tinge to it. Dude, let's have the outro be one of the songs from there.

Well, let's do youth since it showed up on this record. Yeah, we'll do it. All right, well, I got one more quote here from Dustin. So this record in 2020, there was a 10-year anniversary edition of the record that came out. And so I was reading this interview from Glide magazine. They were asking him about, you know, hey, it's been a decade. How crazy is that, right? And you're just reflecting back on how crazy that felt to have been doing this for a decade, right?

But he said, for me, and I was kind of alluding to this earlier, for me, this record was about escapism. In my mind, I was escaping New York, John Carpenter. I was escaping loneliness. I was escaping hunger. I was burned out and needed to write songs that made me feel better. I felt like the world was a cold, hard place. That does sound like New York, doesn't it? Sure does.

And I knew a lot of other people felt that way too. I was meditating a lot and learned that meditation could teach you to be at peace with these feelings. So with this album, I wanted to create an environment where people could disappear and get lost for a little bit. And man, this record does that so well. You can just get lost in this record big time. Yeah. And I think that's why it was so, like, meaningful and why it had such, like, staying power with me. Because, like, in 2010, summer of 2010, you know, I'm driving around.

I got this record just blasting in my little car, right? It was just the perfect, I mean, escapism, just like what he set out to do. And when you think about him, like he's in New York, he's talking about how this is like a cold, hard place. And he was lonely and hungry. So he's just like a young, it sounds like he's like a young dude. Just showed up to New York. He's going to write some music, you know, much like many other actors and musicians who escape to New York. I'm sure he was broke.

Yeah, exactly. So he's just like, you know, and he's meditating, right? in order to try to help him, like, reach this level of peace and escapism. And, like, so he wrote a record that did exactly that, right? And that's what this record is. And it's a fucking great, it's a perfect record, dude. I love it.

So anyway, that's Beach Fossil's self-titled debut record. If you haven't been convinced yet to give it a listen from the four tracks we played, I don't know what's going to, I don't know what's going to convince you. It's more of the same. If you liked it, you'll love the rest of the album, but it's not a cookie cutter. Every single song sounds exactly the. the same, but it's in, it's definitely in this.

It's very consistent. Yeah. But it's 11 songs, 34 minutes long. It's over in a second. Short and sweet. Yeah. Simple, tweee, you know, tweet this, tweet that. Just a simple little tweet record. I've seriously never heard that term.

So this is great. Now we can throw that word around too, Q. This is great. Hey, dude, we need to reach out to David. And ask him if he's heard of it? Ask, yeah, you know about tweet? David Brown. If you didn't catch our episode last year,

I think that was the height of no filler to you. We peaked. It's not getting any better than that, dude. We interviewed a Rolling Stone writer named David Brown. That was a fun episode. But anyway, he would throw around these terms and like this way of like describing a Sonic Youth track and we were like, teach us, you know? We're like, I mean, no wonder you write for the Rolling Stone. It's almost like you get paid to write about music and you've been doing it for decades.

Dude, I bet you got them on Tui. He's not going to have any clue. I should just email him and just say Tui and just see what he said. What are your thoughts on Tweed, David? And he'll be like, oh, yeah, I've written extensively about the Tweed movement. He'll be like, I coined the term. All right, anyway. So that's that.

Beach Fossil's debut record came out in 2010. Give it a listen. It is worth your attention. It really is a no-filler record. There's not a track on here that's a sleeper or a skip. So pull it up, hit play. And next week we're going to talk about, we're going to stay in the same vein. Definitely, you know, when you listen to Beach House, they're kind of, they are their own thing, right?

Beach House is kind of like untouchable, right? Their sound is so unique. Beach fossils and real estate, I feel like, are almost like cousins. You know what I mean? The guitar stylings for sure are very, very similar. I would put real estate in that same group with Beach House. there's no one like real estate. Yeah.

And as like recognizable and like as familiar as their sound is, it's got those jangly pop surf guitar kind of vibes. They are so unique. They might do it best as far as like the surf rock almost like beach boys kind of revival type thing. As far as like those that type of song, right? I think you're going to you're going to be reminded of Brian Wilson quite a bit if you haven't heard real estate before.

So yeah, tune in next week. This is like summertime in the winter, dude. That's what we're focusing on. This surfy kind of sound. That's how we're kicking off this year. This cold winter. That's right. We're trying to bring some sunshine into your life.

So come back next week. We'll talk about real estate. And then the week after that, we'll do our first, what you heard of 2022. Those are always fun. Oh, I can't wait, dude. I got some great songs that I've been sitting on for too long. Yeah, I'm sitting on some.

some gold for sure. So tune in for that. And yeah, that's it. So check us out on Instagram and Twitter, but we don't actually do any tweeting. So don't follow us on Twitter. Just follow us on Instagram. Just search for No Filler Podcast. You'll find us.

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Piano ballads by Mr. Beach Fossils himself. Yeah, so this is pretty cool. Last year he put out a collection of his previous materials, his previous songs, but piano covers that he did. So on this record is youth, which is one of the tracks off of this debut record that we've been talking about. So we're going to close out here with this little piano cover of youth. So again, this is no filler.

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