No Filler Music Podcast - Massively Loud, Hauntingly Quiet: The Music of Spotlights

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

If you're a fan of shoegaze, you know that wall-of-sound when you hear it. Brooklyn-based Spotlights takes that wall-of-sound and cranks up the distortion, infusing the hazy, quiet vocals of dreampop with the heavy sludge of doom metal. Some would call them a doomgaze band, but they prefer the term dreamsludge. We chat about tracks spanning from their first EP to their 2nd full-length, Love & Decay. Tracklist Learn to Breathe To the End Ghost of a Glowing Forest The Particle Noise Far from Falling This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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so it's a little bit of everything. Welcome to No Filler. the music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Quentin with me as always as my brother Travis. And that little intro clip was Chris Enriquez, drummer for the Dream Sludge band Spotlights. So Dream Sludge is a term that they have attributed to themselves.

And that is one of the names that, I know we've mentioned this article several times and we mentioned it last week, but there's that sort of definitive article on Doomgays. And, you know, he talks about all the different names that have been used, you know, to try to describe this sound of music. And Dream Sludge is one of them. Sludge Gaze, you know, all these ridiculous names. I think DoomGaze, you know, sounds the best or whatever. But I like, I like Dream Sludge as it applies to this band. you know, this is the term that they're using to describe themselves, and I think it's pretty fitting. And the funny thing is like, I think last week, I may have cut this out of the episode,

but I was trying to come up with a term for, because, you know, Doom gaze is Doom, Metal, and Chew gaze. And we were talking about last week with Pincey Slow, that they're more on the dream pop side of Shuegays. And so I was like, Dream Doom or something like that. And you laughed at me. So I took it out on the episode. No. Dream sludge, I think is better, actually. Because, I mean, that's kind of how we talked about it with Pincey Slow. It's got the sludgy slow pace of Doom Metal, but it's more of the dream pop side of like the shoegaze coin.

And right, this is where this band falls. But I will say this, like compared to last week's episode, Spotlights bring some proper metal to the table here, dude. And that's what I'm jazzed about. Well, we're jumping right into it here. But, yeah, Spotlights, that is the band recovering today. You just kind of on the fly came up with the idea to cover this band last week. Like you said, we covered Pincey Slow. And I was saying, you know, this is it for me as far as like the limit for really enjoying metal.

So far is this kind of metal bands that are dipping their toes in shoe gazey, grungy, alt-rock kind of new wave stuff. Yeah, well, as Chris was saying in that interview, this is a band made up of people that grew up, you know, listening to metal and, you know, alternative 90s rock and shoegaze, which is, you know, aside from the metal part, that's where we've been pretty focused this entire year is alternative rock bands from the 90s like hum and like helmet, you know what I mean? And all those other bands that we've been talking about, plus all the shoegays. bands that we've been talking about. So like add some metal to all of that. And then, you know, you've got this amazing sound. And I think Spotlights embodies the Doomgays label better than than maybe anybody that I've heard at least. Because like I was saying, Pincey Slow, they're more in the dream pop camp of all of this. You know what I mean? And they sprinkle in heavier elements

to sort of like add to the emotion and stuff of her lyrics and whatnot. But like, Spotlight lights, they bring the punch of like metal and stuff like that in like an awesome way. So, you know, some of these songs are on the longer side of music. And so I've got two parts for a couple of these songs to play. And so I just want to dive right into music. I mean, that's why you tune in anyways, you know? Yeah. Well, let me just put this out there because this is actually kind of interesting about this band.

This makes them pretty unique. It's actually a husband and wife duo. plus a drummer. So it's Mario and Sarah Quintero. Sarah Quintero. I think I made this joke last time you covered Spotlights. Probably. That's like a combination of my wife and my name.

That's right. Sarah Quintero. But yeah, they basically met through music, you know, and that's how they connected as a couple. Beautiful. So let me just read this quote here from Mario, which is the guitar player and main vocalist. He said that it was a very vague idea Sarah and I have had since we met over 10 years ago.

We wrote one song back in 2019 and then didn't pick it back up until 2013 when we moved to New York. We started out as a two piece with me on drums and Sarah on bass. Things slowly evolved and here we are. So like it was kind of like a bedroom project. Like they put out like a demo, you know, like you were saying, he did drums, guitar and vocals, right? she did bass and backing vocals and stuff like that. It just kind of went from there and they got some buzz. They basically they kind of came onto the scene and a lot of people noticed them when they opened for and toured with deaf tones.

And they've toured with a bunch of different groups throughout their time like they've toured with the Melvins. But anyway, they talk about in one of the interviews that all these different shows that they would play with these different types of bands would introduce them to a different group of music lovers, right? Like people who show up to a Melvin's concert are going to be different than people who show up to, you know, a Deftown's concert or whatever. But their music appeals to all of these different groups because of, you know, they draw from all of these types of music

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Thanks again to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode. So I'm actually going to play songs from three different records so we can get a good feel for kind of how their sound has grown. So the first song that I'm going to play is from titles came out in 2016. And the reason I wanted to play this song is because an interview I read described it as Siamese Dream on Steroards. Oh, hello. As an smashing pumpkins, right? So, you know, of course, I had to play it.

And it's a really good, I think a really good example of their, of their flamethrase. And they had it figured out, you know, this early on. So this was before Chris joined as the drummer. You know, when they toured, they would have just a touring drummer, right? And eventually they were introduced to Chris and he became their official drummer. But anyway, so here we go. I'm going to jump right into it here. And this song is going to have two different clips.

So here we go. This song is called To the End. Things all the time. It does feel like it's in the same realm. like Headspace as Smashing Pumpkins. Mm-hmm. And a little bit in his voice, too,

it's got kind of a Billy Corgan airiness to it, you know? Totally. And like, you know, that's in line with your more traditional dream pop shoegaze artist, right? And that's where that label gets attributed to them, right? Aside from that, musically, it is more toward like the 90s alt-rock. stuff, right, that we've talked about, like hum, right? There's definitely metal, and I'll showcase metal through some of the other songs, right? But like, you know, with a lot of those alt-rock

90s bands, they skewed more toward the heavier side anyway, you know, compared to like an R-E-M or something like that. Oh, yeah, dude, they cranked up the distortion in the 90s, for sure. Yeah, yeah. And so, like, they're pulling from those influences, like they said, right? And that was just, you know, we're not even halfway through the song. You know what I mean? That's part one, if you will. So I'm going to cue it back up where we left off, and we'll play this out for a little bit longer.

So again, the song is called To the End. So we're getting some, like, hardcore emo kind of screaming at the end. Yeah, definitely like, yeah, punk hardcore type stuff. Now, that's not, you don't hear much of that in metal, do you? You do? You do? Okay. You do.

Depending on the flavor. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, totally. But that's, yeah, that's just another thing that they bring to the sound, right? And again, like, you know, they're pulling in from all of these influences to create this sound. And that's why I've always liked about Doomgaze or just new gaze, quote unquote, like new shoe gaze bands. Because we're so far removed from just straight shoe gaze that like we're getting all these different.

sub-variance of of shoegays nowadays. And same goes for grunge too. Yeah, with the new grunge bands, yeah. Like this new batch of young bands coming up, it, yeah, it seems like it's really all, they're all pulling from 90s alt-rock. But for the, for the rest of the of that second clip that you played, yeah, it was just straight up like, it gave me like some gish vibes like that era smashing pumpkins and a little bit heavier. And what the, you know, the back and forth of their vocals and like the melody of their vocals together. The harmonizing kind of reminded me of Sweet Trip, which is another kind of shoe-hused.

Oh, yeah, right. That I've covered before. So, yeah, you heard Sarah's voice a little bit there, which is kind of cool. Here's something from an interview that Mario did with Revolvermag.com. It kind of touches on the screaming part of this. They say, the question is, many post-metal bands have harsh screamed vocals. You tend to sing more in a clean style. What influence to that choice?

And he says, I like screamed music. I like yelling and the intensity behind that. But every other day you hear a new band and they're screaming, doing the same thing as everyone else. I don't want to feed into that trend or style. But to be honest, I'm also not a good screamer. But he says, the contrast of quiet vocals with massive sounding music behind it is very appealing to me.

and that's what they do exceptionally well, you know. And that's what I like about Doom Gaze is the contrast that you get, you know. It just works really well. Kind of similar to what Pincey Sloan, the singer of that. Yeah. Pinsie Slow, that clip that you play from the singer, kind of describing the music that they came up, you know, listening to and what they like about it, like the ethereal kind of.

Right. atmospheric contrasted with like metal yeah she was that specifically about like death metal and she your gaze and like what are they having common right she was talking about how like yeah the ambience and the luminous like you know you know melancholic type themes and stuff like that yeah lyrics and shit all right let's jump to the next track and we're going to jump to their next full length record and this is my entry point into the band. This was, I actually played, I played a track called Under the Earth from this record on our Doom Gaze episode. So go back and check that out if you haven't been, you know, we've been

talking about that for the last couple weeks to go back and listen to that episode. So, you know, just do it already, right? Because, you know, we talk about all this stuff. Just get it up. Yeah. Just listen to it right after this episode. But anyway, this record is called, seismic and it's a really cool kind of concept album uh for like the end of the world and what happens like to the to the world after basically like humans are gone kind of thing right and this particular song is called ghost of a glowing forest and i'm going to let him paint a picture here before we listen to the song referencing the record he says it's a scene of the afterview once all this said and done Seismic is the beginning of the end, and it goes on from there.

There's this hidden beauty in all the destruction that is impending on humanity that we're bringing on ourselves. The album kind of pictures the idea of an empty planet. And this song is written from the perspective of the Earth itself. What's left is just nothing. It's a shell of what humans were at that point. There's nothing, there's nobody, what used to be lights and cities. are just gone. Now let that sink in for a second.

Yeah, there's nothing more terrifying to me. Or like beautifully. But you said terrifying, but also you're saying beautiful. Yeah, just the thought of a post-human earth. To me, yeah, I actually find it quite peaceful. Yeah. The thought of it because we're just, you know, all we do is destroy, right? When you really think about it.

There's nothing natural about most of what humans have done to the planet, right? And I'm not talking just climate change. You know, I'm talking about just the concrete, you know, reforming, yeah. Concrete jungles, dude. Concrete jungles, yeah. There's nothing natural about that. So, like, you know, the thought of, like, nature sort of reclaiming.

Earth will be just fine. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, this is, the song is from the perspective of Earth after humans are gone. Yeah. All right, here we go. Again, the song is called Ghost of a Glowing Forest. That's the best word to describe it, I think, dude. Dude, you know how Wikipedia people sometimes put, like,

here's an example of this genre of music and a clip of a song. Throw this one on the Doomgays Wikipedia page. Like, this is perfect. Right, and that's what I'm saying. I think these guys, yeah, could be the, textbook definition. You know what I mean? Like, this is it. This is exactly what doom gaze would sound like, right? Like, if you were to try to come up in a lab with like the perfect Doom Gaze band, like, I feel like this is it, you know? Yeah. Or if someone who's just getting into

both these genres was not aware that it was, you know, that people have started kind of combining the two styles. Yeah. And they're just like, man, I wonder if you combine Doom metal and shoegays. Like, I wonder how that would sound like. Yeah. Well, this is it, dude. And that's actually interesting because there's an interview that I listened to where he was talking about him being Mario.

You know, the interview was asking him, like, sometimes you guys are called you know, sludge metal. Sometimes you're called shoe gay, sometimes you're called post-punk. And he was like, yeah, you know, I like that we have all these labels attached to us because it, it allows people to come to us from all these different places, right?

Because, you know, the fact that this band might be referred to as a sludge metal band means that people who listen to sludge metal might stumble upon them, right? Yeah. Even though they're not strictly sludge metal, right? And sludge metal is its own kind of, I mean, it's just kind of another term for due metal. But anyway, you know, basically they embrace whatever label is there. They're not trying to pigeonhole themselves. But they have kind of, they're sort of taken a liking to dream sludge, which I think is a fitting name.

But anyway, so yeah, speaking of shoegaze, I think this next track I'm going to play is the most shoegazy. As far as like, when I hit play, like, you're going to hear like a nice classic traditional sounding shoegaze riff to start it off. which is kind of cool. So I'm going to jump ahead to 2019. They came out with their next full-length record called Love and Decay. And I'm going to play. I actually brought a song from this record on an earlier what-you-heard episode this year. So X-Rox is the song that I brought.

But I'm going to play a song here called The Particle Noise. Here we go. Shugays is perfect for for these like heavy, heavy just rocking out moments that they bring to to their songs. It just goes so well together, man. Like it's in the same like, like the...

Sonically. Yeah, like the effects pedals and distortion that they're using in a Shugay song. You don't even really have to change it to just transition over to like a metal song. Yeah, you crank up the distortion a tad. maybe the fuzz and stuff. Maybe tune your guitars a little bit differently. That's great. Yeah, there's actually a, you'll have to find it.

I don't remember the name of it, but there is a video. It's like a, I think it's audio tree maybe or something like that. Or CME. Anyway, there's a live performance where like in between songs, they interviewed him and asked him to like walk you through the rig, right? And so he talks about all the guitar pedals that he uses. So if you're interested, you know, go check that out. But anyway, yeah, so worth noting this is the first record where Chris joined and actually

contributed to the recordings, like his drums, right? So like up to this point, either Mario was the drummer or he'd have guest drummers provide the recordings for all the drums. So this is like Chris's first record as a member of the band. Nice. It's kind of like Taylor Hawkins You know jumping on There's nothing left to lose

Prove your worth kind of thing But yeah Another thing worth noting is that This and all their records before it They produced it themselves Which is kind of a big deal right It's impressive dude I realize the sound of these recordings

And they're doing it out of a tiny Brooklyn rehearsal space Is what I'm reading here So I know that sometimes it isn't this rehearsal space and sometimes it's like out of their house right right bedroom or whatever you know because these are married couple right anyway um yeah i think that was a good showcase of of this uk side of these guys right um the guitar riff in the beginning classic shoegays riff in my opinion right that chord progression or whatever you've heard it before right yeah so anyway all right i got one more song and this song I'm also going to split into two clips from the same record so I've got

another song from Love and Decay. This song is called Far from Falling. A little tease of what's to come there. You can tell it's about to change up a little bit. I really like their melodies. It's very, it's very melodic. You know, that's something they bring. I like the, and I heard it in one of the earlier songs that you played, I don't think it's a keyboard. I think it might be a guitar, but like there's, there's, uh, like a little piano sounding melody. Yeah. Mario provides, uh, synth tracks too. Okay, cool. I really like that. Yeah, which is cool. Um, and, you know, you may have noticed there's like an acoustic guitar in the background of the, of the, the verse, which is just another kind of texture being added here.

But yeah, just like he was saying earlier when he was talking about maybe why they don't scream in their songs. I mean, they do. They provide it very sparingly sometimes, like that first song we played. But, you know, like he talked about, the contrast of quiet vocals with massive sounding music is, you know, very appealing to him. It's very appealing to me, too, Kew. That's why I love this band. Yeah. And that's why I love Doom Gaze. So I have a quote here about this record, love and decay. So seismic, like I was saying earlier, was about, like the end of the of humans, right? Humans occupying the planet or whatever. Love and Decay, Mario says here, each song carries its own subject matter, but all are tied into a main theme. Life and death,

creation and destruction, love and pain, etc. It's a collection of existential love stories, weaving through different aspects of life, love, loss, and death. What a perfect description of that contrasts, you know, that they bring. Yeah. Life and death, creation and destruction. Kind of like the contrast of doom gaze in general. Doom metal and shoe gaze. Don't sound like they'll go together, but like they're the perfect match, you know.

Right. And if this was just death metal, then that's really all they'd be singing about is death. Yeah, all they sing about death. But now, most metal bands do only sing about, you know, the darker side of life. All right, let me pick up the song where we left off here, and I'll let it play out for a little bit. So again, the song is called Far from Falling. Pasty Jam, dude. Proper metal to close us out here, dude.

These guys are massively talented, right? A lot of that guitar work kind of reminded me of Jerry Cantrell, of Allison Chains, some of the stuff that he would do with some of the, like, guitar solos and stuff on dirt, some of like the lead guitar work and stuff that he would do. And that solo was a bit cleaner than the rest of the song. Yeah, I had a little bit of like overdrive. on it or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, like I said, try to find that video on YouTube where he goes through his guitar pedals because the answer is in that video as far as like where that sounds

coming from. Yeah, I just, I was blown away by these guys when I first kind of dove into them. They've got something for everybody, you know what I mean? If you're a fan of rock music, just in general, you're going to like this band. You know, it's really hard not to. And they make metal approachable. I mean, I know, Q that you're, you know, you know, not a fan of metal, but I mean, this is a gateway for you right here, dude. Yeah, like I said, dude, I think this might be it for me. This is where you tap out. Yep. Well, you've got, you know, four, I think four records at this point. Yeah. Spotlight. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's enough metal to last you, you know. And maybe after that, after those four

albums, you know, I want to give something else to try. I'm just telling you, man, this is, you know, you got to take your first steps. You got to start somewhere, right? And this is like, Perhaps your gateway did. And so let me read this actually because there's another, I guess there are bands like this that sound like this, you know what I mean, that you could find that's metal, but not the parts of metal that you don't like, which is you've told me before, what you mostly have a problem with is metal vocals, right? Yes. Yeah, dude. Well, the scream, the way that they scream. Yeah, yeah.

Not a fan. Well, that's the thing about 90s alt rock. and the heavier side of it like hum you can get that heavy guitar driven you know leaning toward metal music but with cleaner vocals you know there's actually a comment on one of these YouTube videos

he says it's like someone took my favorite elements of Shiner Failure and Torch or Torch and gave it Astroar not Asteroids gave it Stairwards and irradiated it this band is amazing So Torch, and I might be pronounced, it might be Torch, but it's with an E on the end of it. So I'm kind of, you know, I brought them as a what you heard a long time ago.

And yeah, his vocal delivery sounds very similar. Now, I think they're a little bit more, they're a little bit more, you know, straight metal without the dreaminess, right? But anyway, there's plenty of bands out there for you, dude. You know, if this is as far as you're willing to go with metal, there's a bunch of bands out there that kind of sound like this. you know, you just got to go looking, right? I just hope that I can go the rest of my life without hearing another Mishugur song. Dude. Speaking of Mishiga.

No, we're not going to talk about them. Well, we're not going to, I'm not going to, you don't have to worry, Q you. I'm not going to play any Mishiga song. But I was, you know, I hung out with our good friend, Noodle. That's his nickname. But, Q, you know how I'm talking about. Yeah, dude, I didn't. I haven't seen or talked to that guy in probably a decade, dude.

I probably hang out with him like a few times a year. Nice. I was, you know, we were talking about Doom, not the genre, the video game, because I kind of told him about that. The last time I hung out with him, he's played it. He loves the soundtrack. We've talked about this before. Anyway.

So I was like, yeah, dude, you got to check out Mashuga, you know, because that's, the guitar on the Doom soundtracks was inspired by the style of guitar playing that, the Mishuga guitar player like binned, right? Anyway, he texted me back, Q, because I was like, you listen to Mishiga yet? And he goes, so aggressive, so angry, I felt attacked while trying to listen and work. That is, yeah, that's how I know. And that's the point, dude. If you don't feel like you're getting attacked, what's the point?

That's a weird sense, dude. I mean, that's the whole point, dude. Anyway, since you brought it up. Why did I? Because that was basically... That was a big... I went too far too quickly. A big mistake on your...

Yeah. I tried to shove you right into the deep end with Mushiga. Yeah. And I think I scared you away from metal, basically, entirely. Never again, dude. Anyway. Yeah, that's spotlights, man. Go check out everything they've ever done,

because it's all amazing, as these four songs have demonstrated. So I think for our closing song, actually, we have a song from a fan, don't we? Fan is probably, you know, a little too generous, but a listener, right? We do, yeah. Yeah, I'll cue that up. I'll cue that up as after we wrap up here. Yeah. Well, Q, you wanted to discuss the future of no filler for the next few months at least, right?

Yeah, dude. So by August 14th, I will, without a doubt, be a dad. I won't go into the details, but Sarah and I both caught COVID. And one of the precautions that they have with pregnant women who caught COVID is that they will induce on the due date. Because babies that are late, it's weird, dude. I don't know. It's kind of strange, but it's not going to be a natural birth in that way. If he does not pop out by the 14th, we're going to make it happen.

So I know without a doubt that my little boy is going to be making his appearance on August 14th. So that's that's right around the corner, dude. Yeah. And for the listeners of this episode, it's like a week of a closer. Yeah. Yeah. This episode will come out on August 8th. Yeah, man.

So the last thing I'm going to be thinking about is this podcast, man. for a while. Dude, the listeners are listening right now, and they're thinking, yeah, man, I don't blame you.

The fathers and mothers out there who are listening are like, yeah, dude, you're not going to have time for this, and we understand.

But I, you know what, I'm going to try to make an appearance as often as I can, and we will probably figure out a way to keep releasing episodes

of some kind every week, you know? And I think we can maybe do some more rewind episodes you know, dig into those. Maybe once or twice a month where we just revisit an old episode.

Well, I mean, I'm going to try to get some guests on, you know. Yeah. Or just, you know, come at you solo, you know, which means this might be the all metal all the time. No Filler did. Oh, God. This is my opportunity to play some metal for the listeners out there. Well, we are determined. And we've, this sleep training that we've read into that we're going to commit to.

Sleep training. Is this for the baby or for you? Listen, man, you got to train these little humans to do every single thing. One of them being how to, how to self-soothe and how to just sleep on their own without crying every two seconds. And there's a book that apparently has 100% success rate if you really stick to it. It's called 12 hours by 12 weeks. So. As in like sleeping for 12 hours straight, wow.

And sleeping 12 hours straight by three months old. Damn. Okay. So, you know, I should. That's a lot of time to recording an episode. Yeah, right, exactly. Yeah. So I should be less of a zombie.

And by the end of this year, I'll say that. Yeah. So this is not a permanent thing. This is just temporary while you guys get your, your feet, wet in parenting. And I'm also starting a brand new career in October. True. So I got a lot going on, dude. A lot going on. Yeah. This is a lot. You got a lot of stuff going on. But yeah, obviously, Q, all speaking for myself and all the listeners, I'm sure, we're all excited for you. Thank you, dude. I'm, I'm pumped, man. I'm super excited. I can't wait. I'm still over here committed to my

child-free life. We'll see what happens here. Just like Mr. D. Dink, Mr. and Mrs. Dink. That's right. I just buy useless stupid shit all the time because it's not like I have to save up for some kids' college, right? But we'll see, man. You, me getting to experience fatherhood through you might change some things here, dude. Being that we're twins and all, yeah.

You might be like, you know what, Kara? Let's happen to talk about having a kid. And then Kara's going to be like, there's the door, dude. But no. I think it'll be it'll be cool to to get a proper firsthand I think account of a fatherhood because you know our older brother I mean let's face it he doesn't really say much to anybody right that's true we find out things through our mother yeah anyway all right so that's that I think we'll have you for at least another episode maybe not my mother-in-law is coming into

town. She's staying with us for the entire month of August and she comes in on Saturday, this Saturday. Well, how about this, dude? How about we do one last What You Heard episode together? We try to squeeze it into this week. Like Friday. And then I'll release it whenever it's supposed to be released. Okay. All right. Well, in the meantime, reach out to us on Instagram. Hey, you know, parents out there. Why don't you send some tips to Q? He's going to need some. I'll take any and everything, dude. Congratulate him.

Or tell him, hey, man, it's the beginning of the end. You're going to regret it. No, he's not going to regret it. But yeah, reach out to us on Instagram. Just look for No Fuehler Podcast. We'll pop up and, you know, give us your music suggestions. We've had several listeners, you know, send us tunes that they've been listening to, albums that they think we should cover.

And yeah, that's been great. I mean, every time that we've had a listener, send us something to listen to, it's been great. Like, it's been gold, you know what I mean? So, yeah, that's awesome. You guys, you guys know us well. Yeah, the people who listen to this show out there, you, I'm talking to you.

You got great taste in music, obviously. You know, obviously we're going to align musically if you like this show. So, yeah, send us your suggestions. I'm going to need some ideas for episodes. I'm going to be flying solo. So, you know, give me some suggestions. Anyway, so again, that's no failure podcast on Instagram. And we are also a part of the Pantheon podcast network.

That's pantheonpodcast.com. You can find many great music podcasts under the network umbrella. If you search for Pantheon podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts, you can follow the main network feed, which will include all of our episodes and every other episode from all the other shows under the network once a week. I mean, I guess never mind. It would be like once a day, twice a day probably because we have so many shows under this network. But I mean, you'll get our show once a week in the feed along with all the others.

So yeah, that's pantyam podcast.com. And that's it. So we have a, speaking of listeners, we have a suggestion that's going to play us out. tell us more about that cute yeah so Kenneth Fugati shout out to Ken uh he's reached out to us before and he says here he just he sent us a message yesterday that says hey twins have a cosmic doom suggestion for y'all cosmic doom cosmic doom now let me tell you something that's a i think that's a good descriptor for spotlights i think they are kind of space rocky you know yeah a little bit actually mutoid man was a band that he's

He liked a lot, which was kind of cool because that's Kaven's, the Keevan lead singers. Yeah, yeah, just a random thought, which is space rock, right. So he says, artist is Ramina, and the song is Eon Raines. I love the tone of the music and her instrumental voice. Sign me up, dude. That sounds great. I gave it a listen earlier. It is great, dude.

It says they remind me of the artist Darker, who I've been listening to on repeat. since early July. Both artists of the sound I've been searching for, not since Radiohead's Kid A. And he says in parentheses, that's how I found your podcast. So I guess he was searching for podcasts covering Kid A, and we popped up.

That's pretty cool. That is cool. That's going way back. That might have been like the first year of the show. Yeah, I think so, dude. We did like, basically we did OK computer through in rainbows. Yeah. That was a good chunk of.

episodes. Yep. So he says, I've been blessed with a that's it moment, especially darker, and her album Burial Storm. All right. Well, I'm going to keep a couple artists to dive into here. He says, keep the good vibes going. Well, thank you, Ken. You know what, right back at you. For real. Right back at you. So we're going to outro out this episode with Eon Reigns from Remina. and yeah thank you as always for listening. Until next time, my name's Quentin. My name is Travis. You all take care.

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