No Filler Music Podcast - No Filler Presents: Whatcha Heard? Episode 01

Episode Date: January 25, 2021

Every week we both share a song that we heard since the last time we recorded. It's a way to add some variety to the episode, and share some more tunes with our listeners! We called the segment: Whatcha Heard? In 2021, we're trying something new. We're ditching the weekly segment for a monthly episode, where the entire show is dedicated to sharing whatever it is we've been listening to that month. Think of it as a monthly mixtape curated by your 2 favorite podcasters. Have a nice listen. Tracklist: All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors - Saturn Jig Drug Church - Bliss Out Tigers Jaw - Lemon Mouth KILN - Beachglass Dead Melodies - The Hunted DARKPYRAMID - She Still Dreams Drab Majesty - No Rain (Blind Melon Cover) Monie Love - Read Between The Lines Sampa The Great - Freedom TesseracT - Lament 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

This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ. Built for breakthroughs, with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence, while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift, flow, and go. Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus at OnePeloton.ca. Marshall's buyers travel far and wide, hustling for great deals on amazing gifts.

So you don't have to. They've bagged this season's Italian leather handbags. Designer. Hand-picked the finest sweaters from the rest. Ooh, cashmere. Landed makeup pallets from the brands you love. Rushes too. And hustled all those wishless topping toys.

So plush. Our buyers have got you covered. Marshalls. We get the deals. You gift the good stuff. Is it the matcha, or am I this energized from scoring three Sephora holiday gift sets? Definitely the sets. Full size and minis bundled together?

What a steal. And that packaging? So cute. It practically wraps itself. And I know I should be giving them away, but I'm keeping the summer Fridays and rare beauty by Selena Gomez. I don't blame you. The best holiday beauty sets are only at Sephora. Gift sets from summer Fridays, rare beauty, way, and more are going fast.

Get full-size favorites and must have minis. Bundled for more value. Shop before they're gone. In store online at Sephora.com. And welcome to No Filler, the music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gems that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Travis. I got my brother Quentin with me, as always. Kear, you excited about today's episode?

Dude, I'm so pumped, man. This is a first for us. I don't think I've been excited about an episode like this in a long time. Yeah, man. This is our first full-length what-you-heard episode. That's right, Q. And if you're asking, what is a what-you-herd? What's that?

That means that you've either, either you bail before the end of our regular episodes or you're a first-time listener, which is, you know, hey, welcome. If you're a first-time listener, nice to have you on board. And honestly, if you bail before our what-you-heard's, that's totally understandable. Sure. Yeah. It's at the end of the episode. We tacked this on at the end of the episode. It's a little segment that we've been doing for a long time now. And basically, the idea is we each bring a song. It doesn't have to be related to the topic of the episode at all. It can be from any decade, any genre. Doesn't matter. The only rule that we try to

follow is that it has to be something that we listened to since we last recorded. So basically, It's just a way to have another couple of tracks at the end of every episode. And, you know, typically it's two very different genres, sometimes different decades. So, you know, it's just a way to keep things interesting. Yeah. And this speaks to, like, what we're all about. And this is what we live. We eat, sleep, drink, and breathe, sharing music with people.

Yeah. You know, and we've been doing it for decades. Like, it started with our music blog. back in the early 2000s. It's manifested into this podcast. This is just a way for us to share music that we've been listening to lately. And I think it's going to be really fun.

So what we're doing, we're going to bring five songs each today. Just rapid fire and just play a bunch of tunes today. Rapid fire, like you said, we did a similar episode in 2019 toward the end of the year. It was called our 2019 discoveries. And basically it was a what- heard for the year in a way. So anyway, I went back and listened to that recently. I thought it was

such a great episode. And basically, that's the format of what you heard. So we decided for 2021, we are going to do monthly what you heard episodes devoted to this format. Yeah. So we're going to ditch them on our full length episodes. Yeah. Let's get into it, man. Let's do it. Let's strap in and just get going here. So Q, I'm going to let you go. first. So, and let's just say this, Q, because we did our year-end episodes for the last few weeks, and then we've done a couple of electronic episodes without what you heard at the end, it's been a good like six episodes probably since. I'm sitting on like 20 songs. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's been a long time since we've done what you heard. So it was hard to narrow it down

to just five. But anyway, here we go, Q. So I'm going first and I'm, I mean, I'm torn on which one to start off with, man. You got to set the stage here, dude. You got to set the tone. All right. Well, I got, I got one that I just heard today, actually. So this is fresh. So this is fresh.

I'm going to purposely not say too much about this band. Okay. I will tell you they go by all natural lemon and lime flavors. Okay. Can I take a guess of this genre? Yeah, please. Is it vapor wave? No.

Okay. I don't know why that sounds like a vapor wave band name. It is, according to Discogs, alternative rock, ethereal, ambient, shoegaze. Okay, I'm excited. I'm super stuck right now. So this is from their debut album, not going to tell you the year yet. It's a self-titled song is called Saturn Jig. It's got a little bit of some like psychedelic flare to it a little bit with that like flangey kind of guitar sound thing, which is cool.

So you, so you didn't tell me the, the year that it came out. Was that intentional? I want you to guess. Well, I would say, I'm going to go like 90s. 1996. Dang, I was right. I thought it was either you were going to go like. this was made yesterday or something like that, you know what I mean?

Right. But no, it's the fact that that came out in the 90s is actually kind of cool because it sounds like a more, like I said more like psychedelic sounds to it and something like that, which to me, a lot of Shugate's bands now seem to kind of sprinkle in some psychedelic stuff. So like, you know, they've been doing it that way for decades, it would seem. Yeah. So I just sent something, an image to our Slack. Okay.

Hopefully it pops up here. I want you to look at this with me. So this is how I found out about these guys. Okay, so like a shoegaze map? Yeah, so someone posted this. I want to say on the vinyl subreddit, and I say we link this in the show notes, or maybe I'll post it on Twitter.

This is an awesome, like, roadmap to all kinds of different shoegaze styles. I love this kind of stuff, man. I love it when people put this stuff together. It says start here, and it's a triangle. with slow dive, Suvlaki, my bloody Valentine's loveless, and then the band Ride.

Yeah. And then it's just got arrows to take you, like, if you want it a little bit more dreamy, go this way. That's cool. You know, you want it a little bit more crazy noise, you know, like droidy stuff, go this way.

It's fucking great, dude. I've found like three or four bands that I'm crazy about. That's awesome. Just from following this map around, yeah. So if you look, there's all natural lemon in line flavors.

That's if you follow slow dive that goes a little bit more sparse with the tunage down to a little bit more jangly pop influences. And then you find your way to the self-titled from all natural lemon and lime flavors. That's cool. Great stuff, man. The whole album's really cool. It's really all over the place, man. It's a lot of noisy, jubilant.

I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I hear you. Yeah. Kind of like polyphonic. spree but minus maybe 50 members you know what I mean yeah yeah there's a few um there's a few albums on here that have popped up on some what you heards actually that we've done yeah dude deer hunters on here which is cool Bowery electric's on here sweet trip so that's cool what

excites me about stuff like this when you look at it and you don't recognize a lot of the oh yeah dude that's that's when it's exciting because it's like okay now I can dig in here and really discover some new stuff, you know. Dude, I love it. If you follow it upwards from My Bloody Valentine, there's an entire little, like, boxed off section that says, just overwhelm me with joy. If you want to get overwhelmed with joy, listen to these albums.

Shugees does tend to do that sometimes, man. It just has this uplifting kind of vibe to it, you know. Yeah, and then there's at the very top, right, darker, sad, or intense, more Japanese, more sad. That's awesome. Yeah. Cool. Your turn, brother.

Which have you been heard in monthly? That's what I'm going to start saying. That doesn't make any sense. I know, dude. So a couple of these tracks are, I don't want to call them leftovers, but they are songs I had in mind for my best of 2020, but they didn't make the cut. Okay. Which means I've been listening to this particular song for quite a bit. It's something I pull it up and push play at least once a week because I just enjoy the song so much.

So this is a band called Drug Church, and they are best described as like a post-punk post-hardcore band. So you're going to hear more hardcore punk, at least the song is, than post-hardcore. That's just the funny fucking sentence right there. But I guess what I'm saying is like they remind me of like the older 80s hardcore punk stuff like Black Flag and stuff like that. And this is new stuff? Yeah, this song came out last year. So I want to say, I want to read this little quote from the lead singer.

His name is, his name is Patrick Kindlin. So this is interesting. He doesn't play any instruments. And the way that he writes his lyrics, he writes them in the studio. Like, as he describes it, this is made to order, not buffet. So wait, so when they go into the studio ready to record music and he writes the lyrics then and there? Yeah. He says here, completely different people write the instrument portion of the music.

It leads to a very different feel, so very different lyrics. Also, I write everything in the studio, so there's no bank of lyrics I pull from. which is interesting. I guess that means he maybe he arrives to the studio. His other bandmates have written a collection of songs, right? The instrument, like the music, the instrumentation behind it. And then he just kind of goes from there with the lyrics, which is interesting. Anyway, the lyrics in the song are great.

And that's kind of why I wanted to read that because it's interesting to hear this is kind of like on the fly, you know, in the moment kind of lyrics, right? All right. So this song is called Bliss Out. I guess I'll see it. You have to vigil. You're alive for something. Quick and dirty.

I like it. Quick and dirty. That was the whole song. Not even two minutes long. Yeah. So that's cool, man. You can almost see him like, you know, standing in front of the mic and the recording booth. Yeah.

Thinking out loud, you know, like what could this song be about, like maybe a vigil, you know? Yeah. I mean, I doubt that it's improvved. You know what I mean? Like he probably does plan it and write it out and stuff like that. But that's what I like. I thought you said that he wrote all the lyrics in the studio. He does, but that doesn't mean that it's a one take like live improv.

Okay, okay. But like, yeah, that's what stood up to me about the song, those kind of moments where he is sort of speaking, you know what I mean? Kind of sarcastic a little bit, some of the words. Kind of reminded me of this kind of stuff that Aaron Weiss does and me without you. Yeah. Completely different, but you know, that spoken word kind of stuff that gets. sprinkled in.

Yeah. It makes you kind of be like, wait, what did he say? You kind of remind it back. Yeah. Anyway, I just like, I like the way that they pulled that off. Anyway, again, that was a song called Bliss Out by a band called Drug Church. R IQ. I'm sending it back at you.

What's your next pick for us? Well, let's keep it in the 2020 year. Okay. You know, that old year, that old thing. It's ancient history. I'm going to keep it in the same pocket, dude. It's not going to be as heavy, but it's going to be in the emo punk world. And we're no stranger to Tiger's Jaw, man.

Oh, gosh, here we go. So this was the song that Spotify told you that you played how many times last year? I can't remember, like, 57 times or something. Or at least the song that we brought to our best of 2020. I hope you're not going to play that song again. Oh, of course not. But if you remember, I mentioned, and I had found this out while we were recording, that they had spit out a couple more singles since I heard their new one from last year.

So the song that I fell in love with, first time I ever heard anything from these guys, was a song called Warn Me, came out last year. And again, they're cranking out more singles. So this is an emo punk band. They've been around since the early 2000s. They've changed around members. But the two main band members, they've been together as part of the band since pretty much the beginning.

Ben Walsh and Brianna Collins. This new song features Brianna on the lead vocals, which is great. So it's a little bit different. Okay. Really catchy song, dude. You're going to love it. So this is a song. again by Tiger's Jaw.

A song is called Lemon Mouth. I absolutely love that. They're just keeping it alive, man. It's great. Yeah. And I love that they have two singers because that's, I love her vocals, man. That's great. Yeah.

And yeah, so I was reminded of like Isley and the like. Yeah, totally. The female-led bands from like the 2000s and stuff that we fell in love with. And this is one of those bands, I guess, because like you said, they've been doing this as 2006. We just didn't know about them. Yeah. And mixed with like old school, well, maybe not old school old school, but bleed American era, Jimmy World. Yeah.

Well, yeah, especially that guitar, that lead guitar thing that happens toward the middle of the song there that you played. It's is, yeah, totally like that post-punk era stuff. Yeah, dude. So, yeah, Tiger's Jaw, one of my new favorite bands for sure. it looks like they're slated to to release a full-length album sometime this year so they're just building up to releasing singles.

Yeah, awesome. I can't wait, dude. So yeah, again, that's a band called Tiger's Jaw. The song was called Lemon Mouth and pass it back on to you, brother. Okay, so this is the last one that I'm bringing that's a sort of a

leftover from my 2020 picks. So I wanted to get them out of the way at the top here. I'm really hoping, Cue, that you did not realize that this band put out a new, a new album this year. This is a band that we did an episode on. And it's probably, I know this is true for you as well, Q, one of my favorite ambient electronic groups, little band called Kilm. I had no idea. They had anything new.

They put out a whole record last year. You gotta be out, Joel. And you kept that from me all this time. That's right, dude. Because I was planning on bringing it to our best of 2020. That is the most exciting news I've heard all year. And I'm not talking about just this year. I'm talking about the past 12 months, dude.

So you've got 11 new tracks of kiln music to enjoy Quentin. And you're going to get to hear one right now. So this actually came out in November, November 20th. So still relatively fresh. And for more on this band, just go back and listen to our episode that we did. I think we did like bits and songs from multiple albums that they came out with, right? Yeah. Yeah.

And I feel like we did him justice. I think we covered some good songs on that. So they pick up right where they left off as far as like it's undeniably. killed, right? Their last record came out in 2013, so it had been a while. I don't think they even put out singles or anything. So when this dropped, I was like, I was all about it. All right, so I'm going to read this real quick. Here is the description of the record on their website. Incepted as densely layered loops, employing the use of self-sourced found sound and environmental recordings, then expanded through more traditional multi-tracking methods and instrumentation,

astral welder is a fizzing electrocharged gallery of propulsion and a braided tone. Oh man, I got to put my pop filter on. Hold on. I just realized because that's going to sound like shit. I'll pick it up where I left up, but you're going to have to. No, hang on. So you're just now putting on the pop filter? Sorry. I don't keep it on.

I'm keeping this in, brother. All right. Now my voice should sound. crystal clear. That's exactly. Let me just say, let me finish this. Let me just finish it.

Okay. A braided tone. Now you can hear the difference that a pop filter makes. I don't know, man. Audience. You know what?

Now the whole sentence is just garbage. Man, I was on a roll with that too, man. Yeah. And you just, and that is kiln through and through. Yeah. What a great description of them.

Exactly. So in other words, it's more of the same, right? But let me just finish the last part of the sentence here. By the way, that's one sentence.

Talk about a fucking run on. Offering 11 rotating constellations of vital force, groove, and color that infuse the listener with a buoyant sense of now. Wow. You're right. They probably have spent the last seven years, like, writing the sentence to describe who they are. Because this describes kiln, right? Not just perfectly. Yeah.

Dude, we tried very hard. And I mean, we pretty much failed at it. Yeah. Trying to describe them in our episode. It's very hard to describe, Kuland. Hard to put into words. So why don't we just listen? So let's just listen.

So we're going to listen to track three. This is called Beach Glass. Oh, juicy, brother. But there you go, Kew. Oh, man. It's exactly what you would hope for. For a brand new kilm song, right? I just, I have to know.

No, how do they do it? What? It's, how do they make this sound? It's like, because when you hear them describe it, unless you're familiar with this kind of stuff, you're like, huh? Because like, listen to this. Okay, so this is from the ghostly international description. So that's the record label.

As a means to refresh their sonic troika, which I have no idea what the hell that means, Troika, T-R-O-I-K-A, whatever. The pieces that make up Astral Welder forego the standard kiln approach to composition in favor of a more ambitious, intuitive strategy rooted in strict 16 and 32 bar loop forms. So I said, and then there's a quote from one of the guys. We used the loop cycle format as a new process to see if we could make full gardens

of sensible noise in a truncated format. Knowing full well, we'd employ standard or. arranging formats later. I don't know. I don't know what that means, dude. So that sounds to me like while they were just kind of improvving and stuff, they started with the base of it being either a 16 or 32 bar loop. And then later they'd go back and recomposition it in different ways.

Weird. But anyway, yeah, what's interesting about this record, they were talking about like it's all incorporating like found sound and stuff like that, right? Field recordings. And, you know, we did an episode on Lossel, and, you know, I think we talked about he would do similar things. Same with Aiman Tobin. So this is something that it seems like if you're an electronic musician, eventually you're going to get bored of, you know, the sound library or whatever that you're available to you in the software or the synthesizer that you use. So you're going to bust out.

Yeah. Even if it's something that you can manipulate with a, you know, a synthesizer. Yeah, it still loses its excitement. So, yeah, throw in some field recordings in there and manipulate that. Yeah, but it's impressive as hell, dude. So, yeah, cue that album up, Q. Oh, you know I will. The whole thing's great. Anyway, all right, this is going to be a long episode if we don't rapid fire here.

So, Q. Tighten it up. Yeah. Okay, let me... I'll throw it back at you. All right, dude. So, yeah, I'll keep this short and sweet. Okay.

And we didn't plan this, but I've got a perfect companion to kill. Wow. So, Travis, you know, I've been getting heavy into dark ambient. Yes, you have. And it's kind of getting me into this like cyberpunk vibe, not the game, but the aesthetic. One of my later picks, you're going to love, dude. I'll say that. Maybe it should be the next pick.

No. Let's keep this flowing. Maybe. Okay. You know what, I will. I will do that. I'll switch it up here. So then you might be familiar with this artist. He goes by Dead Melodies. Nope. All right. Well, this seems to be a collective in like the main heavy hitters of the dark ambient world. Seems to be like four or five heavy hitters. And they all collaborate with each other. And they do a lot of wide-ranging styles. Some a little more, I guess,

active, more, some more like passive, like some of it is just like straight up noise. Others, there's a little bit more structured, you know. And one of the albums of his that came out a while ago

is called Broken Shadows and Wild Silences. Came out in 2015. This song is just so warm and it just kind of envelopes you. And there's some, some vocals in it too. So this song, again, by Dead Melodies is called The Hunted.

Dude, I love the vocals in that. That makes it stand out to me. Yeah, man, the way it just kind of like pulsates, you know, kind of like in and out. Yeah. That's a great follow-up to kill him. Yeah, dude. You were right about that. So are the vocals like kind of a staple in his music or her music?

or most of his stuff dude is straight up uh it's more like drone ambient you know um atmospheric it's just straight up noise so to answer your question no the vocals are not a staple in his music at all that one album that this pops up on from from what i've heard of his that's the only album that has vocals okay so yeah dude that's that's one of his Tracks that it kind of sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of his stuff. But yeah, I started getting into this stuff when I started back with school. You know, I'm studying for hours and hours every day. This more ambient stuff is really good companion for studying.

Cool. Again, the song was The Hunted Artist's Dead Melodies. I'm going to pass it back to you, brother. All right. You're going to switch it up a little bit? No, I'm not because I'm going to try to keep the flow here. So originally I was going to play another one, but I'm going to play this one instead. I'm going to do a little switch route here.

I wouldn't call this dark ambient. But as far as what you were saying with like cyberpunk and like that sort of like Blade Runner kind of. Yeah. So this kind of music would fall perfectly into that category. So one of my what you heards from last year was an artist that goes by. H-K-E. Oh, Hong Kong Express.

Hong Kong Express, right. So he is a vapor wave artist who started his own label called Dream Catalog. And they do kind of what, they have taken this genre, this fictional genre and sort of turned it into an offshoot of Vaporwave. They call it Dream Punk. You know, so him and this other artist that goes by 2814 put together a record that was sort of like the Dream Catalog, like the first entry into the Dream Catalog record label. And it was the Dream Punk type of stuff. Now, here's how he describes sort of the Dream Punk sound.

He says, we wanted to show how the whole Vaporwave vibe could be made as original music rather than just relying on the same musac. Kitch Pop samples everyone else had been using for years. So anyway, this is another artist on his label. This person goes by the name Dark Pyramid. And we're going to play a song off of his 2016 release, Prelude to Destruction. And this song is called She Still Dreams. Synthy. Yeah, dude.

That reminds me of kind of the darker side of daft punk, you know, with Thomas Bingalter. Okay. Yeah. The irreversible soundtrack that he did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could see that. So this is a description of the album that HKE and 2814 put out. But I think it describes the sound of this record, too.

A late night cruise through the Cyber Future Dream Highway. Oh, yeah. Late night cruise, that's the key cue. Talk about music that sounds like you should be listening to it while you're driving around at night. Like this is the kind of stuff. Totally. That does that. So, yeah, like the dream punk, like, sci-fi genre is described as, or here it is.

Like, it makes you ask the question, is this real? And then follows up with, what does that even mean anyway? So it's kind of interesting that they took. And Alice in Wonderland is like, does consider like the archetype? of like a dream punk story. Yeah, yeah. So it's interesting that they took that the name of that genre and applied it to the type of music that they wanted to make.

I like it. And I think it's kind of fitting. Yeah. Like kind of this kind of mystery and stuff like that to it. You know what I mean? Anyway. All right, Q, what you got for us next? Are you going to switch it up on us?

You know what? I think this kind of works. Okay. All right, but before I play my next one, dude, let's take a quick break. So this is, I'm going to give another shout out to Joe Stevens, the lead singer, main man behind Peel Dream magazine. Remember we covered them a while back that shoegaze goodness. He has that killer playlist that he's got public on Spotify called Silent Running. It's just loaded with good, like New Wave, Dream Pop, Shugay stuff.

this is another artist that I found on that playlist. It's a two-member act. They go by Drab Majesty. I'm hoping that when I say the name of this song, you're not going to realize what it is because you're going to be like, wait a second. Okay. So this is a single from them that came out.

Oh, it's a cover. Hey now. Yeah, you got it. Well, I'm excited. Yeah, so this is a blind melon. cover. Awesome. Yeah, dude.

It's so great. Everybody loves this song, dude. Right. So this came out last year. This is again Drabb Majesty, and this is their cover of No Rain. It's like a pitch perfect new wave song. Just aside from the fact that it's a cover of a very well-known 90s song,

like their sound is like straight. up 80s new wave. It's perfect, yeah, it's cool to hear that song we imagined as a new wave song, right? Like a perfect new wave song, like I said. Yeah, man. I want to hear a whole record of 90s rock in the style of 80s new wave. That would be great.

Amazing, yeah. So, yeah, another shout out to Joe Stevens, aka Peel Dream magazine. If you like that kind of stuff, he has an awesome playlist. Again, it's called Silent Running. Just search for that in, uh, Spotify, you'll find it. His name is JT. Stevens 360 on Spotify. All right, dude.

Passing it back to you, sir. We're rounding the corner at the finish line here. All right, Q. So let me get my paintbrush shot. You know paint a picture for me? I'm going to paint a nice picture. So there's two rules that I live by Q. You always have to have, I guess it's one rule, but it applies to two different places.

If you're in, it's going to sound weird, if you're shopping at Target or if you're at a record store, all right, let me add some more places. If you're shopping at Target, you're at a record store or you're, you know, waiting for a band to hit the stage. They're doing like a, you know, set change at a music venue. You got to have Shazam at the ready, right? Anyway, so I shazam this artist because I wanted to see who it was. I knew it was a 90s R&B hip hop artist that I knew. So I wanted to know who it was. And this artist is named Moni Love.

So here's the picture on Peyton, if you thought that that wasn't painted enough. Well, I mean, dude, I can see you pushing that cart down the aisle in Target right now. What other picture do you want to paint for me right now? Well, we're out of Target now. Now we're back at my house. Okay. So let me just put this out there. you have you ever eaten the cheeseburger and you're like man you know i have brother you've seen me eat

a cheeseburger yes i have several times and you're ever like man that's the best damn cheeseburger ever had my whole fucking life and then you're like you know let me get that same cheeseburger next week and then it doesn't taste the same doesn't taste as good as it did yeah man i know what you're talking about it's you know because the the environment your mood and all that stuff kind of shapes your experience right i love it when this kind of stuff happens i was sitting it was late at night, probably like past, maybe past midnight. So, you know, I'm on the couch. My wife Kara is asleep on the couch with me.

We have, hold on now. We have like an L-shaped couch, so she's on one side of the couch, stretched out sleeping. I'm on the other. I have my Bluetooth headphones on so I can listen to music, you know, just while I'm coding and stuff. I love it when that happens because then it really is just me alone with the music. right so i decided let me pull up this record of this artist moni love and listen to the whole thing because i'm alone i can really kind of invest myself in it and dude i it was like she was like putting on a show directly for me you know what i mean dude let me tell you real quick man i

that happened to me earlier last year i finally listened to david bowie's space odyssey all the way through the album yeah it was a fucking religious experience that's what's saying It was a similar. Yeah. Yeah, I was all by myself. I laid on the bed. I had good pair of headphones on. Exactly.

He was just right there preaching to me, man. It was so awesome. So this is what I'm talking about. Cool. Anyway, so this is her debut record. So she's well known for appearing on Queen Latifah's single that came out in 89 called Ladies First. Okay. I may have heard this then.

So she put out her debut record the year after. And so we're going to let me. listen to a track off of this album. It's called Down to Earth. And the name of the song is Read Between the Lines. Peace and love and respect to do. If you think you'll have a clear conscience or it is not. And there's just a plethora of awesome hip-hop from the early 90s, dude. I was on a huge kick for like a good half year, maybe two, three years ago. That's all I listened to was that stuff, man. I love it. One of the reasons I wanted to play this song,

is that I want to challenge us to do a batch of hip-hop and rap episodes this year. And I feel like- Let's do it like soon. Yeah, what more do you need to hear beyond something like that to be like, man, we got to dig into this. Because we did one episode. I mean, really, it's just one episode. Yeah, it's just one, dude. We did an episode on Tribe Call to Quest, which is kind of in the same decade and the same group of musicians, if you will.

Like she's kind of, so she's associated. with all those guys like Queen Latifah, De LaSoul, Tribe Call Quest, Native Tongues, MC Light. So she kind of ran with that crew, right? Yeah, cool. Anyway, so yeah, she's from London, which is cool. Anyway, she is still a radio personality right now. Oh, cool.

And Atlanta, Georgia, she does an urban adult contemporary station called Kiss 104.1. So if you live in Atlanta, Georgia, you can listen to Moni Love, as a radio personality, any old time you want, which is cool. Spinning records. Exactly. Spinning the platters that matter. All right, Q. This is your last track.

That's my last track, and I'm going to change it up at the last second here after hearing some of that monie love, dude. Okay. All right, man. So I fell in love with this artist. First heard her a couple months back. She goes by Sampa the Great. She is Zambia-born, Botswana raised. And I'm going to read this bio here.

Sampa's upbringing continues to bear an influence on her music, ranges from classic hip-hop to ancient Southern African sounds. So the album I heard from her is called The Return, came out in 2019. Dude, she's just a force to be reckoned with, man. I'm going to play track two off the album. it's called freedom There's nothing to not like about that song

The whole album's great dude She has a lot of really awesome contributing artists that show up on it It's kind of a collective deal Again kind of like with Earthgang you know Yeah A lot of the same people pop up on her album She pops up on a lot of theirs

Good stuff dude More reason for us to dig deeper into hip hop And rap and stuff like that I've been getting into it again man Yeah I was, well, I don't know if I should, I guess I could say it. I was making hash for a few months, helping my wife's, helping my wife's company out. Wait, so you make it hash browns, like potatoes and stuff?

Yeah, I did, hash browns. Hash browns, we'll go with that. So, yeah, I was hoping to make some hash at her facility. And I, and the cool thing about work, I was working on weekends, and it's just me and one other person. and we spend a good five, six hours making a hash. And we just jam out to whatever music that we feel, you know, just bust out the Bluetooth speakers. And yeah, dude, we were passing back and forth a lot of really great hip-hop artists.

He showed me some good stuff. So yeah, man, I'm filling to the brim with some good hip-hop that I would love to share on here, dude. Awesome, dude. Well, we're going to have to maybe bring on some help, you know, get some guests on here to help us navigate. Yeah, if we can figure, out a way to do it remotely. I've mentioned my friend Raven a few times. She is like a hip-hop nerd.

I mean, dude, we had the, we had Mark from CD addict and Mad World Records. We did that remotely, so we can make it happen. Yeah, she would love to hop on and nerd out with us over this stuff, dude. Because we need, we need help navigate in this arena queue. We're, totally. We're nobs when it comes to this genre and yeah i'm jones in to dig a little deeper all right you i'm gonna do a complete 180 here to end this thing are we're gonna get some distortion up in here yes we are okay okay so um man this is the first track on this record and it blew me away so on my top 20 20 top picks from 2020. I brought a song from Mick Gordon, who is the composer slash extreme metal guitar player that put together the Doom Eternal and the Doom 2016 soundtrack, right? I don't know if I

talked about this or not, but his style of guitar is called gent. It's kind of like a chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint chint i'm i mean i can't help my feelings i go out of my mind that's that's wheezer yeah um but no that's funny because like the riff you were doing was almost kind of like cash pipe that's what i'm saying dude coming all around man making the hash yeah seriously anyway um hash browns so these guys were recommended via spotify for people who like Mac Gordon. So this is a band called Tesseract, which, if you're a fan of Marvel, you know that the Tesseract played a pretty important role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but you don't know what I'm talking about here because you've never seen the Marvel movies, which is insane to me. I've seen a handful of them, but it's just not my jam, dude. All right. Well, anyway, so here's the first thing I thought of and why you're going to love this song, Q. This band reminded me of all the things that you and I love about Emory.

And we talked about Emory. We did an episode on The Weeks End, specifically the vocalists kind of going back and forth between soft, clean, melodies, and screaming. So this band does that. But they are described as, and this is the perfect description of them, progressive metal. So on this record, this record is called One, came out in 2011. There is one song on here that is broken into six different parts, and it's 27 minutes long.

Good Lord. Now, it's six separate tracks, right? But it's all one theme, one thought, right? So that is progressive rock in a nutshell, right? We talk about that with Moody Blues, right? Mary Blues and yes, sounds like fragile to me. Exactly. So anyway, this is a progressive metal band.

So we're going to listen to the first track here, and this song is called Lament. And if you have a good pair of headphones, now it's time to put it on. Here we go. So much going on there, man. I like it. Blows me away every time I listen to it. And the whole record, I mean, if you think that's good, I mean, this album is like almost an hour long. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I love metal bands that do this, that sprinkle in a lot of different ideas and, like, genres and stuff like that. Like there's, like you said, all sorts of stuff going on, different instruments that kind of pop up and stuff. It really is progressive metal, man. That's what it is. Yeah, progressive metal is a huge, what's the name of the band Dream Theater, I think, is like kind of like the band that everybody thinks of when they think of progressive metal. but yeah but do you see what I mean by by the I mean emery if emory continued to like evolve over time like this is what they would like reach as like peak emery you know what I mean yeah but but it's not

because this isn't I wouldn't call this an email band by any means right but I'm just saying that part of what we like about emery and we even admitted on the episode that like we really have no clue about the emo genre beyond, you know, maybe some of the earlier emo stuff, like, like the Jimmy E. World's of emo music. Yeah. Versus like the Emery's or the, what's the standard one that everybody thinks about? Oh, like Fall Out Boy.

Under oath and all that kinds of. Yeah. Anyway, that's probably a very common thing. And this sound that Tesseract has could be a very, very common sound. I just don't seek it out or hear it very often. So when I do, it's like, man, that's fucking amazing. Yeah. So anyway, this record is called One.

Kiem on 2011. If you liked that, you're going to like this record. So anyway, Kew, that's how you close out on what you heard episode with some epic progressive metal. That was a blast, dude. We brought some good tunes today. Dude, there you go. Just like we hoped, we covered a very wide range of music there. Yeah.

And that's the goal of the What You Heard episode format, which will come and show. once a month. It might not be 10 songs each time. It could be, you know, three songs each, four songs each. It depends on what we have. We had to play catch up today, man. It's been a long time since we've shared some what you heards. Exactly. All right, Q. Well, that's that. Let's wrap it up here. You can find us on our website, nofillerpodcast.com, if you want to see all of our show notes. Show note pages have track lists. So every song, that we played on this episode, every song we play on any episode, is listed on the show note page for that episode.

I'll say many times I can see the word episode in this little ditty here. But yeah, also, and I guess we're going to have to decide to do it this way here from now on, but we have a what-you-heard playlist that has every single what-you-heard that we've ever played. So now I guess we'll be updating that playlist once a month as opposed to once a week. So if you follow that playlist and you enjoy getting two new songs added once a week, sorry. Now you're going to have to wait once a month, but you will get, you know.

There's going to be 10 songs added. Yeah, you'll get a nice drop once a month. But anyway, we have quite a bit of playlists starting to add up on our Spotify account, which is Quentin's Spotify account. But anyway, so yeah, find us on Spotify. You can search, I think, for probably no affiliation. podcast and then click on the user because obviously you can also find this show that you're listening to right now. The actual podcast is also on Spotify. But anyway, yeah, we've got several

playlist that we've sort of built up over the last couple of years. So you can listen to our top songs from 2020 playlist. You can listen to our What's Yourard playlist. You can listen to our top 100 songs from the last decade playlist. Not just songs, but non-single specifically. non-singles, that's right. Anyway, lots of stuff on there. So look us up on Spotify. Follow us on Twitter at No Failure Podcast. And also, you can find us on the Pantheon podcast network.

And that's the podcast network from Music Lovers' Q. We're out of new shows all the time. There's new shows that get out of this network. There's over 50 podcasts on there now, dude. Yeah. So if you like this podcast, guaranteed you'll find. some more over at the Pantheon podcast network. It's just nothing but music podcast.

That's the coolest thing about it, dude, because if you just search keyword music, you know, if you're looking for podcasts on whatever streaming app you use, you're, I mean, you're going to find the top of the top, you know, but it's not necessarily like what you're looking for. Right. With Pantheon podcast with the network that we're a part of, man,

it is, it gets very niche. Definitely. And there's a lot of really cool content on there. And it's, yeah, like you said, it's all music related. Yeah. Anyway, lots of great stuff on the network, pantheonpodcast.com. Go subscribe to some other music podcasts, brethren and cistern. Is that a word, cistern?

It is now, man. Of ours. And hey, you know what? While you're at, it, why don't you go to iTunes, rate us, leave us a review. I haven't been on iTunes in a long time. could have all sorts of reviews on there. We could have all sorts of one star reviews, Q. I mean, is half, it's a half star even a possibility? Because I'm sure we got tons of those. If it is, I bet you we got that for sure. All right. Um, so yeah, that's that. That's the longest

outro we've ever done. So yeah, that's that. We'll talk at you guys next week. My name is Travis. And my name is Quentin. Later. You may have heard of the sex cult nexium and the famous actress who went to prison for her involvement, Alison Mac. But she's never told her side of the story until now. People assume that I'm like this pervert. My name is Natalie Robamed. And in my new podcast, I talked to Allison to try to understand how she went from TV actor to cult member.

How do you feel about having been involved in bringing sexual trauma to other people? I don't even know how to answer that question. Allison after Nexium from CBC's Uncover. is available now on Spotify.