No Filler Music Podcast - Prepare For Blast Off: The Interstellar Thunder Pop of Pinkshinyultrablast

Episode Date: July 18, 2022

As a shoegaze band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Pinkshinyultrablast describe that isolation from the global music scene as a feature not a bug. That freedom from the judgements and structures of the global scene led them to create a whole new subgenre under the shoegaze umbrella called "thunder pop". Join us as we chat about their debut record Everything Else Matters and their perfectly calibrated fusion of pop-forward melodies with an explosive wall-of-sound. Tracklist: Holy Forest Blaster Wish We Were Metamorphosis Land's End Ravestar Supreme This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thanks again to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode. 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 Quentin, with me as always as my brother Travis. And today we are covering Pink Shiny Ultra Blasts album from 2015, Everything Else Matters. But first, dude, happy birthday. Oh, yeah. And hey, you know what, Q?

Yeah. Happy birthday. Oh, thanks, dude. This might be the first time we've actually recorded on our birthday, which is kind of cool. We may have, like, pretended like it was our birthday, you know, because episodes drop on a different day that we record. But yeah, I mean, this is our birthday. The big three five. Yeah, that's true, man.

Officially mid-30s. I feel pretty good about it, man. Actually, I feel great. Yeah. You know what? It feels exactly like 34. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm not noticing anything drastic yet.

Me neither. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, if you don't know, I mean, we mention it all the time, but we're identical twin brothers. So that means that we share a birthday. That's how that works. Yeah. Yep. Among other things that we've shared over the years, including a podcast, which is what you're listening to right now.

We've shared rooms. We've shared rooms. We've shared wombs and rooms. if you know what I'm saying. I know exactly what you're saying. Well, yeah, today is our birthday. So what better way to spend it than to share some music with you all? Find people that listen to this podcast. So thank you for tuning in with us on our birthday.

Technically, not our birthday when you listen to this, but whatever. Let's not even, you know, it doesn't matter. It's fine. Like you said, pink shiny ultra blast is who we are talking about today. and we are out of the 90s, dude. We were out of the 90s last week and we are still out of the 90s. We have been stuck in that decade for the majority of 2022 as far as the episodes that we've done so far.

But, you know, this is in the same wheelhouse of the type of music that we've been covering, 90s music that we've been covering. Say with Narrowhead last week, obviously, which we talked about how Narrowhead in particular is like this perfect concoction of all things like 90s, alt rock with a little bit of pop punk thrown in there, grunge, shoegays. They kind of put everything into one perfect little package, right? Pink Shiny Ultra Blast is more of your traditional kind of shoegay sound, but they do some interesting things as well. Well, what I picked up on that intro, so that song was called Holy Forest. And I should say, too, that I'm not that familiar with this album or any other other stuff.

You, I think it was Lans Inn that you played, or maybe it ended up on one of our best of lists. Yes, Lans End was, it may have shown up on what you heard, but it definitely showed up on our top 100 tracks from the last decade playlist on Spotify. I'm not sure who out there has followed that one, but it's out there if you want to find it. on Spotify. But yeah, I will be playing Lanz End again. I was picking up on a little bit of math rock kind of guitar work. There is some of that. Yep. And that's what makes them interesting. It's a little bit of math rock type stuff. And, you know, they have more of a pop sensibility as far as like the melodies, really catchy riffs and hooks and stuff like that. And then her vocals are kind of like very ethereal and, you know, Elizabeth Free.

Razor-esque, which is the singer of Cocktow Twins, right? Well, and that's kind of where Shugays has headed since the 90s, since its birth. It's leaning more towards, you know, kind of the vibe that you picture in your head when you hear the word dream pop, right? A little more upbeat and feel good. I guess it's more the dream pop, right? Right, which is one and the same with Shug's. We have to tell you people every week. So, all right, let's talk about these guys.

And we're just going to jump right out of tunesque. Here's what makes them unique. They are from, where are they from? What's the exact? Earth. They are from St. Petersburg, Russia. So this is Russian to you guys. And, yeah, apparently there's not much of a, you know, usually put those two together.

There's not much of a scene, right? But I thought this was an interesting quote. This was from a interview that I'll be that I'll be citing from quite a bit on this episode. It sounds better with reverb.com, which is a dope blog name, right? Yeah, that's great. But the interviewer asked them just about the St. Petersburg music scene, right, in general. And I'm not sure who answered this, but this is somebody from the band said that it's definitely a bizarre place. A bit of solid mystical, now I'm not going to be able to pronounce these Russian words.

Solid mystical dibuki feel from Gogol. A bit of creepy, bloody background from Dostoevsky. It has a distinct sense of decay and former splendor, which I think is a great metaphor for shoegaze, dude. Sense of decay, dude. I mean, what better way to describe, like, the fall of the Soviet Union, you know, and like maybe like the architecture of some areas in Russia, just kind of urban decay, you know?

Yeah, but what I like about what I like about what this person is saying, I don't remember which one it is that said this, but to me it kind of describes their sound a little bit. They go on and say, it's a small place where geographically everything is within reach and young people mostly know each other. The pace of life here is slow and summers feel long. Maybe it's the simultaneous sense of dead end

and strangely enough room to make new things, the ambiguity of being on the margin and not in the center of the global scene. And then they say, as much as we sometimes feel isolated from the global musical scene, we also get a sense of inner freedom from its judgments and structure,

which in turn probably enables us to explore more. So that's interesting to me, dude. They feel like because they're kind of isolated as far as like musical scenes, because there's no real musical scene for them to be a part of, they feel like they're really separated from the global scene, that actually gives them some freedom because they're not constrained, you know? No.

Which is cool. And I think, you know, that kind of plays into some of their sound. Anyway, so let me name the roster off real quick. And then we are going to play a track from their first EP that actually came out like five years prior to this record that got them just like a little bit of buzz enough to kind of get them the attention of a record label and stuff like that, or at least, you know, when they approached the record label that they ultimately got signed to, they were aware of them because they had heard the EP on MySpace, right?

So anyway. Myspace. Wow, that dates it a little bit. Right. Yep, exactly. All right. So there's no last names here. But here we go.

We got Igor on bass. Leabove is the singer. Sergei on, of course, there's a Sergei. There's always a Sergey. Sergey on drums, Rustum on synths and like electronics and stuff, and then Roman on guitars. So it was a five piece. Now it's down to a three piece on their newer stuff that they put up. But for their first EP and the album that we're talking about today, it was a five piece.

So here we go. Let's just jump right in here. This album, I should say EP, is called Happy Songs for Happy Zombies. and I'm going to play a song here called Blaster. That's great, man. I can see how that was enough to get him some attention. Yeah, just a little sneak peek, you know. Here's what I immediately thought of right at the beginning there.

Before you hear her voice, I thought of the cure a little bit. Okay, I'm glad you said that cue. Because that's one of the things I hear quite a bit and the songs that we're going to play today is like a new wave influence as well. Right. On the drums and stuff and the guitar. So that may be mixed with a little bit of inner pole as well. Yeah, totally.

Just with the music here. Yeah, the guitar style, the reverb and stuff like that. Great drums too. And then her voice, yeah, so like airy. And it's almost like you can't, you know, you can't really decipher what she's saying, right? Maybe by design and the way that it's recorded. Yeah, sure. That's just the way that, how breathy the voice is and stuff like that.

It is worth noting that she is singing in English. Like, you know, that's mentioned quite a bit. And, you know, much like kings of convenience, they said that they chose to sing in English because it's more melodic. It's more expressive, too. Yeah. So there you go. At least we still got that going on for us here. So some of the other influences that they mentioned in this interview at least because they asked him point blank like, hey, who are so many your influences?

And they listed quite a robust list here, Q. But here we go. I'm going to list it off, or at least the ones that stood out to me. Stereo Lab, which I just recently fell in love with. Hey, they just dropped a new single not that long ago. Oh, they did? Yeah. Stars of the lid.

Whoa. That's random. And that's interesting because quite a bit of ambient influence is on this list. Now, that's got to be kind of what plays into how they, like the effects pedals. The synth layered kind of stuff, yeah. Yeah. Cocktow Twins, of course. Steve Reich, which is another like ambient, like minimal music pioneer dude. And then they mentioned Astrobright, which, of course.

So if you're like a student of Shugate's, the name Pink Shiny Ultra Blast might ring a bell to you. And that's because it's the name of a 2005 record by a band called Astrobright. Another interview on pennyblackmusic.co.uk. They were asked about the name. And Roman, the guitar player, said, yeah, I was taken from a beloved album by Astrobright. They had an album called Pink Shiny Ultrablast. And we listened to that album many times, and we decided two weeks before our first gig to take this name because we like how it sounds. And then, you know, the interviewer asked him if the guy had any problem with him using his name.

And he said, well, the front guy in the band rode through us and said, I'm not against this, but please tell people where you got the name from, which is kind of funny. Which he is doing, yeah. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, it is a cool name, Pink Shiny. Ultra blast, one word, no spaces. I think it kind of reminds, you know, it makes you think of the shimmer and the, you know, in the cloudy etherealness of shoegaze, right? Oh, I like that.

All right. So let's jump into the record here. And, uh, Q, you know how I love to paint pictures? You love to do it. And how I love bands that have a nice, long runway in a song. Oh, yeah. This is one of those songs, dude. And we're going to have to let it play for about four minutes.

But that's, again, dude, first track on the record. I love it when bands do this. We talked about Mr. Twins' sister on their self-titled, that song. I think it's called Sensitive. One of my favorites is Slow Dives' comeback record. They're self-titled. Their first track is like that, dude. It's one of my favorite songs of theirs.

A lot of people are reminded of Slow Dive. This band reminds me of Slow Dive. Anyway, so here's, I feel like this is what they're doing with, the song, dude. They're making sure you're comfortable. You know what I mean? They're like, hey, can I get you some popcorn? Get your feet up. Are you nice and comfortable? Because we're about to go for a ride. Make sure you buckle up because we're about to blast off too. We're about to ultublast off. We're about to, yeah, we're about to pink shiny ultra blast. This is, I love this dude. And I love it when bands tell us what they want to be referred to as. Or like, you know, here's the genre that we,

you know, identify as. This is great. man, it's my new favorite thing. They were asked by the interviewer about how dynamic this record sounded and how spacious and dreamy it sounded. And, you know, as you heard from that like EP song that I just played, that was a pretty straightforward shoe gaze, shoegaze kind of song, right? I know you said that it had some like new wave influences in and stuff like that, but, you know, more straightforward.

What they said here, it was great to have been able to play Dream Pop during the times of our first EP, but at a certain point while working on this album, we realized we don't want to limit ourselves to only the means of shoegaze. In short, we've always wanted to play pop music with an explosive character, and that is what we call Thunderpop. Oh man, why didn't that take off? Which is perfect, and that's exactly, this record, it's a great way to describe it, because it's very pop forward and has a lot of great riffs and hooks. and stuff like that. But then it packs the punch, kind of like near headset,

of like some more straightforward, like shoegaze noise and stuff like that. All right, here we go. So again, this is going to be a pretty lengthy clip, and then we're going to split it into two because this is almost a seven-minute song. But here's that nice runway. So sit back and just sort of, you know, let this kind of wash over you. So here you go. This is the opening track off of Everything Else Matters.

This song is called Wish We Were. That was lovely. So when the bass line and the synth line came in, I was feeling some LCD sound system. I can't say I'm all that familiar with them, to be honest with you. Just, yeah, the way that it's kind of dancey. And then when the, you know, around the three and a half minute mark or whatever. When the guitar kicked in. Yeah.

And that drum beat, the actual drum kit comes in. That was giving me some block party vibes. Yeah. Yeah. And that's kind of, you know, around the. the same era. And they've got that math rock kind of quality to them, but really, really dancey, which is what they were all about, you know, bringing the dance tunes to the garage rock revival. Yeah. I mean, I guess I guess Black Party had sort of had their, had their hits

and stuff by then. So it's probably, probably safe to say that pink shiny ultrablast could have been influenced by some of the post-punk stuff of the 2000s, right? Oh, and LCD sound system, for sure. Yeah. He was very influential on a lot of people. Yeah, and, you know, that's the kind of pop forward kind of stuff that I'm talking about here. Yeah, and it's very dancey. Yeah, and if we talk about just the very slow build of that, and then you know that they are fans as far as the lid and other, like, ambient minimal composers,

it makes total sense that they would have it in them to do something like that. Because, like, that's kind of draw it out. Yeah, that's what this kind of stuff is all about. But talk about, like, setting the table, you know what I mean? welcoming you in, you know? That's what I like about albums that have a nice long intro on the, like, first track of the record because it basically like sets you up for like, and sort of gets you in the, in the mindset and all that kind of stuff for like the experience that you're about

to go through, you know what I mean? And that's what I love about this record on that track is it does it so perfectly. Well, and now I'm not familiar with a lot of their songs, but the vocals at the very beginning, dude, sounded kind of like the cranberries and the way that she sings. Okay. But again, like, I don't know if that's a common thing, you know, in the rest of their songs, but that's what I was hearing. Yeah.

You know, in the very beginning of that song, like her vocals are kind of layered on top of each other and stuff. They're very much like a more of like textural and stuff like that. Yeah. All right. I'm going to kick it back just a little bit and pick up where we left us. We can actually hear like the verse and stuff on this song. And then there's something really cool that happens toward the end of the song.

All right here we go. So again, we're picking up right where we left off. Again, the song is called Wish We Were. Man, if that doesn't get you pumped for the rest of the record, dude, you might need hearing aids. It's a perfect opening track. Like, I don't know if it gets any better than that. And yeah, they basically lay it all out for you, you know? Yeah.

It's like, hey, you know what, just move on. If you didn't like that, just move on. You know what I mean? Yeah, it basically just gives you everything you need to know about pink, shiny, ultrablast. Yeah, it's a perfect, perfect intro track. Dude, I love records that are like that. Yeah. Just kind of lays it all out for you in track one.

Exactly. I wonder if they added that last bit, the change-up, is kind of like an unfinished idea for a song, you know, or like maybe it felt like it led to a better transition and a track two, or if that was always how they wanted to end that song. Yeah, well, they talked about the songwriting process in the interview year, just more about like if there's a change. chief songwriter or whatever. And they said that it's always a collaboration. One of us can pitch an

idea for a song, but it then would always be reviewed collectively. Making songs is a multi-step process for us, with first the carcass of a song taking form, bass, drums, a guitar, then vocals and keyboards taking up their places. The final version of a song can differ from the initial draft quite drastically, and it's always a matter of some collective, consequent decisions. Nice. So like with a song like that, there's so many parts to it. It very well could have been, you know, especially that intro that's more like synth heavy and stuff, could have been just an idea that, you know, those members of the band were kicking around and then the other vocals part. And then like it feels kind of like it could have been, like they said, it's very collaborative.

I can see a song like that getting made up of different parts, you know. Yeah, very cool. All right. Let's skip to the next track here. And this is, I think, think the only other track we're going to have multiple clips. But again, dude, another, the song is another, this might be my favorite on the record. It's just fucking great, dude. So here we go. We're going to jump a couple tracks down. This song is called Metamorphosis.

That's a pink shiny ultraplast if I've ever heard one, dude. Dude, just wait. You're going to get blasted a couple times more, dude, for sure. But I love how they know how long to sit. with something if that makes sense. Sure. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like that intro, that kind of, you know, so like her vocals sampled and sort of used as like a Very image in heap. Yeah, but like they drew it out quite a bit. But then the next part came in and you got to kind of live with that thing for a little bit. And then, you know what I mean? I feel like when it's done right, like it helps kind of again, like I said with the first track, like kind of set the mood and like get you comfortable and stuff like that. Yeah.

before they change it. And that's why I like it because when they sit with something long enough, when it does change and how they change is like drastically, like they crank up the fuzz and stuff like that quite a bit. And it's such a drastic change that like you can really feel it when it happens because they let that last part sit for long enough to like kind of make you feel comfortable with it. And then they change it again, which is really cool. Speaking of changes, let's pick up and play the next clip here.

All right. So like I said, it's one of my favorite. favorite tracks on the record and you're about to see why. So here we go. This is the second clip from Metamorphosis. You've been thunder popped. It's thunder popped right in my face, dude. I like the vocals and I like how it's very classic, like, loveless shoe gaze where you're

like, you can barely hear what they're saying because it's just kind of washed away, you know. But then they've got those bass and guitar lines that are very like Foles math rock, you know. It's like if Foles was a shoegaze band. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, toward the end there of that clip, like you were saying earlier, some Interpol a little bit. That's the like angular guitar kind of stuff. Lots and lots of reverb, obviously.

One thing that I thought was cool, because you don't typically get to hear this unless you like subscribe to Guitar World magazine or something like that. They actually were asked about the gear that they use, and I'm just going to name it off because it's kind of cool. They have a very particular brand. that they have fallen in love with called Stryman effects pedals, right? Because if this is a shoegaze, it's all about the effects pedals, right? Sure. So if you're out there and your guitar player and you're like, hey, how do I sound like this? Get yourself a big sky reverb pedal and L. Capitan tape echo and a timeline delay pedal.

From strimon effects pedals. There you go. Get those three and you'll be gazing at your shoes the whole time you play. You'll be thunder blasting and popping all over the place, whatever. Anyway, okay, let's jump ahead here to the next track. I don't know if I have anything else to say about this band from like my notes here. So yeah, let's just jump ahead here. And again, so if you're a listener of the show, you may recognize the song.

If it was in fact played as what you heard, but it would have been years ago if I did. So I'm going to jump ahead here to a song called Lands End, which as I mentioned showed up on my top 100 of the last decade. I think it's because we were purposely avoiding singles. You know what I mean? Yes. But anyway, nonetheless, it's a great track. Here we go.

This song is called Land's End. Yeah, they're definitely like filling a void in this genre. You know, like with the energy that they bring and the, the danciness to it. Well, they gave us a, dude, they gave us a name for it, Thunderpop. It's Thunderpop. They created their own offshoot, you know what I mean, off the shoe gate. branch or whatever. It was definitely something that we needed, and I feel like.

Yeah, well, to me, I think what this band does is, you know, we always talk about how Shugays and Dream Pop are the same thing. But they're very distinct. I feel like what they did was they merged the two, you know what I mean? Yeah, in a really, really great way. Because especially in that last clip, you know, where they just, like, tacked on a wall of sound, like classic Shugays, noise pop kind of sound just on the end of it just for good measure, you know? Because, like, the rest of the song is very much a dream pop song, in my opinion, you know.

The guitar, first of all, what I love about this band is just how great the bass drum and guitar player work with one another. Like, they're great, man. And that delay and stuff on that guitar, very, like, jangly guitar sounds almost, too, you know. Yeah, and really, really good sound on, like, the reverb is great. Yeah. On her voice, on everything. Let me say this, dude, because I want to hear your thoughts on it. The beginning and I guess the first half of this song, here's what pops up into my head, dude.

I'm in like a concrete stairwell, maybe like a spiral staircase. Okay. And there's like, I don't know, a window like every two or three floors. So it's nice, you know, lighting, but not too bright. and I'm going up that staircase, dude. It just has the way that echoes. It just sounds like I'm in like a concrete stairwell. Yeah, well, that's, dude, that's that big sky reverb and al-capitan tape echo.

There it is. Stryman effects pedals that you're hearing there. One thing I liked about the way that this song, the verse, you know, they're kind of taking you on this like, you're kind of going on this incline, and then they get you right to where it's about to happen. and then it kind of goes back down and then it goes back up. And what I love about that is, again, you're always anticipating, like, okay, what are they going to do next? Especially if you're this far into the record and you know that these guys change it up on the dime. Like you're waiting, you know what I mean?

And then the payoff always happens, right? Oh, yeah. All right. Last song. And this, dude, prepare to get blasted. This song to me is, this is like their most poppy song as far as like a catchy A. RIF, and this just right out the gate, dude, they bring the thunder. Real quick, dude, are 35-year-old's allowed to say AF?

Maybe I'm not allowed to say that anymore since I just turned 35. You know what? I'm just kidding, man. I'm cool with it. Let's say whatever I want. All right, let's hear it, dude. I'm ready to get blasted. All right.

Now, let me just caveat. This is a single, okay? But it doesn't matter. We have to play it. It's got the perfect name, too. Just it describes it perfectly. Here we go. Buckle in, because we're about to blast off.

This song is called Rave Star Supreme. What a great song. Great song. I love the really, like, retro synth lines that they bring in, almost like chill wave. Hmm. Or like, you know, hypnagogic pop. And that's not something you hear in shoegaze. Right.

Love it. Love it. Yeah, well, that could be, you know, they don't list any of the keys, the keyboards. But anyway, that's Rustum. is his name. Or probably mispronouncing that, but that's the synth pop dude. But yeah, that's, I mean, that song right there is the perfect example of what they said their goal was with this record, which was to play pop music with an explosive character.

That's it, dude. And to kind of steer into a different direction from that first record that you play the song from where it's not just straight up dream pop, it's something different. Exactly. I mean, maybe you should call it Thunderpop. I don't know. I think that's a pretty good way to describe it. It's thunderpop, dude.

They told us what to call it. And it describes it perfectly. So, yeah, dude. This is one of my top 10 sugar guys records. I think it's safe to say that. It's just every time I, like, any time I sit down to listen to it, like I want to spend time with it. So like, it's a track one through eight, like play the whole thing.

You know what I mean? Live with it. You know what I mean? Like really experience it because that's what? That's what this record's all about like the experience, you know. Well, that's another great thing about it. It's a pretty short record. 45 minutes, yeah.

Yeah, that's a perfect length for a Thunderpop record. Yeah. So what's interesting is, like I said, they became a three piece after this. And so their sound changed a little bit. And it seems to me like their next record was called Grand Feathered came on 2016. and it feels like they they lean more toward the dancey poppy stuff. There's still that, the reverb and all that stuff, her vocals and stuff are still there. But I think losing two other members, you know, they, you know, kind of force them to change their approach a little bit.

So does this still have the dancey math rock feel to it? Yes. With the guitar, there's still some of that. Yeah. Okay, cool. I'm just saying they're leaning more toward the, more toward the poppy. I guess, you know, which seems like that's kind of where they're gone. Anyway, yeah, again, and one of my favorite shoe gaze records, probably of all time, top ten. And it's just a blast to listen to.

You see what I did? Yeah, dude. Just one of those records, man, that you got to spend some time with. And like I said, they really, like, kind of just welcome you in. You know what I mean? Like, come on, spend some time with us. The water's fine. Yeah.

Get popped. get thunder popped. Yeah, fantastic, dude. Love it. Great record, man. And, you know, I played a good portion of the record. There's maybe four songs I didn't play. If you include Holy Forest, the intro that I played.

But yeah, check it out if you need more convincing. Again, it's called Everything Else Matters by Pink, Shiny, Ultrablast. Check it out. All right. Next week, I think we have, we kind of decided maybe a few weeks. back to sort of stick in the 2000s and talk about some more modern, modern shoegaze band. So I think we're going to talk about either nothing or I think there was another band. Nothing being, meaning the artist.

I'm not saying that we're just going to sit around and talk about nothing. Here we go. It was, okay, so if we stick with one of the two, we're going to do either guilty of everything by nothing or Aurora. by a band called Slow Crush, which I don't know. That might be the first time that they've ever appeared on the show. I may have brought one of their songs for what you heard, but... I don't know if I know anything by them.

They're great, man. And they're kind of more along the aggressive dream pop side. Yeah, let's do them. Let's do Slow Crush next. I think that would be a good transition to lead us into nothing for the following week. Yeah, I think that'll be a good transition. Yeah, another great modern shoegaze band. I guess you could call it New Gays.

That's the term that cool kids are using. Anyway, that was a blast, man. That was an ultra blast. It was a pink, shiny ultra blast for sure. All right. Well, check us out on Instagram. If you don't already follow us, just search for an affiliate podcast,

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