No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: Poor Moon - "Heaven's Door"

Episode Date: October 26, 2020

Not every side project becomes an Audioslave or a Them Crooked Vultures. But if you're a fan of the band they stemmed from, odds are pretty good you'll find something to like. For fans of Fleet Foxes, we have the short-lived Poor Moon. Comprised of bass player Christian Wargo and keyboardist Casey Wescott, Poor Moon brings the intricate melodies and delicate harmonies that Wargo and Wescott bring to Fleet Foxes with a hint of their own psychedelic flair. Tracklist: Poor Moon - Holiday Poor Moon - Heaven's Door Peel Dream Magazine - Escalator Ism Elvis Perkins - The Fire Light This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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that fill the space between the singles on our favorite records My name is Travis, I got my brother Quentin with me, of course, Who, me? I'm talking about you. You're here, I'm here. Here I am. Do you think there's anybody who gets that reference to? I can't even think of what...

It's from Beverly Hills Ninja. The Beverly Hills Ninja. No. Dude, I... This is so, first off, this is a sidetrack, so... Yeah. You know, we're going to try to keep it short and speed, but guess what I just watched for the first time? For the first time ever?

Ever. Ever. What? Almost Heroes One of the last, if not the last movie that Chris Farley shows up in. It's got Matthew Perry in it. Is it good? It's basically, it is good, dude.

It's a Christopher Guest movie. So, you know, the guy that does spinal tap and best in show. Yeah. All that stuff. So it's more of like an ensemble cast, you know, which you don't usually see in like the Chris Farley movies. It's good, dude. It's about like basically these two other guys that try to beat Lois and Clark as they head west. Interesting.

And it made me really sad. Yeah. Because, you know, it's just Chris Farley being Chris Farley. Sure. And yeah. Well, way to start out this episode on a downer. Sorry. But yeah, like you said, this is a sidetrack episode.

And I would say that it's the first proper sidetrack episode that we've done in months. months, meaning, you know, I think we need to give like a rehash of what the original idea behind the sidetrack episodes was. Last week we did Fleet Foxes, right? We talked about their new record, sure. So back when we first started the podcast, the idea was, hey, we'll talk about an album, and then the following week we'll do a shorter episode called a sidetrack episode where we literally just talk about one song, and it can be,

any song as long as it is somehow related to the album or the artist that we talked about the previous week, right? Yeah, so in the past we would do, you know, like a band that had a major influence on the band that we covered the previous week or, you know, a side project or something that some of the other members of the band had done. Right. Stuff like that. Yeah.

So like our very first episode was Allison Chain's Dirt. And our sidetrack for that week, or I guess for the next week. Actually, it was for the same week because back in the day we used to do two episodes a week. Dude, yeah, we were naive, man. That was tough. But yeah, our sidetrack was Green River, which was one of the first bands to be dubbed grunge, right? Yeah. So anyway, this week, we are going to talk about a Fleet Fox's side project called Poor Moon.

So this band features two members from Fleet Foxes, Christian Wargo and Casey Westcott. So Casey is the, well, you know, they're all multi-instrumentalist, right? Casey plays keyboards, mandolin, and vocals. He's been with Fleet Foxes since the beginning. So he's, you see the guy that's been, you know, friends with Pecknold forever? He's like the guy with the mandolin? Yeah, yeah, he is. So he's a founding member.

He's one of the founding members, yeah. And then Christian Wargo has been with Fleet Foxes since 2008, so not a founding member. He plays bass guitar, also guitar, and then provides backup vocals. I mean, with Fleet Foxes, almost all of them provide backup vocals, right? That's how they do their harmonizing and stuff. But anyway, so these guys formed in 2012, and they were almost immediately signed with subpop, which is Fleet Fox's label, right? Sure, sure.

So Pop is like, yeah, of course we'll sign you guys. You know, we know what you can do with Fleet Foxes. And what's interesting about this record, they only put out two releases, a full length and an EP. You can definitely hear these guys' influence on the Fleet Fox's sound, right? A lot of times it's like, you know, Robin Peknold is almost synonymous with Fleet Foxes, right? And it's hard to remember and realize that, like, there's, a lot of talented musicians that go into making Fleet Foxes sound the way that they sound, you know? And especially if you've seen them live, you would know that for sure, right? Because

seeing them live, that's going to go down as one of the best shows that I've seen, the one that we saw together. And then I caught them during their cracked up tour. And it was a bad experience, not because of them, but because of the venue I saw them in. But anyway, the venue that you and I saw them in years ago. That was the fucking perfect show, man. It was great. So yeah, it is Casey and Christian of Fleet Foxes along with, I assume their brothers, Ian and Peter Murray. So that is Poor Moon. That's really all you need to know. They do indie folk, baroque pop is what they're calling themselves, whatever that means. Yeah, sounds like Fleet Fox. Sounds like Fleet Foxes. They have more of a 60s vibe to them, maybe, and not like psychedelic by any means.

But we're just going to let's just play a song and then we'll talk about it. So in the true spirit of sidetrack here, we're going to get right down to business. We're going to play our track. We're going to chat about it. We're going to do our watcher herds. And then we're going to be done, dude. Short and sweet. Short and sweet.

Nothing but the meat. Yeah. You don't need to hear us talk for an hour. every week, maybe every other week. No buns, just meat and cheese. That's right. I don't know what that means, too. Didn't we have a childhood friend? I actually was our older brother's childhood friend.

And he would eat burgers with just meat. He was just meat and sandwich. Super picky. Or meat and bread. That was it. Shout out to Ryan, eh? Yeah, shout out to Ryan, if you're listening. He's not. All right, so we're going to listen to a track off of their self-titled full-length.

It came out in 2012. It's called Heaven's Door. I like it. It's got that, like, 60s Brit Pop kind of, like the zombies or something. Yeah, but it's got, like, you know, a little bit more like experimental kind of stuff, like the birds kind of, you know, the birds, kind of, you know, the birds, you know, like, what was that record, man, the fifth dimension? Yeah. You know, that more like, it's like a step toward psychedelic. you know, but like not fully psychedelic, if that makes any sense.

But yeah, I love that song. That song has always stuck with me. There's a lot of tracks on this record. And that one I've always gone back to just because there's so many cool things that happen with like the organ sound and like the drums and stuff. Really cool, really cool song. So yeah, Q, the song is called Heaven's Door, right? If you're paying attention to the lyrics, basically it's, you know,

He was actually singing about this guy's experience as he finds himself in front of heaven's door. Says here, Found myself in the strangest spot. At the time, all I knew was where I was not. In a clean white robe instead of my clothes on a great big cloud in a street of golden stones. There was a big black gate and a wise old man with a pretty thin book held in his hand, which he opened up to the very last page, and he shook his head as he looked my way.

That's kind of cool. Yeah, that's cool. So, definitely, he's not getting in, right? That's the idea there. Especially, you know, I like the detail. He had a thin book in his hand. Right. Right.

And, you know, like, man, you really didn't do much here that's, that I can point to to say that I should let you in. No, I took it as like, that's the book of names, people that are getting in. Oh. Could be interpreted either way, right? But like, you know. Yeah.

It's like, no, you're not getting in here, dude. You're a fucking rock star. You know what I mean? I saw what you did when you were on tour with Fleet Foxes. But no, pretty cool. Pretty cool concept. And it's got that kind of like, you can almost see like a one of those old 60s. What was that?

Fantastic Planet? Yes. Forbidden Planet? Was that it? Or was it? Fantastic Planet. Like I can almost see, be cool if they did a music video of, you know, the story that that's being told in this, like in that style,

be like perfect. Yeah. Anyway, let me just jump down here, Q, because I like this stuff. The next part of the song. This is cool. I like this. All right.

I might have to get this tattooed on my arm or something. Once was lost, but I haven't been found. Crawled up from the dirt. Now I'm standing my ground. Don't have much, but I'm saving some pride for the man with the pitchfork

waiting outside for me. Oh, that's fucking dope, dude. especially right now, October, you know, Halloween. So yeah, he's just embracing. You know, he was at Heaven's door. God's like, no, dude, keep moving. And then devil's like, come on, dude. Come on over, man.

Get plenty of room down here. Yeah, dude, that reminds me of Back to the Life by Spoon, you know? That's one of my favorite tracks off Kill the Moonlight. Oh, me too. There's so many cool things that happen in that song. Take up your scythe. This world wasn't meant for us both. Like that is, you know, Kill the Moonlight.

And I'm sure we talked about this on our Kill the Moonlight episode. That was when Spoon officially became Spoon, right? As far as like... That's the way I see it, yeah. All the really interesting things that they did, the production values like that, the, um, just all the cool stuff that is. It's definitely the most experimental alma there's, I think. Our apologies, Tyler.

I was going to say, what do you think, Tyler? Our apologies for just sounding so uneducated here, but, um, Anyway. Well, all right, man. Short and sweet. I like it. Short and sweet. If you like that song, there's nine other tracks on that record.

And they also put out an EP before that called Illusion. And that was it. They were done. And this was, I'm pretty sure this was in the hiatus, wasn't it? Yeah, this was right after Helplessis blues. So Fleetboxes was on its hiatus. Robin was going to college or whatever he was doing. So these guys are like, we're not done making me.

music. Let's talk about heaven and hell. Yeah, we got to keep going. All right. All right, brother. So, I think it's time for our what you heard segment. It is time for what you heard. So, um, Q, you want to go first? Yes. Oh yeah, dude. I will always go first. Good. Gives me time to pick one. So in case you don't know, this is our segment at the end of each episode. We will bring to the table one song. that we heard in between recordings. We also have a what you heard playlist on Spotify where we update it weekly and add tracks in order from when we listen to them.

And we've got a link to that pinned to the top of our Twitter page at No Filler. At No Filler Podcast, cute. God damn it, dude. Yeah. I keep messing that up. All right. So, Travis, have you heard,

of a group called Peel Dream Magazine? No, I have not heard that. People running out of band names here. I feel like this was one of those band aggregator things. You know what I mean? Like, it's been the roulette. Sure. Band name generator or something.

All right, so these guys are straight up, like they went to the school of my bloody Valentine, dude, and they definitely passed with flying colors. It's almost like a carbon copy of My Bloody Valentine in a good way, I think. So if you're looking for some shoegazy dream pop goodness in the same vein as My Bloody Valentine, look no further. They have a brand new album that just came out called Agit Prop Alterna. And I'm going to play track four off the record.

It's called Escalator Ism. Yeah, definitely my bloody Valentine. But like a more, almost like a more digestible version. Does that make sense? I don't know. It's like, yeah, I got you. Not as, not as textured and like lush as my bloody Valentine. But like, I would say a little less gazing at the shoes.

You know what I mean? A little less droney. Most of the time, you know, they've got that wall of sound cranked up. My Bloody Valentine style. but there's a few songs in here where they dial it down a little bit. Yeah, it's good stuff. So again, that is a band called Peel Dream Magazine. The album is called Agit Prop Alterna.

That was Escalatorism. All right, man. So what have you been heard in lately? All right, Q. You know, I like to force weird stuff onto people through my, what you heard? I said that in a really weird robotic way. Well, Travis, last week, you, you didn't promise, but you said that you might be bringing some rock today. Yeah.

Is that happening? No. I didn't, no. I let you down. Wow. But, you know, there is a kind of a guitar in this song, maybe. Kind of a guitar. Yeah.

Okay. All right. So it's October. I've been watching a lot of. horror movies lately. This is as fresh as it gets cute, because I watched this movie today while I was working. It's on Netflix. You can watch it yourself if you like.

It's called The Black Code's Daughter. I'd give it a C. Wasn't very good. So don't watch. You know, you can watch it or you can not watch it either way. So watch it while you're working like you, so you're just half-hassing it. Yeah, well, let me, I will say this. Maybe I missed.

key details because by the end of it I was like what the fuck am I watching but anyway the soundtrack on the other end was really interesting it is by a fella that goes by the name Elvis Perkins I say go by goes by the name because I don't I doubt that's his real name but anyway how dare you name shame so he um yeah so he um yeah so he um yeah so he He's done a couple of scores for films that, yeah, it looks like he likes to stay in the, in sort of the horror genre. But he did the score for I Am the Pretty Thing that lives in the House, which came out in 2016, Black Coat's Daughter, which is the movie I watched.

And, yeah, he's also done some, like, independent releases. But anyway, it's very atmospheric and very, like, it kind of to me had a nod to like 60s and 70s like horror film stuff. I don't know. I'm probably way off on that. But we're going to listen to one of the tracks off of this score. So as I think I've mentioned before, I love soundtracks. Right. I'm a big movie soundtrack guy. And yeah, I would listen to this independently of the film. That's how much I enjoyed the music. All right, Q, Q, so you said, that, well, I guess I said. I said that I was bringing rock to the table. I was going to try to. Yeah, and you failed. No.

This song, as you'll see, does have a little bit of rock and roll in it, Q. But again, this is the soundtrack to the Black Coat's daughter, and this song is called the Firelight. Take back what I said, dude. That was the heaviest tune we've listened to in a while, I feel like. There you go. I've been swimming in a new wave for the last couple weeks. That's true. So I like that.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that that was featured on like the car radio of one of the characters. Like that was supposed to be the song that they were listening to on the radio, I guess. It faded in from that more like atmospheric first part of that song, you know. Anyway. Yeah, that's cool. It was, you know, this movie is about demon possess. I'll just say that, right? So that's almost like a nod to like heavy metal seat and worship kind of stuff, you know?

That's the only time that you hear anything like that on the soundtrack, which is interesting. That's cool. That is cool that they threw in something from the original score and made it kind of play on the radio in the scene. Yeah. Well, and I could be wrong about that because I tried to Shazam the song that I heard on the radio, which I want to say that was what it was. but anyway, turns out you can't really,

you need more than like freaking 10 seconds to Shazam something sometimes. So I think that's what it was. It might not have been. It may also help if you're not, you know, staring at your work screen.

Well. With the movie playing in the background. No, I have it up. I can see it. I have a nice big monitor, you know, I have and half my screen. Anyway, all right, Q, so, you know,

if you have some time and you want to put on I will say this. The imagery is cool. The way that it was shot is nice. I like the, I like the, you know, the overall vibe of the film is cool. The payoff was not worth it to me. But, you know, to each their own cue.

I feel like with horror movies, it's kind of like my relationship with metal. Like the older I get, the more I like broaden my, appreciation for for horror movies right and like the i start to to look for more interesting sub-genres and stuff of horror movies right right yeah and once you it's just like you know it's just like that slippery slope cue of uh hedonism once you once you start satanic panic you just want more and more of it you know they're coming for your kids hide your kids and your wife all right cue that's it man we're done next week

I'm going to see it right now dude I'm not going to hold back do it do it we're going to talk about the white stripes yes

and we're going to talk about elephant I'm excited dude which when did that come out like 2005 2004 it's got to be yeah

2003 dude yeah man this was I mean yeah what's I mean there's so much to say this was our

introduction to white stripes. This was our introduction to white stripes and you know, this was around that time I feel like when Blues Rock was kind of a thing for a little bit, right? Mm-hmm. You know, we'll talk about all this next week, but Black Keys were

I feel like Black Keys came out after White Stripes which is why they called themselves Black Keys. Now, I don't know if that's true or not, but I feel like that can't be a coincidence, right? Yeah. Yeah, I want to dive into more of that, the history of that, you know, there's plenty to talk about just on Jack White alone, right? For sure, yeah. Yeah, let's get to the bottom of this relationship between him and Meg.

I'm sure, like, people know, but, you know, there's all that speculation back then. Like, are they sister brother? Are they married? Yeah. Are they dating? Are they married? Are they sister brother? Yeah.

Anyway. one of the greatest guitar players of all time one of the greatest musicians of all time living legend man living legend um if you caught his s and l performance a couple weeks back that just kind of you know reminded me why live rock music is so fucking important you know yeah um and yeah made me miss it really and long for it again so yeah all right so that's next week and yeah kind of like we said in the fleet foxes episode we're just kind of back to our old format of just kind of bouncing around going wherever we feel like going you know we don't have any agenda or any like schedule we're not doing any themed batches of episodes like we had been

we're just kind of going where the spirit takes us the spirit of rock and roll or what have you you know yes sir so yeah that's that um Yeah, we will talk to you guys next week. You can find us on our website, nofielderpodcast.com. You can find track listings and show notes for that episode. So that's every track that we talked about. Any song that you heard will be listening on the track list. You can also find us at the tweeters or Twitter at No Filler Podcast, as cute mentioned earlier.

And of course, you can also find us and many other. great music podcasts over at pantheonpodcasts.com. That is the network that we belong to, along with many other great music podcasts. So I'll catch you next week. We're going to talk about white stripes. It's going to be awesome. And that's that. My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin. See you on next week. song just about the time when everyone here noticed you were in the same