No Filler Music Podcast - Steeped In Suburbia: Real Estate - Days

Episode Date: January 17, 2022

Continuing our streak devoted to dreamy indie pop from the 2010s, we listen to an album steeped in suburbia: Real Estate's Days. Everything from the album art to the lyrical themes harken back to that youthful innocence of growing up in the suburbs. The songs are simple but the song structures are anything but, with jangly guitar melodies and gorgeous harmonies lie somewhere between 60s pop and 90s alternative. So hop on your bicycle and let the phone lines and street lights lead the way as we bask in the warmth of one of indie's greatest nostalgia trips. Tracklist Easy Green Aisles Municipality Wonder Years Younger Than Yesterday Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My name is Travis. I got my brother Quentin with me as always. And this is July and January, cue. We're just going through these, these summary, beachy albums from the 2010s. Some easy vibe in. A couple weeks ago was Beach House. Last week was Beach Fossils. We did not keep the trend up, though.

This is not a band with a name that includes the word beach. But this is real estate we're talking about here. You know, they're in the same like ballpark of like this kind of, surfy indie pop, right? But compared to Beach Fossils and Beach House, as we're going to see with this record cue, I would not classify these guys as Dream Pop or Shugate's whatsoever. So like, we're breaking away from Dream Pop, but this is still in the same like umbrella, I think, of like this really like jangly guitar, right? And like songs about youth and like nostalgia and stuff like that. But these guys, I feel like are a little bit more mature in their sound.

I wonder how many of our listeners were just like, oh, they're finally going to stop talking about Dream Pop. Thank God. You know what I mean, dude? Yeah, well, there's nothing wrong with Dream Pop. I don't think we can go five minutes without mentioning either Shugays or Dream Pop in this podcast. But you know what, dude? I think we've established that it's, without a doubt, our favorite genre, you know?

Well, yeah, what we've... Take your pick of whatever flavor you want, you know. Yeah. You guys dream pop. But we've been, you know, we've been in that ballpark for our 20, 22 episodes so far,

because we're talking about 2010 indie music or indie music from the 2010. And that's just kind of like the flavor. And that's kind of what happened. Yeah, that was the flavor at the time. And Beach House kind of kicked it all off. Yeah. It's like doing a stint of episodes on albums from New York in the early 2000s

and not covering garage rock, right? Because that was what it was. Post punk, yeah. Yeah. And we've already done that cue. We've already done episodes on the strokes and Interpol. We did. And we should revisit those bands, dude.

Totally. You know, totally. Because I think we did, is this it? I would love to talk about room on fire. Room on fire. Or their new one, dude. The newest new one, yeah. The, what is it called?

The new abnormal or something like that. Something like that, yeah. That's a great one. That came out, what, 2020? 2020, yeah, which is bizarre, considering the name. That was like their full circle moment, it feels like, you know, because definitely their newest record sounded like some of their older stuff finally, right? Anyway, so Q, from what you've told me, you have a little bit of familiarity with real estate,

but nothing beyond the singles, right? So you are exactly the type of audience member that we hope to read. right? Somebody who's familiar with the singles, but hasn't really listened to anything else, right? So I can't tell you how I am about this moment right here, Q. I can't even name singles off the top of my head. Real estate's one of those bands that, you know, I love what I hear, but I never dove deeper and gave an album a solid listen all the way through, you know? Real estate's always been one of those bands that, yeah, I guess they just, for whatever reason, they were low enough under my radar. I don't know why, dude. I don't know why I've, I never got into them. It's kind of like

with my revelation about you, you know, not digging deep into Monash Mouse. Yeah, it's very similar where it's like, I don't know why I haven't really dug into Modest Mouse, right? Well, today's the day, dude. And I hope that there's a lot of other listeners that are in the same boat as me that are going enjoy some tunes for the first time with us. Yeah. Well, not with you, Chav. You're familiar with the real estate. I am very familiar with them. How familiar are you with their entire catalog? I mean, really, it's this record days, and then it's the one that came out after it called Atlas. Those are the two that I'm super familiar with. And that's likely because, you know, this was, you know, We were running a music blog at the time, and these guys, we talked about them.

I might have been the one that covered them, right? I actually brought a real estate song to our best of 2020 episodes because they put out a record in 2020 called the main thing. Oh, that's right. Which was pretty interesting, like, you know, it was an interesting, like, evolution of their sound, right? A little bit more experimental, you know, kind of more progressive. Yeah, more like program. Yeah. That's right.

And doesn't days show up on our, uh, Top 100 of the 20-tons? Oh, it has to. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It has to. Something for real estate is on that list for sure. Yeah.

But with Days, so this is their second record. They had a self-titled that came out in 2009. But kind of like Beach House, Days is their first release under Domino Records, which, Q, you're probably familiar with Domino. It's a pretty big indie label, right? Can't think of artists that are on there off the top of my head. I guarantee you there's some that we've talked about probably in the last. last few weeks that are on Domino, right? It's a huge label. But anyway, so, you know, when you listen to their first record, their self-titled record, you know, it doesn't sound as

polished, right? Kind of like Beach Fossils early stuff. And same with Beach House going from I said Beach Foss. Dammit, I said Beach House. I'm going to keep doing that. But yeah, Beach House going to sub-pop, right? So, yeah, I was going to say like, well, Beach Fossils, that's what they're going for that. Yeah. We talked about that. a lot last week. Like, that was the, that DIY sound that he was kind of known for. Yeah. Yeah. And I, you know, I, my guess is, I don't know the answer up to my head, but I'm guessing Beach Fossils was signed to a pretty well-known indie label after the, his self-title, right? So it's kind of the thing that you do as an indie band, right? This is what it,

this is kind of how it goes, right? You put out your own stuff at first and then you get picked up by an indie label, right? Especially around this time. Yeah, definitely. early 2000s. That's when it was happening. This was the time that like bands like this would get picked up by a music blog and then they would get some popularity rate. So anyway, so yeah, this song or this record is just has a more polished and like packaged sound. You can tell they kind of figured it out. But I was going to say, and we're going to hear this definitely on the first track that I'm going to play. When you think back to the last two weeks, if you listen to our episodes,

or if you're familiar with Beach House and Beach Fossils, you know, we talked a lot about, like, the nostalgia and, like, the sort of, like, longing for childhood and, like, your teenagers and stuff like that, but almost framed in a positive light, I feel like. Like, with Beach Fossils and Beach House, it's, like, this positive nostalgia that's, like, tied to it, I think. But with this record by real estate, it shifts to, like, this, almost like this melancholy. You know what I mean? Because like with nostalgia, you can either like feel like joy like with nostalgia or you can feel like sadness, right? With this record, I feel like it's a little bit more like that sadness, you know, the melancholy and stuff like that. Melancholy feelings mixed with this style of music, that to me almost sounds like a perfect blend of what you'd get out of a beach house and a beach fossils record put together.

Yeah, because beach house is a little bit. darker, right? Yeah, right. And Beach Fossils, like he talked about, was that Tui, a new genre that we learned about last week. He was all about that Tweed, dude. Yeah, where it was purposely like this innocent, this feeling of like innocence, right?

And like simple love songs, right? These guys, particularly, let me name the roster here, but Martin Courtney is the main, main singer, guitar player, main songwriter. Alex Bleaker, at least for this record, some of their members have kind of switched out. Matt Mondiniel and Jackson Pollis.

They sing about sort of like just the feelings of growing up in the suburbs, right? Something that you and I can relate to. A lot of people can relate to. And just that, I think what this is, this record, you know, let's just play a song. I'm talking too much here. We'll have plenty of time to analyze this stuff.

But just think about that, right? Nostalgia associated with growing up in the suburbs. And let me just say real quick, take a look at that album cover. I mean, there's that cookie cutter neighborhood, right? Totally. If that's what I, if that's what it looks like to me. Yeah. And let me tell you about that artwork here, Q, because I've actually got the photo credit.

That is from a book called Homes for America from 1966. It's this guy named Dan Graham, a conceptual artist who just drove around taking pictures of homes, right? But it's supposed to, you know, the way that that photo looks, it doesn't necessarily look pleasing. You know what I mean? That's like the home drum. It's like liminal space. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.

But like suburbia almost, right? Right. And yeah, what's interesting is that photo, if you look at the album art, it is, a photo of what I guess what's called tracked housing in Bayonne, New Jersey. And that is where the group is from, New Jersey. That's like a dystopian suburbia. Almost. Yeah.

Yeah. And I think that's, that is perfect for what they're singing about. But it's still like a longing for it. There's your title, dude, dystopian suburbia. Yeah. The music of real estate. All right. We're going to listen to track two for our first pick here.

This is a beautiful song, man. That's one thing I wanted to talk about with this record. It is a beautiful record, dude. The melodies, the harmonizing. Melancholy is a good word for it. So let's dive in here. This song is called Green Isles. Yeah, it's great, man.

They definitely have a little bit more complexity to their song structures compared to beach fossils, but still a very similar vein, like simple but complex. Yeah, I mean, the thing with Beach House, at least, you know, it's a single guitar and it's an organ, right? With real estate, like, this is a guitar band. I mean, it's almost like Crosby, Sills and Nash level, right? As far as like, what, the guitar? Yeah, maybe a little bit. I mean.

Just like heavy on the guitar. Sure, sure. Pick any band from that era. Yeah, it definitely pulls from that era, sure. Yeah. Like, there's like going to be a song that we play a little bit later that makes me think of the birds. Nice. And we'll talk about that a little bit more.

But let's talk about the lyrics, do you? Because that's what this song is all about. The song is basically about, you know, you're a kid and you're riding your bike down the street, going to your, your crushes house or something like that, right? So he says, under dormant trees, under bright lit skies, mountains of maple leaves standing side by side. The phone lines, the street lights led me to you. And if you just sit tight, I'll be there soon. I mean, yeah, that brings back memories of, you know, like young love.

Immediately that brings back those kind of memories. Or of just, just, you know, your neighborhood when you're, growing up is like, that's your world, right? As far as like, you know, when was the last time? I mean, I walk around my neighborhood all the time as an adult, but I'm just saying like when you're a kid, it's different. It's like this, it's like you're a playground almost. Like, dude, we used to, we used to do that all the time.

You just to walk to, you know, we walked to the baseball card shop, you know, down the street. Yep. We go get donuts with our friends and stuff. Yeah, we hung out with, just shout out to Mitchell real quick, dude. Anytime we bring up our childhood, man. shout out to our old childhood childhood friend Mitch yeah man it was it was all about the

living in that that suburbia you know where you know we were lucky enough to feel to live in a in a neighborhood where we felt safe you know and our parents felt comfortable letting us just roam free in the neighborhood you know but yeah the uh leading up to the course he says all actually this is of course

all those wasted miles all those aimless drives through green aisles our careless lifestyle, it was not so unwise, which is kind of like a double negative. I guess he's saying that it was wise, not so unwise. Yeah. Careless lifestyle, but yeah. Anyway, so he is talking about writing,

this is riding on a bicycle. Yeah, he explicitly says he blacked out on a bicycle making his way back home. Yeah. But like, I like the imagery of like the street lights and the phone lines are leading me to you, you know yeah i like that's a great line i also really like the um i guess it was the the verse but how they always like that the drums were always like to do do do do do and it did that like oh yeah for every uh line of the verse i really liked that yeah we're gonna have to keep that in mind dude i've been i've found some jam buddies so i've been getting a chance to jam again every week

so i'm going to try to keep that in mind you for our next jam session So, cute, what do you think about the vocals? So, like, as far as harmonizing and stuff, I think these guys align themselves more with Beach Boys than any of the other two groups we've talked about this year. Yeah. Definitely some, the melody structure, yeah, the, he's hitting that sweet spot of, like, you know, the Brian Wilson Beach Boys. Yeah. Harmony sound that we all know and love, right? Yep.

So that harkens back to the 60s. Yeah. Totally. You know, California dreaming. You know, I feel like what real estate does really well is they harken back to the 60s with their melodies and stuff and song structures. But the guitar work, I feel like, is almost more like that alt rock, kind of almost like REM sometimes, the more light REM songs and more sort of in that vein.

So it's like alt rock kind of from the 80s, 90s. with like some 60s pop jangle pop type stuff kind of thrown out. Oh man, I got a great quote for that dude. All right, let's hear it. This is just a little article on NPR from, it was a first listen article. So this is probably what was what they said on the radio.

But shortly after it came out, so this was in October of 2011, says here, given that the Beach Boys made a virtually eternal career out of a similar formula, cheery romanticism that masks an undercurrent of alienated melancholy, it's easy to get behind real estate's winsome charms, which are surprisingly well suited to the arrival of cool weather. Then I'm going to jump down here, it says, the sounds being evoked aren't just the pop and rock of 60s beaches and garages, but also the low power.

radio of 90s dorm rooms. That's perfect, dude. 60s beaches, 90s dorm rooms. Yeah, dude. That's it right there. That's it. It's perfect. All right, so here's another song that falls in that same vein lyrically, I think.

But this is a little bit more, you know, the last one was kind of like a love song, right? This guy is just running his bike, going to see his girlfriend, right? This one, I think, deals with something a little bit more. heartbreak cue. So, you know, we're getting both sides of it here. A little melancholy, if it were. All right. This song is called municipality.

Another simple tune, dude, but killer guitar riff. Mm-hmm. So, this, you know what, dude? Let me do something. Let me, sometimes I like to do this cue. YouTube comments are both, you know, just the bottom of the barrel, right? Of humanity, but also sometimes they're like spot on.

You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, dude. Like, dude, I'll never forget that one comment when we finally got some new music from Kings of Convenience. It was like the top comment on the YouTube for the video. I can't remember the song name, but they're like, and just when the world needed the most kings of convenience return. Yeah, exactly.

Well, here we go, dude. I put it better, dude. So, real estate back in 2012, they were on NPR's Tiny Desk concert series, right? Which, if you're familiar with that, it's acoustic, right? Yeah. It spans doing acoustic. Pared down versions of their songs, yeah. Of their songs.

Anyway, top comment. These songs feel like going back to the neighborhood I grew up in after years of living out of state. Nostalgia, simultaneously sweet. and melancholic. And that's it, right? It is sweet, but it also makes you kind of sad, right? And one thing I was thinking.

Bittersweet is what I, yeah, bittersweet. You know, a lot of indie bands, right? They're putting out records, their first records, probably like early 20s, right? That's the time in most people's lives where they are, they've moved away from home, right? You're no longer a kid anymore. You're an adult. So you're starting to navigate the world. And I think it's probably no wonder that a lot of these young bands, at least if you're

going to write this kind of music, it's going to sing about this kind of stuff. Like this is the first time that you're out there in the real world. You know, you're probably logging for home if you just moved away from home because a lot of people do, right? And so like it's kind of, you know, this phase of most of our lives, you know, probably does revolve around some of this. And you're discovering a lot about. yourself as an independent human being, right?

Totally different world. But life's never going to be like it was when you're a kid, right? Like it's never going to be that way again, right? And a lot of people deal with that. And it's sort of like you go through like a mourning phase. I mean, that's what nostalgia is. It's just like making you sort of long for that perceived, like, in a sense of childhood, whether or not it was true or not, right?

Those are simpler times, dude. Simpleer times. So yeah, again, the lyrics of the song, it's just, this guy's just driving through his neighborhood. The idea here is that, you know, he's heartbroken. His lover just told him like, hey, man, go be free. Like, don't get bogged down by me. Like, we broke up, go spread your wings and fly, you know what I mean? Right.

And he's just saying, how can I be free when all I want to be is by your side in that municipality? He just wants to be by your side again, you know? He's driving around. He's feeling nostalgic. Feeling upset. But yeah, simple song. Great song. Again, the guitar and the harmonizing is kind of what does it for me with these guys. Oh, I got another great quote, dude.

Go ahead. So from Pitchfork is the album review. This got an 8.7, dude. Best New Music when it was released in October of 2011. But here's what he says here. as this music bears a simplicity to match. I think he's saying similar to the debut. These aren't minimal songs by any means,

but the layers of cycling guitar, rolling rhythm, and gentle echo are always understated, more about conveying feeling than showing off the band's considerable chops. They know what they're doing, dude. They got the chops, and that's not what this is about. It's more about conveying feeling. evoking like a certain feeling and emotion, you know.

Yeah, dude. They're really good at pairing the lyrics with the sound, the melody. Like what he's singing about aligns perfectly with the music, right? He's really good at that. Yeah, really great. Speaking of which, the next song is kind of a standout on the record. And I'm not sure how often he sings on other records. but this next song has a different singer, the bass player.

So actually, he has, he is actually Mar-he's probably the backup vocalist, but he did sing lead vocals on this particular song here. Base player's name is Alex Bleaker, and he both wrote and sung this song here. And it's always been a standout favorite of mine. And cute, I want you to think about the birds, and one particular song, we'll talk about it, but you'll probably know what I'm talking about when it gets to that. part of the song. But here we go. This is the next track on the record. One of my favorites, probably from the band, the song is called Wonder Years. That's, I haven't even heard the

album, dude, and it's my favorite. Yeah, it's great. It's so simple, but like... Can I already tell. Dude, the lyrics, man. This one particular lyric always stood out to me. Jealous lovers left behind Wonder Years passed me by. That's it right there, dude. And that's what I'm talking about like when you hit line your 20s or whatever that's probably when you start to realize like oh perhaps the best years of my life are past me right as far as like you know that's typically not the case right but i mean like you might think that like those innocent years of your childhood are gone dude they're not coming back ever no got to find a way to relive it far away but still on the mind think of you from time to time

He's probably reflecting back on, like, you know, childhood love or something like that. But yeah, I just love the simplicity of the song. I love, I love his voice. His voice is great. That was your 90s dorm room right there, dude. That had the very, like, you know, that like easy listening kind of alt rock from like the 90s. I'm thinking like, Miracle Legion, you know. Yeah, or, yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Polaris, right? Yeah. Which, dude. Yeah. REM maybe, you know? We need to do Polaris soon. And I think this is a good, maybe we could do it within the next month or two. Yeah, yeah, dude.

No, let's do a combined episode. Polaris and Miracle Legion together. That's a good idea, yeah. Because, you know, as we all know, Polaris was like a fictionalized band for the Adventures of Pete and Pete. The Adventures of P&P. But it was Miracle Legion, basically. Anyway, here's a quote cue from the Washington Post's review of the record.

Back when it came out, because this is kind of what we're talking about here. The band reinforces that sense of bittersweet stasis with cyclical riffs that resemble REM or the clean or built to spill or even Fleetwood Mac walking lazy laps around that track behind the high school. That's perfect. I like that, right? Yeah. You're just, you're stuck, right?

That's what I'm about the stasis where like, you know, you're just, you're walking, walking laps in your high school, your high school track because you just, you don't want to leave. It's a simple jog, right? You're not trying to lose your breath or anything. It's a lazy lap. Yeah, and listen to this.

This is a great line. There are some jangled chords, some bright guitar leads, and a rhythm section that operates somewhere between shy and proud. Yeah, dude. Yeah, that's great. That's it, man.

All right. I love that track. It's one of my favorites. I think his voice is a really good compliment to Martin's voice on the rest of the record. But that's why that particular song always stands out to me. Plus, I love everything about the song, the name, Wonder Years. We all instantly think of the TV show. Right.

Which is specifically about your grade school years. Yeah. Exactly. All right. I got one more track for us here. And this song, I think, has a little bit, has a little bit, has a little bit more of a, a upbeat tempo to it a little bit. But not as much as they're two singles.

If you want to hear the two times on this record where the band is a little bit more upbeat and like happy, I guess. A bit more beach fossils maybe. Yeah, listen to Easy and it's real. Easy was a song that played us in, by the way. But those are their two singles. So anyway, this next song is called Younger Than Yesterday. More of the same kind of...

But great, that man. Yeah, it's another great song. Love those lyrics. Yeah, I also like the line where he says, if it takes all summer long just to write one simple song, there's too much to focus on clearly that is something wrong. And I think that's funny that he's like talking about himself as a songwriter, you know, like, hey, man, takes me all summer long to just write one freaking song here.

One simple song. And he alludes to summer ending in that first. line. No more light green leaves. This summer held no words. And it's great too because their album was released in October. So summer's over. Still working on the song finally releases it in October. Yeah. And this is toward the end of the record too. So like summer's over. We're hitting the end of our our record here. And the funny thing is their their album before this one, their self-titled record was like explicitly about summertime, like in the beach and something like that. So like Like, you know, this album represents like a change in like lyrically and something like that thematically and something like that.

Yeah. So yeah. This record to me is almost like the shift from summer to fall, you know. Totally. But they had like on their first record, they had songs called beachcomber, pull swimmers, you know. Let's rock the beach. Yeah. So I love that little guitar solo in the middle of that song.

It's kind of like a, it's got that beach guitar, surf guitar vibe to it. but a little bit more kind of contemporary, you know? Yeah. It's got like a little bit of delay on it and like maybe some like fader. Guitar solos have been hard to come by for the last few decades, you know. It's always appreciated when bands are still dropping the solos. Yeah, you don't get it very often, right? So when it happens, at least you don't get it very often in like the indie genre.

You get it all the time in metal and stuff like that. Yeah, you don't get it very often in this realm. And, you know, that's another thing that kind of makes them stand out. I don't think there's too many guitar solos on Beach House or Beach Fossils records, right? Right. So, anyway, yeah, that's it, man. Those are my picks. Love it, man.

Short and sweet. Great album, dude, I can already tell that I'm going to be digging it from the rip, dude. Why did it take me so long, man? That's, you know, you can't beat yourself up. I work you. But I asked myself that question quite a bit. Well, some of the picks I'll be bringing next week, dude, for our very first What You heard of 2022, man, I can't wait.

Where I'm like, what the hell is wrong with you? How have I not listened to this group all these years, you know? But that's the beauty of music, man. Music is a journey. Yes, sir. You know, you'll always get to it whenever you get to it. Yeah, I'm actually going to be bringing a few songs from the early 90s and the 80s. Yeah, I was just like, where has this been all my life, man?

So if you like that, the tunes I just brought, listen to their follow-up record, Atlas came out in 2014. It's kind of more of the same, really. And then the band sort of went through some changes with their personnel. They lost one of the guitar players. Sounds like he was kind of a kind of an asshole. So good rhythms, you know? That's good. But yeah, Atlas is a really.

really, really good companion to days. So again, if you liked days, those two are great records in their catalog. But anyway, again, this band is called Real Estate. And, Kew, before we close up here, we've got to remind the people listening. You know, if they're feeling kind of melancholy right now from this music and thinking about their youth and stuff, thinking about that person in their life that just slipped through their hands, Kew. and they're young, it's gone, never getting it back.

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And if you're new to the show, basically it's a mixtape episode, if you will. So we each bring five tracks. You know, there's no criteria. There's no theme. It's literally any song, any decade, any genre. The rule that we're supposed to follow and, you know, we try to, is that this is supposed to be music that we had been, listening to since the last what you heard.

Yeah. And so since the last what you heard was like November of last year, you know, we've been listening to quite a bit of music since then, as you would imagine, right? So this is not exactly like fresh on our heavy rotation list. But these songs that we bring next week are going to be top-notch cue because of all the music that I've heard the last month and a half, like this is the five that I've, that I've really stuck with me. Yeah.

And if you guys remember, I wanted to try very hard to wait until that new sound carrier's album dropped so that we could play it as an intro. I can't wait, dude. I'm not waiting that long. It's not coming out until the very last week, like at the very end of the last week in January. So, yeah, I'm just going to have to wait until the next what you heard. we'll usually intro us in with a brand new song from an artist for our watches. So keep your ears plug or your ears open, dude, for some new stuff. Because we got to find something great to intro in our first what you heard of the year.

But yeah, dude, I got five great, great songs. They all flow really well together. Bring in a vibe, dude. bringing a certain vibe and I can't wait dude cannot wait well until then check us out on Instagram you can just you know search no filler podcast we'll pop right up follow us there if you want to get the latest episode info and other things you know we're we need to get back in the swing of that I think man it sure is hard dude are so it is we're just not good at the social media's you know you know what man I'm just going to blame it on my age right there you go why not

people have been doing it for years that's a lazy cowpout but yeah it is it is but that's what i'm sticking with it's just it just doesn't come naturally to me to to to be on the social the social shmids as they say but anyway find us there interact with us send us a message on instagram you know some people have reached out to us it's great yeah we love it that's our favorite thing in the world. Tell us what you want to hear us talk about. Tell us what you liked about what we said. Tell us what we got wrong, you know, tell us that we fucked up. I would love to hear that. Um, and of course, you can also find us on the Pantheon podcast network. That's pantheonpodcast.com, home to many, many great music related podcasts, including our own. And that's it. Next week, we'll be coming at you

with a what you heard, the very first of 2022. So, Don't miss it. All right, Q. Well, that's it. My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin. Y'all take care. At Holiday Magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you.

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