No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? Deep Freeze Edition

Episode Date: February 22, 2021

The only thing that could thaw the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 is the hottest mixtape since Now That's What I Call Music! Tune in for our 2nd edition of Whatcha Heard, our monthly mix of varied jams from early synth to the one and only William Shatner. Tracklist: Harald Grosskopf - So Weit, So Gut Altın Gün - Ordunun Dereleri Sam Webster - Deep Cuts Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest - Flight Failure - Another Space Song William Shatner & Ben Folds - Common People (Pulp Cover) Petri Alanko & Martin Stig Anderson - Et Ratio Principalis shame - Human, For A Minute shame - Great Dog Men I Trust - Days Go By Men I Trust - Slap Pie Routine - Wait 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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I've got my brother Travis with me, as always. Welcome back to the 21st century, dude. You had quite the week. That is an understatement cue. So if you've paid attention to the news lately, or if you live in the state of Texas, you may be familiar with the historic winter storm that hit Texas on Sunday. And then it came back for a second round on Tuesday. So, yeah, this week has been, it's been, I. I will say this.

My wife and I did not suffer nearly as badly as some people in Texas did. Yeah. But we did have about 36 hours without power at our house. And some people have had their power off since Sunday. And it's still not on. Still? No, at least as of yesterday. This was Waxahatchee, Texas.

But yeah. So basically to not get too far into it, this, it's a private company, which is the first problem, that oversees our power grid. Dude, I learned a lot about the electrical grid in Texas that I have no idea about. Kind of the funny thing is like a lot of people now know things about Texas. You guys are separate from the registry. Right. Things about Texas that they never knew they would learn, right? Yeah, this company, Ercott or whatever.

It stands for some sort of, the irony is that the R and Ercot stands for reliability. So that's just so much for that. They need to change their name. They just didn't prepare. Everyone knows what happened, dude. We don't need to really dive into the deets. But yeah. A block story short, Texas saw temperatures and snowfall that we typically don't see.

And it had been below freezing from Sunday to, today. Today was the first day that it finally went above freezing since Sunday, which may not seem like a big deal to some people. And today's Friday, the 19th of February. I'm just going to peek behind the curtain here. That's true. This will come out a little bit later. But I'm just saying, you know, to some stage, that's, that's, you know, no big deal. That's every winter. But for Texas, basically, they just didn't prepare. They didn't winterize some of like the power plants and like the winter turbines and stuff like that. I mean, there are wind. wind turbines in Russia and Canada and stuff like that that were on just fine and temperature is much colder than the temperatures we had.

So that's kind of one of the excuses they lobbed out it as at first. It's like, no, you can't just blame the fucking wind turbines, man. That's their favorite thing to do. Yeah, and not to mention, it only accounts for 10% of the power in this state. So anyway. Well, hey, let's, you know what? Today is our second full-length, whatcha heard episode. And I'm stoked, dude.

This is a great way to end this week for me. So anyway, we have power again. We've had it since Wednesday, early, early Wednesday morning. So all as well. Yeah. So we're just going to end this week with some tunes, man. Yeah, dude, let's jam out to some tunage. I got some doozies for you, man.

I'm excited. Yeah. It's been interesting trying to sort of curate this batch of songs here. because that's, you know, I've listened to a ton of music since the last time we recorded this, right? So it's kind of like, what do I go with? What do I drop from the list? Yeah, we're going to bring five each. And I've got a list with more than five songs.

Right. You know, I've got five in mine, but I might play something else just to kind of flow well with whatever you pick. So let's do it, man. Let's get right into it. All right. So I'm going to go first this time because you went first last time. It's only fair. It's only fair.

So I've got an interesting pick here to start us off. So I always like it when I stumble upon a song that you may not immediately know or realize kind of what decade it came from, right? So this musician is named Harold. I'm probably going to mispronounce this. He's from Germany. Harold Groskopf. Oh, that sounded German. Yeah.

He is a synth pioneer. So early synth music. And there's a record named Synthesist, which is his debut record, debut solo record, that it has kind of gained cult status in a way. It was re-released back in like 2011 with a bunch of remixes and stuff on it. This record has like a legacy behind it, right? And this song just popped up on my, like Spotify, Discover Weekly, a couple of weeks back. And yeah, so this came out in 1980. So keep that in mind.

Probably going to mispronounce the name here, but it's so, wait, so gut. Probably so goot. So gut. Yeah. Anyway, here we go. Awesome, right? 1980, too. That's crazy.

That's really early on in the synth music world. Right, right. So here's a little quick story about this. I think this is interesting, the story behind the recording of this. So he basically, so Harold was a drummer who lived in Berlin, and he had already appeared on, he was a drummer on some recordings by some of the groups like Ashraa Temple, Cosmic Jokers, some guy named Klaus Schultz. And so he was held up in one of his friends' apartments, and he had a mini-mug, an eight-track reel-to-reel recorder, and a lot of time alone. I'm reading from a Pittsburgh article here. So over the course of several weeks, he wrote and recorded this material for synthesis, which was eventually released.

But yeah, it's kind of funny to think. Like, he did all this in an apartment, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's really cool, actually. especially for 80s that he was able to have that DIY like recording approach even back then yeah one of what kind of gear he was using yeah that probably kind of speaks to like you know it kind of goes into what we've talked about with like tyco Scott Hanson right and a lot of these electronic musicians were able to record records in their in their apartments or their bedrooms right doing it back in 1980 I'm like I'm curious about that

You probably couldn't do that. You know, a mini-mug. I think synthesizers were like huge back in the day. I think the mini-mug was like a smaller synthesizer. And so with the recording equipment too, you know, it's like he could just record it onto his laptop. It's 1980. Oh, well, he just had an A-track, right?

Yeah. Anyway. So this was re-this album was reissued, like I said, in 2011, and it is held in high esteem among early synth enthusiasts, but it's not widely known. So there you go. Nice. I listened to some of the other tracks on this record. It's solid, man.

It's great. Even the record, the album art's dope. It's just him. Like, he looks like he's a freaking, you know, gold finger or something like that from a golden night. He's like painted in the silver body paint or something like that. Bronze. Yeah, there you go.

So anyway, that was Harold Grosskopf. And that was a song I'm not going to try to pronounce again, Q, but it was track one off of the 1980 record, synthetian. So, I'm going to send it to you. So you've heard of this band Alton Goon. I brought a song of theirs from their album. I think it's pronounced Gichi, Gichi from 2019. That was one of my what you heard's a while back.

Yeah, this was a really cool track, man. They're great, dude. So they're a Turkish folk psychedelia, very heavy influence from like the 70s with their sound. they've been dropping singles over the last few months and they're kind of pivoting, or at least in this song, to some more like synth-heavy stuff, which is awesome.

So I'm going to play one of their newer singles that was dropped at the very end of last year. So this is again the Turkish psych rock band Alton Goon. This song is called Ordin Noon. Deerleary. So like it's got almost like a synth bed to it, like a synth wave kind of vibe to it. Yeah, totally. Which is really cool.

And his vocals are great, man. I love his voice, yeah. I love that Middle, mid-Eastern style of vocalization, right? Like with the song, singing. I don't know. There's probably a more like a proper term for it, but that style, I love it. man. There is a station in North Texas that plays mid-eastern, you know, popular contemporary music like that. Oh, cool. And I just, I tune into it every once in a while just because I love that style of singing.

I do too, yeah. They do these things with their vocals that, like I said, there's a, there's a proper way to describe it probably in a proper term for it, but I don't know what it is. I just know that I really enjoy it. And so it's cool to hear it, you know, as vocals for a psychedelic track or a synth wave track and stuff like that. It's cool to hear that. Yeah, they're really great. There's a female singer as well in the band, and they kind of trade off tracks. Yeah. But yeah, dude.

So, I mean, they're bound to be dropping a full length here pretty soon because they keep releasing singles. So I'm super stoked about it. I'm sure I'll be bringing another song from them as of what you heard pretty soon here. Yeah. All right, man. pass it back to you what you've been heard. All right, Q. It's no surprise to listeners of this podcast that I'm a fan of soundtracks.

Just blanket statement, soundtracks. I love them. You love them. Video game soundtracks have a special place in my heart. And I have found that video game scores are, they have a unique, I don't know. Like there's a quality to a really good video game score nowadays that you're not going to find on a movie score or a TV show score, right? And it's attracting really talented musicians are doing video game scores now. So anyway, just a random soundtrack that I came across.

I haven't played the game yet. That's usually the case. Most of the soundtracks I listen to have never played the game before. But I'm going to let there's a record. label called I am 8bit that I love. They press a bunch of video game scores. Dude, that pressing is dope. I know.

They do some of the coolest pressings, dude. Look at the freaking blood splatter thing. Color splatter. Yeah. I've picked up a couple of game pressings and they, all of them have really cool sleeve artwork and like the colored vinyl and stuff. Like this one, for example, came with like this like coloring poster that folds out. color and shit. Anyway, I'm going to let the person who wrote the description of this soundtrack

set the tone here, paint a picture, if you will, Q. Because he describes it perfectly. So, here we go. Let's theorize for a second. Actually, let me back up first. So the name of this, the name of this game is called Grindstone. And it is a puzzle adventure game on the Nintendo Switch. I don't know on a Nintendo Switch, but if you've played the game, then you're familiar with the music. So here's a description. Let's theorize for a second, say like you're locked in mortal conflict with hideously cute creatures that call the deep, dungenous cave system of a massive mountain, home sweet home. You, on the other hand, are a ripped, sword-whirling barbarian hunk of a family man, just trying to make ends meet by slaying these creeps, jerks, and slabs as part of your hard days living. Pause it for a moment, then, and consider what kind of tunes you'd listen to.

while grinding away. It's the music of composer Sam Webster that would make those long, sunless days breeze by, no doubt. His ephemeral, is that a word? Ephemeral. Ephemeral? Ephemiral. His ephemeral hip-hop beats and spooky synth jive

are the stuff of Monster Mashin legend. Now, that's a perfect description. Monster Mashin? Ephemeral hip-hop beats and spooky synth jive. I'm stoked. Let's do it. All right. So here we go. With that description, here is a song off of Grindstone Volume 2 called Deep Cuts. Slashing and tearing through some monsters. Yeah, dude, I'd be throwing my earbuds on and definitely jamming out to this tunage. Yeah, you're just taking out the trash, basically.

It's kind of weird. Now, I will say that you got to keep in mind that this game is dealing with like kind of cute monster-looking sprites and stuff. Sure. As we talk about in our Best of 2020 episode, if you're slaying demons, it's got to be heavy metal, and that's what the Doom Eternal soundtrack provided us. But if they're cute little monsters and stuff,

something like this is perfect, right? Anyway, as I've kind of talked about, I think, in the past, like video game scores, a lot of times it's just really solid electronic, instrumental electronic music like this. And a lot of times it's kind of like down tempo-y almost. I like the hip-hop beat. Video games are supposed to be kind of, you know, the music in the background is going to,

it's going to happen while you're doing certain things like running around, exploring an environment and stuff like that. It's going to be kind of like background music almost, which is what I like about video game scores a lot of times. But sometimes they're just like if I told you, if I didn't tell you that that was a video game score, you probably wouldn't think, oh, that sounds like a video game, right? It just sounds like cool, down tempo, electronic music, which is what it is, right? Anyway.

Yeah. So that was Grindstone. The artist was Sam Webster. Check out some of his stuff. He's done a few video game scores. They're all really solid. So, all right, Q, let me send it back to you and what you got for us. All right, dude.

So I'm just going to share this quick story because it's another one of those magical moments. And in the world of, you know, music at your fingertips and, streaming services like Spotify and the way that that you can you know just kind of discover things just by chance. One of my favorite down tempo

kind of I don't know how to describe him. He's a singer songwriter. He goes by son. Kind of R&B mixed with like down tempo beats. I was seeing if he was up to anything lately. And he just

released last year a live album where he played alongside this orchestra called the Metropole Orchast. It's like a jazz pop orchestra. It was amazing, really awesome versions of his songs with this orchestra. So then I hopped on, I checked them out to see what other bands they've collaborated with. and one of my favorite jazz bands that I just got into is Snarky Puppy. Did you ever get into them, dude? They're from Denton, actually.

No, but I had a coworker who used to play the music like Derek Work Hours and stuff, so I've heard it before. Basically, like all the stuff that I love about jazz is Snarky Puppy. All the stuff that I can't stand, they tend to steer clear of. Like, the improvised, like, trumpet or saxophone shit, like, I can't do it, man. You know what I mean? Like, where it's just kind of all over the place, like fluttery notes, just chaos. I can't stay in that kind of stuff.

It's got to be a little more structured, you know? Yeah. Anyways, they did this really cool album called Silva. Came out in 2015, and they collaborated with the Metropole Orchast. So they're actually from the Netherlands, just throwing that out there. And apparently there's a DVD that goes along with it that's kind of like a visually like a visual kind of storytelling that goes along with the album. Really good stuff.

So this is again, snarky puppy collaborating with Metropole Orchast. This song is called Flight. Is the whole record like that? I don't know what you mean. All I know is that's fucking amazing. That's awesome. Yeah, dude. That main melody, like the first.

Fluttery flue or whatever that is. It's probably not a keyboard. It could be. But with a band like that, they're probably really experimental and that could be like a guitar of raw, I know, you know. But I mean, it's probably not.

It's probably a keyboard. But I'm saying like they almost had like a, like a vibe similar to something you may have heard from time. The band that we covered a couple weeks ago. Oh, the time? The time, yeah. Or even a band like Zapp, which is.

Yeah. The band that's probably more well known for being on the Ferris Bueller soundtrack. But that like vocoder talk box type thing, I don't think that was a vocoder because it didn't sound like some of these vocals, but it had that kind of vibe to it. That kind of reminded me of the 80s a little bit, which is really cool. There's more traditional sounding, I guess, if you want to call it that, jazz tracks, you know. But yeah, it's very like, it is jazz fusion, I guess. Yeah, yeah. And there's some songs where the orchestra kind of takes center stage a little bit more.

But for the most part, it's very, you know, it's wind instrument heavy, I guess. You know, lots of horns, saxophone, stuff like that. But dude, look at this personnel, man. It lists out snarky puppy and then Metropole Orchestra. Just huge. Wow, yeah. And this was recorded live. Really cool.

It was live recording. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, so if you're not familiar with like the cities of North Texas, Denton is kind of known for, well, I should say the university that's in Denton, University of North Texas is known for its jazz programs. So there are a ton of great musicians that go to that school and then they just form bands that end up being, you know, snarky puppy. And that makes sense too, because they're students, they probably become friends in class. Sure, yeah. realize that they have similar, you know, musical tastes and start forming bands.

We did an episode on a band called Midlake, which is based on a Ditton. And they all met in like through the jazz program or some of them were in the jazz program. And, you know, they did. Obviously, Midlake is like an indie rock folk band. But anyway, lots of, lots of musical talent lives in Denton, Texas, which is about, you know, 45 minutes away from me. But anyway, that's awesome. You know, I'm going to have to queue that album up for tomorrow. for sure. Oh, you'll love it, man. So again, that was a song called Flight off of Snarky

Puppie and Metropole Orcast's album, Silva. And passing it back to you, brother. All right. So I'm going to pull a 180 on us. Oh, good, because I got a 180 track. I was trying to figure out when I was going to squeeze it in. So we're going to go to the 90s because that's probably my favorite decade. for rock. There's just no escaping it. It's probably a lot of people's favorite decade for rock. But we're going to talk about a band called Failure. So these guys are kind of a post-grunge alt-rock band that would be similar to like a Hum or a helmet. Both bands have been featured on no failure in the past. Hum put out a record last year, their first one in I don't remember how long,

but it was a decade plus. And so that was featured on our best of 2020 episodes. But anyway, failure is, they're also considered a space rock band. And Hum is considered a space rock band as well. Space rock kind of goes back to the 60s, like it kind of started with Pink Floyd. And then it had a resurgence in the 90s with the shoe gaze post-rock sound that bands like Hum and failure sort of had. So anyway, this record is definitely a space rock record because it has spacemen on the cover and they're standing in front of these rocket ships and it's just just really cool.

Some good like cheesy 60 sci-fi art. Yeah, like that would be like on the cover of some like sci-fi fantasy novel or some like, you know, science fiction magazine, pulp magazine or something like that. Popular science or something, yeah. So this record is called Fantastic Planet. So again, they're really laying on the sports. base metaphor is pretty thick here. Came out in 1996 and the song we're playing,

wouldn't you know it, cute? It's called Another Space Song. So here we go. Love it, dude. That's great. Yeah, the whole record is pretty similar to that. Awesome. And their first record, their very first record,

it's got a slightly heavier sound to it. That record is called Comfort, and that came out in 92. But yeah, I just love this style of 90s, of that more, like I said, I mean, 1996 is definitely post-grunge because, you know, Nirvana's already happened. All that stuff has already went down. So that's definitely post-grunge. But I mean, it's got that alternative rock post-grunge sound. It's got those space rock elements that I like from like hum, helmet, stuff like that. This is the kind of stuff that I'm finding myself drawn to more and more of these 90s rock bands that kind of,

they may have had some radio play here and there, but they weren't, they didn't reach the heights of Pearl Jam or Stone Temple Pilots or Allison Change or anything like that, you know. Yeah. But they are putting out these songs that you and I wouldn't have heard because, you know, our older brother Spencer, I mean, it's all his fault, really. He was only into like the more mainstream acts, like pumpkins and all that kind of stuff. So these kind of bands kind of, you know, went over our heads a little bit like we just under the radar.

I mean, unless you were a music, like, obsessive person. Yeah, of course, you and I were not the right age yet. Well, I was going to say back then, it was just harder to find stuff that wasn't mainstream, you know? Yeah, they're probably going to get played at a college radio stations. Yeah. Or in obscure record stores and stuff like that. So, anyway, all right, Q. That's great.

Throwing it back to you. So again, that was failure. That was a song off a fantastic planet called Another Space Song. All right, Q, what you got? Well, speaking of cheesy 60s sci-fi, check out this segue, dude, check it out. So we just started watching the original Star Trek series. The original? The original series.

Okay, so we're talking, Captain Kirk. 67 or something. Yeah. All right. Did you know, dude, that William Shatner has released several spoken word albums? Aren't they covers of songs? Not all of them are. Okay.

Because I know everybody knows his Rocket Man cover, right? Because it was parodied on Family Guy. Yeah. Well, I was unaware of this. And I heard, just randomly, I'm going to give another shout out to K-E-X-P from up here in Seattle. My favorite radio station, Cheryl Waters, who is, I think, one of the best DJs out there. I love her to death. She played one of his spoken word songs on K-E-X-P.

I heard it a couple weeks back. So he released an album that he co-wrote, I guess he had song arrangements by Ben Folds, who everyone knows, you know, he's the piano rock god from Benfolds 5 and whatnot. And they released an album called Has Been in 2004. So, dude, we were still in high school when this came out. And the song I heard on the radio is actually a cover from a band called Pulp.

Have you ever heard of Pulp? I feel like I have heard of them, yeah. Britpop kind of artsy rock band. Honestly, I like Shatner and Benfold's version better. I gave a listen to the song from the original band after I heard this. So, again, this is a William Shatner spoken word version of Pulp's song, Common People. She came from Greece. She had a thirst for knowledge. She studied sculpture at St. Martin's College. That's where I caught her eye. She told me that her dad was loaded. I said, in that case, I'll have a rum and Coca-Cola. She said, fine. And in 30 seconds time, she said, I want to live like common people. I want to do whatever common people do. I want to sleep with common people. people. I want to sleep with common people like you. Well, what else could I do? I said, I'll see what I

can do. I took her to a supermarket. I don't know why, but I had to start it somewhere. So it started there. I said, pretend you've got no money. She just laughed and said, oh, you're so funny. I said, yeah? Well, I can't see anyone else smiling in here to sleep, but she didn't understand. She didn't understand. She just smiled at hands and brink and screw because there's nothing else to do. Never thought we'd have a song like that on this podcast, but that was... I had to share it, man. That's actually really enjoyable to listen to.

Right. And it's just funny because Chattner's doing kind of his classic Chattner stuff. Yeah, totally. Yeah, I'm going to quote this guy, his name's Joe Jackson, who actually appears on that song. I don't know what he plays on it. Is he the singer? He's a multi-instrument. I don't know, dude.

I thought that was... Oh, no, yep. I mean, there's no way Shatner is singing there. No, yeah, that was... So that was Joe Jackson's voice. But he says... He's talking about Ben Fultz here. He says, I think he did a really great job of putting an album behind Shatner

that is fun and not completely cheesy. Though when it is too cheesy, it's deliberately so. It's just a very musically satisfying record. And when he asked me to be a part of it, why would I not? How could I refuse? So yeah, man. So there's covers on there, and there's original poems by Shatner played along two awesome binfolds tunes.

Awesome. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. When I heard, I was like, man, I have to share this with Travis. Yeah. That's cool. And like hearing it on the radio was even more like, what?

What am I hearing right now? I'm sure you recognize Chattner's voice, though, right? Immediately. Yeah. Anyways, man, back to you, sir. So we got, what, two songs each left? Yeah, I got two left. So, here we go.

Okay, we're back at another video game score. So, I mean, this is what I always struggle with, because lately I've been listening to a lot of soundtracks. And I didn't want to come to a What You Heard episode with, you know, five different soundtrack. But then I said to myself, it's what I've been. been hurting. So, yeah. Anyway, I've only got two soundtracks, but this is a game that came out last year that, had I thought about it, I may have put one, one of these tracks on the best of from last year,

but because I really, I actually did play this game and I really enjoyed it. I didn't finish it. I notoriously never finished video games. I'm with you, dude. There are ones that I, that I have finished because they're amazing. Like the Doom video games. I'm just going to keep plugging those as much as I can. But anyway, this game is called Control.

And it was just really stunning, gorgeous video game with amazing gameplay mechanics. And just a really cool, like, plot and, like, storyline and character that you get to play. And you're running through this, like, skyscraper-type building that's got this, like, mid-century modern style throughout it. So, like, it just looked really cool. And anyway, we're not going to talk about the game. We're going to talk about the composer.

So this guy, his name is Martin Stig Anderson. He's a Danish composer. And he first popped up on my radar back in 2011 for this game that he did called Limbo. This, dude, I love that game. Okay, well, this is the composer that did that game. Cool. So if you remember, just really dark, ambient kind of music, right? Yeah.

And he also did a game. back in 2016 called Inside that had a very similar vibe to Limbo. It might have been the same studio that made the game or the same person. But anyway, so he came out with this soundtrack with, he

made the soundtrack. He composed it with a guy named Petri Alonco, who is another video game composer. He's done this game called Alan Wake, which I've never played before, but it's the same studio that did this game control. But anyway,

we're going to listen to a song off of this record slash sound track. It's a record, but, you know. All right, this track is called Et Racio Principalis. We can always count on you to bring some, like, cinematic ambience to the pod. Well, you know, here's the thing, dude. This is what I struggle with here. I say to myself, is this the kind of music that I should play on no filler? Well, and then I say to myself

We get to make the rules, son Well, that, there's that But also, if I like it, there's got to be somebody else out there Who's listening He's like, hey, you know, that's actually kind of cool I might check that album out So, um

Anytime I am on the Reddits And someone posts something saying like, Am I the only one? Never. You're not the only one. Right, you're never. It's like there's a fucking Magellian. You're asking.

There's millions of people. Exactly. If you are the only one who does this thing. So, I mean, exactly. There's got to be at least one person in our, of our listenership of the 10 people that listen. There's got to be this one who likes this kind of stuff. I like it. It's very dark, ambient.

Yeah. You played another song off the mic here that was even more ambient. I did. And then I switched it because it was a little too much of a sleeper. But I just like this kind of cue. You and I've talked about ambient music lately because you're getting into ambient music. You like the more kind of traditional ambient type stuff, but I gravitate toward like this more dark ambient kind of music.

I'm into that kind of stuff too, but I think you like it a little more lively with maybe Yeah, I want to hear a beat here and there, but I like this kind of dark vibe. You know what I mean? Yeah, me too. It just put for some reason, it clears my mind oddly enough. Really dark ambient kind of stuff. So anyway, so that was the first. off of the video game soundtrack for control came out last year.

All right. And that was Martin Stig, Anderson, and Petri Alonco. All right, Q, what did you got? All right, man. So this is already in the running for top album of the year for me. This is a punk band called Shame. And so there's second full-length album. And apparently it's kind of a departure from the more like traditional

kind of just straight-up punk music that they were doing with their first full-length album that came out in 2018. So their first full-length was called Songs of Praise. This brand-new album is called Drunk Tank Pink. And it's very dynamic, man. It's kind of all over the place. I'm actually going to play two songs. I'm kind of just to show off kind of like the multiple sides of their sound.

So I'm going to start with tracks. This song is called Human for a Minute. There seems to be like a return to a new wave sound, almost with rock bands these days. With punk bands. Dude. Punk bands, yeah. Between these guys and idols and Fontaine's DC. Yeah, exactly.

There is some great punk coming out right now. And it's, yeah, like it's, it's not, they're not boxing themselves into the punk sound anymore. It's really evolving a lot. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, it's a great album, dude. So I just wanted to play a little bit of another song, the next song actually on the album, just to kind of show off like what else you're going to hear, the kind of stuff you're going to hear on this album. So this is track 8.

It's called Great Dog. Yeah, that's amazing, dude. It's hard not to like it. Good stuff. So, again, that is a band called Shame. That is from the brand new album, Drunk Tank Pink. All right, dude, back to you. Last pick of the episode, what you got for us.

Last pick for me. So I, this is as fresh as it gets, dude. I listen to this record, I mean, a few hours ago. Just discovered this. And by that, I mean, Spotify discovered it for me. Spotify discovers all of the bands that I listened to. It would appear. This was on my Discover Weekly.

And the record, the album art is hilarious. I don't know what that is, but it's fine. Let me see. It's a little crayon doodle. Have a guy. He's got a little party hat on. Yeah. So this group is called Min I Trust.

I'm just going to let the music speak for itself here. So that's something I usually don't do. I usually like to paint pictures. But this record is called Uncle Jazz. Came out in 2019. And this song is called Days Go By. I was checking all the right boxes, brother. Yeah, it's hard not to like that.

I'm crazy about that kind of stuff. And since you play two tracks on your last go-round, I'm going to play just a snippet. Just a snippet of this song called Slap Pie. and you'll see why it's called slap high when I slap the play button. So that's an instrumental track and I can just let that play forever, dude. Slap in the bass. Literally, if that song lasted for like two hours, I would listen to the whole thing.

It's just so fucking groovy. Yeah, dude. Awesome. So anyway, yeah, I just love that kind of, it's indie pop. It's like dream pop. It's jazzy, it's electronic. There's R&B. Yeah, there's just so many things going on.

And the singer, her name is Jesse Karan. She kind of reminds me of the singer for Little Dragons. It's only one dragon. Yeah, that's right, Little Dragon. Yuki Negano. I'm a huge sucker for those breathy vocals, you know. Right. I'm also, yeah, I love a good female vocalist.

Me too, man. And that's a perfect segue for my last pick, dude. Wow, it's almost like we coordinated it, But we didn't. We didn't. So, all right, Q, you're going to bring us home here with the final pick. What's you got? So I am a huge fan of Melina Duterte.

Because we're supposed to know who that is. Well, she goes by J-SOM. Okay, there you go. I know who that is. I'm also a huge fan of Chastity Belt. There's that punk rock band from Washington State. Annie Truscott who plays bass in Chastity Bell. So they are dating.

and Annie was set to tour with J-Som as their violinist, and then COVID-19 hit, and it got canceled. And it really bummed her out. It was going to be like a kind of a life-changing kind of moment, you know. She was going to go on tour with her girlfriend. It was going to be good times. So they started collaborating together and writing music together under the name Routine. and they released an album at the end of last year called And Other Things.

And a lot of the songs, you know, the lyrics are very heavy on, you know, just kind of placing your life on hold and just kind of, I mean, like the name routine even makes me think of like, you know, the last year. Just kind of getting into a new routine, you know. So now I can't stress this enough. It's something that I've started doing a lot more of recently when I'm searching for tunes. I will always see what other albums or compilations that bands will appear on, because a lot of times there will be a song that isn't even necessarily a single, a song that's not tied to any other of their full-length albums, that pop up on like compilation records and stuff like that.

So there is a Christmas compilation album with various artists on it from a record label called Father Daughter Records and Wax Nine Records. So it's two record companies that dropped this compilation record called Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation. And Routine pops up on it. This is not a Christmas song, but I just love it. It's got really good vibes.

So again, this is a song by Routine. The song is called Wait. Solid track, Q. Solid. Those lyrics, dude. You know, like they're writing about it. just stuff coming to mind when they're both stuck in their houses. I don't even think they were able to be together, you know?

So they're just like super bumms. Tour got canceled. So they just kind of channeled all this extra energy and emotions into songwriting. Yeah, I heard a story about another singer-songwriter on, I guess there was a morning edition on NPR. She was talking about like a similar kind of thing where she was set to like open a few shows for styles. isn't it Harry Styles? Oh, yeah. Yeah, so anyway, like, she was talking about how, like, she had all this momentum going,

and, like, she was about to go on tour and, like, open for this huge act. And then COVID hit and all that stuff got canceled. And so she started writing music kind of like this person did where it's, like, more reflective of, like, almost, like, having to, you know, in a way, like, reset your dreams or whatever, like, this dream, this vision that you had at your, career and everything was lined up and about to happen. Yeah. And like this story, so there's got to be hundreds and hundreds of stories like that.

Thousands maybe across the globe of stories like that. So crazy. Yeah. So just another example of, you know, a piece of music or, you know, a new project that came about simply because we were all in lockdown for the majority of last year, you know? Yeah. Cool. Yeah.

It's good stuff. All right, dude, we got to wrap this up. You're right. You're right, dude. We do have to wrap it up. So, yeah, this is our, the second of our monthly What You Heard episodes. So, yeah, in a few weeks, we'll do another one of these episodes. We both bring five tracks. Maybe I'll switch it up a little bit. I don't know, man. I'm always listening to video game scores. That's fine, dude. What you've been hurting. Hey, man. Here's what else I'm doing, though. On that last band I brought to the table, men I trust.

I'm already kind of bouncing around looking at other artists that are similar on their same record label. So I might fall into this rabbit hole for a little bit and listen to some similar vibes. I'm always down for that, dude. All right. So anyway, you can find us on our website, no-fielderpodcast.com. We can find all of our show notes for each episode going back to episode one. So that's track lists and any sources that we cited will be posted on that website. You can follow us on Twitter at No Fielder Podcast.

So yeah, reach out to us, tell us what you liked and didn't like. Tell us what you want to hear us talk about. And, of course, you can also find more great music-themed podcasts on our network that we are a part of called Pantheon Podcasts. So that's pantheonpodcast.com. And we would also like to thank Pantheon sponsor AKG for sponsoring this pod. All right, Q, what you got? You got a song to close this out, don't you? Yeah, so we thought it might be fun to close out each of our What You heard episodes with a pick from a listener.

First person we reached out to was Ronnie, who's a friend of the show. Friend of the pod, Q is a cool way to say it. Okay, sorry. Friend of the pod, Ronnie. So this isn't actually something that we've officially talked about yet. But she's always reached out to her first for this kind of stuff. But with that being said, if you heard a song that you really enjoyed and you thought it'd be fun for us to play it, reach out to us on Twitter at No Filler Podcast and say, hey, this is something that I've been heard lately. you know, if we hear something we're like,

we'll fade us out at the end of our What You're heard episodes with your pick. Because I would rather do that than play our bumper music. I mean, it's a cool song, you know. Yeah. Not a little bumper tune, but yeah, I figure we, you know, we can squeeze in another artist here. So Ronnie sent us a pretty long list of tunes, dude.

And I've actually talked with her about this before. I have yet to really get into Desert Sessions. the you know that kind of collective that the Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Hami started how about you dude there's they have quite a few albums yeah I mean surprisingly enough for two such big fans of Josh Hami Queens of the Stone Age Kaias all the whole desert rock scene yeah exactly so it is I'm in the same way I haven't really I haven't really given it much attention Well, we're going to fade us out today with a song from their volume 9 and 10 records. And this is a song that Ronnie had been heard in lately.

So we're going to fade us out again with this track from Desert Sessions. This song is called Subcutaneous Fat. And that's going to do it for us today. Thank you, as always for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. You know, take care.