No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard: The Almost No Shoegaze Edition

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

It's our monthly mixtape for February, join us for some nu-metal, 60s psychedelic jazz, industrial house, and lots more. Oh and of course: some dream pop because we can't go an episode without it. Tracklist Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops Siilk - Inside My Head Norma Tanega - You're Dead Heaven - Down By The Ocean Cowboy Sadness - Ten Paces Legowelt - Sark Island Acid Washed Out - I've Been Daydreaming My Entire Life Washed Out - Olivia Stereolab - Nihilist Assault Group The Cure - Other Voices People Get Ready - Windy Cindy Winter - Strange Emotions This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis. And I'm Quentin. And on this week's What You Heard episode, we got a brand new single from Vampire Weekend. This song is called Gen X Cops. I had no idea what to expect because I can honestly say I haven't really kept up with the

Vampire Weekend. But that was great. From the jump from that song, right? Like it's different than what I'm used to from them, right? Okay. But mainly the guitar, that very like kind of, you know, almost sounds off key like the guitar. Mm-hmm. And that sort of like, you know, that distortion kind of a little bit of fuzz on there.

But then, you know, once the vocals come in, it's good old Ezra, you know, just like we always know him with that great voice. Ezra Konig. Ezra Konig. Yeah. Yeah. And then that kind of sounded more like your typical kind of like vocal stylings and melody and kind of your traditional vampire weekend song.

But yeah, what a cool song. I think the last album of there is that I really paid attention to was Contra from 2010. But really, I only know their self-titled, their debut self-titled from 2008. And that was during the heyday of our... The music blog. Yeah. Yeah, you know what, dude? I want to say that Vampire Weekend was...

2008 was their self-titled and then, yeah, Contra. I remember seeing that album art. I think that was probably Josh's realm. You know what I mean? It was, yeah. It was. But, yeah, I didn't really pay attention to modern vampires at the city either. There was some good singles on that record for sure.

Yeah. Well, this is great, man. I'm excited to hear more from this upcoming album. It's due April 5th. April 5th. The brand new record is called Only God Was Above Us. So there's their first new record in five years. So Father of the Bride was their last record, 2019.

So yeah, good times. Be on the look after that. It's coming out April 5th, like we said. And yeah, that's what we're going to kick off our what you heard. it for February. All right, Q, I'm going to kick us off. This is our What You're Heard Format. And if you've been listening long enough, you know what this means.

Essentially, it's, you know, five tracks from both of us. No decade or genre rules here. No ifs, hands or butts. Nothing, yeah, no rules. It's a mixtape episodes, kind of what we call it. So, yeah, it's just a good time all around, you know. So if you've been around with those long enough, you know what to expect. There's bound to be some shoegaze on this episode at some point.

Not for me, brother. Okay. No, maybe not for me either then, Q. Oh. Wow. This is the first in probably at least a year that what you heard has not had a shoe gaze. I may have to poke around a little bit here and find another song to play because maybe I did have some shoegaze. Hey, you know what?

We don't have to have a shoe gaze song on every episode. You're right. I'm definitely starting us off with something far from the shoegaze spectrum. So I think I heard, I saw these guys post on a subreddit. I think they were promoting themselves. You know, a lot of bands see that. You know, they'll post on a subreddit and say, check us out. And I thought this band was interesting.

They kind of fall under the, almost like the emo resurgence. emo kind of like you know third wave emo resurgence maybe a little bit of like new metal sprinkled in there

with some of their guitars and stuff but yeah just all the you know what we've been talking about for the last couple of years where a lot of indie rock bands

are putting out the rock sound that you know was around in the 90s and the 2000s like early 2000s it's kind of making a comeback which is awesome

and this song is great man I think you're going to like it. Kind of reminds me of, it's a band that we both brought to the table, I think, two years ago for our year-end episode. It had like a rubber ducky on the cover. You remember that cue? Yeah.

I'm drawing a blank on the name of it. Yeah, it beats me, man. Fleshwater? Fleshwater. I think we both, what's funny is I think we both had that one on our list. Yes, we did because we like this so much. Yeah, so that was Fleshwater. Yeah, but they put out a record.

In 2022, we're not here to be loved. Fleshwater. I don't know why I'm talking about them to you. This is about this band right here. This new one here that I'm talking about here. All right. So this band is called Silk, S-I-I-L-K. And they put out their first full-length record last year in December,

right around the time the Fleshwater record came out. So here we're going to play track two off the record. This song is called Inside My Head. Yeah, fantastic. Great. We've mentioned this many times, but I just think it's awesome that there's a new wave of young artists, young bands. Yeah. Carrying in the torch, you know, because now we get these like...

It's fantastic. Perfect blends of all of our favorite, like, heavier, the heavier side of rock in the early 2000s. Definitely grunge in that sound, right? Grunge, but there's like, I don't know if this is... right, but I'm going to say it. A little tinge of like antenna. Okay. From Kavan.

Kavan, yeah. So, you know, and Kavan, the backbone of Kavan is a really heavy, like, loud screamo rock band. But antenna, of course, was their like, airs down, like space rock for, you know, for the major record label that they were on RCA. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it was that version of them. This is like a happy medium where it's a little more heavy. And yeah, like you said, grunge, new metal.

Oh, do you? Do you say that, Jeff? Can I say new metal? Yeah, I mean, I said it earlier, Q. Maybe you just weren't. You did? Yeah, I sure did. Probably wasn't listening.

Okay, good. Yeah, good. I'm glad they were on the same page. There's a, they're doing a lot of things. So that song in particular had, I think, a little bit more maybe grunge than some of the other tracks on there. But there's definitely tracks that lean more new metal on this record. So, you know, sometimes I like to go straight to band camp.

because at the bottom, you know, band camp on albums and stuff, they'll list out their tags, right? And this is either from the band themselves or their record label, depending on who sets up their band camp page. But I feel like this is the best way. Because I like the, like what do they call themselves? You know what I mean? Yeah, that's my favorite thing about band camp. Yeah. And this is interesting.

So they're from Kansas City. So that's a tag. But alternative, goth, grunge, new gaze, new metal. rock and then they have this label Y2K which is interesting because Y2K as an aesthetic is definitely a thing that Gen Z is into yeah yeah dude did we talk about that no I don't think we talk about that nope yeah I read an article but that's interesting it is interesting dude it's we're old enough now we are that the newer the younger generations are now picking up our aesthetic from the Y2K it's happened it's and the

But, dude. And the funny thing is like, the white, like that, that style, that, that fashion style. It's a little, it's a little, it's pretty shitty. Yeah. We didn't have the best style back then, dude. Yeah. We were popping collars. I wasn't.

But, dude, we were wearing two polos and popping them both. You remember that? We, I mean, you and I didn't. No, not us. Yeah, we, the collective, yeah, our generation was responsible for layering. polo-collared shirts and popping both the collars. Yeah, I remember staying away from those guys. Yeah.

Anyways. But yeah, if you walk down, if you if you walk through like a target, the women's section of target. Are the Pukeshell necklaces coming back? That's all I. Maybe. I think so. I think so. I wish the chain, the big chain necklace, remember?

I had one of those. Oh yeah. Of course we did. And I had the Pookishel. Yep. And the spikes and the. front. Only, you only, you ice the tips, brother.

Ice the tips. Yep. Ice the tips. So that's, you ice just the tip? Just the tips, brother. All right. So, all right, let's move on. Again, that band is called Silk S-I-I-L-K.

If you like that, you're going to love this record. They also have a few EP's that they've put out. So, yeah, and if you're in Kansas City, go, you know, try to check them out, try to check out a live show. That would be, that would be awesome to see that live. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it to you. What's your first track? All right, man.

This one's going to be fun. For anyone who is a fan of the Jermaine Clement TV series, what we do in the shadows. It's a mockumentary style TV series now. I don't know if it's still ongoing, but I just, I just started watching it, and I love it, man. Tyca Waititi is also a big part of this. They of course are also known for Float of the Concords.

And man, what's the other one that I really like? Wellington paranormal. Anyways. Yeah, it's a mockumentary TV show that follows these group of vampires that live together. And it's great. And I'm bringing a song that fans of the show will know from the, it's the theme song. And as soon as I heard it, I was, you know, my ears were perked because I'm thinking, okay, number one, this song definitely wasn't written for the show. This is, and I just could not place like the, the era.

You know, like it was just one of those timeless songs. It's like a fulky song. And I was just super intrigued. So I'm going to play the song first, and then we'll talk about more about the artist. So this is a song by Norma Tanega, off of an album of hers from 1966 called Walking My Cat, named Dog. This song is called You're Dead. Don't sing if you want to live long.

They have no use for your song. You're dead, you're dead, you're dead, you're dead. You're dead and out of this world You'll never get a second chance Plan all your moves in advance Stay dead, stay dead, stay dead, stay dead, stay dead And out of this world Run fast don't stand in the thigh

There's too much work to be done You're down, you're down, you're down, you're down, you're down And out of this world And be sure that you compromise You're dead You're dead You're dead Guard your sleep

From the sound of their pain It tears your face You're down You're down That was awesome Right I mean You know

It kind of felt like a song That you might hear On a Wes Anderson film Or something Like yeah But Yeah Yeah I just

That's great man I love hearing about What was her name? Norma Tanaga American Folk and Pop singer songwriter painter and experimental musician. Awesome.

Yeah, man. Yeah, it was one of those things where it's like, okay, all right, cool. Like another awesome, amazing singer-songwriter that I've never heard of. Yeah, that's great. Thanks to this, you know, comedy, mockumentary series for introducing me to her. And, I mean, I wonder, you know, if what we do in the shadows, I mean, I know for sure it bumped her up in the, you know, in the streams for Spotify and whatnot. But like, I just, I don't know enough about her to know if she was, just got the recognition

she deserved at the time. Or maybe she was more like a Nick Drake, you know, where it was post humus or hummus. Posthumous, yeah. Posthumous. Before she, you know, got, got the recognition that she deserved. because, yeah, what a cool song. The rest of the album is, it kind of leans more in the Niko realm of, I guess, the timing of her rhythms with her vocals. It sounds very much like Nico, but really good.

Really great lyrics, dude, really thoughtful. Just really, really awesome album. And that's the only album of hers that I've given to listen to is the one, because this is the first track on the album, right? so I like I had to hear more and yeah great record great artist awesome show if you if you liked flight of the concords and that's your style of humor you will love what we do in the shadows i'm i think i'm like three seasons in now it's great really good stuff really funny and yeah you're dead is the song that so you want to talk about what what I've been heard

pretty much every night I've heard this song. All right, so I'll pass it over to you, brother. All right, so this is a perfect, perfect follow-up, dude, to that track.

Awesome. So record store day, Q, I'm sure you know how about it. You know, they put out their list a couple months in advance, and I was just kind of scrolling through the list of releases.

The name of this record jumped out of me. It's called Pale Shades of Gray, heavy psychedelic ballads and dirges from 69 to 76. So it's this compilation record put out on this label called Nowagan Records. And it's an exclusive like release for Record Store Day. But apparently this label has put out a couple more compilations like this that are similar. Well, they're all named the same thing, heavy psychedelic.

So the first one, heavy psychedelic ballads. and dirges, heavy psychedelic funk and soul ballads and dirges. So they have one single, I guess, if you want to call it a single, that's on Spotify right now that you can listen to. But it's from this band I've never heard of called Heaven. And they're like a late 60s, early 70s, jazz, rock, psychedelic funk band. And this track is awesome. So I may have to be on the lookout for this record.

on record store day if I if I decide to venture out to a record store but here we go so this song again by a late 60s British psych rock jazz rock band called Heaven this song is called down by the ocean that was really really cool gorgeous right yeah that's haunting is this the only thing that they have out well uh well um on Spotify at spotify yes yes yes So they put out, it sounds like they were a pretty short-lived band. But this, that song down by the ocean was on a self-titled release that they put out in 1970. So I don't, I don't think they lasted very long. But man, what an awesome song.

I mean, his vocals kind of reminded me a little bit of like Stills or Nash. Oh. Maybe Nash. First I thought you met the Stills. Oh, no, no. I'm like, what? No, no. Yeah, yeah.

I'm thinking of that song, Um, wooden chips. It sounds very similar to that song. Which we covered, right? I think, yeah, I think we played that on the,

on our, on our, on our, on our, on our, on our, episode that we did. Anyway,

um, yeah, have you heard anything else from them? From the band? I'm looking at the, at the, the vinyl. So, yeah,

it came on, they recorded in 69. There's, yeah, eight songs on them. Yeah, I haven't, yeah,

eight songs. the album. Yeah, I mean, you might be able to find it on YouTube or something. Right. But so the only thing that it's streaming is down by the ocean. Yeah. And that's, and the only reason in streaming is because the label that's going to put this compilation record out, release that track as like kind of a, kind of like a single in a way. But yeah, I'll definitely, I mean, if that's the kind of stuff that, that they're, that this label is kind of digging up and thrown on these compilation records, I'm going to be on the lookout for that for sure. Really cool. Yeah. It's same thing, just like the, the, the artist you played last, it's like, man, all the music that's just kind of lost to time,

you know, that like you got to, it's very cool that we're able to like, unearth them and polish them, you know, in a way that they're, they're, you know, we give them new life. Because from what I'm reading on this discogs, the notes on this album of theirs, self-titled from 69 or 70 recorded in 69 um yeah i don't think they they made a lot of copies of this record um yeah apparently they were the most expensive albums at the store

at five dollars each in 1970 yeah just you know makes you wonder it was a dude it was an all night a one all night session recording. The entire album in one night. That's fun. Yeah, just, you know, makes you want to... Oh, that's awesome, dude.

You know, don't forget to... When you're going through those record bins, man, at the record store, like... Imagine, you know, finding that. That record. I would pick it up just for the album cover, man. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know?

That's such a cool record. Yeah, walk over to the... you know if your record store actually has a turntable set up where you can listen to albums for you just imagine hearing that you're like oh this has kind of a cool album art let me check it out and it's that song yeah crap anyway yeah anyways that's the dream right when you're when you're flipping through records

all right cute where do we go from here a couple of oldies back to back this is this is good times man where we're going are we going on 180 um I think we're in the same vibe, but we're in a 180 in terms of the year that it came out, because this came out this year. This is already on my list for favorites of the year. And it's already, it's only February.

And yeah, this one's not going anywhere, dude. So this is a debut from a collective, a collaborative project. Let me know if any of these names sound familiar to you. The Antlers, I've heard of them. Don't know much about them. Sounds familiar. Bing and Ruth? Never heard of them.

It lost me. You lost me there. Okay. Port St. Willow. I haven't heard of them either. Not bringing to Balak you. So that's three artists that I'm definitely going to dive into now because they have formed this group called

Cowboy Sadness. And I think the name of the group pairs really well with the sounds they make, dude. There's some sad cowboy songs, Kew. It is the sound of the desert's vast, ragged landscape. There's nothing else to be said, man. Okay. Let's do it.

Cowboy Sadness, this is their debut album, just came out in January, January 19th is when this was released. I love this record, man. It's ambient in all the right ways. All right. The album is called Selected Jambient Works, Volume 1. Jamiant. That's fun.

Jambient, Travis. All right. And this song is called 10 paces. Yeah, that was fantastic. It just builds and builds so slowly, dude. That to me is what is what a good ambient song does. It's so subtle. If this is a new subgenre, jambient, I'm going to have to dig into that.

If they coined that term, it's brilliant. Because I think it kind of works pretty well for that song at least. Yeah, man. And I, yeah, I'm really excited to dive into these other artists that are, Yeah. Like the, you know, what makes up Cowboy Sadness because if it's more of, if it's more of this, then sign me up, dude. I mean, with the name like Cowboy Sadness and a song like that, you know, this

feels like they're kind of going for that exact. Yes. That exact sound. So who knows if that's kind of what they do like separately. Right, right, right. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. I really love the sound of that drum.

The drums were great. Yeah, man. Really well recorded, too. That's another big thing. It's, yeah, the way it kind of, like, listen to this one in a good pair of speakers, it just envelops the whole room, dude. It just takes you in. I bet it does, yeah, dude.

That's awesome. Yeah, really great, really great stuff. It's a truno filler for sure. Nice. All right. Pass it back to you, Traff. Where are we going from here? All right.

Well, I am happy to bring a 180 cue from that one. Well, I'm not happy. In fact, I would love to just stay in that vein there. But not the first time this guy has appeared on this podcast, but he's been around forever. He is a electronic composer that goes by the name Lego Weld. The real name is Danny Woffers. He's been around since the 90s. And, you know, Q, when you were reaching out to me last week and ask him,

for some recommendations in the IDM sphere. Yep. It's come around, dude, full circle. I'm back in it. I've never left, Q. I know. I've never said to you. Yeah.

So anyway, I was, you know, I was shuffling some of my, my playlists, and, you know, was just listening to a bunch of songs I hadn't listened to in a while. So this is one of my long-time favorite, if you want to call it,

IDM tracks. And this guy, this guy's very prolific. He puts out a bunch of stuff. Some of it is hit or miss, but this song has been a staple of mine for a long time. In fact, Q, let me tell you,

when did I add this to my playlist? Let's see. I've been, I've maintained this playlist for a long time. Which one are you talking about? So this is, I have a, you can actually find it on Spotify,

because it's public. It's because I'm, you know, I'm a little nerd developer. It's, you know, like in HTML, really basic HTML, you have an open and a closed element tag. Sure, sure. So I have the word chill, because this is my chill playlist, here. Open and closed chill tag. So there you go.

You want to do. Good luck searching that. Oh, I got it. I found it. You know what? As to what I know your first and last name. So I was able to search your profile. Okay, I don't think I have this one, Tribe.

Well, shuffle that shit, bro. What's the difference between the chill one and the chilled one? In your HTML? Chilled is, I think the track had to come out before 2000. Those are older tracks. And that one's not. Past tense. Yes, dude, just come on now.

You know? Anyway, all right, sorry. But yeah, so this track, I added to this playlist over a decade ago, which is kind of wild to think that I have Spotify playlists that are over a decade old.

That is wrecking my mind right now. So there we go. So I'm going to play this track. This is a song from Lego Welt. This song is called Sark Island Acid. That's the music that I bobbed my head to all I'm working. You know?

Just that four on the floor. driving beat. This is exciting, Q. You know why? Because you want to know why this playlist is over a decade old? Why is that? Because I made it when I had my first developer gig. Oh.

So I'm pretty sure this goes back to when I worked my, yeah, my very first web development job. And yeah, it's because this music is great for that kind of work. you know, and you're not exactly developing, but you are doing it. You're working on, you know, you're in a similar world kind of, right? Yeah, I'm not creating things. I'm replicating issues. I'm trying to replicate issues to figure out what the problem is because I'm customer service, you know, cloud support.

But yeah. Same, same world, you know. Same world. There's all sorts of, you know, playlist out there on Spotify. and stuff like music to code to, you know. It's just kind of, you need something that, yeah, the beat helps, you know what I mean? And it's funny, that's actually why I listen to Mushugur quite a bit when I code Q

because it's just this relentless driving fucking force. You know, yeah. One day, one day, in a few years, you'll be like, yeah, man, I can't get enough of Mushugia. My sugar is the best. That's never going to happen. We'll see. I mean, hey, I guess it starts with IDM and it goes right to

sugar, you know. Anyway, IQ. All right, where we're going from here? All right. This is a good, a good segue. So, washed out. We know, we love them. Can't get enough of them.

An old friend, you know. An old friend. An old friend who I stopped paying attention to a while ago, you know. He put out a new record a couple of years back, didn't he? In 2020, it's called Purple Moon. Yeah, yeah. It's okay. Is it?

It's all right. But I went back to 2017, an album of his called Mr. Mello, that I never really, you know, gave it a fair, a fair listen. That one was just, let's see. The album cover? Yeah, I remember the album cover. Can't forget it. Paracosum was the one that came out before that in 2013, which another one I, let's just, within and without is the first. is the last full-length album,

because technically Life of Leisure is just an EP, which I still listen to to to this day. Within and Without is the last full-length album of his that I really love. And yeah, Mr. Mello's got some good jams on it, dude. It's different than his previous stuff. So I'm going to bring a track from that record. This song is called,

I've been daydreaming my entire life. I really enjoyed that. His voice, man, it just, I love it. Yeah, I think a lot of it for us, man. And I'd like to know what other... I would like to play Life of Leisure to a Jen's ear. I think they would, I mean, I think they would dig it, man. Or they would say, oh, that's that song from...

From Portlandia. Yeah. But, like, how much... of our love for just hearing his voice on a song is just purely nostalgia for us at this point. I mean, I don't know. I want to give him more credit than that here, I think. I do too. But like, yeah, it's just, it's a warm blanket.

It is. Because that, dude, life of leisure, like, just, it was, that was. Yeah. That was the sound of that year. What was it, 2009 when that came out? I think so. Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, there's just something about those tracks, man, that just, it just works so well.

Yeah. Yeah, man, God, you're right. Feel it all around? Yeah, what a song, what an album, New Theory, Hold Out, awesome, awesome record. And we saw them, dude, we saw him open for Beach House. Remember that? I know. Yeah, that was a time.

Yeah, dude. And we got those tickets for free, dude, because we were press, believe it or not. If you want to have, we actually got press passes. We got press passes. Yeah, we convinced them. Yeah, really, we convinced them. That's what it was. We also got press passes to that.

We weren't there to see twin sister, but that's the group that I fell in love with. Oh, man. Morning vendors. Morning vendors, yeah. Yeah. And you know what's funny? It was this group called cults.

I remember cults? The cults. There's cults. Mr. Twin Sister At the time they just went by twin sister And Morningbenders And Morning Binders That was the show, dude

Yeah And we bumped into What's his name? Joshua Blaylock or whatever Yeah He was He's still doing that That Burp FM

Burp FM yeah Blog And he puts out These little records That are like on On postcards Yeah Yeah

Those are cool He figured some stuff out That guy. I know. He left us, you know, left Archie's in the wind. Yeah, basically. Anyways, yeah. So washed out, if you're an old-timer like Gus and, you know, you fell in love with him back in the life of leisure days and you kind of just stopped paying attention, listen to Mr. Mello from 2017.

You'll find more of the same goodness. And, you know, you'll kind of hear. how he had progressed from 2009 to 2017. It's all good. High Times as well is a very good album. That is his full length from 2009 draft. Have you listened to High Times? Probably not.

I didn't realize he put out of full length in 2005. Yeah, yeah, man. There's some great tracks on there. Oh, dude, let's just play it real quick. Let me just play a little bit from High Times because this is one of my favorite songs of his of all time. Um, here we go. Yeah, get ready, Tram.

If you haven't heard this, you're in for treats. This song is called Olivia. Solid jam. Uh, and dude, this came out seven days after life of leisure. So he had all the, obviously he had all these songs, you know, in the bank. If you, if you are curious about, like, the quintessential chill wave, like, that, the movement, like, that sound. from 2009 and you know early 2010s listen to washed out that's the one you need right yeah he's the poster child a toro imwa as well neon indian but washed out hands down he is the chill wave sound all right

pass it over to you trave what you get all right cue i'm just going to do it i'm going to play a stereo lab song that i've been sitting on for a while and we've talked about them quite a bit on this on this podcast i think we might even cover this record at some point this year uh because we've you know i've played stereo lab a couple of times i think on this podcast i fell in love with this group and i stumbled upon them they're just amazing i don't think anybody does this kind of like 60s mod kind of like 60s pop lounge pop kind of sound better than they do i beg to differ true Sound Carriers in my book is number one, but I hear you. I'm just a huge fan of them, so.

Yeah, but it's in the same vein. So like, yeah, if you like Sound Carriers, Serial Lab is right in that same vein. Or broadcast. Or broadcasts. That too means the top three. And no one else is doing it like them. Yeah. Yeah. So here we go.

This song is off of their 1994 record, Mars Audiac Quintet. This song is called. nihilist assault group. I know, I know you agree. I mean, there's just nothing better. That's one of the, okay, Stereo Lab to me and sound carriers, they are the, like, to me,

what we love about the resurgence in early 2000s, grunge, like the 90s. Yeah, they come back. Yeah. You want to talk about like a genre and an era that, they've, there's just a plethora of music to draw from, you know, like that 60s mod, posh sound that they've perfected, like, Hugh, how many music lovers out there were saying the same things about stereo lab and sound carriers, like having the same conversations with their

friends in the same way that we'd talk about the 90s and 2000s, they're just like, man, I just, what a great time to be alive. I can't believe I'm hearing music like this again. You know, what would be cool is if there's, you know, music lovers in their 50s and 60s that are really digging stereo lab and sound carriers. That's what I'm saying, dude. Yeah.

Music is a circle. Yeah. Just like fashion. Circle of life. I would love to do an episode on that particular record. I've got a few tracks set aside. But yeah, besides that one. So anyway, we'll see what happens, Q.

You know, I can hear that music you're playing right now. So, you know. Oh, I was figuring out which one to do next. I was listening, though, Tram. I'm sure you're. Yeah, something about doing a stereo lab. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, we'll see.

If it's not that record, it'll be the one that I absolutely love, which is called dots and loops, came out of. a few years later. Anyway, all right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. This is your, no,

this is not your last track. We still got three tracks left. Holy moly. Mm-hmm. All right, let's, you know, what's going on here?

All right, let's rapid fire. Treve, um, the cure. I've heard of them. They have been on my list for a long time

to actually get into. Okay. You know, excited? Because, okay, I remember back in the, back in our high school days,

Travis, you had a, one of their, it was the greatest hits compilation from 2001. Everyone recognized. Yeah, I remember the album cover. He's got like stars on it and shit. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's got, he's reaching out. His hair, hair do's prominently. It's still there.

It's still going strong. He tries. Yeah. So, anyways, you know, we all know. The hits. We all do. We all do. I listen to Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

a while back. Actually, when I was on that other music podcast, that short-lived one, I don't remember what it was called, but that was the catalyst for us to get to just do our own podcast. I was doing that music podcast with those group of guys, random dudes in Seattle. I remember that, yeah. Yeah, yeah. One of the, one of the episodes recovered, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, from 1987. So I don't remember where I was reading some article about an artist.

that points to the Cure's faith from 1981 is a huge inspiration for them. I wish I could remember who it was. But anyways, that had me cue it up, and I gave it a listen the other day. It's great. Really, really, really good. I can hear a lot of influence that this album must have had on some of our favorite artists, especially from the early 2000s tribe. You'll pick up on this.

Here we go. This is track three off the record. This song is called Other Voices. That was awesome, man. I'm ashamed of myself for not listening to doing what you're finally doing, which is like giving them a proper, proper listen. I need to listen to even more because I just listen to this album. I give myself a hard time because I consider myself a fan of music, you know?

Right, right, right. So I feel like I should always be listening to more. and finding more great music because it's out there. It's just waiting to be listened to. And yeah, man, what a great song. Obviously, a great band, one of the best of the, you know, New Wave post-punk movement. Like, yes, you got to dive deeper than the compilation, like the greatest hits. Come on.

Right. Yeah, I know. That's what we preach, Q. this is the whole point of the podcast is to you know listen to the songs that weren't who's got the time singles cue yeah but yeah who who did you think of right off right off the bat it's it's i'll help you right it's right there dude i'll help you false okay yeah and i don't think it's just his accent you know i don't think it's just that i it's funny dude last week i listened to uh i'll listen to antidote for the first time of years all right there.

See, no, that's, I don't usually listen to that kind of music when I'm working, but if it's an artist and an album that I know like the back of my palm, I can queue it up. It doesn't matter what I'm doing. Like, I queue up a lot of Fleet Fox's records while I'm working. I tend to shy away from albums that have lyrics at all. I'm more instrumental for what I'm working, but yeah, for, for albums that I, I know and love deeply. Yeah, I can cue that up all I'm working.

No. Yeah, that might have been our... I think that was episode three. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, it was definitely an early episode, but I was just saying that might have been like our intro to... Math rock. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, the cure. Who would have known cure? They put out to your music. It turns out. All right, man, I'll pass it over to you. What you got. This is your last pick for the night. All right.

I'm just You know Sometimes you just dig deep And you find a track That you haven't heard in a while On a random playlist That you that you've had on Spotify For a while

And this is not off of the chill playlist That I talked about earlier This is actually off of my road trip playlist That is 16 hours long I've never taken a road trip that long But if I do I can listen to each one of these tracks once So this is a band called People Get Ready.

And this song is called Windy Cindy. So that was what? 2012? 2012, yeah. I mean, that was, I don't know, a decade removed from the garage band revival. Mm-hmm. You know? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah. Really cool, though. Like, kind of surf rock's not the right word. but surfrock's definitely not the right word. But you know, that sound kind of like, Here We Go Magic. I thought of his voice.

I didn't want to. Luke Temple. I didn't want to say, Here We Go Magic, because you're such a huge fan. I didn't want to be wrong about that. No, you're right, dude. Well, it's the same type of indie music, I guess. Dude, listen to this, okay? This just blew my brain.

Okay. So, this checks out so perfectly. So I was just reading the Spotify bio. Formed in 2009 by Stephen Rekker and Luke Fasino of Yeasayer, I've heard of them, People Get Ready began as a project conceived by the pair as a way to merge the worlds of contemporary dance performance and indie rock. Now listen to this here. Based out of New York City, the pair initially cut their teeth with a series of performances based on material that Rekker had written during his time spent touring as a live guitarist for David Byrne.

Now, if that doesn't check out, I don't know what does. Because it's in the same vein of like talking hands. Yes, dude. Yes. I was just thinking about that. Maybe like early towards hearing to it. Like while I was listening to it, yeah, like it. Yeah, it was funny, I was thinking about that while hearing it. And I was, I was trying to figure out a way to connect it in a way that worked. And then I just, I just defaulted to.

Decade removed from garage rock. But like, yeah, man, that's, they're pulling from, they're pulling from talking heads. They're pulling from, yeah, the, new wave. New wave, yeah, from the 80s and 90s. Yeah, for sure. Those dots connect. All right, Q, well, that was people get ready off of their 2012 self-titled record. That name was called Wendy Cindy.

Okay, what's your last song for us? All right, I don't have much to go off of for this artist, not a lot out there on her. But this is an artist that goes by Winter, solo project of Brazilian American songwriter Samira Winter. Okay, you're going to really love this, too. I, you know, I have nothing else to say about it. Let's just listen to it. Last song of the night, let's do it. Here we go.

This is an album of hers from 2015 called Supreme Blue Dream. This song is called Strange Emotions. We almost made it Q through this episode without any dream pop or shoegaze. You know it, man. You're right. That was a great song, by the way, I did. I love it. Great song, yeah.

Kind of Tweed, almost a little bit of Tweed pop key. Hey, there we go. I just snink that in there. The first mention of Tui for 24. There you go. Yeah, I also like the. comments that people can leave on albums

in Banking? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, these two, the first two are great here. They say the absolutely perfect sweet, icy, cool drink to beat the warm summer heat. Supreme Blue Dream is a must listen for shoegasers and dream pop lovers alike. And this one says, a good record

that keeps the pop and dream pop. Yeah, that's spot on, dude. Yeah, that's, I mean, yeah, it's just a, that was just a perfect song. That's a great way to end the show. And hey, that's the only song of the album that I know. So I'm diving into this. Dude, she just put out a new record, man. Did she? Unless this is some, no, that's a single. Okay, okay. Well, still, she put on new single. Hey, yeah.

There you go, man. She's, she's been busy. Because this, that record you played came on 2015. 2015. And here's the, uh, the one comment someone left for this single that was released. Oh, there's no release date. January. date. January. Okay, last month. It says you're literally blown away by this. Well, that's promising you. This random person on the internet

was blown away by it. Blown away. So that's our what you heard for February. I think that was a good one, dude. We got a good mix of tunes. I think so too. Good mix of tunes. All right, well, you know the drill. Check us

out on Instagram. If you want to reach out to us, If you don't want to reach out to us, fine. That's totally fine. Totally fine. And understandable. Yeah, I hear you. I get it.

I mean, I don't hear you. You're not saying anything to us, but I understand. So, you know, you can also find us on the no filler. Nope, that's the name of the show. You can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. It's pantheonpodcast.com. If you want to find more music-centric podcasts, there's, dozens of them under the network

probably another one out there that you might like although I'm pretty confident at Q that we're the only ones that play non-stop shoe gaze so non-stop non-stop can't stop won't stop but I here's another thing dude

and we talk about this this is the only podcast you're going to hear this variety of tunes cue on a single episode I'm confident of that dude for sure confident for sure so there you go uh all right cue that's that so next month i believe we are going to cover deaf tones record around the fur came out in 1997 now that is going to be interesting

speaking up like there's a lot of bands right now i'm putting on new music that we're definitely inspired by deaf tones narrowhead is one of them and as you know narrowhead's one of my favorite bands to come out in the last decade, bar none. So check that out. That'll be next month's episode. So, you know, a couple weeks give or take, that episode will drop. Yeah, I haven't really listened to them at all. They're really interesting.

Really interesting. His vocal, his vocal work is something. I think you're going to like it. All right, cute. Well, that's that. So until next time, thanks for listening. My name is Travis. And I'm Gwen.

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