No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard: The Big Red Edition

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

We've got everything from 60s baroque folk to Japanese math rock, and chillwave to vaporwave, join us for our monthly mixtape! Tracklist Washed Out - Say Goodbye Steely Dan - Razor Boy Color Green - 5:08 Pentangle - Light Flight Little Green Cars - Big Red Dragon Freelance Whales - The Nothing Nmesh - Climbing The Corporate Ladder Gui.tar - See Sea, Bee And Me Toe - 風と記憶 Big Red Machine - Phoenix (feat. Robin Pecknold, Anaïs Mitchell) Motorama - Heavy Wave This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken tenders, yes. Because those are groceries, and we deliver those too, along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Welcome to No Failure. I'm Travis. And I'm Quinn. And in this episode, we're kicking things off with a brand new track from washed out's notes from A Quiet Life. This song is called Say Goodbye.

Always great to hear new music from Washed Out Q. Ernest, is his name. Ernest Green. Yeah, dude. I've been keeping up with him. We have a long history with Washed Out. Like, you know, Life of Leisure was probably one of the first EPs that we played on our music blog. Yeah, I remember Josh, Josh did the post on Feel It All Around.

And I remember he posted the music video that I'll never forget. It's that, I think it's a young kid with some really cool, like, trick moves on a roller, in a roller skating rink. Do you remember that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That, that song just, if there had to be one song to represent chill wave, it's that song. Like that sound, that aesthetic, the feeling. Yeah. That's my favorite song on the record.

Yeah. And look at it, dude. I mean, it's 140 million plays on Spotify, you know, probably because it's the... That's because of Portlandia. Yeah, the theme song for Portlandia. But anyway, you know, that's because it's iconic, man, you know. Yeah. So this is a brand new, this is a brand new album from Washed Out.

And interestingly enough, I didn't know this, but this is the first album that Green has produced alone. Let that sink in, dude, because I thought... for sure that he would have been like self-producing all this time, you know? Because it was kind of the beginning of the DIY chill wave. The bedroom. All you need is a laptop. Yeah. Yeah.

But I guess not. So that's cool because, and you can kind of tell, there's definitely a difference in sound on this one. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to see him in November, Q. I'm going to see him with Tyco. That's going to be a nice, a great show. Fantastic show. Incredible, dude. Fantastic show.

A night of hypnagogic pomp. And then I'm seeing slow dive and drop 19s and aerial. I know, just rub it. Just rub it in. Let's go ahead and rub it in. Let's go ahead and rub it in. You know what, though? I got to see Kings of Convenience.

You did, and I'll never get to do that, ever. Never. I'll have to fly because I don't see them coming to Texas ever, you know. They're very fond of Seattle. They spoke highly of our city. Of course they did. So I was getting, I'll listen to this, Jeff. You're going to like this.

I'm listening to this. This is going to make you want to listen to the album. I was getting some shah-day vibes. Okay. Where he's taking his sound. You had me at this new album. You had me at Sha, because I knew it was coming after that. Yeah, man.

It's very poppy. You know, I feel like he's slowly going that round. Yeah. I mean, who wouldn't, right? Yeah. This kind of happens to all of them. But it's good. It's a solid washed-out album. Got to make that paper, you know? You got to make that paper. I don't think he cares about that anymore, dude, honestly. I really don't. Okay. Has he ever cared about it?

I don't know. Well, you know what, dude? I hope he cashed a nice check from Portlandia and gets some Portlandia money, you know. All right, so that's how we're kicking off this installment of what you heard, which is our... It's our monthly mixtape episode. There we go. Yeah, I was saying that like, so this is, you know, I'm not the quickest cue when it comes to putting these episodes out. Now, I did just drop on the day of this recording, the Ringo Death Star episode finally came out. Oh, it did.

Yeah, it did. But we, you know, we'd say, hey, we're going to put out what you heard every month. And, you know, the last one came out a little bit late. And so it was technically it bled into the next month. Hey, but you know what? We didn't share the hilarious story behind why it got delayed. Well, it's kind of why, but not really. But yeah, somebody out there perhaps may have listened to the episode.

Before it got dropped by Spotify. Well, yeah. And, well, look, it's back on. That's good. This is just a rookie mistake in my part. If you've ever used garage band, you may be able to sympathize with me here. There's a, when you're exporting a track, there's a box you can check that only exports, like, the selected, like, region. And I do this all the time.

Like, we say stupid shit that I cut out of these episodes, you know, funny, you know, jokes or whatever. And so like sometimes I'll, I'll goof about it. Yeah, I'll crop like, you know, a funny. Inappropriate joke, perhaps. Things that wouldn't fly. Yeah. And I'll export it and send it to the queue and be like, huh-huh, this is pretty funny. But I had that checkbox still checked.

And so when I exported the episode, it was just the COLA track that introed our episode in. And so. That outro to us out. the coldly replies. The color, yeah. And so like, so I released an episode on our podcast channel that was literally an entire song by an artist. And so of course, like Spotify was like, yeah, you can't do that.

And I was like, what are you talking about? You guys can't post an entire song and just put it in your podcast. Right. Which is, you know, they're right, obviously. But I didn't go back and find, you know, I didn't find that out until later after I sent an email to Spotify because you can contest it. And I was like, this is under fair use, uh, laws. This is an educational program.

Yeah, we're a, we're a music review podcast. We, uh, you know, we, we, we feature small snippets of songs. You know what I mean? They never responded to me, but I, you know, when I, when I republished it, obviously, it just, you know, they let it let it go through. But anyway, that's funny, dude. But anyway, that's not. So it took a while to get, to get it back on the episode. Um, to get it back on.

Sure. Let's, let's go with that excuse. Hey, little white lies are fine. Let's go with that. Anyway, one thing I want to do, Q, before we start this episode, so you know how we beg and plead at the end of every episode? We're like, hey, reach out to us on Instagram. We say it at the end of every episode. Basically, we're just like, hello? Is anyone out there?

Well, we finally got somebody to respond to us, Q. And I'm just going to read this person's message because it just warms the soul. It brightened my day at Q. So I'm not going to pronounce his screen name right, I don't think. And I don't see his name listed on his profile. His screen name, what is this? AOL instant messenger. His profile name on Instagram's K, clattel, K-L-A-T-I-L.

He said, hi, guys. I discovered your show a couple of years ago when I was looking for a podcast about Interpol. Then I followed it with the Catherine Wheel episode. and I got hooked. Now that's a good one to punch right there, Q. Two solid episodes. Come on, dude.

And then he says, your show opened my ears to new bands and explored other types of music, although I tend to stay closer to the shoegaze and grunge revival. Don't we all? I discovered thanks to you

several bands such as Swerve Driver, drop 19s, Majesty Crush, Pincey Slow, narrowhead, Avlov, etc. This guy is a dedicated listener. So thank you, Clattel, for listening. Sorry for mispronouncing perhaps your last name.

Or you're welcome for pronouncing it perfectly. Yeah, or maybe that's your legal name, your actual full name. But anyway, so we're going to close the show out with one of your suggestions. You gave me several suggestions. So we're going to go with one of these bands here that you called out. to us to give a listen to. So stay tuned for that. But yeah, thank you for listening.

And hey, see, if you reach out to us, you might get a shout out. What have we been saying? If you reach out to us, you will get one. Yeah, because it's not like I'm, it's not like I'm scrolling through. We're not swimming in it. Yeah, I'm not just knee deep in messages and like, you know, only picking out the best. Like, you know, it's slim pickings over here. So reach out to us on Instagram.

Also, like and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, all that stuff. Leave us a review. Yes, please. We need more of those. Love to hear what you guys think about this show. We know you're listening. There's not very many of you, but there's enough of you out there. All right.

So we're going to kick off this What You Heard episode with you, Quentin. You're going to bring the first pick. If you don't know, if you're new to the show, five songs each. No Rules as to the genre, the decade. Literally kind of what we, said it's what we've been listening to since we last did on what you heard episode so i am staring at your screen here cue and i'm seeing an article about steely dance so i'm already excited yep yeah dude we're playing a steely dance song excellent i yeah i get in my news feed some kind of like buzzworthy

as kind of headlines but they're music related so i'm okay with it but it's definitely like tabloid style headlines anyways this one says Jeff Skunk Baxter, who if you don't know who that is, what was it? It was one of like the, their mainstay studio musicians. Actually, no, not mainstay. I think he, he only lasted like one. I think he was like an official member of the band, but yeah, he was like one of the guitar players that rotated in and out. But I think he actually was considered part of the band. Like, he wasn't like one of the studio session musicians that just sort of appeared. He left to join the Doobie Brothers, according to this article, which I literally just read like a few

days ago. I'm surprised I don't remember any of this. I think he was on like the early, the early albums. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So a headline for this one is Jeff Skunk Baxter picked his favorite Steely Dan song. Quote, what Steely Dan was all about. And I thought, I really got it. I want to know. Here's what he says. Trying to pick a favorite song is like trying to pick a favorite from your own children. I think Razor Boy was a defining song as to what Steely Dan was all about, fundamentally, stylistically, and musically. And I think that's one of my favorites off Countdown. All right.

It's been a while since I've heard this, so I'm excited. Well, needless to say, I gave it a spin after I read this article. And here we go. Countdown to Ecstasy, Steely Dan's record from 73. Here is Razor Boy. Yeah, I think that pretty much sums Steely Dan up. dude. He's right. Yeah, he's right. It's that like hodgepodge of genres and styles, you know, just like blended and fused together like perfectly. It's the harmonies. It's the, it's the,

it's the quirky lyrics. I love, I fucking love this band, dude. And like, and I, like, I take a break from them, you know, for maybe a year or two will go a while before I, like, really go back and, like, dive back in and like because I it's one of those things to me where it's like everything like all of their records are so great that you you know it's like if you fall back into that hole like you're going to listen to all of them and I guess I'm going to have to go do that now because just just remind me I always my my favorite to queue up is goucho yeah gotcho's good I just love that that's like late that's late steely Dan like that's almost like kind of at the end of their like their stint you know like their run

And, you know, I think Goucho was like, yeah, 1980. I'm just saying like, I think they took a break after Goucho. Yeah. They didn't put another record out until like the 90s. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, you're right. So it's a live record. That's a live one, yeah.

And then Showbiz Kids is compilation. But like from, what was it? 72 to 80. They put out like a bunch of records. Awesome, dude. I don't have to go back and listen to the day. I don't know. He said he also has a soft spot for East St. Louis Tudelieu, which is a Duke Ellington cover on Prince of Lazic, which, yeah, whatever.

But now, I think he's right. Ragerbor is a really good encapsulation of, like, everything that they did that nobody else could do. Yeah, and that's coming from, you know, one of their, their second album, too, is it's cool to, you know, to, that's like the pocket of where they, where they stayed is that. sound. Yeah. All right. So yeah, kicking us off with some steely. Hard to top that. Yeah, good look. Well, we're going to fast

forward 50 years. Because I'm going to play a brand new track off a brand new record from this band called Color Green. Now that's kind of a wacky sentence I just said, that this is 50, there's 50 years

between Steely Dan and this band here. But here we are. So I was just going through band camp, you know, their blog that you've mentioned a few times. Oh, dude. Yeah. Solid. Great articles. Yeah. So this was just like a albums to check, new releases to check out. And this was for the July edition. So this record came out on her birthday queue, July 12. Hey, look at that. Would you look at that? And yeah, this band is interesting. They kind of have, I don't know, I'm going to let you tell me what you thank you before I, before I spill any beans here. So again, this, this band is called Color Green. The album is called Fool's Parade. This song is called 508. Awesome track, man. Yeah, I was impressed

for sure with this record. That recording is crisp. Yeah, let me tell you, the first time I listened to this, I was actually in the car. So I didn't really get to experience it like I did just now with these nice headphones queue very very yeah gorgeous gorgeous record yeah yeah so these guys are from California they're a quartet and as their band cams says Q in a very short time they have developed a word of mouth reputation as a dynamic and unpredictable live act

grounding their cosmic jams and earthy melodies and drawing from 60s so folk rock, 70s classic rock, 80s underground rock, 90s psychedelic dance rock, and any other sound that catches their ears. So that's a lot. And it's true. This record kind of is all over the place. The thing is, it is cohesive, but there's a lot of different styles that you're going to hear on this record. And that one was just kind of this beautiful song, right? But it's not all that kind of slow and kind of melodic and like pretty, you know, they are kind of all over the place, but in a very good way. So yeah, check that out. That's a brand new record from

Color Green Fool's Parade. That song was called 508. I'm going to throw it back to you, Q. What do you got? All right. Well, this is going to be kind of a, I'm going to kind of spill beans here, Trout, a little bit. Our next episode is going to be, we're going to cover Wolf People, which I'm super excited about. I think. think, and we're going to cover Ruins, their album from 2016. But I won't even get into anything else about the band. But I started doing some research on the record and the band. They mentioned this UK group Pentangle.

It's like this fulky, like Baroque rock band from the 60s and 70s. Okay. That he was really influenced by, for, Ruined specifically. I'm intrigued. I just looked at their album covers and just picked an album cover that I liked the look of and just played it. You know, so this is just a random album of theirs. 1971 is when this record came out.

It's called Reflection. We're whiplash in 50 years back and forth here with our picks. But I think this pairs really well with color green. Great. Yeah, dude. So I'm just saying it's kind of interesting here. We're doing because of it. funny that my next pick is going to be another

20-20-4 song here. So we, uh... Hey, you know what? Dude, that's the beauty of the what-you-heard episodes. And that's the beauty of music in general, dude. Hey, man. All right, dude. Again, this is a group from London, England, pentangle.

This one's called Light Flight. I loved everything about it. That was awesome. Yeah, dude. Quite the pipes on that one, man. Dude, she guaranteed. She smelled like pachuli oil. 100%.

You can cash that check, dude. That's a guarantee. No, yeah, dude, that was in the thick of it, 1969. Yeah. Flower power. And, dude, I mean, if you don't know, you know what, don't, everyone out there, don't go out and don't go listen to Ruins, please. wait for me to play it for the next week.

Yeah, whenever the next episode comes out because you really can hear this like... The influence? Yeah. Surprisingly. The couple of tracks that I know from this record, yeah, it's very, yeah, for most people who runs, it's very much that 60's psych sound. But with heavy distortion and rock thrown in there. I freaking love this album and I can't wait to dive deep.

into it and a full length episode dude anyways um had to bring it up because that's how i stumbled upon pentangle and yeah really cool track dude awesome opening track for for a record and it came on 69 i'm very interested to hear the rest of that record yeah because that's just dude that's just like you put it on and you just you just fucking float i mean ba da padu by who yeah yeah man i felt like that's awesome i wanted to like move out into the woods Why don't you come up here? Live with us, dude. We live out in the woods.

Oh, that's right. I'm surrounded by fucking the suburbs down here. Makes me depressed. Concrete jungle. Makes me depressed. Well, I'll pass it on to you, Travis. All right. So I said I was going to jump us back to 2020s, but I want to pick up the pace a little bit

because most of my tracks are kind of mellow. And we've done a lot of mellow so far. So, I'm going to switch up the order here. But, man, dude, I took a trip down memory lane when I listened to this record. And I'm going to see if you remember this group. These guys were featured pretty heavily on our music blog, New Dust, which was around in the late 2000s. And I think we ended it around 2013, 2014, something like that. So this band is just a perfect snapshot of what indie music sounded like in the early 2010s.

Little Green Cars, do you remember them? Let me see some album covers, Jeff. Absolute zero is the record. No, dude. I don't recognize this at all. Well, you might recognize this song. So they had a few singles. Harper Lee was one of them, and I think this was another one.

but man this was just this is a really really interesting record and I feel like indie music just took a sharp turn 2013 yeah we weren't doing the yeah we were doing the I think this this might have been the last year because we started in 2009 and it lasted married by 2013 I just didn't think that no no it was still around dude I guarantee you this track was on New Dust. But anyway, it's just, like I said, it's just a snapshot of that time, dude, and it took me back. So here we go. This band is called Little Green Cars. This record came out in 2013. It's called Absolute Zero. This song is called Big Red Dragon. Dude, that is a snapshot.

That's what I'm saying, man. Music from that era. Brings me back to my early 20s, dude. Yeah, I was going to say, like, it just takes me right back. Like, this kind of stuff was all over the place, and I was listening to all of it. Like, it just reminds me of, like, yeah, early 20s. I guess we were, yeah. All right, we weren't in our early 20s, but still.

I mean, hang on there. Are we that old? Do you know how to do math, brown? 2013. Math. math. After we were, we were 26. We were, uh, yeah.

It's all right. I was 24. Hang on. All right. It's not, okay. You know what? Yeah, 26. I stand by,

I stand by my original math. Don't make me a second guess my math. Okay, then we were in our mid-20s. Yeah, but I'm just, but it's not like this was the only year that music like this came out. Sure. Early 20, like this is the year, like this was the sound of indie music.

I feel like, you know, It was Arcade Fire, that kind of stuff, right? And this, I feel like this band is like, you put him in the same, like, they're doing, you know, there's, the way that they're structuring the song. It kind of reminds me of an arcade fire song. Not just to lump him in with another group. But, I mean, just that, that sound, right? Yeah. Bands like this were a dime a dozen, man.

But I just remember this, this record had had a few good tracks on it. And, yeah, if you want to time travel back to the 2010s, this is a good record to do it. But yeah, this is gone, man. This sound is gone, which is great. You and I are happy about it because now indie music is embracing shoe gaze and 90s all rock and grunge again. Yeah. Fantastic, right? Like, sign me out for that.

But this is just kind of a nostalgia trip for me. So anyway, little green cars. That record came on 2013, Absolute Zero. That song was called Big Red Dragon. And where are we going from here, dude? Are we going back to the 70s? Are we time traveling again? No, dude. Yeah, I mean, I'm now pulling something completely out of left field because of the song you just played. Okay.

And you know what? This album came out a year before that song you just played. All right. Freelance Wales, near and dear to my heart, dude. I don't know if I've played a freelance reels song on this podcast ever. And I don't know if you've told the tale, dude, of... Well, the tale goes. I don't remember what the name of the radio station when I was trapped. Maybe you can help me out. It's one of those public funded radio stations.

It had to have in KXT. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Sarah and I in the early days of our relationship, like pre-marriage, we heard a song from freelance Wales called Hannah that played on the radio. And we both fell in love with the song immediately. And that like became our song and became our band. we saw them every time they came through Dallas.

We even drove to other cities to see them. And they only released two albums. Weather Vaines was their first one in 2010, and then Deluvia was their last one. And yeah, dude, you want to talk about a snapshot? This was like that folk revival kind of very similar to what you just played. Yeah. And man, I just love these guys, dude. Good people.

They let me get up on stage and propose to see. Sarah, you and Kara were there. Yes, we filmed it. You filmed it, dude. Hang on, you filmed it? Yeah. I've seen pictures. I didn't, no, she took pictures.

I thought she filmed. I think you better not be hiding a video. I mean, it'll be sitting on Kara's laptop if it existed. All right, well, please. Anyways, yeah, you know, I wish I got to hear more from them, but they released two solid records. And this is one of my favorites from their second record. So again, this one came on 2012. The album's called Deluvia.

This song is called The Nothing. Yeah, I've never heard that before. Really interesting. Yeah, man, they were going places with their sound. It really bummed me out. This was their last record. So, like, you know, this just kind of reminded me of the email music that we were into, I guess. It's kind of emo.

Yeah. Like Jimmy E. World, you know, that style, right? The singing style is kind of Jimmy E. World. But they were way. more like banjo folky and their first record not that track though not that's what i'm saying not this album but their first one weather veins was yeah i remember that that's what i remember of them that's what you remember and that's yeah was yeah because you guys you came with us to the concert where i proposed and you guys got a hefty dose i mean i think they were playing some songs from deluvia before it got

released but yeah i did um so here's here's a lyric that jumped out of me cue A darkness sown in folded quantum tourniquets. What the hell is he talking about? I don't, I think it's nonsense, man. I think most of his lyrics, like, there's a story that he's telling, but a lot of it is just like cool imagery. Folded quantum tourniquets, he might be the first person to ever put those three words together.

A lot of his lyrics are like that. But, I mean, the first lyric, The Nothing came in Little Drones. I think a lot of it is very like whimsical, like, you know, monsters and magic and all that stuff. It feels that way in a lot of his songs. Okay. Anyways, great song.

Yeah, it was interesting. It was interesting. Yeah, they would, the thing is they pulled this stuff off phenomenally live. That's what I love so much about them. Anyways, freelance Wales, a band that's new. and dear to my heart always will be. And I'm going to pass it back to you, brother, what you got for your third pick. Okay, I'm going to give us the first proper 180 of the episode, because I feel like we need to mix it up a little bit here.

It's time. It's time. Yeah. So I sent you a picture of this record that I picked up at Josie Records in Dallas. The vapor wave stuff. Yes, the vapor wave compilation record. So this was called Nobody Here, the Story of Vaporwave. actually the soundtrack to a documentary about vapor wave that came out of the same name.

That would be an interesting documentary to watch. Yeah, I need to watch it. I think it's out now and I'm not sure where you can watch it, probably on YouTube. But yeah, so they put out a record featuring music from the artists that were like interviewed and featured in the documentary, right? Cool. So, of course, I have a song here. from that record.

And this is actually, funny enough, a record that I've listened to before. This is a artist that goes by the name Mesh with an N, N-M-E-S-H. Yeah, he's got some really, really, he does a lot of interesting things with, with his music.

What I like about it is he pulls in and sort of like mixes in a bunch of different like pop culture, like movie, you know, quotes from movies and stuff like that and things from commercials and it's just like all that stuff that just kind of like when you think of like 80s and 90s like advertising and commercials and stuff like that like he incorporates those types of sounds into that was the golden era of commercials man it was man I have a

commercial what yeah what are they doing these days really 80s and 90s advertising yeah it was a fucking incredible right anyway so here we go this song is off of his 2013 record, 2014, 2014 record dream sequins. This song is called Climbing the Corporate Ladder. Kentucky Workers' Comp Front Specialist. You don't become a specialist overnight. Just ask Gun Brumley of Cardwell Carrier. Our company has been in business for 54 years.

I'm here for it. All day, every day. All day. Not everyone's cup, for sure. That's my jam. Damn, man. Well, what's funny like that is like, that is not the stereotypical vapor wave song. It's mild.

It's mild. Compared to some of the vapor wave stuff that's out there. Well, you say it's mild, but like that had a very heavy, almost like house beat to it. Which I like a lot. But when you say mild, you mean like there's no like egregious saxophone. Because that's what I think of what I think of a vapor wave is like. Dude, I've heard vapor wave tracks that are. They literally take a shot a song and they barely even chop it up.

And they just bring her voice down to like, I don't know, freaking Barry White levels. Yeah. And just and it's just a weird fear. It's like a fever dream or something. Yeah. Most of that compilation record is that. It's the voice,

the vocal sample taken down a few octaves and a saxophone kind of thrown in for good measure. But then this song, you know, really stands out. And like, I really like this guy's stuff. So check him out if you want. Like, it's still a fever dream. It's all a fever dream. But this guy does some really interesting stuff. So again, his name is, he goes by Mesh, N-M-E-S-H.

That was off of his 2014 record dream sequence. Check it out. That song was called climbing the corporate ladder. All right, Q, I assume that this is going to be another 180. Now we've brought, I say we, you have brought a track from this artist before. And I've loved this album ever since. I think you've only played one song, I want to say, from this record. So I want to make sure this is not going to be one of those songs.

I want to play another track from this record that no one's heard yet on here. So, and I don't know how he wants us to pronounce this because it's guitar with a little dot between the eye and the T. You know what I'm talking about? Yep. I don't remember which track I played though. Okay. So this guy, where is the, where did it go? This is kind of like a shoe gaze. It is.

A record, but it's got some like down tempo beats, right? Yeah, so this is a musician named Michael Lukner, who goes by guitar. He fuses organic and electronic sounds into music that embraces his wide range of influences, heavy on the shoegaze for sure. It says here, from cool era, Miles Davis to the shoe-gazing chaos of My Bloody Valentine. Interesting vocals, too, on the record.

Yes. And this is really the only album of his that sounds anything like this. This album, Sun Kissed, is something special. We're going to play track three off the record. This one is called C, C, B, and Me. Like you said, man, there's just something special about this record. It's just so... The whole album is that vibe, too. gorgeous yeah yeah just so different very meditative and kind of like yeah you know and the vocalist so i

looked it up because i wanted to give credit so the vocalist ayako akashiba yeah she uh person shows up as a composer for the and credits for the album as well composer i don't know exactly so michael is the uh you know he wrote and produced did the music instruments um yeah And then she lended her vocals. Or Regina Jansen, so there's actually two different vocalists. But that one, I believe, was a yoko. Or a yoko. So pretty awesome.

Yeah. Just. And yeah, we were both listening to that track and we were kind of like, like the mixing is really interesting too. Like it almost sounds like there's two tracks playing. It's almost like it gets like kind of like spaces apart from each other. and it's almost like two different pieces and rhythms and then like it sinks up somehow.

Kind of messes with you. Yeah, it's cool. It almost sounds like there's stuff kind of played in reverse almost. It's just really just kind of like, I don't know, there's something that kind of feels off balance about that song.

Yeah. But it all kind of works. I don't know. It's just, yeah, awesome. And that record, yeah, that's just one of those just hit play and kind of zone out. You know, it's just one of those,

those records. Exactly. All right, dude. What you got for us? Okay. So, this was exciting, dude. You remember the band Toe?

The Math Rock did? Yes. Yes, dude. They put out a new record. Man, you got to save some for our best of 2024, brother. Maybe it'll come back

at the end of the year. Maybe not. But they just put out a new record called Now I See the Light came out July 10th. So Toe is this Japanese math rock band

and they've appeared on this podcast years ago from their 2005 record, the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety which sounds like an emo record but they just put out this amazing instrumental

math rock and there's just sometimes there's just nothing better dude nothing better so I'm going to play the first track and I'm not going to be able to say the name of it because it's written in Japanese and I don't know I don't know how to

how to quickly translate it but Google Translate it right there yeah I know but then I got copy and paste see if I can get to it real quick let's see copy Oh, there you go. Okay, you know what? Of course I can translate this, Q.

It's called 2024. So this track is the opening track off the brand new record. Now I see the light, and I'm just going to let it speak for itself. This song is called Wind and Memory. Throck is just fantastic. Nothing better, dude. That reminds me so much of the Mercury program. Yeah, totally.

one of my favorite one of my favorite groups in that vein for sure yeah definitely yeah I mean it's just it's gorgeous man and what I love about Mathrog

like I'm here for the drums dude that's what's great about Mathrock totally is the drums are gonna be over here doing some crazy shit you know what I mean like while the guitar

is usually this very like you know it's it's always this like clean beautiful almost like jazzy kind of guitar tone and the drums are always just just off the chain cue as they say yeah really really yeah complicated and so they usually don't even feel like they're go together but like they but like it

just works you know so let me just read this quick description so i can shout out these guys japanese group toe are a primarily instrumental rock quartet from Tokyo consisting of guitarists Mino Takaki and Yamazaki Hiakazu, drummer Kashikura Takashi and bassist Yaman Satoshi. I thought I did that pretty well there, Q. That sounded pretty good. Often categorized as post rock or math rock, their free-flowing, highly melodic songs feature splashy,

yet tightly controlled drumming and dynamic guitar interplay, as well as occasional electronic elements and additional instruments such as vibraphone and Rhodes Piano, which I feel like we heard just a little bit of that, like, vibraphone toward the end of that clip that I played. So what more do you want, man? Go listen to their new record. It's called Now I See the Light.

It's amazing. All right, Q, this is your last track. What are you going for us? All right, man. You know what, this is a brand new record, too. But in a way, it's not new, material. I think you gave this a listen to once I reached out to you about how great it was, but Fleet Fox has just released a live on Boston Harbor record. So it was recorded one of

their shows from 2022 is when it was recorded. It was during their shore tour. Yeah, so you mentioned it to me and then I went back and I watched the full live show because you're watching it's a whole other It's just amazing man. Man, I know. They're just, yeah. He's a once in a generation talent, you know what I mean? For sure, man.

Robin Peknell. Yeah. Yeah, so this was recorded at Leader Bank Pavilion. And they play some covers during the show. And they play one that he's, I think he says, it's kind of a cover. Because it's actually a song that he co-wrote.

with a group called Big Red Machine, which I'd never heard this group, actually. And I gave it this, so this song is called Phoenix. It appears on Big Red Machines. How long do you think it's going to last? It's an alma there's from 2021. So his vocals are heavily featured on this song. So he decided to play it at a Fleet Fox's show,

kind of as a cover, right? Anyways, dude, fantastic song. it's Robin Pecknell doing what he does. It's great. Here we go. Again, this is Big Red Machine. The song is called Phoenix. His voice is a warm blanket, man.

It sure is. It's like hearing an old friend. Because Fleet Foxes have just played such a role in my life. Yeah, man. Over the years. Same. Same. And you know what, dude, they've reached there at the top, the tippy top now for me, favorite band of all time.

It's, you know, it's hard, it's hard to argue that, dude. Because they just keep churning out. I say they, it's really just Robin. Yeah, but I mean, what's funny, if you watch that show, if you watch that show, it's the same players that we recognize, man. Except for the drummer, because he's now far John Misty. Yeah, yeah, but, you know, he can go do whatever he wants. But yeah, it's a lot of the same dudes. Yeah, it's the same guys, man.

Yeah, especially the little guy, the guy that plays a little, the tiny little mandolin thing. That guy's been there since like day one. I remember seeing him on stage at, man, I don't remember where we saw them, but I've seen that upstairs venue. Dude, we saw them back when Robin had still had long hair down her shoulders and a beard and he sat on a stool on stage like half the show. That was like his whole thing. Yeah, he's gained a lot of confidence.

over the years. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah. You can't go wrong with anything that has Robin Pecknold's on vocals. His voice, his singing style, his lyricism. Unmatched, man. Yeah, everything about him.

Yeah. Anyway, I think this was an excellent collection of songs, too. I think we did well today. Yeah. We were all over the place. We started with Steely Dan. Yeah, man, we got a little vapor wave in there, a couple of 70s tracks, some math rock. Yeah, this is this is what what you heard is intended to be,

kind of an eclectic mix of tunes. Dude, and we get to listen to a song picked out from one of our listeners, dude. Yeah, that's right. And that's what I'm talking about, man. That's what I want. And this is a dope song. That's what I want with every what you heard. Dude, I want that for every episode.

I will close out every episode. The long format, deep dive episode. the Watcher Heard's. If we have tracks to play from our listeners, we're going to close out with those. Okay. So keep them coming. And here's another thing. We did this one year.

I'd like to do it again this year if we can. For our best of 2024 episodes, which will be the last four episodes of the year, we will actually try to put out four episodes in December. One episode. We used to do that every week. Exactly. We can do it for one month. If possible, we would like to close out every one of those. episodes with a listener pick start sending us your best of 2024 picks now on Instagram

and we will we will pick from that and and close out some episodes with our listener favorites you know that's what we want please for the love of God just reach out to us on Instagram please just want to hear from you rate us on iTunes give us a review just give us some love or you know just tell us whatever you think. I don't care. It doesn't have to be positive. Yeah, that's right. This one guy, I remember this one kid.

I'm going to call him a kid. He, he messaged us and was like, you guys say, dude, all the time. What are you? A teenager? Sorry, dude. And I looked at his profile and he's like, dude, you see, dude. Why don't you go beat feet? You know what I mean?

Beat, feet. Yeah. Take a long walk up a short pier. That's what I like to say. All right. Anyway, so we got a track here that we're going to close us out from our buddy, Clatil. I probably didn't say that right, but thank you for reaching out on Instagram.

You didn't sign your name, so I don't know what your name is. But you sent me a bunch of records. I'm going to listen to all of them. Quentin actually brought a track, I believe, from this band. I'm not going to pronounce correctly. were Splandor, because I remember, I recall that record. I don't know if it was the one you recommended, but it was another album of his. No, no, that was the record.

Yeah, I think I played a track of theirs. No, no, but that wasn't the one that he recommended. Oh, oh, oh, oh. But I recognize that. Anyway, so yeah, thanks for reaching out, man. We really appreciate it. I just love hearing that we turned you on to so many of these bands that we've also, like, fell in love with, like, right along with you. because, like, a lot of times these records that were talking about,

like I also just, you know, discovered a lot of these groups, too. Majesty crushed, dude. I just found out about them this year. Exactly. Exactly. Dude, he's calling out Nerahead, Avlov. This guy's a frequent flyer, man. He's listening to, he's been listening for years.

Yeah, thanks for reaching out. Anybody else out there if you're listening? Reach out to us on Instagram. Just look for no filler. Give us your recommendations for music. will pick songs to play for what you heard. You know what? I apologize, Klatel.

You actually been talking to me for, you reached that to me in 2022 as well. See, I'm a shithead. I'm a real piece, dude. Anyway. Yeah, I don't have access to our Instagram anymore. That's a likely excuse. I could just ask you for the password again.

Anyway, he sent me an article called Forgotten 90s School of Fish. All right, my bad, dude. but we're going to play this track from this Russian band called Motorama because I started listening to this track called

Heavy Wave and it sounds dope so we're going to close out with that all right so find us on the Pantheon podcast network if you want to find more music-related podcasts and you want to listen to us that way you can subscribe to the Pantheon

feed and you'll get our episodes along with all the other podcasts under that network or just subscribe to just our show if you don't want all the rest of it. All right. So next episode, we're going to talk about wolf parade. Is that right? No, dude.

We're going to talk about wolf people, but man. Wolf people. Dude, I haven't thought about wolf parade in forever. That's another group, isn't it? Oh, my, yes. From like the early 2000s, dude. That's why I got confused. Before we were out of high school.

That's right. I remember these guys, Wolf Parade. Oh, my gosh, man. Well, I just put that from the depths of my brain, dude. No, we're going to cover ruins by wolf people. And dude, I can't wait. Man, I am so stoked to play this record. Well, it's, yeah, it's good, man. It's been a while since we've done like a deep dive into some psych rock, so that'll be good. That's why I wanted to do it. Yeah. All right. Cool, man. Motorama. Let's do it. Motorama. This song is called Heavy Wave to close

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