No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Cycle Resumes Edition

Episode Date: August 30, 2022

It's our monthly mixtape for August, with everything from Pink Floyd's heavier side to a folky, softer Slowdive side project, from some dark-synth dance pop to some new wave post-punk and everything in between. Stereolab, Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind True Widow - Theurgist Charade - One More Roll Hotline TNT - Nightlighter Autolux - Robots In The Garden Pink Floyd - The Nile Song Mojave 3 - Trying To Reach You Ought - Disaffectation Rexy - Alien Exploded View - Dark Stains Airiel - Think Tank Darkher - Sirens Nocturne This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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called A Simple Headphone Mind. Simple headphone Mine All right, cute, we need to clarify some things here It would seem Yeah, we just found this out While we were listening to this track This song actually came out in 97

Yeah, we This is a lesson we learn all the time You can't trust Spotify, man Yeah But I mean, it's, it's it is a new release in the sense that it was re-released. But, you know. Yeah, so they're releasing a volume.

This is going to be the fifth volume of their quote, switched on compilation series. They're dropping at September 2nd. And it's called Pulse of the Early Brain. And they are re-releasing two songs from this 97 EP, one of them being simple headphone mine, which you just listened to. and the next one's going to be called Trippin' with the Birds.

So, and this is a collaboration they did with a group called Nurse with Wound. Yeah, he goes by Nurse with Wound, but his name is Stephen Stapleton. So he is a experimental electronic producer, it sounds like. So, yeah, I thought maybe that female voice was the nurse with the wound, Q. Guess not. But that is Stephen Stapleton. Anyway. Trabb, looks like they're coming to House of Blues.

in Dallas, September 11th. Oh, man, that would be a great show. And Washington and Seattle, dude. The showbox. Showbox. You want to talk about like a laid-back show? Like a stereo lab concert would be so like, dude.

I mean, you got to make sure you wear your cardigan and stuff to that one. A turtleneck or something. Well, the showbox is my favorite venue in Seattle, and they're playing there September 25th. I'll just, I'll take our newborn with me. It'll be cool. Do it. Do it. Baby's first show.

But yeah, like when I think about stereo live, and for me, I mean, I know this band's been around since the 90s, this group. Like, I just kind of stumbled onto them this year. The two records that I'm like kind of obsessed with are dots and loops came out in 1997. And Cobra and Fazes group play Voltage in the Milky Night, another great one. But it just exude like coolness, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's the same vibes I get from the sound carriers, which is why I love that band so much. because they do it so well.

Right. It's like that avant-garde type stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Almost like I just imagine like if you're hanging out in an Andy Warhol party, you know? Yeah, dude. Exactly. Right.

Velvet Underground's going to be playing over in the corner, but any other room you go into is going to be playing this stuff. It fits in that decade, right? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that's a new re-released single. The song again was called Simple Headphone Mind. And yeah, look forward to that new, that compilation. in September that'll drop if you're a fan of stereo lab.

All right. So this is our what you heard for August. And depending on how things go, Q, depending on your schedule, you know, in between nursery rhymes or whatever. I guess babies probably, newborns probably don't really care about nursery rhymes yet. But whatever it is you're going to be doing, you know, we may or may not be able to squeeze in what you heard for the next couple months here. So this could be the last one. Unless I can find some guests who would be willing to jump into this format, which, I mean, that's the thing about watch your hood, man. Anybody can do it.

Just bring five songs. What have you been listening to? I got to find some stand-ins here. Yeah, yeah. So we're going to be reaching out to past guests to kind of fill in the twin void. Let me tell you something, Q. Nobody can fill your twin void. Well, isn't that sweet.

Well, I will be very busy. For those who don't know, if this is your first time joining us, I am an expecting father. And he's going to be popping out any day now, dude. Fatherhood is right around the corner for you. It's knocking on the door. It could happen while we're recording this episode. Let's be honest about it. I mean, it's possible, but I don't think so.

I don't think we're there yet, but we're definitely getting there. Let me ask you this here. If it happens, will you take your phone? to the hospital and we can have a live birth recorded and I'll tack it on to the end of the episode. Sure. Yeah. We're actually going to be playing. We'll be playing some music in the in the birthing room. That's something they allow. So we've been making a playlist. Oh, man. You've got to put, we got to put that playlist on our on our Spotify account. What is it? It's a bunch of songs that we like that, you know, are kind of chill. just so that so Sarah can have something to listen to while she's in between contractions or whatever.

Yeah, we basically made the playlist for the baby. I'm not going to, I don't want to drop the name yet because half of my family still doesn't know his name. We're trying to keep it a secret. I mean, come on, dude. Nobody in our family listens to this podcast. That's true. Plus, by the time this comes out, your baby will be here. Very true.

Very true. Anyways. So, yeah, we will be spending a few nights in the hospital pretty soon. I feel like. Yep. With the newborn. So we wanted to squeeze in one more episode. So we figured we'd go ahead and just knock out this August, what you heard episode,

which is our monthly mixtape where we bring, we each bring five songs, each just songs that we've been listening to over the past month in between our regular episode format. Yeah. And since we're recording this one a little bit earlier than usual, I, you know, I typically have a few more weeks to get my selections narrowed down. But I think I found some good stuff here. So let's just jump right into it, dude, because I know you're, I know you got a lot of things going on over there with, you know, baby watch in full swing.

We've got my mother-in-law in town. She's staying with us the whole month of August to help out. So it's pretty awesome. That'll be awesome. Yeah. Yeah. That is cool. Yep, yep.

All right, dude. So what you got? How are you going to kick things off for us? Well, let's take a. quick break first and we'll come back and play my first track. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. So, Trave, I actually have used BetterHelp in the past and it was a really, really great experience. I loved my therapist. He gave me a lot of great tools that I still used to this day. You know, without a healthy mind, being truly happy and at peace is hard.

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I first kind of stumbled upon them when doing research for our DoomGaze episode. You know, since we've covered, the last couple of weeks, we've covered some Doom Gage bands, right? So I've been thinking about and sort of in that realm. And I remember these guys as a band that kind of came up in, you know, various threads, discussions about Doom Gaze. I think maybe a song or two maybe kind of falls under that realm. But, I mean, I think these guys are just, for the most part, just a heavier, darker, post-punk band. It kind of remind me of like Interpol or something like that along the same vein. But what's cool about them is that they're from Dallas Q.

Sweet. So this band is called True Widow. And they were formed in 2007 in Dallas, Texas, Q. Their sound is sort of a mashup of drone, post-rock, and shoegaze, right? So, yeah, let's just jump right into the tune here. And I'm going to try to pronounce this, and I'm not going to do it correctly. but the name of this song is called Thurgist, Thyrgist, Thyrgist. Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, something like that. So for their 2016 album Avaljeer, they're not going to make it easy for me today. But here we go. Again, the song is called Thurgist. Is that the vibe that they throw out in most of the songs on that album? Yes. Yeah. But like, you know, like they were saying or like I was describing their music earlier, like it reminds me of the 2000 era post-punk stuff, right?

And they formed in 2006, 2007. So that's around that time, right? But like not all of their songs were that like straightforward as far as like an easy rock melody, like straightforward. Yeah, yeah. Kind of upfront rock melody like that. Yeah. With that riff and stuff. So yeah, it's interesting because when you look at their fans also like.

pink shiny ultra blast there they are oh dude all right that's hilarious man i'm looking at another band that shows up autolux i'll just go ahead and play my first song dude because it's from that band okay perfect but anyway they're like in the same camp i guess uh you know as far as like hey if you like this you might like this but i just think that true widow is a post punk band that's a little bit darker and like, you know, a little bit more like reverb, drenched and stuff like that. Yeah. Which is maybe where the shoe gaze comparisons come from. But anyway, I just, I like them.

They're really straightforward, approachable kind of post-punk band in my opinion. So, all right, cute. Well, I'm going to, like I said, dude, I'm off my game right now. You know what? Because it's 1.37 p.m. We're used to recording in the evening. Yeah. Which, so it's 1137 up here.

So it's an early recording. Well, like I said, dude, I'm bringing a song from Autolux. So, yeah, so these guys came up around the same time as True Widow. They formed in 2000. But this is a group that, quote, samples equally from electronica, noise pop, post-punk, and shoegaze. Just going to let the music speak for itself. So I'm bringing a song from an album called Future Perfect that came out in 2004. Man, this whole album's fantastic, dude.

I'm a big fan of it. So I'm going to play track 7 off the record. This song is called Robots in the Garden. Just a chaotic, heavy, distorted feedback kind of chaos that happens at the end there. And that's such a classic riff, that melody right there? Yeah, yeah. What makes that you gaze? You know what I mean?

That's what's interesting to me. Yeah, I've had about enough of it. It seems like that term just gets kind of thrown around. Yeah, I know. Why? I can't stumble upon a band, it seems like, that doesn't have. have the shoegaze term thrown on them. It's weird.

It's kind of like... I think it's, yeah, it is interesting. You know how you don't, like, say you buy a new car or something. You're driving a different model car that you've never driven before. And then as soon as you hop on the road, you see that car everywhere. I feel like that's happening now with the word shoegaze and every group that I get into. It's certainly happening with the term Tweed pop. Remember?

We like, we discovered that. Like, earlier this year or last year, maybe and then all of a sudden it's everywhere everywhere yeah but anyway yeah it just seems like shoe gaze is just one of those terms it gets loosely thrown around right and then like for example um now of course we're we're listening to one song and be like i didn't hear any shugays in that song it's nowhere it's nowhere now dude it's not on okay i mean and again i'm just listening to one album as well so yeah maybe they yeah maybe from one album to the next it's a bit more shoe gazey but no not on this album from 2004 but anyway again man man

It doesn't matter. It's a great record. Yeah, really good record, too. So give that a listen. Again, that was Robots in the Garden off of Future Perfect from Autolux. Pass it back to you, brother, what you got? What you've been heard? Well, here's another pan queue that has that term applied to him.

I say him because I think it's like mainly one dude. And I can maybe see why. It's very fuzzy wall of sound, perhaps. But I think musically, it's kind of like more a little bit, maybe, punkish maybe a little bit. And that's mainly like the guitar work. But his vocals too are kind of shoegazy. There we go, dude.

Here I am, just tossing it around like it's nothing. But here's a good track. This is an artist that goes by the name Hotline TNT. And yeah, it seems like a relatively new band. This record in particular came out in 2021 called 19 in love. And this song is called Night Lighter. That was awesome. Kind of feels like a little bit like what Narrowhead's doing, you know, like there's a great mishmash of alt rock and grunge and shoegays styles thrown in there in a really fresh way.

Yeah, it's definitely kind of in line. Yeah, like what we're hearing right now with indie rock bands, you know, it's kind of a return to, it's a return to like the garage rock sound in some ways. And then it's like a return to the grunge. and like that bedroom kind of lo-fi fuzz is definitely coming back, which was like what we were hearing a lot of in the 2010s when we had our music blog, right? Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I know we say it probably every what you heard now,

but like this is a good time to be listening to indie music right now. Indy rock bands are kind of, they're making good tunes again, you know? It's kind of exciting. Like the rock band format is having sort of a comeback. It's good times. It's just, it seems like the output, there's a lot right now that's coming. A lot of good stuff that's coming out of indie bands right now. I think this project, Hotline T&T, is mainly this guy named Will Anderson.

And I thought this was kind of funny. So apparently he released this on, you know, back in 2021 in October. And he put it on his YouTube account. And he was making a statement, I guess, about the current music industry. And at the time, he didn't put any of his band's music on streaming services. And at the bottom of his album's description, he simply states, we have no choice.

We have to keep going. Cancel your Spotify subscription. Which, well, that didn't age very well. Here I am listening to it on Spotify. But I don't know, maybe he got picked up by a label or something like that. And they're like, yeah, okay, well, we're going to put it on Spotify. Spotify? There's nothing you can do about it. So anyway, good, good tunes. Check them out, Hotline T&T. And again, he had, he had an EP that came out earlier this year. So he is making new

music. So if you like that, check it out. Throw it back to you. What do you got for us? All right. So I referenced this playlist last month's what you heard. That band I brought Loop, that kind of alt rock kind of in the same band as Band of Susan's group from the 90s I Brant are featured on this playlist created by Fiddlehead called Fiddlehead Inspirations. So Fiddlehead is a super awesome, like modern emo, post-punk group. They have an album called Million Times that I'm a big fan of. And so I figured, you know what, they probably have a great taste of music. And sure enough, they do.

There's a lot of great music on this playlist. And this is one of those bands that I found on here. This group is called Sharrade. And there's not a lot about them out there. They haven't been releasing music for too long. I don't know how long they've been together, but they only have a handful of demos and little EPs out at the moment. And they've got this really great, like, 80s New Wave post-punk sound.

I'm going to play one of their singles for, From 2019, this song is called One More Roll. I had to guess, I would have said that was a song that came on the 80s, you know? And I thought it was when I first heard it. Even the logo, the logo kind of has like a 90s vibe to it. Yeah. So this came out when? 2019.

And then it gets released on this little EP that came out in 2020. So it's featured with four more tracks. So they dropped it on this little EP. afterwards. All great. Dude, all sounds like this. It really does feel like

something's happening, dude, in the indie music industry right now. Or in the indie, don't want to say industry. That's kind of a, how dare you?

How dare you? It just seems like indie bands are just, it's like, it's like a free-for-all as far as like decades and influences that indie bands are pulling from right now.

It's like, and I remember, actually the last two bands that we've covered, Pensey Slow and Spocker, both talked about how their music is informed by all these various styles across a couple, you know, multiple decades or whatever. And then, you know, with streaming services and stuff, I don't remember which band kind of referenced this, but they were saying it's so easy and

accessible music these days because of services like Spotify, where like you can, you know, anything is available to you. And so if you're an indie band making music, you have access to Rock's entire collection almost going back to the 60s and stuff. In the age of streaming, yeah, man, it's just, you know, I'm discovering new groups from all decades, really, every week. Yeah. But it seems like these indie bands are just, they're picking up where the genre left off in whatever decade, you know, it came from or whatever.

Like Nairhead, you know, we talk about Nairhead, making 90s. era alt rock that sounds exactly like, but then also like better than the bands that were doing it back then. And then this group here, it's like, man, that sounds like, like you said, like a new wave 80s song. Like it's pulled right from it, you know what I mean? So it's interesting. Really great. Really great stuff. All about it. Yeah. So again, if you like that song, check out their EP from 2020 called Twin Ring. That song's featured on there, along with a few others. And again, that was a band called Sharrade.

So I'm passing back to you, brother. We're going to rapid fire this, dude. Yes, yes, all right. Well, I'm just going to, there's not much to say about this little known group called Pink Floyd. Who? But I'm playing, yeah, I'm playing a Pink Floyd track next to queue, which I don't often go this far back with my Whatcha Heard's Q. but I was sort of encouraged to listen to some of the early stuff, oddly enough, in an interview that I was doing where I was talking to this guy from New York, which is kind of a cool thing

right now with the tech industry at least, or an industry where you can work remotely, right? Oh yeah, dude, I'm taking advantage of that in the next couple months. I'll be working from home full time. Anyway, so I was interviewing this guy from New York and he had like a bunch of guitars like in the Zoom background and stuff and we were just talking about music and whatnot. He was, you know, recommending, you know, listening to the first Pink Floyd record, which is called the Piper at the gates of Don. And he was more talking about how he loves Sid Barrett, this musician named Sid Barrett, who was the original singer for Pink Floyd. Anyway, so I was kind of, you know, listening around and then I made my way to a couple of albums later called Moore. And this is their third studio album, but it's also a soundtrack for a movie of the same name, which is interesting.

So this is actually a soundtrack. Is that like a Purple Rain kind of thing? Nope, it's just a movie that they're asked to do the soundtrack for. But a movie called Moore by this director named Barbette Schroeder. a film about heroin addiction as drug fascination. Anyway, I was pretty surprised by this track, and I'm just going to play it, and I think it's going to speak for itself.

So here we go. This song is called The Nile song by Pink Floyd off of their 1969 record Moore. You sure that was Pink Floyd? That's why I was so surprised by it, because it's so heavy. Yeah, and I'm not, I know we were the same here. I really haven't gotten into Pink Floyd much at all.

Like, I, you know, I'm very familiar with the wall, of course, or dark side of the moon, whatever. Yeah, dark side of the moon. I'm very familiar with, but. We know what they're known for, right? Like, we know the song that everybody knows. And you know what, dude, that's very similar to how it was for me with the Beatles before I dove into their discography, you know, post-Beal mania.

Like, yeah. Before hearing rubber soul or revolver. I had no idea what was coming and what who they became right like all I knew was the the mop top music

you know like the super poppy tunes yes yeah exactly well with this with this track at least like it just sounds like such an obvious predecessor to like what was to come with like heavier rock and stuff Zeppelin's first record had come out earlier that year

Sabbath was right around the corner. Like, you know, this is the direction the rock was heading. But this is not the sound that Ping Floyd ultimately went with, obviously. Like, their stuff became so much more like psychedelic and... Very experimental. And progressive. Yeah. With, you know, kind of what they were known for.

That's why it's, you know, it's always a good idea to go back and listen to the early stuff from bands. You know what I mean? Because it's... Sometimes you get kind of a different flavor. Like, they're more in their sort of like... their raw, unformed, you know, shape or whatever. But that was David Gilmore singing, which I thought was kind of cool. You know, this is the first record that the band did without Sid Barrett.

And so that's, you know, significant, I guess. But anyway, so again, that song was called The Nile song by Pink Floyd. Apparently, the band was not a fan of the song because people requested it over and over again. apparently there's a lot like from a 1970 concert uh roger waters he was quoted as saying after somebody requested the song he goes okay fine wonderful good great terrific wonderful the nile song yes never heard of it any other requests yeah that's got to be the most annoying thing about becoming a band that that's picking up in popularity because they're like shut up and play the hits yeah exactly all right cue

I'm going to throw it back to you. What do you got? All right. Well, speaking of music from a group that is unlike most of their stuff, I just discovered recently that a few of the members from Slow Dive kind of went into a different direction in, let's see, I guess this started. Okay, yeah, they've been doing this since 95. Have you heard of a group called Mojave three? That rings a bell. It's an ambient group, but I mean, not ambient to the point of like stars at the lid, but it's kind of like a, I don't know, like a fulky country ambience. Hard to explain.

But this is from Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, and Ian McCutcheon. So, Slow Dive releases this album called Pigmalion in 95. I think I brought a song from there, Trave, when we covered Slow Dive, and it does become very ambient. And this was actually the last album of Slow Dives until they kind of reunited and dropped that self-titled in 2017, which is one of my favorite Shugays albums. But anyways, Nick Halstead, the main singer of Slow Dive, one of the main singer. one of the main singers, kind of went into a more ambient direction. And I guess it was kind of the beginning of the end of the band. But members of the group that stuck around with him started this group called Mojave 3.

So I dove into a record of theirs from 2000 called Excuses for Travelers. It's such a pretty album, dude. You're going to like this a lot. And you know what, dude, I'm going to say this is going to be the big 180. of this episode. So again, this is Mojave 3, members from Slow Dive. The album's excuses for Travelers. This song is called Trying to Reach You.

I got a... Sunday soon I've been trying to reach you. Been trying to reach you, but I could not... Don't get a lot of Sly guitar on this podcast. So don't get a lot of twang, I should say. But I think that was effectively done, like, well done. Yeah, I love this. And forgive me, Mitch, because I know you're aching for Travis and I did it to get into country music.

But this is like my, this is my jam when it comes to to that country twang. Like, I love the quiet, more like the ambient kind of country. And it's few and far between, dude. It's hard to find, but I've actually stumbled upon a few great, like, instrumental, ambient kind of country stuff. Well, yeah, if you like this type of, you know, the more quiet kind of instrumental stuff with like a little bit of a twang to it, right? You should listen to a Harold Budd record came out in 91 called By the Dawn's Early Light. It's very similar as far as like that kind of twang to it, right? Yes, cool, dude.

Yeah, I just went ahead and saved it on my favorites. You'll like it, dude, for sure. Yeah, cool. You'll like it. But yeah, man, it's a really, really pretty record, really powerful stories that he tells in these songs. And, I mean, it really is almost a 180 from what slow dive is, you know, one of the great shoegays acts, you know, one of the founding, you know, like the forefathers of shoegays, really. They're in that group of artists. and yeah, they kind of split in 95 after they got dropped from their record label.

And a handful of them stuck around with Halstead and formed this group. And it's, yeah, really pretty stuff. Well, since you mentioned stars at the lid, I read something the other day that I think you'll be excited to hear Q. So apparently, you know the dead Texan? I do. We featured them on this. Yeah, I think we did an episode. Yeah.

Well, that record that they put out was never pressed on vinyl, and it's going to be released on vinyl for the first time, which is kind of cool. But that is one of the members of Stars of the Lid. Yeah, very cool. Dude, that's going to be great, man. All right. Well, let me play my next pick here, Q. I just, you know, clicking around bouncing from, like, you know, similar artists kind of thing. I don't remember how I got to these guys.

But this guy's vocal delivery really is what caught my attention. So this band is called O-U-G-H-T. They're from Montreal, formed in 2011. And, you know, kind of a post-punk indie band, really. But his vocals are kind of, you know, David Byrne-esque. Nice. Talking heads-esque, right? But he delivers a lot of emotion, too, behind his vocals.

This song is a good example of that. So let me just play this track here. This song is off of their 2018 record, Room Inside the World. This song is called Disaffectation. I don't want to be a broken record, dude. But that could have come out 30 years ago, man. Yeah, well, but, you know, let's talk about bands that, like, you know, over the last decade or so that, you know, kind of fall into that vein.

Like his vocals reminded me a lot of Win Butler. Arcade Fire. Yeah. And even like new, some, you know, maybe some new wave type vocal styles too,

like the lead singer from like Tears for Fears or something like that. Yeah. And I'm going to throw, and I think I've brought him up a couple times now, the last few months, but LCD sound system too. Very similar vibes. Vocally,

especially. But the talking heads comparison a lot, and some of their other songs where he does the classic like what you associate with David Burns like vocal delivery. But yeah, I just something, you know,

the music was great. The drums are killer on that track. Yeah, really good stuff. I love the sort of like the slowdown in the middle of that song and then it kind of picks back up. Anyway, the lyrics were great too.

Like he's singing about like taking, you know, medication and stuff to kind of like cloud his mind or whatever. But yeah, I just, I was really captivated by his vocal delivery. He just kind of pulls you in. And, you know,

It's hard not to just kind of to pay attention, you know, with that kind of delivery. Yeah. But anyway, so again, that band was called Ott. That song was called Disaffectation. It came out in 2018 off the record, Room Inside the World. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. What do you have for us? All right, dude.

Well, I'm glad that I did a little bit more research just now on the fly because I almost made the same mistake that you did earlier with that Serial Lab album. Because I thought this was an album that came out in 2016. But no. So this is a group. Well, I think it's just one person. Her name is, or she goes by Rexie. I'm just going to read this little write-up here real quick.

It says, born out of London's fashion-centric Blitz Kids scene. Don't even know what that reference is. Blitz Kids. Blitz Kids. Rexy was singer Rex Naiman and ery. Oh, hang on. and erythmics band member Vic Martin. So hello.

Okay. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. It says, Running Out of Time, which was Rex's only album, is the sound of cheap keyboards and drum machines, ramshackle playing,

and Rex's heavy cockney-accented vocals. So, this is a very rare record that just got re-released a few years back, came out in 81, Running Out of Time is the name of the album. And you're going to love this, dude. And I'm going into it now, knowing that it came out in 81, man, it makes it so much cooler. So here we go.

This is, again, a group called Rexy. This song is called Alien. Synth sound has got such a classic, like 70s synth vibe to it. Yeah, it makes sense. You know, this is coming out of the 70s, you know? But yeah, like you said earlier, it's interesting that you, you know, wouldn't have been surprised if this was a new group, right? I would not have been surprised at all if it came out in 2016. So does she do that with most of her vocal stuff?

Like kind of the almost kind of spoken word almost? Yep, exactly. Kind of delivery, yeah. And we've talked about that obviously before. Like that's being done to the extreme with dry cleaners that group. But that kind of style is kind of making a, don't I say making a comeback. I don't think it was ever like super popular, but like that's certainly a style that that's being utilized right now, I think pretty well. All right. Well, this is my last pick cue.

All right, dude. How are you going to finish it off for us? This song is pretty dope, dude. I was surprised. A little surprised by it. It's got kind of some synth elements to it and female vocals. So it's kind of an interesting, I think it's a good segue from what you just played. But I don't know if we've ever really talked about this. this genre. But one of the labels

thrown on this band is Crot Rock. Crot Rock. Crot Rock. Yeah. Yeah. Can. Can is considered Crout rock. Yeah. Crot Rock. Psychedelic. Alternative. Definitely some electronic elements from this band. They're called

Exploded View. Interesting enough, it is at the head of the group is a Berlin-based political journalist turned musician, Anika. That's her name. So that's interesting.

She used to be a political journalist and then decided to start making music, which I think is kind of cool. That's cool. But this record is called Obey. Came out in 2018. I'm going to play a track here called Dark Stains. I loved every second of that. Yeah, really cool.

Right. And, man, talk about Anna Lennox. I feel like she kind of sounds like. sounds like her a little bit. Yeah. Lead singer from your rhythm. Any Linux. Not Anna.

Any Linux. Yeah. And speaking of like sing songy, like spoken word kind of lyrics singing. We did not coordinate that, but I think that was actually a pretty perfect segue from that last track. But yeah, total like new wave 80s darker synth kind of stuff. Yeah. And like using the, you know, sampled sounds as like that. that beat you know every now that drama that that thing with that that was giving me some yellow

vibes yeah I thought about that too yeah exactly yep as in you know oh yeah from the Ferris Bueller soundtrack boom bong we go back and listen to our Ferris Bueller episode we did a we did an episode on all the music from not all of it but most of the music from Ferris Bueller and we played the track from the movie and then another track and I'm pretty sure we played a yellow song. Yeah, I don't remember the other one that we played. In addition to the one from the movie. But anyway.

But yeah, really interesting group. That was awesome, dude. Very kind of experimental. A lot of different kind of sounds to their music. But that one kind of stood out to me because that was a banger, as they say. Totally. Anyway, I'll throw it back to you, Q. What are you going to do for us here to close us out?

All right. I got a good one for us, dude. So this is a band called Ariel. Oh, dude. I played one of them. I played one of their tracks earlier this year. Oh, really? Oh, shit.

Okay. I wonder if it's the same one. Is it called Firefly? No. No. Okay. Well, I played a song off of their album Winks and Kisses Melted. Nice.

Cool. Well, I'm bringing a song from their 2007 record, The Battle of Sealand. Nice. So they are described as Spacey, Wistful Dream Pop. And I like what it says. here on their Wikipedia page says band leader Jeremy Rinn described Ariel's music by saying

it's loud, it's pretty, and you can dance to it. And I mean, what more do you need to hear? So there's two main members, Jeremy Renn and Andrew Mara. And again, I'm bringing a song from their album from 2007, The Battle of Sealand. This is, I guess really the first proper track on the record. The first song is

an introduction. So, this song is called Think Tank. Very 90s suitcase, you know. I know they get Dream Pop, the Dream Pop label, but I'm also reminded of the Stone Roses. I know I talk about that group a lot, and you haven't really dug into them too much, but similar vocal, vocal delivery, I think. I was getting a little bit of, like if Longwave wasn't so sad. Interesting.

Yeah, I can see that. Which I know we covered their, my favorite album of theirs, the strangest things, which came out in 03. But yeah. That's a special record, man. I know, dude. I know. Yeah, one of those special groups to come out of that, the garage rock revival of the early 2000s. Anyways.

Yeah, dude, it's a fantastic record. It's a blast to listen to. You know, it's fast-paced. It's fun. Like you said, dude, it's loud. it's pretty and you can dance to it. That really does sum it up well. So I don't remember the song that you brought, dude.

Was it similar to me? Yeah, it's a totally different style because it actually features a female vocalist, like a kind of a guest vocalist, I guess, that they've used a couple of times called Stella Tran. That's her name. Yeah, and their past members list on Wikipedia is quite the list, dude. So, yeah, they have people come in and out all the time. Yeah, the song I played was from 2004 called Firefly.

But again, very like one of the, I think I called it like one of the most beautiful Shugee songs I've ever heard. Just her vocals were very like, very pretty vocal delivery. And the song itself just very, very melancholy and kind of very dreamlike. So anyway, so, you know, give that song a listen if you, if you'd like. I believe that was from our first what you heard of 2022. Oh, wow. Yeah, I think it was back in January.

So anyway, well, yeah, hey, man, we did it. We squeezed two episodes into one week. Yeah, hopefully I can give you a week off, Travin, because I know you're doing all the legwork, dude. Well, compared to the amount of work that you'll be doing as a new father, Q, this is nothing. But yeah, this is possibly the last. time the listener is going to hear your voice cue for a couple months.

You know what? I'll find a way to make a pop-in, you know. Okay. A little pop-down. Maybe we'll do a quick, you know, maybe episodes will be a little bit shorter. Because, I mean, hey, let's face it. You guys are going to have to put up with just me, possibly, here and there. If I can't find a guest to join me, it could be the Travis Variety Hour.

And you're in for, who knows, dude. I mean, if I'm left to my own devices. could be video game music. Probably going to be heavy metal, but you never know, dude. Well, whatever you decide to do, Trev, I'm grateful. And I'm sure our listeners will be understanding, you know? Yeah. Starting a new chapter in my life.

Newborn life. You know, it only happens once, maybe, for some people, two or three times, four times, maybe for others. but and I am lucky enough that that I won't have to start work until October. So I'll have a couple months to, you know, adjust and hopefully get him on a sleep schedule so that I won't be a zombie once I start work. And then, you know what? We'll get back to our regular format with your two favorite music-loving twin brothers. Very soon.

Yeah. And you'll have plenty, I'm sure. to choose from. Actually, what's funny, if you're what you heard will just be a bunch of like, you know what it's going to be a dude? Casper Baby Pants. Who? Casper Baby Pants. Do you not remember who that is? Wow. Do I, should I know who that is? That is the presidents of the United States of America. That is what he does now. He makes kids music. Oh, man. But are you guys going to play like, you know, you can get those Metallica songs, but they're like, they sound like lullabies, right?

Maybe. Radiohead. I know there's a radiohead one. Let me tell you, dude, this kid is going to be getting nothing but that they might be Giants' kids' albums. They release quite a few kids' records. They might be giants. And yeah, dude, I'm going to give Casper Baby Pants a whirl.

Yeah, that's a good call. All right. Well, in the meantime, and I'm going to make a special request for the listeners who are on Instagram because I'm going to, you know, I need. I need input and some help, you know, over the next two months. Send me your requests. You know what I mean? What have you been listening to?

What would you like us to talk about? And, hey, maybe I'll do an episode on it. Otherwise, like I said, every episode is going to be a different Meshigga album unless I get some suggestions. Is that a threat? That sounds like a threat. If you're not careful, you can have to put up with Mishiga. there are listeners out there who would love that, I'm sure. I don't know.

I'd be interested to hear how many listeners are metalheads. I would love to know that, yeah. Because, yeah, probably a small number. But anyway, all right. Well, yeah, find us on Instagram. Just search for No Filler Podcast and we'll pop up. And you can also, of course, find this on the Pantheon Podcast Network. That's pantheonpodcast.com.

I'm going to interject here, Trevor. We're going to do another outro from our dear, listener Ken Fugati because who's this guy I think he is? He think he's taking over the show? Well, this is from the same message he sent us last week. Okay. And, you know, we're recording these episodes pretty much back to back, it feels like. And yeah, dude, I just dove into this other artist that he suggested for us. So he said, Cosmic Doom, is how he described this style of music. We played a song called Eon Raines from an artist called Romina as our outro for last week's episode. Is it last week's? I don't know when this is coming out, but. This might be like,

you know, a couple weeks ago or something. Okay. On our Spotlights episode, we outroed with with Ramina and Eon Raines. So for this, what you heard, we're going to outro with a song from a group called Darker, which is spelled D-A-R-K-H-E-R. The album that Ken Fugati recommended what's called the Buried Storm and the way he put it. Both artists have the sound I've been searching for, not since Radiohead's Kid A. So in other words, like, he hasn't felt this way about albums and artists since he heard Kid A by Radiohead. So that's a, you know what, that's a bold statement. And from what I've heard so far from this artist and this album, it's fantastic stuff, dude.

I'm a big fan. I need to dive a little bit deeper into it, but we're going to outro us out with the first track on this record. God damn it. I don't know if you guys can hear that. I have a self-cleaning cat box, and I keep trying to pause the cleaning cycle. Does it announce when it's...

Yeah, it goes... Cycle resuming. You're going to hear that in the middle of the night, and that just means it's the beginning of the end, dude. If you were about saying stuff like that in the middle of the night, like, what cycle are we talking about? right here. Yeah, because we, dude, we have it on a, we have it on a schedule to where from like 9 p.m. to morning, it does not do a cycle. But yeah, so if I hear that in the middle of the night,

that's, that's from saying, dude, that's trouble. The cycle has begun for sure. So again, this is a song off of Darker's album. This actually just came out this year. The album's called The Buried Storm. This song is called Sirens Nocturn. Thank you again. Ken for the tunes. Keep him coming, brother. And thank you for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. You all take care. It was the night before the gathering and all through the house.

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