No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Doozy Edition

Episode Date: July 26, 2021

It's that time again: grab your favorite pair of headphones and carve out an hour to jam out to our monthly mixtape. As is the goal, we bring a pretty decent mix of genres from dronegaze to vaporwave. But we don't often decade-hop quite like we did on this tracklist, from 80s post-punk to the latest disco-leaning track from Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Join us for our favorite monthly tradition on this week's Whatcha Heard. Tracklist Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Weekend Run Gary Numan - The Chosen Minutemen - The Glory of Man The Tragically Hip - Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man Kate NV - Lu Na Moodoid - Only One Man (with Melody's Echo Chamber) Drowse - Rain Leak Alice Phoebe Lou - Dirty Mouth The Damned - Life Goes On Def Sound - Hope Garoad - Base of the Titans Vulfpeck - Smile Meditation This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And on this week's What You Heard, we're kicking things off with a brand new single from Unknown Mortal Orchestra. This song is called Weekend Run.

Yeah, I really love everything he does. I say he, I mean, I feel like I associate unknown Mortal Orchestra with Ruben mainly. Like he's a lead singer, right? Ruben Nielsen. Because, you know, I think, man, when was it? It was IC-01 Hanoi, what's the name of the album, that I talked about? I think it was like our best of twice. 2018 or something like that or maybe just a what you heard or something.

But it was an album that he did where like he just like collaborated with his dad or something like that. He was just like well-known musician guy from back in the day. And like it was like this experimental jazz record, you know, that felt like a bitch's brew type thing. I mean, it wasn't that. But I mean, that's what he was influenced by, right? And I just really respected that he put something out like that, you know. So anyway, that's his, you know, he's very...

Versatile? Yeah, versatile, versatile musician. You know, the stuff that he puts out under UMO, ranges from, like, psychedelic was like the first, the first stuff that they did to like this almost has like disco vibes to it, you know? I'm getting some Beege's vibes. Yeah. Yeah, I've got a quote here, dude, about we can run from him, actually.

He says, at the end of the day, I don't take for granted that I have the perfect job. I truly work to make music that will set someone's day right, and I think that shines through on weekend run. It does, dude. My day was set right when I first heard it. Yeah, that's good, dude. So that just came out, yeah, June 25th. Yeah, I don't know as much about Unnomortal Orchestra, dude.

Like, I know a handful of songs, and I love all of them, and you're right, they are kind of all over the place, but... Like what's a good, what's a good starting album if you're going to dive into them? Their first record. Okay. Yeah. I think it's self-titled. Yeah.

Yep, it is. And that came out a decade ago, which is crazy to think about. But yeah, it came out in 2011. But yeah, very wide-ranging sounds and stuff. Like, they've evolved definitely over time. But, yeah, start with their first record. It's just a really good psychedelic rock indie record. Yep.

Sweet. All right, Q, well, this is another What You Heard episode. I feel like we're slinging these out all the time now, dude. Feels like it. It's once a month, dude. Yeah. So, yeah, Q, once a month we do this. It's, we've been doing this since the beginning of the show, really.

If you think about the What You Heard segment, it's just another excuse to share music with each other and with our listeners. And, you know, we decided to make an episode out of it. And so we've been doing it once a month for a while now. for the entirety of 2021. Yeah. So basically, you know, we each bring five tracks, like what have we been listening to since we last did our What You Heard episode? And yeah, it's been a really good way to just mix it up a little bit because typically the genres are kind of all over the place. I mean, if you listen to the show, you know what type of music we listen to.

So a lot of times it's, you know, shoe gaze, maybe thrown in some electronic thing, maybe throwing in here and there. A lot of punk, some indie stuff. Lots of garage rock. Garage rock. It's like a Dalek stuff. But yeah, it's just a good,

sometimes I'll sneak in some metal. But yeah, it's just a good, just an excuse to jam out to some tunes, a wide range of tunes. So here we are again, Q. Now it's the July, What You Heard episode. And I believe we're starting with you

because I started last month. So let's just jump right into it here, Q. you got for us well something magic happened yesterday dude so i was watching a amazon original series it's called red oaks it's a show i think it's based in the 80s it's you know it's it's very um kind of like high school teen comedy kind of stuff great actors um great soundtrack dude like the actual score and the music that's played in it is great so would you say this was like a freaks and geeks type of show or kind of kind of like a slice of life high school kind of thing.

Yep, and like the dialogue between the characters and stuff. Yeah, for sure. I'm in season two now, and I think it was, I don't know what episode it was, but it doesn't matter. The outro credits was playing a song by Gary Newman. Okay. We all know Gary Newman, right? Who doesn't? Yeah, everybody knows that song, yeah.

Yeah. So it played a song from that album that Carr shows up on, which is his first solo album called The Pleasure Principle. The song that was featured on there was a song called Films. And, you know, I didn't know it was Gary Newman right off the top, but I was like, holy shit, who is this? This is awesome.

And so then I dove in, listened to that album again, and then I jumped on his discography, and turns out, Gary Newman just released an album this year. It is in. intense, dude. Yeah, he's got a whole thing going on. He's got like face paint on his, on the record cover.

He's looking like Marilyn Manson or something. A little bit. So it is a, quote, science fiction soundtrack about the impending climate catastrophe that doesn't need a movie to get its urgent point across. So all the songs are about climate change. This threw me for a loop, dude. And I was like, shook, man, shook. I'm going to let it speak for itself, dude.

You're going to love this, man. All right. So the album is called Intruder. I don't know if I mentioned the album. It just came out a few months ago. I'm going to play track seven. This song is called The Chosen. I wasn't expecting that.

Neither, dude. Very, like, kind of industrial, electronic. It reminds me of the Doom soundtrack, dude. Yeah, if you take away the words, it does sound like a lot of video game soundtracks these days have that kind of darker industrial vibe to it but the lyrics i mean i don't know about you but the line how could you laugh as children warned you i immediately yeah uh grita tombberg yep for sure immediately that's probably who's talking about because she's like the most um visible like representation of like you know children yeah the warning about the younger generation

yeah yeah with all the climate science deniers yeah yeah you know he's says here you are lost to the truth, lost to all reason. Yeah. How could you turn your blue sky gray? Yeah. Intense, dude. So, yeah, I didn't know what Gary Newman was up to these days, you know? Like, he's been releasing albums pretty consistently since the beginning.

Like, he hasn't really taken any time off, dude. I think it's cool when, you know, because he was considered like a pioneer of electronic music and stuff and, you know, synthesizer stuff. Yeah. I like it when. the pioneers, like, still continue to, to sort of, like, keep up with trends and stuff, because that sounds nothing like, like, it's not like he's stuck in his, the synth, the synth sound of the 80s and stuff.

Like he, his sound is adapting and evolving with the rest of the electronic music landscape and stuff, you know, which is cool. Yeah, and I did add, you know, I was going to play that song that I heard during those credit scenes, from his first album. But then I thought, like, dude, if Gary Newman's still putting out records, like, I need to give that a listen. Like, it's, you know, it's not fair to, you know, great musicians that have been putting out music since, like, the 80s.

It's not fair to just only listen to their older stuff, you know? Sure. Yeah. So I'm like, yeah, man, let's see what else he's up to. And then, dude, this whole album is, I mean, it's like, it's more of that. You know, it's not all that. So it's a concept album? Because it's all about the same.

kind of thing for sure yeah and it's all it's all dark and yeah like you said industrial cool yeah dude really good give it a listen so again that was the chosen off of gary new new album intruder all right treff pass it on to you what you've been heard lately all right i'm gonna mix it up a little bit here right out the gate as far as um pivoting from what you just played so this is another one of those moments when it's like how have I not listened to this record before? So, um,

happens a lot on this show. Yeah. And that's what happens. You know, if you're somebody who, who you're constantly looking and seeking out music that you've never heard before, like that should happen to you all the time, hopefully.

And it just, it's just a great daily reminder of like, there's a, bottomless well of amazing music. You'll never ever, you'll never ever get to hear all of it you know what i mean all you can do is just keep keep keep digging yeah and we're very fortunate to to to to have such easy access to yes it's Spotify is cheating you know it really is but um anyway so this band is called minute men oh dude yeah so i

yeah i just found out about them a couple years back too okay so so they're a punk punk rock band yeah um and this record is kind of like their crowning achievement is what people say. This record is called Double Nichols on the Dime. Yeah, dude, I've listened to a few songs off there. I love it. Okay, you might know this song then. So this came out in 1984,

and like I was reading about this record, and it's like considered one of the best rock albums of the 80s, like Rolling Stone has it on their 500 greatest albums of all time list, Slant Magazine, number 77, on their best albums of the 80s, maybe out of 100. But anyway, I'm looking at the track list and it's like, I was thinking, well, this must be like a deluxe version or something. It's like, no, that's just how many tracks there are.

There's 43 tracks on the record. What? Yeah, it's like a, if you look at the vinyl release, like the first, I guess side A, they called it side D. And then there's a side mic, side George, side chaff. I don't know if these are. or the band members or whatever. But anyway, so let's just listen to this track here.

This is Minutemen, again, from their record, Double Nichols on the Dime. This song is called The Glory of Man. When did this come out? 1984. Yeah. Dude, I'm getting some like parquet courts. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say, dude.

I bet they were, yeah, I bet he was. He's influenced by them. Big time. And talking heads with the guitar strumming. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah, yeah. So maybe like some new wave thrown in there.

Yeah. You know, like this is, this is the precursor to like the offshoot of punk that becomes emo a little bit, or at least the style of the singing, I feel like. Not necessarily the lyrical like themes or whatever, but. Because yeah, so it's punk, but it's all. also like, you know, post-punk, right? Yeah. Post-hardcore.

Yeah. Well, there you go. That was Minuteman. That song was called The Glory of Man. I'm going to throw it back to you, Q. What you got? All right, so I'm going to jump ahead one decade to an album that came out in 1998. Have you ever heard of a band called The Tragically Hip?

I don't think so. Well, this is one of those bands that I feel like deserves our attention. I just never knew about them. They are under the alt-rock folk rock category. I feel like they have some similar styles as like R-E-M. And yeah, this was another just popped up on one of my Discover Weeklys. And I was taking it back, dude. Like, there's a lot going on with this band, and I really don't know much about them.

But I've seen them pop up on like the vinyl subreddit, you know, and they always get a bunch of love. So there's a huge back catalog for them. They've been around since, they've been active since 84. So this album again came out in 98. And the album's all over the place, dude. I'm going to play track 11.

I think you're going to like this, dude. It's called Escape is at Hand for the Travelin Man. Yeah, I love the way he sings. Like he does kind of like a talk sing kind of thing and in the verse is really cool. It reminds me of, his voice reminds me a lot of Michael

Stipe of R.M. Yeah, yeah. Same style. But the music kind of sounded like Sonic Youth or something like that. Dude, I was getting some miracle lesion vibes or, you know,

or Polaris, just the, in the way they harmonized together. Okay, sure, yeah, yeah. But yeah, that's a great, another great 90s alt rock band that, now it sounds like,

they're Canadian, which is cool. Right. And I was just about to say, dude, I feel like that might be a reason why we don't know much about them. You know, not every band gets the recognition that they deserve. Yeah. I think that happened. We talked about that with Catherine Weill last week. Oh, yeah.

I was a UK band. Yep. Yeah. Dude, I'm sure, I'm sure tragically hip is huge in Canada, you know? Yeah, that's what it sounds like. It sounds like they had a lot of success in Canada. They were, like, critically acclaimed over there. Yeah, I had no idea about him, dude.

So let me say here, just based on, from what I remember on the vinyl subreddit, a lot of people's favorite albums, album of theirs, is, I think it's the second album. It's called Road Apples. Came out in 91. So that is a fan favorite for a lot of people. So, yeah, that is the tragically hip. That was a song from their 98 record Fan Empower. that was called.

Escape is at hand for the traveling man. I'm going to pass it back to you, Travis. What you've been heard. All right. I'm going to mix it up again here with a Russian Moscow-based artist who goes by Kate N.V. Now, I had to look this word up to you because I've never heard this word before. But I'm reading her bio on Spotify. And it says that she is a.

a changeling that follows a flatus in all its forms. You know what a fletus is, Q? Um, is it anything, is it anything like fallacia? No,

nothing like it. Uh, it says a divine creative impulse or inspiration. Okay. Wow. Um, but anyway, uh,

very like, experimental, um, kind of playful, um, I'm going to, Talking Hats came to mind for me as well, which I feel like I use that all the time. But, all right.

So, yeah, so this record here, it's called Room for the Moon, came out last year. Experimental Avant Pop is what it's called. I'm just going to let the record speak for its, or the song speak for itself here. It's really, really something here. I think you're going to like it. So this song is called Luna. This ranked number 42 on Pitchfork's 50 best of last year. record. So this got a lot of praise when it came out.

Nice. This is the write-up on this best of, best of 2020 list from pitchfork. They said, her third full-length is an engrossing collection of kaleidoscope avant-pop, in which each song unspools into a fantastic world, inspired by everything from Sailor Moon to surrealist Renee McGreet to the Russian Mary Poppins. But it does kind of feel like that otherworldly, like, fantastical, kind of playful kind of vibe, you know. Avant pop. I like that, dude.

Yeah. I like that. Really, really interesting. There's so many things going on. There's like the Japanese, like, spoken word in the background. Yeah. And I don't know if that's her, if that's somebody else. It sounds like she collaborated with a lot of people on this record, but I'm not seeing any credits anywhere else, like on the Wikipedia page or.

And you said she's from Russia? Yeah, she's from Moscow. Yeah. Yeah, so that could have been someone else on there. That's great, dude. Do you know anything else about the album? Maybe listen to it? Yeah, I've listened to the record.

Yeah, the whole record. It's good. It's really good. But yeah, that one was just kind of fun and stood out to me a little bit. But yeah, it's very, very eclectic. There's a lot of stuff going on. But it all has that kind of like, I like how they talked about Renee McGree, but just like the surrealism, you know? It just has that kind of dreamlike quality to it, which is really cool.

And kaleidoscope is another good Descriptor. So there you go. Pitchfork, collidoscope. So anyway, yeah. So that was Kate NV. That was a song called Luna, off of the record,

Room for the Moon. All right, Q, I'll throw it back at you, what you got? Man, I've got something that's going to flow real nice from that, dude. Okay. Real nice. So this song popped up on my radar

because melody Echo Chamber is featured on it. Are you familiar with her? Her name is Melody. She goes by Melody's Echo Chamber? Mm-hmm. No, I haven't heard of that. She's like psychedelic rock.

Sounds very like 60s, 70s, psych rock. And she is featured on this track. So I've never heard of this artist before. He goes by Moodoid. Moodoid. There's a couple dots over that eye, dude. So I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Okay.

But, so I listened to a little bit more of his stuff. He is a French electronic pop artist. Dude, you know, everything that I loved about talkie-walky by air. Yeah. Similar vibes, dude. Okay. You know, so it's that French pop electronic stuff. So I'm all about this, man, and it's great to hear Melanes.

She's also from France. and she sings on this track. It's just a fun track, dude. It just came out. It's a brand new single from Moodoid. This song is called Only One Man. Like the song structure, to me, sounded like a, let me see what you think about this, Q.

Like a Taman Pala song, maybe. Not like a, like, you know, a carbon copy of a Tame and Pala song by any means. But I'm just saying, like, I could see, like, Taman Pala has, like, hooks like that. stuff like that when he when he transitions into a chorus where oh yeah you know you know what's true yeah dude you know i was so so let's say a tame impala song but he's and it was more like an 80s dance like kind of a song that you would listen to if you were you know in a aerobics class yeah there's definitely that that yeah that 80s dance vibe to it for sure and this when did this come out brand new single dude brand new single okay cool yeah yeah yeah i like that a lot so it's

Is that multiple singers or? So Moodoid is the, is the guy, you know, the voice. The guy that sounds like air, you know, the way they sing. Yeah, yeah. Especially talky-walky, where it's like the doubled up voice. And then the female singer that you hear is Melody's Echo Chamber. Okay, cool. But again, like she does a lot more like psychedelic rock stuff.

Okay. Like look at this album cover, dude. That's all you need to know about her. Yeah, yeah. So 70s, 60s. psych rock stuff. I'm a big fan of her stuff too. So, yeah, that's, again, that's how

they came up on my radar because she's on the track. So that was only one man by Mudoid and Melody's Echo Chamber. Let's take a quick break. All right, dude, pass it back to you. What else you get? All right, I'm going to do another pivot

because, you know what? That's what's great about this. This series cue, what you heard. You got to mix it up. It's a mixtape. That's what we call it. It's our monthly mixtape. So this artist goes by the name drows. Drows. Drows. Yeah. Like I'm feeling drowsy today? Yeah, drows. He is from Portland, Oregon. This is a project by musician and producer Kyle Bates.

And like, as we talked about pretty extensively on our doom gaze episode, which is sort of sort of the blending of elements of shoegaze and elements of doom metal. Remember how we talked about like there's drone and there's like slow core and all of this stuff that like doesn't, that that's not doom gaze, but like somewhere in between like shoe gaze and doom metal, I guess. Yeah, those are the artists that I liked the most on that episode. The kind of the in the in between kind of stuff. Okay, well then you're going to like this.

This is a shoegaze artist, but he's more on the, he's, he's like approaching doom gaze as far as like darker kind of vibe, right? Anyway, so this record is called Cold Air. It came out in 2018, so pretty new. I'm just going to, I'm going to read this description because it was like it, it's the perfect description, man. And sometimes people just nail it. whoever wrote this article. Let me see if I can give a proper shout out. This is a writer from Vice.

So Andrea Dominic described the project as the oral equivalent of blood rushing back to a sleeping limb. Well. Remember how we talked about like euphoric nightmare? What's like the perfect description of doom gays? I feel like that was a perfect description of what this guy's music sounds like. Okay, so with that being said, here is a track off of his 2018 record Cold Air. This song is called Rain Leak. Solid shoe gaze vibes, dude.

He definitely borrowed, you know, he referenced that blueprint that My Bloody Valentine laid out for us, you know. Yeah, and like, so here's another description. He is likened to a post-black metal take on English shoegazing band Slow Dive or the Texas post-rock band Explosions in the Sky. Okay. Yeah. And, you know, what I like about it is like the vocals are definitely not at the forefront at all. They're very much like in the background, right?

Yeah. This is even somebody from Spin, a guy named Matt Malone, he said, drows prioritizes music over lyrics using vocals not to tell a story as much as add an instrumental layer to the music's soothing fog yeah dude that is very much like loveless you know yeah where it's you know the vocals are kind of lost in the wall of sound yeah yeah definitely but as you can see from from this track it's not it's a little bit more drone like and a little bit more approaching kind of a darker sound drone drone like right so yeah anyway so that that was drows and that was a song called rain leak throw it back to you Q what are you going to do what are you

going to are you going to pivot are you going to transition what are you going to do it's going to be a little different dude um so this is another artist that just discovered her name is alice feeby Lou. Any relation to Cindy Lou who? No, dude. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. So, I don't know. The only thing I know of hers is an album that she just released back in March. So the genres that are put on her, blues, jazz, soul, indie folk. Whoa, okay. So does she blend all of those things or what? Well, from what I know off of this new album, it's very much, it's more like, oh man, I don't know how to describe it, dude.

It's good, really good. And it is kind of all over the place. And I'm struggling, dude, to figure out which song to play because they are very different. A lot of times I go for track one, you know, when I'm sharing a song from like a new album that I just heard. I'm not going to do that this time because I have a feeling when you hear this song you're going to want to jump back in and actually give the album a listen.

I don't want to spoil the opening track for you. So this is a brand new album by Alice Phoebe Lou. The album's called Glow. Came out back in March. And yeah, dude, I'm going to play track 7 on the record. This song is called Dirty Mouth. Dissatisfied about it. It's perfect.

Yeah, what a great song, dude. Man, I don't know about you, but the drumming and the bass, the way it came in, reminded me of jigsaw falling into place by Radiohead. Oh, big time. Yeah, dude. Same vibes. But yeah, I love, dude, we've talked about it before. I'm a sucker for a great female singer-songwriter.

Yeah, dude. I love those lyrics. It's just, yeah, that's great. Man, there's a lot of great music coming out this year, man. I know, dude. Dude, I don't know about you. I hope you've started a playlist. I haven't.

Man. But, dude, I've got 35 songs on my 20-21 faves. You have to share some with me, dude. But yeah, you've been bringing a lot of great new tunes this year. Yeah, it's not happening on purpose, dude. I just, like, the music that I'm hearing through Discover Weekly and through playlists that I'm finding on Spotify, it's just a bunch of new music, dude. And it's good.

It's exciting stuff, dude. So, yeah, that was Alice Phoebe Lou, dirty mouth from her album, Glow. Yeah, dude, it's really, there's a lot of very intimate moments in this album. The stuff that she does with her voice from track to track changes, too. Like, she does a lot of really cool, like, vocal effects. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, dude, give it a listen.

And I'll say it again, man. I almost played track one because it really got me, dude. Track one is great. Give this album a listen. It got me good, dude. Got me good. What does I mean? Like, how did it get you?

It was one of those, like I said, dude, intimate. And it just kind of all comes, like it's just basically just her voice at the beginning. And then it all just kind of comes in. And it's, yeah, dude, it's a. Effective? Yeah, it's effective. It's good, really good. So yeah, I'm excited about diving into some more of her album.

She has three full-length albums and one live album. So, yeah, dude. Give her a listen to Alice Phoebe Lou. All right, dude. Awesome. We're on the home stretch. Three more songs to do. What are you going to do for us this time, brother?

All right, I'm taking us back to the 80s, another punk band from the 80s. This is a punk new wave band called The Damned. Well, I'll be damned. Yeah. I'm not going to say anything about this until after we play the clip. But, yeah. So this band is called The Damned. They are a UK-based band.

They formed in 76, formed in London, England, Q. And this album is called Strawberries, and I'm going to play a song called Life Goes On. Big fan. The obvious, I mean, should I just say the obvious? Yes. Okay. Come as you are. Yeah. That's the first thing that jumps out right because it's the opening melody. But, you know, a lot of people, like when you talk about Come as You are and the songs that, you know, influenced it or whatever. A lot of people talk about this song called 80s by a band called Killing Joke. Which I have brought on this show. I'm trying to figure out when it was that I played it, dude. Was it at What You Heard? I don't know. I'm scrolling through our What You Heard playlist right now,

dude. I'm not seeing it. So anyway, what's interesting is it would appear that Killing Joke, either intentionally or not, was influenced by this song for that riff. So it's kind of funny because a lot of Sometimes, you know, there are bands that are influenced by a certain riff and then they make a melody that sounds exactly like it. And then it's interesting to think about, well, what if that band was also influenced by another band before it, you know what I mean? Yeah. It just proved that like it's all just, it's all just, you know, rock, imitates rock, whatever. It goes on and on and on, just like the song. Yeah, yeah, dude.

Killing joke, I think I brought them to one of our Hughes tunes, dude. I don't remember which movie, but I think one of their songs was in. Oh, I think you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. Anyway, I just, I thought that was a cool song. And dude, I also heard some Foles influence.

Or I guess the Foles guitar player, you know, that kind of staccato, secondary guitar riff that happens in the song, reminded me of some of the Foles stuff on like their second album, what it's called. Yeah, I think that was their second. Yeah, dude. Anyway, I don't know if you heard that as well, A little bit.

And I love the harmonizing. It's that new wave style from that era. A lot of music. Yeah, a lot of very similar artists harmonized like that back then. Yep. I love it. I love it. All right, cute.

This is your last pick. Yeah. What you got for us? I saved my last one. It's a doozy, dude. I like doozies. So this guy goes by deaf sound, D-E-F. sound. Like deaf jam?

Like deaf jam, yep. Most deaf. He is a quote, hip hop artist, producer, published poet and DJ. He synthesizes hip hop and his Afro-Latino roots into a healing mechanism

while weaving together a tapestry of triumph, levity, ancestry, and power. That's a lot of words. But, so I want to do this real quick, dude because, you know, I'm all about discovering artists through other artists. And Travis, you would actually like this artist as well. I don't know.

I'm not going to play a song from this album of hers, but she features deaf sound as vocals on one of her songs. So her name's Bella Boo. Have you ever heard of her? No. Very like EDM, IDM. club house music stuff. You'll actually, you would really like her stuff, dude.

But anyways, one of her songs that I really like off of an album called Once Upon a Passion that came out in 2019 features deaf sound. And so I, of course, dove into his stuff, see what he was all about. And yeah, dude, pleasantly surprised. He is kind of all over the place, like it says in that little bio.

He does hip hop. He produces, he, you know, brings in some, like, Afro-Latino stuff. Really all over the place, dude. And I like he does have this almost like house music backbone to the way he structures his songs, which might be why he showed up on that Belloot track. Anyways, this is a new song of his. It's a single. It does have vocals on there from.

Annabel Maginous and someone else is credited on here. Zau as well. Don't know what they do in the song, but anyways, this is a collaborative effort. And yeah, dude, I'm big fan of this track. You're going to love it, dude. So, this song is called Hope. So many things happening. Really keeps your attention.

It's like three or four. songs and one, yeah, so many different styles. Yeah, so I looked into Zau, who shows up on here. He's also a producer and a multi-intrimalist and singer. So maybe that could be him that's featured mostly in vocals. You heard Annabelle at the end. I don't know if deaf sound actually sings in this one, but he's definitely... Oh, that wasn't, I figured that was him the whole time. It could have been him, but again, like he also, he also raps as well. But either way, dude, I mean, such a awesomely produced

song like just the all the different styles I am reminded of the kind of stuff that Blood Owensh does the internet you know Steve Lacey and all them the kind of stuff that they're doing

I was reminded of Justin Timberlake no is that weird maybe the vocals the vocal stylings toward the end you know that kind of R&B yeah I'm a big Timberlake fan dude yeah

big Timberlake fan dude yeah big Timberlake really fan yeah but yeah so many different genres uh crammed into one song and like you said really well executed like that's that's hard to yeah yeah flow from genre to genre like that yeah cohesively you know yep cool uh yeah so this was released earlier this year as well so yeah again dude lots of great stuff coming out this year i feel like a lot of uh musicians are able to get together and collaborate again after a year of lockdown, you know, so lots of creative juice is flowing. Awesome.

All right, man. Last track of the day, our mixtape is winding down what you got for us to take us home. I'm going to end it in a way that's very fitting for no filler. I'm going to end it with some vapor wave queue. Now, I think I've shared this album. with you before. But this is actually a video game soundtrack. Okay.

I couldn't resist. So this is a video. I've never played this video game. It sounds interesting. It's called VA-11 Hall A, Cyberpunk Bartender Action. That's the name of the video game. What?

It is an indie bartender simulation video game. What? What? I want it. with visual novel elements developed by Venezuelan Studio Sukabon games. That sounds nutty, man. I want to... You can get it on the PS4, the Nintendo Switch.

Hey, I got both of those systems. Well, there you go. You can play this game tonight if you wanted to. But anyway, the record is very vapor-wavy. It showed up on my, like, similar artists to. you know, whoever I was listening to at the time. But the name of the artist is Garoad or Garoad or something like that. Anyway, now this song is a little bit, I wouldn't put this in like the vapor wave camp, this particular truck.

The album as a whole, the soundtrack as a whole, very vapor wavy. But this song, I'm just going to say, it got me right out of the gate with. the drums. Okay. Sweet. I'm a sucker for this style of electronic drum beats cue, down tempo re maybe a little bit. Anyway, this song

is called Bass of the Titans. And again, it's from the video game soundtrack for VA11 Hall A cyberpunk bartender action. Here we go. Always present. very bass heavy punch that kept going through it. A little bit of a kind of a glitch kind of thing going on.

Yeah, very cool. Yeah. I feel like the melody could be lifted out of any vapor wave song. The melody that was kind of playing. Yeah, yep. That sounds like a vapor wave kind of thing. Like that 90s. Yeah.

You know, like that Malsoft stuff I brought last month. Yeah. Totally. But yeah. So apparently this game takes place in a small. dive bar in a dystopian downtown in the year 207x. Hmm. Cool.

I guess 207. I guess some other extremely significant event happened that we decided to reset. To post-dispopian life where corporations reigns supreme. All human life is infected with nanomachines designed to oppress them. And you're playing a bartender. And you're a bartender. Yeah. Anyway, so, yeah, if you want to hear great vaporwave music while you're slinging drinks in the future in a dystopian dive bar, VA 11 Hall A might be the game for you.

All right, well, that's it, man. That's how we wrap it up. Very eclectic mix of songs there, Q. Well done to us. We did it. That's what I hope for. I hope that it's, you know, every month that it's a. it's not too homogenous, you know.

Yeah, and I've got a good song to outro us out with, dude. Okay, okay. To really round it out. All right, well, I think we talked about this last week. So next on the list is Melody A.M. by Roikzop. Yes, I keep forgetting good. That's going to be good times, man.

Yeah, I'm excited about that. It's been a while since we've done an episode devoted to that style, like that, you know, slice of the, of the pot. that no filler occasionally dips into. Our wheelhouse is rock, obviously, like indie rock, 90s rock, shoegay, stuff like that. Yeah, and Melody A.M. is like you said, it's just that little slice of... What do you call it? Is it down tempo? It's down tempo, but it's jazzy at times.

But it is very early 2000s, like what was going on in that, you know, little pocket of dance music. if you want to call it dance music. Yeah, yeah. Downbeat electronic dance music. There we go. Downbeat. Let's go with that. Yeah, there was a lot of music like this coming out at that time.

And we were all over it when it was happening. And Rorkeeps is a Norwegian duo. So no surprise why they brought Aurel andoya to sing on a couple of tracks on this album. We'll get into that. We'll get into that next week. That's the second Norwegian duo. we'll be talking about this year. So probably the last, but anyway.

Probably the last. Yeah, that's awesome. So that's next week. And then we might stay in that pocket for a while, at least until we get bored, because, you know, I feel like we barely scratched the surface with, with that, you know, those types of songs get sprinkled into what you heard and stuff, you know, but we haven't really done too many episodes devoted to some of our favorite, you know, albums from that, that genre, you know, that style of music.

And there's a ton of albums from that genre that we love. Yeah. All right. So that's going to be next week. In the meantime, you can reach out to us on Twitter. At No Fieler Podcast is our handle. We will talk to you. If you message us, you will hear from us.

So, you know, tell us what you like and don't like about the show. Tell us what you've been, what have you been hurting lately? heard ing, as we like to say. And, you know, tell us what bands you're into right now. What songs are you really digging on right now? And we might feature you at the end of next month's what you heard. What we like to do is if we get a suggestion from a listener, well, we'll tack it on to the end of the What You heard episode.

But yeah, just reach out to us on Twitter at No Flair Podcast. You can also find us on the Pantheon podcast network. If you like this show, which hopefully you do, that's why you're listening. Chances are you'll find another show on that network that you'll also love because it is nothing but music-related content. So that's Pantheonpodcast.com. And yeah, that's it. So, Kew, what do you got to close us out? All right, dude, this one's coming from my wife, Sarah.

She had this song stuck in her head that she has on one of her playlists. So she was humming it a couple days ago. bugging her because she couldn't figure out what it was. So she had to scroll through and like search for it and some of her playlists that she has on Spotify. She found it. It's from the jazzy folk, not folk, the jazzy funk group, Wolfpec.

Oh, I've heard of them. Dude, this is one of those bands I've been meaning to get more into. Now here's something interesting here. My wife, Kara. We have, we have, so I have a playlist and she has a playlist. where we share music with each other. Like, if I'm listening to something, I bet you care I would like that.

I'll throw that on the Spotify playlist that she, that I, where I recommend songs to her and vice versa. Yeah. She recommended a Volfpack song to me. It'd be crazy if it's the same one that your wife was humming. I would be nutty, dude. Yeah.

So this is coming from their first full-length album, Thrill of the Arts. It came on 2015. This one's a banger, dude. Like, such a catchy track. I love what they do, man. So great way to finish out the episode. This song is going to be, let's see, this song is, this song is called Smile Meditation.

Okay. That's not the same track. Not the same track. That's all right, dude. But that's okay. So yeah, that's going to do it for us today. Next week, we'll be coming at you with Rorke Sops, Melody, A.M. Until then, thank you so much for listening.

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