No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Duos and Dreampop Edition

Episode Date: October 4, 2021

With every Whatcha Heard episode there's always a few left turns, and at least a 180 that takes us from, for example, vaporwave to doom metal. On this episode however, we managed to bring 10 tracks that work so perfectly together, you'd think we must have planned it. Maybe it's the changing season, or maybe our twin connection was especially deep these past few weeks. Either way, tune in for a collection of 10 dreamy, laid back, lo-key jams that fall mostly under the dreampop umbrella. No left turns here, just a solid playlist suitable for weekend drive. Tracklist: Radiohead - If You Say The Word Insides - Darling Effect Men I Trust - 5am Waltz Fellini Félin, Camel Power Club - Kiss Me Dismemberment Plan - The Face Of The Earth Beauty Queen - This Time Around Bachelor - Back Of My Hand Death And Vanilla - A Flaw In The Iris Bad Math - Walls Sensations Fix - Cold Nose Story Sweet Trip - Surviving A Smile St Germain - Sure Thing 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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Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rink 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 Filler. I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And it's our next What You Heard episode. We're kicking it off with a previously unreleased track from Radiohead's Kid A Amnesiac Studio sessions. This song is called If You Say the Word. How awesome is it to hear new music from that era of Radiohead?

Oh, yeah, it's like Christmas came early this year, dude. I mean, new to us because we weren't, you know, at least I was never like a hardcore enough fan that I was like scouring all the message boards and stuff. Yeah. Back in the early 2000s because apparently a lot of this stuff has been released. Bootlegs and stuff or other special released records and stuff. Yeah, I think I talked about this on one of the Radiohead episodes that we did. But, like, they have always had a presence on, like, message boards and, like, they've had this internet fan club type thing for years. You know what I mean?

So, like, they've always released special content like this. So, yeah, some of you out there, you may have heard this song before. years ago, but that's the first time I had heard that song. And yeah, I always love hearing outtakes and stuff from some of my favorite records, because it really is. It's like, it's like hearing a lost track, you know, because that's kind of what it is, right? Yeah, it is what it is. Yeah. It's great, man. So we did an extensive, like, I mean, I don't know how many weeks that it spent across back in the day, because we used to split them up, but like we did. I think we did OK computer through in Ramos.

Yeah, we finished on NUrambos. Yeah, I remember, so I didn't know this back then, but Kid A and Amnesiac was recorded at the same time, which is crazy to think about. The amount of stuff that York was just like churning out as far as like songwriting, it must have just been insane, you know, and it probably still is to this day. Oh, yeah. And they did the same thing with OK Computer when it hit. It's 20th anniversary. Oh, that's right. They came out with a reissue and outtakes stuff.

Okay, not okay or something? Yeah, okay, not okay. So, yeah, Q, in a couple of years, we can expect a 20th anniversary reissue for Herald of the Thief, you know, because it seems like this is what they're going to do, which is awesome. But yeah, man, this is kind of a good time to be a fan of music from the 2000s because, you know, if this is the 20th year for Kid A and Amnesia, then. It's the 20th anniversary for Is This It? By the Strokes.

Turn on the Bright Lights was also, I think, 2002. Yep. So we're getting old, Q, but that means that our favorite bands are hopefully going to be putting out some anniversary specials like this. So, yeah, this was just a little teaser song that they dropped. The official 3 LP reissue. How would you say it, Jeff? Kid A. Nisha?

I'd say Kid A. Nesia. Okay. I'm going to go with kid amnesia. Yeah, they're spacing out the, they're being clever. They're figuring out all the different ways that you can like spell like phonetically, like all like kid A and amnesia together because the actual record with all the outtakes on it, including this song, if you say the word, the name of that record is kid amnesia,

with the E on the end of it. But the reissue is, uh, they've also got a, two-cassette version called kid amnesia. That's what I'm saying. Now that's clever. That's clever. Cassette amnesia. But yeah, the reissues like, kid space A space M-N-E-S-I-A.

So you figure out how you want to spell it. Nesia. Nesia. Lots of different ways. So yeah, this was a song called If You Say the Word. And according to this Rolling Stone article I'm reading, it was previously known amongst fans as the fabled, quote, C minor song that guitarist Ed O'Brien wrote about in his Kid A-era online production journal. So yeah, dude, that's what you're talking about. All right. So if this is

your first time joining us, or if this is the first what-you-heard episode that you're joining us for, this is our monthly mixtape episode where we each bring five songs to the table, just music we've been listening to in-between recordings, and we just sit down and jam out to a bunch of good tunes together. and we actually just started releasing these as proper playlists on Spotify. So we've been doing these full-length What-You-Heard episodes since January. So by the time this one comes out, we'll have nine playlists total on Spotify. So we're just kind of releasing those once a week or so until we get all caught up. And if you want to get crazy, we also have a mega What-You-Heard playlist that has

all of the what you heard tracks from this year, but it also has every what you heard that we, you know, that we both brought on a weekly basis. Because it used to be this was a weekly thing. We just tacked it on, or it was a, you know,

every episode at the end of the episode, we'd each bring a track. And that was the what you heard segment, right? And then this year it turned into what you heard monthly episodes where it's five tracks each. So anyway, the what you heard playlist has everything. So, you know,

bring that up and, and push shuffle on that one. It's currently about 17 hours long. There you go. That's crazy, man. Lots of music. All right, man. So I get to start us off today, and I'm really stoked, dude.

I get to set the mood. And this is, yeah, this is important, man. This determines where we, how is this going to flow? What's the vibe? I got my tracks, you got your tracks, but, you know, we try to play them in a way that flows well together. So this is an important duty that falls on you. right now, here. All right, dude, so I couldn't sleep last night, dude. I was just listening to music

and just kind of like piecing my track list together. And I discovered this group in this album, probably at like 1 a.m. last night. So this is a duo that was formed in 1992 called Insides. It is a, quote, couple in the romantic sense and a duo in the musical one. So it's Kirstie Yates and Julian Tardo. And I'm going to quote this article from this website called Arcane Delights that describes. So this is their debut album called Euphoria, which came out in 93. And it says here, Broken Down, Euphoria essentially sets Tardos persistent rhythmic sequencing and Dream Pop guitar framework against Yates' silky, softcore, though candid vocals.

and it's the chemistry of lovers that makes insides work so beautifully. Two people who know each other so intimately that any music they make has an almost erotic charge. Okay. You're going to love this, dude. It's ambient, it's moody. It's everything, dude. I really, really like this song. All right, so here we go.

This is again from the duo Insides off of their album Euphoria. this song is called Darling Effect. Yeah, I really like the guitar work on that track. Me too. Beautiful, beautiful. So that came out when? 1993. Okay, wow.

Cool. Love it. Yeah, I mean, talk about kind of a huge, like, you know, honestly, the funny thing about that is, like, that could have come out more recently. I wouldn't have been surprised if you would say that that was a, under track, honestly. Right. In my mind, like the 90s is so synonymous with grunge and alt rock and stuff like that,

that it's nice to be reminded, you know, hey, there are other bands out there making other great music that you just weren't going to hear because they weren't on MTV or they weren't, you know, on whatever the local rock station was, right? Yeah, dude. I love discovering this kind of stuff. Yeah. And, you know, we keep bringing this up. up. I think we talked about this last week with David. Nineties, man, one of the best

eras for music, dude. It was the last good decade, yeah, for rock. And maybe music in general, I think you're right. Yeah. And for all the tiny little subgenres that split from rock and shoegaze and electronic music and all that stuff, dude. Yeah. This is the kind of stuff that we were getting from it, you know. And this is early 90s, dude. This was, uh, You know, they formed in 92, dropped this in 93. Just amazing, dude. The internet really did, I think, change everything, you know. Even going into the 2000s for a little bit, because, you know, obviously, MySpace

for what it was, was a pretty interesting way to find music back in the day, back when every band had a MySpace page before Bandcamp, really. I feel like Bandcamp filled that niche way better, you know, obviously. Oh, yeah, dude. And you can support the artists directly. on there, you know? Yeah, yeah. So yeah, dude, that is, again, a group called Insides

that was from their debut album Euphoria. All right, man. I'm going to pass it on to you what you got for us, what you've been heard. So I am bringing a new track from Men I Trust. And this is a group I brought, actually, I'm trying to remember if this was

of what you heard from earlier this year or last year. But I have featured these, this group on, filler before. So yeah, you know, I try not to do this cue. I try not to bring a, you know, we've already featured me. I trust on this show. You know what I mean? As a what do you heard? But what can I say? Here we are. They put out a new record and of course I was going to listen to it. And of course, it's amazing. So this record, which I thought the, I thought the name was kind of funny because it kind of speaks to, it's a little like jab, I guess, at like the state of music right now.

but the name of the record is called untorable album. And my guess is that means that they're like, well, we're probably not going to get to tour for this record, right? So let's call it the untorable album. Anyway, Min I Trust, if you remember from February when I featured a track of theirs on the show, they're kind of like this, they're definitely an indie band. But it's like this really interesting blend of like down tempo almost, down tempo elements, like jazzy kind of chill. A little bit of funk.

Electronic stuff with a little bit of funk and soul, but more like heavily leaning toward like the down tempo, especially this track that I'm playing. But they have a really interesting sound. And it's, there's three members. And I just really like the singer. Her voice is really great. Her name is Jesse Karen. But anyway, let's just play this track here.

So this is almost an instrumental track. but, and it's really short, too, so I'm going to play the majority of it, but here we go. So, all right, this is Min I Trust, and this song is called 5am Waltz. I mean, they're dropping nothing but jams, dude. Yeah, it's hard to not like anything of theirs. Yeah, I was such a fan of uncle jazz. That's how she pronounces her cue, that I had to buy the record, like, immediately, right? And yeah, it's really just a continuation of, of, of, they have a really unique sound.

you know that that's kind of their own um enclave jazz came out in 2019 and this is the next full length record that they put out since that one they had a live album that they put out in between but yeah um this you know it's kind of this like dark but warm kind of synth type sounds that they bring and you know had it had it not been for the vocals at the very end like that could have just been a down tempo track you know, that you would have heard on any number of different down-tempo artists, right? Totally. So it's kind of cool that they incorporate those types of elements into like indie songs, right? Yeah, that's cool.

I didn't, I didn't figure there would just be a three-piece. Yeah. So there you go. Awesome. So that was Min I Trust and that song was called 5 a.m. waltz. And I'm not throw it back to you. What do you got? All right, dude.

So this is going to be a first for me. I knew it was going to happen eventually. This is a song that I've been bumping from my Watcher Heard's probably for the last like three or four months, you know, because I'll like hear a new song and it'll get bumped off of the list because maybe I'm like steering my songs into like a whole different vibe for the week. So yeah, I've been sitting on this one for months, dude. And I just, I love this song. I knew I would eventually bring it to What You Heard at some point. And that time has come, dude. Well, that just tells you how good it is because if it's been.

Yes. If you're still not tired of it, you know, then that's a good sign, dude. I love this song, dude. So this is a collaboration with some French artists. One of them is Fellini Fallin. He's just like a producer. He does kind of like down tempo, pop jazzy stuff. And he collaborated with a duo that goes by.

Camel Power Club. Can't really find much on them. But they also go by Raccoon Raccoon, a quote, Chamber Folk Duo from France. And yeah, they just dropped this single last year. So back-to-back duos, cue. Back-to-back duos, dude. But this is technically a trio because they collaborated with

Fellini Fallin for this one. Okay. And we're going to have to listen to a good chunk of this song, dude, because something cool happens towards the end, it changes up a little bit, and it's just so great, dude. You're going to love it. All right, so this is a track of theirs called Kiss Me. I was reminded of Q. At least the melodies and like the beats and stuff,

I was reminded of why to spoil live. Ooh. Okay. I can see that. As far as like that kind of like discoy, especially at the end, that cool bass line that comes in. Yeah, dude, sure.

And then the vocals are very, very dream. Like the whole song had a very dreamy quality to it. But yeah, a lot of great, great thing. And that's a, came out last year, right?

Yep. It's the time to be live, Q. There's a lot of great music coming out in the 2020 decade. And so I've been actually like shelving a lot of music from artists. Music that came out this year, I'm saving a lot of stuff for our end of year. Yeah, dude. There's so much good music coming out this year that like if I play them all now, I'm not going to have anything good to share for our end of year episodes.

So yeah, dude, lots of great, great stuff happening. right now in the world of Musak. So, you know, you said that this was like a collaboration with another artist. Do you know which vocalist was Felini Filin? If that was one of the vocalists or? No, my guess is that the two vocalists are probably Camel Power Club because that's the chamber folk duo. Got it.

Yeah. So they also go by Raccoon Raccoon. Dude, that, this is their website, right? Yeah. They just look like, that just looks like a wedding engagement photo or something like that. Yeah. The, I mean, really. But yeah, that's, that's awesome.

So again, that was a collab with Felini Filin and Camel Power Club. That song was called Kiss Me. And I'm going to pass it back to you, brother. So I was going to play my original order that I was going to play these in. I'm going to switch it up because I feel like we've, we've had pretty laid back vibe. so far. So I'm going to liven it up a little bit here with a song from 2001. So speaking of 20 years ago. And this is an indie rock band that I had never heard. I mean, I want to say I've heard the name, but I've never listened to them before. They're called the dismemberment plan. And they're sort of like

grouped into, they get the math rock label, but I personally don't hear it. But, you know, That just means that, yeah, some of their time signatures and stuff are interesting and complex, right? Oh, you know what, dude, I am very familiar with, well, not very, but I have heard a few songs from Emergency and I, the album from 1999. Very familiar with that album cover. Okay. Yeah, they've popped up in quite a few playlists that I listen to. Well, I am doing a track off of Change, which is the album that came out after Emergency and I. And I think the reason they called it change is because it was sort of a change.

change from what they had been doing previously. And it's more like a kind of introspective lyrics and stuff like that, which makes me think of kind of emo lyrics, right? But yeah, I was really thrown or taken aback by this record, I guess. Like it forced me to kind of pay attention the first track I heard. And then I just queued it up and pushed play one evening. And it was such a pleasure to listen to it, man. It's really good.

So I'm going to play a song. this is actually track two on this record. And this song is called the face of the earth. That's kind of how I felt, man. It was definitely love at first. Listen. And the whole record is really like

nuanced and interesting like this where it's like I love songs that we've talked about this before. I love songs that give itself a long runway before the singing starts. Yeah. I love a good buildup, dude. And that was a minute before he started singing.

And that's why this was a longer clip because I really wanted to get to that the last part of that clip. But yeah, what a great song. What a great record. I was reminded of this group that I brought a few what you heards back called the Tragically Hip. Remember that band? That like Scott Stipe kind of R.A.m. vocals. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it's definitely it's alt rock. And that stands as far as like there's no distortion. on this. It's more kind of of, of course, they had kind of a I want to see if I can get the the name of the instrument, but something that kind of let us in. Oh, yeah, dude. I'm a huge fan of this instrument.

I think it's called a Koto, that Japanese stringed instrument. Coto, okay. Dude, I'm a sucker for that. I don't care what the rest of the song sounds like. If there's a Koto in there, I dig it. I was reminded of some of the stuff that Incubis does. Inkybus,

would pull in, like, you know, random instruments like that under their records, right? But anyway, I've got a good quote here from Travis Morrison, who's the lead singer. This is from an interview he did with Stylist Magazine. He refers to this record as his night album. And he says, you know, I think that late night records tend to have much more carefully modulated dynamics. They're trying not to beat you over the head with a point. they're trying to provide a space you can kind of enter and roam around a little bit. Yeah.

I really like that. Because that's what I feel like with that intro of that song. Like you just have this breathing room, you know, it just breathes. So another song that that reminded me of and, you know, kind of like what you were saying, you love those songs that have those really nice long intros. Yeah. This was another song that I brought us to what you heard a while back from a band called Archers of Loaf from their album VV that came out.

on 95, the song Step Into the Light has like a similar runway, you know, with a really nice long intro and it just kind of like settles you in, you know? Yeah. I really, I really appreciate when a band does that because they're giving you kind of like what he said, room to kind of roam around, you know, in the song and get kind of lost in it. And they really paint the picture, as I like to do, Q. So anyway, if you had never heard that record, I had never heard the band. I had heard the record. Go listen to that one. The album is called Change. Apparently, it is a change from their previous stuff. So yeah, I was going to say, dude, I, you know, like I said, I've listened to that album that came out right before this one. And I don't remember it

signing anything like that. Well, there's another quote here from Michael O'Brien of Pop Matters. He says that for anyone who loved Emergency and I, which is the record you're familiar with, right? change sounds like the dismemberment plan on quailudes so on sedatives basically but i was dude i was in the right frame of mind for it like i was just listening to it in the evening it was great so yeah check out this record it's called change by dismemberment plan and i'm going to throw it back to yuki where we go from here i feel like this has been a very laid back episode i mean that that that song had some kind of a dynamics to it where it changed a little bit but um but we've been really Really chill.

That's all I'm bringing tonight, dude. You know what, dude, I've already got the name of this episode. This is the Kualudes edition. So there you go. Perfect. Let's take a quick break. All right, man. So I'm going to give a shout out to another artist that we featured on what you heard before.

He goes by Yacht Club. Remember this guy? Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Well, his name's Ryan Kaiser, and he's got his own playlist on Spotify that he updates quite often called The Yacht 100. and I go on here frequently to, you know, just kind of scope out the new digs. And he has a song from an artist that goes by Beauty Queen on here.

This is just another one of those solid singer-songwriters. I'm just going to let the music speak for itself. This is from an EP of hers from 2019 called Out of Touch. This song is called This Time Around. I'm great, man. Love it, man. Man, that was great. So I could just listen to that on a loop forever.

Yeah, dude. I was the last few days. That's just such a groove, man. But what's cool about that, like, it's almost got like a surf guitar vibe to it. Yeah. The sort of like the vibrato, maybe like a phaser kind of vibe to it. I'm trying to get the guitar, the effect on the guitar pedal. Yeah, dude.

But yeah, that's really great, man. Most of her music is in this pocket. And again, shout out to Ryan Kaiser, aka Yacht Club. If you liked that, that's all you're going to get, dude. If you press play on his playlist, Yacht 100. What was the name of that song? This Time Around by Beauty Queen. Dude, I got to tell you right now, man.

I feel like this is like the time for really amazing female-led indie rock bands and stuff like that. I can't get enough of it, dude. Me neither, dude. So much so that my next track, my next two tracks, my next three tracks feature a female artist. Yeah, four out of the five of mine are too, dude. This is it, man. But yeah, that was great, man. Speaking of which, I'm just going to hand, I'm going to hand it off to myself.

Are we keeping it in the same vein, dude? Yes, we are. Awesome. Now, this is another artist that has been featured on nudist, again, previously. You mean no filler. Same thing, it's the same thing. Yeah, so this artist has been featured on the podcast before. at least, it's been at least a year or two.

But her name is J-SOM. Oh, dude, I love J-SOM, man. I'm so stoked that you're about to bring another song from her. Well, here's the interesting thing, Q. She has teamed up with another artist to form sort of a side project called Bachelor. And this is a artist named Palehound. So this is Palehound plus J-Som. She collaborates with a lot of musicians, dude.

She's all over the place. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is a record that they put out this year called Dooman Sun. And this is just another great little indie track. So I'm going to play the first song on the record. This is called Back of My Hand. And speaking of JSON collaborating so frequently,

I just remembered that in our February, I believe, what you heard, I brought a track from a little duo called Routine that is Molina Duterte, aka J-SOM, and Chastity Belt's Annie Truscott. So anyways, man, yeah, I love everything that she's putting out now. Great stuff, as always. All right, Q, what do you got first? I'm going to throw it back at you.

So, I don't think this is news to anyone, but maybe it is. I've mentioned them several times. I am a huge, huge fan of the psychedelic band's sound carriers. Oh, yeah. I am always hopping on to their radio station on Spotify. So they are masters at like breathing new life into that like 60s pop style, you know? Yeah, the kind of jangly pop. Yeah.

No one does it better than sound carriers, dude. And I found a band that comes close, dude. And it's a little bit different vibes, but very similar. Definitely in the same pocket. And dude, I love this song so much. So this is a band called Death and Vanilla. Okay. And this is a trio that, quote,

marries vintage keyboards, surf guitars, and hushed vocals to subdued psychedelic pop. And this is from an album of theirs that came out in 2019 called Are You a Dreamer? This is the opening track on the record. This song is called A Flaw in the Iris. That's the Mamas and the Dream Poppahs. Oh my, dude. Amazing. See what I did?

Well done, sir. Well done. And you're totally right, dude. That's like I was waiting for the, because at first it just sounded like, you know, this has kind of got a dream pop vibe to it. And then the chorus hits and that's where that 60s sound came in. And I thought of Mamas and the Pappas at least. Dude, you nailed it, man.

I've been trying to figure out what group, you know, sound carriers and, and this style of psych pop rock. Mama's and the popas. Straight up, dude. You're right. And just, yeah, similar bands like that. But yeah, that's sort of like, you know. Or like Peter Paul and Mary maybe.

Yeah, psychedelic 60s, man. You know, that's what it was. Right. That's what it was all about. Yeah, dude. I love that song, man. And I faded it out, but there's this solid like, like the rest of the song, it's got about like two minutes left.

It's nothing but this really cool drawn out instrumental outro. really puts you in this in this headspace dude really makes you feel like you popped a couple coeludes by the end of it dude tell you man this is this the sedative uh episode just wait until my last song dude so we're rounding in the corner you've got two more songs i've got one more so uh are we're are we are we are we are we are at least we're like cohesive and this is going to be a good playlist yeah dude i'm feeling good about it dude i'm stoked so okay i i think it's safe to say that Hong Kong is one of my favorite regions for new music now. The stuff that's coming out of Hong Kong is amazing.

Last week I brought a band, a Shugay's band called Lucid Express that were out of Hong Kong. One of my favorite kind of like math rock post-punk bands from there, Tricot as well. Tricot, yeah. And Toe. Right, Toe. Lots of great rock coming out of Tokyo and Hong Kong. And I guess, you know what? I guess it's been going on for a long time then because,

tow has been around for a long time. But yeah, anyway, so this is a brand new record. I shouldn't say brand new. It came out in June, neutered this year. And this band is called Bad Math. And they are kind of a, I'd put them more on the indie side. You know, they're not really shoegays. They're kind of like an indie pop kind of record, very bedroom poppy kind of sound. So this record is called Missing Narrative. And this song is called Walls. Warm blanket cue. The warm blanket edition. I'm trying to think of all these great names.

But yeah. Now, I will say that the album as a whole is not as subdued as that song. That's kind of one of the more prettier tracks off the record. But I just really liked just the way that that song sort of, you know, I say this a lot, but it's sort of like, you know, kind of lulls you into sort of like this nice, comfort zone. Wraps you up, dude. Nice and tight like a blanket.

It wraps you up like a blanket. I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, man. You know, you could kind of group this into the Dream Pop vibe, maybe because of her vocals, you know? She's got those soft vocals. For sure, yeah. But yeah, just the

warm bass, the guitar, like, you know, I'm really, I'm just really finding myself drawn to these little old four pieces. is, you know, these little, like, just your traditional kind of drums, bass, guitar, vocals making, like, this really great classic sort of indie sounds, you know. It's coming back, dude, in a great way.

And, I mean, we've proven that so far with the music we've been bringing tonight, dude. Yeah, the new records from this year definitely point to that, that there's something happening, you know, in indie music right now. We've made that case a few times in the last few, what you heard, for sure, dude. And it's happening globally, it would seem. So anyway, that was bad math. That's a new record called Missing Narrative. And Q, this is your last track.

What do you got for us? So I'm going to take us back nearly 50 years, dude. Whoa. So this is a group called Sensations Fix, which is this Italian Prague Rock electronic musical. ensemble led by a guy named Franco Falsini. And I don't know exactly when this song came out. It's actually featured on this sort of like retroactive compilation record. It's got like a bunch of demos and previously unreleased songs on there.

Ranging from 1974 to 1977, the compilation record is called Music is Painting in the Air. That just really did it for me right there. that saying music is painting in the air yeah dude i didn't even like step back and appreciate that dude yeah that's great so um man this song got me good dude you want to talk about quailutes this is it man i hope i hope if you're if you're driving out there that we haven't put you to sleep yet but this is uh this is just one of those something must have been in the air dude because you and i we're both channeling this kind of music this month. You know, maybe it's the, you know, the changing of the colors.

Yeah. Paul's just around the corner, dude. That's true. All right. So this is again from a group called Sensations Fix. And speaking of Fall, dude, this song is called Cold Nose Story. Dude, we're just floating right now, you know. That song blew me away when I first heard.

Yeah, really cool. I love the mix of like, early, early synth stuff. It's a Moog, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He used a Moog there. That's cool. It says here, he moved to Virginia in 69 from Italy, where he set up a basement studio

where he experimented with a Moog and four-track tape recorder before returning to Italy to start a band. So yeah, dude, this is like right at the beginning of that stuff. That's really cool. Yeah. And dude, like, I don't know if it was just his voice or like the dreamlike quality of the song, but I was getting some Kevin Parker, Tame Impala vibes. Yeah.

Well, I mean, we know that Kevin Parker was influenced by the 70s, obviously, you know. Oh, yeah, dude. So maybe he was a fan of Sensations Fix. And so not all of the music on this compilation record is that dreamlike. Yeah. You'll hear some guitar solos and a little bit more proggy kind of stuff. So, yeah, that was, again, Sensations Fix. The song was called Cold Nose Story from the compilation record,

Music is Painting in the Air. All right, dude, bring us home. What you got for us? Well, I'm going to keep the altitude, you know. We're going to keep floating. Got to keep floating, dude. So I'm going to split this into two clips because the way that they close out the song is really great.

And I wanted to play that. And it's going to be a great way to just end this episode, especially with all the songs that we played today. We do have an outro song as well, dude. That's true. Anyway, so along the same vein here, more Dream Pop. This is a very well-known band. I've actually brought them, it's a duo.

Another duo, dude. It's the episode of Duos and Dream Pop. Sweet Trip. So I brought them, I don't know, last year, maybe the year before. As of what you heard. Big fan of them. And they put out a brand new record this year. They actually just reissued.

you will never know why the album that features that song that you brought. The one that I brought it. Yeah, yeah. As a what you heard. Yeah. Yeah, dude, they just remastered it this year and it sounds great. Well, yeah. Well, so they're probably gearing up for the release of this record then.

So anyway, this is their first new record in 12 years. So this is kind of a big deal because they were, you know, they've got sort of a following to them. They're kind of like an iconic experimental pop band is kind of where you throw them into. too. But, you know, there's a little bit of shoe gaze elements in some of their earlier stuff. But Dream Pop is probably the best way to describe them, I would say. But anyway, this new record came out in May. It's called A Tiny House in Secret Species Polar Equals. I don't know what that means, but that's the name of the record, Q. And I'm going to play a song here. And again, I'm going to split this into two clips. But let's listen to the first clip here. This song is

called surviving a smile. It's a little taste. What do you think so far? That gets me excited to hear more stuff from them, dude. It's been how long? 12 years? 12 years and it feels like they just picked up right where they left off, you know. Yeah, yeah. Because like we were saying, the song that I brought was off of their last record, which was 12 years ago. And it sounds exactly like, you know, I guess I could say that they have their sound figured out, right? And they're not straying from it at all, which is great. great for fans of Sweet Trip because you've waited this long for new music and here it is, you know, and it sounds exactly like what you'd want it to sound like, right? It's like Keyes of Convenience, dude, you know?

Yeah, exactly. No time passes at all. Right. So anyway, I'm just going to play the next track here here. So this, I'm just going to let it play out basically. I'm going to jump to about, you know, they have another verse that kind of follows the same, the same flow of that last one. But I really love the way that they close the song out.

So here we go. let's listen to the next clip here again this is surviving a smile by sweet trip floating dude floating around this room sir very similar to how how i love when a band lets a song sort of like really sort of bring you into the song i love it when a band brings you out you know what i mean in the same way where they just kind of like they they they stick with the melody and it becomes very repetitive but like you know it just sort of like you know I don't know how else to say it besides like, you know, you just really get to, to sit with it and just kind of like groove with it and like really. You get carried away, dude.

Yeah, you get carried away. Like it's, it's just kind of put you in a trance, put you in a low, whatever you want to say. But yeah, man, I just love the way they ended that song. Anyway, so the record is decent. Most of the tracks are kind of along that same vibe. I'm just going to call it a tiny house because it's a very long record name. but that's sweet trip brand new record and that's it man that was the uh that might be one of the most like cohesive what your hers that we've had you know really i think so dude and that was

you know we don't compare notes um and i actually switched out some stuff there to oh me too yeah i always do that so yeah um good vibes man good vibes good vibes good vibes bar it dude that this is not the good vibe that was last month dude But yeah, good vibes, Bart might actually be a better name for this collection of songs, honestly. But no, I'll come up with something. Anyway, so, so yeah, that's it, man. Do we know what we're doing next week? I was trying to figure that out, dude.

I don't think we've got something lined up yet. We did television. We did Talking Hids. We did Sonic Youth. Which, again, shout out to David Brown for sitting down and chatting with us. That was so great, dude. If you didn't listen to our episode last week, go back and give it a listen. We got to sit down with Rolling Stone senior writer David Brown, who wrote a biography on Sonic Youth called Goodbye 20th Century.

And we dive into their first three records on Geffen, which is, you know, the first major record label that they were on. Yeah, go back and listen to that episode if you missed it. It was one of my favorite episodes for sure. It was a blast talking to David. So, I mean, we could stay, obviously, in that vein for a little bit. Well, I think we should maybe start to steer towards, like, maybe, like, what the Pixies were doing or, and then maybe go, like, towards Modest Mouse and then get into, like, the early 2000s. That's what I was thinking, dude, Pixies, Modest Mouse. I think Pixies to Modest Mouse is a good, I mean, shit, modest Mouse was, I sometimes forget how long they've been around, you know.

modest mouse have been around since the 90s as well oh dude i got it man i got it pixies modest mouse man man man that is something that's something let's do it man is going to be an interesting interesting episode you want to talk about a unique band well what should we do man six demon bag or rabbit habits how we do we do both we do a little bit of both all right deal but yeah that'll be fun you know what's funny dude i didn't even like connect this but I saw Man Man Open for Modest Mouse in Austin way, way back in the day. There you go, dude. Perfect.

That'll be good. And then we should be approaching our 200th episode by then, dude. I mean, we'll be getting up there. Yeah, dude. We need to reach out to our super secret guest and get the ball rolling. Yeah. And I think what we decided was once we hit the 200th episode, we are going to spend some time in the era of the,

the 2010s, like our wheelhouse basically, because we, as we've talked about, are no filler days. Yeah, we've talked about this a lot. We had a music blog called no filler. No. Did we do this all the time? God damn it. Did I say it too?

Yeah, you did. We had a music blog called New Dust. If they, you know, if they both didn't start within, I think it would make it a lot easier. Yeah, man. We had a music blog, indie music blog called New Dust. And yeah, it was basically right when the dream pop chill wave, you know, era of the of indie music it was when washed out released life of leisure yeah and then it was just

on dude it was nothing but that chill wave dream pop stuff surf rock yeah dude we covered a lot of that stuff yeah and i feel like you know we haven't really paid much attention to that era and we know so much about it there's so many great bands so yeah we're gonna cover and stay in that era for a little bit so yeah there's the next couple months for you right there two to three months basically through the end of the year. I think that'll take us through the end of the year. And then, of course, we'll do our year-end episodes like we always do toward the end of the year, best of 2021. Dude, let me tell you, man. I'm sitting on a playlist with...

I got some work today, man. 42 songs so far, dude, that I need to dwindle down. Yeah, I need to, I need to... Dude, you know what's funny. I didn't even... I had a song planned for this week, and I'm glad I didn't, I wasn't able to bring it because it wouldn't have fit in with these songs, but I didn't realize that you had brought a couple tracks off of this record a few months back. Oh, Drunk Tank Pink by Shame. Yeah, dude. This album is amazing. Yeah. And the funny thing is I was going to bring a track that you didn't bring. I brought, uh, I played two songs, uh, human for a minute

and great dog. Yeah, I was going to play either 6-1 or March Day. So anyway, such a solid punk, you know, like post-punk rock album. But yeah, uh, it's safe to say that that that record will be on one of our picks will be a track off a shame's record there. Well, I'm trying very hard to not bring artists that we've already featured on Whatcher's Heard's, which is a lot harder to do this year because now we're bringing five songs each per month. Yeah. I mean, the point of What You Heard is it doesn't have to be new music. But as we've said, there's a lot of great new music right now. Right. There's a lot of great new music. I've been bringing a lot of brand new songs to our watches.

Anyways, yeah, so next week we're going to do Pixies, dude. Not sure what album we should cover, dude. It's going to be... For Pixies? I mean, we could do one of the obvious one. Yeah. I'd say we'd either do Little or Sir for Rosa. For sure.

Yeah, dude, one of those two. All right, that's it. So I have got an outro for us, courtesy of a dear listener of ours. He reached out to us on Instagram. his name is Stephen Johnson and he says here I just found your podcasts on Spotify great job

thank you Stephen thank you for the kind words he says you didn't need to sell me on down tempo I have been a fan for years Thievery Corporation was definitely one of my entry points as was Moby's huge album play a band that I absolutely love that lives on this block too

see I was listening that's awesome dude It's catching on there. Yeah, yeah, your block metaphor. He's catching on. So he's talking about this band that's, you know, around the corner, but on the same block as Thabry Corporation, the French group St. Germain. Oh, yeah, man. The funny thing is I had thought about playing and putting up an Instagram post of a single of St. Germains that I have, an EP, I guess, for Rose Rouge.

That's one of my favorite downtip of songs, dude. All time. I almost featured that on Instagram, but I did not. So St. Germain Tourist is a great record. Yes. But you're bringing something from a different record. Is that right?

Nope. This one's coming from Tourist. Okay. Yeah. So he gave us like a list of songs to pick from some of his favorite St. Germain tracks. And I picked one from Taurus. It's been a while since I've listened.

Oh, this song's so great, dude. So yeah, thank you, Stephen, for giving us a shout out. and if you would like to give us a shout out, we're pretty easy to get a hold of. You can message us on Instagram or on Twitter. The handle for both of those is at No Filler Podcasts. Reach out to us, let us know what you think, let us know what you like, let us know what you don't like,

give us music suggestions for stuff for us to cover for the show, give us album suggestions for full-length episodes, or let us know what you've been heard. And we'll feature one of your songs as an outro on one of our monthly What You Heard episodes like we're doing right now. You can also find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network, the Network for Music Lovers. And we would also like to thank AKG, as always, for sponsoring the show.

And yeah, that's going to do it for us today. Again, we're going to fade us out with a song from the 2000 album Tourist by St. Germain. This song is called Sure Thing. And as always, thank you so much for listening. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis. Y'all take care.