No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Grab Bag Edition

Episode Date: May 31, 2021

Our monthly mixtape is back with maybe our most varied tracklist yet. We start with the latest single from our favorite Norwegian folk duo Kings of Convenience (their first new track in 12 years). We then bounce from downtempo hip-hop to 90s emo to a Shins bluegrass cover to ambient jungle techno, with plenty of other stops along the way. Tracklist: Kings of Convenience - Rocky Trail Little Dragon & Moses Sumney - The Other Lover The Polish Ambassador, Blockhead - Memory Palace (feat. Zion I & Nitty Scott) LUMP - Animal Fear of Men - Into Strangeness Sam Amidon - Pretty Polly The Promise Ring - Make Me A Chevy JW Francis - New York Jane Weaver - You Are Dissolved Iron Horse, Pickin On' Series - Those To Come (The Shins cover) Forest Drive West - Persistence of Memory pt. 3 Modest Mouse - We Are Between 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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We are so stoked to be hearing new music from these guys. This is Kings of Convenience with their brand new single, Rocky Trail. Let's say you dance to speak again. Let's start from what we left on said. I've known somebody seen through what you can do with your hands and feet. I feel there is no question about it. But it's what should be blessed me. But you never to take you.

Words cannot describe how excited we were with this dropped, dude. I can't believe that it's been 12 years since we heard new music from these guys, but they can always pick up exactly where they left off. You know what I mean? These two guys. So it's Ireland, Oria, and Iric Glambach Bo, or Polly. It's Bo. It's this folk pop duo that, you know, that,

has sort of been, you know, there's bands that are like Constance in my life, Q. Yeah. And this is one of them. And like, I think I've even railed against folk pop on this, on this podcast before. I don't like this style of music anymore as far as like seeking out newer bands that have this kind of stuff or even bands back in the heyday of this stuff, which is like, you know, the 2000. early 2000s. Early 2000s. But for whatever reason, these guys can do no wrong in my eyes.

You know what I mean? There's just a special place in our hearts for these guys. And one of our favorite bands forever and always, man. And yeah, like you said, it's been 12 years since their last release, which was Declaration of Dependence. Before that, it had been five years between Quiet as the New Loud and Declaration. Right. Right, right on an empty street, sorry.

I remember when Declaration of Dependents came out and I was like, wow, five years. You know what I mean? Now it's been 12 years, but. Yeah, you and I, we basically just gave up on ever hearing them collaborate again. So, you know, I think, you know, last year, Ireland put out a brand new, Why to Spoil Live single, right? And then he put out, dude, I think, I feel like 2000. It may have been the same amount of time.

When did the last Widespoor Live record come out? The last full length was Rules in 2009. So that's kind of crazy. The last time he put music out on both of his acts, Kings and Convenience of Widesport Live, was 2009. But that guy stays busy. The thing about Iric is that I don't know much about if there's any other projects that he does. he started another group. I don't remember what they were called,

but he had a record that came out within the last few years, I think. Yeah. So, but no, he's just not, he's not as prolific as Ireland. Like, Ireland has a ton of side projects that he's always doing. He's producing stuff. Yeah. Also, if you guys caught our wrap-ups of 2020, we talked about Ireland and that album that he released,

the quarantine at Algonzo that he did, with another guy that I believe it's another member of Wightest Boy Live that we really enjoyed. But yeah, dude, let's talk about Rocky Trail, man. So this came out almost a month ago by the time this Watcherhead released, gets released. It was dropped at the end of April. You and I listened to it simultaneously together. And, dude, literally it brought me damn near to tears, dude, because it was just so great to hear these guys collaborate again.

It's like you said, man. There is some heavy, heavy nostalgia. Yeah. You have tied to this band. And like I said, like they pick up right where they left off. So like it sounds like a Kings of Convenience Record. You know what I mean? It sounds exactly like the special type of and unique sound.

They are very much, you know, when their two voices come together, you know, I mean, it's magical. It's magic, man. So I read here on a little pitchfork review of this, Erlund says, another classic Iric composition that skillfully ignores the verse chorus verse blueprint. Yeah, it does. It's pop music, but not as we know it. So this is an Iric song, which is cool.

Okay. And yeah, dude, I love his music, man. I love what they do together. So, yeah, we thought, well, better way to kick off this what you heard episode than a brand new single from our favorite folk pop duo kings of convenience and uh you know we may as well go ahead and say that we have full plans on doing a um an episode on this when it drops in june so like that will happen at some point uh the new record i think comes out the 18th of june yeah it's called peace or love peace or love

so we will be doing an episode on this record um yeah So that'll just be another excuse to talk more about these guys. And go back and listen to our episode on, we did Riot, right? Yeah. So yeah, go back and listen to our episode on Riot on an empty street. If you like that kind of music, if you like these guys, we have talked about them before. Actually, you know what, dude? We ended up dropping Quiet as the New Loud as kind of a pulling from the vaults kind of thing.

Back when, I think it was back when you were busy on like business. trips because we had recorded, we originally recorded Quiet as the New Lead, before we even launched this podcast when we were just kind of kicking around and experimenting with, you know, recording and stuff like that. We did an entire episode on Quiet, which is their first full length that came on 2001. So I believe we have both of those episodes on the feed. Yes, that's true. We do. Yeah, it was a bonus episode, Q. sir um yeah so that really declaration of dependence is the only record we haven't talked about from these guys um but yeah go back and listen to that if you if you care about it um if not

hey no biggie to me you know um well hey man this is our what you heard episode let's dive right into it dude we got 10 songs to drop on you today so if this is your first time joining us welcome this is the no filler podcast Usually, our episode format is we take an artist or an album, dive into the history, dive into the recording processes, talk a little bit about the band, and pick non-singles from that album and share them with you. And hoping that you will find,

that you will hear songs from bands that you love, that you may not necessarily hear since they're not singles. But this is our monthly mixtape that we lovingly refer to as what you heard's where we each bring five songs to the table just songs music we've been listening to in between recordings it can be a brand new song it can be a song from 1970 uh so this is just a rapid fire music heavy format and this is our fifth what you heard episode i believe so i'm starting first and dude i just heard this song yesterday really excited uh to share it with you because i know

you're going to love it. And I'm sure this is happening with you, dude. Ooh, Little Dragon. Okay. Yeah. Hey, no. This, I keep hearing songs that came out last year that I'm like, man, how did I miss this? You can't, you know, you can't beat yourself up over that.

Yeah, there's so much music. Because, you know, as we discovered on the built to spill episode, there's records that came out, you know, 20 years ago that you have just now discovered. Yeah. Yeah. A few months, you know, big deal. Yeah. This is still new to you. Yeah.

So this is a single that Little Dragon dropped last December, and they collaborate with Moses Sumney. If that sounds familiar to you, Travis, I brought one of his songs as a What You Heard a while back. He's a West African American, really great, really talented, Dude, Baroque Pop, Electro Soul. Those are good.

I think those are good. Baroque Pop. Yeah, dude. Okay. He dropped an album last year with a song called Viral on it that I really liked. Anyways, we are no strangers to Little Dragon. And how would you describe them, dude? Little Dragon?

Yeah. I don't want to say Dream Pop because that, you know, that's the shoegaze side of pop. I mean. bedroom. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard. I mean, kind of soul, disco-y kind of stuff. Yeah, there you go. So I'm going to read a quote here from, I believe it's from, what's her name, dude? What's the main singer's name? Couldn't tell you. She's little dragon to me. Yeah, right, right. So she says, when we reached out to Moses, we didn't know what to expect.

What we received was very stripped down with his beautiful voice. We jammed along. and sent it back. It bounced back from his end with added horns and sounded beautiful to our ears. We are very proud of this single. And then Moses says here, I've been listening to Little Dragon for a very long time. As a teen, their first album impressed upon me just how infinite modern soul music can be. So basically... That's insane that he was a teen. Yeah. Can you imagine, dude, getting one of your favorite bands reaching out to you and asking if you want to collaborate. All right, so this is again a song by Little Dragon and Moses Sumney. This song is called The Other Lover. Yeah, I like that harmonizing at the end there. Totally. Almost had like a Motown

kind of vibe to it. Good stuff, man. Yeah, it's really cool. So her name's Ukemy Nagano. Yeah, I was going to say, her voice is so like, you know, recognizable and like distinct, you know, you always know it's her. And same goes for a little dragon sound, you know, like this is a collaboration, but right from the rip, dude, it's Little Dragon. Dude, I feel like this is really good timing, the fact that this is Asian American Heritage Month. Oh, there we go. Yeah, really cool.

So is this just like a one-off single that they did? I think so. Okay, cool. Yeah, I don't think they're collaborating with him for like a full length or anything. Yeah, that's awesome. But yeah, if you like Little Dragon, at least for me, and like I haven't listened to all their newer stuff, but machine dreams. was the one that that I really got into back in 2009.

That was the first one of theirs that I got into. Good stuff, dude. Yeah, dude. Anyways, man, let me pass it over to you. What you've been to hurting, brother. All right. So I want to say I just shazamed this one while I was driving around. It was on K-E-X-P, which is a, you know, it's our local, local.

That's my local. dude, you were getting your... Oh, shit. Not your... Well, I don't remember what it is. It's the equivalent of K-E-X-P, but in the Dallas Metroplex, you know, it's our local member-supported music station, right? Mm-hmm.

And so this is a collaboration between, like, four different artists. One of them I am very familiar with, Blockhead. Oh, I love Blockhead, man. Yeah. Big fan of his stuff. So this guy, he's kind of a... producer in the vein of like chill right like chill out down tempo kind of stuff right yeah yeah he does a lot of like he samples a lot of jazz like old jazz uh stuff yeah jazz heavy sampled like

trip pop kind of stuff yeah so he put out a a record a single with somebody that goes by either the Polish ambassador or the Polish ambassador. Probably Polish, brother. Probably. And then featured on the track are two vocalists, one named Zion I, or Zion I, or Zion the first, depending on how you read that, and Nitty Scott. So this is, you know, four different artists collaborating on this track.

Awesome. All right, so this track is called Memory Palace. Painting it just a difference in reality Yeah, bass man Zag and I crook Yeah, Nitty Scott too Yeah So snick with the bomb bread

Never left Peace guard, release guard We need hard Obstacles and trials are relevant Journey to self to host I elaborate Essentialist, natural mist, blister And Mr. Co-world, I'm gifted, Lifted, warm with the uniform

On my own, swam. Go on and bring calm along. Blessing love in your palaces. I use a earn to burn the karma smoke shallaces. You don't know how wild it is. Don't be childish. Thoughts from the center of the obelisk. Heavy metro populace.

Slow down, guard your ground, and breathe deep and knowledge this. Come with the rhythm and hit us where your vision. Joy lover team and heat the inner wisdom. Come with the rhythm here to slow your vision. I'm home it up in West me. My woman up in left me, six, sixty. I'm having up in left me.

I'm having up in left me. West Coast connect. Yeah, Buddha. Yo, what's the definition of insanity? Ain't it just a difference in reality? This world is half order half calamity. So I can tell you if you manifest to who you plan to be or to see him to me.

Damn in my humanity, but I ain't here to save him like the man in ease. Find your liberation, find your liberation, find your, family take the happenings and add it to your tap the street maybe i be saying too much stay with hands up maybe i'd be praying too much when the source made me they was paying to touch i was all in a bag i'd be slaying too much i'm a valetini but the cool a lady cradie ain't strong now a boo dreamy make you disappear and call it hoody mommy with the money making magic like a two jades i love when collaborations like this happened dude because like, I mean, I loved what I heard from all of them.

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting when two like electronic producers collaborate on a track because it's like, I'm guessing Polish ambassador did the, maybe the beat or something like that, and then Blockcat maybe did sort of the samples and stuff like that, like you were saying. Man, that was great, dude. And I'm definitely going to jump into more of Nitty Scott's stuff. I liked her style of hip hop, man. It's like very old school. Yeah, definitely.

Love it. you know I typically don't gravitate toward hip hop but something about that that sample it will kind of like made me think that's kind of cool let's shazam that this classic blockhead man all right cue throw it back to you for your next track what you got well I'm just going to keep this collab train running dude so this is a fairly new single as well we're familiar with Laura Marling on no filler, dude. She dropped my definitive favorite song from 2020, the song, only the strong from her...

Oh, that's right. Yeah, dude, from her album song for our daughter. Pulled at the emotional heartstrings, cute. Yeah, dude. So she also collaborates with a guy named Mike Lindsay, who he's a producer and he's also a member of a few bands, one of them being tongue, and another one being Throws.

I haven't heard of either of those bands. But he met Lindsay back in 2016 while she was supporting Neil Young on his tour in London. And according to this little snippet here, according to this little bio, it says, to both their surprise, each had been admirers of the other's work. So they met a few days later,

they retreated, underground to Mike's London studio to unite their energies and produce lump. So that is the name of their group. It's lump. So Laura says here in regards to this new record that they're working on, she says here, it became a very different thing about escaping a persona that has become a burden to me in some way. So she's really referring to like the vulnerability, you know, that came out through her solo album, the one I mentioned song for our daughter, she says, it was like putting on a superhero costume. So that's cool, man. She, you know, she drops this really raw, emotional album, and now she can retreat, put on this superhero costume, and join Mike Lindsay to do another

lump album. It's cool to think about that, dude. You know, like as an artist, you're really putting it all out on the table. So it's nice to kind of like retreat. and, you know, join forces with another artist and do something cool. Yeah, no, that's cool. Yeah. So she says here, we created Lump as a sort of persona and an idea and a creature. Through Lump, we find our inner animal, and through that animal, we travel into a parallel universe. My goodness, man.

It's a lot of hype here. Well, it's a great track, dude. So we're about to be transported into another universe. Well, I don't know if she's saying that, but to her, this is something totally different. So this is how she, I got you. Yeah, something totally different for her. All right, so here is a brand new track from Lump. This song is called Animal.

The last part just did something for me, dude. I feel like I just transcended into another parallel universe. It does pick back up. It does pick back up. But yeah, man. That's awesome. What a great track. Great track.

A lot of cool stuff going on in that track. You know what that reminded me of? Cock and Swan. Yeah, because it's a really good kind of mashup of, I mean, cock and swan was like psychedelic. Well, not psychedelic, but like electronic shoegaze or down, like. Yeah. You know what I mean? They had the shoegaze vocals and pace, but like some dark sort of scent and electro stuff, like underneath it, you know.

Yeah, dude. I feel like that's very similar as far as like the really strong, you know, female vocals. Yeah. laid on those really cool, interesting, like synth heavy beats. Yeah, that was really cool. Yeah, man, I'm excited. So they've got a, so that was the title track. So the new album is called Animal.

It is set to release on July 30th. Back to you, brother. What you've been heard. All right. So I actually have a pretty good follow up to that track. And this is an artist that I brought as a, this was on our playlist, at least. So it didn't actually get any airplay on the filler. But you remember when we did our top 100 of the last decade?

Yep. Playlist. We had an episode that we did where we had our top 10, where we at least played our top 10 from the last decade. But we also had a Spotify playlist that we put out. And on that was a band called Fear of Men. And I brought a song from them called Teffra, which was off their debut record. loom. Oh, dude, I remember really liking this song a lot. And I meant to dive back into it and listened to more from them, but I never did. That happens so often, man. Well, I'm stoked.

They're kind of like a dream pop, indie pop. They're in that vein. And they came out with a single last year called Into Strangeness. And yeah, we're just going to play it, dude. And then we'll talk about it. And that's how this weren't. So again, this song is called Into Strangeness by fear of men. It's good, man. They have a really great sound. Her voice, her name is Jessica Weiss. She said about this particular song.

It is a way for her to focus on healing and shutting the door on some elements that have been toxic and draining in her life for too long. So, yeah, the band is a, like I said, it's Jessica Weiss as the front person. front person. And I don't know why that was funny. And Daniel Falvey is the other kind of main guy. They met in art school and Jessica was doing soundtracks for short films that she was creating. Nice. And then Falvi, this guy who's a guitar player and a fellow art student, liked her recording.

So they started working together. It's great, dude. Really good stuff. So, yeah. Again, that was last year. So, you know, there wasn't a record to come after that, right? It was just a single that came out. But, yeah, I'm sure they're, I'm sure they're putting out new stuff, you know.

There's probably, there's probably new, even more material coming out around the corner. But for now we have that. So that was into strangers by fear of men. Go check them out if you like that. All of the stuff that I've listened to from them is, you know, along the same vein. So let's take a quick break. All right, Q. I'll throw it back to you for your next pick.

What you got? All right, man. So this is an artist I just discovered a couple weeks back. His name is Sam Amadon. He is a fiddle and banjo playing folk pop artist. He's got a great sound dude. The way I can think of to describe him is like Nick Drake with a little country twang. You're going to love this stuff, dude.

Interesting. Okay. He's got that vulnerable, like, you know, Nick Drake voice. So I, for the longest time, up until a few minutes before we started recording, I was going to play the first track off of his self-titled that he released last October. It's a song called Maggie. But I started listening to more songs off the album. And track two just hit me, hit me good.

did. So I'm going to switch it up and play track two from Sam Amadon's self-titled from last October. This song is called Pretty Polly. Pretty Polly. Come with me. They did right. Yeah, that's the perfect description of MQ. That is exactly what it is. It's, well, it's Nick Drake with a little bit of twang, like you said. Yeah. But I like that he's incorporating, you know, kind of those drum beats and stuff and some of those other textures that he adds in the back. Yeah, and that's like right from the beginning of this record. Like I said, I was going to play their first track.

What really stands out to me is how contemporary it sounds. It's a really great blend of country, folk, and, like, newer, you know, kind of pop tunes. Yeah, it kind of reminded me of like the way that Luke Temple structure some of his songs of Here We Go Magic, who's actually, I feel like, put out more solo stuff than he has with that group. But, yeah, really good stuff, dude. It's definitely worth the listen all the way through. So, yeah, again, that's Sam Amadon and his self-titled from last year. And that song was called Pretty Polly.

So yeah, dude, it'll pass it back to you. What else you got? All right, Q. This is going to be not a 180, but definitely a change of pay. from the other stuff that we've talked about today. But this band made an appearance. I don't know if we played. We may have played a song from them too.

So on our Jimmy E. World episode, we dove into and played some examples of like, first wave emo, second wave email, right, leading up to Jimmy E. World. these guys, they're called the promise ring, and they are sort of a very well-known, sort of one of those groups that has sort of, you know, garnered more popularity and stuff over the years, right? We did play stuff from them. So this is like early emo, right? Or like second wave.

Yeah, I think this is like second wave emo. And this is an example of, you know, what is referred to as like a Midwest emo sound, right? because these guys are from Milwaukee. But anyway, yeah, so Jimmy World, he references this guy, the lead singer, Davy, or Davy Von Bolan is his name. There's that, you know, that lyric from Jimmy. Come on, Davey, sing me something that I knew. That one. Exactly, exactly.

Anyway, and I think Davey was like on that track. Dude, I love that song, by the way. That's one of my favorites on that record. Yeah. from from Jimmy yeah um anyway so i was just going back and listening to uh their record nothing feels good i don't remember which track we played off of this record but anyway it's just a great great album man and it's just so like when you listen to it now like it's you know this is the music that was happening right before like jimmy sort of took emo and and and and um you know transisted

into third wave emo right yeah it became super popular popular with lead American and whatnot. Yep, yep. But anyway, it's just the classic, the classic emo sound, and I just love it, dude. We're going to play a track from this record. So this came out in 1997.

Again, this band is called The Promise Ring, and we're going to play a song called Make Me a Chevy. Love it, man. You can definitely hear the influence they've had on that indie emo stuff. Yeah, this record is, is considered one of the most influential in the emo genre queue. And like you said, you can totally hear it.

Because like what happens afterwards is as far as like in the emo genre, you know, you can point back to bands like American football, bands like... I'm hearing hot rod circuit. I'm hearing Haymercadis. Yes, absolutely. And now I'm hearing Tiger's Jaw, which is, you know, you know how I feel about Tiger's Jaw. I do know how I feel about it.

And I have to remind myself that the Tiger's Jaws has been around since the early 2000s. But yeah, they're dropping new albums in that vein of, you know, the classic emo indie pop from the early O's. Yeah. I mean, this is one of my favorite things to do, Q is like go back, go backwards from what I know, you know, and like try to figure out and piece together. Like, how did we get here? You know what I mean? Yeah, like where does it split off and what kind of variance do you have? What are the stepping stones to a band that I love?

You know, that's one of my favorite things to do. So, yeah, go back and listen to our Jimmy World episode. We talked about clarity, which is the record that they put out right before Bleed American. And if you're in our age group, you probably remember Bleed American because that's when, you know, they had some MTV music videos for, like, sweetness and in the middle. Actually, I don't know if they had a video for sweetness, but everybody remembers the middle song or the, or the, you know, video for that. It was like at a swimming pool party thing. We were all over that record when it came out. Bleed American and Is This It, I think, from strokes dropped it around the same time. Yep. And that was a good variety. You know what I mean? Like the garage stuff and then sort of that.

Because, you know, as we talked about in that episode, you and I for some reason had no idea that a lot of the bands that we listened to were actually considered emo. Right. Because in our heads, we equated emo. Like, we had a very limited definition of emo. We equated it with like the screamo side of emo. Which was very popular in the early 2000. Yes.

We talk a lot about that with Joel Fruth on our episode where we covered Ethan Durel with him. That was the golden age of like emo, screamo stuff. Yeah. So in a way, like that's probably why because around that time, that is kind of what was synonymous with emo. Yeah, and there were a lot of students at our high school that were heavy into that stuff, so we were familiar with it.

Yeah, exactly. But yeah, Emo goes way back, dude. And bands like Promise Ring is one of the stepping stones to that kind of sound, you know. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. What do you got for us? All right, dude. So this is a guy named J.W. Francis. He is a indie loy-fi bedroom pop artist from New York.

Really good stuff, dude, I'm not going to really say much more. Let's just jump right into it. We still got four songs total to play, dude. So I'm going to rapid fire this one. So this is an album of his that came out last year called We Share a Similar Joy. Speaking to New York indie pop, this song is called New York. And if that song didn't get you moving and grooving around the room, you got to check your pulse. Because you could be dead.

He's phenomenal, dude. Man, what a, yeah, amazing track, man. Amazing track. It's just one of those artists that, you know, like he's just a songwriting machine. Everything that he drops is just great. He dropped two new singles fairly recently this year that are a little bit more heavy on the, on the, I guess, dream pop. like more synthy stuff. Mm-hmm.

But for the most part, it's this, you know, heavy indie, indie pop sound. I love the way he structured that song. Like, you notice how he repeated most of those lines, like, yeah. Back to back. Mm-hmm. Really cool style. Really well put together. Yeah.

Well, man, we got a lot of singer-songwriters today we're talking about because I've got one too. Awesome. So this artist is named Jane Weaver. She's from Liverpool, England, Q, which is where they're, the Beatles are from. And she's a singer-songwriter in the sort of acoustic psych-folk electronica. She mashes all these things together to make some really interesting stuff. You're going to love the drum beat on this track, Q. I'll tell you that right now. So, have you ever heard the term folkotronica cue? I have, actually. She kind of falls into that vein. Awesome. Anyway, super

prolific artists, like just under her own name, at least. she's had, you know, she's put out like over 10 records going back to 2002. But we're going to play a song off of her record. The Amber Light came out in 2015. This song is called You Are Dissolved by Jane Weaver. And that is a song that's just begging to be played on the open road. You know, blue skies, sunny days. That's just a happy tune.

man, I love it. Yeah, I did. Yeah, so she's, she was actually in a couple of groups before she started doing her own stuff. So yeah, she's just kind of like what you were saying about your last artist that you just played like, just very prolific singer-songwriter. Like, she had a bunch of different, you know, she kind of started with a more, um, with a more like folk pop, um, folk tronica kind of sound. And then she kind of transitioned. And then she kind of transitioned. transitioned into more, actually I guess she started as more of like an indie folk. I mean, this all sounds the same to me, like indie folk, folk, chronica. And then by the time she got to this record, the Amber Light, that's when she started

to pull in some of that psych kind of stuff, psychedelic kind of stuff, which is, you know, you kind of hear that in that the drumbeat and like the guitar work and stuff like that. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, so her name is Jane Weaver. Love it. And yeah, that record was called the Amber Light. the song was called You Are Dissolved. All right, Q, is this your last pick?

It's my last pick, man. All right. What's you got for us, Q? Well, this just put a smile on my face, dude, when I first found out about it. And I'm going to give a shout out to the vinyl subreddit once more, because someone posted a record from this series on that subreddit. So there is a record label called CMH. records. It's a bluegrass country music. And they have this series called Pickin' On. It's a series of,

it's basically like a tribute series to artists and genres. They bring together the best bluegrass pickers out of Nashville and California. And they perform instrumental tributes to the biggest and best loved artists in rock music. So they've been doing this since 1993. It kind of started just as a like a one-off thing within the record label where they had their first one is called picking on the movies, bluegrass tributes to classic film recordings. And it's kind of blown up since then, dude, it's rather ridiculous the amount of songs, records that they've released. Some of them that stand out to me picking on Jimmy Hendricks, they've got a picking on Metallica.

That's amazing. Picking on Clapton. The one that showed up on the vinyl subreddit was picking on. modest mouse. Oh, okay. I was, you know, my interests, I mean, they were getting peaked. So. We were talking about modest mouse last week.

Yeah. On our, um, built the spill. Well, I thought, what the hell else have they been picking on? And I found a, uh, let's say, I think it was 2007 that this one came out, picking on the shins, dude. And let me tell you something, man. It is a goddamn treat. So is it just instrumental? No, no.

No. No. So, uh, so, uh, so one of the, the, the, uh, the, groups that performs on these tribute albums as a group called Iron Horse. They're on the record label. So it's a bluegrass group. It's a four piece. Vance Henry, Anthony Richardson, Ricky Rogers, and Tony Robertson. I mean, those four names, dude. I mean, they're just born to be pickers, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Guitar, banjo, bass, and mandolin. And I haven't really listened to to much more than the Modest Mouse and the Shins tribute records.

But, man, dude, these songs just hit differently. This is a genre that has not had much appearance on this podcast. No. And let me tell you something, dude. I'm a big fan of bluegrass. I love bluegrass. There was this random album that I found in a thrift store up here. Like when I first moved up, I can't, for the life of me remember what it's called.

But it was a live recording from this bluegrass festival in a town not too far out of Seattle. So it was, you know, it was cool because it was a local live recording of a bluegrass group. And I just fell in love with it. Anyways, man, so some of the more popular songs on this Shin's tribute record, New Slaying, Know Your Onion, Kissing the Lippless, carrying is creepy. They play a lot of great ones, dude. But my favorite one, I'd have to say, is probably, one of the more, I'd say, I don't know, not as popular shin songs, but it is actually one of my favorite

shins songs. I tend to gravitate toward their more somber, you know, dark kind of songs like Phantom Lim or the past and pending. So this one's from shoots to narrow. And I think out of all the songs that they cover, this one really could, could be, you know, a song by Iron Horse. The way that they do it is just beautiful. So this is Iron Horse and the Pickingon series, and this is their tribute to the shins those to come.

Iless in the morning sun, new world, pale and mild, a modern girl, taking with thoughts still prone to care, making tea in your underwear, went out in the yard to find something to eat, Clear your mind Something bad inside me went away Waking leaves and broken life Shifting skin the coming night The barriers of all good things arrive Climb inside us twist and cry A kiss on your bowl tonight

Mirrored lives like blades of grass Yet to be realized Foul as they plan Still Waiting you for Feet Yeah, I actually like that better Than the Shins version

It's a little more upbeat Yeah, I love what they did with it Because, you know, the original is a little bit more, you know, subdued and like Yeah, slower It's just James Mercer and his guitar They do really great job with all the songs that they cover Especially New Sling

I mean, that one's basically a country bluegrass song anyways. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. I really like that. Yeah. So do those guys, you know, it's just like a super group type thing where like these guys actually do their own thing separate from this stuff? And you said Iron Horse is the band. Yeah.

This is pretty much all they do now, dude. I've heard the name Vance Henry, I feel like. Well, you can't even click on his name on Wikipedia. Maybe it's just one of those names. But no, so they have original material. they've been dropping their own stuff alongside these tribute albums but yeah once so

fade to bluegrass which was the Metallica tribute was dropped in 2000 dude you know what I feel like I've listened to that record before you probably have but that's what that's when they're picking on series just blew up and they've been Iron Horse is the group that does most

of the picking on stuff they did they did a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath dude black and bluegrass Yeah. They did Led Zeppelin. They did Van Halen. They did Guns and Roses.

They did Modus Mouse. They did Gugood Dolls. They did Kings of Leon. Dude, that would be cool to hear. And they did Nirvana. Anyways, so yeah, that is, again, Iron Horse and the Pickingon series. That was their tribute to the shins, those to come. And we're around in third base, brother.

Why don't you take us home? Oh, I think this is going to, I think this one's going to knock it out of the park here. All right. And of all the songs we played today, this is the true 180 that we like to do around here, Q. All right. Especially after some bluegrass. So this guy, I've been listening to his stuff quite a bit lately. I've been really into this dude.

His name, or at least what he goes by, his name is Joe Baker. It's another London, London guy. I've been into the across the pond music lately. He's a electronic producer that sort of stays in the, as he describes it, atmospheric techno and jungle beat. He goes by Forest Drive West. And we're going to play a track off of his EP, Persistence of Memory. And this song is called Persistence of Memory Part 3. That was great, dude.

I'm getting some drum and bass. Eamon Tobin, Andy Stott, Detroit Techno. You know I fucking live for this shit. Yeah, I live for this deep, deep techno kind of stuff, deeper IDM type music. And that's the thing, like he has a lot of different, you know, that's really only the only few tracks that I heard from him

that shifts into that really like distinct drum and bass type beat. You know what I mean? A lot of his stuff is a little bit more kind of like what he was saying, like atmospheric. Yeah. jungle techno kind of stuff. And I just, I fucking love it, man. I've been listening to a lot of his music lately.

Really good stuff. Again, his name is Forest Drive West. Yeah, if listeners out there, if you are a fan of this kind of stuff, Travis is your man. Reach out to us on Twitter and I'm just going to tell you right now. I'm going to make this decision for you, Treve. He will share with you all of his playlists. Do you have several?

And I'm sure you would love to share your tunage. with our listeners. You've got some great playlists, dude, that you've been working on for years. I've got a few playlists, queue that I've been working on for a long time that they kind of dive into these two different, well, the wide range of electronic music, I would say.

But yeah, you know, I'll share him. You want to hear? I'll share him. Yeah, just let me know. I'll send it to you. Well, that was great, man. I like that a lot. Yeah, go check him out.

He's got a lot of different EPs that he's put out. You know, these electronic musicians, they usually drop little EPs. here and there. He's got one full, full length record called Apparitions. And the rest of his discography are like these little singles and these little three, four track EPs. He actually put one out this year. Actually, he's put out several this year. But he put one out called dualism. That's actually really good. Sweet. And he just put out another one called Drifter Dub and Perception that he did with an artist named S. Terrio, which I feel like I,

heard that name before too. But anyway, if you like this kind of stuff, go check him out. And yeah, that is a 180 to close us out today, Q. Very nice. You know what, Q? I think we even talked about doing this. And since you brought, at least you brought them up, Modest Mouse, they put out a new single.

We can have that close us out if you want. Sure. There's a brand new Monice Mouse track that is, you know, just your classic modest. modest mouse you know they have a very I don't want to say formula but a lot of their songs kind of sound similar I gotta say man I yeah I feel like all their stuff sounds the same now yeah but that's the thing like they're they're indistinguishably

modest mouse you know what's his name dude the singer I can't recall but they're from Issaquois so local Issaquo is about 40 minutes from where I live not even maybe 20 no one cares but anyway dude yeah they you know it's just yeah another one of those bands cute the the few you know there's very few bands i feel like that that that um that are still successful still put out songs that are great like they're the record strangers to ourselves which i can't believe came out this fucking six years ago but um like they've been very consistent i feel like you know what

I mean and they're still making music that i think people care about yeah um and they've been doing it for a very long time like we talked about built a spill and you kind of of um you you heard a lot of modest mouse and built a spill right oh yeah like modest mouse you know they had had a few singles that dropped that um that put them on the map right in the way that like built the spill never did and so they're still putting music out that people want to listen to not to build the spill people don't care about but i'm just saying they just modest mouse is one of the groups that still you know that that are still relevant you know in a way versus a lot of those groups that just kind of came in or just had their own like underground following right

totally anyway so we're gonna we'll play a single from them uh came out a couple weeks back called we are between modest mouths close us out today next week we'll do french kicks swimming which will be an interesting um yeah done dude this is why we don't record in the mornings man yes it's true this is that's before this just happened before useless useless All right, Q. Well, yeah, it's been another what you heard. Another collection of random bullshit from you and I. Yeah.

I hope everybody out there enjoys these episodes as much as we do because I look forward to this every month, man. Yeah, me too. And yeah, hopefully we're sharing some good artists. And, dude, let me just share this. Let me just share this with you, Q. Let me peel back a little bit. Okay.

You know, if it's like you, I have an ongoing playlist that I just keep on Spotify where I throw tracks on there that I think, hey, you know what, this will be a good what you heard. Every month, dude, I take off at least one or two video game and or movie soundtrack songs. Well, I appreciate that. I feel like I bring that to the table too often and I don't know how many people out there listen to as many soundtracks as me. So I don't want to burden everybody with that. I think what happens is like just while I'm working, while I work, I like to listen to soundtracks.

Yeah. So I listen to a ton of soundtracks. Hey, you don't got to explain yourself to me, brother, or anyone else. You do you. You know what? I'm just telling you that we could do a whole what you heard on just what are the soundtracks that I've heard because I listen to more soundtracks probably than anything else. But anyway, that was that. We've been, have you ever heard people say that?

I've been Travis. No. Only you and your nerdy code friends talk like that. No, no, no. I've heard that on like play. Like podcast and shit or like, this has been Quentin. We've been no filler.

It's like, we have been like you always all. I don't like it. I don't like it. It's kind of weird. But I've been Travis and you've been Quentin. And this has been no filler. And where can you find is Travis? Well, of course, you can reach out to us on Twitter.

at No Filler Podcast and yeah we say it every week we'll say it again tell us what you want to hear us talk about if you want a dope-ass playlist that I've been working on for a long time that covers a pretty wide range of electronic music

hit me up on Twitter I'll send you I'll send you them deeds I'll send you a link to that Spotify playlist I've got a handful of them Yeah Shout out to us on Twitter Yeah Give us a shout

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My name is Travis. And I'm Quentin. And y'all take care.