No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Lullaby Commune Edition

Episode Date: July 25, 2022

For this month's Whatcha Heard, we dive into a variety of different folk from pop to freak, gazers from shoe to doom; and rock from psychedelic to grunge. Tracklist: Honeyglaze - Creative Jealousy Loop - Afterglow Built To Spill - Understood Sunbeam Sound Machine - Seems Like You Made Holy Wave - Schmetterling Rocketship - Your New Boyfriend Minaxi - Manchala Grouper - Come Softly - For Daniel D. Grouper - Alien Observer Kuroi Ame - Burning Plastic Vetiver - Last Hurrah MILLY - Milly Felt - Song For William S. Harvey This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And on this month's What You Heard, we're kicking things off with Creative Jealousy, a song by Honeyglaze off their brand new self-titled.

Nothing seems to come to me naturally. Still I try. Still I tried. Endlessly. Because I'm... Man, that was great. That was the first time I heard that. It's fantastic, man.

This is like, it's just a perfect pop record, you know, it's fulky, it's playful at times, like, I love the way she sings. Sometimes it's kind of, like, a sing-songy talking, you know?

Yeah, I always appreciate that when it's done right. You know, and like, you know, we talked about the band, what are they called Dry Cleaner. Right. Like the, kind of like that to the extreme, right, that the sing-song, like, not even sing-song, like, you're literally just spoken word

type deal, right? But I like it when bands singers like this singer incorporates it into the singing style. It just makes things interesting, you know? Keeps you hooked. It sort of helps with the storytelling too, right? Whatever the song is about.

Yeah, and this is, dude, this album is just chock-full of great storytelling. And that's kind of like their whole thing. They call themselves a haiku-loving trio. So it's vocalist and guitarist Anuska Sokolow, bassist Tim Curtis, and Yuri Shibruichi, Shibuichi, Shiboyichi. Yeah, on drums.

Love me a good three-piece, you know. Oh, yeah, dude. Just came out at the end of April, and, dude, it's my favorite album right now of the year. Hands down. This is a great time for indie bands, you know, indie music. A great time for the grunge resurgence, you know, and the dream pop bands leaning more toward the shoegay side of the coin, right? So, like, this is a good time for rock, man, which it's been a while since I've been, like, hopeful

and, like, excited about the rock music landscape. And I feel like we're finally in a place where we have, like, really good guitar-driven rock bands again, you know? And really good singer-songwriters. Yes, exactly. And, you know, like proper bands, right? Like proper bands. We're back, dude. Yeah, dude.

We're back. Because I feel like the last time this really was happening. and there was like a scene around it was the 2010s, you know, when we were covering all the indie bands and like, and whatnot. And then, of course, you had alongside it the, the chill wave stuff and then all that, which was, there was a little bit of both. But like now it feels like we're swinging a little bit further back toward proper, you know, proper bands, like you said.

Yeah, dude. So, yeah, give this album a listen. It's the self-title. It's their debut full length. Honeyglace is the band. That song was called Creative Jealousy. And this is our What You Heard episode for July, dude. Our monthly mixtape, as we like to call it, where we each bring five songs to the table,

just songs we've been listening to in between recordings. In between the last What You Heard recording. Yeah. So this is like what we've been listening to for the month of July. Like what are the songs that like have kind of been on heavy repeat? you know, the bands that we've been really impressed with. And, yeah, always a good time. And, you know, as proper twins, you know, we like to take turns, you know.

So I went first last month, which means we're going to get to hear another song from UQ to kick us off. That's right. So why don't we just dive right in? But you know what? Let's take a quick break first. And then we'll come back and listen to our first track. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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That's better-h-el-p.com slash no-filler. Thanks again to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode. All right, Q, how are we going to start things off? This is the pace car or whatever, you know. Like you've got to set the mood and the tone. So what do you got for us? Oh, I just, sorry, dude, I just got distracted because I just saw Fiddlehead. You remember that band?

I do. They have a playlist called Fiddlehead Inspiration, so I'm giving that alike. Anyway, sorry, that distracted me. Dude, that song, Joy Boy. Joy Boy, yeah, dude. Man, I love that song. I know, man. So apparently this band, they're called Lodewood.

Loop is featured on that fiddlehead inspiration playlist. So I stumbled upon this band. It was kind of a, if you like this band, check these guys out. And this was for Band of Susan's. So the album I heard is called a Gilded Eternity. It came out in 89. So yeah, these guys have, I think the bulk of their career was really in the 80s. So yeah, they were formed in London.

86. And, dude, yeah, this is just another great guitar-driven rock band. And I love his vocals. I just love everything about this band, dude. You're going to love this shit, man. You were going to jump right on this album. I have a feeling. All right, so here we go.

This is a track by Loop off of their 1989 album, A Gilded Eternity. This song is called Afterglow. Love Hearing Bands at the end of the 80s. 80s that sort of hint at what's right around the corner, you know? Yes. And I feel like that that song, you know, is totally like a precursor to grunge and the heavier all rock type stuff. Yeah, dude, very much like Kings X.

You remember that band I brought to the table? Yeah, right. Yeah, they're just right at the cusp of like the, yeah, the tail end of 80s rock, like the hair bands, right? Well, like you said about Band of Susan's, like that article or whatever, was talking about how rock was starting to become liberated, right? Right. Like, this was it.

This was the start of it, right? Exactly. They're breaking free from the rock and all that crap. Breaking free of the template. So, yeah, that's awesome, dude. I mean, if the rest of the records like that... It's just like it, dude. What I like about this record, it is very repetitive.

And you know how we feel about that. I'm fine with that. I'm fine with repetition. like we were talking about with pink shiny ultra blast they allow for you to just kind of hang out in this vibe that they are creating for a while you know before kind of transitioning to the next part of the song a lot of it is instrumental you know with with like sprinkled in lyrics there's some songs in here that are straight up instrumental just really great really unique guitar riffs and dude actually The track one man, he sounds to me, and you're going to have to let me know what you think

when you give this a listen. He has this Michael Stipe vibe at times, the way he sings, which is really what, like, you know, track one, that's what really intrigued me. That's interesting. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it just makes you wonder if they were influenced by him or not, or, yeah. Or if it was just something that I picked up on. Well, I mean, our, dude, REM was well into their, into their discography at this point, you know.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Of course, they hadn't blown up to the extent that they soon would. But, I mean, like, they were making rounds and stuff. College radio circuits and whatnot. So, yeah, it's very possible that they were influenced by R.A.M. All right, man. So that was Loop.

The song was Afterglow. And I'm passing on to you, brother. What do you got? Okay. I'm going to start us off with a somewhat newer track by Built to Spill, who we did an episode on them. they're a really well-known kind of beloved alt rock group indie rock group that's been around since 92 and they have some new material that they're putting out soon and so they've sort of released a few

singles just to kind of get us excited didn't you bring a song in there that was actually a cover yes of um man what's the name of that guy dude yeah yeah the guy who did the artwork um that everybody knows in Austin. The guy who did the artwork, man. Daniel Johnston. Yeah. So, I mean, in that sense, it's not like they haven't given us brand new material since their last record, uh, built to spill.

But like their last full length record came out in 2015. So it's been a while since they put out a full length record. That record that you were talking about is called built the spill plays the songs of Daniel Johnston. Like it's just kind of, just kind of spell it out for you. But yeah, that was 20. 20. So we did get some new songs in that sense. But this is new built to spill material, right? So this is, this is great, man, because I will definitely be listening to this record. It's going to come out in

September of this year. So, you know, a couple months to go. But I am going to play one of the singles that they've put out. And here we go. This song is called Understood. unique. Yeah, very unique voice. And I've always loved their lyrics, man. I love his, just his way to, to, like, turn a phrase and, like, put out these, these songs with, like, themes that make you think, man. And this is one of those, one of those examples for sure of that. Like, I don't know if you were picking up with the lyrics, but it says here, the deaf here, the blind see, just different things than you and me. the deaf can hear, the blind can see. That's what I've been told and that's what I believe.

But really, I don't know. I just like that. That's great, dude. You know, like, the deaf can hear and the blind can see. They just see things other than differently than you and me. You know what I mean? But yeah, it's just kind of like some of those, like, things that seem like the opposite of expectations or whatever. Like, you know, the deaf can't hear, right?

but that's just by our own like understanding of what of what hearing is right but anyway um i've always loved the way that they that that that this band um how they craft and shape songs you know the song structures are always interesting you kind of heard uh you know kind of how they changed uh you know the song a little bit before the chorus hits um but yeah it's just cool man and this is this is This is their first release under Sub Pop. So, you know, this band's been around since 92. And, you know, so this is their 30th year as a band. And they had been on Warner Brothers for quite a bit.

And either they just left or maybe their contract was up or whatever. But they were just recently in 2021 signed to Sub Pop, which is pretty cool. You know what I mean? Like to be a band that's been around for this long. And you go from Mortar Brothers to probably a label that I bet you they're more excited to be on subpop than they were to be on Warner Brothers. Oh, yeah, dude. And they're coming in as like the forefather. Yeah, veterans, dude.

That's cool. Anyway. Well, I've never given them a fair shake. I feel like did we cover Keep It Like a Secret? Did we do that as an episode? Yeah, yeah. I mentioned earlier. Yeah, we did an episode.

Okay. In an episode, I keep it like a secret. I would say of the records that I've really listened to, keep it like a secret, obviously. There is No Enemy is another good one. Come out in 2009, and then Untethered Moon is the last record. So I'm familiar with kind of their nearest stuff. But like I said, they've been around for a while.

So they've got probably close to 10 records at this point. So anyway, check out some of those new singles that have come out and then be on the lookout for the brand new record. It's going to come out September 9th of this year. called When the Wind Forgets Your Name. All right, Q, I'm going to pass it back to you. What do you got? All right, dude.

So this is an Australian multi-instrumentalist. His name is Nick Sowersby. He goes by Sunbeam Sound Machine. And I heard one of his songs off of an album called Goodness Gracious that came out in 2019. and I fell in love with it, dude, immediately. This guy basically, so he started making music around 2013, so right in the thick of really the chill wave, dream pop movement, researchions, whatever you want to call it, of the 2010s.

And he's just been making music like that ever since. This album is just straight up, like, just good chill wave vibes. I'm always down for those kind of vibes, dude. Yeah, dude, he just, he just, does it really, really well. But I was actually shocked when I found out this album just came out a few years ago. So this album is called Goodness Gracious. Again, it came out in 2019. And I'm going to play track five off the record. This song is called Seems Like You've Made Up Your Mind. Yeah, that is like the sound that I associate with the 2010s, you know, 20s. Like bedroom pop,

It's just a warm blanket, dude. Yeah, that's, that is like, that is the indie sound of the 20s dance right there. Yes. Yeah. His voice, like everything about that. And, you know, in keeping with the tradition of a lot of those artists back then, this is a self-produced album, written, recorded and mixed by Sowersby in his home studio. Just like, you know, washed out and Toro Yuma, they were all doing that back then. That was kind of when DIY bedroom pop took off.

Yeah, totally. But yeah, dude, I like this description here of this album. It says, so he has one other full-length album. It's called Wonderers, which I haven't listened to, but apparently it's a bit different than this. It says here, goodness gracious, trades in Wonderers experimental headphone psychedelia for something at once more intimate and expansive, full to the brim with chiming guitars, glittering loops, and warped cinematic strings. That's it, dude. That's the sound. chiming guitars glittering loops

but yeah dude he freaking he nailed it with this album my love the whole album's great it's in that vein you know brings those kind of vibes and it's a short and sweet little record dude i highly recommend it good stuff again that was sunbeam sound machine the song was called seems like you've made up your mind off of the album goodness gracious so i'm pass it back to you brother what you got what you've been heard all right well this is a band cue that you're very familiar with so you actually know the song. But we mentioned this last week. We talked about, I think it was last week. Yeah, it was last week because one of my picks for our top 100 tracks of the last decade was a pink shiny

altar to last song, right? Well, the very first song on that playlist is a song by this band, and this was your pick, cue, band called Holy Wave. Holy Wave. And you got a song up there is called Western Playland. Hold up, dude. Is this one of those psychedelic bands? Yeah, I would say so, especially from this song I'm playing. Oh, yeah, dude. I haven't really listened to any of their stuff in a while, but yeah, dude, I love this stuff. That was, dude, I got into them when I was, you remember? Oh, I remember. I think it was like the first year that we started the podcast.

That was all I was listening to was that 70s psych rock style, like from contemporary artists, you know? Right. Well, this, yeah, this song definitely is an example. of that from these guys. But this is a newer track for them. So, you know, they've continued to put out music probably since the last time you tuned into them. So this is a, including a new single that they put out this year.

So they might have some new material coming out soon. So I actually haven't listened to any of their new stuff. So. Okay. Cool. Good. This is a fresh take from you. So here is another song by this band called Holy Wave.

So like you said, kind of in the psychedelic. resurgence vein, I guess, if you want to call it that. But here's a song off their 2020 record interloper. This song is called Schmetterling. Fantastic. And kind of, you know, reminds me, again, of a lot of the music that was coming out in the 2010s. I mean, that's, you know, these guys have been around since just around that time. Like, they started kind of with all the other indie bands that were coming out during the,

the days of MySpace and band camp was just taken off and everybody had a music blog, including us, right? So, yeah, this is, like you said, that psych rock, psych indie rock kind of vibe. They had some, like, you know, it's just funny because this was, like I said, 2020, so they're still doing that. It kind of reminds me of the sound carriers and maybe almost that other. man, dude, you just recently got into them. Yep.

Stereo Lab. Yeah. That's like that, yeah, now, that's probably like the, the organ sounding type of, like, synth. Right, like that posh 60s. Yep. Kind of like, yeah, yeah, but minus, like, the cheeky cuteness. You know what I mean?

Yeah, totally. The fringe pop kind of stuff. Yep, definitely. Well, that was great, dude. Have you heard their new single? Not yet. But that probably is a sign, dude. that a new album is around the corner, perhaps.

For sure. So be on the lookout for that. All right, Kew. I feel like we're just, we got a good pace going here. We do. Blowing through it. Sometimes these episodes just go on for what seems like days, dude. Although, you know, I still got like three tracks left.

So, all right, man. What is your next pick? Are you going to keep us in the same vein? You're going to switch it up? I have at least one 360 for us, you know. Okay, yeah, I've got one of those too Okay But yeah

So this is a Well not 360 180 360 would be right Where we Didn't even catch that dude So You know how I feel about

Letting up despite great faults Right I know that you just won't let up about them So You have loved them For a very, very long time Going back to I think

No is it true to say That you discover them Through New Dust our old music blog? Like, did they email us? Was this one of the bands that sort of like sent us a single or something?

They may have, dude. I don't remember for sure. I did get a chance to interview one of the members. But anyways, I freaking bring that up like as often as I can. I don't know why it makes me, I feel like I'm cool or something. Yeah. So what I like about them is their shoegaze, you know, very heavy with the loveless sound as far as like the distortion and the feedback.

you know, in the layers. And they are a proper Shugays band, but they're like, like every song is a freaking love song, you know? Like, yeah, just feel good, happy music. And, you know, I was always wondering if I would ever stumble across a band from the, the Shoe Gays, like, from the birth of Shugay's era, the 90s, that I could point to and say that, you know, these guys could have been an influence

on lighting up Spike or Faults. I found that band, dude. Oh, wow. Okay. They're called rocket ship. So now, I don't know if these guys actually are an influence on them, but these guys are making that music in the 90s. That type of music, okay. Yeah.

That style of Shugays or whatever. Right, right, right. So it's actually just one guy, his name's Dustin Resky. He's just kind of been keeping this thing alive since the 90s. He's had a full band at times, and he's just kind of been going solo, bringing in musicians every now and then, you know, up to today. But let's see, I've got, there's an EP here from 93, the little 7-inch. So he's been doing this since at least 93. I stumbled upon an album of there's from 95 called A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness.

and then I hopped onto this rarities album because, you know, I like checking out rarities, dude. You know, like I like to see stuff that never really made it to a full length, you know, just kind of hard-to-find stuff. I love when albums, when artists drop this kind of stuff. And according to Band Camp, it is a, quote, collection of hard-to-find rocket chip tracks from compilations, rare seven inches, etc. So I don't really know exactly when this song came out. You know, because it's just tacked onto this rarity's record. I couldn't find the song on any of the EPs and singles on Discogs. So my guess is sometime in the 90s, early 90s probably.

But this is a song, again, from a group called Rocket Ship. This song is called Your New Boyfriend. I have to talk about this, dude, because that's the first thing I noticed, is that when you, I was watching your screen, you pulled up the discod. page for this record, the self-titled debut from letting up to Spike Great Faults also features like a couple kissing, one of them kissing the woman on the cheek. Like, I feel like we may, we may have answered our question there, because I mean, that, that can't be a coincidence. I mean, maybe it is, but. So that album is the one actually, the first one I heard of there is

from 95 called A Certain Smile or Certain Sadness. And you're right, dude. The only different being really is that on the letting up to spike great false cover the guy's wearing a motorcycle helmet and holding a balloon. That's true. But now I'm starting to look for like a motorcycle helmet on a different record. Now trying to see if they're like, you know, putting it all together. It is uncanny, dude, how similar they sound to letting up. The pose. Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm still stuck on the album. Art. Yeah, no, very similar. And, you know, again, kind of like that tweet. pop. Yeah.

I like saying that as often as I can because it's the new term we learned a couple months back. I was kind of surprised when I saw that this was stuff that was coming out in the early 90s. I don't know why. Like, I'm sure this stuff was around. I mean, dude, you are just, you are never. I know. I think you just need to embrace the fact, dude, that what we heard from like the 90s

mainstream stuff was just a sliver, you know what I mean? Yeah. of the kind of music that was coming out. And that's why we're always amazed and surprised when we hear a band and like, wow, that came on the 90s. I think it just tells you how influential and how wide-ranging the 90s rock sound was because a lot of the bands that we fell in love with in the 2000s and, you know, 2010s and stuff were clearly being influenced by these more obscure bands from the 90s like this group,

you know, like Rocketship. I did a little better digging because it didn't take me long to find this. track on discogs. So the earliest that it shows up on a record is in 94 on a compilation record from Slumberland Records.

Guess who else is on here, dude? Stereo Lab. There you go, man. I was going to say they're kind of similar. They must have been

label maids. Yeah. So again, that song was called Your New Boyfriend. And I'm going to pass it back to you, brother.

Were you going to 180 this? Not yet. Saving the 180 for the next one. but here is another example of the heavier shoegays grunge resurgence that's happening right now, which is what we alluded to earlier. And got to give credit, of course, to the Shugay subreddit.

This band actually posted a link to their own bandcamp page or whatever when this album came out because I guess they had been sort of like posting on the Shugay subreddit all of the singles that have been dropping, which I think is really cool. This band and this record is definitely on my top of 2020 list so far. These guys blew me away and I'm saving my favorite song for our best of 2022 episodes at the end of the year because I know they're going to, it's still going to be one of my favorite songs, right? but this band is called Manaxie. And what I,

what makes them different and interesting, and they kind of remind me in that sense of, man, what is that band that you brought up? God, I can't, Alton Gune. Is that how you pronounce it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So they remind me of that in the sense that they,

what they do is they incorporate, actually, let me read, let me read kind of how they describe it. This is from their Spotify bio. So here we go. Manaxi. are an alternative rock band from Brooklyn, consisting of songwriters Shrenick Ganatra and Liam Christian and drummer Steve Carlin. And their sound combines elements from classical pop and rock music from India and Pakistan with psychedelia, shoegazing, dream pop, noise rock, and electronica.

Nice. What I would say, what I hear the most from a good portion of this record is an obvious smashing pumpkins influence, which, you know, that's never a bad. thing. Never a bad thing. So here we go. This song, again by the band Manaxi, is called Manchela. I've actually got another clip to play after that so we can hear what happens next, but what do you think so far here? Awesome, dude. And it makes me happy that this is a brand new record. You know, it's just like what we've been talking about, dude, with all these bands just dropping killer rock, man. It's back. It is back. We've been concerned. Live and well. I feel like it's been on life support. Yeah. But it's back now, dude. It is in full swing, like, and it's back in a way that's like a,

like, you know, there's new life being, you know, breathed into it, you know, which is great. Yeah, really great. Awesome. All right. Well, like I said, I have another clip to play because, you know, you got to hear the next part here, Q, because they do something really cool. So here I'm just going to pick it up right where we left off. Again, this song is called Manchala by a band called Manaxi. The way that this music is recorded on this album, it's got a very, like, jam session vibe to me. Yeah, totally. Yeah, and that could be the studio, you know, the space that they recorded it and the way that they produced it. Yeah, I like the way it's done.

Like, it sounds like it was recorded live, you know what I mean? Like that, like that all bands do that. But yeah, it sounds like they're all playing together. Yeah, very well could have. So here's what the band camp page has to say, because I think there's a good way to describe it. If this is your first introduction to MNaxi, which it is hopefully for most of you listening, a sonic buffet is the simplest way of describing the band's sound, operating with the rock motifs of guitars, bass, drums, and voice aided by the auxiliary instrumentation featuring

the tabla, satire, and electronics. The members in Manaxie design distinct atmospheres in their compositions. As such, the sound encompasses elements from the genres of shoegazing, dream pop, noise rock, Sufi. I might be saying that wrong. What? Indian classical music, ambient and techno music. So anyway, again, like we were saying earlier, like a lot of these bands that are bringing back the grunge sound and stuff like that are able to mix in and like blend all these other influences and sounds into it. Because, you know, we're so far removed from the origin of it, you know, that it's, you know, it can be interpreted in new ways.

and like, you know, there's new ways to do it, you know what I mean? And that's what I love about this moment they were in Q. It's a good time to be a fan of rock music. It's exciting, man. Yeah. All right. Again, that song was called Manchala by Manaxi. The record is called Lasaline.

And all right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you? What do you got? All right, man. This is one of those moments where it's just like, where is this artist been all these years? How have I never heard her stuff? Those are bittersweet moments, cue, because it's just like, man, happy I found it. Better late than never, dude, for sure. So her name's Liz Harris, and she releases music under the name Grupper.

I thought this was interesting. I'm going to read here. She grew up in a commune in the Bay Area, Northern California. The commune was called Fourth Way, and the community was. known as, quote, the group and the commune's kids called themselves and their parents groupers. So that's where the name comes from, grouper. Interesting. Okay. The genres that appear on her Wikipedia page, psychedelic folk, dream pop, ambient, and slowcore.

Slow core. Slow core. And we describe music with the word haunting a lot. Like, you know what? We overdo it. But her music is just, I mean, it just gets you, dude. It's very... So it is...

Haunting is the correct word. Oh, it's haunting, dude. And beautiful. Just beautiful. I'm all about haunting stuff, dude. Dude, this, yeah. So I checked out a record of hers. So it's actually a double album.

She released two records back to back in 2011 called AIA. A, and the first one is called Dream Loss. The second one was called Alien Observer. And it says these two releases span the most experimental, as well as the most accessible sides of groupers music. So this double record, you know, kind of has it all. Like here's what I'm all about as, you know, as a singer-songwriter. And I'm going to play one of the tracks from Alien Observer. this song is called

Come Softly for Daniel D D I'm shook. Consider me haunted. The way she lets those notes linger, you know, like there's so much like silence in this song. It's in all the right ways.

It's so lovely. Well, yeah, I was just thinking like, you know, I feel like you can't really write and perform like that without having had some experiences, you know, in your life maybe. Like that, these kind of, that kind of emotion and stuff is coming from somewhere, right? Yeah. And so like if she's somebody who has lived, you know, a lot of times communes get a bad rap.

So I don't know what type of commune or whatever this was. A very eclectic life, dude. You know, it says as much in her bio here. Yeah, her parents were very eccentric. They had a unique musical tastes. And, you know, yeah, I'm sure a lot of very unique life experiences for her. Yeah. Well, I mean, I feel like that, you know, have.

living lived that type of experience or whatever is going to inform everything about your life, you know, quite a bit about your life. And so, like, you don't get music like this, I don't think, unless you have somebody who has lived a life, you know, seen some things, done some unique things, right? Yeah, she's a group here, dude. Yeah, and she's not shying away from it. I mean, dude, let me just play a little bit of one of her other songs. Real quick. Okay.

Just the title track off of that record. So this one's called Alien Observer. Yeah, that's beautiful, man. I feel like I'm being, you know, cradled in the arms of, like, an angel or something. Yeah, dude. A little angel, you know, choir or something like that. I love the harmonizing that she does with herself. It's kind of like one of those round-robin things, you know? Yeah, man.

Works really well. And very effective. And everything, like, her music is just so simple, you know, like, and the reverb that she puts on, you know, the acoustic guitar or the piano, whatever it is she's playing. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, dude. I think it contributes to the vibe that just one, there's one instrument, that guitar with the reverb on it. Most of what I've heard from her is like that. And this came out in 2011, dude, over 10 years ago.

How did I not hear it? It's gorgeous, man, that's great. Like, so intimate. Yes, that's... You just feel like you're right there with her. Exactly, man. So again, that's Liz Harris. She goes by Grupper.

Pass it back to you. We got three more tracks to play. What you got? Is it 180 time? Oh, yeah. And now after a song like that, this is the true definition of a 180 for sure. So I'm not going to give much background on these guys. Really, all you need to know is that this is a song from a duo.

It's kind of like a side project of these two artists. One is named CMD-094. And the other one is Panther Ray. So they have a side project called Kuroi Ame, I think is how you pronounce it. But all you really need to know about this record is it's an offshoot of like vapor wave, synth wave. It's this subgenre called dream punk. And I've brought a song by Hong Kong Express, I think, in the past, who is sort of like the person who, I believe the artist who kind of coined the term dream punk. but yeah it's it's it's like darker vapor wave and I feel like it has like you know vapor wave

sometimes just goes off to the end of the realm of like just absurdity right yeah yeah like saxophone type stuff and like taking pieces of of Chade's voice and slowing it down yeah doing weird samples like that yeah elevator music you know right or Malsoft hey remember that yeah right but like you know, that smooth jazz kind of samples and stuff. Anyway, Dreampunk is more, I think it's more, it's a darker kind of synth wave. And for that, you know, I like that a little bit more, obviously. But anyway, so that's what this is. So this song is off of a new record called Data Garden.

The song is called Burning Plastic. Keos, since you're about to become a developer of sorts, cloud engineer, It's kind of, I guess you'll be doing some of that kind of stuff. Yeah. This is the kind of stuff, dude, that you gravitate toward. At least that I... It's going to get me through the day. Yeah.

This is the kind of stuff I like to listen to. If I'm not listening to like a video game soundtrack, sometimes this, you know, if you got to just put your head down and focus, like sometimes this hits the right spot, you know what I mean? But anyway, yeah, you know, a lot of the dream punk stuff that I've listened to is more atmospheric and, like, darker and, like, more. more, I guess atmospheric is the best way to describe it. So like this, this particular song and the rest of this record is more like almost like club dance forward, you know, which makes it kind of cool.

Yeah. But anyway, so again, that band or group, again, it's like two music producers. It's called Kuroi Ame and that song was called Burning Plastic. All right, Q, this is your last track. What do you got for us? All right, man. So this is a song from I'd say my favorite animated series of the last, I don't know, decade, maybe longer. Is this like an original track from the soundtrack? No, this score. This was just playing during the credits of, on one of the episodes. BoJack Horseman.

The theme song to that show is really cool. That is, I can't remember his name, but that's one of the guys from the Black Keys. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Okay. Yep, yeah. So, yeah, this is one of those comedies that I just find myself going back to.

One of those series you have to get through like a good eight or nine episodes to really figure out what it's all about and where it goes, where it goes into. Anyways, I love the show. And this song by Vettiver, I think that's how you say his name. Oh, I know that band. We are no strangers to his stuff. It is a band, but yeah, it's led by Andy Kabich. And I want to say you brought one of his songs from his album, The Aerent Charm, on New Dust, dude.

It may have been, Josh, I think it was you. No, I did it. I think it was an electric Saturday, which, you know, may have been a weird choice for an electronic weekly post that I did. Yeah, because he's definitely more fulky. But, yeah, he does bring in some electronic elements to his work. Yeah. Just a solid singer. songwriter. Freak Folk gets attached to his music, Andy Folk jam band. This album is called

Complete Strangers, came out in 2015, and we're going to have to play a good chunk of this song, dude, because the part of the song that I know from that credit, the credits rolling, is pretty late in the game, but I just love this song, dude. And I mean, shit, we could even just listen to the whole song. It's a little over three minutes long. All right. This is the last song on the record. It is called Last Hurrah. Ditch the consequences. Give me just the last

hurrah. Make it linger like a spring. Gives winter time to thought. Trouble comes easy. I dodge what I still. Let the memory. Like old tomorrow. Pay. Definitely reminded me of Luke Temple.

So he was the singer, or the front man of that indie group, Here We Go Magic. And he's also done singer-songwriter, like his own, he's released his own solo stuff that reminded me a lot of this guy and how he sings and his like vocal styles and stuff. Yeah, a very intimate song. I mean, I love it, man. If you just, you know, know a little bit, bits and pieces of about what Bo Jack Horseman is. You know, you might not ever think that a song like that would show up on that show. But that's kind of what you were saying about how that show surprises people, right? Exactly.

You got to be dedicated to the series and the characters and everything. The characters, yeah. So the very last line is the part that shows up in the credits. And I love this line, dude. He says, silence relieves me, speaks when I can't. Tells me it's getting out of hand. I love that, dude. What a great statement.

Silence relieves me, speaks when I can't. Like, sometimes silence speaks volumes, you know? Is that relevant to the scene or the show, the episode that it's paired with? I cannot off the top of my head remember which episode. I think it's definitely a heart, it's a heartfelt moment. Like something sombering happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this whole album, this album is not like, it's not all like that.

There's a lot of moments on this album. Again, it's called Complete Strangers. It kind of reminds me of like the playful side of Paul Simon. I don't know if you ever listened to a lot of his solo records, but, you know, very upbeat and, you know, fun lyrics, more lighthearted. But yeah, this one, and I guess it's a very fitting title, Last Hurrah, is how the record closes out. And yeah, it's just a gut punch.

But, yeah, great, great song. And that's how I'm wrapping it up, dude. What are you going to take us from here? Well, I'm going to close us out with yet another example. sample cue of the 90s rock-driven comeback that's happening. Nice. But this band is a little bit more dips their toe a little bit in like 2000s era pop punk. Not really pop punk, but emo a little bit too.

So they kind of incorporate some of that, which like we said with our narrowhead episode, Narrowhead does that as well, right? So this is a band that are relatively new to the scene. and they just put out a sort of like a collection of like basically it's a LP that is their first EP plus some of their other songs like they kind of just released it as a

as a collection of songs you know oh yeah dude that's exactly like what Lush did remember we covered them yeah it's exactly what they did with Gala that was like America's introduction to Lush was just a compilation record of all their like early EPs yeah well I mean I haven't really looked too far into this, but this could be, it could be that like, you know, they self-release these tracks and then they were signed and so the record wanted to re-release the

music right under the label kind of thing. But anyway, this band is called Millie, and I'm going to play their self-titled track. So here is a song by a band called Millie, called Millie. Check out that record to just kind of get all of the stuff they put out, right? up to this point, and then get excited because, hey, they got even more new material. So it's possible that they're going to have another full length out by the end of the year. At least it seems that way because they're putting out a couple new tracks in the last couple months. That's how they do it, dude. That's awesome. So, yeah, man, this is a good, this is the time, dude.

This is a time to be a fan of rock music, dude. Yeah, here we go. They have a new record coming out at the end. end of 2022. It's going to be called Eternal Ring. Well, hopefully it's not after we record our best of the year. Well, I mean, by that point, I bet you'll have at least a couple more singles out. But yeah, dude, everything about indie rock right now is pulling from the 90s, you know, whether it be shoegays or grunge or even the aesthetic of the album art a lot of times seems to kind of point back to 90s graphic design styles. Yeah, I'm picking up on that all.

lot. I miss the aesthetic of the 90s quite a bit. Me too. I know that we are the age where nostalgia hits big time for us and like companies know it. You know what I mean? Like everybody's starting to Yeah. Big time, right? But like just there was just so much more color and creativity, I feel like. I agree. You look at all the, every single fast food restaurant now looks the exact same. It's a gray box with the logo slapped on it. You know what I mean? Like you think about the way that Taco Bell looked back in the day. Wendy's even. Wendy's, dude. They all had character, you know, and just beyond just fast food restaurants, dude.

The 90s aesthetic just had something to it, man. We talked about this probably in our Nickelodeon episode. Well, it wasn't a Nickelodeon episode, but we talked a lot about Nickelodeon. It was our Pete and Pete. Yeah, our Pete and Pete Pilaris episode. I was just like, dude, that was a time to be alive, dude. And we were kids, you know, so we look back fondly on it. And we were blissfully unaware of the state of the world and other things.

You know, it didn't matter to us back then. Oh, it was a pre-9-11 world, man. Yeah. That had a lot to do with it. Yeah. Anyway, like we said, it's a great time to be a fan of rock music right now because if you're, if you've been missing that, like we said, guitar-driven rock sound that kind of died in the 90s, it's back. It's back in full swing.

And there are plenty of bands coming down the pike. that serve it up nice, you know, nice and steaming hot for you. Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah, I was a big fan of that, man. I'm going to jump into that collection songs for sure. Yeah, it's a good, it's a great record. And some of it's a little bit more on the nose with like the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the grand jolt rock sound and some of us a little bit more to kind of put their own stamp on it. So, all right.

Well, good episode. Solid collection of tracks. And we spoke too soon, man. This is, I mean, I don't know how much I'm going to be able to cut it down, but We're sitting at an hour and a half here, dude. Yeah, dude. That's what happens when we're like, hey, you know what? I got two clips for this one.

Let me play two songs. Yeah, yeah, it happens. But you know what? You got to let the music tell its story came. Oh, I like that. See what I did? Oh, yeah. But yeah, that grouper track, I'm still chill by it.

Yeah, give her a go, man. All of her stuff is like that just really, really hit you. That's one of those artists where, like, a good set of headphones. Yes. At a good volume. Yes. She's right there with you. Exactly.

Just singing sweet words and your eardrums or whatever. Who are you covering next week, dude? Well, I don't know if you kept the part in where we talked about one group that we're actually not going to cover anymore. I did. I did keep that in. Okay. Slow crush. Well, hopefully people out there, you know, weren't just, like, excited about us talking about slow crush because I decided to pivot.

Sorry, Slow Crush. But I think we need to do an episode on Pincey Slow or Slowy. I need to figure out how to pronounce it for our episode. Well, I'm excited, dude, to dive into that. So that was an artist recovered on our, was it DoomGaze? Yep. On the Doomgays episode. Yeah.

Yeah, dude, I loved everything from that group. And I played a new track from theirs on our last watch you heard. because they're getting ready to put out another record, a new record as well. So, yeah, but what we're going to talk about is their 2019 record, don't believe, watch out. And they, I think, were my favorite of the artists that we talked about on the Doomgays episode. These guys are my favorite for sure. There's something about her voice and the mood that this record has. and yeah, it's a good example, I think, of, you know, with DoomGaze, it seems like a band can either go more toward the Doom Metal or more toward the Shugays.

And they're more toward the Shugays, Dream Pop, but because they're sort of a Doom Gaze band, there's that darker piece to their music and that slower kind of pace that, like, is like Doom Gaze is kind of characterized by. that makes it really like compelling and stuff. So anyway, I'm excited. So that'll be next week. Pinty Slow. And from there, I don't know, dude, we'll have to figure that out. Yeah, see what strikes our fancy a week from now, two weeks from now. Well, what do we got for our outro here, dude?

Oh, so, yeah, I actually just figured out what we're going to do here for the outro. But I'll tee that up in a little bit here. Let's wrap it up and just remind you, as always, that you can find us on Instagram, follow us at No Filler Podcast. Reach out to us there. Send us a message. Let us know what you've been heardin. We like to play songs for our outroes on these What You Heard episodes,

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They're also on Instagram at Pantheon Podcasts. And yeah, that's it. So what we're going to do, Trave? I was just reading up on a little bio on Rocket Ship. And it says here, after being inspired by a spin of Feltz, organ-heavy song for William S. Harvey, Dustin Resky formed Rocket Ship. in Sacramento, California, blah, blah, blah. Felt.

Have you ever heard of this band, Jeff? Svelt. Felt as an F-E-L-T. No, I don't think so. Mean either, dude, but apparently this organ-heavy song from Felt is what inspired Resky to form the group Rocket Ship. So we're going to go unblind here. Never heard this song.

It is from a Felt album called The 17th Century from 1986. And, yeah, that's going to do it. for us today. The song, again, is called Song for William S. Harvey. And until next time, thank you, as always for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. You all take care. With one of the best savings rates in America, banking with Capital One is the easiest decision in the history of decisions. Even easier than choosing Slash to be in your band. Next up for lead guitar. You're in. Cool. Yep, even easier than that. And with no fees or minimums on checking and savings accounts, is it even a decision?

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