No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The S Is For Smile Edition

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

Only on Whatcha Heard will you hear a blood-curdling horror soundtrack followed by a children's song about the letters Q and U. It's our monthly mixtape on No Filler! Tune in to hear everything from grunge to downtempo. Tracklist Blood Orange - Jesus Freak Lighter Benedek - Solar Panel Caveman - Shut You Down Palm - On The Sly Downward - REAL GREEN DOLLARS Bleed - Silver Courtney Barnett - Words and Guitar (Sleater-Kinney Cover) RIP Swirl - Love Song My Bloody Valentine - How Do You Do It Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Laura Smile They Might Be Giants (For Kids) - QU They Might Be Giants (For Kids) - D Is For Drums This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And I'm Travis. And we're kicking off this month's What You Heard with a brand new song from Blood Orange. This song is called Jesus Freak Lighter. His music always feels so effortless. you know like it just comes out naturally it just flows from him and i don't know if that's the case you know i don't know what his process is but like it you know it's just it's just blood orange through and through i mean that's that's saying something either way you know i mean that's how it sounds effortless and smooth and just like yeah like you said just so like free flowing and whatnot and i

just love how um his music always has this like warmth to it like this warm electronic synth kind of tones and whatnot. Plus his vocals are so airy, you know what I mean? It's just sort of like light and sort of, you know, kind of floating. Yeah, it's just great to hear

some more music from him. So you put out an EP called Four Songs, huh? Yep. And you know what? There's four songs on there. Wouldn't you know it? So, yeah, you know, you always wonder, you know,

does that mean more on the way? Or is just sort of its own collection, you know, and that's the end of it. With someone like Blood Orange, she's always working on something, you know. Like, didn't he do, didn't Devante do a soundtrack? Didn't he score a soundtrack within the last year or so? Would not be surprised by that at all. You'd have to look up his name, huh?

Let me check. There you go. There's a soundtrack, Paulo Alto. Yeah, and we are who we are. Okay, yeah. Okay, so he's been busy. Yeah, cool. He's been busy.

in treatment there we go another one in treatment it's an HBO series so yeah man this guy is prolific and he's one of those few artists like Toro Imois or I guess you could throw washed out in the category you know from that era that's still chugging along still relevant yeah

yeah and he started out we talked about this in the episode but he started out in more of like your traditional indie group. You remember? It was, yeah, I guess it was called Lightspeed Champions. And he was in a punk band before that called Test Icicles, which is a funny name. Oh, man. Yeah.

Never heard any of that stuff. He has such depth, you know what I mean? Like breadth too, like of the stuff that he's done, like including soundtracks. Like, in fact, he was in a punk band. You know what I mean? Like, it all goes into the sound. You know what I mean? Yeah, definitely.

And his stuff always reminds me of, like that Prince kind of stuff, you know what I mean? Yeah, the stuff the Prince was doing. What was it, what's the name of that? That's that sound. Minneapolis sound. There we go. Yeah, I always had an extra end.

The Minneapolis sound. Minian, Mininipanappanus. Yeah, that funky, funky synth kind of soul music. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Blood Orange does, does a really cool, like. Sort of picking up the torch of that, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Let's take a quick break.

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This is my favorite time of year. Me too. I love the fall. The weather's starting to get manageable down here. I'm bummed, man, because we're, and I mean, I'm going to say this and you're going to laugh. but like it's still it's not as cold as I was expecting it to be mid-October up here in Washington. We're in like the mid-70s.

Well, that's about what it's like here in Texas. So that tells you something. We need rain. I think that's what it is. I'm looking for rain because we're just not getting any of it. And like the air quality up here has been kind of crappy because there's just a bunch of forest fires going on around us. So the air is, you know, it's just. getting pushed this way towards the coast.

So we're not even like going on walks around the neighborhood or anything. We're just staying indoors. Got our air filters running. Air purifiers. So we're just praying for rain, man. Praying for rain. Got to kick this fall into gear. So yeah, this is what we, you know, so this is what we do once a month with our,

we affectionately refer to it as our mixtape episode, our monthly mixed tapes where we each bring five songs to the table, just any and all music that we've heard and enjoyed in between our recordings throughout each month. So, rapid fire, just nothing but good tunes. I guess we'll start with you this month, huh, Treve? We are going to start with me a cute. Are we going to pivot into a different direction here? Are we going to stay in a similar vein? No, from Blood Orange, yeah, this is definitely a pivot. I have a song that actually could be a good, a good flow from that, but. Well, it's your call, Travis.

You want to flip a 180 on? You know what? You know what? Let's keep the flow going. Because this, this, yeah, I want to hear what you think about this as far as like a, a nice segue. So, I've actually played this guy before as a, as a what you heard way back in the day. I think it was for like the, it was one of the episodes that Spencer was on, funny enough. I think it was the Food Fighters episode.

Wow, that was a long time. A long time ago. Yeah. So, been a while since this artist has made an appearance on no filler. But he is a, his name, or at least he goes by the name, Benedict. It's hard to describe his music. It almost sounds like it's very 80s synth, synthy, kind of flirting with vapor wave type stuff. But what I always hear when I listen to his music, and he even, he's even like,

spelling it out for us here because he has a, there's a track on this record called Jack Moves. You ever heard the term new, new Jack, swing? You ever heard that term? No. It's like a sound from like 90s, R&B and 80s R&B. It's basically like, like you would know it if you heard it kind of thing. What was the name of that smooth listening, like easy listening radio station that we had in Dallas? Did we grew up with?

Yeah. Gosh, I don't remember, dude. What was it, man? But yeah, that kind of stuff. Yeah, exactly. But anyway, so he put out a new record, a new EP, I should say, called Zebrano. So this is brand new stuff. And I'm going to play a track off this record called Solar Panel.

Here we go. You know what that is, dude? What is it? That's some Malsoft. Yeah, it is. It totally is, dude. Because that's, like smooth vapor wave that doesn't, you know, punch you in the face with weirdness. Easy listening.

I'm always a fan of that kind of stuff, man. And he does a really good job with it. Some of his other EPs that he's put out over the years, Cushel is good. Come out in 2017, early man dance EP. So, you know, I've been kind of listening to him off and on for a few years. But, yeah, he put out new stuff. And, yeah, he's got some of like collaboration. on here with some singers and like it sounds almost indistinguishable from like a 90s R&B

track you know what I mean which is kind of quiet storm yeah maybe a little bit yeah anyway yeah that kind of sounds like I could hear Devante singing over that you know same kind of textures same kind of uh for sure yeah some kind of warmth and like synth soft synth sound right But anyway, all right, well, now my order is all jacked up here, Q. You had a nice order planned, but that's okay, because, you know, the goal of the mixtape is to always keep the flow going. So what do you got? Do you have something, Q, that can flow from this?

You know what? Or are you going to give us a 180 just right at the gate? I think the mood is the same, but not so much the music. I don't remember how I ended up jumping over to. our buddy Josh's Spotify account. But I was looking at some playlists that he has on his Spotify. So for those of you who don't know, Josh, he's actually been, I think he did two episodes in a row with us.

Was that earlier this year? Was that last year? Anyways, he jumped back on us to chat about our days running our music blog in the 2010's New Dust. Yeah, he was on our 200th episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was the other cog in the machine that ran New Dust cranking out posts every day. Just the slog of running a blog.

That's a log, man. Anyways, check this out, man. Look at all these New Dust Playlists that he has, dude. New Dust 2013 favorites, numbers 1 through 10. New Dust Picks, Best of 2014. Oh, I have some. Some of those are made by you, I think. Or ours, yeah.

Collaborated, yeah. Yeah. So anyways, I jumped back and listen to some of these. And I found a song from our new dust picks of 2013. So this would have been like, I don't know, two or three years into our run with that blog. And there's this group called Caveman. Does that ring a bell, dude? Does this album art look familiar to you?

Does not. But this is one of our best of lists? Well, yeah, I guess our favorites are our picks of 2013. This is a self-titled of theirs that came out that year. And I'm going to play a song from it. This one is called Shut You Down. Easy listening. That's what that is.

Yeah, I don't remember that song. That's great. Great harmonizing. It kind of reminded me of like a 70s group, you know, 70s rock. A little bit. Maybe like a Dundee Brothers. or something softer though.

But yeah, that was another thing about the 2010s. You know, we talk a lot about the dream pop acts that were a dime a dozen, the chill wave stuff. Yeah.

You know, the bedroom pop stuff. But there was also a lot of like folky stuff going on too like this. I don't know if that's more, you know, if that's kind of their vibe or not, but that song had a little bit of that quality to it.

But, you know, that's the flea fox's heyday man was in the 20s, right? Right. And that was like, you remember Rola Olock? I remember the name, yeah. Okay. That was, we featured him a few times on New Dust.

Sorry, that was just something I thought of in the same vein. Yeah, it was. That was kind of the two sides of indie rock. And yeah, I don't know if folk is the right term, but you know what I'm talking about. Like that kind of more, you know, I think of bands like Sea Wolf. You remember them? Oh, yeah. Matt Pompey.

Yeah. A lot of those types of groups. And we had, you know, I think we featured, like that was, that was basically, yeah, those, the two sides of, of no filler too. Not no filler, but New Dust. I always get them mixed up. Our music blog was a lot of, a lot of dream pop stuff, a lot of chill wave, and then a lot of these types of indie groups, you know.

Yeah. That's, yeah, there's an example of that side of the corn right there. Yeah, that's good stuff. Really good stuff. I'm going to jump back into it and give the whole. album to listen. And they've dropped a few more albums since then. Actually, I went just as, as recent as last year. So yeah, they're still still going strong. So again, that was Caveman. The song was Shut You Down and pass it over to you, brother. What you've been hurting.

All right. It's time for our 180Q. Ready. It's going to liven it up a little bit. We've been pretty smooth, easy so far, you know. I'm going to change the pace a little bit here. This is a group that I had never heard of, but they're called Palm, P-A-L-M, like a palm tree, right? Mm-hmm. And these guys were on my release radar last week. So this is a brand, another brand new track. I think they popped up probably because I've been listening to that group Floody that I brought last month's what you heard. Yeah, they're great, man.

They're awesome. I actually have the record sitting on my turntable right now because I went out and bought it immediately. But anyway, these are, I had to. I had no choice. These guys are in the same vein as far as like sort of art rock. Their tempos and stuff were kind of interesting, math rocky in a way. What's interesting about this group, I listen to some of the early stuff too, is they trade singers. And the male singer reminds me a lot of Panda Bear, the way he sings.

Ooh, nice. Now, you're not going to hear that on this track. Well, maybe a little bit. Maybe in the second person, I think he comes in a little bit. bit. But either way, I think that's all you got to know. This is from, this is a brand new single from them. It's called On the Sly. Yeah, I'm always pumped about bands that do this kind of stuff. There's always at least one good group like this that, you know, releases a banger that releases a banger like, you know, once a year we get something new and fresh coming from bands like this.

Yeah, it's, yeah, art rock is a good way to describe it. Math rock for sure. But what I like about it is it just you never know what to expect from these songs because the way they change their tempos and stuff like that, the way they kind of, you know, on a dime will change, right? Here's a good description of it right here. NPR described Palms music as jagged edges and complex interlocking pieces that demand and reward your full attention.

And I like that because like that, like I said, you don't know what to expect. And so, you know, you kind of, you pay attention because you're so locked into it that like, you know, that attention is rewarded because there's always something cool happening and always something like right around the corner that you may not have expected. And that's what I liked about the band Floody. I just like this kind of stuff. It just keeps your interest, you know. And it's just different than the typical like song structure.

and that's what I like about it. It's just fun to listen to. And can you hear what I mean by Panda Bear a little bit? Yeah, the kind of harmonizing and stuff. Maybe just Animal Collective in general, but definitely. In general. Yeah, I was thinking that. Yeah.

Yeah, the way A.V. Tair and Panda Bear harmonized together a little bit. Exactly. Well, there you go, Q. So again, that band is called Palm. They have a brand new record that will have released by the time this episode comes out. So, and that, this track was off of that record. But yeah, so check out their new album, Nix and Grazes. It just came out mid-October.

So go listen to the rest of that. If you liked what you heard, and speaking of heard, Q, what have you heard lately? I throw it back at you. All right, so I don't know how I never came across this EP because it was released back in 2012. But My Bloody Valentine has a compilation record. it's rare tracks and EP is from 1988 to 1991. So all the stuff they did up to Loveless, basically. Yeah, there's some really great stuff on here, dude.

It's kind of cool to hear where Kevin Shields and, you know, the rest of the group, like, where they were musically, you know, as they're growing and evolving into what becomes modern. shoegays in a way, right? I mean, with loveless. So yeah, it's interesting. It's different, but it's definitely in the same vein. Like you can see the kind of grungy shoegays kind of stuff coming just around the corner. So this is a previously unreleased song. So I don't know for sure when it was recorded. But this is one of the songs that is featured on this EP of Rare Tracks. So here we go.

The song is called How Do You Do It? It's cool because you can kind of hear, you can sort of hear that in the background, some of that like pitch shifting type. The glide guitar. Trameload. Yeah, you can hear it. Yeah, he's, yeah, he was, seems like he was working through it. You know, that was probably around the time that he discovered that sound. That is cool.

And it was just kind of tweaking it. Yeah. And way massier, right? And especially the drums. Yeah, well, I had more of a punk vibe. it. Yeah, it almost remind me of kind of like the no wave stuff that was happening in New York, you know, with like Sonic Youth and Vance like that where it was kind of like counterculture for the times. And yeah, way more punk. And I mean, I can't find that much info on this. Again,

this is one of the songs that was previously unreleased. Like some of the songs on this collection is from early EPs, but this one was a previously unreleased one that they put on this record in 2012 so I can't find anything on it you know I don't know when this was recorded I'm assuming that that's Kevin Shields singing you know but like they change up the way that they approach vocals and mixing and mastering and all that you know once yeah loveless hits in 91 right right yeah everything changes yeah it sounds like a completely different band really totally that's cool yeah I bet you there's a lot of, you know, I always like hearing that kind of stuff, right? Like, what early, early stuff?

Like, if you listen to, I know this is a completely random thought, but the cranberries have a lot of that early demo stuff on, and I think we talked about this a little bit on the episode that we did on the cranberries, but it's always interesting to hear the band. Like, and when you listen to it, you can tell they're, it's like they're kind of, they're almost there. They're kind of figuring it out. like it's starting to shape,

shape up, you know, and like coming, come into shape, as it were. So that's always kind of cool to hear the stepping stones the bands are taking to get to their signature sound, you know? Yeah, totally. Yeah, that's cool. I like that.

Yeah, there's some cool stuff on here. There's a couple instrumental tracks that are really cool. Some of them I've heard, like Sugar and Glider. I've heard those songs. I think we actually may have played one of those on our My Bloody Valentine episode. Yeah.

But yeah, you can just hear that progression and evolution, you know, leading up to Loveless, which is, yeah, really cool. Yeah, that's awesome. So again, that was my bloody Valentine. The song was called How Do You Do It? Back to you, Jeff, what you get? Okay, I'm going to play. I guess I'm going to keep it somewhat in the same vein in the sense of this is a rock band. So, Narrowhead talked about him a lot.

one of my favorite new gaze alt rock bands of the last you know of this decade for sure and

come to find recently that some of the same members formed another group called bleed hey now yeah so this is

featuring past and current members of Nairhead I recognize the drummer the drummer is in this photo here but either way so it's a similar kind of thing, but I would say that bleed is, it leans a little bit more toward like

the heavier rock sound from the 90s, almost like metal-esque a little bit, but still the same kind of, you know, amalgamation of 90s rock sounds into like a solid, a solid sound, right? But just less, yeah, and they're going forward with the album cover too. I mean, that's straight up 90s art. Yep. Yeah. The logo looks like it could be a, you know, logo from a 90s band, right? Totally. But yeah, different singer. And I think that's the main difference in the sound. Less shoegays influence, for sure, a little bit heavier. So here you go. I'm going to play a song. Again, this band is called Bleed. This song is off their 2021 EP. Somebody's Closer.

This song is called Silver. With the resurrection of this. Proper heavy rock. Proper rock. Yeah, I agree. It's back. That was off their 2021 EP. Somebody's Closer. They actually just put out a single, a brand new single called Killing Time, if you want to check that out.

So they might be gearing up for some new tunes. But they're actually Dallas-based, which is kind of cool. Because I'm Dallas-based right now, at least. So between Narrowhead and Bleed, like Texas has this new, this new old rock sound figured out. as far as like, you know, resurrecting that 90s rock sound. You know, we got our bass is covered over here. It's a lot of great rock coming out of Texas, dude. Cronbin.

Yeah, totally. Leon Bridges. Totally. I like how they're always said in the same sentence nowadays. Yeah. I mean, they're both from Texas, you know, and they drop those killer EPs. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, Q. Cool, man. Throw it back to you. All right, well, this is, I'd say similar vein. It's a post-rock emo indie group from Tulsa, not too far from your neck of the woods, dude. It's a group called Downward.

And I stumbled upon this album, funnily enough, on through the Shugay subreddit, which we shout out that sub-bitter quite often because, you know, we just discover so much great music from that subreddit. I was going to say that I've actually heard some of this stuff as well. Probably, probably from the same post, you know what I mean? Well, we've established that everything is Shoegays, right? Everything. Every song, yep. Because I wouldn't put this album or this group in the Shoegays category. But you know what?

We're learning something new every day. Somebody decided to do it about alt rock and Shugays and the breadth of its sound. You know, one thing I know by Reddit, though cute. Reddit is wrong quite a bit. Oh yeah, dude. You know what I mean? We don't know. We're just, you know, fussing about, dude, just trying to, the collective Reddit. Yeah, we don't know. No one knows anything, dude, you know. Well, you let me know what you think, dude. Yeah, let's figure it out together. It's a great record, dude. There's some heavy moments. There's some, some, a bit more somber moments. And this one's a little bit more like the latter. So this album is called

The Brass Tacks. It just came out earlier this year. Again, the artist is downward, and this song is called Real Green Dollars. I had to let that play out for a bit. Yeah, that's great, man. I love the turn that it took at the end there, the, you know, distortion cranking up a little bit. Yeah, I like it kind of devolved into a little bit more chaos towards the end there. Yeah, good stuff, man. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out where to put them.

You're right. Definitely no shoegaze on that song. And, you know, I like to look at the band camp page for an album because, you know, the tags that they put on the record are kind of like, hey, this is what the band or maybe the record label at least this is how they're classifying it. And they say hardcore punk is kind of the two things and post hardcore, which I can definitely hear that. His voice is great too. I mean, a very soft voice, which I think works really well, like has a nice balance with the music. Yeah, really good stuff, man. And also, can we just say this is one of the funniest album art photos I've ever seen.

Dude, it's disturbing, man. It's funny, though. So, you know, that's probably some parent thought it was funny to, like, have. So it's basically like a baby. It's an older brother and clearly, yeah, either a younger brother or sister, sibling in a high chair, and he's got a ski mask on, like he's robbing her at gunpoint. I mean, you can see that it's clearly a toy gun. It's got the little red cap at the end, but.

Yeah, yeah. Man, does that baby look terrified? I mean, it looks like a legit holdup. Yeah, but, you know, that wasn't that kid's idea. You know what I mean? Some parent was like, oh, ho, put all this fucking skee-knas. Great parenting. Yep.

Made for a good photo, that's for sure. Yeah, great album cover. Yeah. All right, well, that's cool, man. I'll have to check that out. That's not the record that I listened to. The one that I listened to was S. No, I guess it was.

That's self-titled. Yeah, yeah, downward. It was S-S-T. Yeah. Came on 2018. Yeah. But, yeah. So they haven't been around for too long.

I mean, I guess they've been dropping stuff since 2017. So I'm hoping to hear more from them soon. This was just a little five track, this brass, the brass tax EP. So, yeah, I'm hopeful that we'll hear some more from them soon. So again, that was downward. And around in the corner, drive, we've got a couple more tracks each. What did you got? All right, well, I've got a 360 line up for us.

No, 180, not 360. We're not going to be right back where we started. 180, you know, almost the exact opposite of downward as far as genre and vibe. But here we go. Another brand new track from a artist that goes by the name Rip Swirl. Rip Swirl? Rip Swirl. Yep.

All right. and the name of the record is called Blurry, just came out this year at least. I'm sorry, it's not brand new, new in the sense that it came out this year, but it actually came out earlier this year. Anyway, I wanted to have a little funny here because, you know, we like to,

that we both, you know, we have a love-hate relationship with pitchfork. Yes, dude, especially early, let's see, 2010's pitchfork, they were pretty brutal, they seemed like. It's possible that this guy, Sam Goldner, is his name. Maybe he's been writing for Pittsburgh for a while because... So this is going to be pretty harsh, then? Well, no, he reviewed it positively and he has some good things to say,

but I just thought that this opening paragraph just sounds classic pitchfork. So here we go. He says, there are a few things as surreal as watching the cyclical maw of nostalgia slowly swallow itself whole. And he says, if we're to believe in the 20-year rule, right about now we should all be getting ready to cast off our throwback Matrix rave gear and Y2K worshiping pop idols to make way for a roaring return of the dreadful Bush years. So throw in a jab at Bush just for good, Madge. Anyway, I just wanted, you know, whatever, that's kind of funny. But here's the relevant part that he says, I think it's pretty good and describes this record pretty well.

So this guy, like I say, it goes by Rip Swirley. His actual name is Lucas Seffert. And apparently he was more into like techno-type music. Like his early stuff was more techno-driven DJ-type stuff. But during the pandemic, you know, he wasn't able to book as many shows, obviously. And so like he kind of changed to sound a little bit for this record. And so what this pitchfork article says is after the pandemic put a halt to his DJ bookings, Seffert retreated to the alternative music.

music of his youth and set out to record his debut album, Blurry, pulling influences from trip hop, shoegaze, and movie soundtracks, specifically lost in translation and train spotting. The resulting album is a moody journey into a more innocent era of electronic music. So that's a perfect setup here. So again, this guy goes with the name of Rib Swirl. And I'm going to play a track off of this record called Love Song. Yeah, that does kind of harken back to the early days, I guess, of that style of electronic music. Yeah, and it's kind of a cliche to compare darker electronic trip hop music to massive attack,

but there are definitely some massive attack vibes from this song. Early 2000s, maybe late 90s. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, this album was a blast to listen to because it's not all in that vein. there's quite a wide range of sound. There's even some stuff on here that sounds kind of like Tycho or Boards of Canada style, like Hippogic type stuff. So, yeah.

Nice. And he's got some singers that jump in here and there. But yeah, really solid track, man. This might be a contender for best of 2022 Q, which we'll be doing in a couple months. Well, I can always count on you to throw on some instrumental electronic kind of music into the mix. You've got to have it. You got to have it, dude. Yeah, and you know what, dude, I might, I might, I might, I might, I might be listening to, to way more of that kind of stuff pretty soon here once I, yeah, get started on this IT grind.

I find that, uh, this type of, this type of electronic music, just electronic music in general, but, you know, I'm just kind of like stuff where you just have like a nice, easy head bob, right? Yeah, it can't go wrong. Kind of droney. Exactly. Anyway. All right. Again, that was Rip Swirl. Uh, the record he put out this year is called Blurry. and that song was called Love Song. All right, Q, you got a couple more tracks for us. What do you got for us?

All right, so I guess we're not really strangers to Slater Kinney around here. I've brought them up a few times. Everyone knows and loves them. The punk rock trio out of Olympia, Washington, who've been going strong since the early 90s, they are gearing up to release a covers album that is a straight-up track-by-track cover, of their album Dig Me Out that came out in 97.

So pretty sweet. They're all kind of reimagined, reinterpretations of these songs by a lot of great, looks like a lot of great musicians are going to be contributing to this record. St. Vincent, Wilco, Black Belt Eagle Scout, The Linda Lindos. Anyways. But yeah, it kind of reminds me of that Velvet Underground cover album that came out. I think it was last year. Yeah, I was trying to think of, like, other bands that have done this where they've, they're essentially re, it's like a reimagining of their own music, right?

I think that's just kind of interesting. Yeah, well, this is a, like in celebration of the record's 25th anniversary. Okay. And proceeds are going to be going towards this youth center called SMYRC. It's an LGBTQIA plus, I think I got them all, youth center that's based out of Portland, Oregon. So anyways, there's one single so far that they've dropped. It's everyone's favorite singer-songwriter, Courtney Barnett. She does a really great cover of one of the tracks from Dig Me Out. So we're going to play it, dude. This song is called Words and Guitar.

So I've never heard the original. I was going to say, we've got to do it, man. We've got to play it. Just a little bit of it. Because Courtney Barnett's great, man. She could probably turn any song into a banger. Yeah. Yeah. Her cover of I'll Be Your Mirror, that was the cover she did from that Velvet Underground record. And she just crushed it, man. She puts her thumbprint on it in such, you know, undeniably corny barnet way.

It's just, it's infectious to. But yeah, we should definitely listen a little bit to the original one. So, yeah, it says here, Slater Kinney shared kind of a statement about this upcoming record. It says through added layers or the subtraction of guitars and drums, they provide a new way into the songs. Fresh rage, joy, pain, reclamation, slyness, and longing. Other interpretations slow down or stretch out the songs, trading urgency for contemplation, weariness, or even a hint of ease.

So, yeah, if you know, especially early Slater Kenny, they were some heavy punkers. But yeah, let's play it real quick. This is just a little bit of, again, the original song by Slater Kenny off of their 97 record, Dig Me Out. Here is Words and Guitar. There you go, that's awesome. It is like, it's like two sides of the exact same coin.

Yeah, yeah. Because, like, Sue didn't fear too drastically off. But, I mean, Courtney Barnett's version was a little bit less aggressive. It's a little smoother around the edges. Yeah, I kind of like the punk version, actually. The punkier version. And I like her, the original singer's vocal delivery was just more intense, which I liked. Oh, yeah, dude.

Yeah. Yeah, that's cool, man. So, yeah, that's going to be dropping October 21st. So it's called Dig Me In, a Dig Me Out covers album. So yeah, man, good stuff. Always excited to hear new stuff from Courtney Barnett, even if it's just a cover song. All right, dude. Rounding third base and other, you know, generic sports references.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Your last song of the evening, what you got? All right, cute. Well, you know, it had to happen eventually. And for October, it definitely had to happen. So as you know, and you even talked about it, I think, a second ago.

I like movie soundtracks, right? You can't get enough of them. I can't. I can't stop. And I love horror movies as well. So this year has been amazing for horror. There's been a lot of great horror films that came out so far this year. And, you know, we haven't stopped yet, right?

It's October. There's a couple more months left. You know, they just put out the new, like a reimagining of Hellraiser. Nope. X was really good. Barbarian is supposed to be amazing. And this movie called Smile that I went to saw in the theater was fantastic. And I can't recommend it enough.

If you're a horror fan, go see you. smile in the theater. Is I the one with the guy with the creepy mask? No, you're thinking of Blackphone. That's another one that came out this year, Black Phone, yeah. Yeah. That was all right. Well, he sure is smiling.

He is smiling. That's no doubt about that, yeah. I wasn't so much a fan of the Black Phone, but it got a lot of good buzz. There's Ethan Hawk. He was like the killer. I love Ethan Hawk, dude. Ethan Hawk is great. He is great.

I'll give you that. Another great one that I would recommend is called Watcher. Came out a little bit earlier this year. Anyway, great year for horror movies, right? Smile in particular was really fun. So I would recommend you see that in the theater if you get a chance. Either way, I'm going to bring a track from the Smile soundtrack, because I thought it was a really, really interesting soundtrack. There's all sorts of stuff going on in some of these songs, and you'll hear some of it in this song.

So I'm just preparing you. This is a horror theme song. Not theme song. This is a horror movie song. So, you know, prepare yourself. There might be some sudden. loud noises, okay? I'm just preparing you for that.

I'm ready. But let me describe, so, you know, of course, Mando is releasing the record on vinyl. So here's a good little write-up from them. The score is full of dreamy synth tones and ethereal drones, lulling you into a false

sense of security before unleashing a wall of piercing metallic tones, stabbing your eardrums and psyche. So you've been warned. That's a good description, though. I have a feeling I know what to expect here. Let's do it.

Yeah. So I'm going to butcher this guy's name, but the composer, his name is Crystal Ball Tapia DeVir. Crystal Ball? Crystal Ball. Kind of like that San Cristobal, right? Oh, yeah. The swirlies. Right, right.

Yeah. All right, here we go. So this song is off the Smile soundtrack, and it is appropriately titled Laura smile. Is that what you queue up at the dinner party, Strape? Yes. I will be listening to that soundtrack in its entirety tomorrow.

But I like that kind of stuff. I like dark, ambient kind of stuff. And I know that's well beyond ambient. But if you know the film, too, I think you'll remember fondly that song. Because at the very end... I don't think anyone's remembering this fondly. Dude, this movie was a blast, man.

I'm just telling you that right now. Anyway, if you remember the film, if you've seen it, that sort of stabbing scent at the very end is the title card on the screen. Just smile and it's like flashing at you. It's great. It's fucking great. Anyway, I love four movies if you can't tell.

I would not subject you guys to a song like that in any other month but October. So I appreciate letting me play that. So that was a song then? If you want to call it a song, yeah, sure. But hey, man, this is, you know, if you ignore that that's from a movie soundtrack, that's a ambient electronic song. It made me feel like I was in a straight jacket in a padded room.

Well, that's the idea, cute. And that's not a dis on it necessarily. But that's mission accomplished on his part. Yeah. Anyway, so speaking of October and Scary Steen, stuff, we are going to have to squeeze in our bonus Halloween episode at some point. You might be flying solo this year, Traff. And that's fine.

I got a lot of stuff coming up around the band here. That's totally fine. But those are typically shorter episodes. So I'm going to do it regardless if you can join an IQ. But I'm guessing that'll come out after this episode because, you know, Halloween is the last day of the month. So unless Halloween falls on a Monday, in which case, this will be a double episode day, which could be kind of cool. It does fall on a Monday, brother.

Okay. Well, there you go. Cue up the bonus Halloween episode after you listen to this episode because it's the very next episode in your feed from no filler. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. I have a feeling you're going to give us a 180 from that song because there's no way that you couldn't. This is as 180 as it gets, dude, because I'm bringing a song from a kid's album.

okay yeah yeah dude hey some kids stuff a kid's song can be creepy sometimes you know that's true so Ronan's not old enough to really you know I appreciate the lyrics or anything from kids music but you know we've been playing a bunch of stuff like that for him turns out they might be giants they've released quite a few kids records and I mean kind of makes sense if you think about it. They're, yeah, they're, they're, I mean, it's just like bread and butter, dude, you know, just. Well, that kid's going to be well-versed and in all of their music, uh, being a member of, of your family, Q. Oh, yeah. That and, um, Casper Baby Pants, remember that? Yep. Presidents of the United States of America. The main guy from that group also does kids' music, but anyways, they

released a record called, Here Come the ABCs. It came in 2005. And it's, it's great, dude. They have another, a few, like, educational records like that. There's a, here come the one, two, threes. There is a, I think it's called here comes science. Anyways, lots of good stuff, dude. And, you know, if you're a parent of a kid that's, you know, starting to listen to music and you're having to play a bunch of crappy kids' albums, just know that there's good music out there in the kids record venues. And they might be giants is one of those groups, dude. We enjoy listening to it.

So you don't have to listen to Baby Shark on repeat. There's better stuff out there is what you're saying. Hell no. There's better stuff out there, dude. And I'm going to play one of the songs on here. We're going to play it all the way through. It's a minute and nine seconds. It kind of goes hand in hand with my name, Quentin,

because the song is all about Q. you. And that's the name of the track. Here we go. I can confidently say, dude, that we're the only podcast where you will hear terrifying song from a horror movie followed by a kid's song about the letters Q and you together to spell lots of great words. Yeah, you know, I, if I had to listen, if there had to be kids music on the background, I would much rather have this than Baby Shark. And every song is different, you know. I mean, they might be giants. They don't all sound like that.

They're all over the place. It's a blast, dude. I'd recommend to queuing it up, man. Even just all by your lonesome. Won't be doing that. It's a full-on adult. Won't be doing that. Next time your babysitting,

Silas. Yep. My nephew, Silas. Cue it up, dude. He's a good age for this, right? You know what? Yeah, he would. Okay.

I'm glad you reminded me about my nephew, too, because this is the funniest thing ever. He loves. Metallica. And how old is he? Three something years old, three and some change. And this is weird, dude. And apparently, if he's having a hard time falling asleep or something like that,

or he's in the car and, you know, they want him to take a nap in the car, if they put Master of Puppets on in his headphones, he will fall asleep like a light. Isn't that weird? I'm all about it, dude. And this guy, me and, me and Silas are going to have lots of. good times together in the future do because he also loves scary things he's a big Halloween fan they got a bunch of like scary decorations in their house like creepy stuff too and he's he's all about it like he's showing his friends like they take pictures of all their like creepy dolls and stuff and he's

like showing his buddies and stuff and sometimes they're like he probably shouldn't show that to some of your friends and it's a little too creepy well when he's a little bit older he'll have you to hang out with and get into the creepy spirit together yeah all right cool well That was fun. That was a good way to close us out. If you stuck around after the horror movie song, that was probably a good palate cleanser, you know. Totally. A nice reset. All right, Q, well, that was it.

That was our what you heard for October. Cue up the Halloween bonus episode. If you want to stick around for a little bit longer, probably just me on that episode could also be Quentin. But I've got a very interesting album that we're going to listen to, Q. I'm not going to spill beans just yet. But anyway, check that out. And yeah, until then, of course, you can follow us on Instagram. Just look for No Filler Podcasts.

We'll pop right up. And, of course, follow us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. I actually have an apology to make. If you subscribe to the Pantheon channel, I have not been posting our episodes to that channel in about a month. Yeah, we just changed the way. we do things in the network and we have to do that ourselves. Yeah, it used to be automatic. Now we have to do it manually.

So if there are listeners out there who only listen through the Pantheon feed, they must have thought that we quit or something. You know what I mean? They're like, that has been a new episode in like a month. But I'm going to go back and put all of those episodes back into the feed, just like republish them, you know, on the date that they were supposed to come out. If you also follow the Pantheon feed and are wondering where some of our episodes are, they will be back.

They might even be there at this point, but either way. So yeah, pantheonpodcast.com, if you want to follow us and many other great music-related podcasts, check us out there. And yeah, so cute, you've got an outro track for us. What do you got? Yeah, dude, we're just going to play another song from this ABC's record because it's great, dude. Oh, God. Okay.

It's called Dias for drums, and that's why we're going to outro us out. I'm here for that. because it's awesome, dude. It's a real fun song. Not really a song. They kind of just talk their way through the song, but it's really fun. And we'll just play out the whole song, dude.

I don't think they'll mind. So that's how we're going to outro us out with another track from They Might Be Giants called D is for drums. All right. And until next time, thank you, as always, for listening. My name's Quentin.

My name is Travis. You all take care. Hey, John. Oh, hey, John. What's going on? You're confused. Why? They're remembering stuff.

Really? Yeah. D is four. D is four? I'm surprised you can't remember what D is for. It's too much noise. Put your thinking up on, John. I'll give you a hint.

Come on, tell me. D is for what? You play with sticks. That's right. That's right. You're getting close. D is for drop. That's straight.

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