No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Shush You Up Real Good Edition

Episode Date: July 1, 2026

On this month's Whatcha Heard we're drifting between psychedelic rock, shoegaze, blistering garage riffs, nostalgic electronica, ambient soundscapes, and melodic indie rock. It's another eclectic mix of old favorites, fresh discoveries, and everything in between. The Asteroid No.4 - Neptune Divinyls - Temperamental The Datsuns - Mf from Hell Pizza Hotline - MEGASTRUCTURE Jane - Berserker Chapterhouse - Love Forever Readymade - No Longer Ortona Peter Baumann - Valley of the Gods Jurassic Shark - Arrowhead Centaur - In Streams atmos bloom - Something Other Than You Jurassic Shark - Sometimes This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to No Filler. I'm Travis. And I'm Gwinton. And on this month's what you heard, we're going to kick things off with a brand new song from the asteroid number four. This song is called Neptune. There's something oddly nostalgic about that track, dude. Can't put my finger on why. Brand new track, cue. This record came out May 8th.

Just a little over a month after Christina Hendricks featured this band in her. DJ set, which I wonder, I could remember we talked about that. I don't know, like a month ago or something like that. She did this great DJ set where she played a bunch of shoegays and indie artists and stuff like that. And I wonder if Asteroid No. 4 had any clue that she was going to feature them because they must have been like, this is fucking amazing because we're about to put on a new record and we're a relatively obscure band from the 90s. I mean, it turned me on to them and now I'm listening to their new album and I'm probably going to bring this something from this album on our best of at the end of the year.

Because it's a great record. And like you said, it's got this timeless sound to it. A little, a little, like, you know, 60s for sure. And that's kind of their thing. They're like a psych, psych-shogeyze band kind of. Well, I mean, and they've been doing this since the 90s, so maybe that's, maybe that's why it feels nostalgic for some reason. Yeah, well, it's something about the voice and the melody and that's strong.

Dude, I can't place it, man. I can't place it, but. Yeah. It's phenomenal. It was great. Yeah. That's great, great, great. Awesome. So again, that was Asteroa number four.

That song was called Neptune. And that's how we're kicking off our what you heard for this month, Q. So this is our monthly mixtape, as we like to remind you, once a month, where we are each going to bring five tracks each. Plus, you know, technically Q, we bring 12 tracks total, if you count the intro and the outro. So that was our intro track. But yeah, man. You know I'm going to talk about it between our last what you heard and this what you heard. I flew to Chicago and saw one of the best, experienced one of the best musical moments in my life, Q.

And that was seeing hum as I've been talking about this whole year. It's phenomenal, dude. How much of that, like, experience, you know, had to do with, like, the vibes from the audience? Like, there's the overall, you know, feeling of the night. Just being in the same room with all these hum fans, and there they are on stage, and you could tell they were just as surprised by the response from, you know, the crowd and the energy in the room and whatnot as we were. Because Hum has sort of slowly had this resurgence. Yeah, they've had a resurgence for sure, especially with like younger people, which I think is probably what they were most shocked. about. But yeah, and they had just done a couple of shows in New York the weekend before.

So we were the second city of the Slydeway Festival. And then they went to L.A. after that. But anyway, dude, it was just, it was incredible, man. It was amazing. I mean, that's how I felt at the Kings of Convenience show. I bad, dude. Yeah. Just like, I can't believe I'm in the room with these guys. And we were all, you know, like you could drop a freaking pin. on the ground. Because they just don't... Because you're just so captivated.

Yeah. And Kings of Convenience don't really tour... The U.S.? Yeah. Period. And they hadn't toured the U.S. since we were in high school. Yeah.

And the thing about Hum is they hadn't played live in seven years prior to these shows. So anyway, it was... It's going to go down probably as the best concert I've ever been to. Unless you get to see Kings of Convenience, dude. I don't know if it's going to be. to top that, dude. I don't know. We'll see. You know what? My goal in life is to top that experience because I plan to keep going to shows, obviously, for a long long time. Speaking of resurgence, dude, you've been going to way more concerts than you had been in the last decade as far as I can tell.

That's true. That's true. Yeah. That's awesome, dude. I would if I could, man. There's just a lot of, a lot of bands coming my way, man, that I've been wanting to see. I'm looking forward to when I can take We're on it in River. Well, let me tell you, dude. I don't know if I told you this story or not, but one of the coolest things about that night in Chicago, right in front of me was this father and son. Did I tell you this? No. Okay.

And so the guy was probably in his 40s. Kid was probably a teenager. And they were both there to see hum. And the kid was freaking out. And, like, he was, like, taking pictures of his son, like, enjoying the moment and stuff. And they were putting their arms around each other and embracing and stuff. It was so, I was right behind them. And it was amazing, too.

Yeah, man, that's one of those things that you just, yeah, that's what you live for as a parent. Yeah. And that's perfectly sort of captures the hum, you know, resurgence right there. Like it's spanning generations. And there was a bunch of people like that guy, he's probably listened to hum since the 90s. 90s, people like me who have, you know, come around in the last like decade plus and then brand new people that have probably been turned under them just because of the resurgence of like the 90s rock sound, you know what I mean?

A lot of bands. Totally. And that's probably why Hum was so surprised. Maybe they don't realize that. Yeah, maybe they don't realize that that sound is coming, you know, if it's full circle. Yeah. I've talked about like narrowhead list hum as a band that they're influenced by. Deaf tones is famously said that the deaf tones would not be deaf tones if it wasn't for hum.

So yeah, anyway. So I am going to bring, not a hum song, but I'm going to bring a song from another band that played called Chapter House. They were one of the openers that I saw. We showed up a little bit late. It was like a five hour, six hour show. I think we tried to confirm this a few episodes ago because I don't remember we. We did a full episode on Chapter House, didn't we? Or no, did we...

I don't know if we did a full episode. Okay. Let me see. Let me pull up the feed. Dude, I'm typing in it. They're not even showing up at all, period. Okay. Then we have the...

That's crazy. First talked about it off mic, man, because... Yeah. Man, who am I thinking of? Dude, we covered another group that's, like, in the same vein, same... Same era. Pale Saints? Yes.

There you go. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. That's part... You know what? It was probably we decided on doing pale sands instead. Well, yeah, if Chapter House was going to appear on the pot, it would have been for that, like, shoe gaze grab bag episode that we did.

Yeah. But, yeah, yeah. I guess not. Yeah, we covered Pale Saints instead. Yeah. Another great dream pop group from the 90s. Anyways, dude, yeah, so you're kicking us off this time around. So what you got?

I am not going to do, I'm not going to start with Chapter House. So this is as fresh as it gets, dude. So hours ago, just mere hours ago, I was watching a horror film as I tend to do. And in the intro, so one of the protagonists of the film is this teenage girl, her dad died, which is a classic trope of horror films. You've got to have at least one kid whose parent died. Anyway, so it opens up with her listening to his vinyl records, which I thought was kind of cool. And this is one of the bands.

This is the song that played the movie in, like, after it's sort of like the opening sort of kill that happened. The opening kill. Yeah. I mean, most of our films also start with the opening kill. Anyway, so it's this group that has actually appeared on this podcast before Q. they appeared on our Hughes Tunes 16 Candles band called the Divinels so you probably remember them

but anyway this isn't the track that was on the record but it's from the same or that was featured on the movie that it's the same record because I just, what I typically do, you know, Q is I pull up the record, I hit play and this opening track blew me away so here we go

so this is from 1988 off of their record temperamental. And this is actually the title track. So very first track on the record, here it is by the divinels. The song is called Temperamental. Love it. Like I said, man, blew me away. That opening riff just like punches you in the face.

Yeah, yeah. It's kind of funny because... Okay, when this comes out? 88. 88, okay. Yeah, man. I mean, this reminds me of, if Van Halen comes to mind, but so many bands did this back then. Like, I'm thinking of like, Panama, you know.

Yeah, yeah. Or running with it. Just the how they're all just kind of yelling, not yelling, but singing. It's that very, it seems like it's tied. Harmonizing. Very much to this era. Yeah, for sure. With what they were singing in the background there.

And it's funny, this was a song from this record was picked for a horror film because the album art's like a knife. It looks like psycho. Yeah. Although he's like, he's like swinging an iguana at her or something. Anyway. But I mean, yeah, I'm going to listen to the rest of this record tomorrow.

I guarantee you there's going to be some more. Yeah. So like if you're curious, the song that was featured on the movie was the very next track, another phenomenal song called Back to the Wall. So if we don't have an outro song, maybe we'll outro with that. But anyway, so that was the divinels song called Temperamental off the album of the same name. And all right, I'm going to pass it to you. What do you got for your first pick?

All right, dude, I'm going to keep it. I'm going to keep the soundtrack going. Okay. Not the same movie. I guess I should say that differently. I'm going to also bring a song from a movie. And by movie, I mean an Apple TV series. Widow Day.

Just came out. Fuck it. No. Okay, okay. Margo's got money troubles. Margo's got money troubles. Because I'm familiar to you? It does not.

Ellie Fanning is the star. It's a fucking great, dude. I think it might be just a limited series kind of thing and think it's a one and done based off a novel. I'll just say this. Her dad is an ex pro wrestler. And the scene that this song is featured in, he takes her to a, it was like a wrestling, a wrestling convention.

One of his old wrestling mates convinces him to come up on end of the ring because they have like a ring set up at the convention for like, you know, the stars to, and they do a round. And this song's playing while they're wrestling up there. Have you ever heard of a band called Dotsons? Like the dog? No, like the car.

Oh. The Dotsons is what they're called. No. Okay. Cool. Yeah. So this is, man, you're going to fucking love this, dude. And Mitch, if you're listening, you're going to fucking love this too, man. Uh, so this is from their self-titled from 2002. And, uh, yeah, dude, man, you're going to fucking love it, man. I've never shazam so quickly, dude, my whole life, dude. Uh, wanted my whole life. Uh, all right, this song is called MF from hell. Pretty sure it's just motherfucker from hell. Here we go. Okay, since you invoked Mitchell's name, I'm going to tell a little story. Okay.

That has stayed in my mind for a long time because it's hilarious. It has to do with Mitchell. Wait, have you told this before? Maybe. It's possible. I think I know it. I think I know. Do you?

Because the song is. Oh, dude. Go ahead. I don't remember the context leading up to this. I just know that. I think Mitchell was trying to get a free refill or something like that. A refill at a freaking fast food restaurant. God forbid.

Yeah, it was maybe KFC or something like that. Or Taco Bell or something, yeah. And this guy, the owner of the restaurant, was like no free refill, something dumb like that. Yeah, dude, I remember this. Okay. Were you there for that? No, but I heard about it. It's a fucking franchise.

It's a franchise. It's like Taco Bell or something. And I was like, yeah, no refills. Yeah. And then we got back in the Chevy tracker in our first car, and I pulled up the struggle within by Metallica after Black album. And there's a part where the solo needed to release, dude. He needed to, he had a struggle within that he needed to release. Yeah. Yeah. And we got to like the solo where headfield screams go and then it goes to this cool solo. And Mitchell starts like kicking and punching the shit out of our fast food bag

just like pretending it was the the dude's face or something like that I think his name was like shush or something like that shush or something like that it was it was the guy's name was shush or something like he was like I'm gonna shush up real good that's what he said and that's what he did and anyway

so this song would have been perfect for that moment this song would have been great for that yeah what I was trying to get at Yeah. Anyway, I hope you remember that Mitch because it cracks me up for this day, especially whenever I listen to that song. We need to get him on for this one, what you heard throughout, you know, the year before we do our best of. Because I know we're going to have him on for the best ofs. Yeah.

But yeah, dude. Anyway, there's a little story about Mitchell there. Match the scene perfectly. This is what metal has always provided heavy metal. He's got to me. I don't know anything else about this band, the Dotsons. but I was getting like it equals a death metal. A little bit.

I could see that. But more, but, you know, but heavier, but, I can see that. Like metal. Yep.

This isn't metal, though, Treve. Uh, adjacent. You know, a Jason. Okay.

Okay. I'm getting there. That's fair. It's, it's on its way. Yeah. I mean, sure, sure,

sure. Yeah. Sure. All right, dude. I'm going to pass back to you. Oh, man. I am jump.

I've got a few, and I'm up to drop a couple. So I'm trying to figure out where to take us here. So I think I'm going to play. I'm going to give us a 180Q. That's what I do. All right. I have talked about how I've been really into this very niche internet genre, if you will,

of drum and bass, jungle. I've always been into video game music and music that sounds like. like that hypnagogic IDM. And lately I've been to like this Y2K jungle, drum and bass, vapor wavy type stuff. And I've been listening to this artist that goes by Pizza Hotline. And the way he describes himself, or his music, he describes it as video game flavored electronic music with extra cheese. what do you think video games taste like dude static electricity

yeah that's what I did that's funny I think you know what I think of those old CRTs I remember if you got your face next to it you feel this like that you'd feel like the static coming off of it on your nose you could fucking smell it yeah or smell it yeah

dude smells that don't exist anymore you unless you buy an old CRT from from the pawn shop or something Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah, dude. Anyway, nostalgia has been kicking my ass lately. I know, dude. Sam'sies. So, anyway, so we're going to listen to, this is a brand new album that came out in May for a, I think it's a video game. The viral hit indie video game Motor Slice, which I have no clue what it's about, what it is.

Don't care what it is. I'm just here for the music. So I'm going to play the very last track on this record. Again, this artist goes by Pizza Hotline. This song is called Megastructure. Every single millisecond of that, brother. I know you would, Q. God damn. This is my bread and butter, dude.

I'm not even, yeah. And all of his music is like this. I mean, it's fucking phenomenal, dude. But I could just, I literally could listen to music like this, I think, for 24 hours straight, dude. I'm not even kidding. Just put you into a zone. You could say it put you into an aquatic zone, Q. And if you know that reference.

I don't, dude. I guess it wasn't really called aquatic zone. But there's a very kind of famous Donkey Kong country song called Aquatic Amience that a lot of people like to reference is like one of the best video game songs of all time. It's got kind of this vibe. But anyway, yeah, dude, I love this kind of stuff, man. Love it. Yeah, that was great, dude. I already saved the album.

Oh, yeah. I mean, you could just go fall into the Pizza Hotline, bottomless pick, you, because, well, it's not bottomless, but he's only, you know. But he's got quite the, quite the discography, especially if you go to his discogs, or not discogs, his band camp. But anyway, so again, that was Pizza Hotline. That song was called Megastructure off of the video game soundtrack, Motor Slice. Right, Q, I imagine we're doing another 180. Honestly, I can't remember much about this song.

I just got so freaking excited when I found out about it that I just went and listened to a few seconds of it and thought, good enough for me and saved it. Because guess what, dude? I didn't know this. I don't know how I didn't know this either because I'm a massive panda bear fan. Massive fan of NOVA Linux, you know, AKA. one of the members of Animal Collective. So he released some music under the name Jane.

And it's actually him and another guy named Scott Mao or moo. And it's like electronic stuff, dude. Like it's like more, I don't know. It's not IDM by any means. It's not, it's got like. So, okay, this album I'm talking about is called Berserker came out in 2005, okay, which was, let me get this right here, dude. You know, I like to, you know, see where this. So person pitch came out two years after this stuff he was doing under Jane.

As far as Animal Collective goes, let's just see what this was like in between, you know what I'm saying? As far as albums go. This is shit, Dan. A year after song time. Okay. So, think about that. Okay. Wait, you said 2005.

Oh, I thought you said 2025. No, no, no. Okay, so this is, wow. Actually, so this was the same year as Feels. So Animal Collective released sung Tongues in 2004 and Fields in 2005. Okay, so this is, wow, dude, I mean, that is kind of surprising that you didn't know about this. Yeah. That's awesome, man.

Yeah. And so, so this guy, Scott Moo, is this other, he's a DJ primarily, but he's done a lot of, I'm trying to dig into this on the fly to see what he, but he's credited in quite a few of Panda Bears, like some singles at Panda Bear released. So I think he's, I think he's, you know,

him and Panda Bear are freaking tight, like in the studio, you know, like I'm sure if you can get Scott Mooh in there with him to help mix or, or, you know, produce or whatever else,

you know, there, it seems like they, they musically, uh, compliment each other. I'll say that. But he's also worked with,

um, Yeah, so he's mostly a DJ, but he does, he's worked with a lot of artists. Anyways, dude. So really, really cool. So this is, again, also look at the album art, dude. It's dope. So this album, again, is called Berserker. Some of these songs are like over 10 minutes long.

The majority of the album has songs that are like, the last song is 24 minutes long. So Berserker, the title track is what we're going to play, samples. The Everly Brothers in it, Trampton, the song called Ebony Eyes by the Everly Brothers, is sampled in this one. So anyways, here we go, dude. Here's some No-Lenix stuff that I didn't know existed until about, I don't know, a week ago. Here we go. This is Jane.

The song's called Berserker. I feel like he could just, you know, do those sort of like ethereal chanting for, like, I know. I mean, just for 30 minutes. Yeah. And it would be enjoyable to listen to you. eat that shit up, dude. It's like just like a like a heavenly bed that he's late.

It's, I mean, for me to lay down. It's funny because I, I skimmed through this record and heard, heard those like dancey electronic beats, which is, there's not even just, not just one beat,

not even one. And berserker is the track we just played. But I mean, we'll keep playing. We'll keep this one anyways because it's fucking panda bear, dude. And it's crazy because you can hear what he, I always like to hear the members of Animal Collective when they're doing their own thing.

I mean, not to say that Scott's not doing something here. But because then you can pick up on like, oh, that sound from Animal Collective must be from Noah. You know, like that part of Animal Collective is Noah because I can hear it in his solo stuff. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, yeah, it's like it like you hear. And same when I got to see geographer, geologist. I always say geography, geologist a couple months back.

His fingerprint on Animal Collective was like I could pick it out from hearing, hearing what he was doing solo. It's cool to hear the parts, you know, that, right. They come together to because like you said, it's like just listening to that. Like you said, like the beginning of it sounded like the beginning of Maryweather. In the flowers. Yeah. like only those three could come together and make animal collective but like oh i know even when you listen to them by them you know isolate it yeah it's it's still in a way it's still like animal

collective you know because they are animal collective right like and when they come together it's like they just make they make magic you know indeed yeah it's funny i didn't i didn't mean to play such an ambient track but um definitely give this album and listen because it yeah it gets it gets dancing. And that makes sense because Scott, Scott's a DJ, you know. So, yeah, basically they, they worked together at a record store in New York City, him and Scott, and they would just get together and jam out. And this stuff was kind of came from, from those jams. They said, we liked all the mechanical robo dance jams from Detroit and Chicago and Germany, but we wanted to do something with less zeros and ones and more souls. Anyways, dude. Yeah, man. Sweet. Anything

Panda Bear does anything Noah Lennox does, I'm going to enjoy. I'm going to listen to it. So that was a 180. Indeed. It was unintentional 180. So where are we going from here? All right. Well, I'm going to bring us to Chapter House, as I promised. So this song is one of the songs we played. And it was originally released on their second studio album, Blood Music, which came out, Q, in 1993.

So couldn't stay away from the 90s this episode, Q. Can't do it? Couldn't do it. Yeah, I had to play something from, to represent that night. And Chapter House was definitely my second

favorite of the groups that we saw. So we saw the tail end of Love Lies Crushing, which was basically just wall of sound noise, like wall of sound to the extreme. They weren't even, they weren't even singing. It was really almost like an intermission for the evening. But that's where we walked into just like classic beyond wall of sound, almost just like noise for the sake of noise, right? And then we saw chapter House and then nothing, which is really interesting. And then, as in the band, nothing. I'm not saying we saw nothing.

I'm saying we saw nothing. And then hump. Any Shugase fans knew exactly what you know. Yeah, they know. Plus, we featured nothing on the show before. But anyway. But yeah, Chapter Us was phenomenal, man. It was great.

Another band, too, that was kind of like shocked at one point. They were like, and they're like, you know, from the UK. So they're like, oh, who knows, who knew that, that Shugays was making a comeback, something along those lines. So I just think it's cool that all these bands are having their moment. Yeah, dude. How do they not? Because if you're assuming what you're about to ask, like how do they not know?

How do they not know? It's probably because they've moved on from their musical careers, most of them, right? And then probably just like living their day. Like, yeah, wasn't that great back in the day? And I was like, now they can come back and sort of like get their flowers and shit. You know what I mean? So anyway. All right.

So here we go. This song, again, Chapter House off their 1993 record, blood music. This is a very last track on the record. This song is called Love Forever. That was cool, dude. Really cool. Really, really cool. Yeah, it was great.

Great to see that live, man. It was awesome. Man, what cool. Like, the drums were really cool. The percussion, awesome. Yeah, really cool. Not different. On a loop, dude.

Different, man. Like, you don't typically hear those kind of drums and this kind of music, you know. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. So again, that was chapter house. This song was called Love Forever. off their 1993 record blood music. I'm going to pass it to you, Q.

All right, dude. I'm going back two years shy from being a 90s release, 2001 draft. Okay. Dream pop, okay? Another dream pop group. We can't. Chapter House is Dream Pop for sure, Q.

Can we go one, what you heard, without Shugase? No. We can't. I really, I would love to go back and see when it was the last time we made it through at what you heard without bringing a shugis group. Either without shugis or without a 90s track. Probably, it's possible. Never did.

No, I'm sure. I'm sure it's, I'm sure it's happening. But, uh, you never know. Well, there's not, these guys, we're talking small potatoes, dude, as far as followers. They're from Vancouver. And, wait, did I say the name yet? No. The band is called Readymade.

All one word. Have you ever heard of that? No, I have not. Of course you haven't. So they came about from the remains of another group called Pipe Dream. Never heard of them either, dude. Formed in 1995. They, I mean, we're talking, they were doing like self-produced cassette EPs, you know.

Like, they never made it big. And I guess they had like a bit of a hiatus. and like there was a long like a break from the group before they released this album from 2001 called On Point and Red. A lot of the songs are instrumental, which is cool. This one is not. So, yeah, here we go, dude. Some Vancouver Dream Pop for you.

This song is called No Longer Ortona. Yeah, a great follow-up to Chapter House for sure. the first thing I thought of, first band I thought of, was Ariel. And I saw you were on the band camp page, and down at the bottom, it showed you might also like hum, slow dive, and then Ariel. The vocals for sure. Letting up to Spike Great Falls, too, yeah, dude. If you like the vocals for this group, definitely check out Ariel. They're amazing.

Am I just, am I just losing it, or did it sound a little bit like Billy Corgan? Maybe a little bit A little bit A little bit A little bit A little bit of That's another guy that's like Untouchable

In terms of like Nobody sounds like Billy Corgan You know what I mean True You can try But you can't You're not gonna reach I can reach those heights

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Subbared it I don't even know if that's even necessary to bring up anymore. But sure. Most of my new discoveries in Shugase comes directly from that subreddit, dude. All right. So, yeah, man, pass it back to you. Just keep this train chugging along. All right.

And here's another type of genre that I've been listening to a lot. And I guess I don't know how to describe it. But, I mean, it is synth-we. wave, but like early synth, what I found myself doing, and this is a song that I brought a couple of what Jared's back, you made the band of Quip, talking about him all the time. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And that song off of his cyberware, like sort of like, sort of concept sampled song that he did. And anyway, so like that was all pulled from like sampled music, right?

Right. So I've been seeking out like music that sounds more like that. I've been listening to a lot of Tangerine Dream, which, you know, they've been around forever. And that brought me to one of the members of Tandrine Dream who's put out a lot of his own stuff. His name is Peter Bowman. He puts out this really interesting, like dark synth stuff, which I love. So I'm going to play a song from his 2017. So this is actually a newer song, relatively speaking to like his discography because

you know, he put, he's got stuff going back to the 70s. But this is off of his 2017 record, Machines of Desire. And the song's fucking dope, dude. Just, uh, just get ready to be transported, okay? Into like, uh, like a cyberpunk future. Okay. we're already living it brother ain't that the truth of it

all right so this song is called Valley of the Gods that made me feel uneasy in like all the right ways I think that's the point yeah like impending doom is that the right word impending impeding that's how I like my music cue

yeah but yeah it yeah it just gives off this futuristic neo-future cyberpunk You're hiding from like the robot cops that are on patrol. Like the scene in the opening scene of Terminator or something like that. You know, the Terminators were walking through and the resistance, you know, army is like hiding and shit like that. Yeah.

Really cool album cover too, man. Yeah. Right, right. I'm just, yeah. So this is, I'm trying to build up a nice playlist of this kind of music because I just put me in a headspace. Tell me that guy has done a soundtrack or two in his day. Well, Tangerine Dream has. for sure. I've been listening to a lot of Tandrine Dream soundtracks. If I were to recommend one,

I would say listen to Sorcerer by a Tangerine Dream. What movies they've never heard of that? Yeah, some movie from the 70s. But listen to the 2014, like, re-release. I think they, like, redid it just for, like, like they re-recorded it or remastered it. Like, I listened to the two back-to-pack, like the one that came out in the 70s and the one that, those. And it's different. So like it's remastered and it's possibly even re-recorded. Cool. But anyway. Man, that was awesome, dude. Yeah, dude. Like I said, man, just put you in this, in this, like, in this. And this came in 2017?

Yeah. Dude, I feel like he must be like still using his, like, his OG equipment or something. Probably. Yeah, probably. Because why would you, why would you start using like, you know, the digital audio workstations if you've got like the legit analog, like old school? I mean, dude, he's 73, and he put out a record last year. So he's still cranking out the tunes, man. Awesome, dude. And that was another great record, Nightfall came out last year.

Yeah. And that just describe his music perfectly, dude, nightfall, you know. Indeed. Again, that was Peter Baumann. That song was called Valley of the Gods of his 2017 record, Machines of Desire. And here comes another 180 from Quentin. Here it comes, dude. So, man, this group is quickly becoming.

I almost said slowly becoming, but it's fast, dude. You know our fondness for Balkans. Love them. Love them. They will always hold us a place, dude, in my heart. Well, these guys are up there, man, for me. Same level of, I don't know, how do you describe it? It's punk.

It's a little garage. Garage. I mean, some surf, jangly guitar kind of stuff. Fast-paced, exciting. You know,

I mean, anyways, they are one and the same to me as far as like, just fucking nailed it. You know? I mean, like this,

that style of, of, what do you want to call it, dude? Yeah. And we did do an entire, do we do a full-length on, Balkins?

Maybe. A fooling. It's possible. And, dude, we featured the lead singer. I don't remember. He's got another band that he's in. Yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah, they've popped up quite a bit throughout the years on this show. Yeah, yeah. So this group, have I even said it, dude? You did. Yes, Jurassic Shark. Jurassic Shark. Oh, I thought. Wait, what?

I'm not brief. Wait, so is Jurassic Shark just a similar band? Yes. Yes. Yes, I said that. I did say this group is quickly, you know, getting to the same levels of, you know, my fondness for Balkans. Okay, fair enough. I feel that way towards this group.

And yeah, dude, I'm dropping the ball with the name of the band. You're getting excited at you. Dude. You're getting ahead of yourself. And so I featured a couple songs, at least, by this group in the past. They de-banded a while ago. They are no more. Their last album came out.

2018. So, nearly a decade ago. Fuck me. That's insane to me. God damn. Getting old, huh?

Dude. Anyways. So yeah, dude, let's just do it, man. I can't get enough for these guys.

So again, Jurassic Shark album, this was their, I'm bringing a song from their last album called Overflow. Again, it came out in 2018.

This track is called Arrowhead. It's going to be hard to come down from that high. Math rock a little bit, maybe just because of how all over the place there were. Syncopated. Yeah, just so cool, man. Everything about that was phenomenal. The baseline.

The drumming was phenomenal. He reminds me of the Walkman, you know, like just that like frenetic kind of. Yeah, off of bows and arrows for sure. The rat. Yeah. They're at that record. But yeah, man, there was, there was, I feel like the heyday of the surf rocky punk type stuff was like the 2010s. So I guess this would technically fall under that.

But there's so many bands like that that came out. This would have been like the freshman class of learning from the early, because this is 2018 draft. Yeah, yeah, but I'm just saying like there was a ton of bands And Balkans came out and, you know, during our New Dust days. 2009, early. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So anyways, dude, real bummer that they're not putting stuff out anymore.

But shout out to the drummer, dude. This is one of the things I love about Balkans too and this style of like, whatever you want to call it, dude, garage punk, whatever. I just love the drumming and I like, I envy these drummers because they're just so. awesome. Just fast-paced, you know, complex. I mean, just, I just love it. I can't get enough of it. Well, they still have an Instagram presence here, but. Do they? As in like, they're still active on it? Yeah, April 1st. What? What? And people are like, come back. Okay, so basically, I don't know, they might be doing stuff. There's a picture of them with a guitar in his hand. Give me, give me, give me, give me, and people are like, don't play with it.

that you know I'm like are you about to tease something this was a couple months back here please so and somebody's like I manifested this bro oh man yeah so he's like was just listening to you all today don't play around otherwise like don't be putting posts like this you're not about to put on new tunes so there might be new Jurassic Sharks so I will say that the album of those that I first heard was from 2016 it's just a little four track EP called Blue School. Also great.

Yeah, all their stuff is just phenomenal, dude. Sweet. Anyways. I see it. So you're going to bring us down or? Like, intentionally? I'm going to slow it down. I'm not going to bring us down.

Okay. Okay. So I got to confess to you guys that I kind of misled you a little bit. Hmm. What now? I said I wasn't going to play any hum, which is technically true. Okay. But I am going to play a song from Matt Talbot's side project.

So he's the lead singer for him. He did a project called Centaur, just this one little record that he put out with some other musicians that I don't. I don't recognize the bands that they were in. But it's Matt Talbot of hum on vocals, guitar. Derek Neidringhaus of big bright lights and drummer Jim Kelly from 16 tons. So I've never heard of those other guys. But anyway, this record is just, I almost, you know, just sort of put it under the umbrella of hum in terms of like music that sounds, you know, on the same vibe as hum.

But this music is more emotional, more personal. And it's funny because there were some. photos released of sort of like, you know, on the road and stuff over these past few weeks and he was wearing a Centaur shirt, which was kind of cool. So, anyway, I'm going to play the very last track,

which is also the title track off of this record. And it's a great song, man. I think you're going to like it. So again, the band is called Centaur. This came out in 2002. The song is called In Streams. Getting some Ethan Dorell, dude. So I wonder if they were fans

of hum. And his vocal delivery. I'm not surprised at all, yeah. I like it, man. I like it. So I'm not as big a fan of hum as you are. Does this, you said this is just, you feel like this is just an extension,

like this is just more hum stuff? Yes, absolutely. Just in terms of like, the way he structures his songs, the guitar tone, all that kind of stuff. And the way he does, like, hum, a lot of hum songs.

do sort of the loud and then quiet type stuff all the time. Well, that was a 13-minute track, do you? Yeah, yeah, and that's the album closer. So, like, it does a lot of stuff. Like, it's very instrumental toward the end. It kind of goes into a whole different kind of place. But, yeah, the way that he sings, he's got a very monotone delivery. It's kind of the funny thing.

Totally. But, like, the way he structures his lyrics and, stuff like that. There's something, something about his songwriting that is, I don't know, it's fucking, it's fucking great. Yeah, I like it a lot. Dude, it's very captivating. Yeah, I mean, that's a great word for hum, dude. They are, they are very captivating. And yeah, I mean, I think that kind of sums up that whole slideaway festival, man. Yeah. Was just, just, you know, that kind of music, you know, the people that came together to experience hum, live. Yeah, it was great, man. It was great. So anyway, go listen to HOM, for Christ's

sake. You know what I mean? I got to say, man, if I were to pick an album to recommend, more and more, their 2020 album Inlet as becoming my favorite hum record. Oh, so they're, when they came back. Their most recent release, yeah. They had a little comeback. Yeah, yeah. And then the drummer died a couple of years ago. And so, you know, everybody thought they were done, right? And then a lot of people think that this is like this was the way that they're going to sort of end things, you know. Like, go out on a fucking high note, man, because they, it doesn't get any higher than the reception that they got during this festival. So anyway, so again, that was Matt Talbot's side project, Centaur.

That record came out in 2001 called, or I'm sorry, 2002. A song was called in streams off a record of the same name. All right, Q, you're going to close. is that? What do you got? What do you got for us? How do you, how do you put a bow on it? I'm going to give us a nice, like, how we described it the Sundays, kind of like a warm blanket to wrap things up. Warm blankets. Wrap it up in a warm blanket, you know? Here comes another shout-out, dude, to, I guess basically the same subreddit, except it's the Dream Pop subreddit. Oh, wow, man.

Now, here's the thing. It is because I don't have to say it because we say it all the time, but Dreampop, shoegays, same thing. Technically, right? You didn't even have to say that. But on the Dream Pop subreddit, it is what you and I think of, you know, it's Dream Pop. It's different. Of course it is. Of course.

It's different. Same umbrella. Same umbrella. The Sundays, Dream Pop. Chapter House, where we listened to earlier. Chapter House. Or who am I thinking of? Because, like, Lush or Susie and the Banshees.

Anyways. This band falls under that category. They are At Miss Bloom. You ever heard of them? That sounds familiar. I didn't know nothing about them until someone posted this track on the Dream Pop Sub Reddit. So this is an album there is called Flora that came out in 2022. And here we go, dude.

This song is called Something Other Than You. We've ascended again to Great Heights. Heavy Sundays vibes. Yes, man. Totally. Specifically that one album of theirs. Yes, man. Fucking adore.

That I finally came around to. That you finally came around. I finally came around to it. Blind from 92 by the Sundays. We did a full episode on them. Yeah, it was great. We did a no-fieler rerind on that episode, so you don't have to scroll back too far in the feed to find it back in November.

I think we covered it or re-released it. Anyways, yeah, dude, that's Dream Pop. That is Dream Pop. Definitely. But I think this is just more of the same sort of like resurgence of Dream Pop and Shoecase. In terms of like, I mean, I feel like Dream Pop has never really, I feel like both Dream Pop and Shugates has never actually left ever. Dreampop, I think, more so than Shugays.

Yeah, because I mean, a lot of those bands just a moment ago, and I was talking about sort of like the surfy kind of stuff. Beach House. Beach House was keeping Dream Pop alive back in the 2010s, right? Right, exactly. And a lot of bands like that. There are tons of bands like that. So, yeah, it's almost like Shugays and Dream Pop is the most, like,

has the most staying power out of any subgenre of rock. I mean, really, if you think about it. Since it's birth in the late 80s. Yeah. Mid-80s, I don't know. I mean, you could say metal maybe has the stronghold, because metal has never, ever left. But even metal has, I mean, there's not too many bands. You know, metal keeps evolving, anything like that.

But, like, yeah, I don't know, man. It's a good time to be alive, I think, in terms of, I mean, if there's just, we got to find something to point to, to say that it's a good time to be alive. And I think there's just a lot of great indie bands, but not music right now. Lots of great, lots of great music. Yeah, man, definitely a great time to be a suitcase and dream pop lover. Or grunge, dude. I mean, I just love what the kids are doing, dude.

Just love what the kids are doing. You know, the kids are all right, as they say. Anyway, I think that was like, you know, we had a couple of blips. But overall, I think that was a very feel-good, uplifting episode of music there, Q. Indeed. We took a little turn with whatever that song was that you brought that the freak out in the car punched the... Oh, oh, motherfucker from hell. Motherfiger from Hill.

And then I gave us a little dystopian turn with Peter Bowman. Yeah. Yeah. For the most part, pretty even keeled in terms of like just sort of uplifting tunes, Q. I agree, man. Soaring high in the sky. Floating around, you know. Floating around it.

Well, anyway, I honestly don't know what our next deep dive is, Q. None of us do. You, me, no one. Not a clue. We got a while to figure it out, dude. Sure. You're right. Because Guster's going to drop any day now.

Well, it's already in your feed if you're listening to this. And I think we even teased at the end of the end of the, of that episode what we were doing. And I forgot what we talked about. All right. Well, let's end with that divinels track that I was talking about you. Okay. No, hang on.

Wait. I think you got to pick the outro last time. So let me, why don't we just finish with another Jurassic Shark song? I'm down with that. Sounds good to me, dude. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Because that was a fantastic swine. Indeed.

And I'll do one that we did not feature on the Pompuyter. yet. Travis, you do the thing, man. You do the outro. Fine. Yeah. So, as we like to say at the end of every episode, you can find us on Instagram. That's the best place to get in touch with us.

Tell us, hey, I'm genuinely curious. Is anybody listening? Did anybody go and catch one of the six Slydeway Fest shows in New York, Chicago, or L.A.? Because I'm just genuinely curious. I would love to hear from you. We're also part of the Pantheon Podcast Network, Pantheon Podcast.com, if you want to find more music-related podcasts. Thanks, as always, for listening. We're going to do another Jurassic Shark song from the same album, Overflow.

Just another solid tune, man, from a great band. Hopefully, that Instagram posts is a sign of things to come, dude. That'd be great. So this is track two off of overflow. This one's called Sometimes. That's going to do it for us today. My name's Quentin, and I'm Travis. You all take care.