No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Somewhere Between Motown and Sade Edition

Episode Date: March 28, 2022

Our monthly mixtape is back and surely you know the drill by now? 10 tracks from 10 different artists, no rules just great tunes. We kick things off with a brand new single from Guerilla Toss from their brand new record Famously Alive. Tracklist: Guerilla Toss - Cannibal Capital Common Saints - Fastlane Vitesse X - Repress Reprise Strongboi -Fool Around Saunimon - JAVELIN Letting Up Despite Great Faults - New Ground Baxter - Going Soon Widowspeak - While You Wait Auragraph - 210907 Honeyglaze - Female Lead George Clanton - Tie Me Down The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'll tell you kick off a record, dude. That's the opening track on their upcoming album, famously alive. That's actually should be out by the time this episode releases. It should drop on the 25th of March. What a great song, man. Yeah, they're like, they're my new favorite, like, experimental, electronic alt, whatever you want to call these guys. That song reminded me of, let me see if you can pick up what I'm putting down here, Q. March of the swivelheads.

March of the swivelheads. That song on the Ferris Bueller's Day Off soundtrack. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The baseline kind of reminded you of it. A little bit. Yeah, so they're putting out a new record. I actually listened to that song Cannibal Corpse that we just played. I guess when this first came out, the single.

So, yeah, we're just around the corner from the full release. So I'm excited about that. That could be a contender for Best of 2022. We'll see how it stacks up. I'm excited too. I haven't actually listened to the other single, which is actually the title track, famously alive. They released it along with Cannibal Capital.

But yeah, it's a full length record. Where would you put these guys? Like, are they in the same, at least like building as animal collective, like a band like that, right? Where it's like... Yeah. Well, here we go, dude. If you go to their Wikipedia page... Art pop, I think, makes sense for them.

Art pop makes sense, yeah. It also mentions no wave. No wave, okay. On Wikipedia. But it says in parentheses early. And I don't know if that means like early on in the career of the band, maybe they were more no wave. Or if they're saying early, no wave. I'm not sure.

Yeah, who knows. We did bring one of their songs last year. It all kind of falls under the same umbrella and like kind of, yeah, synthy, glitchy, electronic-y pop type stuff. Yeah, so I think, man, art pop is a good way to say it. If you wanted to really just hone in. Yeah. Art, art pop electronic. I think it works, man.

Yeah, cool. Yeah, I was a big fan of that song of theirs that you brought last year, Betty Dreams of Green Men from their album, G.T. Ultra. That's a killer truck. Yeah, really good. So yeah, Q, this is our what you heard for March coming in right at the last second here, you know, to close out the month. Yeah, man, this is what, this is dropping on the, it's the 28th, right? Today's the 28th. Yeah.

Not really, but. Yeah, that's right. Today is definitely not the 22nd of March. It's the 28th. Before we get into it, Trow, let's take a quick ad break. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Without a healthy mind, being truly happy and at peace is hard. The good news is therapy works.

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Thanks again to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode. All right, Traff. So I've got a song that I think pairs really well with that Gorillitas song. So this is an artist that goes by common saints. Common saints. Not to be confused with pale saints. Don't confuse them because this is nothing like pale saints, dude. It looks very psychedelic, the album art.

Is that what we're in store for here, Q? According to Bancamp, psychedelic soul music from the UK. Okay. I'm going to read on here. It says some nutritious sounds for the ears and movies for the mind. So it's good for you then. It's good for you. All right.

Just a quick search on Google doesn't really find too much for me on this group. I don't know if it's a group or if it's just one guy. I will look into it while the song plays. But this is just their second release. This album's called Star Child that came out last October. And I'm just going to play track number one. This song is called Fast Lane. Love the bass line that's kind of present throughout.

The drums are very like drumming bass almost, which is really cool. And then that guitar cell, it was great. Super tasty jam, dude. So did you find out anything about the group? I did, yeah. I had to do a little digging on discogs. And, yeah, it is just one guy. His name's Charlie Perry.

And, yeah, this is his personal project. And he is a renowned producer. So that is his main gig. So it's possible that every instrument we hear is this guy? Could be him, yeah. That's cool. Could be all him. Yeah.

Yeah, it says he has producing. for the likes of BTS. Hello. Uh-oh. All right. Well, that's where he got his paycheck. Yeah. Star Child sucks up influence from an array of styles.

So that's, again, that's the name of the album. Exploring these areas through fusions of psychedelic soul and funk and belaric tendencies, all tended by memorable songwriting and production, Nuis. I like this quote here from Charlie at the top. So this is an article from I Am Your. You're not familiar. with this website, but says here, the idea you could create a song from basically nothing was a phenomenon for me, like being an alchemist. I knew then that was all I wanted to do.

And that speaks to being a musical producer and for being a solo act, you know, especially one that, you know, like Tycho comes to mind or Lossel or washed out, all those one-act musicians that just do everything, right? It's like you're an alchemist, just creating something out of nothing. Really great stuff. The whole album's like this. Just super tasty, man.

So again, that was Fast Lane. That's track one off of Common Saints album, Star Child. And I'm going to pass it on to you, Treve. What's you got? Okay. So I'm going to start us off with a artist under the 100% Electronica. record label. Now, have you heard of that, Q?

I have not. Have you heard of George Clanton? Yes. Okay. So he is the founder of that label, and his debut record was called That 100% Electronica. So anyway, it's a electronic music label that sort of caters to vapor wave artists. However, the label is not just vapor wave music. And this artist in particular is kind of more your traditional, like, electronic dance kind of music. But being that it's under this label, she has kind of this 90s flare, which is, I feel like Vaporave has this, like, 90s internet, you know, aesthetic to it and stuff like that. And so with her, so her name is Fetess X.

That's how you say it, I guess. And even her logo kind of looks like a 90s rave logo. logo. But what she sort of does, let me just sort of read from her bio here. This is kind of a good way to describe it. Her songs recognize the history of rave music as a vehicle for surreal, otherworldly, and most of all, emotional pop songs, swirling together technicolor synth programming from that tradition with a technical approach she honed in her years as an esteemed sound engineer. Her work feels nostalgic and future at once, which is kind of what vapor wave is in a way and what like chill wave was and stuff like that, right? Where it's like,

like we talk about, hemagogic, right? It sounds, it sounds nostalgic, but it also sounds like contemporary and modern, right? Yeah, you can't necessarily point to exactly why it brings up feelings of nostalgia, but does. Yeah. That description excites me. I don't know if you remember Peggy goo, that artist I brought to the table for our favorites of 2021. Yeah, the name rings a bell. I might as well have been the same person that you described. So I'm excited to hear this. Well, let me just read this sentence here because this jumped out of me.

Vitess X, and by the way, her name, her real name is Jordan Stern. And apparently she was involved with some chill wave acts in the 2010s. and I couldn't find the bands that she was a part of. I tried finding it on her discogs page and just tried Googling her name and stuff. But either way, she had actually gained one of the bands that she was in gained some attention in a record label and they toured and stuff, but I wasn't able to track it down. But either way, it says she fell in love with the expansive possibilities of music

when she was a teenager listening to acts like Radiohead, Apex Twin, and Fortet, who wrung powerful feelings out of intricate genre-blurring productions. That's some great influences, dude. Great description, right? I mean, that tees it up. Here is a song from 2021. This song is called Repress Reprise. That's it right there, man.

That is it. Yeah, it's got a lot of great elements to it. And you can hear definitely like the rave dance music influence, right? And she actually, before she started making music on her own, she was like a DJ in New York. Just amazing how much her path was very similar to Peggy Goose. She was a DJ before she got into producing, heavily, you know, influenced by the, like, the rave or like the trance scene, you know, from the 90s. And yeah, her music sounds very similar. The more and more she started to DJ around the city, as it says here, it clarified her affection.

for the blissful rush of dance music. And so she sort of brings that into this kind of sound. But her vocals are very dream poppy, shoegazy almost. And that's the thing. Like I actually said that she was in some chill wave bands. It says here she actually began playing guitar and bass in punk shoegaze and chill wave outfits. So she's like super versatile. That's awesome.

And one of the bands, I wish they had mentioned it, says that it gained ground in the early 2010's blog scene. We know all about that blog scene. That's, that was our scene, man. Yeah. So anyway, so she, you know, she used to, she used to play, play guitar and or bass and some sort of an indie outfit that took off in the 2010s. And now she's DJing, you know, in New York putting out this kind of stuff. So very versatile musician. She has a new record out this year that I'm actually saving for our end of year. I'm already looking ahead, cue. That's exciting to hear, dude. I held on to a song that was dope because I'm going to share it at the end of the year. So again, that was Vitesse, and that song was called Repress, Reprise.

I'm going to throw it back to you, Q. All right, man. So going back to our favorites from 2021, you remember Alice Phoebe Lou, hard to forget, her music. Mm-hmm. I brought one of her songs, Only When I, which is actually the opening track off of her album, Glow from last year. I brought that as one of my favorites. And earlier last year, I brought a track from a group called Strongboy. Do you remember that, dude?

Remember that song, Tough Girl? I remember the name. Well, I had that revelation that Strongboy is Alice Vibilu. And longtime friend and bandmate Ziv Yaman. So it's just a duo. And, man, everything that they make together is just beautiful. dude, I love it, love it, love it. And this is a new-ish single from them.

Came out February 25th, so not that long ago. And, Trive, you're gonna, dude, you're gonna love, love this song. Okay. That's a guarantee. All right. All right, here we go. This song is called Fool Around. That's kind of like a, I don't know, Motown sound.

I mean, I'm trying, I'm grasping here, but like the, the, the, just that, that organ or or keyboard sound kind of had like a, like a, like a 50, 60 sound to it, at least to me. Like I said, I was grasping there, but had kind of a, kind of a throwback sound. Super retro. Super retro. And her other song, Tough Girl, that I immediately fell in love with when I heard it last year, similar vibes. And it kind of reminded me of.

like a not so jazzy Chadeh. Just kind of like smooth pop music. Hmm. Okay. I think we're both stretching. So somewhere between Motown and Chade in the world, in the vast world between those two sounds is this song here. Well, really just the vibes that she brings in general. As Strong Boy.

Yeah. That's the awesome thing about Alice Phoebe Lou. Dude, she is very eclectic. And like even just from song to song. on her album from last year glow, just wide ranging and, I mean, she's just so talented. Like, she's one of my favorite artists

as of now. Everything that she does is fantastic. Reading the article headline that you got here, fiery and funky. Maybe that's a good way to describe it. Yeah. It's definitely funky. And I think that's what I was thinking about when I said Motown. Yeah. That's probably the wrong realm

of music. But I mean, it's got kind of a classic soulful sound to it. Well, we can't leave Ziv Yaman out of the mix, dude, you know. He's bringing those tasty synth licks. So, yeah, I'm excited to hear more from either of her projects. Her alter ego, Strongboy, and her solo stuff. Just terrific all around, dude.

Love it. So again, that was Fool Around by Strongboy. I'll pass it back to you, brother. All right. So I'm going to credit the Ambient Music subreddit for this one. And sometimes, you know, it really does come down to the album art. Sometimes we'll dry you in and you're like, that album art looks dope. That happens to me all the time.

Yeah. All the time. You know, odds are, if the album art is dope, the record's going to be dope. I wonder if that's something that our age group and older like to do. Because, you know, back when I was flipping through CDs at CD Addict, Shout out to Mark Burke. It came down to the CD art almost every time, you know, because you're flipping through just a genre that you like. Yeah.

If you don't know the artist, it all comes down to the art. I mean, you're taking a risk, but sometimes it pays off. So this has like this really cool. I don't know if you could see that thumbnail cue. Yeah, I love it. But it looks like sort of like this illustration, right? Almost like a... I like that style a lot.

Comic book style art. Yeah. It just looks cool. solid colors, no gradients. Yeah. Really well executed album art there. Anyway, so this guy's name is, or he goes by Sonimon. And all I know about him, and he's basically like a California, L.A. based electronic musician.

And I can see why this record was recommended on the ambient music subreddit. But sometimes, a lot of times on that subreddit, it's like straight what you would think of when you think of ambient music. This is more IDM electronic ambient, which I love. That's your jam, man. It's my jam, dude. You've got playlists that are thousands of tracks long. It's my bread and my butter. Yeah.

So, yeah, this came out last year. The record is called Xalix. So here we go. This song is called Javelin. Yeah, that is what I'm always searching for in that vein. If you like that, yeah, you like the rest of the record. Now, that song is a little bit more. It has a little bit more energy to it than some of the other ones.

But, you know, that's all part of the journey that you're on here. So, and then with that one, he even threw in kind of like a female vocal sample a little bit. So, yeah, like in the world of like electronic music, this is like, I would put this under like, yeah, IDM, like the IDM umbrella, which I've always loved. Tyco kind of falls under that. Borgia, it's kind of like the group where that, I think that term was kind of coined for them. intelligent dance music, right? Yeah. You turned me on to Andy Stott.

Yeah, and he's a little bit darker, right? Yeah, I love that stuff. Again, that guy, his name, he goes by Sonamon. And yeah, that album was called Zalix. That song was called Javelin. I'm going to throw it back to you, Q. All right, Traff. So flooding up despite great faults is back.

And they haven't released a record in eight years. They kind of split and did their own thing for a while, and they're back. And if you don't know, I'm going to. just going to say L-U-D-G-F. If you don't know what they're all about, they are the epitome of, and I'm just going to quote K-E-X-P, blissful, fuzz-ed-out dream pop. They're like a warm, snugly blanket, dude. And their latest album, it's called Four.

Just dropped this month. I'm going to play one of my favorites off the record. The song is called New Ground. Feeling good. Like I'm in a warm blanket. I'm telling you, man. So, I mean, these guys are, these guys are in the, in the shoe gaze umbrella, but they're more, you know, what they do is add like a little bit of a,

kind of like an indie pop flare to it, right? So maybe dream pop is better, is a better term for him. Dream pop. And even like, there's some moments of like new wave. And in this album specifically because they, they kind of approach this album a little bit differently. You know, if you go back to their self-titled debut from 09, it is more washed out in that wall of sound.

You know, it is more classic Shugee sound, but to quote this right up here, sonically, the group's sound on this new album, explores a more aggressive forward-leaning approach wherein Lee elected to break the hermetic shield of synths and filtering. So it's kind of more at the forefront, his vocals and the way it's produced.

And, yeah, a lot of these songs are just straight up, like more new wave pop yeah i can hear that and that's a good call that like their first record or the early stuff was kind of and i used to washed out but i actually thought about washed out the chill wave artist yeah so we we featured them on on new dust and i'm sure they made the rounds on all the blogs yeah i got to interview one of them for oh you did for the blog yeah how did i forget about that anyway but yeah i i i credit them to kind of like reinvigorating my curiosity for for really what shoe gaze means because before that shoe gaze to me was my bloody valentine because i hadn't really dove into that genre yet and um yeah man they definitely helped helped me like

cultivate that love dude and i mean that's like probably our favorite genre right yes definitely so yeah that is again new ground from letting up despite grid fault's latest album four and rapid fire back to you, brother. What you got? All right. So credit goes to our father for reminding me of this guy. But this is another, I think this was literally somebody who emailed us when we had that music blog. So very, this is a good way to segue from your pick, Q.

This is a Helsinki-based DJ, or I guess electronic producer, who goes by Baxter. his will name is Willie Baxter. And I remember probably including this, either doing a write-up on this record or just featuring it in my weekly post that I did called Electric Saturdays. But yeah, my dad was like, hey, I'm listening to this record because I bought the CD for him years ago. And I was like, man, that was a really great record. Let me cue it up again. Yeah, I don't remember this artist at all. It's great, man.

It's, his vocals are really interesting because, and this is a reference that you and I might be the only ones who know who this artist is because of our dad, ironically enough. But his vocals remind me of this jazz singer named Michael Franks. He has this very soft jazz, playful kind of jazz voice. I don't know how else to describe it. That's Michael Franks, dude. Playful jazz. Yeah. Yeah.

But this is a electronic record, and he sings on it. And his voice has this kind of soft, almost jazzy quality to it. But, you know, if I were to try to narrow down some other labels to kind of throw on it, it's got kind of a disco vibe to it as well. So it's got like a synthy, disco-y electronic sound to it, plus his vocals in the lyrics are also kind of what make it great. So I'm going to play a song off with this record, The name of the record is called In Between.

So again, this guy's name is Baxter. I'm going to play a song here called Going Soon. He was doing like MollSoft Vaporwave before MollSoft Vaporave was a thing. Yeah, well, this came out in 2009. It's in the same vein as like Toro I Moire or maybe like Neon Indian, all around the same time. That's right, yeah. But he has a little bit more kind of synth-poppy sound to him. Yeah.

But yeah, I just remember really loving this record. The whole thing is great. And here's the thing that blew me away, dude. This seems to happen more often than not. Because I wanted to find out who this guy was. Because, like, you know, unfortunately, if you click on his artist profile and Spotify, it's one of those things where it's like, oh, there's like five artists named Baxter and all of them have their records under this one Spotify profile.

So it's like, you know, none of it. of this other stuff on here is from him, right? Man, I got to figure out a way to sort that out. I know, I know. But anyway, so I wanted to look into the guy and see, like, what else is he done, right? So he mostly releases stuff under the name Willie Baxter, but he had a, he has a blog spot, which is like this old blog platform that he still uses. And December of last year, he said, he had a title on a blog post that just said,

new album 2022. So here we go, dude. This always happens. It happens all the time. It happens all the time. It's like I reconnect with an artist that I haven't listened to in a long time. And either they're touring and they're going to be in my neck of the woods like the next month or they're about to put on a new record or something. So it's like, you know, anyway, so I was reading his blog post here.

I was kind of excited because he's saying that he's been listening to a lot of 70s Pink Floyd, as well as early 80s, E-L-O, air, which you and I both love, Elton John, etc. So he's listening to a lot of old 70s stuff. So that's probably going to go into that sound, right, that he's working on. Wow. So anyway, I will be paying attention to that and looking forward to that. So anyway, that guy, again, he goes by Baxter, at least up for this record. He's also known as Willie Baxter.

That's probably his real name. This album was called In Between and that song was called Going Soon. All right, Q, what you got? So this is a duo that I really need to dive a little deeper into because they've been around for over 10 years and I'm really only familiar with one song of theirs. The song I'm thinking of is the good ones, which is such a good song. Like, I can't tire of it.

So it's singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas. And man, so actually I'll just read this right up here. It says, a project perennially anchored by warm, expansive arrangements, references to 90s dream pop, 60s psychedelia, and a certain unshakable Pacific Northwestness. Pacific Northwestness, actually, I know what I'm in store for here. Yeah, yeah. So they just dropped a new album this month. So this is another brand new record. And this is in the running for me, dude, for best album of the year.

It's just such a beautiful record. And I'm only going to spoil track one. So you only get a feel for how it kicks off. You know, that way you can enjoy the rest of it without knowing what's to come. So just get ready, man. And just get ready to press play on this album. And this one deserves your attention and, you know, a proper listen. So this is a brand new album from Widow's Peak.

The album is called The Jacket. And this song is called While You Wait. Yeah, I love the way that kind of flute synthesizer thing really provided like the main sort of like uplifting part of the song. Like it had this nice like compared to her voice at least added a nice like contrast. because, like, her voice was very, like, almost like lackadaisical, you know, kind of, like, lazy kind of delivery, like, very, like, monotone almost. But then that flute constantly in the background sort of, like, added this, like, this soaring sort of, like, uplifting sound to it.

Because, you know, with flutes, you think of, like, birds and shit, you know. Yeah. Pleasant imagery comes to mind. And then that very, again, like, very, like, lazy, barely fuzzy kind of guitar, strum that just kind of happened. Those two chords that kind of come in there. It's interesting. So let me read a couple

things here that just really sums this album up and their sound really well. It says dynamics shift seamlessly between gentle drifting ballads and twangy jams, built up from layered guitars, dusty percussion, and

ambling bass lines. Thomas's guitar playing is as lyrical and emotive as it's ever been, and Hamilton's voice, comfortable and effortless. Yeah, but it's got this sort of like lazy delivery to it, at least on that song, and I thought it worked really well with the flute because it provided this nice contrast that really worked well, I thought. Basically, I just, I love the flute.

I love it. I think it works well. It's, yeah, the way they layer it is very cool. Yeah, yeah, really well done. Well, give that album a listen. It is a real treat, man, a real treat. So again, that is the jacket by Widow's Peak. All right, man, we're rounding third base, just about getting there.

We're like at the shortstop. Got three more tracks. What's you been heard lately, brother? Okay, so I dipped my toes into the vapor wave pool again since we last recorded a What You Heard. So I'm going to bring a vapor wave song, like a true vapor wave song. This guy, he goes by Auregraph, and his real name is Hector Carlos Ramirez. He is from Texas, Q.

That's where we're from. That is where you and I are from. That's where I currently reside. But apparently, back in the day, he played in some hardcore and punk bands in Laredo, Texas. Before I moved to Austin prompted his fascination. with synthesizers and samplers. So that was kind of funny because usually it's like you go to Austin and then you join hardcore punk bands, right?

So anyway, he actually has a pretty impressive resume on him. He actually has composed and mixed for shows like Stranger Things. Whoa. And Nat Geo's Valley of the Boom. And he's collaborated with artists like Survive, which, if you know anything about Stranger Things, you know, that survive is basically the dudes that did the Stranger Things soundtrack. I think the guy's name is like Kyle, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein.

So anyway, so he, you know, he works with those guys, basically. But under Auregraph, he's been doing this kind of electronic stuff under that name since 2018. And this record, compared to the rest of his stuff that I've listened to, has a different sound to it. And I really like it. It's a brand new record. The name of the album is eight-eightes. And I mean, it's literally just the number eight, eight times. And the track numbers or the tracks are just like seemingly random numbers.

I should say seemingly random six-digit numbers that start with two and one. So it was kind of hard for me to remember which one I liked. What does it all mean? But anyway, I think this, you know, like we said earlier, vapor wave is kind of like this, homage to like 90s synth sound, I guess, if you will. And this record in particular makes me think of a couple of things. One is the Golden Eye soundtrack, or at least parts of it, which is this guy, this composer named Eric Sarah, who also did the Fifth Element soundtrack.

And then probably more so is the X-Files music. Oh, now my ears are perked, brother. Now, not the theme song, but like the stuff that you would hear on, you know, on an episode or something like that. So that composer's name is Mark Snow. I had to give credit to those two dudes. But anyway, I'm just going to let you hear it for yourself. This song is called 21097. I have the urge to play multiplayer golden eye for some reason.

Yeah, I love it. I freaking love this stuff, man. It reminds me of like those, yeah, those 90s like sci-fi. What was that one computer game where you're kind of like looking around for clues? I think it was called like Mist or something. Oh yeah, missed. Yeah. Gives me those vibes.

Robin Miller, I think his name is a composer. Yeah, totally. That's a good call. And that's another 90s. It's a 90s computer game, right? So, yeah, I could just like, I could just see Scully like running around with her gun drawn like in the forest, you know, looking for some grays and stuff. Is it time that I. Give X-Files a proper watch, too.

Still haven't done it. I know it's one of your favorites. The answer to that question is always going to be yes. Watch the original series. It's great. It's just fun, dude. It's just a blast. I've seen a good chunk of it, yeah.

I really enjoyed it. It just kind of fell off the list. It's great, man. You know, it kind of has a monster of the week kind of vibe to it. Right. But there are episodes, and you can even find threads on, like, the X-File Reddit for like, here are the episodes to watch. watch if you just want the main plot points and like the main story because like they had so many

episodes to fulfill in a season that they just had these random episodes and then they'd have a few sprinkled in for like the main plot points you know so but I like the fun random episodes are kind of will make it enjoyable anyway so that guy he went by our graph um that song was called 2109907 if you want to write that down or just go listen to the record it's his newest record But yeah, most of his stuff is a little bit more straightforward, like synth wave type stuff. So that's kind of what stood out to me about this record. It has more that darker kind of vibe to it and reminded me of, like I said, 90s like sci-fi type stuff, which I love it.

Okay, Q. What is your last pick for us today? All right. So I'm pretty excited about this group. It's another fairly new band. They're just working on releasing their debut album. They've just dropped a few singles so far. They are a British indie pop band.

And wouldn't you know it, Chavve, the word Tui has found its way back to this podcast. There it is. Where has it been all this time? It's been there the whole time, Q. We just haven't seen it. I overlooked it. So this is a trio. led by Anuska Sokalo.

The band is called Honeyglaze. And I've only heard two songs of theirs. One of them is called Burglar, which was a single they released last year. It's like a dark duet. Like it's kind of a back and forth between her and one of the other members. She just dropped her latest single earlier this month.

It's just a solid Tui song, dude. Very playful, very like, lyrically head. like, you know, just telling a simple story. I think you're like it, dude. It's very fun. So again, this is Honey Glaze. The song is called Female Lead. I watched my favorite movie and thought that maybe I could be just like the female lead.

So I went out to buy some bleach. I put it in my black hair. So great. But when I washed it out, oh God, I've let my mother. So great. I love how conversational it is. Yeah.

And I love how it starts as like a kind of a singer-songwriter thing. And then the rest of the band joins her. And you get this great, very smooth, like, baseline and stuff and drums and whatnot. Like, yeah, I think it was really well done. That's a good, this is their first material that they're putting in. Yeah, their debut album is called Speedy Wonderground, and it's set to release April 29th, so next month. Yeah, that's great. She says about the song here, I was overwhelmed by the state of the world during the first lockdown and constantly being surrounded by bad news.

It was a time when people were playing with changing their appearance, and I felt incapable of writing anything of any actual importance. So I decided to write about something as completely arbitrary as dyeing my hair. I was inspired by the song Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-Laws and the narrative heavy pop songs that were coming out of the Brill Building during the 60s. That's cool. That's that Tweed, dude. That's that yeah, yeah, yeah, pop. So yeah, I'm really stoked to hear more from them.

If you want to hear what else, like what other kind of vibes they bring, check out Burglar, which is another single that dropped last year. Very good, dude. And the lyrics are really, really great. Like that song kind of threw me through a loop when I first heard it. But I'm going to pass it on to you, Trev. How are you going to bring us home? Yeah, I'm going to bring us full circle here, Q,

because I actually mentioned his name earlier, but I've got a song here from George Clanton to close us out. So I stumbled upon, probably bounced back to him through the vapor wave hole that I fell into. But so, yeah, George Clanton is, like, again, the founder of the 100% electronic a record label and he just puts out a bunch of great electronic music. He collaborates with a bunch of people. He's the one that collaborated with the guy from 311, right? Nick Hexum, yeah. Yeah, so we brought that in, I think that was the best of 2020. Yeah, that's a fun record. Yeah. So anyway, that's all you really got to know about this guy. So this song is called Tie Me Down off of his 2018 record slide.

reminded of... Tell me... Okay, say it. Because maybe we'll have the same thought here. Beck. Yep, that's exactly what I'm going. His vocals almost maybe like look it up and be like, did he have Beck on the record? Well, not only just the voice, but like the way that he produces this electronic music is very Beck.

Yeah, and this, you know, he's a very versatile dude. If you listen to like his first stuff, his first record, yeah, it's more. sort of lo-fi, synthy type stuff. But yeah, this song almost had kind of a, it had kind of a 90s structure to it, almost, a little bit, with the verse, at least. And then, yeah, he sounds like Beck toward the end there a little bit, the way he's styling his vocals.

Just a great song. But yeah, George Clinton, he's sort of a, you know, he's responsible for a lot of vapor wave. Let's just put that out there. He's definitely a powerhouse and like a mainstay for sure. Oh, totally, totally. Yeah. And like I said, he collaborates with a bunch of,

of people. Very prolific, prolific guy. He's putting out music all the time. Again, that song was called Time Me Down. It was off his 2018 record slide. And that's going to wrap us up here, Q for this month's what you heard, mixtape. Well, that was a fun one. More eclectic than I thought it was going to be. Good mix, yeah. So, yeah, next week, we're going to go right back to where we left off with our 90s. alt rock marathon that we've kind of been doing with a band called hum which i'm excited about man i'm going to talk about downward as heavenward which is a record they put out in 1998 i believe which is one of my favorite 90s records hands down i'm excited about that that's a great great band i'm definitely excited to to check it out and i'm also excited that you know we're starting

to kind of build out a roadmap to stay in this pocket well yeah what are we doing after this we're doing um we're going to do lush we're going to cover lush's debut record from 91 yeah and from lush i'd be like we could bounce to a lot of different stuff yeah that works really well with that record so this is our wheelhouse really i think it's really everything that we love you know yeah i always go back to to 90s rock because it's just to me it just seems like the most wide-ranging like variety of rock was happening in the 90s you know yeah that's why it's like it feels like you can barely scratch the surface. And yeah, we'll definitely get into that when we cover that debut album from Lush because it kind of blew me away, dude. It was just so much on that record

that I just wasn't not expecting. Yeah, a lot of different kind of sounds on that record. All right, so you can check us out on Instagram at No Filler Podcast. That is the best way to get in touch with us. Send us a PM on there. As always, you can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network, pantheonpodcast.com. music-centered podcast network. Big thanks to AKG for supporting the show. And that's going to do it for us today. I thought it'd be fun to outro out with that Shangri-Las song

that Honeyglaze mentioned as influence for her for that female lead song. So we're going to fade out with Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-Las. If you don't know this song, you know this song. You just don't realize you do. That's going to do it for us to. Today. Next week we'll be coming at you with some hum. Until then, thank you as always for listening. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis. Is she really going out with him? Well, there she is. Let's ask me. Betty, is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing? Mm-hmm. Gee, it must be great riding with him. Is he picking you up after school today?

By the way, where'd you meet him? A matter of measure? Yes, we see. That's when I fell for a leader. of the past.