No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Surprise Surprise Edition

Episode Date: January 24, 2022

In our first Whatcha Heard episode of the year, we bring everything from 90s emo to some fresh doomgaze, bedroom pop to 90s avant-pop, and a bunch of other great tunes in between. It's our monthly mixtape - join us as we jam out to everything we've been listening to lately. Tracklist: Spoon - Wild Working Men's Club - Bad Blood Cloakroom - A Force At Play Lungfish - Jonah Alex G - Forever Jurassic Shark - Carver Airiel feat. Stella Tran - Firefly Cuffed Up - Canaries Hether - Sticky Thumb The Gun Club - Preaching The Blues Stereolab - Op Hop Detonation All Them Witches - Alabaster Visit tiestatea.com and use promo code NOFILLER15 for 15% off at checkout. This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So your experience before takeoff is a taste of what's to come. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Welcome to No Filler. Quentin, and I'm Travis. And we're kicking off the first What You heard of 2022 with a brand new single from Spoon. This song is called Wild. There it is, Q.

Another Spoon song, much like the ones before it, but always different. And always great, dude. Always great. Always great. I really feel like for us, it's just, we just love these dudes so much, man. Like they really, they can do no wrong in my book, dude. They've been a constant in our musical lives for, I mean, it's got to be knocking on 20 years, you know, for sure. Yeah, dude.

Which is crazy. Killed the Moonlight was the first one. And that came out in 2002 because I remember seeing them perform the way we get by on, you know, the late night circuits. So they were touring for that album, dude. Yeah, it was either Lino or Conan is my guess. But yeah, there's always going to be a spoon. It seems like they're just never going to stop, you know. They're never going to stop.

Britt and Jim, you know. As long as that pair can stick with it, they're always going to be writing awesome music together. Because, I mean, I might be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure the other members are not their members that are on the Killed Moonlight. No, I don't think any of them are left. Except for Jim, of course.

Jim and Britt. Yeah, I think you're right. So there you go. So they've got a new LP coming out next month called Lucifer on the Sofa. Ooh, dude, what a dope name for a rock record, man. I can't wait, man. Like that first single that we heard a couple months back. Hardest cut?

The hardest cut. That's such a great song, dude. I love that song. And here's another cool thing. The producer is Mark Rankin. So he's worked with the Queens of the Stone Age, among others. but most importantly, he was the recording engineer for Silent Alarm. Okay.

Lock party. Hello. Dude, that's all right. Which I love the sound of that record. He got my attention. So was he involved with songs for the dead? No, he did like clockwork and villains, so they're later records. Well, here we are Q.

The first, what you heard of 2022. This is our beloved. At least we like it. Maybe, who knows, maybe nobody else likes it. I don't think we're the only ones, dude. We've had some listeners reach out with appreciation from a song that they heard on one of our What You Heard episodes. True, true. I think people are digging it.

Yeah. So this is our monthly mixtape is what we like to call it. We each ping five tracks from any decade, any genre. And that's it, man. The only kicker is it has to be songs that we've been listening to lately. Yes. Songs that we heard in between recordings. That's why it's called What You Heard.

What you've been heard. What have you heard? It's been a full year now that we've been doing the Watch You Heard episodes. We started it in 2021 and we did a full calendar year. So that's cool. That's kind of cool. So this is the anniversary, dude. True.

That's true. Yeah. If you listen to older episodes, we used to do a What You Heard segment at the end or at the beginning, depending on which episode do you listen to, I guess. Right. Depending on how far back you go in our catalog. Yeah. We would each play one song. And it just didn't, you know, it would always just feel just out of nowhere.

And like, we used to have it at the beginning of the episode. And like, if you tuned in because you wanted to hear us talk about the record, you may have to wait 20, 30 minutes sometimes before we even started talking about the band that the episode's about, right? Because we had our watcher heard segment just slapped on in the beginning. So it just never felt right. Yeah, I just felt like I was missing out on like, you know, I have so many songs I would like to share.

I only get to pick one. Yeah, to pick one. Yeah. So, yeah, this has been, this has been fun. And we're just going to keep doing it. I look forward to it every month, dude. Yeah, totally. And I'm super excited about this one because our last What You Hear'd episode was

November. In November because we dedicated all of December to our best of 2021, all of our favorite tracks of the year. Yeah. So we've been, you know, these songs have been just sitting waiting. And, you know, it's been curated to the best five, dude. You know? Yeah.

And I've been changing mine up, dude. But most of these, I have. kept the whole time because I heard, like, there are songs that I heard like the day after we recorded the one in November. So I've been sitting on him, dude, sitting, waiting. Well, let's just, you know what, Q, let's just get this out of the way because I can't wait to tell you about it. TSTAT.com. You can get 15% off your entire order. Use no filler 15 as your promo code at checkout. Get yourself some tasty loose leaf tea. You can't go wrong.

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A bold tea for a bold you. All right, dude, we have decided that I get to kick us off for this new year. That's right, which means I have the honor of being able to play the last song, which I always like to do in that. You get to close us out, dude. Yeah, that's right. But yeah, let's just jump right into it, dude. This episode has all what you heards. It's all about music, so let's just get right into it. It's all about the music, dude. And this band you're going to be familiar with because I actually brought a song of theirs to our favorites of 2021. So this is a band called Working Men's Club. And I brought a single of theirs called X last year during our best of the year.

This is one of my favorite bands that I've discovered in the last several months. And the first song of theirs I heard was actually their debut single, which just came out in 2019. So these guys have only been around for a couple years, at least as Working Men's Club. I don't know what other projects they were working on beforehand. But so do you think that this is like a spiritual like successor to men at work? No. Or what was that one about hats?

Men with working hats or something. A lot of people who are yelling. Men with hats? It's not men with hats, safety dance. Men without hats. Yeah, that's what's called. Okay. Yeah.

Maybe, dude. Honestly, they do kind of bring in some, you know, seven. Some 80s. Some 80s. There's a little bit of talking heads in this song, at least. Okay. So we're getting some 80s. So when you say talking heads, do you mean David Byrne vocals or?

Not so much the vocals, but more like the, I guess like the choppy or like the angular, like strummy guitar. Okay. You'll see, dude. So, yeah, this is by far one of my favorite songs as of now, dude. I love this song, dude. Here we go. This is again, working men's club. The song is called Bad Blood.

Dude, I'll tell you, I was getting beat it by Michael Jackson. What? Guitar-wise, the guitar. Oh, which was Eddie Van Allen. Yeah, totally. And the beginning, the way the guitar kind of interested itself in there. Yeah. But yeah, totally 80s musically.

But like, and maybe we probably touched on this when we discussed, what was it called, X, the song that you brought. Yeah. That like it seems to be with indie music, there's artists like this who are doing this thing where it's kind of like 80s synth plus post-punk. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like the two are kind of blending a little bit. Yeah, it reminded me of that band.

I think I mentioned this last month. It reminds me of the faint. They were doing that back in the early O's. So his voice, dude, I was getting some really strong like Rick Oakesk vibes, you know, like the cars. Okay. Big time. Yeah. With the, vocally?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to play. And like some, some strokesy kind of guitar lines. Yeah.

And that's what I mean. So it's like it's this interesting mashup of the 80s synth plus the post punk of the 2000s. Yeah. It's great. And other 80s type of element. And like you said, it's not entirely unique. There are bands that were doing it like you said,

The Faint. Yeah. But yeah, I like it. Yeah, man. I can't get enough of that song. So that's it, dude. That's all the picks we got for today.

That's it. All right, man. So that was Working Men's Club. The song was called Bad Blood. I'm going to pass it on to you, dude. What did you got? All right, Q. So, I am bringing a song from a band called Cloak Room.

They are classified as shoe gaze, space rock, doom metal, sludge metal. Now, we know better than that, Q. So that's, you know, if you really want to throw all those labels on them, you can. But we know, we know better than that, dude. That's a mouthful, man. It's called doom gaze. It's called doom gaze. We know about this.

We did a whole episode on it. And we didn't cover cloakroom. I could have sworn. I mean, I mentioned them. Oh, wait a second. Hang on a second, bro. This is it. This is the first time.

We were about to play the same artist. The first time in the history of Watcher Heard's. Now, here's the thing, though. Are we going to play the same song? because they've come out with three singles off this upcoming record. I was going to play Lost Meaning. I've got another one. That's fine, dude.

And you know what? I've already got, you know, I've got other songs in mind. Okay. But yeah, that song Lost Meaning of theirs, Hardy on my favorites of 2022. So we, sorry, we got excited there. But no, that's, that hasn't happened yet, surprisingly. That's never happened. We've never brought the same artist or song in what you heard.

Yeah. So, dude, I actually saw a. thread on the shoe gaze subreddit and this guy or girl was specifically looking for... I saw that too. They said, is, I'm looking for stoner gays. Does stoner gays... Is stoner gays a thing? Yeah, that was like today. Top comment was

cloakroom, so... There you go. Yeah, man, I love this stuff. I haven't gotten, I haven't listened to any of their old stuff, but their singles that they've been releasing so far this year are fantastic. Well, have you listened to all three of the singles? Yes. Okay. Well, then you know this song. Oh, no, not all three. I only listen. listen to lost meaning and a force at play. I didn't know that there was another one. I'm bringing force at play. So this is not going to be a fresh reaction from Q. But yeah, here we go. We're going to play this great song by Cloak Room. This song is called A Force at Play. It's crazy how

different that song is from the one I was going to bring Lost Meaning. But I love it. Yeah, well, that's the funny thing. Like, the way I described them, if you've never heard them before, I was like, Doom metal, sludge metal, shoe gaze. And if you hear that song, there's no doom at all in that, right? No. It has elements of shoegaze, but yeah. So here's the deal with this record. It's called Dissolution Wave, and it's a concept album.

So it's telling a story. And so, you know, stories are going to have ups and downs and different moods and feelings and stuff, right? Right, right. whatever this song is about, it's called The Force at Play, like I said earlier, is, you know, something a little bit more airy and sort of like, you know, lighthearted, I guess, you know, more like sort of uplifting and whatnot because that's at least the feeling I get from the song. So like, it's interesting.

Here's the concept, right? So they're describing this LP as a space western in which an act of theoretical physics, the dissolution wave, wipes out all of humanity. existing art and abstract thought. And the songs are written from the perspective of the album's protagonist, an asteroid minor who writes songs by night. That is a cool story. I would watch that fucking show, did it?

Yeah. Or movie. Anyway, so the guitarist and vocalist Doyle Martin basically said that this is how they were processing what was happening to artists and stuff like that. like with the last few years like that they lost you know art a lot of art and music and stuff like that has been lost right yeah and so and they also said that you know they lost a couple of close friends over the course of writing the record so dreaming up another world felt easier to digest than the real nitty gritty we're immersed in every day so that's a quote from the vocalist

and guitar player doyle martin so anyway pretty interesting stuff right the record again is called a dissolution wave comes out at the end of this month. Now, are you familiar with any of their other stuff? Yeah, I've listened to what other record ever I listened to? They've been around for a while. Yeah, I've listened to Time Well. And it's, yeah, it's good stuff. It's, it is kind of what you think of when you think of the term doom gaze.

Like, you know, if you've listened to some Doom Gaze, they fall right into that pocket. His vocals are kind of more shoegazy, right? but like you said, the song that you were going to bring from this record, Lost Meaning, has a totally different vibe and is more, more sludgy, right? Sludgy and more like psych rock even. Yeah. Like with the guitar solo and stuff that's in there. Yeah, great stuff.

And I'm excited to hear the whole album. When is the album come out? January 28th. Nice. All right, Q, I'll throw it back to you for your next pick, what you got for us. All right, dude. So have you heard of a band called Long Affiative? I have not.

They are considered one of the longest surviving emo bands. I'm just going to leave it at that, dude. Okay. That's all I need to hear, actually. That's, yeah. Let's see. Their last album came out. I just want to see if they're still dropping.

Okay, 2012. I guess maybe they're still around. You know what? I got to get to the real bottom of this, dude. I can't just rely on Spotify to tell me all the stuff about these artists, man. You really can't. Okay, they're still active, man. So they've been around since 88.

That is second wave emo, I think. Well, they're still going strong. And I'm bringing a song from their 1996 record Sound in Time. One of the coolest drumbeats have ever heard. All right. So, again, this is Lungfish. This song is called Jonah. Yeah, so like, you know, on the emo spectrum,

that's definitely more like, true to the origins of emo, which is out of like the post-hardcore scene. It's more like punk. Yeah. Right. Which is like first wave emo. But then it's got that more like toned down on the on the distortion. The melodic stuff.

Yeah. I was just looking at their Wikipedia page. This is kind of cool. So I brought a song from from these guys. I think it was our, it was our, God, I don't remember the, Ethan, It was Ethan Dorel episode where we had Joel Fruth on. And my what you heard was this band called June of 44. I don't know if you remember that.

Dude, I loved that song. But guess what, dude? June of 44 was formed out of X members from Lungfish and a few other bands. So there you go. Nice. Very cool. Yeah, that's a cool song, man. I really like that.

I love the little ting, ting, ting. I love the thing he does on that ride symbol, dude. Yeah, I'm a sucker for for little flourishes on the ride. Really cool drumbeat. Flourishes on the ride. So that record came out in 96, huh? Yeah, came out in 96. I haven't really spent too much time on the record as a whole.

But yeah, I love that song, man. I'm going to dive deep into Longfish pretty soon here because they got a big catalog. Oh, yeah. Shuffle it. See what happened to you. I'm a shuffle it deep, dude. So again, that was Jonah. by Lung Fish and pass it back to you, brother.

What you've been heard in. All right, Q, well, here is just another lo-fi bedroom pop artist. But this is like, you know how that term is kind of making a comeback, right? The bedroom pop artist. It seems like everybody's getting that label thrown on them. Yep, I would throw a yacht club under that umbrella, which is one of my favorite artists that I discovered from last year. Yeah.

Absolutely, dude. Well, as we talked about on our 200th episode, and I think we probably talked about it, you know, in December when we were playing a bunch of these new bedroom pop artists, the term kind of goes back to like the 2010s, right? So like with the blogosphere, the music blogosphere, right? Right. A lot of these little indie artists who literally would make an album in their bedroom, you know, so that term started to get associated with like little indie bands. that threw up a band camp page, you know, or a SoundCloud page. It was that easy to do. Yeah, exactly.

Well, this guy, his name, he goes by Alex G. He started putting out music around that time, 2010. And I'm going to play a track off of his 2012 record called Trick. And that's all I need to know, Q, lofi, bedroom pop. Here we go. This guy, again, his name is Alex G. At least that's what he goes by. and this song is called Forever

Yeah man that song like brought me back to like Definitely farther back than 2012 that it took me But man that song just was very nostalgic for me for some reason Really? Reminded me of I don't know like Elliot Smith Like a lot of the stuff that I was listening to right out of high school Yeah I know what you mean There was a certain like style that

I guess death cap for kids cutie. You mean, like, it didn't necessarily sound like those bands, but yeah. But he went in a lot of different places with it, which is what I liked. Like that opening guitar riff is almost kind of like a 90s, a 90s, not grunge, but like a 90s alt-rock kind of vibe, almost like presidents of the United States of America or something like that. Yeah, definitely.

But then it shifts into like his voice. And then there's like this nice little. There's a wind instrument in there. Yeah, there was like, I don't know if it was a saxophone or something like that, but there was some sort of wind instrument, as you said. Yeah, that was cool. And then there was like a. in the background, almost like a,

I don't think it was a banjo, but it had more of like a fulky kind of country vibe to it. There was another guitar part that got added. I don't know if you picked up on that. So he was doing a lot of different things, which is kind of cool, you know. Very eclectic kind of indie song there.

Yeah. But, yeah, hard not to like that, right? Kind of an earworm, dude. You know, that song will stick in your ear for a little bit. That was great, dude. So again, that guy, his name is Alex G, the record. it's called Trick. The song is called Forever. All right, Q, I want to throw it back to you? What's you got?

All right, dude. You know what I love about band camp? Sometimes, I think the artists can just make up whatever tags they want to throw at the bottom. Sometimes they're really, like, specific. And I think this will be a good follow-up to that song. So this is a band called Jurassic Shark. Not sure if they're still active, but their last album came out back in 2018. I can't really find much about them but according to their band camp page they are bedroom rock here we go again dude yeah listen this dude post casual okay and you know what i think that sums it up pretty well dude bedroom rock post cash i'm gonna a little post cash yeah but that post cash means that there there was a cash casual at some point like a casual are they saying maybe like post light rock post easy easy listening

light rock well let's see what you think dude see if you can slap a a label on him after after this song so i have to give him a shout out again anytime i find an artist on his spotify playlist called the yacht 100 so i actually just mentioned him with the last the previous track yacht club ryan kaiser is his name i i've brought up his name so many times in the last year anyways um just a solid chunk of bedroom pop. And this is another one of those great artists, dude. So here we go, Jurassic Shark. This is from an EPA there is called Blue School that came out in 2016.

This song is called Carver. Loved it. I had to let it play out, dude. I love that song. That's great. Yeah, I always like it when the vocalist is kind of like, like it's right under the surface kind of thing. Like the neurotic, like.

It's sporadic, man. Yeah, the voice is kind of cracking and stuff. and like... Yeah, and he just kind of, he loses it at the end. Yeah, exactly. I always like that. And that's, you know, we've talked about bands like, me without you and whatnot that do that really, really well,

where it's like, it sounds like you're dealing with somebody that's like right on the edge, you know, this kind of remind me of that. I love how when he gets at his most, like, sporadic. Frustrated almost, yeah. The lyrics are actually, it actually turns at that point. Like at the beginning of the song, he's kind of, singing about, you know, I just want to be alone. I want to be left alone. I just want to be me. Just be alone with myself and my thoughts. Kind of like, you know, feeling down and out,

feeling like he's on his own. And then at that point, he goes, okay, so I changed my mind. I think I'm going to try and mend. Okay, I changed my mind. I think I want to be your friend. So I love that. Like, you know, he turns a corner at the end. Well, yeah, but like, the fact that in the lyrics, he says, okay, I changed my mind like several times. It just kind of shows you, like, this guy's all over the place, right? Right. He can't decide. where he's at on this, whatever it is he's talking about. I like that song, dude. That was great.

I love that song. So again, that was Jurassic Shark. The song was called Carver. That was off of an EP of theirs called Blue School. And pass it back to you, dude. This is no filler. So we have to play shoegays, right? Straight shoe gaze.

We played some Doomgays earlier, but now we got to play some legit shoegays. And I kid you not, dude. this is one of the prettiest shoegays songs I've ever heard in my life. I like the sound of that, dude. And, you know, hat tip to the Shugays subreddit. Because people do this all the time. They'll post like their top 10 or like, you know, they'll chart it out and stuff like that. They'll show all the, you know, here's like the defining Shugays records, blah, blah, blah.

Somebody posted something along those lines. And, you know, I was scanning the record. and like it's the usual suspects, right? It's your My Bellanty, your slow dive, yada, yada, right? This album of art stood out to me because I'd never seen it before. So I looked them up. It's this band called Ariel, A-I-R-I-E-L. And I had never listened to them before.

They have been making music together since 1997. And this particular record, they put out this, um, This set of EPs between 2003 and 2004 called Winks and Kisses. And they put out four. There was Winks and Kisses Frosted, Winks and Kisses Dizzy, Melted, and Then Crackled, and then they released it as a box set. But H.E.P. had four songs on it, right? This particular song is from Winks and Kisses Melted.

Came out in 2004. What stood out to me about this song and what makes it so beautiful is the vocalist. And this is not a member of the band. They listed her on Spotify. Her name is Stella Tran. But her vocals remind me of the kind of stuff that you'd hear on a Portishead record or something like that. Beth Gibbons, right? Nice.

Very traditional sounding vocals. But anyway, just get ready, okay? I'm so ready. I had to sit down. I had to stand up and then sit back down because I was already, I was already. I was already seated, right? But when I heard the song for the first time, dude, it just knocked me out, dude.

So here we go. Enough talking. This song is called Firefly by Ariel, featuring vocals by Stella Tran. Beautiful. Yeah, like very sort of your classic shoegaze guitar in the beginning, right? And the rest of their stuff is more kind of classic shoe gaze. But when they brought in Stella for this for this song,

again, her name is Stella Tran. And like it just sort of elevates it, right? Yeah. So apparently Stella Tran is a vocalist, obviously, known for her lyrical melodies and ethereal singing. She enjoys collaborations with friends, notable artists such as Jeremy Wren of Ariel, Scott Cortez of Lovelies Crushing, which I think is another shoegaze band, and Allen Kingdom of the Sid Delays, Siddeleys, something like that. Sidilis, there you go.

But yeah, so this is just a vocalist that doesn't look like she's put out anything independently, right? She just kind of collaborate, you know, if you sound like that, people are going to call you up. That song, I've been listening to it

ever since I first heard it because I just couldn't get it out of my head. And, you know, it's a pretty long song. It's a six-minute song, and it just kind of goes on like that, you know? But it's just kind of gliding, you know, floating. I like that. man. Really good stuff. Dude, I would say if you enjoyed that track, that reminded me a lot of

our duos and dream pop edition. Oh, yeah. What you heard? Remember when we managed to bring like 10 really like ethereal, really like floating on cloud nine kind of pretty songs like this? That reminded me a lot of that duo, uh, insides. Remember I brought that song Darling effect from them? very similar vibes really that whole episode of ours was in that pocket and we actually have it as a playlist I guess this is a good time to remind everyone

and we need to update these playlists I don't know if we're caught up on this but we have all of our what you heards from last year as proper playlists on Spotify so check that out and I think I'm going to pull a 180 dude are pretty damn close to it it's pretty easy to do a 180 from that

I think so it's pretty easy So this is a band that I first saw on KexP, the live in studio performances that KexP does. And they blew me away. They are fairly new as a group. They're all pretty young too. So this is a band called Cuffed Up. I'm just going to let the music speak for itself. I'm just going to say right off the bat here, dude, really awesome, like Kim Gordon vibes with the female singer in the group.

Dude, you don't need to say anymore. Love what they're doing. This is from a little four-track EP of theirs that came out last year. It's called Asymmetry. This song is called Canaries. I love it. Yeah, like she's channeling so many great female rockers from the past, you know. Yeah, dude.

Yeah. And then out of nowhere, his voice, he has like this Tom Delange draw. You know what I mean? Yeah, I heard some of that. But I was also thinking of Ben Gibbard of Death Cab too a little bit. And I know you mentioned Death Cab earlier, but like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the back and forth worked really, really well between their two vocals.

Yeah, they're great. I love the buildup with her vocals, you know. Yeah. Yeah, solid. And this is the kind of stuff that gets me amped, man. This is it, dude. I just love hearing what, you know, what the new kids are making these days, man. Totally.

You know? It always gives you hope, you know, the rock and roll. That's right. We'll never die. We all know this. Anyways, dude, if you like that, they got more of it. It's just, it's only singles and EP, so no full-length albums yet. Also, check out their performance on K-E-X-P.

You can find it, the whole performance on YouTube. All right, so pass it on to you, brother. We're rounding the corner. Just got three songs left, dude. What's you got for me? Well, I'm going to disagree with the term, but this is another bedroom pop artist. but I just feel like that's, it's just lazy because like there's other ways to describe, especially this guy. So I would say, so his name is Heather. He goes by Heather, H-E-T-H-E-R.

There's no A in that spelling of Heather. I'm going to say that this is more kind of psychedelic. And it's going to be, to me, I'm getting unknown mortal orchestra vibes as far as like, not necessarily the band, but the front man. Because, you know, I feel like with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, on Mortal Orchestra, it has just sort of turned into, or at least I associate it with the frontman Ruben Nielsen. We've played some of their tracks before. I feel like we need to at some point do an episode on their debut record, because I love that record, the self-titled record. This is more in the same vein of like, to me at least, the later unknown mortal orchestra stuff. But anyway, I'm going to put a warning cue. He starts the song with this. It sounds like a scream

taken out of a horror movie. Okay. So it's almost like a blood-curdling freaking... Jamie Lee Curtis scream queen kind of stuff? Yes, the scream queen scream. So just fair warning, okay? I appreciate that, dude. You're welcome.

Your ears will thank me. So again, this guy's name is Heather. This song is called Sticky Thumb. That was great, dude. Yeah, a lot going on, right? Good vibes. Good vibes. Except for the blood-curdling scream

of the beginning. I thought it was going to go into the direction of like black moth super rainbow or like tobacco. Dude, that's funny that you said that because I was another band that I thought of. It reminded me very much of what Chaz Bundick did with the Matson 2. Yeah. But yeah, dude, that was fantastic. Is the whole album like that? I haven't actually listened to any of it, dude.

So I'm breaking some rules here. But I should, I should dive in a little bit more. But yeah, so the guy's name is Paul Castelluzzo. and he came up with the name Heather. He was literally just watching the movie Heather's, that 80s went on a writer film. And he said, you know, I'm just going to call it Heather, and I'm going to sing like a girl.

And I thought this was kind of, he said that he was going to pitch his voice up and make weird music. That's what he said. And then the label I was on was like, dude, you got to put your face on it and use your name, which I thought was fucking weird because it's weird. I'm glad he didn't do that.

but like that's a weird thing to say to an artist what are you talking about like tame and paula is tame and paula you know right it's not kevin parker what yeah who the fuck anyway i'm glad that he didn't listen to those chumps right so again the um that that that that song was called sticky thumb it's off of his ep of the same name sticky thumb the artist again is named heather h-et h-h-h-e-r all right cue this is your last track what do you got for us all right dude I've got a really fun one from my last pick here. So I'm not really familiar with this band too much, but actually I want to give a shout out to Georgetown Records,

which is a beloved record store here in Seattle. Their Instagram feed is ridiculous. I think every day they do a now spinning or whatever. It's whatever record he's spinning at the store. And the amount of EPs that I've like tried to look. up and find songs from to stream. The amount of albums that I can't find any information on is, it's like the majority. It's a really obscure stuff.

The most like rare, really obscure stuff at this record store. One of the albums that they had on there was from a group called The Gun Club, which is a post-punk band from the 80s. And now listen to this dude. And this describes their sound perfectly. tribal psychobilly blues psychobilly they're considered the initiators

of the punk blues sound cow punk it's all one word that is a subgenre of punk rock so it's like rockabilly kind of stuff but but with more of a punk kick to it you remember that band's the soft boys

yeah that album of there's a can of bee is one of my favorite records from that era and that like neosychadalia new wave post-punk stuff similar vein this song is fan fucking tastic dude i love it this is again from an album there's from 81 called fire of love this song is called preaching the blues what a fucking blast yeah dude that is a blast what a blast psychability dude makes sense straight up cowpunk yeah totally when did that record come out 1981 i believe oh man that's awesome so yeah dude um yeah more that, you know, if you like that song, that's the gun club, dude.

The initiators of cow punk. Just imagine seeing them, dude, back in the 80s. I know, man. Must have been an absolute blast. Totally. All right, man. Let's wrap it up, dude. You got the last song to close us out.

What's it going to be? This is one of those bands, dude, that I have to like wonder about, like, the universe and stuff. Like why have I not heard and listened to these guys before, right? Because they're such a, they have such a legacy. They sort of started and labels were sort of invented to describe them. Apparently this group as a first artist to be dubbed post-rock. So I'm talking about a band called Stereo Lab. And I know, Q, you and I were kind of messaging about this a little bit because you had,

listened to some of their stuff and also a band called broadcast. Yes. Yeah. I'm more familiar with broadcasts. But yeah, they almost go hand in hand. Yeah, and you're right, because this is exactly how I heard about it. I was reading, this is our last best of 2021 episode. You brought a song by the sound carriers.

Yes. And I was just looking at their Spotify biography. And right there on the first line, it talks about how sound carriers would get compared to stereo live and broadcast. And I was like, no, I've never heard them. Let me try it out. And I've been obsessed with stereo lab ever since. Awesome, dude.

And I listened specifically a couple of albums have really kind of jumped out at me. And like they've just been, again, dude, obsessed. I'm not stretching when I say that. That's kind of how it was for me when I first heard sound carriers. And it's similar vein, dude. There's something about that like 60s, like posh. like psych rock. Yeah, so the term that's thrown on stereo lab, at least, some of the terms,

avant pop is, I think a good word to use. Yeah, that's it, man. But, you know, this record in particular came out in 1999. I'm bringing a song from a record called Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, art pop, psychedelic pop, and post rock. So here's another thing that jumped out of me about their, their legacy, they're sort of credited for reviving the use of vintage analogic instruments. And that plays a huge role in hypnagogic pop cue.

So like that's huge, right? The fact that they're sort of credited for reviving and using vintage equipment, analog equipment in their recording. Like that goes on to influence. I mean, Tyco for sure. Tyco, right. And other bands like that, right? Chill wave stuff.

Right. Anyway. So I'm going to play this. track and, uh, dude, just think about like a lava lamp and like some, like a shag carpet or something, right? Perfect. I'm there, dude. I'm there.

This song is called op-hop detonation. Fucking obsessed, dude. I fucking love these guys so much, man. They perfected it, man. They were their first ones to do it. And they pass the torch on the sound carriers, dude. And they've been doing it since well before this record came. This is their sixth.

to your record. Dude, what a sweet groove. Yeah, dude. And like the vocal harmonies, I love it, right? Yeah, man. That's what I love about sound carriers, honestly, is the vocals. Well, the funny thing is like, I mean, would you say that sound carriers sound like this? Sound carriers are a little bit more like true to the 60s psychedelic stuff.

Yeah. These guys are a little bit more like experimental, it feels like. Yeah, and I think that, you know, the reason the post rock label was, I guess, coined to describe this band is because, it's psychedelic and, you know, poppy and stuff like that, but it's, it's bringing in, like, you know, there's, there's, there's, there's, it's, it's more jazz almost, right? Yeah, yeah. Um, and like, you know, there's, there's somebody that plays a cornet on this particular track, which is a horn, apparently, brass instrument, similar to a trumpet. But like, when you look at the musicians that are credited on this record in particular, there's brass, there's strings. there's um you know like i said there's a there's an organ the harpsichord clevering it right so like they're bringing in a bunch of different musicians some of which are just members of the band right it's a pretty pretty big group but uh anyway this record i'm not going to say the name again cobra in phases i'll just call it that and then this other record dots and loops the previous studio record

dots and loops i'm a big fan of that dude dots and loops is great you know i basically leading up to this episode, I was juggling between like five different tracks as far as like which one I wanted to play. But yeah, man, just great stuff. Stereo Lab, that's the name of the group. If you liked that, you will like a lot of what they do. So that's that, man.

That's how you ended. That was a good start, I think, for, in our first what you heard of the year. That's because we've been, you know, we've been saving this stuff up. So I hope you enjoyed it. That's our monthly mixtape for you. Q, do we know what we're doing next week?

We talked about Polaris slash Miracle Legion. Talked about Polaris. We also talked about Ambulance LTD, but not on the record. I think I want to play that one still, dude. I want to do that. You want to talk about an obscure record? Yeah. Yeah.

And they, I think they broke up like pretty much right after this record, not too long after they, they were very short-lived band. Ambulance LTD. This is an album of theirs. It's just called LP. and you know we're going to kind of step back from the 2010s we've been hanging out in the in the dream pop resurgence but i want to go back to 2004 this is just an album that's just dripping with nostalgia for me dude i listen to this album heavily in high school and i think it's a really good follow-up to the kind of

more melancholy easy listening if you will i guess of real estate i think this will be a great follow-up record. And then we can go back to the 20-10s if you want, or we can- Yeah, if we do Polaris, I think that'd be a good way to tie in the 90s alt, sort of lighter alt-rock type stuff that real estate sort of pulled into their sound, right? Well, yeah, all of these bands are heavily influenced by that sound. Plus, dude, that's a long time coming. We've been talking about, oh, we should talk about Polaris. We should do an episode on on Polaris. So yeah, I think it's a good idea. We can do Miracle Legion. There's a record. I brought a song for what you heard. Yeah, what was that record? And dude, I don't even care.

We'll play that song again. The Backyard, 1984. So maybe we could do some stuff from the backyard and then some stuff from The Adventures of Pete soundtrack, which of course is Polaris. It's the same band. And then we can kind of get into that whole thing because that's an interesting story, dude. Let's just talk about Nickelodeon in general. We could do an episode where we talk about, Because we were messaging about this when you, we both have watched the documentary called The Orange Years. The Orange Years, yeah. And we both just agreed, like, the Nickelodeon was so pivotal in, like, our youth.

And, like, how appreciative, dude, we, our generation should be about the thought and care and stuff that went into that network and the programming and stuff that they... And we were at the perfect age, dude, for the Orange Years to be. And Pete and Pete, it was one of the best. shows, dude. So yeah, that's going to be fucking fun. All right, that sounds good, dude. But yeah, so next week we'll come at you with a band you probably never heard of called Ambulance LTD and my favorite album there's LP. And we'll go from there, dude. So yeah, as always, give us a shout out on Instagram. You can find us there at No Filler Podcast. Send us a message. Let us know what you've been

heard. And maybe we'll play it as an outro song for our What You're Heard episodes. We always try to play a song from a listener if we can to play us out on our What You Hear'd episode. So again, you can reach us at No Filler Podcast on Instagram. And you can also find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast Network for Music Lovers. He will find us and many other awesome music-centered podcasts on the network. You can actually follow Pantheon Podcasts in your podcast feed. And And it'll just play one after the other. It's just kind of like a playlist of episodes from all the shows.

And so we'll be in the mix. So it's a great way to discover new music-heavy podcasts. There's a lot of great shows on the network. So yeah, we're proud to be part of it. You can find us at Pantheonpodcast.com. And as always, we want to give a shout out to AKG for supporting the network and the show. And for TSTAT as well, go to TSTAT.com. Use the promo code No Filler 15 to get 15% off your purchase.

And speaking of fading out with a tune, the OG listener, really, of No Filler, our long time, very dear friend, Mr. Mitchell, Mitch for short, Mitchie, if you're close. You may know his last name if you. You may know his last name. depending on if you heard that episode. Not only did we give out his last name, we also gave out his middle name,

but I should remind people of that. He showed a song with me a while back, probably back in November, that I've been sitting on. And I thought it would be a great way to close this one out from a group that I'm not really familiar with. I'm definitely going to dive a little bit deeper. This band called All Them Witches.

This is an album of theirs called Sleeping Through the War. It's just a solid rock tune, man. Big fan of the song. We're going to fade out with a song again by All Them Witches. The song is called Alabaster. And until next time, thank you as always for listening. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis.

You'll take care.