No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard: The Warm and Weightless Edition

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

Tracklist Been Stellar - Passing Judgement Marcy Playground - The Shadow of Seattle Half Moon Run - Call Me In The Afternoon Skee Mask - 800AB Kiln - Autumnalae (Leaf-Pile Divers) Swervedriver - Blowin' Cool Move 78 - Daisies Leftfield - Dub Gussett Moon Diagrams - Moon Diagrams Cola - Tracing Hallmarks TTSSFU - I Hope You Die Cola - Reprise This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Hi, I'm Weird Al Yankovic, and you're listening to the Pantheon Network. Welcome to No Filler, I'm Quentin, and I'm Travis. And we're kicking this month's what you heard off with a brand new song from Ben Stellar's debut album, Scream. from New York, New York. This song is called Passing Judgment. So, first time I'm hearing this band, and we've talked a lot about the return of the 90s

grunge sound. This just sounds like, man, I'm trying to place. Maybe you can help me out, Q you. There's a, there's a, his voice sounds a lot like another 90s act. And I can't tell you something, brother. I put their finger on it. So first off, this album just came out. This is their debut full length.

They've been dropping singles leading up to this. They've got a few EPs out. This album just came out two days ago, Traff, as of recording this, June 21st. Really, really good record, dude. Like, really good. And the first thing that came to mind for me, right from track one, Majesty Crush, an album that we covered as a full-length episode. Okay.

Was that the voice that I'm thinking of? Maybe, dude. Yeah, because we just heard that a few months ago. Yeah, yeah. Same with like the cadence and his, uh, but that's the thing though, dude. His melodies. I remember I came up with a really good comparison. Oh, for magic to crush.

Yeah, and then sure enough, we found that that was an influence. I think, oh, it was, it was another. Bono, no, no, no, it was, uh, man, I can't, can't place it, but it was another, like, kind of like, obscure, like one of the first bands that got the dream pop label on it. I'll figure it out here, Q, while we're chatting. Well, yeah, dude.

Oh, AR. A.R. Cain. A. A.R. Kane. A.R. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Great, man. This is awesome. I'm just glad. Let me just, let's just back up. Let's forget about the 90s labels, the 90s comparisons. Because, like, you know,

I'm just glad that it seems like indie rock music is sort of turning back to like an embrace of just straight up alt rock guitar driven type of rock songs, right? Yeah, yeah, it's great. I'm with you. It's awesome. Yeah, and this is, I mean, solid debut album, dude. I'm really pumped to hear more from these guys.

It's a New York band, New York natives. And, dude, I don't know what it is about, like New York. York natives when they get together and make a group. It's like, I don't know. When you listen to the lyrics, too, you can tell it's a band from New York. I don't know how to explain it. But like New York band, it's kind of like the strokes, you know, blondie, television. Interpol.

Bands like Interpol, yeah. New York just has like a certain like undertone and the music that it produces. I mean, these bands are in a New York state of Miami Q. So, exactly. New York, New York. I think it's the bodegas. It's the bagels.

Maybe it's, yeah. And you know what, dude? That's funny. I was just talking about this yesterday with Sarah. I don't know. There's like a, I think there's actually some truth to it, but like a New York bagel,

you can't mimic it anywhere else because there's something in the water, literally something in the water that makes, like, I don't know, the yeast or something about New York bagels are just different. They just hit different. Because of the water.

These musicians, they're drinking that same water. I think we're on to something here. So I'm keeping this vague. I'm just saying, great album, listen to it. Because I want you to just go out and listen to this record. And obviously, this is going to make it on my best of 2024. So I don't want to get away too much. And I also want to play another song from this record.

On this episode. Towards the end of the year. No, no, no. Towards the end of the year. For our best of. Yeah. episodes. This song Passing Judgment actually was a single that they dropped back in February. So this song's been making the rounds for a while. My first time hearing it as well.

Yeah, just a lot of really good moments like this. This track, there's some more somber, slow songs, some more heavy, even almost more like post-punk vibes in some of these songs. But just from track to track, dude, they take it in a lot of really cool places. Yeah, really great debut record. And this is an early morning record for us, friends, is 647 my time up in good old Washington State, so maybe you can tell. But this is our monthly Watcher heard episode

where we're basically just bringing 10 tracks total, five songs each that we've been listening to in between recordings. It can be anything. It can be something we heard on a commercial. Could be something we heard in the end credits of a movie that we watched. And, Tribe, you're going to start us off this week.

So what you got? I feel like you can you bring something with a little punch, Trave? I need a punch in the face. Yes, I give you some punch here, Q. All right. So speaking of Washington State, the name of the song includes the word Seattle Q. So, what a great way to segue here.

Look at that. So as I mentioned on the last episode, also I have to correct myself. I have to issue a correction. The sign of a true reporter, Drive. Yeah, I thought about like re-recording myself, like saying the band, the correct band name. Let me tell you something, Trives, a little behind the curtain. I used to do that. I would obsessively do that.

Oh, I know you used to do it because I could tell. I could always tell. Anyway, I couldn't let a mistake or something go by when I was, when I, back when I was editing the episodes. So I would do that all the time, dude. I'm sure people could tell. Yeah. Well, you may remember on the last episode I was talking about that concert that we saw with Vertical Horizon and the TOTE's like that.

And I was going through all the artists and the songs that the, that Vertical Horizon covered in their little medley. And I said that how soon as now was a song from The Cure and I meant the Smiths. And I think the reason I kept saying the Cure is because they also had covered a Cure song. they covered love song earlier so at least that's the excuse i'm given myself but no it was it was it was how soon as now by the smiths sunday bloody sunday by you two and bulls-on parade by rage against machine that was the medley that i heard and it was amazing but i kept saying how soon as now by the cure which you know what guys i'm human you know i make mistakes but i'm sure some people like that's not the band that did that song

I am. Well, you know what, Chav? They can keep saying that. Yeah. If they want. And they're going to keep saying it every time they're listening to that episode. Exactly. I'm correcting myself.

But that's related to my pick here. So I remember I also said that Marcy Playground played that festival that I went to. No, I don't remember that. Who's that? Thanks for listening. I don't know who that is. No, just another band from the 90s. We all know them from their song, Sex and Candy.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, so I went back and listened to their debut record because, you know, I just saw them live. I was like, you know what? Some of this stuff is actually pretty good that I'm hearing right now from this band because all I know from them is sex and candy. So anyway, I'm going to play a song off of their debut record, their debut self-titled record. So this came out in 1997.

This song is called The Shadow of Seattle. Like an angels falling down like a mission and we're halfway there. Some old dried up for I've forgotten town Awesome track Haven't heard that I mean either And it's like It's the last

Second of the last track on the record So you really gotta You gotta listen to the whole thing to hear it Dude As we preach That baseline Yeah great bassline And

You know It does feel like they're nodding To some grunge tropes a little bit Or like grunge The grunge You know elements I think it is about grunge. I mean, that shadow still looms over Seattle.

Yeah, how could it not be about grunge, right? You can't think, you can't, when you hear the word Seattle in the concept of music, it's grunge. So here's a random interpretation from somebody on Reddit, Q. This is the grunge subreddit three years ago. Somebody said, somebody was asking, what do we think the song's about? Somebody says, to be honest, I don't know exactly. But I'm guessing it's about this is, I think this is a, That's it, huh?

That's a good theory. It's a good theory. It's either about the death of Kirk Cobain. That's a good theory. Okay. That's a shadow. Yeah. Or more generally, the mainstreaming and then burnout of grunge and the larger all-rock indie rock scene.

Yeah. And I think by 97, that's probably a pretty good guess. Because when you, I mean, when you look at the lyrics, why won't they let us be ourselves with our potential we could tow the line and show the bastards up with our divine light? seize all the records from the past hold for ransom all the artifacts this ragged town protects them to the last with lies

I wonder if they're talking about as well not being able to escape getting that label on them yeah you know like they just let us be ourselves or whatever yeah I mean yeah so so they're from New York

yeah they're not even it's like they were an upbeckers in Seattle that could and escape the I was going to say out I know that was the thing that happened to a bunch of bands in that show.

Yeah. Where you just, like, bands just wanted to, or labels just wanted to pigeonhole. If you've got a hint of distortion yeah,

yeah. In your sound, your grunge. Because that's what, that's what sells, baby. Anyway, pretty cool song,

though, I thought. Really good. I like that. So again, 1987, Marcy Playground, the song was called The Shadow of Seattle.

And I'm going to pass it to you, Q, and you're about an hour from Seattle? that right? Two hours? If there's zero traffic, it's just over an hour. Just over an hour? Yep. There's the shadow of the needle. Do you see it? Is this shadow? From here? No. Okay. All right. What's you got for your first pick?

All right. I'm going to keep things punchy. I don't know where this song, how this came up on my radar. But this is a band called Half Moon Run. Have you heard this group before? I've not. They're like a fulky rock band. Indie pop from Canada. The song was originally featured on their debut record Dark Eyes from 2013. This song is called Call Me in the Afternoon.

You can have it if you don't mind. Some around the other stay with me. You confuse me with your red old. and your sudden generosity Call me in the afternoon even by one by one call me in the afternoon even by one by one

You know I usually don't gravitate to stuff like that But I liked it Dude I was hoping that you were going to say something like that Because I know that you don't And I knew you were going to like that It was I mean it was like yeah I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go out of my way to listen to something like that

but I can see the appeal. I mean, he kind of reminded me of, this is kind of sound way off, probably the people who are fans of this like you are, but it sounded like Al J kind of. Oh, dude. Yeah, a little bit with like the, the way they play with the stuttering and all that stuff.

Yeah, Al J does that kind of stuff a lot. Nice, man. All right. You shouldn't have mentioned All J. because now we're going to do a full episode on him. And I'm going to get you. You know what? We've talked about doing that before.

I think we even, because of this exact situation where it's like, you, you know, I'm a fan of Al J. You're hell big fan. It's just kind of like me trying to get you to like heavy metal. Like you just,

you want me to like Holt J. Yeah, dude. Well, it was particularly their album, their debut, an awesome way from 2012. You need to hear it. I'll have to come in with an open mind queue and set aside my conclusions that I've already reached about. Al J.

Well, let me tell you, half moon run is not Alt J. That's fine. You know, they're more way off of folk rock. No, but I get you. Well, there's some, his vocals remind me of something. Aside from, like, comparing them to other people. I like the way that the, uh, I like the way that the, uh, I like the way. he sings, Q.

That's all I could say. Because it's early. Great. Great harmonies. It sounds like something you hear, you walk into a coffee shop and you do this kind of thing. Dude. So I'm kind of like. Look, look at this, dude.

Featuring Halfman, you know, the Spotify playlist, your favorite coffee has. Seam. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got it, dude. You nailed it. You know what? I probably was, I probably heard this in a coffee shop.

Probably. All right, Trevor, are you taking us? You're going to bring us down or not? Or you're going to keep things. I'm going to switch it up. This is going to be a 180 for sure. So the first 180 of the day of the episode. Q, I know you're going to love this because I'm bringing an electronic IDM kind of techno track here.

Sweet. So I've been listening to this artist for a while now. So he goes by ski mask. And this is a Munich-Germany-based DJ. I'm just going to read from the label here. So this is from a Germany-based label called Alien Tape. And this is pretty straightforward, an explanation here. It says here that ski mask is a versatile producer from Munich who doesn't want to be identified.

I don't know if they're saying he doesn't want to be. Oh, so that's why he wears a ski mask. Or he doesn't wear his skin mask. That's funny thing. So you can see his face. Or if he, like, he probably doesn't want labels on his music. I think it's what they're trying to say. He got influenced by a lot of different types of music over the last years.

This is, you can tell this is translated from like this poor English. But ski masks, or here you go, ski masks direction is mostly rolling rhythms combined with electronic soundscapes, always forcing to create a deep vibe. forcing to create a deep vibe. Yes, I'm talking about. English is a little bit weird. But this is kind of what I liked about is I tend to gravitate toward, as we've talked about before, electronic music that's got a little bit of like a, there's a, like, a deepness to it or like some sort of a darkness to it. And I don't know, you can't, dark is a weird, like Andy Stott.

Music, yeah, Andy Stott. Now, this track that I'm bringing, though, is a little bit different. But, so this is up a little EP that he put out called, 808 BB. And I think he's, he's, experimenting with, like, samples and stuff from,

you know, the very famous Roland 808 synthesizer machine, or a drumbeat thing. Whatever that was. It was a synthesizer, right? Yeah. But I always think about the drum. I always think about the drum beats.

The drum sam has a lot of it. But it was a, yeah, it was like a rhythm machine. It was used quite a bit for just the beats on it. Yeah, so you're going to hear some of that. All right, cool. The 808 sounding drum sample. Anyway, so this is, again, this artist is named Ski Mask. And this song, this is from his 2019 EP 808B.

This song is called 800 AB. Yeah, dude, that was like. like that almost felt like some 90s club bangers. I mean, that's that 808, dude. And by clubbangers, I don't mean the kind of clubs that you go to where you're trying to drop it like it's hot. I just mean like it's got that classic techno sound. Like 90s techno sound.

Yeah. I mean, that's the funny thing is like when you hit play on that track, like it's a very distinct 808 sound. And then he takes it and sort of like, incorporates it and sort of blends it into like what he typically done. But I like to it. What I like about him is that, you know, as the little write-up on the record labels website said, like he's kind of hard to throw labels on him.

But he, like when the first album that I listened to of his, I would recommend to you, Q, it's called Compro. It came out in 2018. but it has some of that kind of more almost like ambient techno type stuff it has a little bit of like drum and bass type drums thrown in it's got more of that you know sort of like deep house type stuff so like he he does a lot of like he experiments with a lot of different sounds that's probably why it isn't he's not comfortable you know having one particular genre thrown on to him but yeah anyway just another solid electronic artist. His name is Ski Mask again. A song was called 800A.B. Off of his 2019 E.P. 808

B.B. Lots of numbers and letters, Q. Hope you remember it all. How many eights? Depends. Am I, are we talking about the track or the album? Because track has one eight. The album has two eights. Anyway. All right, I'm going to throw it back to you.

Q. Am I doing another 180? Or do you have an electronic song? you could play to keep us in this vibe. All right, dude, well, I'm going to bring a kiln track. Kiln, all right. A kiln. You were texting about, we were slacking about this earlier. Yeah.

Yeah, dude. Kiln, so I know we've done a full length on kiln before. It's, I don't know, ambient. I don't know how to describe Killen. It's very hard to describe it. Yeah, they're unique, man. Like, there's not. No one, nobody does it like them.

Yeah. Ever. They do it better than anybody. Yeah. Let me just read this little blurb about them on Van Camp. This is no better way to describe it. Kiln construct radiantly textured sound fields that envelop and immerse the listener in a panoramic smudge of chromatic rhythms and syncopated tones.

Smudge. I love it. A smudge. Yeah. Like soundscapes, dude. So they said soundscape or do they say sound? Sound field. Sound field, yeah, there you go.

That's better. But yeah, like, if I'm not, if I'm not wrong, like what they do is they, it's a lot of field recordings, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then they take it and they manipulate it. Yeah.

And they smudge it. Yeah. They smudge it a little bit. Yeah. So, Trevor, have you listened to you? Let me just say this. When you listen to Killen, it feels like you're, like inside of a, like a, like a lab. And there's something percolated.

We're in the background. Sure, yeah, that's good. I always think of that scene in the pick of destiny when Jack Black just eats that random mushroom out in the forest. And he goes, I'm feeling kind of juicy. I don't know why, but I get, I get mushroom. I get mushroom vibes. Yeah, their music is like, it's like you can, it's like you can sense it almost, like you

could feel it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's something to it. It's bubbling. Yeah. It's bubbling. All right. Have you actually listened to any of the lost sides and dusty gyms? Probably. Is that the one that looks like a guitar string? Maybe, I guess. It's called twine wheel. I'm pretty sure what you're looking at is twine. Drive. Let me share at the screen. Twine. In case you forgot how it looks. It's called Twine wheel is the album. So it's, you know, B-Sides. Rarity. what have you. Is this what you talking about? Nope, that's not what I was thinking.

But yeah, that... Dude, so this might be a song that you've never heard. Possible from Kiel. Yep. All right, so yeah, so this is recordings from 94 through 2005. So tracks that, like, didn't make it on their other albums and stuff. And, yeah, I mean, this is just another one of those solid. They're all great, you know?

There's not a bad Kieln song. Here we go. All right. This is a song called Autumn Nale. in parentheses leaf pile divers. Here we go. And it's funny because like the way that we just hyped them up and described them has nothing like that particular track. You know what I mean?

What do you mean? Well, there was nothing particularly like. Smudgy? Well, I mean, there was no electronic. It doesn't sound like you're in a lab. No, there's nothing bubbling. No. And this is, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that, I guess that's another thing that makes. kiln unique is that a lot of times what they do is they combine like acoustic strained elements like that with like electronic stuff like but they there's like there was no electronic elements of this one felt more organic yeah that's what's saying but that's another part of kiln right it's like it's organic elements like like we were saying like bubbling like natural sounding field recording is like natural ebb and flow to it all it feels it feels like you're listening to

something live. Yeah, but this is, this was more of a straightforward kind of like acoustic jam. But yeah, solid, very meditative. Beautiful, man. Yeah, beautiful. Yeah. It's hard to like point to one, like a, like what kiln record were you, would you have someone listen to if they're going to listen for the first time?

Sunbox. That's either Sunbox or maybe dusker. Yeah. All right, Trevor, what did you got? I know you got things to do today, so let's rapid fire. I'm going to pick it up a little bit, Hugh. I'm going to get us back into the realm of rock music. And I'm sticking in the 90s.

And this is a band that we've covered before as well. Swerve Driver. Remember of them? Of course you do. Oh, yeah, dude. I love that. I still visit some of their albums. Well, we actually, the episode that we did covered this exact record, but we did not play this track.

So it's fair game, in my opinion. So this song is called Blowin' Cool. So again, this is Swerve Driver, and they're kind of like, they're kind of similar to Catherine Wheel, where they kind of combined alt rock and shoegaze type elements on their sound. And Blow and Cool's off Mescalhead, which is my favorite album with this. Yeah. So, again, if you go back far enough, we did, actually, I think we combined, it was actually a one of those episodes where we did a couple of tracks from. meskelhead and a couple of tracks from Waze, which is their debut record. Yeah.

Anyway, this came out in 1993. So, you know, this is right about the time that the garage was popping. But anyway, they had a very unique sound and this is just another great track. So here you go, the song again from Swerve Driver. This song is called Blowing Cool. We covered Swwerve Driver when we were in that like discovery of 90s. these rock albums and bands that were just like less known lesser known bands I guess because like this is probably around the time where we did um and probably Catherine wheel band of susans band of susans yeah we had

basically all of 22 I think was basically 90s a lot of 90s albums it was basically where have you been all my life yeah it was every single one of these artists and that's what I feel about so many 90s acts like you know man the 90s was what truly was like the last decade of of really good and like just an abundance of like rock like marsy playgrounds a good marcy playground yeah sure that but like of just like where rock music was just like it was everywhere and like it was mainstream and there was so many different flavors of it and and you know yeah you know you got corn in the 90s I know Corrin is my favorite thing to bring up because they were so different and unique. New metal in general.

But they still like even new metal, the fact that new metal became mainstream. Limbiscuit. So I'm saying, man. It's a wild, dude. Anyway, sort of driver, if you haven't listened to Meskelhead, it's such a great album, dude. And yeah, 1993. They were overshadowed by Grunge, man. The shadow of Seattle was fucking him up, dude.

Dude, yeah, that's exactly right. You can't escape it in 93. You're done if you don't. Yeah. If you don't fit that label, which I don't, I wouldn't put them in the ground. So, yeah, they, not at all. Really good stuff. Yeah, I love that album.

So anyway, Swerve driver, check him out. I'm going to throw back to you, Quentin, what you got? And I'm going to drop a 180 on his job. All right. So, Akasha system. We know, I love him. We're both big fans of this guy. Yeah.

No, I think you brought this guy last, the last what you heard, I believe. Yes, I'm not playing him right now. What I'm doing is bringing a song that I heard on one of his playlists. That's one of my favorite things in the world, dude, is how Spotify basically links. You can get linked to an artist's personal Spotify account through looking, searching for their band. And you can find playlists that, that they make. Right. So this is like, I don't know, some other, some, a different.

account of a cautious system. It could be his actual account and he's dropping playlists. He has quite a few. Some of them are in the same vein as the music that he makes. Some of them are more ambient. There's another playlist called jazz.fm that he released, that he's been curating. It's all jazz stuff, dude. And this, wow, is like jazz, jazz. No, like experimental. So this group is called Move 78. They're based out of Berlin. And they kind of combine like just standard improvised kind of free flowing jazz with like hip hop.

And not like more like hip hop like producer like hip hop beats because they collaborate often with this producer that goes by Aver. And yeah, man. Anyways, just solid jazz with some sick beats, dude. Let's put it that one. And we're going to play a track from their record. The Algorithm smiles upon you from 2021. This song is called Daisies. Dude, I feel like I was about to get my lava lamp out again.

That kind of felt not very, not as psychedelic as the sound carriers, of course, but like, that had a very 60s, cool 60s. Yeah, with that flute. Dude, throw a flute and do a jazz song and like that nice organ. I'm all about that shit. Yeah, yeah, all day. Yeah, dude, that was great. Aqualong, yeah, that was awesome.

Really? Yeah, that's, that's awesome, dude. And that's, I think you said this the other day, like, I don't remember what the artist was that I brought. I said the other day, like it was yesterday, like months ago. But you were saying, like, sometimes you have to remind. yourself that new jazz music is being created all the time. I don't know why. Or no, maybe it was classical music or something like that, but it's just like classical music, man, I know every time I hear a classical song, I'm like, man, that must have been awesome to hear in the 1800s. And then, you know,

it's like a brand new composer, brand new song. I don't know why, but yeah, of course jazz is being made today. It's, of course it is. I just sent you a link to to Akasha Systems playlist. Jazz.fm. Look it up, friends. That's cool. It's got a lot of great jazz like this on there. All right, man.

I feel like we could probably do another 180 at this point. Yep. Yes, sir. Okay, so this is, I don't know why, but here I go. I'm going to give you the full background as to how I started listening to this guy again. So there's this YouTube channel that I, subscribed to you. It's called NoClip, and it's basically little video game documentaries.

And recently, the latest episode that they put out is about this soundtrack to a very classic, iconic PlayStation game called Wipeout 2097. And what made it sort of a seminal record, or video game soundtrack at least, is that it incorporated and incorporated musicians, like for the first time in video game where they licensed songs from other artists, right? And it was a lot of electronic artists.

And so, you know, I was listening to the record. I was listening to, you know, the artist that showed up on that record and just sort of like, kind of like popping around, listening to a bunch of like 90s electronic house type stuff, right? So I'm still in the house music realm here. Anyway, so on this record were bands like Chemical Brothers Prodigy Underworld who was on this record, which is interesting.

On this video game soundtrack, dude. Fluk, Future Sound of London. So a bunch of artists that I have listened to in the past. But another artist that kept getting mentioned that was kind of an influence on the main composer of this soundtrack, a guy named Tim Wright, he goes by the name Cold Storage. Anyway, left field. There's a long way of me getting to sing, to mentioning Left Field, which is the artist I'm bringing in that track from. You know, sometimes, you know, you got to hear the journey that I was on before I got here.

So I've listened to Left Field before, but like there, it's an iconic electronic group considered to be kind of like up there with like chemical brothers and fat boy slam like iconic iconic electronic acts from from uh britain so they were you know they formed in london and they are credited as being at least in the 90s as the single most influential production team working in british dance music so i'm going to bring a track from their 1999 record rhythm and stealth this song is called dub gazette that straight up industrial techno sound yeah definitely was birthed in the 90s that's the word i was going to use q industrial let me tell you something dude i feel like that this is a like the main difference between the kind of electronic music

that you and i enjoy is in line with what side of the IT world that we're on to what to what I'm curious what you mean by that. So I'm not a coder. That's not my profession, but this kind of music would keep me coding until the wee small hours, dude. But when I, you know, I mean, I'm still in like customer support, right? So I'm debugging things figuring out what customers are messing up in their cloud environments and whatnot. I can't listen to this stuff, dude, when I'm working. It's just too heavy?

So you need to be, you need to be in. a Zen state of mind because you're dealing with chuckleheads all day. I'm dealing with chuckleheads and I have to compose correspondences that are professional even as being ass hats. I see, I see. And dude, if I was listening to this kind of music, I'd be raging. Yeah, I got to be punching screens. Although to me, this music is kind of like, it's got a very steady, slow kind of beat to it.

Yeah. It's kind of chill. But I hear what you're saying. This is why you could never listen to heavy metal while you work versus. No way. Depending on what I'm trying to do, like heavy metal is the only thing to put on. Yeah. To really focus, you know.

Have I mentioned my sugar yet this episode? There it is. There it in there. There it is. But that's, that's, yeah. Obviously, Leftfield has had a lasting huge impact on electronic music. This is, yeah, this, like you say, they're one of the, you know, iconic. Yeah.

So what Rolling Stone said at the time is that the albums, Jumble of epic sounds is a blessing and a curse. Rhythm and stealth never develops a sustained full-on groove, but it makes for a mind-melding headphone adventure. I like that. Headphone adventure, Q. I like it. Anyway, all right, Q, are we going to do another 180? This is the episode of 180s, man. We're bouncing all over the place.

Yeah, I think we can do that. So this is a artist that goes by Moon Diagrams. This is actually Moon diagrams. So this is actually solo project of Moses Archiletta. He is one of the co-founders of Deer Hunter. He's the drummer and Deer Hunter,

which is obviously that massive indie rock band. Yeah. Atlas Sound? Atlas Sound, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Not Linux. Not No, not No, Lennox, dude. That's Panda Bear.

I thought his name was Noah. we got to figure this out right now well Noah Linux has collaborated with Atlas Sound that's probably why you're thinking Oh I know about like what's the What's the Alice sound? What's his name dude?

That is Bradford Cox Oh okay I was a way out I for some reason thought his name was Noah but yeah Bradford Cox Yeah Anyways Yeah so he was

I feel like he was really trying to just distance himself from that sound, because this is like nothing like Deer Hunter or any of that, that kind of music. So this is from an album, an album of his, this is actually his debut album. That was dropped in 2017 called Lifetime of Love. And it says here, Lifetime of Love finds Archiletta processing various stages of love loss in regeneration via forlorn outsider pop, minimal techno, and warm weightless experimentation. I like being warm and weightless.

Yeah, this album's kind of all over the place, dude. So this song is actually the name of the artist. So this is moon diagrams for moon diagrams on Lifetime of Love. Here we go. That was warm. And what was the other two? forlorn outsider pop. Yeah, there's something about it.

It's very like, kind of like a lazy vocal delivery. But I like it. I think it works very well here. A little bit hypnotic, in my opinion. Yeah, it's hypnotic. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, the album really does that to you. Yeah, it's really interesting, dude.

Definitely worth a listen all the way through. I think what made the vocal delivery, like what makes it work really well is the backing vocalists was definitely not monotone. So it had a nice kind of like, yeah, yin and yang kind of vibe to it. Yeah, really good. Actually, this is your last pick, what you got? All right. I'm saving my best for last year. So this is an album that I am currently in love with. And this will be for sure on my best of 2024 at the end of the year. The entire record is great. So this is a, Toronto-based little indie rock group called Cola. And this album blew me away, dude.

It is so good. And kind of like what I was saying earlier, like it's, this is what I love about indie rock right now. Like, there's a lot of guitar-driven acts. Like the, I feel like the guitar is back.

Just solid alt rock, indie rock, post-rock, post-punk, I should say, post-punk. And man, I just learned this now and it makes total sense. So this group, they've only been around for a few years, 2019 is when they formed.

And one of the members of this group, his name is Evan Cartwright, he's the drummer. Before he was in Cola, he was a very in-demand session musician and collaborator in Toronto's vibrant jazz experimental scene. And now knowing that a jazz drummer, that the drummer comes from like the jazz world it makes total sense but anyway there's really no there's no jazz whatsoever in this group but you know jazz is like one of the hardest genres to to master right so uh for sure just kind of speaks to like the level of like musicianship in this group but i'm just gonna let the song speak for itself this album is amazing it's called the gloss it came out just recently i think it's

yeah it came out june 14th And yeah, man, this is great. You're going to love it. So again, this group is called Kola. This is the opening track off of their new record, The Gloss. This song is called Tracing Hallmarks. And I was getting some like Marky Moon vibes. Ooh.

Good pool. David Bowie. Yes. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. And like I was going back and forth between like five or six different tracks to play today. And then of course, like I said, this is going to be on my best of 2024 list and so i'm saving probably my favorite track for that

um yeah so yeah they you know this group will will return on no filler at the end of the year because this this record is amazing it's it's hard to do that with with you know you hear an awesome song from an album from this year and i'm like okay do i want to play it on a what you heard or do i want to save it for our best of. Yep. There's some, there's some tracks that I was going to play today that I'm actually saving for later. Yeah. Yeah. It was a solid, another solid year so far. And we're only half or three of the year. Yeah. I mean, you know, I think I've said this before, like it's a great time to be a fan of rock music, man. Yeah. I feel like it's been a while since I could say that. Because there's just a lot of solid indie groups out there,

just putting out great stuff, man. Great stuff coming on. And dude, here's another example of that. This is another album from 2024. Then I'm bringing to close us out. The last track, here we go. So I feel like we covered an artist that goes by Wisp. Yes. Somewhere. Did you bring a track from her?

That sounds from, yes. That's ringing bells, cue. Okay, she's Shugay's artist. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, yeah, really good stuff. And this is another one of those song artists. Oh, yeah, I think this was a recommendation. by a listener.

And I think so. I think we closed out one of our watchy heards with a Wisp track. Nice. Well, she has a playlist on Spotify. It's my, dude, I don't know if you notice, but I love, that's what I, first thing I do is scroll down and see if an artist has any playlists. And she has a playlist called Wisp Shugase Picks. So this is a, an artist that goes by T-Disc,

T-T-S-S-F-U, I don't know what it stands for. Solo project by Tasman Nicole Stevens from Manchester, UK, heavily inspired by 90 shoegays and experimental rock bands, such as The Microphones, My Bloody Valentine, and Sonic Youth. I like this, what it says here. Tasman first started posting her music publicly on SoundCloud in 2020 at 16 years old, taking a lo-fi approach recording in her bedroom on garage band, which she still uses now because it's awesome.

She must have written. I think she wrote this herself. All right, man. So this is an album, a little EP from her that came out back in February this year. And this is the opening track. That's how we're going to close us out for today. This song is called I Hope You Die. Phenomenal, dude.

You like that? Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I think it was a really interesting. like, you know, dream pop vocals with like a new wave kind of drumbeat kind of thing. Yeah, like sort of like anger or guitar work. It was really cool. Yeah. Yeah, man.

And this is another one of those moments from here. I'm like, okay, this is, this song's awesome. Do I save it for the end of the year? Do I play it now? And there's a lot of great tracks on here. So she might show back up at the end of the year for our best of episodes because, yeah, solid little EP all the way through. So the name of the record, me.

Jedd and Andy. If you look at the album art, yeah, that's like Andy Warhol, but who, so I guess that's Jed is something. I don't know, I can't, that looks like, I didn't pick up on that being Angie Warhol. Yeah, so like there's, it's the band, I guess, and then it's a lead singer in the middle, and then one of the other bandmates has like a paper mask

on of Andy Warhol's face, so I guess this other person must be some celebrity named Jed. I don't know a lot of famous Jeds. Jed actor. I feel like it's Jed. Who knows? That's funny. But yeah, solid, man.

I really enjoyed that. I'm going to have to queue it up for later. Yeah, yeah, cue it up. Cue up the album. It's good. It's good stuff. I wonder what T-T-S-S-F-U stands for. I bet we can find out.

You want to? I'll see if we can figure it out. F-U, I think I know what that stands for. Perhaps. Oh, hello. T-T-S-S-F-U is a musical artist. well we already know that part we might not know

dude we might not get the answer that we want oh well maybe we're not supposed to know we'll never know so that's it man yeah that was great man yeah you know if I if I may I'd like us to close out with another

song from this Cola record if that you can do that all right cool let's do it here's how I sneak in one of my other picks all right well um so next month queue our next episode for our next deep dive episode

we're going to talk about Ringo Death Star and that's going to be an amazing amazing episode because this album blew me away we're going to talk about their 20 2015 record Pure Mood

which I mean that's that's wild dude that this record will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary next year and that's wild man But again, this is just one of those groups that just sort of fell under my radar. I mean, 2015, it's been out for so long. And this is an Austin-based group. So again, it's like I'm really kind of surprised that I wasn't paying more attention to these guys.

They've probably been around since I lived in Austin. Oh, yeah. I live in a group. I lived there in like 2006, 2007. 2005, yeah. You were there right when they started. Man, so, yeah. That's crazy.

that I didn't pick up on them. Yeah. So anyway, that'll be a fun episode. That record blew my socks off cue. And you may recognize, if you go back, if you listen to a couple episodes back, I brought a song called Big Bopper to the one. I love that track. And it was a great track.

Great track. So we might play it again, but there's a lot of great tracks on this record. So anyway. All right. So in the meantime, of course, check us out on the Pantheon Podcast Network. I mean, you don't have to check us out there. You can listen to us right now. However you want to.

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can't make promises though but there's so many shows under our network chances are there's something else you'll like out there yeah and of course reach out to us on Instagram just search for no-feelor podcast send us a message

tell us what you've been listening to lately and we might play a track that you recommend to us to close us out but since I don't have any recommendations from anyone we're going to play another track off with its Cola record to close us out so yeah

in the meantime. Y'all take care. My name is Travis. And I'm good. And here is Reprise, another song by Cola off of the brand new record, The Gloss.

Y'all take care.