No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning Edition

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Tracklist Peel Dream Magazine - Venus In Nadir The Ladybug Transistor - Six Times TV Star - Ride CCFX - The One To Wait Jack White - Hi-De-Ho (feat. Q-Tip) Zhané - You're Sorry Now PinkPantheress - Girl Like Me The Farewell Bend - Heads Down Modern Color - Dancing Waters Club Ambrosia - Time Waits For No One M.L. Buch - Pan Over The Hill Annabelle Chairlegs - Candy Apple Red This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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at OnePeloton.C.A. Welcome to No Filler. I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And on this month's, what you heard, we're kicking things off with the brand new song from Pilgrim magazine. This song is called Venus in Madeir. December.

Dude, they've been prolific lately, man. Dude, their sound has changed so much since I first heard them. I mean, it hasn't even been that long. Yeah, I mean, you know, they put out a record last year. Yeah, Rose Main Reading Room. Yeah, which I think both of us potentially had a track. I know I brought a track at least once, and it may have made it to our best of. Are they putting out a new record this year?

Or are they just putting out some singles? I mean, here's what's interesting. It's already out. It's already fucking out. For the love of God. Go ahead. Here's what's interesting trap. So this is just a little mini album.

It's called Taurus. Just came out three days ago as of this recording. It's actually a bunch of songs from the same session. That's Rose Main Reading Room. So that again shows you how, like, like how wide ranging, what is his name, Joseph Stevens, how wide ranging his sound is even just like within the same time frame.

And the creative, yeah, the creative output that's coming, that's going on these guys. Yeah, I mean, it's funny because, you know,

the album art style is very similar. So, yeah, that makes sense. But I mean, dude, going back to like, I think the first album of theirs I heard.

As a prop alternative. Dude, and that was almost a, copy paste of loveless, my bloody Valentine. It was just your standard shoegaze.

I think you brought a track from them to our shoe gaze, random shoegaze mix tape episode. Oh, yeah, maybe. Misalanta, yeah, I don't remember what we call it. Obscure shoegaze or something like that. But yeah, I remember that.

It was very wall of sound. And this is just like, I mean, just pretty, you know, acoustic dream pop. I mean, it reminds me of Kings of a convenience a little bit. At least distracted. Yeah, dude, this is a very, like, this feels like a fall album.

It's only a song. Totally, totally. But it just feels. Does it? On the cover, you know. Oh, yeah. And a bird. Yeah.

It's a little bird. I don't know if pine cones are associated with fall, but, you know. Well, usually they're falling off of the trees. There you go. See? Well, it looks like that one's attached to the tree, trap. Well, whatever. You guys get trees in Texas?

Huh? I said, do you guys get trees in Texas? And I said, huh? As in like, what's a tree? We got plenty of trees, cute. Okay, by the way, just a little pulling back of the curtain. This is an early, early morning recording, friends. Yeah, dude.

And let me tell you something. The sun is not even out up here. It's 5.45 in the morning. I'm feeling funky, dude. I'll tell you that right now. I'm telling, let me tell you something, dude. I learned something. last night.

I'm not in my 20s anymore. Why did you stay up late? Well, so I went and saw a horror movie with my coworkers. I have a group of my coworkers that were like the horror movie crew. We see horror movies all the time. I went and saw this movie called Good Boy, and it's excellent. I highly recommend it to anybody who can see it. But afterwards, and the movie lets out of like 940, something like that.

One of my co-workers was like, hey, let's go to Denny's. And I was like, fuck yeah, dude. Let's go to Denny's. Anyway, I was so excited about Denny's, dude. You were trying to hang with the youngans, Tram? They're all, dude, they're all my age or older. So I'm just saying. Okay.

You know, we wanted to have a good time, let the good times roll, you know? Sure. I went to Denny's, and I had a grand slamwich, and it was fucking delicious. Oh, I've had that. Yeah, it's one of their signature. It's bananas, dude. Dishes. But I'm just saying, you know, consuming that many calories at 10, 30, 11 at night doesn't really

agree with me, you know, when I go to sleep. So did you wake up in the middle of the night trap with tummy tum. Troubles? I was just having issues falling asleep because of like, you know, old man stuff. You like acid reflux and shit like that. Well, let me ask you this. You know, because, I mean, being twins, I just want to. We have the same biological makeup.

Well, I want to see if we're on the same page yet. I know I haven't gotten this old yet. But are you having like... No, I don't have to get by the middle of not to pee. How'd you know what I'm going to? Yeah. I mean, because that's a thing that... It's inevitable, apparently.

Yeah. Like, I think it just happens to everyone. Once you hit a certain age, thankfully, I'm not there yet. No, no, I'm not there yet. But if you eat a grand sandwich before you go to bed, you expect some, you know, some unsettling to have. All bases loaded in the... Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, to keep the baseball metaphor going. Anyway, Q. So there you go. If you're out there and you're listening and you're mid to late, whatever's, you know what we're trying to say. Mm-hmm. I'm sure you can't relate. But, you know, down some pepto and just, and went about my day, you know. But here we are.

So, yeah, it's early. So I'm a little tired. I'm a little bit. I'm a little groggy, yeah. It's fine, dude. We got the tunes to wake us up. We got the tins, dude. So, yeah, Pilgrine magazine to kick us off.

Again, they have a brand new album, not new songs necessarily, but new to us. The album is called Taurus. And Travis, you get to kick us off this go-round, what you got? Well, before I start, Q, I want to shoot it. And this is, for anybody listening, I mean, by the time this episode comes out, my guess is that, All of these shows will be sold out, but let me show you something, dude. I got, I was able to get tickets to the show. Kara has a friend in Chicago, so now we have a reason to go to Chicago.

There is a festival called Slideaway. I think it's been happening, it's happened a few times, and they brought it back. Check out this lineup, dude, that I'm going to see in Chicago. I'm so stoked. Hum is back, baby. And nothing. Chapter House. Chapter House.

Love Lies Crushing, Cloak Room, and Sunshay. All the same night, dude. Damn, dude. Humb. I'm so fucking pumped to see Homb, dude. And we just covered them. Yeah, we just did an episode of them. Yeah, that's true.

But, you know, their drummer died a couple years back, and apparently they haven't played live since 2019. So, like, going back even further. But, you know, they put out that record in 2020. Dude, they had that amazing comeback record. I know, dude. Anyway, slideaway fest. Nothing is going to be amazing.

So that's the, so slideaway fest is happening in three different cities. New York, Chicago, and L.A. Those three bands, um, uh, chapter house, dude, they're. Yeah, there are another. And they're one of their ownies. Apparently they haven't played a show in like 15 years. Oh, yeah. So anyway.

No, wait. Now, is Chicago the first in the run? No, no. I think New York is the first. Um, so it's, anyway, Hum chapter house and nothing are the headliners for all three cities. And then there's like supporting acts, different supporting acts. So I'm happy to see Cloak Room. That's pretty cool.

Let me, can you go back to that webpage? And this is great for, you know what? We should probably start like recording video of our shows because no one can see what we're looking at. That's true. But did you notice the three, uh, the three logos there? It's a flame? Statue of Liberty, the big-ass bean in Chicago, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Wow, dude.

Good eye, man. That's a good call, dude. You're right. You didn't even notice that's a big old bean? That's a big old bean, dude. I just thought these were just three cool shapes, man. But yeah, you're right. That is definitely the Statue of Liberty flame.

All right, so this is our What's Your Heart format. If you don't already know by now, it's 10 songs. So five tracks each. Like you said, I'm going to start first. And I've got a really good follow-up cue to Peel Dream. So this is a band called the Ladybug Transistor. Have you heard of that? Transistor.

No, I have not. So Ladybug Transistor is a, I know we've used this term before, probably to describe Kings of Convenience, maybe even to describe Peel Dream magazine. but they are considered Baroque Pop, which I know we've used that term before. Big fan. Andy Pop, Baroque Pop. So these guys are from Brooklyn,

and they started in 1995. The record I'm bringing is from 99. So we're going back. And, yeah, I'm just going to let the music speak for itself, dude. So this is off their, again, their 1999 record. I'm probably not going to pronounce this right. The Albemarle sound. This song is called Six Times.

That was the most Baroque, brook pop I've ever heard. But I loved it. Straight baroque, dude. So listen to this. This is a great description. This is from the A.V. Club, who reviewed the record and said, I'm sorry. I'm quoting the Hartford, current. They called the album a collection of panoramic pastoral pop that reflects the sights and

sounds of their world with the same loving texture and color that Brian Wilson illustrated the California shore with. That's a mouthful, but I just want to sneak in Brian Wilson's name there. Well, yeah, and that's a good point, I guess, like the later Beach Boys years. they went pretty baroque, you know? Yeah, right. Like pet sounds and, I mean, and so did the Beatles. I feel like those two bands kind of went hard in the baroque sound, which, you know, like horns, trumpets, whimsical tunes, like, Sergeant Peppers, that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, totally.

Yeah, definitely. But, yeah, so this record, I just saw that it was released on Merge Records, which, you know we are fans of merge for sure that's Spoon's major label that they were on was merge the clientele which is another band that kind of does the Baroque pop type stuff right yeah for sure so

but yeah merge is dude so many bands we have covered on this show are on Merge records so anyway all right Q well I feel like we're we're bound to have a 180 right

are we keeping it Are we keeping it Baroque? Let's keep it in that van, okay? Okay. I found this compilation record. It's Seattle Underground bands. And they're all kind of in the garage rock, like, psych rock vein. Came out last year in May.

And man, dude, there's some great local bands featured on this compilation record. I haven't heard of any of them before. So it's called from far, it all seems small. Now, if I was a history buff, I bet you, that's got to be, that quote has to mean something in this city. Maybe I don't know what it is. From far, it all seems small. It feels like a song lyric. Oh, yeah, that's, yeah, I have no clue that is.

Let's see. From far at all. Oh, super crush? Super crush. Super crush. No, no, don't. Don't call me on that. No, I'm going to take that out.

It's like when you're up in a plane, you know, everything seems small, you know. Yeah, I don't, yeah, no. I'm sure it's supposed to be much deeper than that, but I don't know what, yeah, I don't know. So, where did it go? So it is a, quote, celebration of that underground community and a snapshot of an especially exciting and exuberant moment in Seattle music. Now, it's not talking about the emergency. of grunge, dude.

So it ranges from Shugays to noise pop, power pop, indie rock. Really good stuff. And it's all like newish songs from like current bands.

So pretty cool. All local to Seattle. That's cool. So I'm bringing a track from a group called TV Star. And they kind of pull from like 90s alt sound.

Okay. kind of Brian Jones Town Massacre meets Oasis, kind of psyche 90s all rock stuff. All right, so here we go. This song is called Ride. I'm bad to say about that. Just a great little tune. Yeah. Classic tune in terms of just like a timeless.

Yeah, timeless, dude. Yeah, dude. Timeless tune. That's great. So you could see them, you can go see them live right now, Q, if you want it to. Local artists, go support your local artists, man. Yeah, let me just strap my kids long and just take me. Yeah, man. You know, they got to have their first concert experience.

They're playing at a venue called the Belltown Yacht Club. Never been there before, but I bet that's a dope venue. We couldn't have planned this better cue because I've got a Washington artist. No way. Yeah. In fact, let me read the little bio here. They're called CCFX. Have you heard of them? Yes. It's possible you've heard of them since you're from Washington.

So this is a collaboration between members of synth-pop duo CCDust and experimental post-punk group Transfx, both from Olympia and Washington. Hey, that's where I live. They're from your city, bro. You know what, dude? I've probably seen stickers. I recognize this album cover. There you go.

I've probably seen stuff plastered around the city down to. Well, we're just going to keep the love for the Pacific Northwest going here, Q. Cool, man. So I saw, somebody posted a YouTube video of their K-E-X-P performance. And I was just compelled by her voice. So her being, I believe her name is, yeah, Mary Jane Dunfney. Her voice was like, really interesting. And this song, dude, I can't get it out on my head.

So here we go. So again, the group is called CCFX. This song is called The One to Wait. I think I'm in love. Earworm, dude. Amazing. It's like a cross between like Mr. Twin Sister and like Bjork or something. Yeah, totally.

Yeah, because she really, she does that interesting thing where she's like almost whispering, you know, to like that sort of like just belting it, you know? And not to mention, dude, the musicians, the two, the two fellows behind her. Dude, they have just all around, man. And this might just be me as someone who is just in love with the city that he lives in. But, I mean, that just had Olympia vibes to me. Is that very cute? It is.

And how were those vibes, dude? Chill. Chill? Yeah. Chill, pie. man. Yeah, dude, why don't you guys just move up here already? How would we just move up there, huh?

Just move up here. Why would I want to move there when I could stay here in the concrete jungle? You know, red state. My heart. So anyway, again, CCFX is made up of members from two different other Olympia-Washington bands. So you got some listening to Duke. If you want to hear more of her, she is primarily,

of a group called CC Dust. So there you go. The letters C. C. C. C. Yeah. C. C. C. F. D. So, yeah. C. F.X. Is that all in the word? You know how to Google, right? You know C.C. Spaced. I guess. I got. But it's C.C. Dust and Transfx. Okay. Well, she hasn't done anything as CC dust in like almost a decade.

So. Well, Transfx is, I'm guessing the, the fellows behind making those sweet tunes. So what they did was they took the CC. And they took the FX to you. And they just sandwiched them together. Yeah. Now, Transfx has a more prolific, or at least, well, two years. So, I mean, they put out some stuff.

Anyway, good to listen to those two bands and listen to the. CC FX because again dude that song has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it I fucking love that song so much awesome yeah love it I feel like we've been pretty chill today Q so what do you got for us what do you got we got we got we got we got we got we got we got we got we got we got we got we got we got we've got a we've heard of Jack White. I know him. Yes.

Familiar with his work? Mm-hmm. So I haven't really listened to a lot of his solo stuff. He had an album that came out in 2022 called Fear of the Dawn. And I was intrigued to see a few tracks down. Q-Tip shows up. Now we're talking. Yeah.

And it's a dope track. For those of you who don't know, Q-Tip is a, one member of a tribe called Quest. And they wrote this song together. Well, Q-Tip wrote all the lyrics. But the story goes that Jack White heard Heidi Hoeman on the radio, which is a 1943 song by Scat singer Cab Callaway. And he loved it.

And he had the idea of sampling that scat track along with the drumbeat and then he got Q-tip involved and anyways a song was born and that song is called Heidi Ho. Here we go. I feel like there's nobody else on the planet that could make that song besides Jack White. You know what I mean? Like he's he's listening to those old blues records and right. What radio station was he listening to? Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, That's cool, man. Yeah, Cab Calloway. And then, dude, and then no one else could drop such awesome, like, lyrics and rhymes.

Q-Tip, yeah, for sure. He's such a unique rapper. Dude, I love his lyrics, man. When did this record come out? 2022. Okay. So this isn't the first time that Jack White has collaborated with the Tribe Call Quest. He actually appeared on their 2016 record.

That's right. It was a, he was on a track with Busta Rhymes and Elton John. Like, what a mix, dude. Yeah. Dude, the name of that song, Solid Wall of Sound. That's the name of that song off of the Tribe Calls Quest record that Jack White appeared on. Solid Wall of Sound. Yeah.

I don't know that I'm familiar with that song, but I'm curious if they are saying that for any particular reason or if they, like, tried to do some shoegaze type stuff on that record. But anyway, that's cool, man. I love it. Jack White, you know, there's nobody like him. Nobody will ever, I think, match the guy. He's won in a million, dude. I agree. He does have a son, though, that I recall in, I forget which documentary it was,

but he's like a spitting image or like he's a mini-me. So maybe he'll come up in the ranks. That would be dope. So, yeah, that was Heidi Ho by Jack White featuring Q-Tip. I want to pass it back to you, brother. All right. I'm going to mix it up again, dude. So I have a soft spot for 90s R&B.

And that's not something that we play a lot of on this show. I don't think we've ever played it, but it's possible that we've never done it. So here you go. As I say, and we talk about a lot, you got to have Shazam ready to go. And if I'm ever shopping. at Target, they play a good mix of genres and decades. And they mix in a lot of pretty obscure shit, dude. So props to whoever picks that music for Target.

As if somebody's out there actually curating a fucking playlist. You know what I mean? It's probably just some music service. But anyway, I've never heard of this singer. But the funny thing about this, the name. of the record actually tells you how to pronounce her name. So, that's nice.

The name of this record is called pronounced genet, because that's her name is genet. And that's the name of the record. Pronounced and then it's phonetically spelled out so you can know how to say her name. Awesome. Which I thought was pretty awesome. But, yeah, this is her first record. So this is like, here I am and here's how you pronounce my name. bitches. That's great.

But anyway, this song is awesome. This is just going to be a good time, dude. Again, we don't usually play stuff like this, but I think this is a good follow-up to that particular song. So here we go. This song is called You're Sorry Now. Been sleeping on 90s R&B, dude. It's a treasure trove, man.

My God. Love this. That wasn't the song that was played at the At the Tarjeet. At the store. Of course, it was like one of the singles or whatever. But you know me, I got to go listen to the fucking record. Hey, dude, that's what we preach.

Mm-hmm. Okay. And, dude, this is something I love saying on this show. I'm confident that you're never going to hear a Janais song that comes after a Jack White song anywhere else on the planet. Except for maybe walking around Target. I take it back. Target would actually do that. But, I mean, on a podcast at least, probably not going to happen.

Except for right here, I know if you are. Right here. right here. So this, again, Janay. And by the way, dude, she really did us a solid by a name of the album that because it's spelled

Z-H-A-N and E's got one of them little apiostrophes above it. I don't know what you call those do. I would have messed it up for sure. But, yeah, she had a couple of anthems, of the 90s. One of them called Hey, Mr. DJ,

that we've probably all heard just by living on this planet. That was on that album. Yeah, that was on this record. 118 million plays on Spotify. Good time. Anyway, this song was called You're Sorry Now. That was awesome, dude. I felt like I was watching a, like a Martin Lawrence movie. Oh, yeah, sure. Blue Street. I like Rush Hours. And a Rush Hour, yeah. Two of my favorite films, man. I love Blue Street and I love Rush Hour, one and two.

Three, not so much, but. Anyway, all right So now I know there's nothing we can do from here Except for do another 180. No. Oh, maybe this is where Pink Panthers comes in. This is where Pink Panthers comes in. And we talked about her off the mic.

That's right. But, dude, so here's the thing. Okay. I think we've hinted at our age. Late 30s. Late 30s. We're getting up there. We're getting up there.

I don't know nothing about no Pink Panthers, dude. It's all one word, okay? For starters. I bet you didn't see that coming. Why? Why? Do pantheris. Panthers. Okay.

Yeah. I don't know anything about her either. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. We've probably heard her songs, a few of her songs before because she blew up through TikTok. Music that she, yeah, TikTok. She posted a bunch of her songs on SoundCloud early on.

Here's the deal, dude. She produces the majority of her music. Perhaps. And she was Billboard. Women in Music's 2024 producer of the year. Wow, dude, that's dope. So mad props to her, man.

So genres that get slapped on her pop, UK Garage, probably because she used to, she, you know, produced a lot of her early stuff with Garage band. I don't know if that's what UK Garage means. Probably not, but R&B and dance. And, uh, perfect, dude, perfect segue from a gen A.

Mm-hmm. Yep, yep. She dropped an album earlier this year in May. Dude, Janay walked so Pink Panthers could fly, dude. Look at that. Panthers don't fly. That's fine. But maybe pink ones do.

Fancy that is the album. And this song, I think the lyrics are kind of in the same vein. You know, it's like, I got to do me like that, you know? Here we go, dude. I think you're going to like it. I mean, this is going to make you hop and squirm, dude. I'm telling you. Here we go.

This song is called Girl. Girl like me. I like that quite a bit of cute. Yes. Yes. There was an artist that I brought probably within the line. I don't remember exactly. But she goes by Vitesse X.

You may have remembered Vietess X or something like that. I don't know how to pronounce it. But there's a record she brought out in 2022. I think I remember that, dude. She's on the very like 90s. Yeah, 90s like house. Yeah. or like underground techno.

Yes. But she's on the George Clanton's record label 100% Electronica. Yeah. Very similar kind of vibes. So yeah, dude, I throw it down with this kind of stuff all the time, man. Well, a lot of the album sounds like that. It's good stuff. Mad props, dude, producer of the year or whatever.

You can hear it for sure. That's, yeah, that's cool. That's impressive. Yeah. And you know, it's funny, dude. I wonder if she did this on purpose, but she's wearing that crown. in his album cover. She's wearing that crown.

Yeah, maybe that's, she's trying to tell us. That's cool. Pink pantherist, dude. Pink panthers, dude. On no filler. Who would have thunk it? Who would have thought about that?

All right, man. What are we on that? Is this, I've got two tracks left. Are you serious? I got two left. Dang. I feel like we're going pretty fast here,

actually, if I think about it. So I'm going to bring it down a little bit, Q. But I think it bring it down in a maybe like a nostalgic way. So, you know, sometimes you can get sad with nostalgia. But this, I stumbled upon this post on the Emo subreddit. And this was, this is one of those examples of like Reddit being amazing and being awesome, right? It's like, you know, you always hear about these little stories here and there. but this person posted a video on the email subreddit and she said,

here's a video I found of my brother who's been missing for seven years. I'm trying to find the song he was listening to. Maybe someone here knows it. So anyway, somebody immediately knew what it was. and it was a song from a band called DBS, which I've never heard of them. But the song was called Gallion's Lap.

I'm not going to play that song. There's more to the story, Cam. I am going to play that. I want you to see that clip, dude, because it, so I'm going to let you watch this video clip. And we can hear, maybe we'll put it in the, so you can actually hear it too, because it's only a 20-second clip of him.

But it was just, There was something very like endearing about watching this clip and knowing about this guy's story because she kind of expands on like what. Like he, I don't know, it sounded like he was having some like mental health issues and her parents were like assholes and like sort of like kicked him out of the house kind of thing. Did they find him? No, he's missing. He's still missing. Oh my God, dude. Okay.

But anyway, so people are like, hey man, sorry about your brother. he's got great taste you know we were you know a lot of us can relate to him kind of thing yeah and then she said you know what I because people were asking about his his collection his music collection

and she said you know what there's actually a stack of his CDs downstairs let me go down and take a picture and so look at this she posted a picture of a bunch of his CDs and so there's some band unwound right so we're familiar

with them. And then, you know, you may recognize some other records here. There's Sunny Day real estate. And then... Dude, I don't recognize a lot of this. Oh, there saves a day. So that's a big one people, remember. Well, I mean, I always would just want to dive into these records. And that's what I started to do. So American football. Cursive. Dude, I haven't thought about cursive. That's what I'm saying. So this guy was listening to the stuff that you and I were listening to back on the day. So I think he was maybe about our age. So here's the video.

This is what I liked. It was such an intimate, like, snapshot of this guy's life. And I feel like the fact that he owns CDs. Yeah. Tells you that, like, I don't know. It just took me back, dude. Because, like, I might start buying CDs again. Apparently, that's a thing.

And it's going to be a fucking, like, rush dude to go out and grab. Because now I'm going to record stores, and they have their CDs more, like, prominently featured. because, you know, there's a lot of CDs out there that were never pressed, man, from this era, at least, that may or may not get pressed. You know what, Chad, it's funny. You said pressed because I think that's a final term. No, no, that's what I meant. That's what I mean.

Like, CDs that never got pressed on vinyl. Oh, oh, oh, my gosh. So, like if I want to, oh, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so let me just play this clip real quick. And then I'm going to play a track from one of the bands that one of the CDs that I just thought the record art looked cool. And it was like, this is fucking dope. Anyway, here we go, dude. take some time

because nowhere's hard to fuck I know Anyway, I just, it's like a snapshot of this guy's life. It's like a selfie, if you want to call it that. He just, it looks like he put his phone up on his dash or something that I recorded himself. Yeah, yeah. And people are like, this is fucking awesome that you have this.

And like, you know, like, here's like you, you know, this is something that made your brother happy. You know what I mean? That's fucking great. Yeah. Anyway, but it's just one of those cool. She's like, oh man, I'm so glad I posted, you know, on this sub-breder. Because, you know, everybody kind of like, you know, just sort of like shared stories.

Sounds like a strong community there. Yeah, dude. And that sub-branity. That's pretty honest. Exactly. So anyway, I want to play, I'm going to play a track from one of the, one of this dude's CDs collections. Or one of the CDs from his collection. So, yeah, man, get ready to, to jump back, dude, to that.

time. So this is a group that I had never heard of. They're called The Farewell Band. And everything about the like the CD album art just looks like the 2000s. Dude, this came on, oh, this came out in 98. So a little, little before our time. But yeah, this, so this guy was probably a little bit older than us. But anyway. So before our time, making that seem like, I wish I was that young dude. Sorry, sorry. Yeah, my bad. Before the, before the time we were starting to listen to this kind of stuff. I should, I should clarify. But here we go. So again, this, this band is called the farewell band. This is off their 98 record called In Passing. This song is called Heads Down. It seems like he had his finger on the pulse and was really, I mean, he was just

heavy into that third wave email because of yeah, I've never heard that. It was great. Right. It was awesome. So I was wrong about his age, man. I'm actually going through some of the comments and somebody asked her like, if you don't mind sharing how old was your brother. She said he was 23 when he was missing, which would make him 30 today, which is interesting because like, he was, I mean, he was into the retro stuff then, man, because like he's, like you said, he's going back to these obscure 90s emo bands that, like, unwound and like Sunday. I mean, Sunday Day real estate is like a very, like one of those intro emo bands that everybody kind of gets into, but like props to this guy, dude, he was still listening to CDs.

Assumed that he was older than us, man. and that he kept his CD collection. Yeah, he had a better CD collection than I did, man. Well, that's not true, but like, I certainly didn't keep all my cases like he did. They all just lived in one of those freaking CD binders, you know, that everybody had. But anyway, yeah, it sounds like, you know, he'd gotten an argument with their parents, and, like, he just left. And, like, left, he left his phone and all of his crap. How long has he been gone?

Seven years. What? Did I miss that part? Did you mention that earlier? Yeah, I mentioned it. But that's the name of the post. She said, video I found him. My brother who's been missing for seven years.

So she said that they like, the, you know, the local authorities like dragged the river to see if they could find any evidence. So, like, you know, they haven't found. I mean, that's the good thing is that he might still be alive. Right. Still hope. Anyway, so I just found myself like really like sort of like connecting with this guy, you know. Yeah. Wow.

And anyway, so yeah, that was awesome. sad, a little somber, but also like, just a reminder of like, you know, the power of these little niche community. I mean, niche e-mo is pretty big. I'm just saying these little pockets of people online that can like have an impact on people, you know, the poster, the O.P. As they say. You know, she responded to everybody's comment just about, which I thought was cool. And people just sharing stories about their siblings and whatnot and just like, you know, how this music, you know, is very meaningful to these people.

So anyway. Yeah, that's awesome. So again, that was the farewell band. I'm sorry. The farewell binned. Dude, I've been saying it wrong the whole time. Binned. The farewell binned.

The farewell binned, not band. I'm glad you caught that, dude, because we probably a lot of people just screaming. But that was their only record, apparently, that they put out, 98 in passing. So, yeah, man, how many, how many emo bands are out there like that? They came and went. They dropped an album. You'll never find it on final. You know, you'll be lucky if you find a copy of the CD, you know, in a record store somewhere.

So there you go, man. But it lives on through this guy's collection, man. How cool is that? You know how many people just were introduced to so many of these bands if they engaged with this post and saw all those photos of the CDs? Like you. Yeah, just like me. Exactly.

Anyway, all right. So, again, that song was called Heads Down by the Farewell. and I'm going to pass it back to you, Q. I think I got a great follow-up to that, dude. Awesome. Have you ever heard of a group called Modern Color? Oh, yeah. I've listened to them.

They're kind of modern. They're a modern shoe guys man, right? I was getting like some, I mean, same era for emo, but kind of like pop punk, at least for this one song that I heard. But, I mean, that's just the element, in his singing style. but like as far as like the music goes maybe I'm thinking of another band then well so it's like really heavy guitar driven rock

says in this little write-up on Spotify taking notes from bands like Dinosaur Jr. The pixies and deaf tones. Modern color can be as driving as they are delicate. That's that loud quiet lounge. Oh well they're I mean they're they're listed with you know narrowhead and trauma ray and soulblown. line and stuff like that. So yeah, they're in that grunge gauge, grunge gaze movement, you know.

Yep, yep. So they had an album that came out last year called There Goes the Dream. We're going to play the first track on the record. This song is called Dancing Waters Club. And that's what I came out last year, right? That's right. Very much throwback to, you know, a little pop punk there. But like, I'm thinking like maybe like, maybe like, maybe that group and we're I feel like the singer had kind of a... Hey, Mercedes. Yeah, yeah, totally. Third wave, emo, man.

Has there been a fourth wave yet? I feel like there has, right? Just gotta be. Just gotta be. I feel like fourth wave was... Maybe that's what this is, dude. No, this is. We're not in fucking fifth wave, dude.

I'm pretty sure third wave was Jimmy World, man. Yeah, yeah. Okay, fourth wave was beginning in the late 2000s and flourished into the mid-2010s. Okay. So we might be in fifth wave, dude. Or, who knows if it's even. And at some point, we got to get more creative with the names, dude. Right.

But I wasn't getting any dinosaur junior. I wasn't getting any pixies. I wasn't getting any deaf tones. But here's the thing, though, dude. But they've been around for a while. Yeah, I think some of their earlier stuff sounds a lot different than that. So I think they just have a wide range in their sound. But now I just want to know what wave we're in right now.

Why don't you just ask the old gigs? Google. What wave of emo are we in? Who uses Google? We are currently in the fifth wave of emo, sometimes called the DIY emo or experiment. Listen. Or experimental emo wave. Called it.

Started in the late 2010s. This wave builds on the 2010s emo revival, which is the fourth wave. Is the emo revival. Okay. Well, it's kind of like the Grunge revival, right? So it's a good time to be a fan of rock music So this is a fifth wave moves beyond the emo revival incorporating math rock, indie rock, and sometimes even electronic elements Math rock?

Yeah, dude, I was getting some math rock a little bit from the beginning of that song. Are they saying math rock falls under the fifth wave now? No, they're saying the fifth wave email incorporates math rock into the sound. Okay. I'm not saying that Foles is fifth wave emo. I understand, yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, man. Good times. But yeah, I remember some of the earlier stuff sounding a lot different. Yeah. Great track. Yeah. Oh, you know what, dude? I mean, when they first came out, they're probably in the fourth wave, you know?

They were. That was their first record? 2016. Okay. So they've been in fifth wave the whole time. But they had their, maybe they had their foot. You know, they're like, Jimmy. do because remember Jimmy and World had their feet in third wave and fourth wave, you know.

That's right. All these waves, man. You can't keep up. They spanned. They rode that wave. Whatever. All right. So.

All right, dude. Well, I've got an interesting way to, yeah, I've got an interesting way to close us out, dude. I think you're going to love this. I'm actually the one closing this out, brother. Don't you forget it. That's true. Well, good luck following this. So have you heard of a group called Ambrosia?

Ambrosia? Ambrosia? I hardly know. No, yeah. Oh, no. All right, well, we're going back to 1975. Damn, dude, you're bringing the oldies. I'm...

Look at these, bros. I'm slacking on those, man. I'm trying to see how it ties into the Alan Parsons project, because this particular record lists Alan Parsons as part of Ambrosia. I guess. I don't know. I don't know that it matters. But this is a,

the best way to describe it, I think, is just progressive. It's like a progressive rock band. So, you know, think yes, right?

Those types of sounds. Awesome. And this song blew me away, dude. I don't remember how I came across these guys. For some reason, I had them in my, like,

liked artists list or something like that. I don't remember how this came across my desk. But here you go. The song is called Time Waits for No One. I got a question for you, Chaff. Ask away. How am I supposed to follow that? That's a good cue, cue.

And that's why I said to myself, I've got a great song to close us out. You thought this is the closer, for sure. This is I close the episode. But yeah, you're going to have to follow this. Dude, that's classic Prague rock. Oh, yeah. The harmonies, the great, great, great.

You know, intricate and complex like melodies. Yeah, the little sound effects and stuff. Time signatures and all that. There's like a little clock situation sound effect in the opening. But yeah, man, amazing track, man. Holy crap. Yeah, and it's just like, you're telling me right now that this song has existed for 50 years. Jesus.

And I am just now hearing it. I think I've heard the name in passing Ambrosia. I think I've heard of them before. So like Alan Parsons mixed it. He was like the mixer. Okay. The mixed down engineer, whatever that means. But yeah, dude.

What the hell, man? What a great track. And the record is really interesting, as you can imagine. So, yeah, man, Ambrosia. Just, yeah, everything about that, the harmonies. the uh yeah dude i don't sound like a freaking like uh you know like a classical song oh yeah that's progressive rock really yes yeah yeah that's kind of what it's all about just like fragile yeah man 50 years this album has existed um and i yeah i hopefully we just introduced

a bunch of you out there to to ambrosia but yeah they had a few records uh they had some a couple of big hits, how much I feel seems to be their biggest hit, biggest part of me, another big one. Actually, that might be the bigger, bigger of the two. But anyway, Ambrosey was their first record. And yeah, that song blew me away, dude. All right, Q, how are you going to close us out? How are you going to follow that one? Good luck. You know what? I got it going for it. You know, I knew you would. You know what? And I don't know how to classify this music. It's a Danish musician.

She goes by M. L. Buk or Buck, or I don't know how to pronounce. Her real name is Mary Louise Buk. I mean, it's just her real name, but she just put the initials on there for the first two. I see what she did. Names. Hello. That's what she did there. So this album is called Sun Tub.

It came out in 2023. the genres that are slapped on there, art rock. Okay. It's kind of proggy, right? Soft rock. All I know is it's good stuff, dude. So Ambrosia to Suntop, just about a 50-year difference here. Let's see where we're at.

So what have we been doing since then? Yeah, what are we up to? What have we been up to? What's the state of the world right now? I'm not looking good. So here we go. This is, I think, track one. off the record. This is called Pan

Over the Hill. Loved it. Yeah, man. That's my jam. Yeah, dude. Slow build. Great guitar. I love a good runaway, as I always say. I mean, like 808 beats it sounded like, you know? Yeah, that's really, that's why

that's why this obviously wouldn't be made it into the final edit, but I started laughing when that's really simple beats started playing because I was like, you're like, where could this possibly go? Well, because it's a funny, like, transition from like Prague rock you know what I mean where everything is super complex and stuff and then the super really simple beat but yeah obviously she layered on a bunch of really interesting stuff the guitar that came in like what a cool and I'm sure that's all produced by her huh gorilla versus

bear do yeah I was going to say I want to give a little shout out to this quote from our old pals at gorilla versus bear still kicking it dude yeah they had no clue that we existed probably. Right. They ranked it the second best album of 2023, calling it, quote, the most soothing and unsettlingly beautiful record of the year that envelops the listener

in an otherworldly cocoon by tapping into some uncanny, unshakable deja vu. That was great. Yeah. Good way to close it out. You know what? Yeah, you somehow did it. I did it.

I think that's a good... I pulled it. I wouldn't say it's better than the Ambrosia track. But it's a good, I think it's a good way to close us out. Nice and chill. I feel like there's a pretty laid back episode. It's a good, it's good. In terms of music.

Mix the tunes. Again, dude. When are you going to hear Jenae and Ambrosia within a 30-minute time span? Never. Now where. Only hear it. Maybe that's a bad thing, but I think it's a great thing. So anyway, I've got a outro track for us.

All righty. And this is going to be Mitchie's pick, you know? Good old Mitch. Good old Mitch. Highs in the sky. Yeah, we will be getting him on our Halloween episode, which we will be recording next. That'll be the next episode we record. I think we've teased that a couple times over the last few months.

But, you know, to the yearly tradition, we've got to have our Halloween episode. Got to have it. So, yeah, stay tuned for that. I will, obviously it'll drop on Halloween because that's how I typically do it. But we should have the HOM episode out soon at this point. So you might have three episodes for October. That's because it's the bonus Halloween episode, Q. Hey, yo.

So that'll do it for what you heard for this month. Obviously, you can find us on Instagram. Just search for No If You're a podcast. That's just, if you want to get in touch with us, Basically, that's where you would do it. We don't post anything, but it's how you can get in touch with us. And then, of course, we are part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. It's Pantheonpodcast.com if you want to find more music-related podcasts.

So, all right. As I said, we have a pick from Mitch, who is our third host, if you want to call him that. I think he qualifies at this point. So he, you know, we're always texting each other music back and forth. And he shared this tune with us from, I believe this is an Austin-based musician called Annabelle Chairlegs. And this is just a name. Yeah, this was just a catchy AF earworm of a song, dude. So it's going to be a good way to close us out.

Again, this is Annabelle Chairlegs. is called Candy Apple Red. Thanks as always for listening. I'm Travis. And I'm Quentin. Y'all take care.