No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Yard Work Edition

Episode Date: June 27, 2022

On this month's Whatcha Heard, we kick off our monthly mixtape with a brand new single from Texas native alt-rockers, Narrow Head. From there we listen to everything from lo-fi indie pop to 90s shoegaze (no surprises there), psychedelic dream pop to 70s post punk and much more.  Tracklist bar italia - skylinny bar italia - Mariana Trenchrock Pet Shimmers - Super Natural Teeth Arp - Flourescences Rick Cuevas - The Birds Sinead O Brien - There Are Good Times Coming Swallow - Cherry Stars Collide Mint Field - Natural Medicine - The Pink Pencey Sloe - Smile to Zero The Stranglers - Walk On By This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And I'm Quentin. And for this month's What You Heard, we're kicking things off with a brand new single from Narrowhead. This song is called Twin. I'm not the least bit surprised that that was fantastic. Yeah, if you've been listening to this podcast for a while now, you should be no stranger to Narrowhead because they've been featured pretty consistently since I think 2020, maybe 2019. I don't remember when I stumbled upon their record satisfaction, but once I did, I've been obsessed like ever since, really. They're a band from Houston. so they are Texas natives.

And as you kind of heard from that song, they have essentially brought back that 90s, alt rock, grunge. They're kind of like they're a perfect mashup of 90s shoegaze, grunge, and like the all, like everything about 90s rock, I feel like, all the different 90s rock sounds. like they have essentially like combined into into their own sound you know what I mean because you hear bits and pieces from so many different 90s rock bands yeah I mean like all the bands that we've been covering the last couple months you know like you can hear bits and pieces of that and their sound and for those of you tuning in for the first time we've been diving into shoe gaze

alt rock from the 90s for I mean pretty much this entire year that's right our main focus has been that and yeah like sonically they're very they're more like shoegazing you know they've got sonically it's shoe gaze but but the guitar riffs and and all that are very grungy and yeah man they're they're they're doing it right yeah well they I mean when they first hit the scene they they got a lot of comparison to hum um and I think they're sound has, as maybe they've come into their own a little bit, you know, since their first like EPs and stuff. They came out with a full-length album back in 2020 called 12th House Rock, which was on our best 2020 rankings, you know, pretty high up there probably for me. Like that was probably

one of my top five songs. And this is their first new song since then. And let me read their Instagram post that accompanied this because this gives us some clues here as to maybe why this song came out and, you know, a lot of people are wondering, does this mean a whole new albums coming up, blah, blah, blah, but this is what they said on their Instagram. This song is dedicated to our Texas family and the people we cherish who are no longer with us. So this could be, if you read the lyrics and interpret them a certain way, this could be a song about the Evaldi shooting and the family's lost and stuff like that, you know, a Texas tragedy, right? This is a Texas band.

Yeah. So this could have just been a very like spur of the moment kind of recording. Yes. It could be just a one-off single, you know, could mean there's, you know, another record coming. I mean, it's been two years. I'm sure they have a lot of new material, right? But this could just be a one-off single. But either way, so yeah, narrowhead.

One of my favorite bands that come out in the last decade, hands down, go check out their record satisfaction for starters and then check out 12th House Rock after that. All right. So this is our What You Heard for June. And if you've never heard one of our What You Heard episodes, it's pretty simple. We each bring five tracks to the table. It could be any genre, any decade. It's, as the name implies, what we've been listening to the last month, basically, since we last did a What You Heard episode.

So always a blast. This is just our, we call it our monthly mixtape, right? I'm pumped to do. I'm bringing stuff from several different decades. It's all kind of, it all kind of flows well together. So we'll see if you can change it up a bit or if we're going to be just kind of hanging out in the same mood tonight. Most of my stuff is from the last like two years. So yeah, I'm bringing a lot of.

Brand new tracks. But yeah, I've got some doozies for us, man. This is going to be a good episode for sure. Yeah, I'm excited. All right. Well, yeah, let me kick things off, dude. But before we do, let's take a quick break. All right.

Last month, you started us off, which means I'm starting us off this month. That's how we do it. And I've actually got two songs to play. Now, hear me out on this queue. The first song is only a minute, 20. seconds long. Okay. Okay. I'm not trying to hog the airways. That's all right. But I really wanted to show both of these songs. I couldn't pick one. And this band really kind of surprised me when I heard him. So this is a group called Bar Italia. And from what I can tell, it's two members, or at least two

singers. And they have a very, they really kind of remind me of this band, this group called Bowery electric, which I played a song from theirs on a watch a long time ago. But they're kind of like a shoegaze band. Yeah, I'm familiar with them. Yeah, it was good stuff. But like not your traditional shoegays sound. Like they were very slow as kind of what you think of, like a monotone, the voice. But also would incorporate like electronic beats and stuff into their music.

Anyway, let me just play a couple of these tracks here. So they put out a record in 2020 called Quarrel. I'm going to play two tracks off of this record. Here's the first track for you. This song is called Sky Lennie. Dude, I loved it. I think when it's done right, those kind of like back and forth duos are always enjoyable to me.

Yeah, what happened me kind of hooked on this was the drumbeat, that melody, like the beat and stuff. So simple, yeah. Yeah, play the next track here. So this will give you the full picture cue. So this song is called Mariana Trench Rock. And like I like how I angered, especially that last song, kind of relentless kind of like stabbing note there that just kind of carries the whole thing.

And yeah, they do a great job taking things away, bringing it back, one of our favorite things. One of our favorite things, dude. And keeping it simple. Another favorite of ours. And yeah, keeping it simple. So anyway, if you like that, there's a chance you'll like some of the Bowery. electric stuff. It's a little bit of an older band, but kind of the same vein, I think. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it at you. What is your first pick for us?

All right, man, I've got something that's going to go great with that. First off, I need to give a shout out to the members of Mama. Do you remember that band? I brought one of their tracks a few what you heard to go. It's this pop punk kind of duo. It's these two friends. I imagine they're close friends. It's just a duo and it's Edda Friedman and Allegra Wine Garden and they've been releasing stuff over the last few years. They're working on releasing a full length. Anyways, I've mentioned this before and I continue to find great music this way, checking out artist's playlists

on Spotify. So, you know, it's just playlists that members of a certain group put together. And both of the members of Mama have their own separate playlists. One says Edda's playlist. The other says Allegra's playlist. And man, their

taste of music is super similar to ours, dude. It's good stuff. I'm going to play a song. The first song that shows up on Allegra's playlist, This is a group called Pet Shimmers and very similar vibes as what you just brought, dude. They are kind of a collaborative. They have like two core members, but they kind of bring in artists, I guess. That's kind of the vibe I'm getting from what I'm reading here.

Just very like, you know, hey, if you want to hop on this album, come join us. You know, just kind of a collective. Again, thanks to Allegra Wine Garden for this track. So this is from an album of theirs that came out in 2020 called Face Down and Meta. This song is called Supernatural Teeth. Indie track right there. Reminds are the stuff that we would play on New Dust, our old music blog. Yeah, man.

Really, really different. And they're, man, they are. kind of all over the place. Really, really unique stuff that they're coming out with now. So I purposely did not play a song from their latest release, which just dropped last week. It's just two more songs because I have a feeling they're going to be working on dropping a full length pretty soon. And I got to save that for our best of the year because I've got a good feeling about these guys.

So what would you classify that as like bedroom pop or something? Well, if you listen to more of their stuff, it's a little more out there. It's kind of like a more pop-y, more structured, like melodically kind of animal collective. Yeah, that's what I was thinking to you like, I mean, in the world of like indie music. Yeah. You know, you could throw them in the same camp as Animal Collective. Right, right, yeah. Experimental kind of.

Yeah, dude. Yeah. It's good stuff. Playful. Yeah. Cool. Thanks to freaking Allegra. dude for for dropping a playlist on Spotify i mean if there's anybody that you should

that you should listen to you know like somebody who's going to make a playlist on spotify like it's always a good idea to if a musician that you love has a playlist like yeah there's probably going to be some crossover yeah you know stuff that you both like so what's great is so i've listened to to a good chunk of both of their playlists and they also have a mama selects so it's both of them contributing um That's cool. And what's great about it is you can hear the influences that these artists that they put in their playlists have on their style of pop punk.

So it's really cool to hear that, you know, because you can just kind of imagine them getting inspired by these songs. So yeah, man. If you are a big fan of an artist and you want to, you know, kind of dive into, like, their influences and music that they like, chances are they've got some sort of playlists. tied to their page on Spotify. So always a good thing to keep in mind if you're looking for more jams. So again, that was Pet Shimmers.

The song was Supernatural Teeth. Pass it back to you, Chav. What you got? I'm going to change things up a little bit here and play something instrumental. Don't remember how I stumbled upon this guy. It could have been in my release radar on Spotify because this artist put out a single, like within the last two weeks. But he goes by the name Art.

his name is Alexis Georgopoulos and it sounds like he is like a bona fide producer, composer he's a New York-based musician and I'm going to read from his Spotify bio here he explores the liminal space between ambient bass music and experimental music

so kind of techno-e electronic-y right uh but he has like composed music for like museum like he's been commissioned to make music for museum yeah that's cool uh like exhibits and stuff installations right uh so you know this guy's the real deal right um as far as like you know he's got cred right i'm gonna play a track off of his album, Zebra, came out in 2018. And before I play the song, I'm going to read from the Pitchfork Review, Here you. It says here that the record is a pulsing, eclectic, wonderfully breezy album of ethereal psychedelia. Whoa. I like all those things. Oh, more do you need to hear, I like all those things. So here you go. This song is called fluorescences. Yeah, sometimes nothing

nothing beats that kind of electronic music dude and there's so much good stuff out there in that vein yeah i mean this year we've kind of shied away from it because we've been so focused on like 90s shoeges and stuff like that 90s alt rock also you can have to excuse the sound of the lawnmower outside uh but yeah we love electronic music down tempo uh we had i think a month of it maybe last year we did like a month straight of it where we cover some of our favorite artists kind of in that wide world, right? So I'm going to say one more. Here's another review of one one line sentence from some publication called inverted audio. If you need more convincing to listen to this record.

They say the results are as captivating as they are unique with each track a gem, a life affirming joy from start to finish. Nice. So there you go. Yeah, this record really, really eclectic. Like there's some jazz elements in there. He's kind of all over the map, which, you know, when you look at his, you know, his resume, like there's no surprise that he can kind of pull in from different genres and stuff.

And we talked about that with down tempo musicians. Like to be a successful down tempo artist or electronic artist, I feel like you have to be pretty well disciplined. and a bunch of different genres of music, you know, because you're going to be taking and incorporating all those things into like a single song and making it sound, you know, cohesive and stuff, right? Yeah. Anyway, so again, that record is called Zebra by an artist that goes by the name Arp. And I just read about this here.

Part two, he's basically doing a follow-up to Zebra, is what's coming out this year. So he's put a couple new singles out. The record's going to be called New Pleasures. All right, Q, throwing it back at you. What's you got for us? All right, man, so I've got a track. So I wasn't planning on playing more than one artist that I discovered on Allegra's playlist.

But this track pairs beautifully with the electronic music that you just play. That's what you've been heard, dude. It is, man. So shout out again to Allegra from Mama for turning me on to the, this artist named Rick Quevas, I don't know how to say that, but I'm just going to read his little blurb on Spotify here. It says, I am a longtime San Francisco Bay Area resident, an independent musician and recording artist. As of May 2022, I have 20 solo albums, and I'm a founding member of the 1980 art band Zru Vogue,

along with Andrew Lawrence Jackson, who also has many, many solo albums. Can I just say that I love that the bio is from his own words? Like, I like that. Yeah. I don't know why. That just makes me, I feel like I'm, I feel like I know the guy. Right. Right.

So 20 solo albums. Yeah. So he's been around for a while. He's been around the block, dude. He's just really prolific. Yeah, that's cool that he, yeah, he was, he's from the 80s as far as like, been in the biz since the 80s at least, right? Yeah.

And he mentions that band Zruvo. never heard anything from them, so I'll probably dive into them. An art band from 1980. But I'm going to bring a track from a single. I didn't really dive in too deep to see if this ever pops up on any of his full-length albums or not. But this is from 1984. Oh, okay. And you're going to love this, dude.

This song is called The Birds. Yeah, I can see how that's a good follow-up to. to that ARP track that I played. It's kind of in the same, same kind of, you know, like easy kind of listening, floating kind of vibe, you know what I mean? Yeah, well, an ARP is, you know,

possibly using older, you know, vintage synth gear to get a certain sound. Rick Cravis here is OG, you know. He was doing this in the 80s. I feel like he may have relied too much on that delay effect there, but it was the 80s.

So anyway. I was reminded of the cleaners from Venus. Remember that artist I brought? Uh-huh. Which was, you know, doing the same kind of stuff, producing his own stuff, doing that kind of synth stuff. I can't remember what the term was, but there was like this kind of underground scene. It was like a tape, mixed tape underground where they released their own stuff and they had these channels of ways to get, their stuff out. Anyways, reminded me a fan. That's the indie culture, man. Yeah.

So again, that was Rick Krovas. I've, I've, uh, flip-flopped on how to pronounce his name multiple times, but, well, you know what? You probably got it right one of those times. I'm feeling good about Krovas, Kovas. Yeah, me too. It does sound, it sounds, that sounds right. And that was again, a song of his from 84 called The Birds. All right, you had to pass it back to you. What'd you been heard? All right, Q, I'm going to crank it up a little bit here with the, with the, I don't want to say aggression, but, because this is not a metal song. Don't worry. I know you're scared for a second.

I wouldn't say scared, but, you know, I'm expecting it at this point. Just up in the tempo a little bit here. I'll say that. Cool. So speaking of playlists, who I can credit for turning me onto this, I've been following this playlist for years. it's pretty cool. It's called Ghostly at Work. Oh, yeah, I've got that in my list. You follow that too? So every once in a while, so, okay, let me back up. So Ghostly International

is a pretty well-known record label. And they put out, you know, mostly electronic music, right? But they have this playlist, like I said, called Ghostly at Work. And employees of Ghostly people who work there, add periodically to this playlist. Like, basically it's just a collaborative playlist that people who work there can just add and remove songs to, which is really cool. They also have ghostly at rest. You're familiar with that. Oh, that's cool. And ghostly productivity.

Oh, love it. Anyway, so I, uh, sometimes I'll just pull up the playlist and hit shuffle and just see what I hear it, right? Because I, you know, these guys are working for. for, you know, one of my favorite record labels. Chances are I'm going to like a lot of the stuff that they play, right? Anyway, so this song, like the first thing I was reminded of, and I guess I should clarify why I was reminded of this person, because it's not two very different styles, but dry cleaning, right?

The artist that I played a track from her a few, or from the band a few months ago, I think. Spoken Word, indie stuff. where I was really, yeah, really kind of impressed with how different her delivery was, right? Very spoken word, like train of thought almost kind of lyrics, right? Yeah, that made it on our best of 2021 list. That's right, yeah. So this artist, her name is Sheneid O'Brien, and she has another very interesting kind of

the way that she delivers her lyrics and stuff. I was kind of taken aback when I heard this song. And I'm curious what you think, Q. I think you're going to love it. This song is off of her brand new EP called Multitudes. And this song is called There Are Good Times Coming. Draw in the essence of a time and a place you once went. And when you were then.

It is not the type for subtlety. Hear me roar. Feel me breathe. I am the power of double my strength. Throw a coin in the fern to, a cursing your name, a praise and vein of kindness. There are good times coming. It was great, dude. Really cool. Yeah, like you really are caught off guard by it, I feel.

That to me, yeah, yeah vibe. That French pop, uh, bubble gum pop kind of stuff that was happening in the 60s. Kind of reminded me of that very playful and fun. Yeah, and there was definitely some, like, psychedelic vibes to it a little bit. But what I like about, you know, sometimes it's good to go to the band camp page to see the tags, the genres that they put on. Because, like, this is the artist, or the label at least, telling you how they classify them, right? Right. Now where you're not relying on Wikipedia and shit.

So the tags that they use for this record. Alternative, rock, poetry. So I like that. Poetry. You know, that's what this is. Which is why it kind of reminded me of dry cleaning. Anyway, like when I heard, I was just like, man, this is different. You know, and I really, it's catchy as hell, you know.

It's just one of those binger tracks, right? Anyway, that's great. So that's, again, her name was Chenate O'Brien. That record is called The Multitudes. There's a few tracks on it. But yeah, anyway, thank you to whoever works at Ghost Leader National. that track on their playlist because I've been I really have been heard in it lately, dude. I've been playing that song a lot.

It's been on heavy rotation, as they say. All right, Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. What do you got for us? All right, dude, I'm going to go with this band called Swallow. Now, this is another one of those moments, dude, where I was like, of course this came out in the 90s. And it's going on my freaking mind. I would say we could do a whole episode on this group. This is another shoe gazee band.

I'm pretty sure I discovered this artist and album on the Shugee subreddit. But they are actually, I don't really see much about them. You know what? It doesn't matter. Who cares about their bio, dude? Let's just play the song. Let's just get into it. Let's just get into it, dude.

So this is a... What more do you need to know? 90s band. 90s band. Gagey Gangesh stuff. This album is called Blow. It came out in 92. Again, the band is called Swallow.

And this song is called Cherry Stars Collide. That was interesting. The last little bit that you played, it almost sounded like a theme park carousel. I knew you were going to go that route, dude. I knew you were thinking it in your hand. Kind of creepy. Yeah, I agree.

Yeah, really cool. I love how dark that song is. Yeah. That baseline is dope, you know, that keeps repeating over and over. Yeah, that vocal style again, I would recommend Bowery Electric. And you guys, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for the noise. I know you guys can probably hear that. But yeah, that kind of slow, monotone vocal delivery, like, works really well for shoegaze for whatever reason.

Yeah. But that song could have came out like over the last few years. You know, there's just so much music still coming out that that has that vibe. Uh-huh. Let's just wait a second. All right, man. So again, that was a group called Swallow. That song was called Cherry Stars Collide. Pass it back to you, brother. That would be a great Shugays band name right there, too. Cherry Stars. All right. This is Hands down, my favorite record so far this year that I've stumbled upon. This album blew me away, and credit goes again to somebody on the Shugee subreddit.

But I would not call this a Shugay's band. I guess it's a label you could attribute to them, but they have a lot more to their sound, I think, than what you may associate with Shugay. So let me just read a little bit of their bio here. This is a band originally from Tijuana. They're based in Mexico City. They're called Mint Field. Of course, Q, at the front is front woman. Estreya del Sol is her name.

She does vocals and guitar. Sebastian Nyra on bass and Caleb Brown on drums. It's a three piece. And I think this kind of sums it up right here. Mint Field explores the nostalgia and the melodious. uncally of daily life with loud guitars and vocals that are like size that give life to unique and supernatural shoegaze. Columnian drinked.

So supernatural shoegaze is interesting. I would say that they're, what I think of is more, and I know these are two of the same, two sides of the same horn, but more dream pop. But I like that they use the word supernatural because there is kind of a quality like that to this music. It's very ethereal. There's elements of psychedelic in there and kind of like lo-fi. But man, dude, this record is amazing.

Awesome. So this record came out in 2020. I'm going to probably butcher this, but it's called sentimento mundial. Oh, no. Whatever, dude. Sentimento mundile. Mundial? I don't know.

I don't know. Moondial. Anyway. Sorry. Yeah, I can't. help you out there, sorry. Luckily, though, I can pronounce the song name. Here we go.

This is track two. This song is called Natural. They're kind of like a psychedelic sound carriers. Interesting. But minus like that, you know, kish kind of 60s pop vibe that sound carriers had. It's getting very similar vibes in like the recording and the way that, you know, the drumming and stuff like that. yeah really great and that's the thing like that was a very soft kind of pretty song right

they do crank the fuzz up and the distortion up here and there they they use it very like sparingly but like to great effect uh it was very very difficult for me to choose between this song and the title track to the record um but i just felt that the natural had some more like i don't know showcased her as a singer quite a bit and she has such a beautiful voice right like a great singing voice. I always think of like Elizabeth Fraser, right? When you listen to mezzanine, like her voice on the few tracks that she

appears on, appears on, it's such a great contrast to the stuff that the really kind of aggressive kind of in your face electronic music that Massive Attack does, right? Right. Yeah. And sometimes

with like a singer like Australia, like yeah, it provides this great contrast. Now, this song actually complements it perfectly. It's not actually a contrast at all because it's a very soft, beautiful song. But throughout the record, like I was saying, there's moments where they really kind of crank up the fuzz and stuff. It's a great contrast, right? Anyway, that I can't recommend highly enough to go check out that record. I just gave you one song. But again, that band is called Mint Field. And the record is called Sentimiento. own deal.

Maybe. I think it was a solid effort, dude. I appreciate it. You know, that's my, my butcher pronunciation of the album made. But anyway, all right,

Q, I'm going to throw it back to you. What do you got? Oh, man. All right. I'm trying to think, like, should I keep it in the same vibe?

Because I've got another... I mean, we've been in this vibe quite a bit today. So... Well, the last one that I play is going to change it up a bit.

So, let's stick in this pocket. So this is, uh, another group that, you know, so I think it was just a Discover Weekly song. And the last thing that I suspected was that this was an album that came out in 1993. So this is a group called Medicine, which is a, quote, noise pop band formed in Los Angeles in 1990 by guitarist slash keyboardist, Brad Lehner. And this is interesting, dude.

One of the other members of the group, her name's Annette Zelenskis, was a founding member of the Bengals. Oh, okay. You know, walk like an Egyptian. But apparently she was only, she was, she played bass and harmonica on one of their early EPs before the Bengals dropped their first album. But she left the group shortly after that. So she's considered a founding member, but, you know, all those songs of the Bengals that you were probably, you know, probably know of. She's not in there. But anyways, I just thought that was interesting. And this is a group that Pitchfork hailed as the closest thing to being an American answer to

my bloody Valentine. Didn't we say that last week or the week before? I feel like about, I think we said that about, that's exactly what a dude. So that's funny, dude, because the press has said that about like five or ten probably different bands. Who was it? It was swirleys. Swirlies, okay. That was what the press said about Swirleys,

and that's also what the press said, I think about the drop 19. So let's just say the press weren't very original. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, well. So which one really is the answer? I don't think these guys have that sound at all.

Well, here, I'll quote this. I don't know where this is coming from. This is just... My guess is that these different authors didn't realize that they were... Somebody else had said it about this other band. and this other guys, they're all just racing to, like, crown a shoegaze king in America, you know. Well, what's funny is that was from a pitchfork review from 2010.

So, anyways, yeah, it says here, Medicine's music managed to distinguish itself from some of the more ambiguous endeavors of the shoe gaze movement. It's different, dude. And I'm bringing a song from an album of the, from their second studio album from 93 called, the buried life. This is the first track on the record. This song is called The Pink. I could see the My Bloody Valentine comparisons. Maybe not necessarily with the voice, but with the

fuzz. The feedback and the distortion. There's no glide guitar, but no, dude, and I listen to this whole album. There's none of that. And I will say it gets a lot noisier on some of those tracks and a little bit more out there. I bet you that's what it is as far as like the the comparisons, right? I mean, when you think of loveless, you just think of the wall of sound, right? The noise. Just hits, just smacks you in the face the whole time. Yeah. Yeah, dude.

And you get that vibe from that track for sure, right from the rip. Yeah, man. I love that track. Really good. Cool. Great album. They're still dropping stuff. They just released an album this year.

Oh, really? Yeah, self-released. I haven't really listened to it yet, but maybe it'll make its way on our best of for this year. So again, that was medicine. The song was called The Pink. And this is your last track, Traff. Your last pick, what you got? This is a new track from a band that might sound familiar to some listeners if you've been listening long enough.

We had an episode devoted to this subgenre. The best way to describe it is what is the name itself. It's called Doom Gaze. it's a combination of the elements that make like a doom metal band and a shoegade band. So it's like darker, slower, sludgier shoegaze, right? Yeah, that was a great episode, dude.

I really enjoyed that one. Yeah, go back and listen to that one. That was a really interesting episode because, yeah. Yeah, I mean, what an intriguing like blend, right, of two different genres, right? well together. Yeah, it really does. Anyway, so this band is called Pincey Slow, or Slowy, I'm not sure how to pronounce it.

But I played a track off of their 2019 record, Don't Believe, Watch Out. And yeah, they're getting ready to release their next full-length record coming on in August called Nickalect. But they've got a couple of singles that they put out so far. so we're going to listen to one of them. And I will say, I think when you think of Doom Metal, then you think of Shooter Gaze, and I play the song for you,

you're not going to really be able to see it, I don't think. So I think their sound has maybe evolved a little bit. But I think what it, probably why they got classified under Doom Gaze is because they will kind of explore like these darker guitar sounds every once in a while. And apparently from what I'm reading on like the press release and stuff, Like that does come back on this record, but it sounds like kind of moving more in a, more of like a dream poppy direction.

You don't got, who cares, right? It's good. All you got knows, it's really good. Yeah. So anyway, this song is called Smile to Zero. Fantastic. I have a feeling this will be making an appearance on our ear end best of because, like, this record is going to be great. Like there's no doubt about it.

Comes out in August. And you're right, they're leaning towards the more like 2010's Dream Pop and, you know, where it's heading to nowadays, really. Totally. They even classify this record, or at least a band in this press release, as a Dream Gaze band. So, you know. In case, maybe that's the best way to describe it, dude. That way we're not to be like dream pop.

It's just like shoeggays. There we go. It's like this is Dream Gaze, dude. Yeah, love it. Anyway, yeah, so this is a Parisian dream gaze band. Can I just say I'm not a fan of these covers, man. It's giving me these weird like Apex twin vibes. Yeah, well.

That creepy smiley face thing. It is true. I don't like it. The cover art for these two singles are kind of, kind of unsettling looking, but there's a reason for it. They look like, that's actually the singer, the lead singer, that's her face. If you look these up, go to Spotify or go to their band camp and look at the two album arts for these two singles.

And it looks like kind of like this fragmented mirror image almost, like of her face. Yeah. Or like, you know, there's these different angles like cut up and sort of form it and to make like a a picture, right? The theme of this record is like exploring identity, like, who am I? So the record being, you know, these pictures of her, these kind of distorted pictures of the lead singer, kind of makes sense, right?

When you think about the record being about, you know, exploring your identity, right? Yeah, yeah. Anyway. So I'm pumped and soaked about this record. It comes out in a couple of months, comes out in August. So maybe they'll put out another single leading,

up to it. But anyway, again, that band was called Pincey Slowie. That song was called Smile to Zero. All right, Q, how are you going to end things here? How are you going to close us out? All right, man, this is going to be a bit different. Something I heard on K-E-X-P yesterday. Shout out to them, as always, one of my favorite public radio stations up here in Seattle. Pretty consistently for a while you would bring at least one track to every watch you heard Yep From kxp they're always playing good teams dude So this is a group called the stranglers have you heard of them

That rings a bell So I'm just going to read this straight from Spotify says Although they rose to fame during the initial explosion of UK punk The stranglers always stood apart from the other bands from the class of 1977 They had been together before punk became, quote, the next big thing, and while they had a great talent for being suitably rude and transgressive, their music didn't sound or feel much like the fast, loud, guitar-based fury of the damned the sex pistols or the clash. I'm just going to leave it at that, dude.

And I'm going to bring a track. This is the song that I heard yesterday on K-E-X-P from an album of theirs called Black and White that came out in 78. This song is called Walk on By. I was immediately reminded of the doors. Yeah, me too. And man, that was... Because that's what I think of.

But yeah, what a blazing... solo, dude. Holy, it just kept going, dude. I forgot it. It went on

for that long. So I confess I wasn't listening to you when you talked about this band before you played. And I,

I thought when I first heard it, oh, cool. It's like a 2000s era garage rock. No. But that's what's, that's exactly what the 2000s era

garage rack bands were doing were paying homage to these bands, right? Right, the punk barred bands of the 70s. And 80s.

Yeah. Now, yeah, going back to even like the 60s were like the animals and stuff. But like,

yeah i mean the hives right right like franz ferdinand and all that they were totally going back to this sound right but yeah that's that's a great that came out 78 right 78 yeah yeah yeah what a cool i love the harmonizing like the very like 60s vibes you know with those harmonies and the you know it's kind of like a breakup love song uh just great dude it kind of remind me of um you remember the soft boys yeah a can of bees was the album

that I brought as like a little sidetrack way back in the day that neo psychedalia kind of stuff came out I think around

the same time yeah like a other side of the of the punk coin from that era good stuff

yeah that's a good way to end it yeah dude with a little tasty organ solo so that's it that is it

dude that is this months what you heard well uh cue the listeners are spoken one listener has spoken the listener has spoken uh ezra who we talked about a couple weeks ago i think a couple episodes back reached out to us on instagram and said hell yes make t-shirts he may not have used those words exactly but we have one vote for some t-shirts which means i'm making t-shirts okay right even dude if if Ezra's the only one that wants him, he's getting a t-shirt. Yeah.

We'll make it happen. And that's totally fine. That's totally fine. But yeah. So stay tuned for that. Maybe we'll throw some t-shirts up on the Instagram. We'll have to put up some sort of like... Like a vote for your favorite design.

Oh, maybe. Maybe. That's a good idea. Well, uh... Crowdsource it a little bit. Yeah. And I would still like to know if there's an appetite for it. So do what Ezra did.

Hey, man. There's an appetite. for at least one, and that's all I need to know. Well, I would like to know if more people are interested, dude. So, true. Reach out to us on Instagram. Our handle is No Filler Podcast, or email us at No Filler Podcast at gmail.com.

Let us know if you want a T-shirt with our logo on it. I think this logo lends itself for a dope T-shirt, so let us know if you'd rock one for us. Support the show with some merch. But, you know, I could come up with a couple of designs. couple of iterations, you know. Yeah. And, yeah, like I said, maybe we'll throw it up for a vote.

All right. Well, like he just said, you can follow us on Instagram. Reach out to us there. That's how, you know, that's the best way to get in touch with us. You know, give us a suggestion for an artist that you want to hear us talk about or just a song you've been listening to lately. And, you know, you want us to check it out. Maybe we'll throw it on our next What You heard episode. And of course, you can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network.

That is the home of many, many great music-centric podcasts, including ours. And you can check them out over at pantheonpodcast.com or find the Pantheon feed anywhere you get your podcasts, including however you're listening to us now. You can pull up the full feed for the network, and that includes, you know, you'll get our episode, once a week, and then you'll get all the other shows, episodes in the same feed. So check that out. Again, that's pantheon podcast.com. And yeah, that's it. So, Kew, what are you got for our outro?

All right, man. So I've been sitting on this shoutout for a while because it got buried behind a bunch of other messages on Instagram, and there's just out of side out of mind. But back in late April, Kenneth Fugati reached out to us and said, Hey, twins. Check out Nalufur Yanya and her album, Painless, if you haven't already. Curious your thoughts on this LP. And he says, weekly listener, and thanks for giving heads up to a wide range of music. Well, thank you, Kenneth, for being a weekly listener.

That means a lot to us. And my God, dude, this album, again, it's called Painless by, and I'm sure I'm butchering the name, Nalufir Yanya, came out this year. I mean, this is a top album, dude, of the year, easily. Have you listened to it yet, Trev? No, I don't think I have. It's something else, dude. I know I'm going to be bringing another one of these songs to my best of for the year.

But I'm going to play Kenneth's favorite song. He says it's hard to pick one, but his favorite track on the record is called Midnight Sun. He says, here's such a cool title and gives me floating vibes. Dude, we talk about floating all the time. All the time, dude. He says, I remember you and Travis discussing the current state of music.

I have to agree, it's solid. It's not rehash, as some would say, but enhanced. Continue the good vibes. Yeah, that's a good way to describe it. Thank you again, Ken, for reaching out to us. And yeah, that's how we're going to wrap this one up with Midnight Sun from Nilufir Yanya.

And until next week, thank you as always for listening. my name's Travis. My name's Quentin. My name is Travis. Yeah, I'll take care.