277: Albums of the Year!

Episode Transcript

[0:00:18 – 0:00:28] SPEAKER_03: I had nothing to say on Christmas Day When you threw all your clothes in the snow
[0:00:30 – 0:00:59] SPEAKER_03: When you burnt your hair and you knocked over chairs I just tried to stay out of your way When you fell asleep with blood on your teeth I just got in my car and drove away Listen to me, butterfly
[0:01:01 – 0:01:24] SPEAKER_03: You know there’s only so much wine That you can drink in one life But it would never be enough To save you from the bottom of your glass
[0:01:33 – 0:01:33] Adam: .
[0:01:33 – 0:01:34] UNKNOWN: .
[0:01:34 – 0:01:34] UNKNOWN: .
[0:02:18 – 0:02:32] Erik: we are here to entertain the miracles of sound and form this is your last episode of tumble home of the year my name is eric hello joined as always by my good friend adam
[0:02:32 – 0:02:34] Adam: We’re here in the Sonic Garden, Eric.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:35] Erik: Mmm.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:38] Adam: It’s a beautiful afternoon here on the winter solstice.
[0:02:39 – 0:02:39] Adam: Happy solstice.
[0:02:40 – 0:02:40] Adam: Happy solstice.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:42] Adam: Burn your gloomies.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:44] Erik: Burn your gloomies.
[0:02:44 – 0:02:46] Erik: The days are only going to get longer.
[0:02:46 – 0:02:47] Erik: My God.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:53] Erik: If they got any shorter, we’re going to have some real, real problems on our hand.
[0:02:54 – 0:02:55] Erik: You get the night terrors.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:02:56 – 0:02:58] Adam: On our one hand, we’ve got a problem.
[0:02:59 – 0:03:10] Erik: An interesting setup here in Studio V, the winter studio, propped up here sonically, probably too close to these speakers.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:11] Adam: No way.
[0:03:12 – 0:03:12] Erik: No way.
[0:03:13 – 0:03:14] Erik: They’re primed.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:14] Erik: They’re ready.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:14] Erik: They’re on.
[0:03:14 – 0:03:15] Erik: They’re connected.
[0:03:16 – 0:03:29] Erik: And, yeah, we’re happy to bring you a solstice miracle in the form of our albums of the year because we are experts.
[0:03:29 – 0:03:30] Erik: In the field.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:32] Erik: Yeah, you’re darn tootin’.
[0:03:32 – 0:03:36] Erik: Do you remember how many minutes you had listened on your rapt?
[0:03:37 – 0:03:38] Adam: No, it was probably light for me.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:45] Adam: I get 40 minutes of drive time a day going to town and back.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:54] Adam: It’s about half podcast, half music at this point, and so whatever that adds up to, and then plus a couple other sessions of listening out there.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:59] Adam: Like last night, I stayed up kind of late and just listened to music on my headphones laying on the couch by the wood stove.
[0:03:59 – 0:04:00] Adam: So, I mean, that was nice.
[0:04:01 – 0:04:03] Adam: I would say I’m down on overall minutes for the year, though.
[0:04:04 – 0:04:09] Erik: Sure, it’d be great if they did like a, here you go, Spotify, free idea for you.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:10] Erik: All right, yeah.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:12] Erik: Like a five-year wrapped.
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:23] Erik: You could do a graph of how your time listening minutes has changed and evolved, and then maybe bring back some of those albums that were in those.
[0:04:24 – 0:04:31] Erik: I didn’t have the time, but I was interested to maybe go back and re-listen to our album of the year.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:32] Erik: This is the second one of these we’ve done.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:39] Erik: We’ve done album of the summer episodes pretty regularly, but this is the second, only the second album.
[0:04:39 – 0:04:39] Erik: Of many.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:41] Adam: This is exclusive content.
[0:04:41 – 0:04:45] Erik: Yeah, album of the year episode.
[0:04:45 – 0:04:51] Erik: But I was curious to go back and see, because in the moment, in the year, you’re into these albums.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:57] Erik: And then five years later to go back, and I think it probably feels like it was maybe about four or five years ago we did that first one to see.
[0:04:57 – 0:04:57] Erik: Sure.
[0:04:58 – 0:05:00] Erik: How many of those albums do we really listen to?
[0:05:00 – 0:05:00] Erik: Right.
[0:05:01 – 0:05:06] Erik: I’m sure there’s a few that, you know, there’s some tracks that are still on a playlist here and there that get spun.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:13] Erik: But in terms of like fully sitting down and listening to any of those records from front to back, probably not.
[0:05:13 – 0:05:18] Adam: It’s just the nature of being a voracious music hog.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:19] Adam: Always looking for new stuff.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:20] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:23] Adam: But yeah, it is fun to go back and like spin one of those classics.
[0:05:24 – 0:05:29] Adam: Like I just went back and listened to Julian Casablancas phases for the young.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:30] Adam: Oh yeah.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:31] Adam: Phrases for the young.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:32 – 0:05:32] Adam: With the Z.
[0:05:33 – 0:05:39] Adam: And, uh, I listened to that like five times in a row, back to back to back just one day, a couple of weeks ago.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:40 – 0:05:41] Adam: Like I missed this album.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:54] Erik: There is, yeah, there’s a couple of tracks off of that album that are on my, whenever I’m in a moment or a place that I just don’t know what else to put on, or sometimes you’re just like, I want to be surprised by what’s going to come on next.
[0:05:54 – 0:06:01] Erik: I’m always dumping in like my favorite tracks off of albums into like a grand master.
[0:06:02 – 0:06:05] Erik: Well, yes, it’s a grand master playlist.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:06] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:11] Erik: And throwing that on, and I will occasionally get a track or two off of that album.
[0:06:11 – 0:06:12] Adam: Yeah, it’s great.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:13] Adam: That’s one I actually own.
[0:06:14 – 0:06:18] Adam: How you know it’s a really great album is I’ll eventually will buy it on LP.
[0:06:18 – 0:06:21] Adam: And I have that one on the vinyl.
[0:06:22 – 0:06:29] Erik: Yeah, we’ve talked about this at length in the past about how I’ve been going back and forth as to whether or not I want to start that.
[0:06:29 – 0:06:30] Adam: I know it’s dangerous.
[0:06:31 – 0:06:34] Erik: It might eventually happen, but it’s not in the, it’s not in the near future.
[0:06:35 – 0:06:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:35 – 0:06:43] Erik: But I like to think about these albums in terms of, would it be one that I would want to stock the Mundo, the album larger with?
[0:06:44 – 0:06:44] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:44 – 0:06:55] Adam: Like if I, uh, you know, if Santa brings me some Christmas cash, I might, uh, you know, buy a couple of these albums we’re going to talk about tonight on vinyl and throw it in the collection.
[0:06:55 – 0:06:58] Adam: Uh, cause there’s something special about listening to it that way as well.
[0:06:59 – 0:06:59] UNKNOWN: Um,
[0:06:59 – 0:07:04] Erik: And I typically am, I’m pretty, I’m not like a staunch advocate for it.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:07] Erik: It’s just the way that I prefer to listen to music.
[0:07:07 – 0:07:15] Erik: And that is outside of the big like dumping of my favorite track or two from an album into a playlist.
[0:07:15 – 0:07:20] Erik: I’m usually listening to albums, which is, I don’t know, it’s the way that they were recorded.
[0:07:21 – 0:07:23] Erik: I think it’s the way that they were intended to be experienced and
[0:07:24 – 0:07:27] Adam: I generally go for the whole album myself as well.
[0:07:27 – 0:07:27] Adam: I agree.
[0:07:28 – 0:07:35] Adam: And we did open tonight’s episode with Andrew Bird, Green Wine from Hark.
[0:07:35 – 0:07:38] Adam: Not Hark, an album of this year, but…
[0:07:38 – 0:07:39] Adam: Came out in 2020.
[0:07:39 – 0:07:40] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:40 – 0:07:44] Adam: And this is my official Christmas album of the year.
[0:07:44 – 0:07:45] Adam: Sure.
[0:07:45 – 0:07:50] Adam: It’s very loosely a Christmas album, but it is a Christmas album and a
[0:07:51 – 0:08:17] Adam: damn fine one uh it was recommended to me on the tumble home discord by the white pine shout out i was looking i’d posted a i have a whole list of like my favorite full christmas albums that i posted a link to on there and i said is there anything i’m totally missing here that anybody thinks like belongs on this it’s the best of the like christmas albums list and that was recommended and it’s now been added to my christmas album list so
[0:08:18 – 0:08:42] Adam: not new this year but new to me this year and i’ve been listening to that one a lot um very good the whole thing is the uh delicate steve i have the delicate yes of course yeah the frosty the snowman um off of that was famously used as like an entire snow log episode like multiple winters back now oh yeah that’s right yeah that is a really good christmas album in itself that’s on the list
[0:08:42 – 0:08:44] Erik: It’s like, I think we’ve talked about this album before.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:46] Erik: It’s like a hangover.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:49] Erik: It’s like we put that on like the morning after a big Christmas party.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:50] Erik: Sure.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:55] Erik: Because it’s kind of got that like, we’re like shutting down the bar.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:08:56 – 0:09:02] Erik: Kind of like, just a little grungy, but still cheerful in a weird way.
[0:09:03 – 0:09:04] Erik: That one’s a good one.
[0:09:04 – 0:09:11] Adam: Yeah, the Andrew Byrd album has got a lot of Vince Guaraldi tributes to it.
[0:09:11 – 0:09:12] Adam: I don’t know what the right word for that would be.
[0:09:13 – 0:09:15] Adam: Inspirations?
[0:09:15 – 0:09:18] Adam: Yeah, it’s inspired by the Vince Guaraldi a lot, I would say.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:19] Adam: Nice.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:21] Erik: I don’t know if I’ve listened to any of that.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:22] Erik: I’ll have to definitely check that out.
[0:09:22 – 0:09:23] Adam: It’s really good, yeah.
[0:09:23 – 0:09:25] Adam: The album artwork’s awesome, the whole thing.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:28] Adam: That’s got the whole package going right there, so…
[0:09:28 – 0:09:46] Adam: starting out episode 277 with a little christmas music for you here on the winter solstice and uh we have a couple uh we got a couple treats over here on the table we shall get into i would say do it uh we i found in my mailbox at the co-op this week a paper envelope
[0:09:48 – 0:09:56] Erik: That was once stuffed with cash, but the sticky-fingered, elusive, ever-elusive Postmaster got in there and snatched it all out.
[0:09:57 – 0:10:03] Adam: I know who this is from, and they specifically said they didn’t want their name used on the show if I was going to read this and open it on live mics.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:09] Adam: So I know who it’s from, so I sent a message with a picture of it because it looks like it was ripped in two and then taped back together.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:12] Adam: And I said, did you do this?
[0:10:13 – 0:10:14] Adam: And they did not.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:22] Adam: So I don’t know what happened at the postal service, but this was addressed to Adam and Eric at the co-op’s post office box.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:25] Adam: And when it was retrieved from the post office box, this is how it looked.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:28] Adam: So we’re going to crack into it right now and find out what’s in here.
[0:10:28 – 0:10:29] Erik: It’s pretty rough.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:33] Erik: I had a little slip in the mailbox that says, like, we have a package.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Adam: There is cash.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:35] Adam: There is cash.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Adam: Wow.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:41] Adam: I still wasn’t sure because I was told there was going to be an envelope filled with cash sent our way.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:44] Adam: And I figured it was at least a 58% chance this was a joke.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:46] Adam: And then the envelope came all ripped up.
[0:10:48 – 0:10:53] Adam: But there is a 20 in here with a bunch of, wow, it’s got Sharpies on it.
[0:10:55 – 0:10:59] Adam: Get your own bleeping drinks, it says here on Jackson’s face.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:04] Adam: And then our names are written on the back here by the White House.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:05] Adam: A real defaced 20.
[0:11:05 – 0:11:07] Adam: There’s a 20 on the table for us.
[0:11:08 – 0:11:10] Adam: And we got some stickers in here.
[0:11:10 – 0:11:11] Erik: More stickers.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:13] Adam: And we got a card.
[0:11:13 – 0:11:15] Adam: Like I said, I’m not going to read the name.
[0:11:15 – 0:11:18] Adam: This is an anonymous Secret Santa situation here.
[0:11:18 – 0:11:20] Erik: Real Secret Santa situation.
[0:11:20 – 0:11:21] Adam: Episode 277.
[0:11:21 – 0:11:27] Adam: And finally, our dreams came true of having my favorite form of poetry sent to us, which is Sweet Sweet Cash.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:30] Erik: I was going to say, it’s all about the cash at this point.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:34] Erik: Finally, it took us six years, but people finally have started sending us cash.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:37] Erik: That’s what this whole thing’s been about.
[0:11:37 – 0:11:41] Adam: It’s a real long con.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:41] Erik: It’s paid off.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:43] Adam: Get back to work, Kermit.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:46] Adam: Season’s greetings to one and all.
[0:11:46 – 0:11:47] Adam: We hope your trees are standing tall.
[0:11:48 – 0:11:51] Adam: It’s Christmas time, and minds are filled with holiday wonders.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:53] Adam: Allow me to tell you where we’re at.
[0:11:53 – 0:11:58] Adam: Actually, there’s a lot of names in here I can’t read, I guess.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:02] Adam: The person who sent this wishes for a Marlboro freshly lit.
[0:12:03 – 0:12:03] Adam: Merry Christmas.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:05] Adam: The end.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:08] Erik: It’s only half of a Christmas card, too.
[0:12:09 – 0:12:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:10 – 0:12:13] Adam: This thing looks real roughed up, but yeah, there is cash in there.
[0:12:13 – 0:12:18] Adam: So thank you, Secret Santa, for the poetry.
[0:12:19 – 0:12:19] Adam: It was a beaut.
[0:12:20 – 0:12:22] Adam: We’re definitely going to hang that on the mantel.
[0:12:22 – 0:12:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:24] Adam: On the Studio V mantel.
[0:12:24 – 0:12:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:26 – 0:12:27] Erik: I have multiple mantels.
[0:12:27 – 0:12:29] Erik: Welcome to my mantel room.
[0:12:30 – 0:12:31] Erik: This room is festooned with mantels.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:32] Erik: It’s all mantels.
[0:12:32 – 0:12:33] Erik: It’s all stockings.
[0:12:33 – 0:12:34] Erik: Not hung with care.
[0:12:35 – 0:12:51] Adam: Our art supplies were delivered in a Woodman’s bag, and I’ve since taken them out of the Woodman’s bag, and I had these in the fridge after I pulled them out of the crawl space, Eric.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:54] Adam: These are from dearest friend of the show, Hopalicious.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:57] Adam: Merry Christmas, Hopalicious.
[0:12:57 – 0:12:59] Adam: And Merry Christmas to us.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:04] Adam: These are the Brewing Project, Dare Mighty Things.
[0:13:04 – 0:13:07] Adam: We’re back to the Teddy Roosevelt quote, Dare Mighty Things.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:09] Adam: IPA.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:13] Adam: I think these are one of my favorites.
[0:13:14 – 0:13:15] Adam: And we got four big ones, Eric.
[0:13:15 – 0:13:16] Adam: Do you want one?
[0:13:16 – 0:13:17] Erik: I do.
[0:13:17 – 0:13:17] Erik: It’s afternoon.
[0:13:18 – 0:13:19] Erik: It’s well afternoon.
[0:13:20 – 0:13:31] Adam: It’s well afternoon and my ears are going to get wet with sound in a bit, but first things first, let’s get the… You’re going to wet bake those ears?
[0:13:31 – 0:13:34] Adam: Yeah, I’m going to wet bake my mouth right now with these dare mighty things.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:36] Adam: Cheers to you, Hopalicious.
[0:13:38 – 0:13:40] Adam: The Tumbleum Wikipedia is weeping.
[0:13:42 – 0:13:42] Adam: Thank you.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:43] Adam: Cheers.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:44] Adam: Cheers.
[0:13:45 – 0:13:49] Adam: Hazy India Pale Ale brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado.
[0:13:49 – 0:13:50] Adam: 6.1.
[0:13:50 – 0:13:50] Adam: Yeah.
[0:13:53 – 0:13:55] Erik: It’s right in the flow state of ABVs.
[0:13:55 – 0:13:56] Adam: There we go.
[0:13:56 – 0:14:00] Adam: I have one more update quick before we get to the music.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:01] Adam: I got a hold of Paige.
[0:14:02 – 0:14:12] Adam: I was listening to Golden Butter Ray Show, and the story of the feast on McNeese, and the lure that the big pike was caught on was, in fact, a MEPS.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:40] Adam: ah yes big mep spinner aglia aglia um i have he even sent a picture of the exact lure he’s like i know the exact lure yeah of course he sent a picture um promptly i can probably pull this up too but uh yeah so the big pike was caught on a mep spinner my page there we go rainbow scale dressed with white dressed white treble aglia long number four half ounce
[0:14:40 – 0:14:40] Erik: Number four.
[0:14:40 – 0:14:42] Adam: That’s a mildly big one.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:43] Adam: Rainbow colorway.
[0:14:43 – 0:14:45] Adam: Colorway spelled the unusual way.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:46] Adam: What’s that?
[0:14:47 – 0:14:48] Adam: Colorway.
[0:14:48 – 0:14:49] Erik: Oh, that colorway.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:51] Erik: I thought you said way was spelled differently.
[0:14:51 – 0:14:52] Erik: Colorway.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:53] Erik: Like curds and way.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:54] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:14:54 – 0:14:55] Erik: Not that way.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:56] Erik: No way.
[0:14:57 – 0:14:58] Adam: No way.
[0:14:58 – 0:14:59] Adam: Enough already.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:01] Adam: Jeez.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:03] Adam: The cash is really going to our heads.
[0:15:03 – 0:15:03] Adam: Yeah.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:04] Adam: Please send more.
[0:15:05 – 0:15:07] Erik: Yeah, well, I mean, obviously.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:10] Adam: We’ve got to keep these speakers primed.
[0:15:10 – 0:15:11] Adam: That’s all we’ve been saying.
[0:15:11 – 0:15:13] Adam: These things run on electricity and cash.
[0:15:13 – 0:15:19] Erik: Yeah, I’m deep in debt paying for these one increment at a time.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:27] Erik: I’m always wondering whenever you’re buying something online where it’s like, ah, you can buy it outright or you can take advantage of this.
[0:15:28 – 0:15:28] Erik: Put it on layaway?
[0:15:29 – 0:15:30] Erik: Pay in increments.
[0:15:31 – 0:15:32] Adam: That used to be called layaway.
[0:15:32 – 0:15:33] Erik: Yes.
[0:15:33 – 0:15:34] Erik: Oh, for sure.
[0:15:34 – 0:15:39] Adam: If you’re buying speakers at a prangy way, that’s no way.
[0:15:40 – 0:15:41] Adam: Way.
[0:15:41 – 0:15:43] Adam: They need their cash.
[0:15:43 – 0:15:45] Adam: You’re going to want to put this thing on layaway, bud.
[0:15:45 – 0:15:45] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:48] Adam: But yeah, it’s like, I don’t know.
[0:15:48 – 0:15:49] Adam: $23 a month for two years.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:50] Erik: Yeah, with like 40% interest.
[0:15:50 – 0:15:51] Erik: Worth it.
[0:15:51 – 0:15:53] Adam: It’s a pretty good deal.
[0:15:53 – 0:15:55] Erik: I need these speakers today.
[0:15:55 – 0:15:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:58 – 0:16:02] Adam: Album of the year, year, year.
[0:16:02 – 0:16:07] Adam: I busted out the vest of Karachi for this special edition.
[0:16:07 – 0:16:08] Erik: The leather Karachi vest.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:13] Adam: I got the leather Karachi vest on and I’m wearing my elf leggings today for this special episode.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:14] Erik: Yeah, it’s not quite leather.
[0:16:14 – 0:16:15] Erik: It’s not quite pleather.
[0:16:16 – 0:16:18] Erik: Somewhere in between, but it holds the vapors in.
[0:16:19 – 0:16:20] Adam: I’m warm already.
[0:16:20 – 0:16:23] Adam: I’m going with a hoodie with a leather vest over the top.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:25] Adam: I was cleaning out the closet and found this gem.
[0:16:25 – 0:16:27] Erik: Feel free to strip that thing down whenever.
[0:16:27 – 0:16:28] Adam: I might have to.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:29] Adam: We’ll see you.
[0:16:31 – 0:16:34] Adam: I’m guessing the albums you’re going to pick here are going to be so hot I’m going to have to.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:46] Erik: Well, we might just end up having to, as we used to say on WTIP, move the dining room table, roll up the rug, and make room for dancing.
[0:16:46 – 0:16:51] Adam: Before we get to the music, do you want to plug the question of the year right up at the top here?
[0:16:51 – 0:16:51] Erik: We should.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:52] Adam: There we go.
[0:16:52 – 0:16:53] Adam: It’s live.
[0:16:53 – 0:17:03] Erik: It’s live, and I’m sure most folks are aware, but if, again, you do feel the need to write a little bit more long form, attach
[0:17:04 – 0:17:20] Erik: photographs or we’ll even look at the whole photograph if you send one yeah or uh or include a link to uh your venmo where you can you know we’ll take cash that way too uh feel free to email us tumblehomecast at gmail.com it is the annual question of the year
[0:17:21 – 0:17:22] Erik: Where’d you go?
[0:17:22 – 0:17:23] Erik: What’d you see?
[0:17:23 – 0:17:23] Erik: What did you do?
[0:17:24 – 0:17:27] Erik: In all ways, shapes, and form of paddling.
[0:17:28 – 0:17:30] Erik: We would love to hear about it.
[0:17:30 – 0:17:34] Erik: There’s a good start on comments on the subreddit.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:37] Erik: And we will be back in the new year, 2025.
[0:17:38 – 0:17:39] Erik: Winter break is coming.
[0:17:41 – 0:17:42] Erik: Yeah, a little winter break.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:51] Erik: I mean, we’re already showering you with so many gifts in your ear holes that will take a week, maybe two.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:59] Erik: Maybe somewhere in there we will get to the third episode of our new Tumbalone series on Patreon.
[0:18:02 – 0:18:06] Erik: We’re going to be doing episode two shortly after we finish this episode up.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:10] Erik: Classic early season shelterini episode.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:13] Erik: Everybody’s building their shelters.
[0:18:13 – 0:18:15] Adam: Getting some nets in the water finally.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:16] Erik: Finally getting some actual fish.
[0:18:17 – 0:18:23] Erik: And yeah, so if we do get together in the next couple of weeks, it probably will just be for something like that.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:24] Erik: So cherish this.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:28] Erik: Hold this episode closely, tight to your chest.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:31] Erik: And just hang on until we get into the…
[0:18:32 – 0:18:58] Erik: still dark days of january yeah use their time wisely though and hopefully eloquently uh to respond to that question of the year yeah we’ll give you plenty of time to think about this one yeah you got a while yet we we probably won’t be getting into any kind of a studio situation to read responses until uh after the new year so yeah take your time choose your words carefully contemplate while staring into the flames of the fire
[0:18:59 – 0:19:02] Erik: Get a little snifter of some nice brandy going.
[0:19:02 – 0:19:07] Erik: Let that come up to a nice warmth in your hand.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:08] Erik: Well, swirling.
[0:19:09 – 0:19:11] Erik: Always be swirling the brandy.
[0:19:12 – 0:19:13] Erik: Clockwise.
[0:19:14 – 0:19:14] Erik: It’s the only way.
[0:19:14 – 0:19:15] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:15 – 0:19:16] Erik: The American way.
[0:19:16 – 0:19:17] Adam: That’s the way.
[0:19:18 – 0:19:20] Adam: The Marlboro Man swirls.
[0:19:20 – 0:19:21] Adam: Clockwise.
[0:19:22 – 0:19:23] Adam: That’s right.
[0:19:26 – 0:19:28] Adam: Yeah, I don’t even know where to start.
[0:19:29 – 0:19:30] Adam: I don’t have mine in any order.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:43] Adam: I just have five albums of note that are candidates to be purchased as vinyl and have been deemed appropriate and they’ve been deemed worthy of being on the album of the year list.
[0:19:44 – 0:19:48] Adam: And I did go back and look at our, at least I looked at my album of the summer list.
[0:19:49 – 0:20:01] Adam: And, uh, yeah, the, I was explaining, uh, I was talking with Natalie and she was flabbergasted that I wasn’t putting Charlie XCX on my album of the year list.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:05] Adam: I said, no, it was on the album of the summer list, but I actually haven’t listened to it lately.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:11] Adam: And it’s, it is an album of the summer banger, but it’s not an album of the year.
[0:20:11 – 0:20:12] Adam: Does that make sense?
[0:20:12 – 0:20:12] Erik: Oh, it does.
[0:20:12 – 0:20:15] Erik: And I went back and forth in my own thinking on this.
[0:20:15 – 0:20:21] Erik: And I started my lists, which got a little out of control.
[0:20:22 – 0:20:27] Erik: We’ll definitely post our lists in places where people can access them.
[0:20:27 – 0:20:29] Erik: I know in the past we’ve done these and people are just like, what?
[0:20:30 – 0:20:31] Erik: or what’s actually on your list.
[0:20:32 – 0:20:33] Erik: I don’t want to listen to the whole hour and a half.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:34] Erik: I just want to see.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:35 – 0:20:36] Erik: So we’ll be a little bit better about doing that.
[0:20:36 – 0:20:42] Erik: But I was thinking, I’m like, do I want to try and include the albums of the summer or just let those be?
[0:20:43 – 0:20:52] Erik: And for my own personal benefit, just to see where they would all shake out, I did include them.
[0:20:52 – 0:20:52] Erik: Right.
[0:20:52 – 0:20:54] Erik: But I’ll just show them where they are.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:57] Erik: And then I was also thinking, do I want to have them ranked?
[0:20:58 – 0:20:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:59 – 0:21:02] Erik: From like top to bottom or just throw them out scatter shot.
[0:21:02 – 0:21:06] Erik: And I’m going from 20 to one.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:06] Adam: You are.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:07] Adam: Okay.
[0:21:07 – 0:21:11] Adam: I didn’t really rank mine, but I kind of know which one is my favorite.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:15] Adam: And I will note that at the appropriate time.
[0:21:15 – 0:21:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:16 – 0:21:23] Erik: And I am including the albums that were on Album of the Summer, but I just won’t have as much to say about them when I do mention them.
[0:21:23 – 0:21:32] Erik: If you want more of my thoughts on them, you can go back and listen to the Album of the Summer episode or just throw the record on and decide for yourself.
[0:21:32 – 0:21:34] Adam: That’s probably the way to go.
[0:21:34 – 0:21:36] Erik: Yeah.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:42] Erik: Since I do have a pretty good amount on the list here beyond, I think, what you do.
[0:21:44 – 0:21:46] Erik: Maybe I can start by just rattling off a few.
[0:21:47 – 0:21:47] Adam: Sure.
[0:21:48 – 0:21:50] Erik: Let’s just get something in the background here.
[0:21:51 – 0:21:53] Erik: We’ll put on some background.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:54] Erik: We’ll put on some 20.
[0:21:55 – 0:21:59] Erik: We’ve got Howdy.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:06] Erik: It’s one of those bands that uses double Vs to make a W. Is that what they’re doing?
[0:22:07 – 0:22:07] Erik: I guess.
[0:22:09 – 0:22:10] Adam: There’s no W in churches.
[0:22:11 – 0:22:14] Erik: No, there’s a V. Two Vs, isn’t there?
[0:22:14 – 0:22:17] Erik: Just the one for the U. I’m confused already.
[0:22:17 – 0:22:19] Erik: Yeah.
[0:22:20 – 0:22:22] Erik: Yeah, Austin Pop Rock album.
[0:22:23 – 0:22:25] Erik: It’s kind of my go-to day starter.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:39] Erik: And a lot of my comments, or I wouldn’t say reviews of any of these records, but my thoughts on them, I tried to include a lyric from them that…
[0:22:41 – 0:23:04] Erik: maybe encapsulates it a little bit more and uh this album is just self-titled howdy howdy or havdi depending on where you come down in the double v uh we’ll do a lot of talking don’t a lot don’t a lot have to happen is the line from this album uh it’s kind of like uh
[0:23:06 – 0:23:06] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:08] Erik: Just put it on.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:29] Erik: I’m not sure exactly if I have a great… My repertoire in terms of vocabulary to try and describe music is every year or anytime we try and do this, I quickly realize it’s a special skill that people have who can write about music and actually have it make sense.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:30] Adam: Yes.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:32] Erik: And I’m not like…
[0:23:32 – 0:24:00] Erik: classically trained I don’t know how to play music so it’s just like kind of grasping at like these weird words floating in my head that kind of describe the music but and it almost always inevitably just ends up comparing it to other music which that’s relatable it is it’s the way it makes sense and especially you’ve noted neither of us are classically trained musicians if you didn’t know that
[0:24:01 – 0:24:27] Adam: by now yeah by 277 episodes in like my singing voice is you know angelic i’ve been told but yeah i i’ve heard that people are talking i uh yeah i can’t so much just play a snare drum yeah at a basic first grade level so my sister’s a musically genius mathematical genius i didn’t get that part um i’m not bad i’m bad at math and i’m bad at music playing it at least but
[0:24:29 – 0:24:45] Adam: doesn’t mean I think that just being up front about it but I I feel like you and I have a pretty good ear for good music though and I and we both are like on the same page as the kind of stuff we like to listen to which makes a lot of sense for how much time we spend together talking about music
[0:24:46 – 0:24:48] Adam: Yeah, I mean… And we’re constantly…
[0:24:49 – 0:24:51] Adam: I think you send me more than I send you, probably.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:56] Adam: But yeah, I feel like you’re always sending me album recommendations throughout the year.
[0:24:57 – 0:24:59] Adam: And I generally always give them a full listen.
[0:24:59 – 0:25:02] Adam: If Eric is on board with Havdi, I’m on board with Havdi.
[0:25:03 – 0:25:04] Adam: Howdy.
[0:25:04 – 0:25:04] Adam: Howdy.
[0:25:05 – 0:25:06] Adam: I guess I’m going Havdi.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:08] Adam: And it’s GIF, not JIF.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:11] Adam: Says you.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:13] Adam: I’m wrong on all counts.
[0:25:14 – 0:25:16] Adam: Habdi.
[0:25:16 – 0:25:23] Adam: There’s a lot of top albums on the list from whatever website being posted basically daily this time of year or two.
[0:25:23 – 0:25:24] Adam: I’ve seen that one on most of the lists.
[0:25:26 – 0:25:31] Adam: I try not to let those lists sway me too much, but I’m also too curious as a cat to avoid them.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:31] Adam: I have to go look.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:52] Erik: it is for a number of reasons my favorite time of year and the lists i love the lists do get a little overwhelming but it spills over into the new year where you’re just like oh that one completely went under the radar i missed that one yeah brass is like on top of most of the lists but again i only i left that one on my album on the summer list i didn’t forward it onto this list
[0:25:53 – 0:26:06] Adam: The other thing I like about this time of year is on New Year’s, The Current does their top 89 songs of the year, and they used to always do it on New Year’s Eve, and then they ruined it by only playing it on New Year’s Day.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:06] Erik: What?
[0:26:07 – 0:26:08] Adam: The last couple years, at least.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:11] Erik: Do it on New Year’s Eve and then just replay it.
[0:26:11 – 0:26:12] Adam: That’s what I said.
[0:26:12 – 0:26:12] Adam: What are you doing?
[0:26:12 – 0:26:14] Adam: So yeah, I don’t know.
[0:26:14 – 0:26:18] Adam: They better get it together because that was one of my favorite New Year’s Eve traditions for many years.
[0:26:18 – 0:26:19] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:20] Adam: And I don’t know.
[0:26:21 – 0:26:30] Adam: If anybody’s listening at the current, I don’t know what kind of crazy shenanigans you guys are up to, but you have to knock it off and put it back on New Year’s Eve because it’s always fun to listen to that.
[0:26:31 – 0:26:33] Adam: I like going by albums, as we talked earlier.
[0:26:33 – 0:26:37] Adam: But, yeah, just the best songs of the year is always fun.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:39] Adam: And, you know, put a couple bangers on there.
[0:26:39 – 0:26:40] Adam: Get some dance moves going.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:41] Adam: Don’t stay up late.
[0:26:42 – 0:26:42] Erik: Yeah, 19.
[0:26:42 – 0:26:43] Erik: Future Islands.
[0:26:44 – 0:26:46] Erik: Classic dad synth pop.
[0:26:46 – 0:26:47] Erik: This is the album.
[0:26:47 – 0:26:49] Erik: People who aren’t there anymore.
[0:26:50 – 0:26:52] Erik: If I said too much, please let me know.
[0:26:54 – 0:26:55] Erik: I’ve always loved Future Islands.
[0:26:55 – 0:26:56] Erik: I feel like this is…
[0:26:57 – 0:26:58] Erik: This is one of their best.
[0:26:59 – 0:27:06] Erik: I love their early stuff and then kind of sort of fell out with being as big of a fan with them.
[0:27:06 – 0:27:07] Erik: But this last one…
[0:27:07 – 0:27:12] Adam: I listened to this a lot when you first sent me a link to this whenever it came out and I listened to it a bunch and then
[0:27:13 – 0:27:15] Adam: I honestly forgot about it until right now.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:27:16 – 0:27:17] Adam: Whoops.
[0:27:17 – 0:27:18] Erik: That’s what’s on in the background.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:20] Erik: I’m not sure how well it’s going to come across.
[0:27:20 – 0:27:27] Erik: When maybe we get closer to the bottom of the list or the top of the list, as it were, we’ll maybe turn the mics towards it and really crank it.
[0:27:28 – 0:27:30] Erik: 18, Claro, the album Charm.
[0:27:30 – 0:27:32] Erik: Got some nice soft bedroom rock.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:34] Erik: Sexy to somebody.
[0:27:34 – 0:27:36] Erik: It would help me out.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:38] Erik: Oh, I need a reason to get out of the house.
[0:27:40 – 0:27:41] Erik: Just a great…
[0:27:43 – 0:27:44] Erik: Anytime record.
[0:27:45 – 0:27:46] Erik: That one seems pretty popular.
[0:27:47 – 0:27:48] Erik: The Vampire Weekend at 17.
[0:27:48 – 0:27:49] Erik: Oh, good.
[0:27:49 – 0:27:51] Erik: Vampire Weekend doing Vampire Weekend things.
[0:27:51 – 0:27:52] Erik: What else is there to say?
[0:27:54 – 0:27:55] Erik: Only God Was Above Us.
[0:27:55 – 0:27:59] Adam: I feel like that was half of my wrapped list was Vampire Weekend tracks.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:02] Adam: I was like, did I really listen to it that much?
[0:28:02 – 0:28:03] Erik: Yeah.
[0:28:03 – 0:28:03] Adam: I guess I did.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:05] Erik: It’s good.
[0:28:05 – 0:28:06] Adam: What’s your favorite track off that one?
[0:28:06 – 0:28:07] Adam: Do you have it in front of you?
[0:28:08 – 0:28:09] Erik: Classical, probably.
[0:28:10 – 0:28:10] Erik: Which is…
[0:28:11 – 0:28:17] Erik: I kind of tried to add my go-to songs off of… Yeah, I didn’t write any lyrics down, but I did…
[0:28:18 – 0:28:21] Adam: I don’t know what it is about the… Yeah.
[0:28:22 – 0:28:29] Erik: It’s like proggy.
[0:28:29 – 0:28:30] Erik: Real proggy.
[0:28:30 – 0:28:31] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:28:33 – 0:28:34] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:28:34 – 0:28:43] Erik: I don’t think it’s my favorite Vampire Weekend album, but I think it’s always kind of changing, too.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:48] Adam: Yeah, it’s great.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:49] Adam: It’s great.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:50] Adam: What else is there to say?
[0:28:51 – 0:28:59] Adam: It’s like I would have put it on my list, but everybody knows about Vampire Weekend by now, don’t they?
[0:28:59 – 0:28:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:59 – 0:29:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:01] Adam: So, I don’t know.
[0:29:01 – 0:29:03] Adam: I do consider that, too.
[0:29:04 – 0:29:05] Adam: I’ll be honest.
[0:29:06 – 0:29:12] Adam: If an album that I like is also really well-reviewed on these year-end lists, then it definitely juices it up a little.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:13] Adam: Sure.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:17] Adam: And I can’t help but be swayed by what the actual music critic experts think.
[0:29:18 – 0:29:18] Adam: Yeah.
[0:29:19 – 0:29:26] Adam: And I’m also trying to feature stuff that’s at least new to me or a little less known than Vampire Weekend.
[0:29:26 – 0:29:32] Erik: Yeah, no, I get it, and I feel like I sort of had that thought, too.
[0:29:33 – 0:29:39] Erik: But I kind of was just doing the list, like, if I was just doing it for myself and trying to take out the…
[0:29:39 – 0:29:42] Adam: I would definitely consider buying this on vinyl, for sure.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:53] Adam: I mean, I think Modern Vampires of the City will probably never be beat, as far as Vampire Weekend albums, but…
[0:29:53 – 0:29:55] Erik: That might be…
[0:29:55 – 0:29:56] Erik: This one’s really damn good.
[0:29:57 – 0:29:57] Erik: It is.
[0:29:58 – 0:30:02] Erik: And it’s probably one that deserves even more time spent with it.
[0:30:02 – 0:30:06] Erik: I kind of feel like I just breezed by it to a certain extent.
[0:30:06 – 0:30:08] Erik: You know, you throw it on and you don’t…
[0:30:09 – 0:30:32] Erik: you know really quite listen to it to the same extent as you’re like listening to a new album by a new artist for the first time because you already are you’re kind of like couched in that sound a little bit going into it so it doesn’t uh but it’s i mean if this was your first vampire weekend album i mean i’m sure you would become a fan but yeah modern vampires of the city is is probably the
[0:30:33 – 0:30:50] Adam: the top for me but they’re all so I remember when that one came out too they were like oh this is our third and final album and we’re not making any more wow incredible they’re going out on top but of course they still they made a couple other really good albums after that so yeah I’m glad they didn’t just cap themselves at three
[0:30:51 – 0:30:56] Erik: Yeah, I’ll do a couple more, and that’ll put me at like 15, and then we can… We’ll sprinkle one of mine in there.
[0:30:56 – 0:30:58] Erik: Sprinkle one of yours in.
[0:30:59 – 0:31:08] Erik: The excellent folk memoir album by the outfit Hooray for the Riff Raff.
[0:31:09 – 0:31:10] Adam: I really like that.
[0:31:10 – 0:31:16] Adam: Before we get off of this one, though, the Vampire Weekend, the Surfer was like one of my top tracks of the year.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:16] Erik: Oh, nice.
[0:31:17 – 0:31:19] Erik: Was it in the top five?
[0:31:20 – 0:31:42] Adam: like for listens yeah i think it was nice yeah i don’t know i had a lot of this and then a lot of jonathan rado which i will just shut on if you have them on your list because i came out like early like it came out in january or hell it may have came out like last december actually in 2023 technically yeah so but it was that was another album that was like my most listened to album of 2024 was for whom the bell tolls for
[0:31:43 – 0:31:45] Erik: Yes, which is a real tongue twister.
[0:31:45 – 0:31:46] Adam: Jonathan Ratto, yeah.
[0:31:47 – 0:31:48] Adam: That’s a classic.
[0:31:49 – 0:31:56] Adam: Yeah, I had it on the list, but again, I was like, well, it was 2023, and I haven’t really listened to it lately.
[0:31:56 – 0:31:59] Adam: Anyways, it’s an honorable mention, I’d say, at this point.
[0:31:59 – 0:31:59] Erik: Sure.
[0:32:00 – 0:32:02] Erik: Yeah, I would highly recommend that one as well.
[0:32:02 – 0:32:04] Erik: I think I just had to draw a line.
[0:32:04 – 0:32:08] Erik: There was a couple that got into the gray area between years.
[0:32:10 – 0:32:13] Erik: And that’s one of them.
[0:32:13 – 0:32:15] Erik: Yeah, so the Hooray for the Riff Raff.
[0:32:15 – 0:32:16] Erik: The Past is still alive.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:19] Erik: Two Weeks Just to Catch the Buffalo.
[0:32:20 – 0:32:22] Erik: Very, very good album.
[0:32:23 – 0:32:23] Erik: Fifteen.
[0:32:24 – 0:32:25] Erik: Alado Negro.
[0:32:25 – 0:32:27] Erik: Phaser album.
[0:32:28 – 0:32:47] Erik: groovy spacey feels like uh dusk at the beach we’ll throw that on and uh colores del mar this was uh definitely my baja beach walking album for a solid couple of weeks
[0:32:49 – 0:33:17] Erik: and uh yeah i’ve always loved the uh the alado negro sound and this album is uh yeah no question top top album of the year for me yeah i suppose you were were you already on the beach on the solstice last year no we didn’t leave until after new year’s last year are you still around yep
[0:33:21 – 0:33:22] SPEAKER_02: Hector.
[0:33:23 – 0:33:24] Adam: He likes me today.
[0:33:24 – 0:33:25] Adam: Are you being good?
[0:33:25 – 0:33:26] Adam: I like him.
[0:33:26 – 0:33:27] Adam: He’s my buddy.
[0:33:27 – 0:33:29] Adam: Now, I like you now.
[0:33:33 – 0:33:38] Adam: The calming music is putting the dog at ease around my presence.
[0:33:39 – 0:33:40] Erik: He’s speaking his language.
[0:33:41 – 0:33:42] Adam: I love the beach music too.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:46] Erik: Solo Busco.
[0:33:52 – 0:34:11] Adam: k-onda you still using k-onda a lot in your everyday speech yeah all the people in grammar they really they know what the vibe is going on yeah yeah do you want me to play something for you
[0:34:13 – 0:34:37] Adam: uh where do you have um where in your list is uh we have one i think that’s on both lists that we discussed before the show like where’s that one coming up on your list because we can i can wait on that one then until you get to it i guess it’s not in your top or it wasn’t in your 20 through 15 um yeah it’s close to coming up here but not quite
[0:34:37 – 0:34:40] Adam: Let’s go with the Bleachers.
[0:34:40 – 0:34:41] Adam: Sure.
[0:34:41 – 0:34:45] Adam: Can we just play I Am Right on Time off the Bleachers album?
[0:34:45 – 0:34:46] Adam: Bleachers.
[0:34:46 – 0:34:47] Erik: Bleachers?
[0:34:47 – 0:34:51] Adam: What’s up with having a self-titled album, but it’s your fourth album or whatever?
[0:34:51 – 0:34:51] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:34:51 – 0:34:52] Erik: Like that Hovdy?
[0:34:52 – 0:34:53] Erik: Like Hovdy.
[0:34:53 – 0:34:55] Erik: That’s their third album.
[0:34:55 – 0:34:57] Erik: And they just went back to being…
[0:34:57 – 0:35:00] Adam: I figured most of the time people use the self-titled album first.
[0:35:00 – 0:35:06] Erik: Yeah, that’s almost always their first album, self-titled, and then you go on, move on from there.
[0:35:06 – 0:35:08] Adam: Yeah, and then you come up with something for your next one.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:15] Adam: I noticed a few of them this year where it’s like, this isn’t your first album, but now you’re doing a self-titled album like Bleachers.
[0:35:16 – 0:35:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:17 – 0:35:19] Adam: I listened to this album a lot early in the year, too.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:21] Adam: I love Bleachers.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:23] Adam: Big fan.
[0:35:24 – 0:35:28] Adam: But yeah, this is probably my most listened to song of the year right here.
[0:35:31 – 0:35:32] Erik: Some Antonov.
[0:35:32 – 0:35:33] Erik: Pure Antonov.
[0:35:33 – 0:35:34] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:35] Erik: He’s in everything.
[0:35:36 – 0:35:37] Erik: But this is just pure him.
[0:35:38 – 0:35:42] Erik: Don’t got to worry about conforming to whoever you’re working with at the time.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:35:43 – 0:35:45] Erik: It’s always kind of nice to get that, though.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:48] Erik: From a producer like that.
[0:35:49 – 0:35:51] Erik: This is actually what you would do on your own.
[0:35:51 – 0:35:52] Erik: Yeah.
[0:35:52 – 0:35:53] Erik: And it’s still good.
[0:35:57 – 0:35:58] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:35:58 – 0:35:59] Adam: I…
[0:36:00 – 0:36:03] Adam: Probably five years ago if you played this for me.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:06] Adam: I don’t know if I’d like it as much as I do now.
[0:36:06 – 0:36:08] Adam: It’s the perfect time for this kind of album.
[0:36:10 – 0:36:11] Adam: But yeah, I love his vocals.
[0:36:11 – 0:36:12] Adam: I love the…
[0:36:12 – 0:36:15] Adam: It sort of harkens back to like…
[0:36:16 – 0:36:21] Adam: The National, Trouble Will Find Me, which is always like that one.
[0:36:21 – 0:36:23] Adam: I’m just getting goosebumps right now thinking about Trouble Will Find Me.
[0:36:24 – 0:36:30] Adam: And like, there’s a lot of like similar vibes to this album and the way that he makes his music.
[0:36:31 – 0:36:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:34] Adam: It’s subdued, but like intense.
[0:36:34 – 0:36:44] Erik: Yeah, it’s a weird compliment where it seems like impending.
[0:36:45 – 0:36:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:36:48 – 0:36:49] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:36:49 – 0:36:52] Adam: I don’t really like his whole get-up of wearing…
[0:36:52 – 0:36:55] Adam: I’m wearing white t-shirts and jeans.
[0:36:56 – 0:36:57] Adam: I’m in the 50s.
[0:36:58 – 0:37:01] Erik: That’s his go-to always.
[0:37:02 – 0:37:13] Adam: His whole personal vibe is like, I don’t get it, but the music doesn’t seem to line up with what he’s doing with his own personal fashion choices, if you want to call them that.
[0:37:13 – 0:37:17] Adam: He seems to want to tongue-kiss Bruce Springsteen.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:19] Adam: Which I’m alright with.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:22] Adam: I’m not a huge Bruce Springsteen fan at all, which, you know…
[0:37:22 – 0:37:23] Erik: I’m not really either.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:24] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:25] Adam: It’s a different era.
[0:37:25 – 0:37:27] Adam: Like, Bruce is still making music, right?
[0:37:27 – 0:37:28] Adam: But…
[0:37:28 – 0:37:34] Erik: Yeah, no, I’m definitely not in the crowd that is still keeping up with what the boss is doing.
[0:37:34 – 0:37:40] Adam: But it’s weird to me that I never really cared about the boss, but this music really speaks to me, which it seems to me like he’s…
[0:37:41 – 0:37:45] Adam: If you had to ask Jack what’s his favorite artist, I gotta think he’s saying Bruce Springsteen.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:46] Adam: Yeah, maybe.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:52] Adam: It’s amongst his most influential musical acts out there.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:54] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:55] Adam: That’s weird to me.
[0:37:55 – 0:37:56] Adam: Like, why do I like the bleachers so much?
[0:37:57 – 0:37:58] Adam: I just do.
[0:37:59 – 0:37:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:37:59 – 0:38:02] Adam: Pour me a glass and swirl it clockwise, Derek.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:07] Erik: I think at the end of the day, that’s really all you can say is why do you like it?
[0:38:07 – 0:38:08] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:38:08 – 0:38:08] Erik: I just do.
[0:38:08 – 0:38:11] Erik: You’re going to try to explain that to somebody?
[0:38:12 – 0:38:14] Adam: I think I… Yeah, this line right here.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:17] Adam: My mind is mirrors, don’t know what is and is not reflection.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:19] Adam: I’m right on time.
[0:38:20 – 0:38:20] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:21 – 0:38:26] Adam: I was at a work conference down in the Twin Cities when I was in my bleachers phase.
[0:38:27 – 0:38:36] Adam: And I was just down at the conference by myself, dancing in my hotel room to this song, looking out over whatever it is, 494.
[0:38:36 – 0:38:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:38:38 – 0:38:40] Adam: I don’t know, watching the traffic go by and just…
[0:38:41 – 0:38:46] Adam: Had a little too much boxed wine for a work night and was dancing to this song in my underwear.
[0:38:47 – 0:38:48] Adam: Looking out over the city.
[0:38:50 – 0:38:50] Adam: Felt great.
[0:38:52 – 0:38:53] Adam: But yeah, all this crazy sax.
[0:38:53 – 0:38:54] Adam: Sweet, sweet sax.
[0:38:55 – 0:38:55] Adam: Sweet, sweet sax.
[0:39:06 – 0:39:08] Adam: I want to see if I wanted to shout out one more.
[0:39:09 – 0:39:10] Adam: Oh, Tiny Moves.
[0:39:10 – 0:39:15] Adam: You got to go watch the music video for Tiny Moves, too, if you’re liking what you’re hearing.
[0:39:15 – 0:39:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:25] Erik: Underappreciated miracle of sound and form is the music video.
[0:39:25 – 0:39:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:39:26 – 0:39:34] Erik: It’s like once I’m super into an album or I’ll usually go like a month where I’ve got like a new like fresh batch of albums that I’ve been listening to.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:37] Erik: Then I’ll go on and see other music videos for these.
[0:39:37 – 0:39:37] Erik: Right.
[0:39:38 – 0:39:40] Erik: And then sometimes you like… You can affect…
[0:39:42 – 0:39:52] Erik: Almost inevitably, it makes you appreciate the music more, because then you get an added picture to it, and then a lot of times you just see the actual singer, which is a big thing.
[0:39:52 – 0:39:56] Erik: A lot of times you’re just so disconnected between from…
[0:39:58 – 0:40:00] Erik: what the actual performer looks like.
[0:40:00 – 0:40:00] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:00 – 0:40:03] Erik: But then when you see them, you’re just like, oh, yeah, okay, I like this.
[0:40:03 – 0:40:06] Adam: It was like with Tanarwin last year.
[0:40:06 – 0:40:06] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:40:06 – 0:40:12] Adam: When it was like, I loved it already, and then I saw, like, their live performance on YouTube.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:16] Adam: And it was just like, Jesus, these guys are even better than I imagined.
[0:40:16 – 0:40:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:40:17 – 0:40:19] Adam: Just their whole getup was incredible, so…
[0:40:20 – 0:40:26] Adam: I like to wait until I’m fully locked in on an album before I take a peek at what they look like.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:29] Adam: I don’t want that to influence me.
[0:40:29 – 0:40:30] Adam: But yeah.
[0:40:32 – 0:40:34] Adam: Anyways, go check out Bleachers.
[0:40:38 – 0:40:39] Erik: I’ll do a couple more here.
[0:40:39 – 0:40:39] Adam: Good energy.
[0:40:40 – 0:40:41] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:41 – 0:40:43] Adam: You want me to give one more maybe?
[0:40:43 – 0:40:43] Adam: Yeah, sure.
[0:40:44 – 0:40:45] Adam: Then we can hop back into your list.
[0:40:47 – 0:40:48] Adam: All right, where are we going with next?
[0:40:50 – 0:40:50] Adam: Let’s…
[0:40:53 – 0:40:54] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:40:54 – 0:40:57] Adam: Let’s highlight the Heidecker album right away.
[0:40:57 – 0:40:57] Adam: Sounds great.
[0:41:00 – 0:41:00] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:41:01 – 0:41:04] Adam: Heidecker is always going to be shrimp and white wine for me.
[0:41:06 – 0:41:10] Adam: You know, goofy adult swim skits.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:11] Erik: Right.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:18] Erik: It’s hard to disassociate him from that Tim and Eric awesome show, that level of comedy.
[0:41:18 – 0:41:21] Erik: But it’s so ubiquitous now just in the culture.
[0:41:22 – 0:41:23] Erik: You still see it.
[0:41:24 – 0:41:28] Erik: It’s crazy that that is such a form of comedy that they essentially forged.
[0:41:28 – 0:41:28] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:30 – 0:41:46] Erik: And then at the same time, he’s a pretty serious, not serious in terms of the music, but serious as in works with real acts and it isn’t goofy, off the wall, trying to make a joke.
[0:41:46 – 0:41:48] Erik: Serious music.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:50] Adam: He’s a seriously damn fine songwriter.
[0:41:51 – 0:41:51] Erik: Yeah.
[0:41:51 – 0:41:54] Erik: His lyrics, you know, I’ve been trying to focus.
[0:41:54 – 0:42:00] Erik: That’s why I wanted to try and highlight some of my favorite lines or lyrics this year.
[0:42:00 – 0:42:04] Erik: Because it’s the last thing I ever pay attention to or hear when I listen to music.
[0:42:05 – 0:42:06] Erik: And I’ve been trying to get better at it.
[0:42:06 – 0:42:10] Erik: And I feel like all it’s been doing is making me appreciate it more.
[0:42:11 – 0:42:12] Adam: Yeah, great.
[0:42:12 – 0:42:13] Adam: I mean, this is like an Apocalypse album.
[0:42:14 – 0:42:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:42:15 – 0:42:17] Adam: But also like a fatherhood album.
[0:42:18 – 0:42:21] Adam: So I got like multiple angles that are speaking to me directly.
[0:42:22 – 0:42:25] Adam: Yeah, this one, you know, talking about he doesn’t really want to have to build his…
[0:42:26 – 0:42:28] Adam: I don’t want to really build my own tent and, like… Yeah.
[0:42:29 – 0:42:34] Adam: He misses the conveniences of modern life after the apocalypse, which is pretty funny.
[0:42:34 – 0:42:35] Adam: The song Bow and Arrow is so good.
[0:42:35 – 0:42:37] Erik: I mean, it is still…
[0:42:37 – 0:42:38] Erik: There is still humor in it.
[0:42:38 – 0:42:41] Erik: You know, you’re never going to be able to take that away from him.
[0:42:41 – 0:42:41] Erik: Yes.
[0:42:41 – 0:42:45] Adam: But it is not… No, his songs are all very, like, darkly funny.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:42:46 – 0:42:49] Adam: This song and then the final track, Bells Ringing.
[0:42:50 – 0:42:51] Adam: Bells are ringing.
[0:42:51 – 0:42:52] Adam: It’s so good.
[0:42:53 – 0:42:55] Adam: They’re like two of my favorite apocalypse songs off this album.
[0:42:57 – 0:42:58] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:42:58 – 0:43:03] Adam: The one off this album that I keep like, I was for like a week and a half just singing it to myself.
[0:43:03 – 0:43:04] Adam: It’s called Bottom of the Eighth.
[0:43:06 – 0:43:07] Adam: I don’t know why.
[0:43:07 – 0:43:15] Adam: It’s a song about him taking his daughter to a minor league baseball game, and then it rains, and they leave at the end of the eighth.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:16] Adam: At the bottom of the eighth.
[0:43:16 – 0:43:21] Adam: And he just wants his daughter to get a picture with the mascot and maybe see a home run.
[0:43:22 – 0:43:26] Adam: It’s just so damn adorable, but it’s so out of place with the rest of the album.
[0:43:27 – 0:43:30] Adam: But it’s very catchy as a standalone song.
[0:43:31 – 0:43:35] Adam: Just perfect architecture and build on it.
[0:43:37 – 0:43:39] Adam: Can we go with something somewhere, though, off of this?
[0:43:40 – 0:43:47] Adam: Next is, I think… You know it’s a good album, too, when, like, your favorite song on the album has changed, like, four times?
[0:43:47 – 0:43:48] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:48 – 0:43:50] Adam: But this is the best song on the album.
[0:43:51 – 0:43:52] Adam: It’s just, um…
[0:43:52 – 0:43:57] Adam: It’s, like, musically, like, quintessential, like, Heidecker songwriting.
[0:43:58 – 0:43:59] Adam: And just sonically, like, perfect.
[0:44:00 – 0:44:01] Adam: Yeah.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:03] Erik: Yeah, I’ve had, uh…
[0:44:05 – 0:44:15] Erik: I mean, my love for Tim Heidecker is, oddly enough, I had a dream last night that he was in.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:19] Erik: And he was on the phone with somebody else.
[0:44:20 – 0:44:22] Erik: And I got the opportunity to talk to him.
[0:44:22 – 0:44:25] Erik: And I just said, I really love what you do on Office Hours.
[0:44:25 – 0:44:28] Erik: This podcast slash YouTube show that he has.
[0:44:29 – 0:44:30] Erik: And it was just the weirdest thing.
[0:44:30 – 0:44:32] Erik: I was like, why would that ever be in a dream?
[0:44:34 – 0:44:35] Erik: I don’t love all of his music.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:37] Erik: I really like this album.
[0:44:37 – 0:44:40] Erik: And then obviously the Trump album.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:43] Adam: The Trump album was one I listened to a lot.
[0:44:43 – 0:44:44] Erik: Trump talking nukes.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:50] Erik: It’s just such a sad and funny and like at the end of the day, just so catchy.
[0:44:50 – 0:44:50] Erik: Yeah.
[0:44:50 – 0:44:51] Erik: With the piano.
[0:44:51 – 0:44:52] Erik: Cooked Chinese chicken.
[0:44:53 – 0:44:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:54] Adam: No, he’s great.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:56] Adam: And it’s like just my…
[0:45:00 – 0:45:00] Adam: Yeah, it’s really good.
[0:45:01 – 0:45:05] Adam: As far as my musical tastes go, this is right in my wheelhouse.
[0:45:05 – 0:45:07] Adam: What he makes is my kind of music.
[0:45:07 – 0:45:08] Adam: Good piano, like you said.
[0:45:08 – 0:45:29] Erik: Yeah, and listening to him when he’s on his podcasts and or YouTube show, whatever you want to call his office hours live, wherever he’s at now, the amount of weird flowing art that he puts out into the world is second to none.
[0:45:30 – 0:45:36] Erik: His on cinema thing that he turned into an entire courtroom drama and then pumped a movie out of it.
[0:45:36 – 0:45:40] Adam: Yeah, I mean, creativity is creativity, and some people just have it.
[0:45:41 – 0:45:43] Adam: This guy’s got it, just buckets full.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:46] Adam: And I love it.
[0:45:47 – 0:45:55] Adam: I have a hard time, because of the goofy side of him, recommending this in a serious fashion, but I’m seriously recommending it.
[0:45:55 – 0:45:56] Adam: I wish I didn’t require this seriously, though.
[0:45:57 – 0:46:00] Erik: At this point, he’s far enough along in this musical world
[0:46:01 – 0:46:20] Erik: you know endeavor of his that it it’s different like right away like the first i think one of the first ones was that trump album where if you recommended it you’re like what i don’t want to listen to like a joke album yeah uh this is slipping away i don’t know if we’ve said the album title yes this is easily one of my top five of the year um and
[0:46:20 – 0:46:22] Adam: This was, I think, noted.
[0:46:22 – 0:46:27] Adam: This was the official, I don’t know if I just put this on the Discord, but this was the official album of Whitefish Camp this year.
[0:46:27 – 0:46:28] Adam: Nice.
[0:46:28 – 0:46:34] Adam: I literally just listened to this album, like, on the way to check the nets and on the way home every day for that whole time we had the net in the water.
[0:46:35 – 0:46:44] Adam: It was right when I was, like, getting into this album was perfectly coinciding with, like, just pulling buckets and buckets of whitefish out of Devil’s Track Lake, so…
[0:46:44 – 0:46:53] Erik: Yeah, and based on what he talks about when he talks about music, his favorite music is The Beatles, Warren Zevon.
[0:46:53 – 0:46:54] Erik: Warren Zevon, for sure.
[0:46:54 – 0:46:55] Erik: Harry Nilsson.
[0:46:56 – 0:47:00] Erik: All of those you can hear in this where it’s just real storytelling.
[0:47:00 – 0:47:02] Erik: I saw a list.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:04] Erik: He’s not muffling his lyrics.
[0:47:04 – 0:47:04] Erik: It’s like…
[0:47:05 – 0:47:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:05 – 0:47:06] Erik: Very clear.
[0:47:07 – 0:47:08] Erik: Randy Newman, he loves.
[0:47:08 – 0:47:12] Adam: Yeah, I saw a list and it was like, these are my top artists, my inspiration.
[0:47:13 – 0:47:15] Adam: And a lot of them are like, yep, I love it.
[0:47:15 – 0:47:16] Adam: I love all these.
[0:47:16 – 0:47:17] Adam: Makes a lot of sense.
[0:47:18 – 0:47:19] Adam: There we go.
[0:47:19 – 0:47:25] Adam: Well, anyways, check it out if you guys enjoyed what you heard in the background there and have never taken Tim Heidecker seriously.
[0:47:25 – 0:47:27] Adam: It’s time to take him seriously.
[0:47:27 – 0:47:34] Adam: This guy belongs in the conversation amongst America’s greatest songwriters at this point.
[0:47:34 – 0:47:41] Erik: He’s a jack of all creative trades, and when he does music, he takes it just as seriously as anything else that he does creatively.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:42] Adam: No, you can tell.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:44] Adam: Listen to it a couple times in a row.
[0:47:44 – 0:47:48] Adam: The level of detail and very thoughtfully composed.
[0:47:48 – 0:47:48] Adam: Beautiful.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:49] Adam: Thank you.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:53] Erik: We’re going to take a hard turn into my 14.
[0:47:53 – 0:47:54] Erik: I got some JPEG Mafia.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:57] Erik: I lay down my life for you.
[0:48:00 – 0:48:05] Erik: my only, uh, rap album on the list, but all right.
[0:48:07 – 0:48:15] Erik: It’s, uh, I think we’re not quite to that point, but this is for sure going to tip us over just in case, uh, we’ll be marking this episode as explicit.
[0:48:16 – 0:48:16] Erik: Um,
[0:48:16 – 0:48:20] Erik: Frantic, sample, heavy rap rock album.
[0:48:21 – 0:48:23] Erik: Spine-tingling moments of hooky bliss.
[0:48:24 – 0:48:31] Erik: It’s also, you know, sometimes I just feel like I don’t necessarily want to pay attention to the lyrics.
[0:48:31 – 0:48:33] Erik: I just want to go for a ride.
[0:48:34 – 0:48:37] Erik: And I also don’t want that ride to be a straight road.
[0:48:37 – 0:48:39] Erik: I want it to be windy and weird and…
[0:48:39 – 0:48:42] Erik: And I’m not going to know what’s going to come around the next corner.
[0:48:43 – 0:48:44] Erik: And it’s a very exciting album.
[0:48:45 – 0:48:46] Erik: I don’t listen to much.
[0:48:49 – 0:49:11] Erik: umbrella term rap rap but when I do I am usually listening to JPEG Mafia always loved almost everything that that he’s put out last year one of my favorite albums was the name of that album I can picture it him and Danny Brown
[0:49:13 – 0:49:37] Erik: uh anyway i got nothing yeah i lay down my life for you it’s a good one um 13 i bodega spoiler they’re from new york ah yeah uh our brand could be your life uh sardonic pop pump shoegazy rock concept album uh pretentiously attempting to skewer corporate mentalities
[0:49:39 – 0:50:00] Erik: stick in plastic enter code that’s a good one to check out and then uh we can both talk about this one my number 12 we’ll probably have to put on some uh something off of the magdalena bay imaginal disc album yeah magdalena bay at 12 yeah
[0:50:03 – 0:50:07] Adam: Might be my number one if I had to rank mine.
[0:50:07 – 0:50:08] Adam: If you had to rank it?
[0:50:09 – 0:50:11] Adam: This would probably be my number one.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:15] Adam: It was only because I send Andrew, Brother Andrew, are you out there?
[0:50:16 – 0:50:18] Adam: I send Brother Andrew a lot of waiting.
[0:50:18 – 0:50:21] Erik: He’s just sitting at home right now just absolutely lambasting all of our takes right now.
[0:50:22 – 0:50:32] Adam: Well, a lot of the stuff, like musically, me and Andrew don’t align all the time, but I still send him lots of the recommendations anyways, and this album was one where he got back to me.
[0:50:32 – 0:50:34] Adam: He was like, this is incredible.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:37] Adam: He really liked it, and I think, Andrew, would you agree?
[0:50:38 – 0:50:39] Adam: This is one of the best albums of the year?
[0:50:39 – 0:50:40] Adam: Yes.
[0:50:41 – 0:50:42] Adam: Which I guess surprised me.
[0:50:42 – 0:50:43] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:47] Adam: Brother Andrew’s still surprising me all the time, and I love him for that, but…
[0:50:48 – 0:50:56] Adam: This is definitely one of my top five, and the only one in the top five I think that Andrew really liked, or at least told me he liked.
[0:50:57 – 0:51:00] Adam: That bumped it up, I guess, to maybe my top one.
[0:51:00 – 0:51:10] Erik: Yeah, it’s another concept album that is capturing a sound and a vibe that I…
[0:51:11 – 0:51:15] Erik: I can’t really put my finger on it, but it feels so appropriate.
[0:51:15 – 0:51:23] Erik: There’s something about it that’s futuristic, kind of scary, with the AI, the album cover artwork, where it’s like a disc coming out of the brain.
[0:51:24 – 0:51:30] Adam: All the little, whatever you call that thing when you’re listening to a song on Spotify and they have the little mini music video playing.
[0:51:30 – 0:51:32] Adam: All theirs are just a little bit scary.
[0:51:32 – 0:51:34] Adam: It leaves you a little awestruck.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:37] Erik: One of my favorite lines is, it’s here.
[0:51:37 – 0:51:37] Adam: Say hello.
[0:51:38 – 0:51:38] Adam: It’s you.
[0:51:38 – 0:51:39] Adam: It’s you.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:42] Adam: Just keep saying it a few times more.
[0:51:42 – 0:51:49] Erik: It also feels like it’s very also similar to that Bodega album where it has that like subtext.
[0:51:49 – 0:51:53] Erik: Well, the Bodega album is much more like in your face.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:55] Erik: I wouldn’t say necessarily like anti-corporate.
[0:51:55 – 0:51:59] Erik: It’s just like pointing out just kind of how absurd it all is.
[0:51:59 – 0:51:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:52:00 – 0:52:04] Erik: You have to figure out as many different ways to remove you from your money as possible.
[0:52:04 – 0:52:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:52:05 – 0:52:11] Erik: And this album is a little bit more smoothed out, but also feeling like it’s capturing…
[0:52:12 – 0:52:16] Erik: It’ll be interesting to see how this album stands the test of time.
[0:52:18 – 0:52:27] Erik: If it’s a standalone time capsule or if 10 years from now, it’ll just be like, you know, almost like a foretelling of things to come.
[0:52:27 – 0:52:28] Adam: Yeah, this fits in.
[0:52:29 – 0:52:33] Adam: I could see this album fitting in really well with whatever people are going to make in a decade from now.
[0:52:33 – 0:52:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:52:33 – 0:52:38] Adam: It also kind of just feels like a Trapper Keeper got turned into an album.
[0:52:38 – 0:52:38] Adam: Yeah.
[0:52:38 – 0:52:42] Adam: Or like a JCPenney portrait session album.
[0:52:42 – 0:52:45] Erik: There is definitely a little bit of that, too.
[0:52:45 – 0:52:53] Adam: As somebody who was born in the 80s, an elder millennial, this really has a lot of sway with me.
[0:52:54 – 0:52:56] Adam: It’s retro in that way.
[0:52:57 – 0:52:57] Adam: It feels like it’s…
[0:52:57 – 0:52:59] Erik: It’s weirdly retro, but then also…
[0:52:59 – 0:53:01] Adam: But also super futuristic.
[0:53:01 – 0:53:03] Adam: But it’s perfect for right now.
[0:53:03 – 0:53:06] Erik: And also landing perfectly in the moment of right now.
[0:53:06 – 0:53:08] Erik: It’s like, I don’t know how…
[0:53:08 – 0:53:10] Adam: They’re pulling it off.
[0:53:10 – 0:53:12] Erik: Like how conscious of an effort that is.
[0:53:13 – 0:53:15] Erik: Some people, you know, it just comes naturally.
[0:53:16 – 0:53:20] Erik: You know, like I think if you talk about it and try it too much, it might not be there.
[0:53:20 – 0:53:22] Erik: But whatever these two are doing.
[0:53:22 – 0:53:27] Adam: Can we go with, can we play a little of Image maybe?
[0:53:28 – 0:53:28] Erik: Yeah, I would say that.
[0:53:29 – 0:53:33] Adam: I think that’s the song that Andrew was like, this is one of my favorite songs I’ve heard all year.
[0:53:33 – 0:53:35] Erik: Yeah, that was just That’s My Floor.
[0:53:35 – 0:53:39] Erik: That one feels like the closest to their previous work.
[0:53:39 – 0:53:40] Erik: I agree.
[0:53:41 – 0:53:49] Erik: And this is probably the best example of just like the weird, just that background.
[0:53:49 – 0:53:55] Adam: My mic, my headphone cord keeps getting caught on my Karachi vest zipper.
[0:53:55 – 0:53:56] Adam: It’s too big of a zipper.
[0:53:56 – 0:53:58] Adam: These zippers are very bold.
[0:53:58 – 0:54:00] Adam: Heavy gauge zipper.
[0:54:01 – 0:54:06] Erik: You can really get a flap of meat stuck in that thing if you’re zipping too hard.
[0:54:06 – 0:54:06] Adam: Be careful.
[0:54:07 – 0:54:08] Adam: You might be the next vest.
[0:54:10 – 0:54:11] Erik: You might actually be your own vest.
[0:54:11 – 0:54:13] Erik: You’re going to get caught in the trap.
[0:54:13 – 0:54:14] Adam: You’re turned into a vest.
[0:54:16 – 0:54:16] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:17 – 0:54:25] Adam: And, you know, it doesn’t probably need to be said, but her vocals are just pure ear candy.
[0:54:25 – 0:54:27] Adam: Like, just perfect.
[0:54:27 – 0:54:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:27 – 0:54:28] Adam: No notes.
[0:54:30 – 0:54:33] Adam: I could listen to her sing all night and all tomorrow, too.
[0:54:34 – 0:54:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:54:34 – 0:54:36] Adam: Just beautiful.
[0:54:36 – 0:54:42] Adam: I don’t know, like, how much production is being put over that, but she’s just, yeah, a beautiful voice.
[0:54:42 – 0:54:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:54:45 – 0:54:59] Erik: Yeah, no, I’ve been keeping my eyes on the near-future music calendar, and every time I refresh and scroll through, I’m always hoping to see some Magdalena Bay on that, but I haven’t.
[0:55:00 – 0:55:02] Erik: How many albums do they have now?
[0:55:02 – 0:55:03] Erik: Two for sure EPs.
[0:55:03 – 0:55:04] Erik: There might be an LP in there.
[0:55:06 – 0:55:09] Adam: Yeah, even their EPs are long for EPs.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:10] Erik: Probably, yeah.
[0:55:11 – 0:55:11] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:55:11 – 0:55:13] Erik: There’s some weird hang-up I have about EPs.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:15] Erik: I just don’t take them as seriously.
[0:55:15 – 0:55:16] Erik: I don’t either, but… You know?
[0:55:17 – 0:55:27] Erik: It’s like, yeah, I mean, throw out some music into the world, but that’s why that… Why can’t I think of her name?
[0:55:30 – 0:55:49] Erik: um the one minute track uh tr whack right i was like i can’t take this seriously yeah i guess 14 tracks mini mixes long and then they had mercurial world mercurial world is i’m seeing they have a mercurial world deluxe edition now which i might have to check that out physical copy
[0:55:51 – 0:55:55] Erik: This would be a hell of an album to add to the stack, I think.
[0:55:56 – 0:56:04] Erik: Because again, these are the picks from us in terms of albums, like front to back album.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:05] Erik: Right.
[0:56:05 – 0:56:12] Erik: I have a lot of songs that I liked this year, but maybe they came off of albums that were, eh, they’re all right.
[0:56:12 – 0:56:20] Erik: I mean, a really good song will elevate an album, but this is one where, and when I say like concept album, I mean, it’s like…
[0:56:21 – 0:56:25] Erik: It is a concept that tracks from track one to the end.
[0:56:25 – 0:56:29] Erik: And you could pick it up at any point in time and still get that vibe.
[0:56:29 – 0:56:32] Erik: But the way to listen to it is from beginning to end.
[0:56:33 – 0:56:44] Erik: And this is one of the best examples of the year of somebody putting together an album from front to back that has that same feel in and out.
[0:56:44 – 0:56:45] Adam: You talked me into it.
[0:56:45 – 0:56:47] Adam: This is my number one album of the year.
[0:56:47 – 0:56:47] Adam: Talked you into it?
[0:56:48 – 0:56:55] Adam: I got a couple other ones on my list, but yeah, as far as top album, full album of the year, here we go.
[0:56:55 – 0:56:56] Adam: This is it.
[0:56:56 – 0:57:00] Erik: Yeah, I mean, anytime I feel like I talk about it, you talk about it enough, you can convince yourself.
[0:57:00 – 0:57:03] Erik: But yeah, we just listened to two tracks from Magdalena Bay.
[0:57:03 – 0:57:03] Adam: Love it.
[0:57:04 – 0:57:05] Erik: Good stuff.
[0:57:07 – 0:57:08] Erik: Let’s do 11 here.
[0:57:08 – 0:57:09] Erik: Boy, oh boy, we’re moving.
[0:57:09 – 0:57:10] Erik: We’re getting there.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:12] Erik: This is a Bolus Popel.
[0:57:15 – 0:57:15] Erik: Belgian.
[0:57:16 – 0:57:17] Erik: Born in Belgium.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:19] Adam: Belgium.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:20] Adam: Efficient.
[0:57:20 – 0:57:20] Adam: Efficient.
[0:57:21 – 0:57:49] Erik: but is Roots in the Hong Kong is it the Hong Kong or is it just Hong Kong I don’t know this is a letter to you why you sparklingly clean synth pop album packed with bangers album that is also an ode to his mother and an examination on his Hong Kong roots no way I don’t know I don’t feel like you sent me this one this is the first I’m hearing of this and I already like it
[0:57:49 – 0:57:50] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:57:50 – 0:57:53] Erik: This one, this was an early year.
[0:57:54 – 0:57:54] Adam: What did you say this is?
[0:57:55 – 0:57:55] Adam: Bogus Poople?
[0:57:56 – 0:58:03] Erik: Bolas, B-O-L-I-S, Bolas Poople, P-U-P-U-L. Poople.
[0:58:04 – 0:58:04] Adam: Poople.
[0:58:04 – 0:58:07] Erik: I’m not sure how it would be pronounced in Belgianese.
[0:58:09 – 0:58:12] Adam: I’ll probably listen to this on the ride home tonight.
[0:58:12 – 0:58:13] Adam: We’re going to the Solstice pageant tonight.
[0:58:13 – 0:58:16] Adam: Maybe I’ll put this on for the family on the ride into town.
[0:58:16 – 0:58:21] Erik: Yeah, this is Ma Tao Wai Road with his sister doing the vocals.
[0:58:27 – 0:58:28] Adam: This is very clean.
[0:58:32 – 0:58:32] Erik: Mmm.
[0:58:33 – 0:58:35] Erik: Honestly, a little bit surprised.
[0:58:35 – 0:58:39] Erik: Whenever I listen to albums on Spotify, it doesn’t show you the listens.
[0:58:40 – 0:58:40] Erik: So I don’t really notice.
[0:58:41 – 0:58:49] Erik: But in the last week when I was compiling this list, you go through and if you do it on the desktop version, it shows you the listens.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:55] Erik: And I was shocked when I went to this album to see how few listens some of these tracks have.
[0:58:56 – 0:58:59] Adam: Yeah, I wish they had that on the app version.
[0:58:59 – 0:58:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:59:00 – 0:59:04] Erik: I don’t know if it really makes a difference to me one way or another, but I’m just like, really?
[0:59:04 – 0:59:10] Adam: The only thing I really missed was the ability to edit the song track order of your playlist.
[0:59:10 – 0:59:12] Adam: You had to, back in the day, do that on desktop.
[0:59:14 – 0:59:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:14 – 0:59:20] Adam: Once I was able to do that on the phone, I really stopped using Spotify and desktop altogether.
[0:59:21 – 0:59:22] Adam: That was the main thing I was needing.
[0:59:23 – 0:59:50] Adam: but that’s another one that listens because it does give you a kind of an idea of like there is something to you know the knowledge of the people and uh right if everybody and i don’t want to just follow the crowds but like it’s a good way to like hey let me see if this is for me and this is their most listened to track of this album like should give you a pretty good idea of what you’re getting into if you’re just trying to like dabble in an album and just get a taste you see if this is something you want to actually sit down and spend some time on right yeah
[0:59:52 – 0:59:58] Erik: Yeah, well, I mean, if you haven’t listened to it, I would say, again, it is a full-blown…
[0:59:58 – 1:00:00] Adam: I’m downloading it right now.
[1:00:00 – 1:00:03] Erik: Start to finish, solid album.
[1:00:03 – 1:00:04] Erik: It’s almost got…
[1:00:04 – 1:00:09] Erik: There’s some aspects of it that are a little daft, punky at times.
[1:00:12 – 1:00:14] Erik: But it’s a weird…
[1:00:14 – 1:00:20] Adam: I have it downloaded, actually, so you must have sent it to me at some point, and I downloaded it, but someone never listened to it.
[1:00:20 – 1:00:21] Adam: It’s in the depths.
[1:00:21 – 1:00:22] Adam: Is he on a ferry here?
[1:00:22 – 1:00:23] Erik: Yeah.
[1:00:23 – 1:00:24] Adam: Is it some sort of boat in Belgium?
[1:00:25 – 1:00:29] Erik: Well, I think the lights in the background suggests maybe Hong Kong.
[1:00:29 – 1:00:30] Adam: The Hong Kong.
[1:00:30 – 1:00:31] Erik: The Hong Kong.
[1:00:32 – 1:00:34] Erik: All right.
[1:00:34 – 1:00:49] Erik: I think in the same vein, kind of moving forward, you actually, the first time I listened to this album was with you in the shed during the fantasy hockey draft.
[1:00:50 – 1:00:52] Erik: And it sort of stuck with me.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:55] Erik: And I have subsequently been listening to it almost nonstop.
[1:00:55 – 1:00:57] Erik: And now almost every time I put the album on,
[1:00:59 – 1:01:10] Erik: I get so ever close to getting online and buying a pair of tickets to their show in mid-January in the Armory down in Minneapolis.
[1:01:10 – 1:01:10] Erik: Big time.
[1:01:11 – 1:01:13] Erik: It’s Jamie XX’s album.
[1:01:13 – 1:01:13] Adam: No way.
[1:01:14 – 1:01:14] Adam: In Waves.
[1:01:15 – 1:01:17] Adam: I just listened to this the other night, too.
[1:01:17 – 1:01:19] Adam: It came up on my wrapped or whatever.
[1:01:19 – 1:01:21] Adam: And I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that one.
[1:01:21 – 1:01:21] Erik: Yeah.
[1:01:22 – 1:01:25] Erik: It’s a dance floor bliss with a positive message.
[1:01:26 – 1:01:27] Erik: What’s not to like?
[1:01:27 – 1:01:29] Adam: Let’s have some positivity around here.
[1:01:29 – 1:01:30] Adam: Come on.
[1:01:30 – 1:01:31] Adam: Yeah.
[1:01:31 – 1:01:33] Adam: The armory is going to probably crumble.
[1:01:35 – 1:01:37] Adam: It’s going to get so wet with sound in there.
[1:01:37 – 1:01:37] Erik: Yeah.
[1:01:38 – 1:01:42] Adam: I think if any album on this list was going to get you wet with sound, this would be the album.
[1:01:42 – 1:01:43] Erik: Yeah.
[1:01:43 – 1:01:44] Erik: I think it’s…
[1:01:45 – 1:01:46] Erik: Backloaded, too.
[1:01:46 – 1:01:48] Erik: It’s a weird backloaded album.
[1:01:48 – 1:02:03] Erik: I mean, it’s a solid album, but starting with the feeling I get from you, which is this track, to the end, the last four or five tracks of this album are an experience.
[1:02:04 – 1:02:07] Adam: Yeah, I guess I felt like this one didn’t live up to in-color music.
[1:02:08 – 1:02:28] Adam: well yeah it doesn’t but but i mean it is also damn good yeah and i know it’s on a lot of lists too and i i need to like maybe spend a little bit more time with this one again because this is when did it come out like early in the year i’m saying it was march or april came out a long time ago in the grand scheme of things so gotta come back is that bass coming through
[1:02:37 – 1:02:46] Erik: I mean, the avalanches are featured on this, but it’s also just, I think, from top to bottom, got a very avalanche-y vibe to it.
[1:02:46 – 1:02:46] Adam: That’s funny.
[1:02:47 – 1:02:51] Adam: Actually, my number one artist of the year was the avalanches, somehow.
[1:02:52 – 1:02:53] Adam: I was like, how is that possible?
[1:02:53 – 1:02:54] Adam: But it was because I was using…
[1:02:55 – 1:03:16] Adam: avalanches for all the snow logs last winter oh yeah and so i was like i was over listening to them trying to pick the perfect avalanche songs off of the since i left you 20th anniversary edition deluxe uh like super deluxe album yeah i must have listened to that album more than any other album just trying to do research to make sure hard copy right
[1:03:17 – 1:03:38] Adam: what’s that you have that on hard copy right i have uh yeah i have like the four vinyls nice uh the super deluxe vinyl edition of that album it’s still to this day my favorite album of all time uh and yeah came out the same year as uh the lord of the rings movies so they oddly fit together very well interesting they do
[1:03:38 – 1:03:38] Adam: Yeah.
[1:03:39 – 1:03:49] Adam: And then a lot of, like, Lord of the Rings lo-fi music also made my list because of how much I was listening to that stuff, trying to pick the perfect versions of the Riders of Rohan lo-fi music.
[1:03:49 – 1:03:53] Adam: So I’m not putting any of that on my end-of-the-year list.
[1:03:53 – 1:03:59] Adam: But, you know, go back and listen to the Snow Dogs if you want to find out what’s the best lo-fi Lord of the Rings crap.
[1:03:59 – 1:04:00] Erik: Crap?
[1:04:00 – 1:04:03] Erik: Crap.
[1:04:03 – 1:04:04] Erik: Should I move on with another?
[1:04:05 – 1:04:10] Adam: Yeah, I only have two left on my list, I think, that we haven’t discussed.
[1:04:10 – 1:04:11] Adam: I think you for sure have one of those.
[1:04:13 – 1:04:16] Erik: So I think you can keep going into your top ten now.
[1:04:16 – 1:04:17] Erik: Yeah, we’re into nine.
[1:04:18 – 1:04:19] Erik: Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
[1:04:19 – 1:04:26] Erik: I feel like number nine here is probably… We’re doing the top nine at nine with Steve Luizzo.
[1:04:26 – 1:04:27] Erik: Top nine at nine.
[1:04:28 – 1:04:53] Erik: probably one of the last ones to be added in terms of like when it came out so you always got to take that with a little bit of a yeah grain of salt but this is uh sophie royer the album is young girl forever and yeah i’ve been this would have been for sure my like album of the summer because it’s just summer it should have come out in the summer
[1:04:53 – 1:04:55] Erik: Should have come out in the summer.
[1:04:55 – 1:05:01] Erik: Fantastic trilingual electro-pop album that feels permanently trapped in a coming-of-age saga.
[1:05:02 – 1:05:02] Erik: Wow.
[1:05:02 – 1:05:05] Erik: You’ve got French and German.
[1:05:05 – 1:05:05] Adam: Okay.
[1:05:06 – 1:05:06] Erik: Yeah.
[1:05:07 – 1:05:08] Erik: Oui, oui.
[1:05:09 – 1:05:10] Erik: Yeah, it is.
[1:05:10 – 1:05:25] Erik: Like I said, it feels like, and I feel like I’ve read some interviews with her and she is struggling with aging and feeling like she’s a young girl forever, but still wants to put out music that is the young girl.
[1:05:28 – 1:05:37] Erik: And kind of runs the gamut, I think, overarching electropop, but you get some real crazy, especially the German tracks.
[1:05:38 – 1:05:43] Erik: You’re like, man, even Sophie Royer can make German a beautiful language.
[1:05:43 – 1:05:46] Erik: Yeah, that’s saying something.
[1:05:47 – 1:05:48] Adam: That’s great.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:51] Adam: That’s its own kind of poetry.
[1:05:51 – 1:05:52] Adam: Yeah.
[1:05:52 – 1:05:57] Adam: My second favorite form of poetry behind cash is making German sound nice.
[1:05:57 – 1:05:58] Adam: Making German sound nice.
[1:05:59 – 1:06:05] Adam: My third most favorite form of poetry is Tallboy IPAs from The Brewing Project.
[1:06:07 – 1:06:07] Adam: Thank you, Hopalicious.
[1:06:08 – 1:06:12] Adam: I’m going to hop into my second one here because it’s the solstice, baby.
[1:06:16 – 1:06:17] Adam: It’s liquid poetry.
[1:06:18 – 1:06:19] Adam: Sonic poetry.
[1:06:47 – 1:06:49] UNKNOWN: All right.
[1:07:17 – 1:07:20] Erik: Get some Sophie Royer in your life and crank it.
[1:07:22 – 1:07:22] Erik: We’ll move on.
[1:07:23 – 1:07:27] Adam: I’d love to listen to that while playing old Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo.
[1:07:27 – 1:07:28] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:28 – 1:07:28] Adam: That’d be perfect.
[1:07:29 – 1:07:34] Erik: Well, it would fit the vibe of feeling like a young girl forever.
[1:07:34 – 1:07:39] Adam: Yeah, I want to be a young boy playing the entertainment system.
[1:07:39 – 1:07:41] Erik: Feeling of getting an N64 at Christmas.
[1:07:41 – 1:07:42] Adam: Yeah, man.
[1:07:44 – 1:07:47] Adam: Boy, what if I got a PlayStation 12 for Christmas this year, Eric?
[1:07:48 – 1:07:49] Erik: PS12?
[1:07:49 – 1:07:50] Adam: I’ll invite you over.
[1:07:50 – 1:07:52] Adam: We’ll play some James Bond.
[1:07:53 – 1:07:53] Adam: They still have those?
[1:07:54 – 1:07:55] Adam: James Bond video games?
[1:07:56 – 1:07:56] Adam: Yeah.
[1:07:56 – 1:07:57] Adam: I think so.
[1:07:57 – 1:08:00] Erik: I think it’s GoldenEye and then maybe Tomorrow Never Dies.
[1:08:01 – 1:08:02] Erik: Both on the N64.
[1:08:02 – 1:08:03] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:08:03 – 1:08:05] Erik: I’m not a video game guy, though.
[1:08:05 – 1:08:06] Adam: Neither of us are.
[1:08:06 – 1:08:06] Adam: No.
[1:08:06 – 1:08:08] Adam: I think that’s apparent.
[1:08:09 – 1:08:11] Erik: We’ve got some… Snowing.
[1:08:11 – 1:08:12] Erik: We’ve got some snow.
[1:08:12 – 1:08:13] Adam: Just some light snow.
[1:08:13 – 1:08:20] Adam: I saw that we had a chance to snow this morning, but it was pretty sunny to the point where I almost put on contacts to wear sunglasses to come over here.
[1:08:20 – 1:08:22] Adam: But now it’s snowing.
[1:08:23 – 1:08:25] Adam: Just a little bitty fluffy flakes.
[1:08:25 – 1:08:26] Erik: I know.
[1:08:26 – 1:08:27] Erik: It’s snowing.
[1:08:27 – 1:08:28] Erik: My number eight.
[1:08:29 – 1:08:34] Erik: Did you ever listen to the Porridge Radio album?
[1:08:35 – 1:08:35] Adam: Yeah.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:39] Erik: Kind of like Angry Big Thief.
[1:08:39 – 1:08:39] UNKNOWN: Yeah.
[1:08:41 – 1:09:08] Erik: yeah clouds in the sky they will always be there for me a uk rock quartet it’s a scorching breakup album yikes um but i just uh i love the sound this is a hole in the ground and the whole album again top to bottom it’s great i love the build-up of this song and yeah it is an unapologetic breakup record
[1:09:10 – 1:09:13] Adam: Some of the best albums come from that formula.
[1:09:13 – 1:09:13] Erik: Right?
[1:09:14 – 1:09:18] Erik: Winter ends and spring begins, and I still need everything I needed then.
[1:09:19 – 1:09:21] Erik: Forge Radio, spin it.
[1:09:25 – 1:09:35] Adam: Give to you, give to me.
[1:09:52 – 1:10:13] Adam: Give to me, give to you back Sky above, sky below Five years more of directional love Think of me, is that enough?
[1:10:13 – 1:10:15] Adam: Hungry for, hungry for
[1:10:24 – 1:10:28] Erik: It’s so crazy to me that they can just take the simplest chord progression.
[1:10:29 – 1:10:31] Erik: Just one, two, three, one, two, three.
[1:10:31 – 1:10:38] Adam: Yeah, it’s like with a child’s piano or something.
[1:10:39 – 1:10:39] Erik: Yeah.
[1:10:43 – 1:10:45] Adam: There’s a little xylophone action.
[1:10:51 – 1:11:06] Erik: Number seven, I’m not going to play anything because I finished an entire episode with this record, Los Campesinos, All Hell, witty Welsh rock masterpiece, in my opinion, from top to bottom.
[1:11:07 – 1:11:10] Erik: That’s one I will forever spend time with.
[1:11:11 – 1:11:12] Erik: Did you say Welsh?
[1:11:12 – 1:11:13] Adam: Welsh.
[1:11:13 – 1:11:13] Erik: Welsh.
[1:11:15 – 1:11:15] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:15 – 1:11:16] Adam: All right.
[1:11:17 – 1:11:19] Erik: That was my top summer album.
[1:11:19 – 1:11:19] Adam: Yeah.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:22] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:24] Erik: I’ll do one more, and that’ll get me to my top five.
[1:11:25 – 1:11:25] Erik: All right.
[1:11:26 – 1:11:28] Erik: Have you heard of This Is Lorelei?
[1:11:29 – 1:11:29] Adam: There we go.
[1:11:30 – 1:11:32] Erik: I’ve got the album Box for Buddy.
[1:11:33 – 1:11:35] Erik: Box for Star.
[1:11:35 – 1:11:38] Erik: This is where we’ll get the for sure explicit rating.
[1:11:39 – 1:11:42] Erik: The album is Box for Buddy, Box for Star.
[1:11:42 – 1:11:44] Adam: The track is I’m All Fucked Up.
[1:11:44 – 1:11:45] Adam: I’m All Fucked Up.
[1:11:45 – 1:11:49] Erik: We’re on that E. One of my favorite lines of the year.
[1:11:49 – 1:11:51] Erik: I want to steal every happy thought you have.
[1:11:51 – 1:11:53] Erik: Fucking nickel, fucking dime.
[1:11:53 – 1:11:55] Erik: Trade them back to you for mine.
[1:11:55 – 1:11:55] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:56 – 1:11:56] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:59 – 1:11:59] Erik: I don’t even know.
[1:12:00 – 1:12:05] Erik: Again, this is kind of like that Havdi Howdy album, indie rock, but it’s more than that.
[1:12:06 – 1:12:09] Erik: There’s so many different genres built into this.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:15] Erik: It starts with a weird, almost country folk duet with a female vocalist.
[1:12:18 – 1:12:26] Erik: And then it does like a crazy, there’s a crazy like auto tune that works, that totally works.
[1:12:27 – 1:12:39] Erik: Also, it was a toss up between, this is probably the, I don’t know, like the most, I think it’s the most played track off of the record.
[1:12:41 – 1:12:48] Erik: but it was a toss-up between this one and the title of the album, Box for Buddy, Box for Star.
[1:12:48 – 1:12:49] Erik: Yeah.
[1:12:49 – 1:12:51] Erik: That track was a close second.
[1:12:51 – 1:12:57] Adam: I read somewhere, and they’re like, this is like, somebody compared it to the Postal Service album.
[1:12:57 – 1:12:59] Erik: Oh, yeah, this track for sure.
[1:12:59 – 1:13:00] Adam: And I was like, yeah, it does.
[1:13:00 – 1:13:02] Adam: It sounds, yes, I totally get that vibe.
[1:13:02 – 1:13:06] Adam: As soon as I read that and then listened to it again, that was a couple days ago I was listening to this,
[1:13:07 – 1:13:14] Adam: I was like, yeah, like that was the postal service album when that came out, you know, this is way back in the day.
[1:13:14 – 1:13:18] Adam: And, uh, you know, my eye, I was like, that was like iPod one.
[1:13:19 – 1:13:19] Adam: Yeah.
[1:13:19 – 1:13:22] Adam: Like phase where you had to like load the album on there.
[1:13:22 – 1:13:25] Adam: And then you had the little FM tuner for your truck.
[1:13:25 – 1:13:44] Erik: Was it one of those stories that got just passed down from the heavens, like Marilyn Manson cutting out a rib, and then also being the kid from The Wonder Years, like weird public rumor that the name of the band came from the fact that they shipped…
[1:13:45 – 1:13:47] Adam: They were mailing mixtapes back and forth.
[1:13:47 – 1:13:47] Adam: Mixtapes, is that true?
[1:13:47 – 1:13:48] Adam: Through the mail.
[1:13:48 – 1:14:11] Adam: Yeah, there is a Song Exploder, like when it was the 20th anniversary of Postal Service, they did a Song Exploder, a whole episode about one of the tracks and how, yeah, they literally were, how the two met, and then they were like mailing samples across the United States to ultimately create the album, which is one of the all-time great albums, so.
[1:14:11 – 1:14:13] Erik: Just as true as the Marilyn Manson rumors.
[1:14:13 – 1:14:14] Adam: Oh, they’re all true.
[1:14:14 – 1:14:15] Adam: Everything you’ve heard is true.
[1:14:15 – 1:14:24] Erik: Everything you’ve ever heard is true, including the fact that Mr. Rogers was in fact a deadly sniper in the Vietnam War.
[1:14:25 – 1:14:26] Adam: That is true.
[1:14:26 – 1:14:28] Adam: Yep.
[1:14:29 – 1:14:32] Adam: Yeah, so I really like this album.
[1:14:32 – 1:14:36] Adam: And then when I heard the comparison to Postal Service, I was like, that’s perfect.
[1:14:36 – 1:14:38] Adam: And that makes it relatable in a different way to me.
[1:14:38 – 1:14:38] Erik: Yeah.
[1:14:39 – 1:14:41] Erik: I also love the just full…
[1:14:41 – 1:14:46] Erik: There’s a few records on here, and I could say this for all of them.
[1:14:49 – 1:14:53] Erik: But this one in particular, I had no frame of reference.
[1:14:54 – 1:15:01] Erik: You just go into a sound for an artist that you don’t have any sound to base it on.
[1:15:01 – 1:15:04] Erik: And I love it when acts just come out of nowhere.
[1:15:05 – 1:15:30] Erik: yeah you’re just like what is this gonna be i don’t know what it’s gonna like you oh magdalena bay has got a new album i got a kind of a good idea i’m probably gonna like it it’ll probably do hopefully something new and different but it’s gonna be that in that you know that cage of sound that they’ve created but when you get a recommendation or you find an album that you’re just like i don’t even know this is lorelei what does it even mean yeah
[1:15:30 – 1:15:44] Adam: yeah let’s put this on and then it just kind of all of a sudden I don’t think that the band name really this is not what I was expecting from a band name this is Lorelei Nate Amos I think is his name his actual name
[1:15:46 – 1:15:47] Adam: We’ll get to Amos later.
[1:15:47 – 1:15:47] Adam: Amos.
[1:15:49 – 1:15:51] Erik: He was in the El Salvadorian Civil War.
[1:15:51 – 1:15:53] Erik: My God, I am rooting for him.
[1:15:53 – 1:15:54] Erik: He’s a sniper.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:54] Erik: Jesus.
[1:15:54 – 1:15:55] Erik: Yeah, speaking of snipers.
[1:15:55 – 1:15:58] Adam: Had to hide in caves to survive the Civil War.
[1:15:58 – 1:15:59] Adam: He’s like a modern day Zero.
[1:15:59 – 1:16:00] Adam: Yeah.
[1:16:00 – 1:16:01] Erik: Modern day Zero.
[1:16:04 – 1:16:11] Erik: We’re in the top five now, and I feel like I mentioned this on the summer of… How much experience do you have in the hotel industry?
[1:16:11 – 1:16:11] Adam: Zero.
[1:16:11 – 1:16:12] Adam: Zero.
[1:16:12 – 1:16:13] Adam: What about family?
[1:16:14 – 1:16:14] Adam: Zero.
[1:16:16 – 1:16:17] Adam: I suppose that makes you a refugee then.
[1:16:18 – 1:16:18] Adam: Yeah.
[1:16:18 – 1:16:19] Adam: All right.
[1:16:20 – 1:16:21] Adam: That’s enough of that.
[1:16:22 – 1:16:24] Erik: Amos, we love you, Amos.
[1:16:25 – 1:16:27] Erik: Tenement homes built upon a fault line.
[1:16:27 – 1:16:30] Erik: Juvenile quetzal birds living in the coal mine.
[1:16:30 – 1:16:33] Erik: An absolute all-timer, in my opinion.
[1:16:34 – 1:16:37] Erik: And their best record, MGMT, Loss of Life.
[1:16:38 – 1:16:40] Erik: Mentioned it during the album of the summer.
[1:16:40 – 1:16:41] Adam: That one definitely got mentioned.
[1:16:41 – 1:16:43] SPEAKER_03: Unfortunately, just mentioned.
[1:16:43 – 1:16:45] Erik: No actual playing.
[1:16:46 – 1:16:49] Erik: We’re going with Bubblegum Dog, which is, I believe, the single.
[1:16:49 – 1:16:52] Erik: It’s probably been out for two years now.
[1:16:52 – 1:16:57] Erik: And the only reason I didn’t go with other tracks is just a little too long.
[1:16:58 – 1:17:03] Erik: And I want to leave those for you to discover on your own if you have not listened.
[1:17:03 – 1:17:05] Erik: This isn’t the MGMT of your youth.
[1:17:05 – 1:17:07] Erik: This isn’t an electric feel situation.
[1:17:07 – 1:17:08] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[1:17:08 – 1:17:13] Erik: This is a fully realized act doing what they actually want to do.
[1:17:13 – 1:17:16] Erik: This isn’t joke music, but it’s also not entirely serious.
[1:17:17 – 1:17:18] Erik: Right.
[1:17:18 – 1:17:22] Erik: It’s almost like stadium rock to a certain point.
[1:17:22 – 1:17:23] Adam: Yeah.
[1:17:23 – 1:17:25] Erik: But it’s also self-aware.
[1:17:25 – 1:17:31] Adam: Did you see the video of them playing to a crowd of 20 people dancing crazy in the street?
[1:17:31 – 1:17:33] Erik: In a dorm courtyard?
[1:17:33 – 1:17:34] Erik: Like a college?
[1:17:34 – 1:17:37] Erik: Just one laptop and them dancing with two microphones.
[1:17:37 – 1:17:44] Erik: And there’s 18 people kind of bopping to kids, which became one of the biggest songs of the early 2000s.
[1:17:44 – 1:17:45] Adam: It’s pretty neat.
[1:17:45 – 1:17:46] Erik: That’s great.
[1:17:56 – 1:17:58] Adam: I’m catching up to me.
[1:18:12 – 1:18:23] Erik: I think I’ve read that the term bubblegum dog is kind of like a euphemism for feeling artistically irrelevant and what you’re doing.
[1:18:25 – 1:18:31] Erik: It’s kind of always like that monkey on your back for creativity is the bubblegum dog.
[1:18:33 – 1:18:34] Erik: Because I was like, what the hell does bubblegum dog even mean?
[1:18:34 – 1:18:36] Adam: When was the last time you chewed bubblegum?
[1:18:38 – 1:18:38] Erik: Bubblegum?
[1:18:41 – 1:18:41] Erik: Any gum.
[1:18:42 – 1:18:43] Erik: I’ll take any gum.
[1:18:43 – 1:18:44] Erik: Maybe within the last month.
[1:18:44 – 1:18:44] Adam: No way.
[1:18:45 – 1:18:45] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:18:45 – 1:18:47] Erik: Anytime somebody’s like, hey, I got some gum.
[1:18:47 – 1:18:48] Erik: I’m like, yeah, sure.
[1:18:48 – 1:18:50] Erik: I think when I was down in Marquette, I popped in a chunk of gum.
[1:18:51 – 1:18:51] Adam: Wow.
[1:18:51 – 1:18:55] Adam: Yeah, I think I was chewing gum when I was looking at the world’s largest wooden dome.
[1:18:55 – 1:18:56] Adam: That’s cool.
[1:18:56 – 1:18:57] Adam: You have to.
[1:18:57 – 1:18:57] Erik: Yeah.
[1:18:59 – 1:18:59] Adam: What is it called?
[1:19:00 – 1:19:02] Adam: The Superior Dome?
[1:19:02 – 1:19:03] Erik: The actual name of the dome?
[1:19:03 – 1:19:04] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:19:04 – 1:19:05] Erik: Yeah, sure.
[1:19:05 – 1:19:07] Adam: In episode one of Joe Pera, I should know that.
[1:19:07 – 1:19:07] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:08 – 1:19:09] Erik: Let’s call it the Superior Dome.
[1:19:11 – 1:19:11] Erik: Do you want to?
[1:19:12 – 1:19:13] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:13 – 1:19:13] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:14 – 1:19:14] Adam: Yeah.
[1:19:14 – 1:19:15] Adam: Superior Dome.
[1:19:16 – 1:19:18] Adam: I can’t remember the last time I chewed bubble gum or any gum.
[1:19:18 – 1:19:19] Erik: I can’t remember the last time I chewed.
[1:19:19 – 1:19:21] Adam: I’m not like anti-gum.
[1:19:21 – 1:19:23] Adam: I’m also not pro-gum at all.
[1:19:23 – 1:19:26] Erik: No, I’m indifferent to gum.
[1:19:26 – 1:19:27] Adam: Gum is for kids.
[1:19:28 – 1:19:30] Adam: There’s my bold take of the night.
[1:19:30 – 1:19:30] Adam: There you go.
[1:19:31 – 1:19:32] Erik: Yeah, bubble gum especially.
[1:19:32 – 1:19:33] Erik: Like, I’m not blowing bubbles.
[1:19:34 – 1:19:35] Erik: What are you, chewing gum?
[1:19:36 – 1:19:36] Erik: Spit that out.
[1:19:38 – 1:19:39] Adam: Do they still make, like, Bubblicious?
[1:19:39 – 1:19:40] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[1:19:40 – 1:19:41] Adam: Grape-flavored Bubblicious?
[1:19:41 – 1:19:44] Adam: You can get huge… Makes your, like, eyeballs rattle?
[1:19:44 – 1:19:47] Erik: Cheek-filling wads of gum.
[1:19:47 – 1:19:48] Adam: Yikes.
[1:19:48 – 1:19:49] Erik: Gum by the foot.
[1:19:49 – 1:19:49] Erik: Remember the…
[1:19:50 – 1:19:51] Erik: Came out like a tape measure?
[1:19:51 – 1:19:51] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:52 – 1:19:53] Erik: And then there’s the Big League Chew.
[1:19:53 – 1:19:55] Adam: Yeah, oh, Big League Chew, yeah.
[1:19:55 – 1:19:58] Erik: Just a gateway drug to actually chewing Redman.
[1:19:58 – 1:19:58] Erik: Yeah.
[1:19:59 – 1:20:01] Adam: Yeah, or like the bubblegum cigarettes.
[1:20:02 – 1:20:02] Adam: Oh, God, yeah.
[1:20:02 – 1:20:06] Adam: You just blow a little flower out the end, make you feel like a real Joe Cool.
[1:20:07 – 1:20:08] Erik: A real Joe Cool?
[1:20:08 – 1:20:09] Adam: I’m a real Marlboro Mern.
[1:20:09 – 1:20:11] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know.
[1:20:11 – 1:20:12] Adam: What do we want to go with next?
[1:20:12 – 1:20:13] Adam: Are we ready for Jessica Pratt yet?
[1:20:14 – 1:20:15] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:20:15 – 1:20:22] Erik: She was my chowder-making album from Album of the Summer, but I love that album.
[1:20:22 – 1:20:23] Adam: Oh, you don’t have it on your list?
[1:20:23 – 1:20:25] Erik: It’s not on my top 20 list.
[1:20:25 – 1:20:30] Adam: Oh, I thought you included all your Album of the Summer albums in here somewhere, so I was expecting it was coming.
[1:20:31 – 1:20:57] Adam: uh yeah i don’t know i was gonna honorable mention jessica pratt uh just the first track is great it sounds like uh you know she what did i say during the album of the summer like uh somebody singing from the end of a long hallway yeah kind of just sounds like a like a 60s hallway sounds like pet sounds yeah um but in modern times yeah it’s great jessica pratt here in the pitch
[1:21:01 – 1:21:01] Erik: And her, I mean.
[1:21:02 – 1:21:03] Erik: Yeah, haunting.
[1:21:03 – 1:21:04] Erik: She’s got a voice.
[1:21:05 – 1:21:05] Adam: Voice of an angel.
[1:21:06 – 1:21:09] Erik: Voice of like the world’s best lounge singer.
[1:21:09 – 1:21:10] Adam: Or maybe a demon.
[1:21:10 – 1:21:11] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:21:11 – 1:21:12] Erik: Or, yeah.
[1:21:12 – 1:21:13] Erik: I’m a little scared of her, honestly.
[1:21:13 – 1:21:16] Erik: Yeah, which way she wants to go could easily go demon.
[1:21:17 – 1:21:20] Adam: I don’t think I could look Jessica Pratt in the eye if she walked in this room right now.
[1:21:21 – 1:21:22] Erik: No.
[1:21:22 – 1:21:32] Erik: Any of these musicians, just the intensity of being at that level of artistry, I would be so… Yeah, I would cower.
[1:21:32 – 1:21:37] Erik: I would put my tail between my legs to cover my genitals like…
[1:21:39 – 1:21:40] Erik: Who’s the dad from Meet the Parents?
[1:21:42 – 1:21:44] Erik: Who’s defending dogs versus cats?
[1:21:44 – 1:21:46] Erik: I don’t know why I’m thinking of Meet the Parents right now.
[1:21:46 – 1:21:47] Adam: De Niro?
[1:21:47 – 1:21:48] Erik: Yes, De Niro.
[1:21:50 – 1:21:55] Adam: De Niro was in Cape Fear and then also in Meet the Parents.
[1:21:55 – 1:21:56] Erik: Two opposite characters.
[1:21:56 – 1:21:57] Adam: I’m scared of both of them.
[1:21:58 – 1:22:02] Adam: I’m also scared of Jessica Pratt, but yeah, damn, she’s got the voice of an angel.
[1:22:02 – 1:22:07] Adam: I just love the tinny space pop
[1:22:08 – 1:22:09] Adam: Yeah, it does.
[1:22:09 – 1:22:12] Adam: It sounds like this is over the horizon or something.
[1:22:12 – 1:22:12] Adam: Yeah.
[1:22:12 – 1:22:14] Adam: I love it.
[1:22:14 – 1:22:18] Adam: I was up pretty late last night listening to music on the headphones, and this is the last album I listened to.
[1:22:18 – 1:22:20] Adam: It was like, okay, it’s like one.
[1:22:20 – 1:22:21] Adam: I got to go to bed.
[1:22:21 – 1:22:21] Adam: Yeah.
[1:22:22 – 1:22:22] Adam: The end.
[1:22:22 – 1:22:24] Adam: So, yeah, sweet dreams.
[1:22:24 – 1:22:26] Adam: I had the sweet dreams after listening to this one.
[1:22:26 – 1:22:27] Erik: Sweet dreams here in the pitch.
[1:22:27 – 1:22:28] Adam: So…
[1:22:28 – 1:22:30] Adam: Yeah, this one’s good.
[1:22:30 – 1:22:32] Adam: I don’t have a ton of notes on it.
[1:22:32 – 1:22:43] Adam: It was going to be an honorable mention, but you reminded me that it was on your album of the summer list, and so that made me happy that you had it, too, at some point.
[1:22:44 – 1:22:45] Adam: How many you got left on your list at this point?
[1:22:46 – 1:22:47] Adam: You’re done with your top five?
[1:22:47 – 1:22:50] Erik: I got the last four.
[1:22:51 – 1:22:51] Adam: You got four to go?
[1:22:51 – 1:22:52] Adam: Four to go.
[1:22:53 – 1:22:56] Adam: Can I just do my last one, and then we’ll…
[1:22:57 – 1:23:02] Adam: I think this will work right into Waxahachie, Tiger’s Blood.
[1:23:03 – 1:23:04] Adam: Is it Tiger’s Blood or Tiger Blood?
[1:23:04 – 1:23:05] Adam: Tiger’s Blood.
[1:23:06 – 1:23:11] Adam: This is, we got to listen to right back to it.
[1:23:12 – 1:23:12] Erik: Yeah.
[1:23:13 – 1:23:17] Adam: This is the album I’ve really been listening to the most in December.
[1:23:18 – 1:23:21] Adam: And this is the appropriate use of a banjo.
[1:23:22 – 1:23:23] Erik: Is there an inappropriate use?
[1:23:23 – 1:23:31] Adam: Yeah, like corncob picking super bluegrass bullshit.
[1:23:31 – 1:23:34] Adam: No, I’m not in that era of banjo anymore.
[1:23:34 – 1:23:44] Adam: I don’t want to go to a bluegrass festival, Eric, and hear some old guy pick 30 strums a second or whatever on a banjo.
[1:23:44 – 1:23:45] Adam: I don’t need that.
[1:23:45 – 1:23:45] Adam: No.
[1:23:47 – 1:23:48] Adam: Nice and slow.
[1:23:49 – 1:23:50] Adam: I don’t need moonshine banjo.
[1:23:51 – 1:23:52] Adam: I need this.
[1:23:52 – 1:23:53] Adam: This song is perfect.
[1:23:54 – 1:23:56] Adam: Plus it gets us a little MJ Linderman in here.
[1:23:56 – 1:24:10] Erik: Yeah, which I’m not going to take any more time than it needs to take to just say I love MJ Lenderman’s Boat Songs album.
[1:24:10 – 1:24:11] Erik: Yeah.
[1:24:12 – 1:24:15] Erik: And you see this album everywhere on lists.
[1:24:15 – 1:24:17] Erik: I did not like Manning Fireworks.
[1:24:18 – 1:24:20] Adam: I listened to it a few times and it didn’t stick for me.
[1:24:21 – 1:24:24] Erik: It just sounds like the same kind of song over and over again.
[1:24:24 – 1:24:25] Adam: Everybody’s like, it’s genius.
[1:24:25 – 1:24:26] Erik: It’s like, is it?
[1:24:26 – 1:24:26] Adam: I don’t get it.
[1:24:26 – 1:24:29] Adam: It’s like genius, but he’s not trying to be a genius.
[1:24:29 – 1:24:29] Adam: It’s like, I don’t know.
[1:24:30 – 1:24:31] Erik: Well, then I guess I don’t get it.
[1:24:31 – 1:24:32] Erik: I’m not a genius.
[1:24:32 – 1:24:32] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:24:32 – 1:24:36] Adam: MJ Linderman is great as a backup vocalist for Waxahachie.
[1:24:36 – 1:24:36] Adam: Yeah.
[1:24:36 – 1:24:44] Erik: And this song… Give me the borderline Neil Young, MJ Lenderman of boat songs.
[1:24:45 – 1:24:45] Erik: Sure.
[1:24:45 – 1:24:59] Erik: Not just plain old… You could go to any bar in Nashville and hear anybody trying to become an act play any kind of music that sounds exactly like all of Manning Fireworks.
[1:24:59 – 1:25:00] Erik: I didn’t get it, but…
[1:25:01 – 1:25:03] Adam: I get it, but it didn’t make my list.
[1:25:03 – 1:25:04] Adam: It didn’t make my list.
[1:25:04 – 1:25:04] Adam: I’m not trashing it.
[1:25:04 – 1:25:05] Adam: But this album did make my list.
[1:25:05 – 1:25:06] Adam: This album’s great.
[1:25:06 – 1:25:07] Adam: This album is great.
[1:25:07 – 1:25:08] Adam: And if it wasn’t going to be…
[1:25:08 – 1:25:12] Adam: If I didn’t go with Magdalena Bay as my top album of the year, it would be Tiger’s Blood.
[1:25:13 – 1:25:14] Adam: This album is incredible.
[1:25:15 – 1:25:16] Adam: Top to bottom, baby.
[1:25:16 – 1:25:25] Erik: Yeah, this might be one of the best mixed albums, and you don’t really hear it when you’re just listening to music.
[1:25:25 – 1:25:25] Erik: Yeah.
[1:25:26 – 1:25:29] Erik: But when you hear an album that’s just a little off…
[1:25:30 – 1:25:33] Erik: But there’s something about this where everything just comes through perfectly.
[1:25:33 – 1:25:36] Erik: The banjo, the bass, the drums, her vocals.
[1:25:37 – 1:25:39] Adam: It’s all just, I don’t know who did it.
[1:25:39 – 1:25:41] Adam: I wouldn’t be surprised to find out this was Jack Antonov.
[1:25:42 – 1:25:48] Adam: But it’s just somehow making a perfect country, you know, bluegrass album or whatever this is classified as.
[1:25:48 – 1:25:50] Adam: But indie country?
[1:25:50 – 1:25:50] Adam: Yeah.
[1:25:51 – 1:25:51] Erik: Yeah, sure.
[1:25:51 – 1:25:51] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:25:52 – 1:25:52] Erik: It’s great.
[1:25:52 – 1:25:54] Erik: You don’t have to classify it.
[1:25:54 – 1:25:55] Erik: Everything is so…
[1:25:56 – 1:25:57] Erik: It’s so effortless.
[1:25:57 – 1:25:58] Erik: It’s also so effortless.
[1:25:58 – 1:26:01] Adam: And yeah, the banjo is like the fourth element to this song.
[1:26:01 – 1:26:07] Adam: What I’m saying is I don’t want the banjo being the lead of any song.
[1:26:07 – 1:26:11] Adam: The banjo is better as the fourth element, and this song does that perfectly.
[1:26:12 – 1:26:13] Adam: But I don’t know.
[1:26:13 – 1:26:13] Adam: I could listen to this song.
[1:26:14 – 1:26:17] Adam: I have listened to this song like five times in a row in the last couple days.
[1:26:17 – 1:26:22] Adam: Just sit, get down the song, hit back, hit back, hit back.
[1:26:22 – 1:26:24] Adam: Just keep listening to the song.
[1:26:24 – 1:26:27] Adam: And that’s how you go and ruin a song for yourselves, friends.
[1:26:28 – 1:26:29] Erik: I can’t help myself.
[1:26:29 – 1:26:34] Erik: I learned that real early on when I found Bob Dylan’s Hurricane.
[1:26:35 – 1:26:37] Erik: And I was just listening to it constantly.
[1:26:38 – 1:26:40] Erik: And a friend of mine was like, you’re going to burn this out, man.
[1:26:40 – 1:26:41] Erik: And you’re going to ruin it.
[1:26:41 – 1:26:42] Erik: And I have.
[1:26:42 – 1:26:43] Erik: I can’t listen to it anymore.
[1:26:43 – 1:26:44] Adam: So I’ve got to be careful.
[1:26:46 – 1:26:49] Adam: I know myself well enough to know that I’ll do it.
[1:26:49 – 1:26:53] Adam: So I almost need to give myself a break from this album, like starting today.
[1:26:54 – 1:26:55] Adam: But I won’t.
[1:26:56 – 1:26:57] Adam: I’ll listen to it again tonight.
[1:26:57 – 1:26:58] Adam: I’ll do it again, baby.
[1:26:58 – 1:27:00] Adam: I’ll do it again, baby.
[1:27:00 – 1:27:01] Adam: Waxahachie.
[1:27:01 – 1:27:02] Adam: I can’t say I’ve ever, like…
[1:27:03 – 1:27:06] Adam: Felt strongly about previous Waxahachie albums.
[1:27:06 – 1:27:09] Adam: I’ve listened to them, but I think this is her fourth album.
[1:27:10 – 1:27:10] Adam: Bad to guess?
[1:27:10 – 1:27:11] Adam: I don’t know.
[1:27:11 – 1:27:15] Adam: This is the one that’s resonated the most for me of all of her work.
[1:27:15 – 1:27:23] Erik: I feel like there’s been moments from some of her previous albums that I’ve really liked, but this is the one I feel like that is closest to a full proper album.
[1:27:24 – 1:27:27] Adam: This happens too, where you’re like, this album is incredible, but…
[1:27:28 – 1:27:37] Adam: Now I think I have to go back and check out the early catalog just to see if I’ve missed something or if something has changed in her musical approach.
[1:27:39 – 1:27:43] Adam: But either way, this album is a perfect 10 out of 10.
[1:27:43 – 1:28:01] Erik: yeah I would say so and yeah again like I have a spot coming up here that same thing I got so hooked by the album that it caused me to go back and get absolutely obsessed with like four of their other albums yeah and then it’s like okay then if you find another one you like then you’re like now I gotta save one yes
[1:28:03 – 1:28:03] Adam: For later.
[1:28:04 – 1:28:04] Erik: Exactly.
[1:28:04 – 1:28:07] Adam: And if you get an artist like that, then you know you really got one.
[1:28:07 – 1:28:07] Adam: Yeah.
[1:28:07 – 1:28:09] Adam: Where you’re like, I’m going to hang on to that one.
[1:28:09 – 1:28:12] Adam: It’s like a Steinbeck novel I haven’t read somehow at this point.
[1:28:12 – 1:28:16] Erik: I have saved the best for last when it comes to a Steinbeck novel.
[1:28:16 – 1:28:18] Erik: I have still not read The Grapes of Wrath.
[1:28:18 – 1:28:19] Erik: No shit.
[1:28:19 – 1:28:19] Erik: Are you kidding?
[1:28:19 – 1:28:21] Erik: It’s still in my back pocket.
[1:28:21 – 1:28:21] UNKNOWN: What?
[1:28:22 – 1:28:23] Erik: I had it this last winter.
[1:28:23 – 1:28:28] Erik: I was like, I’m going down and I am going to read the grapes of wrath on the beach.
[1:28:28 – 1:28:34] Erik: And I got down there and I opened up the little cabinet where we keep our books in the van, pulled it out east of Eden.
[1:28:35 – 1:28:36] Erik: I was just like, ah,
[1:28:36 – 1:28:38] Adam: You could just read East of Eden again.
[1:28:38 – 1:28:44] Erik: I could, but I also was so dead set on Grapes of Wrath that I was just like, nope.
[1:28:44 – 1:28:47] Adam: I’m filled with incredible jealousy that you’ve not read Grapes of Wrath.
[1:28:48 – 1:28:53] Erik: It’s the same exact length, and it’s that same whoever published it where it’s got those rough edges.
[1:28:53 – 1:28:54] Erik: Yeah.
[1:28:54 – 1:28:55] Erik: It’s the same exact.
[1:28:55 – 1:28:56] Erik: It looks the exact same.
[1:28:56 – 1:28:57] Erik: I’m like, how did I grab the wrong book?
[1:28:57 – 1:28:58] Erik: Whoops.
[1:28:58 – 1:28:59] Erik: Whoops.
[1:28:59 – 1:29:00] Erik: So, yeah, it’s still there.
[1:29:00 – 1:29:00] Erik: That’s great.
[1:29:00 – 1:29:01] Erik: I still have it.
[1:29:02 – 1:29:02] Adam: Can’t wait.
[1:29:02 – 1:29:03] Adam: It’s out there for you in the future.
[1:29:04 – 1:29:04] Erik: Yep.
[1:29:08 – 1:29:15] Erik: Well, I did talk about this album during the Album of the Summer podcast.
[1:29:18 – 1:29:25] Erik: And, I mean, honestly, I think any of these, the top five, you could throw in a hopper.
[1:29:26 – 1:29:26] Adam: Yeah.
[1:29:26 – 1:29:28] Erik: There’s no, there’s maybe.
[1:29:28 – 1:29:30] Adam: Depends on the hour, not just the day.
[1:29:30 – 1:29:31] Erik: Exactly.
[1:29:31 – 1:29:34] Erik: Maybe the number one, I feel like it has, like, a weird special place.
[1:29:35 – 1:29:38] Erik: But, like, any of these top five, you could intermix, feel like.
[1:29:39 – 1:29:40] Erik: And, yeah.
[1:29:41 – 1:29:46] Erik: The only reason this one’s maybe not higher is just because I did talk about it at length during the album of the summer.
[1:29:46 – 1:29:51] Erik: And that’s Petercat Recording Company and the album Beta.
[1:29:54 – 1:29:59] Erik: It’s just not really been anything like this album that I’ve experienced in a long time.
[1:30:00 – 1:30:01] Erik: Indie and Indie.
[1:30:03 – 1:30:04] Erik: It spans time and space.
[1:30:05 – 1:30:17] Erik: It plucks sounds from 20th century cabaret to 1950s vocal jazz, 60s soul, 70s Bollywood, and early 2000s indie rock.
[1:30:19 – 1:30:24] Erik: Assembling these artifacts into improbable collages.
[1:30:25 – 1:30:27] Erik: Fill any moment you decide.
[1:30:27 – 1:30:27] Erik: Oh, sorry.
[1:30:27 – 1:30:32] Erik: And it’s an absolute stunner that will brighten and fill any moment you decide to spin it.
[1:30:34 – 1:31:03] Erik: there you go well said this is towards the back half of the album seed you could put on any album from this record or any track from this record and it would feel like it could be from an entire like almost like different artists but his vocals carry everything through and there’s just something about talk about vocals this guy’s got a hell of a voice
[1:31:05 – 1:31:12] Erik: And this is, like I said, any time of day, I typically find myself…
[1:31:12 – 1:31:14] Erik: This is a lamp album.
[1:31:15 – 1:31:18] Erik: Put on a nice couple of lamps in the corner.
[1:31:18 – 1:31:20] Erik: Dim orange lamps.
[1:31:20 – 1:31:21] Erik: Turn off the overhead lights.
[1:31:21 – 1:31:28] Erik: If you’re living day to day with your ceiling lights on, you’ve got to take a full reassessment on what you’re doing.
[1:31:29 – 1:31:31] Erik: You need more lights, more ambient lighting.
[1:31:32 – 1:31:34] Adam: Well, I got Christmas tree lighting right now.
[1:31:34 – 1:31:35] Adam: It’s perfect.
[1:31:35 – 1:31:36] Adam: Perfect amount of light.
[1:31:36 – 1:31:37] Erik: About this time of year.
[1:31:38 – 1:31:44] Adam: That’s what I was down to last night with the headphones on and just the light of the wood stove and the light of the Christmas tree.
[1:31:44 – 1:31:45] Adam: That was it.
[1:31:45 – 1:31:49] Adam: And a little bit of the lights from the outside, the Christmas lights on the house.
[1:31:49 – 1:31:50] Adam: Yeah.
[1:31:50 – 1:31:53] Adam: And just reflecting off the snow on the porch back into the house.
[1:31:54 – 1:31:54] Adam: It’s great.
[1:31:54 – 1:31:57] Adam: It’s the perfect amount of light for an album like this.
[1:31:58 – 1:31:59] Adam: It’s a lamp album.
[1:31:59 – 1:32:00] Adam: It’s a lamp album.
[1:32:00 – 1:32:01] Adam: Yeah.
[1:32:03 – 1:32:04] Adam: Can’t be too bright.
[1:32:04 – 1:32:04] Adam: Yeah.
[1:32:05 – 1:32:08] Adam: It feels a little dirty almost listening to this in the daylight.
[1:32:08 – 1:32:09] Adam: Wow.
[1:32:09 – 1:32:10] Adam: But we gotta.
[1:32:10 – 1:32:11] Adam: It fits in.
[1:32:11 – 1:32:12] Adam: I gotta get to the solstice pageant.
[1:32:12 – 1:32:14] Adam: I can’t record late tonight.
[1:32:14 – 1:32:14] Erik: No.
[1:32:15 – 1:32:16] Erik: I do have to take a break.
[1:32:17 – 1:32:18] Adam: That’s a good call, actually.
[1:32:18 – 1:32:19] Adam: I have to take a break as well.
[1:32:19 – 1:32:23] Erik: We’re going to hammer out these last three albums here after our break.
[1:32:23 – 1:32:29] Erik: Maybe we’ll just let this ride while the break starts, and then we’ll be back in a second here.
[1:32:52 – 1:32:58] SPEAKER_01: You want to just stop that?
[1:32:58 – 1:32:59] Erik: You’re still here?
[1:32:59 – 1:33:00] SPEAKER_01: Stop it.
[1:33:00 – 1:33:00] SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
[1:34:15 – 1:34:16] Erik: Ooh, we’re back.
[1:34:17 – 1:34:18] Erik: Finishing up the last three albums here.
[1:34:18 – 1:34:21] Erik: We got to get to Tumbaloney.
[1:34:21 – 1:34:22] Erik: Tumbaloney.
[1:34:22 – 1:34:24] Erik: Tumbaloney.
[1:34:25 – 1:34:27] Erik: Hunky Tony, Tumbaloney.
[1:34:27 – 1:34:28] Adam: We got to go check our snares.
[1:34:28 – 1:34:32] Erik: Yeah, we also have to check the snares, make sure that our shelterinis are in place.
[1:34:33 – 1:34:34] Erik: We ain’t got no shelterinis.
[1:34:36 – 1:34:37] Erik: Moving on, top three.
[1:34:38 – 1:34:40] Erik: Again, you could do…
[1:34:41 – 1:34:46] Erik: You could do worse than shuffling any of these albums in any order that you wanted.
[1:34:48 – 1:34:55] Erik: And I feel like I did mention this album in the album of the summer.
[1:34:56 – 1:34:59] Erik: They need proper and full shrift.
[1:35:02 – 1:35:03] Erik: This one’s just…
[1:35:03 – 1:35:04] Erik: Honestly, this is just like an album.
[1:35:05 – 1:35:07] Erik: I don’t think I’ve seen it on any list.
[1:35:07 – 1:35:08] Erik: It’s just one for me.
[1:35:08 – 1:35:14] Erik: It was my top listened to album, which I guess should always be… Got it.
[1:35:14 – 1:35:17] Erik: If you really want to be honest with yourself, sure.
[1:35:17 – 1:35:21] Erik: You can put your number one album as whatever the high concept…
[1:35:22 – 1:35:45] Erik: best rated album is across the board like go on metacritic and be like oh well this is my favorite album 97 i have such good taste yeah don’t look at me i have such good taste but my most listened album was mountain head everything everything if you don’t like falsetto you can just get the hell out right now because that’s what this album is but it’s also a borderline concept album
[1:35:46 – 1:35:52] Erik: Again, I feel like there’s been stronger concept albums on this list.
[1:35:53 – 1:35:56] Erik: That’s kind of what got me into it is the review that I read of it.
[1:35:57 – 1:35:59] Erik: Claimed it was a concept album.
[1:35:59 – 1:35:59] Erik: I don’t get it.
[1:36:01 – 1:36:09] Erik: In terms of that, I just get it in terms of I love a confident, wide-ranging, male vocal singer.
[1:36:10 – 1:36:15] Erik: We made the mountain bigger, though we had forgotten why.
[1:36:15 – 1:36:16] Erik: This is Cold Reactor.
[1:36:18 – 1:36:18] Erik: Everything, everything.
[1:36:19 – 1:36:27] Erik: This is the artist that I had never heard of before listening to this album that I then went back and listened to pretty much everything.
[1:36:28 – 1:36:28] Adam: Everything.
[1:36:29 – 1:36:33] Erik: And I didn’t save myself grapes of wrath in this scenario, but here we go.
[1:36:33 – 1:36:35] Adam: Did the earlier albums live up?
[1:36:35 – 1:36:35] Erik: Yes.
[1:36:35 – 1:36:36] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:36:36 – 1:36:37] Adam: It’s fun.
[1:36:44 – 1:36:45] Erik: Crank it.
[1:36:50 – 1:37:01] Erik: Just four white dudes from the UK just making, I don’t know, crazy synth electro pop.
[1:37:01 – 1:37:02] Erik: They all play their own instruments.
[1:37:02 – 1:37:04] Erik: Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it, but they do.
[1:37:04 – 1:37:05] Erik: Yeah, yeah.
[1:37:09 – 1:37:11] Erik: Don’t be afraid of the falsetto, people.
[1:37:12 – 1:37:17] Erik: I’ve met so many people who I try sharing these guys with.
[1:37:17 – 1:37:18] Erik: Yeah.
[1:37:18 – 1:37:19] Erik: And it’s the first thing they say.
[1:37:19 – 1:37:21] Erik: They’re like, I can’t do the falsetto.
[1:37:22 – 1:37:22] Erik: It’s like, what do you want?
[1:37:22 – 1:37:24] Erik: You just want Bob Dylan?
[1:37:26 – 1:37:26] Erik: Tom Waits?
[1:37:28 – 1:37:29] Erik: You’ve got a voice.
[1:37:29 – 1:37:29] Erik: Use it.
[1:37:30 – 1:37:30] Erik: Be proud of it.
[1:37:31 – 1:37:31] Erik: Be proud of it.
[1:37:40 – 1:37:41] Adam: It’s a dream.
[1:38:27 – 1:38:42] Adam: yeah these guys are white as hell this is a funny picture they have for them on spotify well yeah they are they are really matching jumpsuits this is hilarious like a horrible office space ask lighting
[1:38:44 – 1:38:45] Adam: Yeah, I have this one downloaded.
[1:38:45 – 1:38:48] Adam: Again, you must have sent me this at some point.
[1:38:48 – 1:38:49] Erik: I think I sent this to you.
[1:38:49 – 1:38:51] Erik: This is an early year release.
[1:38:51 – 1:38:53] Adam: This is a really good album artwork, too.
[1:38:53 – 1:38:54] Erik: It’s been with me.
[1:38:55 – 1:38:58] Erik: And I have fully embraced them.
[1:39:00 – 1:39:24] Erik: probably one of my favorite artists like just in general these days like i they have four solid albums that i really anytime like i said i’ve spoken of the the mega playlist that catches all yeah and there’s sometimes where you’re you’re in it and you’re just like i’m gonna skip this one anytime everything everything comes on in any way shape or form
[1:39:26 – 1:39:27] Erik: It’s getting played.
[1:39:28 – 1:39:29] Erik: It’s staying on.
[1:39:30 – 1:39:30] Adam: What mountain is this?
[1:39:32 – 1:39:32] Adam: What?
[1:39:32 – 1:39:33] Adam: What mountain is this?
[1:39:34 – 1:39:34] Adam: What mountain is that?
[1:39:34 – 1:39:35] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:39:46 – 1:39:49] Erik: Um, so yeah, Mountainhead, everything, everything.
[1:39:50 – 1:39:53] Erik: This, uh, helped me actually, I love this album.
[1:39:53 – 1:40:02] Erik: It’s top album of the year for me, but more than anything else, it helped me discover the album Get to Heaven, which is…
[1:40:02 – 1:40:04] Erik: Probably my favorite album of theirs.
[1:40:05 – 1:40:15] Erik: And if you like any of what you just heard, go on and put that one in a future queue.
[1:40:15 – 1:40:15] Erik: Go on and get.
[1:40:15 – 1:40:18] Erik: Yeah, go on and get real close to them.
[1:40:18 – 1:40:19] Erik: Get to the speaker.
[1:40:19 – 1:40:22] Adam: Get to the speaker and hold your ear right up to it.
[1:40:22 – 1:40:23] Adam: Embrace the falsetto.
[1:40:24 – 1:40:25] Erik: Yeah.
[1:40:25 – 1:40:36] Erik: This is my number two album, most anticipated album of the year because of my love for their previous album, When Horses Would Run.
[1:40:38 – 1:40:42] Erik: This is their album, EELS, all caps.
[1:40:43 – 1:40:43] Erik: And
[1:40:46 – 1:40:52] Erik: Um, what’s, yeah, I don’t even, this is, this is one, maybe one of the harder ones to fully describe.
[1:40:53 – 1:40:56] Erik: Another Austin, Texas duo.
[1:40:56 – 1:40:59] Erik: Um, God, I don’t know, like a thrilling duo.
[1:41:00 – 1:41:05] Erik: Lo-fi, fun, almost like ADD.
[1:41:05 – 1:41:09] Erik: Like, yeah, if you don’t like this part of the song, just wait 30 seconds.
[1:41:09 – 1:41:12] Erik: But also like Van Occupanther-esque lyrics.
[1:41:12 – 1:41:13] Erik: Oh, boy.
[1:41:13 – 1:41:25] Erik: In terms of like the challenges of wanting to do what you want, even though you have to like work a job.
[1:41:25 – 1:41:25] Erik: Yeah.
[1:41:25 – 1:41:35] Erik: But then also just a random track that’s entirely just about putting out a fire and being like a firefighter.
[1:41:36 – 1:41:37] Erik: It’s Being Dead.
[1:41:37 – 1:41:41] Erik: Yeah, horsey on there.
[1:41:41 – 1:41:42] Erik: That’s their old album.
[1:41:42 – 1:41:44] Erik: That’s the album that got me excited about this one.
[1:41:45 – 1:41:45] Adam: Oh, okay.
[1:41:46 – 1:41:51] Erik: This is Eels and this is Problems, which…
[1:41:53 – 1:41:55] Erik: Apparently I can’t play from the computer.
[1:41:55 – 1:41:56] Erik: Here we go.
[1:41:56 – 1:41:57] Erik: Backtracking.
[1:41:57 – 1:41:58] Erik: Backtracking.
[1:42:34 – 1:42:35] Adam: Oh.
[1:43:04 – 1:43:09] Erik: This one’s got a little bit of a, also a bit of a Beach Boys vibe too.
[1:43:09 – 1:43:10] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[1:43:43 – 1:43:45] Erik: it’s so fun to set up a party
[1:44:09 – 1:44:11] Adam: How many?
[1:44:11 – 1:44:12] Adam: Everybody’s singing.
[1:44:13 – 1:44:14] Adam: Everybody in the band sings.
[1:44:15 – 1:44:15] Erik: Both of them.
[1:44:16 – 1:44:17] Erik: Oh, both of them.
[1:44:17 – 1:44:18] Erik: Yeah.
[1:44:18 – 1:44:19] Erik: It’s just two of them.
[1:44:21 – 1:44:22] Adam: Even they let the drummer sing.
[1:44:23 – 1:44:23] Adam: Yep.
[1:44:24 – 1:44:26] Adam: I love it when they let the drummer sing in a band.
[1:44:29 – 1:44:31] Erik: You probably, if you’re…
[1:44:31 – 1:44:33] Erik: It seems like there’s more than two of them in the band.
[1:44:33 – 1:44:34] Erik: Does that make sense?
[1:44:34 – 1:44:35] Erik: Yeah, it does.
[1:44:35 – 1:44:37] Erik: It sounds like there’s like four people at least.
[1:44:38 – 1:44:38] Erik: It’s just two.
[1:44:39 – 1:44:40] Erik: Incredible.
[1:44:41 – 1:44:43] Erik: This problem is my problem.
[1:44:47 – 1:44:47] Erik: I did finish…
[1:44:53 – 1:44:56] Erik: Who were the Hudson Bay Boys?
[1:44:58 – 1:45:01] Erik: One of those episodes I ended with.
[1:45:01 – 1:45:02] Erik: Canoeing with the Cree?
[1:45:03 – 1:45:04] Erik: Yes, Canoeing with the Cree.
[1:45:04 – 1:45:11] Erik: I finished with a track from this album.
[1:45:13 – 1:45:14] Erik: Dragons 2.
[1:45:14 – 1:45:15] Erik: Two minutes.
[1:45:17 – 1:45:17] Erik: I love that song.
[1:45:25 – 1:45:26] Erik: Yeah, 16 tracks.
[1:45:28 – 1:45:28] Erik: 40 minutes.
[1:45:30 – 1:45:31] Erik: It’s a great ride.
[1:45:31 – 1:45:32] Erik: There’s a song about Godzilla.
[1:45:39 – 1:45:46] Erik: We’ll put on… We’ll put on a little bit more of The Being Dead.
[1:45:46 – 1:45:48] Erik: This is Good Night.
[1:45:48 – 1:45:49] Erik: Second to the last track.
[1:45:50 – 1:45:50] Erik: Um…
[1:45:51 – 1:45:57] Erik: I don’t know if I’m going to actually play a song from my favorite album of the year.
[1:45:58 – 1:46:01] Erik: I will, but I’m not going to play it just over the mics in the distance.
[1:46:01 – 1:46:03] Erik: I’ll probably put it out.
[1:46:03 – 1:46:04] Erik: I’ll put it in proper.
[1:46:04 – 1:46:05] Adam: There we go.
[1:46:06 – 1:46:06] Erik: Um…
[1:46:10 – 1:46:16] Erik: This is the album that I suggested you listen to on the plane flying home from Toronto.
[1:46:16 – 1:46:16] Erik: I did.
[1:46:17 – 1:46:17] Erik: Yeah, you did.
[1:46:18 – 1:46:22] Erik: And your comment after was like, yeah, well, he’s trying something.
[1:46:24 – 1:46:26] Erik: I could tell immediately, like, oh, he doesn’t like it.
[1:46:28 – 1:46:29] Adam: I haven’t listened to it since.
[1:46:29 – 1:46:30] Adam: And that’s okay.
[1:46:32 – 1:46:33] Adam: Mount Eerie?
[1:46:34 – 1:46:34] Adam: Mount Eerie?
[1:46:35 – 1:46:57] Erik: yeah mount eerie night palace number one favorite record of the year and i will listen to it again i’m gonna i’m gonna give it another try when i’m not on a plane yeah i mean plumbing to my death in a sky tube yeah contemplating your death in a sky tube sounds like a great place to listen to actually it probably was the best possible place to listen to that
[1:46:58 – 1:46:59] Erik: Yeah.
[1:46:59 – 1:47:01] Erik: Recorded music is a statue of a waterfall.
[1:47:02 – 1:47:10] Erik: It’s a meditatively sprawling, sonically spellbinding, profoundly affecting album that latched onto the base of my brain during a darkish time in my life.
[1:47:11 – 1:47:18] Erik: I will forever cherish my relationship with music, and this is the album I will forever point to as proof if anybody ever challenges me on it.
[1:47:20 – 1:47:20] Adam: All right.
[1:47:20 – 1:47:25] Adam: I’ll listen to it tonight on the headphones by the fire where I can really focus on it.
[1:47:25 – 1:47:27] Adam: There’s something about the background noise of an airplane.
[1:47:28 – 1:47:32] Adam: Even if you have nice headphones on, my headphones aren’t that nice, let’s be honest.
[1:47:33 – 1:47:35] Erik: Yeah.
[1:47:35 – 1:47:36] Erik: I mean, there’s moments that are…
[1:47:38 – 1:47:57] Adam: challenging in it there’s a couple of tracks where you’re just like what am i actually listening to i think when you’re dealing with an album of that like level like you do need to listen to it a few times yeah and it was also like it’s pretty heavy and i didn’t want to like go back and immediately re-listen to it right away yeah no it’s not like a it’s not an album that you would put on like
[1:47:59 – 1:48:00] Erik: In a communal space.
[1:48:01 – 1:48:05] Erik: Like, hey guys, we’re going to put on some Mount Eerie and hang out.
[1:48:05 – 1:48:08] Erik: There’s moments that are like, cool, this is nice.
[1:48:08 – 1:48:10] Erik: But then there’s also moments of like…
[1:48:11 – 1:48:17] Erik: I mean, this is the same guy, Phil Elverum, who put out A Crow Looked At Me, which is an entire album…
[1:48:20 – 1:48:38] Erik: detailing in the way that he can process the death of his wife slash partner like out of nowhere a full album based on that and it’s all very real and very like just hard hitting and it’s not to that level there’s aspects of that
[1:48:39 – 1:48:42] Erik: In Night Palace, but it’s more fun.
[1:48:43 – 1:48:47] Erik: It’s also really very real.
[1:48:47 – 1:48:53] Erik: It makes you kind of examine yourself at the same time, but also it’s just one guy.
[1:48:53 – 1:48:54] Erik: It’s just him.
[1:48:55 – 1:48:57] Adam: They’re letting everybody in that band sing.
[1:48:58 – 1:49:05] Erik: Yeah, I mean, if you like the microphones, which is an earlier project of his, I think you’ll like this.
[1:49:06 – 1:49:09] Erik: It’s an hour and 20 minutes, you know, and again, I think…
[1:49:09 – 1:49:12] Adam: It’s perfect for flying from Toronto to Thunder Bay.
[1:49:12 – 1:49:21] Erik: Yeah, I think it’s a put-on and leave-on from beginning to end, even though, yeah, there are definitely…
[1:49:22 – 1:49:28] Erik: There’s a couple of moments that are just like, okay, he’s just wailing on the guitar and screaming.
[1:49:28 – 1:49:34] Erik: But then there’s also moments where you’re just like, I was not expecting that at all.
[1:49:35 – 1:49:40] Erik: And it’s honestly just a wild ride that it’s almost like…
[1:49:41 – 1:49:49] Erik: It’s almost like a movie where you can’t just put it on and quit going and run some errands.
[1:49:49 – 1:49:59] Erik: There’s a couple of tracks that stand on their own, but it’s just the whole nature of the album and the thoughts behind it.
[1:49:59 – 1:50:01] Erik: There’s a 10-minute track where it’s just like…
[1:50:02 – 1:50:04] Erik: A field recorder of like…
[1:50:04 – 1:50:07] Erik: He lives in Washington, like in Anacortes, and it’s just like…
[1:50:07 – 1:50:08] Adam: He’s got a field recorder?
[1:50:08 – 1:50:13] Erik: The sounds of like the wind and the trees behind his house and him just like essentially like talking into a mic.
[1:50:13 – 1:50:14] Erik: Live in the field.
[1:50:14 – 1:50:17] Erik: About how he went to like a meditative retreat.
[1:50:18 – 1:50:18] Erik: Yeah.
[1:50:18 – 1:50:19] Erik: And I mean…
[1:50:21 – 1:50:24] Erik: I don’t know what else to say about it besides at least give it a listen.
[1:50:24 – 1:50:27] Erik: If there’s anything you take away from this episode.
[1:50:27 – 1:50:34] Adam: I think you need to give it two listens before you make a judgment because I’ve only listened to it once in the sky.
[1:50:35 – 1:50:36] Adam: So I want to listen to it once on the ground.
[1:50:37 – 1:50:39] Adam: And maybe once in a boat too.
[1:50:40 – 1:50:46] Adam: You’ve got to listen to this album in the sky, on the ground, and on the sea to get the full experience.
[1:50:46 – 1:50:50] Adam: That’s my official recommendation as somebody who’s only listened to it in the sky so far.
[1:50:52 – 1:50:54] Adam: Can’t wait to get my ground listen in.
[1:50:54 – 1:50:57] Adam: I’m going to have to wait until spring now to get my boat listen.
[1:50:58 – 1:50:59] Adam: Probably.
[1:51:01 – 1:51:02] Erik: Yeah, that’s it.
[1:51:02 – 1:51:03] Erik: That’s the list.
[1:51:03 – 1:51:05] Erik: I feel pretty happy about it.
[1:51:06 – 1:51:07] Adam: What a great tradition.
[1:51:07 – 1:51:10] Erik: What a great tradition we’ve done twice now.
[1:51:10 – 1:51:11] Adam: Now it’s a tradition.
[1:51:11 – 1:51:13] Adam: Now it’s a for sure in the books tradition.
[1:51:14 – 1:51:15] Adam: Well, that’s been nice.
[1:51:15 – 1:51:20] Adam: It’s been a beautiful day to listen to great music with you on the winter solstice.
[1:51:21 – 1:51:27] Adam: And we are nearing the end of the daylight hours here in Studio V. And it’s still snowing slightly out there.
[1:51:27 – 1:51:29] Adam: It’s a beautiful day here on the North Shore.
[1:51:31 – 1:51:34] Adam: But yeah, we’ll play it out, I think.
[1:51:34 – 1:51:35] Adam: Happy New Year.
[1:51:35 – 1:51:36] Adam: Merry Christmas, everyone.
[1:51:37 – 1:51:39] Adam: And shout out to our Tumble homies.
[1:51:39 – 1:51:39] Adam: Thank you for listening.
[1:51:40 – 1:51:41] Adam: And we love you all.
[1:51:42 – 1:51:43] Erik: Yeah, we’ll see you in the new year.
[1:51:43 – 1:51:44] Erik: Thank you for being here.
[1:51:44 – 1:51:45] Erik: Thank you for indulging us.
[1:51:45 – 1:51:51] Erik: And I hope maybe one of these albums catches you in the right time and place.
[1:52:15 – 1:52:32] SPEAKER_02: When my life is worn to a null, I too will be swept up, eventually.
[1:52:32 – 1:52:39] SPEAKER_02: By the same thing I once came from, I too am a chunk broken off.
[1:53:12 – 1:53:26] SPEAKER_02: piece of wind a little confluence only the occurrence of a person
[1:53:56 – 1:54:04] SPEAKER_02: Getting slow, the generations, the towns dissolve.
[1:54:08 – 1:54:13] SPEAKER_02: In my drumming footfall, discarded clothes.
[1:54:43 – 1:54:58] SPEAKER_02: Cool and pure The livelihoods The expectations The cities of never stopping thoughts So I just don’t want to come
[1:55:09 – 1:55:35] SPEAKER_02: Tiled alive with associations Since old time trails Behind me, back into the mist I walk until it’s all fallen away Coming into a clearing
[1:55:40 – 1:55:49] SPEAKER_02: There’s a pause Between the breaths And I look up
[1:56:09 – 1:56:10] Adam: He said
[1:58:37 – 1:58:50] SPEAKER_02: I slept another few years I saw the soft air come down And blow into my lungs like