No Filler Music Podcast

We begin our batch of year-end recaps with our top 10 discoveries of 2019. While there was certainly a ton of great new releases this year (and we'll review those next week), sometimes it's the album put out decades ago that ended up being your heaviest rotation of the year. If you're hearing it for the first time - it's just as new to your ears as the latest single from your favorite artist. So this episode is all about those amazing discoveries that we stumbled upon this year, some of these songs a few years old, and some a few decades old!

Tracklist

1. A L E X - Its Been A Really Long Time
2. Textual - Dirty South Still Life
3. Toe - tremelo+delay
4. The Soft Boys - School Dinner Blues
5. Pinkshinyultrablast - Land's End
6. Frankie Broyles - L Bright
7. Narrow Head - Uncover
8. Al Green - Get Back (Beatles Cover)
9. Sweet Trip - To The Moon
10. The Soundcarriers - Step Outside

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The anti-folk, alt pop rock legend Beck has been cranking out some of the most unique and memorable albums for the better part of the last 20 some-odd years. Back in 2002, after making a household name for himself with songs like "Loser", "Devil's Haircut", and "Where It's At", Beck flipped the script on himself and shared his hauntingly beautiful, acoustic-heavy break-up album, ​Sea Change​, shortly after his relationship of 9 years fell apart. As David Fricke of Rolling Stone puts it, "Sea Change, gleaming with twang and heartbroken strings, is an entire album of spectacular suffering.​" For more info, check out the show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/episode-30-beck-sea-change

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We continue our deep dive into Radiohead with a look at Hail To The Thief. Coming out of the Kid A and Amnesiac tunnel where Thom nearly turned his back completely on guitar-based melodies, Hail is a return to Radiohead embracing the traditional rock song format and Thom finding his voice again. The computer was still a critical component to the song-writing process, but treated like the other instruments used in the recording session. The result is uniquely Radiohead, a mashup of every stepping stone that brought them to that point. For more info, check out the show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/album-review-radiohead-hail-to-the-thief

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Radiohead-A-Palooza? Yeah, we'll go with that. And for our second installment we dive into their 2000 release, "​Kid A​". After a bought of epic writer's block and a deep depression, Thom Yorke emerges with a newfound love for all things rhythm and electronica. The rest of the gang follows suit, and after 3 years of writing and a full year of recording, "​Kid A"​ is born, and in a way, so is Radiohead. For more info, check out our show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/ep-24-radiohead-kid-a

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We hit the snooze button a couple of times on this one, but our monthly mixtape is back with a batch of laid-back, ethereal dream pop gems (with some punk, emo, IDM, and psychedelic tossed in for good measure).

1. Beck, Phoenix - Odyssey
2. Slowdive - Kisses
3. Pia Fraus - Fog on the Hills
4. Polaris - Slow Motion
5. Brandtson - Days End
6. Happy Diving - Mikey's Rules
7. Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing
8. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If You Insist
9. RAMZi - foggi (ft. Priori)
10. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Tongo Barra
11. The Durutti Column - Future Perfect
12. Aaron Taos, Jordana - Under Control (Strokes Cover)

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