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September's Sonic Explosion: From Florence to Doja Cat
The musical landscape of September 2024 unfolds like a treasure map of sonic discoveries as Matt Sidhom and guest co-host Jen Tully navigate through twelve diverse new releases that defy easy categorization.
They kick things off with the track, "Everybody Scream," from Florence and the Machine's upcoming sixth album, which creates a space where women don't have to "be quiet" or "be kind" – a witchy celebration of unrestrained feminine power. Meanwhile, Role Model's infectious "Sally When the Wine Runs Out" has transformed into a cultural moment, with celebrities from Natalie Portman to Al Roker taking turns as the song's namesake during live performances.
The conversation shifts to gritty territory with Idles' "Rabbit Run," where Joe Talbot's distinctive Cockney delivery powers the soundtrack to Austin Butler's new film. This leads into Old Dominion's surprisingly affecting "Miss You Man," a country ballad that captures male friendship and grief with remarkable authenticity.
Wet Leg reveals unexpected vulnerability with "Pokemon," a softer departure from their typically harder-edged sound, while Doja Cat delivers another potential hit with "Jealous Type" .
The musical journey continues through jam band territory with Goose's soulful "Madelena," the country-rap fusion of BigXThaPlug and Shaboozey's "Home," and the truly unexpected "Clockwork" by Laufey, which sounds like a Disney princess number addressing thoroughly modern themes.
The episode closes with universal praise for Dominic Fike's "Sandman," a perfect blend of hip-hop, rap, and old-school R&B influences that showcases why he remains one of music's most exciting voices.
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1. Everybody Scream - Florence and the Machine
2. Sally, When the Wine Runs Out - ROLE MODEL
3. Rabbit Run - Idles
4. Miss You Man - Old Dominion
5. Dealer - Lola Young
6. That's Gonna Leave A Mark - Molly Tuttle
7. pokemon - Wet Leg
8. Madalena - Goose
9. Jealous Tytpe - Doja Cat
10. Home - BigXThaPlug & Shaboozey
11. Clockwork - Laufey
12. Sandman - Dominic Fike
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Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Siddholm, alongside not my co-host and co-founder, sam Avusalvi, but rather our other host on the Super Awesome Mix podcast network, the hostess with the mostest. She is the host of what Are you Listening To, and my co-host on the battle Joining me this week is Jen Tully. Hi, jen.
Speaker 2:Hey there, I'm so happy to be here this week.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, sam's going to be out for a little bit, so Jen's going to join me on an episode or two or three. Um, so, yeah, you get a little bit more of us. But of course, you can listen to the battle week after week. We're in the thick of it right now yacht rock battle, trying to decide the ultimate yacht rock song. But, jen, I don't think we have. We're doing new music this year, this this week, and I don't think we have any yacht rock candidates on this mix. Right, we do not no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:Yacht Rock here not to speak of, actually quite the opposite in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1:Some of these tracks are definitely not Yacht Rock. Not Yacht Rock at all at all. Well, sam may not be here, but I mean we couldn't let this one slip off our radar. So your first pick, it's Everybody Scream by Florence and the Machine.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness. Yes, this is for Sam and I. I think we are going to be in deep conversation about this one Once the album drops. I'm so excited she's got.
Speaker 2:Florence and the Machine have a new album. Their sixth studio album is coming out on October 31st Halloween and with the name of this song you can imagine that. You know from the very beginning of this track. You know you're in for some witchy shit, right.
Speaker 2:Like that is what I love about Florence, like you're going to get in there. It's going to feel like a ceremony, it's going to be very empowering, it's going to feel almost like a ritual. Like that's almost how I think of her music and especially her concerts, like her live music experience, and I just think that this song specifically is going to be so fun live. That's something I'm super excited to like chat about too. It's like, can you feel? Like just, I don't know that you've ever been to a Florence and the Machine concert, matt, but you're missing out.
Speaker 2:I'll say that first. They're amazing. I mean, she works a crowd like nobody's business. She's running here and there in her, you know, nightgown and bare feet and like all of the things that she does. And I have to say, the last show we went to. I mean, I cried, I laughed, I sang, I danced, like all the things that she's talking about in this song. I just think it's going to be so fun live. So that's something that I'm super excited about. This track, too, and you know, I think that this is such a you know, a thinly veiled metaphor for fame. That's what the song is about to me metaphor for fame.
Speaker 2:That's what the song is about to me Like. She's singing about how it's so taxing to emotionally give of yourself the kind of performance that she gives every night. But she has this great line like but how can I slow down or how can I stop when everybody's screaming my name? You know?
Speaker 1:and I'm like.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's gotta be like a drug, right? I mean, think about being on a stage with that many people screaming for you that paid money to be there. Like, what must that feel? Like, tell me, matt, what must that feel?
Speaker 1:like Well, I'm glad you asked. That's a perfect transition. It feels pretty good, I got to tell you.
Speaker 2:I know you fill stadiums all the time, so this is old hat for you.
Speaker 1:We did the live show tour a couple years ago. I mean seven nights at the Meadowlands. It was unbelievable. Yeah, no, I have not seen her live, but I do think it would be an amazing live show, just because she brings so much emotion to her studio albums. Right Like you feel the emotion just from the studio version, so I can't even imagine what she's bringing to.
Speaker 1:The live shows, right, like you got to figure, when they're a little bit more low key I mean, we've all seen live bands right, like in the studio version is one thing, but a lot of times, you know, you get one of two things Either the live version is just carbon copy this is how they sang it in the studio or it's just a completely different experience, right, and, and usually um for the better, but yeah, so I'd imagine this is pretty incredible. So I, I will look out if she, if she's rolling through dallas or somewhere nearby, I may, uh, I may have to go check it out. And this, this one is great. I think it's so appropriate, it it's coming out on Halloween because, you're right, just from the get go, it's like, yeah, this, this feels, this feels a little scary, right, and, and you're right, I bet fame is is a little bit scary, even though so many people now you know what do they say Young people, now everybody wants to be a YouTuber and wants to be like this famous person, but it's like maybe it's not.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's not as great as you think it is or as great as it looks. There's definitely some perks, I'm sure. But yeah, I think here she, she probably kind of hits both sides of it. It's probably pretty incredible, but probably pretty suffocating as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that that's so true. And the last thing I'll say before we head into track two is just, I love too she talks about how, when she's performing, she can grow, she can be big she can be her full self and her full potential.
Speaker 2:Like there's a great line that says here I don't have to be quiet, here I don't have to be kind, extraordinary and normal all at the same time and you're just like whoa, I don't know like a woman in the world. Probably that can't relate to that, I don't know like a woman in the world.
Speaker 2:Probably that can't relate to that. We're always being told to be quiet or be less or calm down or whatever. So I love that she has this space where she can go and just be as big and as loud as she wants to be and not worry about it.
Speaker 1:There's a really cool show on Netflix, I mean it's about the WWE and professional wrestling, right, and it's called Unreal and they show these guys kind of backstage and sort of who they normally are and and all of them kind of talk about how, yeah, well, that guy out there, that girl out there, that's, that's who this person is. So it's like they've also talked about if you've heard professional wrestlers talk that it's kind of this little part of themselves that they just sort of blow up and sort of get big, if you will, and that's sort of the ones who kind of get over, if you will and get big with the crowds. But it was cool to see that sort of in the professional wrestling sense. But I think it hits exactly on what you're talking about there.
Speaker 2:It does Well. And talking about great live shows and fun people to go see, let's transition to track two, which is your first pick and a song that we actually both chose this week. But I pivoted because I love this song, I'm so excited to talk about it, and your pick is Sally when the Wine Runs Out. By Role Model.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is such a fun song. Role Model is just one guy. It's Tucker Harrington Pillsbury. He's from a small town in Maine. I lived in Maine for three years. I can tell you where he lives. It's a very small town but relative to most cities everywhere in Maine is a pretty small town. This guy's funny.
Speaker 1:He started out as a rapper. Right Came out and actually had some some early like his early recordings. He considered himself a rapper and then he kind of shifted a little bit and he kind of I don't know, I guess you can call the bridge of the song a little bit of a rap, but the rest of it is pretty far from it. But yeah, I mean I think it's such a fun song. You know, lyrically I'll buy a couple of rounds Don't let me think I'm enough and then disappear when the wine runs out. So he's kind of just he's enjoying hanging out with this girl but it's like he's just worried she's just kind of there for the free drinks. So, um, really really cool song and I I'm excited to kind of get into more of his work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love this song too. Um, and I mean what? Girls not going to say yes to a couple of free drinks? I mean, you know, yes, that's. It's not very nice and I hope the times have changed, but that used to sort of be an MO when we would go out like hey, anybody have any money. No, okay. Well, let's go where we can get our drinks bought for us. Sorry, guys, let you behind the pink curtain there.
Speaker 2:But that happens, I'm sure it happens yeah but I think that this song is so fun. I like how vulnerable he is in it. I love that it's like a sing-along. I love, love, love that this summer on tour he's been pulling sally's I'm air quoting from the audience for this song. So at every tour stop he'll pull a famous person up on stage to dance during the chorus into that. Oh no, here we go again that part, and so he's had. I mean everybody. Kate Hudson did it, natalie Portman, olivia Rodrigo in San.
Speaker 2:Francisco Troye. Sivan was his Sally when he was on was his sally um when he was on uh morning tv. Al roker was his sally, renee rap bowen, yang his mom, like all of these people, have gotten to be sally for him. I think that's such a fun, like gimmick if you will, but like works for this song.
Speaker 1:So if you've got google.
Speaker 2:Roker is up there, yeah roker was his sally when he was on Good Morning America Today Show. I'm not sure which one, I don't get up that early. Today Show Maybe.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Good Morning America.
Speaker 2:One of them, he was on that and Al Roker came up and did the Sally routine.
Speaker 1:Anyway, al Roker's joining the show next week, so we'll cut that part out on the edit.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, right.
Speaker 1:I'm joking.
Speaker 2:Watch the videos.
Speaker 1:If you haven't seen him pulling his Sally's on stage they're very fun.
Speaker 2:Natalie Portman is really fun. Troye Sivan is really fun, so look for his Sally concert videos from this summer.
Speaker 1:I like it. I like it. All right, track three. Your next pick, it is Rabbit Run by Idles.
Speaker 2:All right, this is a good one. This is a gritty one. I like this one. So, um, this is from a new movie that just came out called caught stealing um with the beautiful austin butler who was just here in austin texas promoting this movie and causing quite a stir. Um, matthew mcconaughey came out and they did a big intro, um for the film and so, like the whole city was in a you know a stir, with austin butler and matthew mcconaughey running around all night, and was in a you know a stir, with Austin Butler and Matthew McConaughey running around all night.
Speaker 1:And it was. You know, what's interesting about that pairing is you know both of them thought I'm way better looking than this guy.
Speaker 2:Probably, and they probably are right.
Speaker 1:They're both kind of right and both kind of like huh, but that's a real like good looking off right there you know first.
Speaker 2:Oh well, austin butler's like oh, that's what it's going to be like when I'm distinguished, right that's me in 30 years.
Speaker 2:Wow, I'm gonna be that cool, huh, okay, okay but yeah, they, they definitely caused a ruckus in the city and I feel like this song is like the perfect soundtrack almost to that. It's sort of this gritty, you know it feels very. Idols who I love. I love this band. Joe Talbot, who's the lead singer I love his cockney accent. It just gives it like an extra, like grittiness to me. There's a part where he's talking about something pressing on me. Well, I'll read the whole lyric. He has a great lyric that says come to me like a boa snake pressing on me like a toothache, beat you slow like your padre got you running like a jailbreak. And I'm like, okay, that's pretty clever.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:But again back to the Cockney part. He doesn't say toothache, he says toothache. And I'm like that's genius, I love that, you know, it just sounds like so British and hardcore to me. And then, while we're on toothache, just a fun fact, the guitarist and idols, mark Bowen, is also a dentist.
Speaker 1:I'm done. Wow, now that is an amazing fun fact. There you go. I would not have guessed that in a million years.
Speaker 2:Also a dentist. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1:Wow, I also wonder, when people hear too fake, if they are like interpreting the song in a completely different way because they don't realize it's an accent, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like pressing on you, like you're too fake.
Speaker 1:Like you're too fake. Yes, it's like T-O-O instead of like a toothache.
Speaker 2:That's right, I'm all go watch You're my Fair Lady folks, if you're not familiar with the Cockney accent, and we'll reconvene.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this song was really cool, like just from the jump I could totally see it being in a movie right, like it had kind of a montage feel to it, not like a cheesy montage, but actually like something kind of cool right. And so when you read the title, like caught stealing, you know, I kind of immediately in my mind I went to the movie, gone in 60 seconds, right with nicholas cage, and I could, I could kind of see this running through that movie as well. Um, but obviously the character's going through some tough times right, like you can can get that for sure from the lyrics. But you're right, I just love the whole vibe here and they're kind of I saw the label Post Punk for them as a band which I think I had not heard before. It's just kind of post punk. I don't know if that's just sort of a way to call it modern punk or if there is something different about post punk, but you definitely get the punk feel from it for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you do, you definitely do. Well, moving into your second pick and our fourth track, we have a song called Miss you man by Old Dominion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a little new country, and I mean Sam definitely hates just country and I know you're not a fan of new country, correct?
Speaker 2:Country music after 1989 does not exist for me.
Speaker 1:I featured Old Dominion on the show before. I really like the way Matthew Ramsey, their lead singer, sounds right, like I just I love his voice, he's got a real smoothness to it. You know, this is borderline, kind of like a lot of new country, it's kind of borderline poppy. So I'm not going to sit here and be like, hey, man, this is that classic country sound Right. But I think what got me on this one right is just just lyrically and thematically this one, because my best friend passed away a few years ago and there's a line in here where he says he heard a joke that only you would get Right and he kind of had to laugh and like that's. And I totally related to that because that's happened to me I don't know how many times over the last few years and so I thought it was great that he kind of captured that within a song.
Speaker 1:That it's not this overly at least in my mind. It wasn't overly sappy kind of about missing someone. There weren't a lot of tears in the song. It's not like that right, it's just I think this very guy centered emotion right, like it's a very like this is how guys will think about each other or or whatever it is, and it's just this kind of baseline like hey, I miss you, you know that sort of thing. So I thought they did a good job of that, to kind of capturing emotions that I think guys have a hard time articulating a lot of times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I completely agree, and it's funny I was teasing a little bit before we started recording that I wondered how much new country I was going to have to slog through on this new, this new September new music mix. But I have to say this one I will. The only thing I will disagree about is that I felt like it was a tearjerker. I found myself weeping to this song.
Speaker 2:It made me cry and it might still, as we're talking about it, because I think that it. I think it speaks to, certainly in the song. This man lost a very close friend of his and he's singing about it, but it sounds like this person died.
Speaker 2:But I think it also speaks to like when friendships just sort of run their course you know, and for whatever reason, somebody's not there, either literally or figuratively, like they've, they've, they're gone from your life and sort of that hole that it leaves and just that instant instinct that you have to connect with them on things. Like you said, for you the line about the joke stood out and for me the line that stood out was um, yeah, I miss you, man, when I hear the band in the bar on fifth and main. Yeah, we tore it up, but I don't go there much anymore.
Speaker 2:It just ain't the same and I that, like that really related to me, like places like where you've gone with somebody that's such a close friend and, just like you, just it's almost like that place is dead to you too when that person's not there, because it's just too painful to go back and remember all the good times. And I always hope, like, maybe it won't always be like that, like maybe there'll be a time when I'll find comfort in those old things that we used to do. But right now it's too soon, it's too fresh. But I thought that this was, like you said, just a beautifully written song.
Speaker 2:And it was it felt very much like two guys, just like ugh. Even every time he says miss you, man, you feel it, he really misses this person. So I felt like it definitely connotated the emotion it was supposed to and it hit me. It hit me right in the heart, even though Nice, it was old or it was new country.
Speaker 1:It's new country. It's new country, all right. Well, let's move on to something that's definitely not new country. Your next pick, this is dealer, by Lola Young.
Speaker 2:So Lola Young is having a moment right now, right Like she's almost like I liken her to like. She's like the musical version of the character that Megan Stalter plays in too much. I don't know if anybody out there has watched Too Much, but that's what this is to me.
Speaker 1:I don't know that reference at all.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, so Too Much. Is the new show by Lena Dunham right? The girl that created? Girls Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay, she has a new show that's kind of like autobiographical loosely, and Megan Stalter has just blown up playing this character. She's great in it, and so Lola Young is like the musical embodiment of that. My girls out there are going to understand. But she had a song called Messy. That was from her album in 2024 called this Wasn't Meant For you. Anyway, I think she might have been talking to you, matt.
Speaker 1:Hey, I fully admit when I'm not the demo, I say that all the time I I fully admit there's a lot of songs out there, not for me, but I can appreciate it well, and then this song is coming.
Speaker 2:This is a single um. It came out in july and it'll appear on her new album, which is coming on the 19th of this month, called I'm only fucking myself sorry for the language today, but that's the name of the album um. And then she has another song called one thing. Not like that anymore. Those are the other two singles that have been released so far, but I just think that she's great and I think that this song is so.
Speaker 2:It's one of those where we talk about kind of sad lyrics with upbeat music yeah like, how sad would it be if, like you're so frustrated, you've got to get out of town. Everything is so crappy and you think the only people that's going to miss you or care about you or even notice that you're gone is your weed guy, is your drug dealer, and I love too that when she's leaving, that's what she's packing. She's going to pack up herself. She's going to pack up her drugs and she's going to get out of town. I'm like, well, you, you got to take the important stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, not only that's the person who's going to notice, but also tell my dealer I'll miss him, right, she has that lie to there where it's like, yeah, make sure he knows I miss him too, right, like I know he's missing me. Um, I also thought it was funny. There was an, there was a line in here. I was like I'm not coming back for 15 years and I was like what is it about 15 years? I didn't know if there was some sort of backstory or if it was just kind of an arbitrary. Almost sounds like, you know, like when kids could try to think of like a long time, right. And it's just like they throw out a number and it's like I don't come back for three months and they think that's like a thousand years, Right. So I didn't know if it kind of represented that a little bit.
Speaker 2:I think you're a hundred percent right. That's what I was going to say. I think she's young and I think when you're young, you think like 15 years is a really long time. I'm like gee, 15 years went by in a heartbeat, Like I'm still 37 in my head Like what are we talking about here?
Speaker 2:Like so I think it's just she's a young person and so that felt like a long time to her. But yeah, I just think it's a great. I think it's a great, I like her a lot. I like her vibe, I think her lyrics are funny and playful and real and that's I really love. I love this song. I'm excited for the new album.
Speaker 1:Agreed, agreed, agreed. I'm going to listen, even though, as you said, it's probably not for me.
Speaker 2:Probably not for you, but it's good.
Speaker 1:And that's okay, and that's okay.
Speaker 2:Well, we're going to get to the halfway point here with your next track, and that is a song called that's Going to Leave a Mark by Molly.
Speaker 1:Tuttle. Yeah, Molly Tuttle, this is kind of a pop country sort of sound to it. I don't know if it's new country. She's from Santa Clara, so it's not like she's she's based out of Nashville now, but but she does have Northern California roots.
Speaker 1:This, thematically, is just a real straight ahead kind of kind of a love song. Like you've heard this a thousand times in songs, but it's like kind of in love with someone she shouldn't, she probably shouldn't love, right, and she can't help herself and that's why you get back to this chorus of that's going to leave a mark. So I thought it was really like kind of cleverly written. I like her voice. You know her new album has kind of a bluegrass kind of feel to it a little bit. She's kind of got that in her bag like that sort of bluegrassness. Again, I'm not sure where that comes from, coming out of Santa Clara, but she's, I think, in Nashville now, so maybe it's just kind of something that's grown on her. But yeah, just kind of a pretty good artist and I just like the fact that. You know, I don't know, Jen, while you've given up on country after 1989, I still try to look for the good, you know try to try to bring some stuff out here.
Speaker 2:I love that about you. I love that you're still trying so hard and you know what? Like, don't get me wrong the art, the new artists that are coming out that sound like old country. I'm here, for I love Sturgill Simpson, I love Chris Stapleton, I love Chaparral. There are some people that are having a moment that I can get behind and I thought that this song was interesting. I almost wouldn't even categorize it as country music, right, it did feel, it felt really 90s to me.
Speaker 2:It reminded me of that. Do you remember that old Donna Lewis song that?
Speaker 1:I love, I love you always forever. Yeah, yeah, just came on the 90s channel yesterday when I was driving around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like this song gave me vibes of like that. Yeah, like it's not super deep, but it's really listenable, it's relatable and she's a great guitar player. You can't like, there's no two ways about that. And, and I think like just to circle back to the bluegrass question too, she's really good friends with Billy strings. And so I think that yeah, as soon as I learned that they were friends, her music made a little bit more sense to me. I was like, oh, now I kind of get what she's going for.
Speaker 2:But but I I did. I liked the song, the same way that I loved a lot of that sort of like pop that came out in the 90s. That was just really easy to listen to not easy listening, but like easy yeah, yeah, listen to for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1:Uh, all, right again, sam's not here, but his spirit never leaves us. So of course, track seven pokemon by wet leg another fave, another fave.
Speaker 2:well, and I love too that we have like your, very like, clean, lovely, family, friendly artists like packed in between my like raunchy, I'm all. Who's the mom here, not me Apparently, wow. But I love Wet Leg. Their first album was on constant repeat for me, like could not get enough. They dropped the second album in July actually. So it's this is not super, super new, but this song is on the new album that dropped on July 11. But this was not one of the singles that was released. So if you've not dug into that album, you probably haven't heard this song, which is why I included it. And if you're a fan of wet leg, this is kind of the softer side of Wet Leg. They're known for their like hard rocking. You know anthems, like clever lyrics. You know whether it's Chase Long which launched them, or a great song that I love called Wet Dream, or a song Catch these Fists was the lead single that came out to launch or announce this album.
Speaker 2:All great songs, CPR also great, but this one is soft, Like this was kind of the first time I heard them like delve into love song territory in this way and I just thought it was so great. I'm hopeful that they don't lose their edge because, like I said, I love those hard rocking hits from wet leg. I think that they're again so clever and so great and I love that. These two women really like buck the system. They just do whatever they want and people are here for it because they're like they. It's been a minute since they released that first album you know, for maybe five or six years.
Speaker 2:And so everybody's just been like clamoring to get new music from them. Um, and so I've. I've been really pleased with thisizer album. If you've not listened to it, I highly highly recommend yeah.
Speaker 1:Now, if you're a Pokemon fan, I'm just going to warn you this does not have a ton of Pokemon references in it right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm only a Pokemon. My son is into it, so that's how I even know anything about Pokemon. But as I was listening to this I was like this doesn't have as much to do with pokemon as the title might indicate. But you're right, I think it is kind of a softer feel to it and I thought it was um interesting and this always kind of works out this way on these new music mixes how it's placed right next to the molly tuttle song, because we know, while that's a relationship that is probably going to go poorly, again, this one sounds more promising. This relationship, right but interesting, coming from these two artists where you would think molly tuttle sound probably indicates again this one sounds more promising. This relationship, right but interesting, coming from these two artists where you would think Molly Tuttle's sound probably indicates something more promising where Wet Leg, maybe it might go a little rougher. So interesting kind of juxtaposition of these two artists and both of them doing something. Maybe that is a little bit of a departure, but yeah, I like this one, me too.
Speaker 2:I like the band, I like the new album. All right track eight. Here we are with a song you chose, matt, called madelena by goose yeah.
Speaker 1:So goose is uh kind of a jam band. They have performed with dead and company and uh with trey anastasio from fish, um, and what's what I found really interesting about them. So I just kind of just I, I just came across them for the first time. I'm sure they're. They have some massive fans out there. But what's interesting is that on their studio album they have tracks that go on for like 12 or 13 minutes, which a lot of times for the jam band. It's like the track the studio track is your standard three or four minute track and then it's the live version. That's like the track. The studio track is your standard three or four minute track and then it's the live version.
Speaker 1:That's like we're going 27 minutes on this one, right I cannot do it with the jam bands, yeah now, I'm normally not a jam band guy, right like, but I thought this was interesting because it was kind of a departure right like. This was a really soulful sounding song. Um, I'm glad you're on the show this week because this one kind of reminded me of John Mayer a little bit. Of course, john Mayer is now leading all things Dead and Company, so maybe that isn't as odd as maybe I thought. But I don't know. I just thought this one as a standalone song, take the jam band aspect out of it. I'm like this is a really kind of cool song, you know. And then when I'm listening to other tracks on this album and I'm looking down and I'm going there's nine minutes left. I'm like, well, okay, maybe I'm not going to a live show, but I do love this song.
Speaker 2:You need to practice your spinning Matt, so you're ready to get up there in front Too old.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, You're ready to get up there in front Too old.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah. I thought that this was an interesting song and again, like we're going back, I referenced, you know, Donna Lewis earlier. This one gave me really 90s vibes again and it's interesting that I would not have guessed that they were a jam band. I was not familiar with this band. I think I've heard they have a song called Hot Tea that I've heard it's from an older album, I think from 2022. And that was really the only other song of theirs that I knew. And so this one going in again, I got 90s vibes, like it could be. Here I am busting out another random hit from the 90s, but it reminded me of that Edwin McCain song.
Speaker 1:I'll Be, I'll Be. Oh yeah, yeah Sounded a little bit like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like it could have been like a Matchbox 20 song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:So I was getting a lot of those vibes too, and I didn't realize that they'd been around this long. They've been around since 2014. So, I was expecting them to be a much newer band than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But they were new to me yeah.
Speaker 1:All right track. Nine this is Jealous Type by Doja Cat.
Speaker 2:Yay, Doja Cat's back Again. Another super mom moment. I was like, yeah, I'm blasting Doja Cat in the house, that's good for all teenage girls to hear. But I just like this song will be on her new album, Vi, which releases on September 25th. And apparently it's not quite done yet, because she was supposed to headline ACL Fest and it came out just late last week or early this week that she's not going to be there anymore because she needs to finish this album. So I think that almost sounds like she's in trouble.
Speaker 1:You know I'm like well, you're not going to ACL if you don't finish this album.
Speaker 2:That's right, like you're going to stay in'm. Like, well, you're not going to acl if you don't finish this album. That's right, like you're gonna stay in this studio. You're not going anywhere. Ma'am, I'm taking the keys, I'm taking the phone that's right, that's right you are in here until vi is finished.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, she's uh, she's working on it currently, but I just think that this song is fun. It's fun, it's cleaner than most doja cat songs. So if, if you want to listen in the car, you're not in trouble. But she's just again another one. That's clever. I like her sound. I like the way she sings. I like it when she raps. Some of her Kiss Me More, I think, is a great song. Paint the Town Red is a great song and I feel like Jealous Type is kind of up in that, like upper echelon of her hits for me. So I'm really excited for the rest of this album. I think that this is a really good, a really good Doja Cat song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this gave me a lot of 80s vibes right. Totally. Yeah, like the music, just the energy, I really enjoyed it. And the rapping I mean comes in and it's probably like you you said it's a little cleaner, it's a tad less aggressive than maybe you'd normally hear. So I just think this is like a well-produced song right, like they did a great job. Like this is a hit record right. Like if I could be kind of old school music producer guy, it's like I totally see how this is a hit record right here. Um, just because of the way it's put together and so, yeah, I just really good job, used it earlier. Like you know, it's not easy listening but it's easy to listen to and I think this is in that category. So, yeah, really, really cool stuff.
Speaker 2:Agreed, and it's also too. I don't know if this is a guy thing or not. It's probably a different playlist than a girl, but it's a fun getting ready song like that used to be really important, like when you're getting ready to go out like you had to have the perfect playlist to like get it together so you could go score all those free drinks, matt no, 100, I get.
Speaker 1:I get where that's coming from. You know, talk about like, not in the demo. It takes me less than 10 minutes to get myself ready, so I don't. I don't need a playlist for that, it's really, you just need one goose song I put on a live album from goose or the dead and I'm out less than one track you don't even make it through the first song that's right, that's right well, we are.
Speaker 2:we are coming to the end of our playlist here, so we will finish. We will at least finish that today, um, but we are here at track 10, uh, which is a song called home by big X, the plug and shibuzy.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I think I've brought tracks from both shibuzy and big X plug on the show before. Uh, big x the plug is a new album out, um, and he gets a lot of help from a lot of different artists. I think jelly roll is on here, and and shibuzi, and you know big s the plug is from dallas. He just got arrested here recently, um, and so he is. He is local guy right local guy getting arrested local guy.
Speaker 1:A local man was arrested last night. Um, and his name goes by big x, the plug, um, but yeah. So this this album, though, has a much more country sound to it than I think his other albums. Um, what I think is really funny is all his tracks are like two and a half minutes, like he gets in and and gets out right, like it's real quick. I don't know what he does in the live version, if he does extend it out to 13 minutes or not, but maybe the complete opposite of a jam band. But I think this one stood out for me just because he's kind of rapping about either missing a person or a place right, like kind of someplace where he's happiest. So it's a little more emotional than I think you get from a lot of his other stuff. And then Shabuzy only adds to that. So I don't know. I thought it was a cool song, and his new album, I think, is pretty neat too and maybe speaks to more of his Texas roots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean. One good thing that I'll say about this song is that if I ever need to hear Shaboosie, this gives me a different option than listening to Tipsy, a bar song, for the 999,000th time.
Speaker 1:All right, I'll take it. I'll take it, that's good Okay.
Speaker 2:This is a question I have for you and I'm being dead serious even though it sounds like I'm not. I'm not sure I understand who was missing having rap in their country music. Who was missing? That who was like? No, I mean, I definitely need to throw 17 bars of rap into this country. Song.
Speaker 1:I don't look, I'm not advocating for, like country artists and rappers to get together Like this is a big X the plug album and I feel like Shabuzy is just sort of singing over. I hear this as like Shabuzy is just kind of singing over a rap track on this Right Like, and just kind of adding to it the way a lot of rappers have used, you know, vocalists in the past. So I kind of see it as that. But to answer your question, I mean nobody, that's all I needed. I'm just kidding. I don't care for it. No, I really don't. I really am quick to turn that pretty quickly when that happens, but anyway, it's happening more and more. I don't know.
Speaker 2:It is, and you know what? There's clearly an audience for it, right?
Speaker 1:Again, know it is and you know what.
Speaker 2:There's clearly an audience for it. Right again, talk about not being the demo like I am not the demo right, um, but I thought that just in like terms of again like a getting ready song or something fun to hear like this song is that it's fun to listen to.
Speaker 2:Um, it's got a great like it's upbeat, it feels like like you're getting ready to, you know, celebrate or have fun, you know something like that. So I feel like it's still a song that I enjoyed listening to. I just I had lots of questions as it was going.
Speaker 1:I'm like, who is this for?
Speaker 2:I just want to know who this is for.
Speaker 1:That's fair. This is not you know what. In contrast to Jealous Type, this is not a hit record. Right Like 10 is not going to be a radio hit or anything like that. Or Home is not going to be a radio hit, where I think Jealous Type really is kind of formed for that. But your last pick, this next pick I mean you talk about a curveball which I just loved your last pick, this is Clockwork by LaFay.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love this artist and there is like a ton of internet controversy about how you actually pronounce her name. I guess the way that it's pronounced in Icelandic those sounds don't exist in English. So yeah, yeah, so we're trying with like the closest I've heard is the way you said it Lefe.
Speaker 1:How does the sound not?
Speaker 2:exist. I know, I don't know, maybe they make like dolphin noises, I don't know, like clicking, okay, I don't know. Maybe they make like dolphin or noises, I don't know, like clicking, like, okay, I don't know, but those sounds don't exist in english, is what I read, okay, um, so this song is, you're right, it's a total departure.
Speaker 1:It's like part christmas carol part.
Speaker 2:Princess song from a disney movie yeah um, it's got it all in there, but you know what it immediately reminded me of? Which is so funny, is it reminded me of it's oh so Quiet by Bjork, the other Icelandic superstar. So I'm like they must love their old musicals or standards.
Speaker 1:Or they're like 100 years behind on music and that's like new music to them.
Speaker 2:Well, the funny thing is, if you go through the rest of this album so this is from the A Matter of Time album, which was released on August 22nd, and the first two tracks kind of stay in this lane a little bit and then it's not. I mean, she's definitely like a chantreuse, she's a singer, she's a torch singer almost.
Speaker 2:So you do get some of it, but not in like the show-tuney Disney princess kind of way that you do in this track and then a little bit in the second and then, even though I think it's the third track, is actually called Snow White. It delves into more of like her normal sound, but I just thought this was so cool. It was really unexpected. I liked it and I think just this album in general kind of starts stronger than it finishes to me, and this is the first track on it. So I say, give it. If you're looking for a hard left, you're looking for something that's kind of different and kind of crazy. I like this one and I like the story. You know, I think it's kind of funny that she's singing about something very real and modern in this very like throwback style. That was something that intrigued me about this song as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what stood out to me. I mean, obviously it sounds a certain way, that's what kind of gets you right off the bat, but then lyrically it's, it could be a very modern song, right, and you could see it framed in a completely different way sonically and still have it work. So I think what made it so interesting you're right is the theme, coupled with the way she sings it and the way it's set up musically and I don't know. I just thought this was really cool and she being Icelandic and Chinese, which has got to be a pretty small percentage I mean, it's 50% of our audience but got to be rare from a musical standpoint.
Speaker 2:The studies show that we are huge among the Icelandic Chinese demographic.
Speaker 1:I don't know what it is, but this sound definitely exists in their language, okay.
Speaker 2:Oh boy. Well, to round us out today, before we get ourselves into trouble, um is your final pick.
Speaker 1:Um, and and one of, maybe, maybe my favorite pick of yours this week, matt um, a song called sandman by dominic bike yeah, you know, every, every month we do these new music mixes and I always know, like there's songs that I'm like, all right, I'm not gonna miss on this one, right and then. So I could usually get sam on one and and I knew I with this one, I was like the very least, I think she's gonna like this song I love dominic uh, yeah, dominic, we've put him on the show before.
Speaker 1:He's. He's great. He's got a new album coming, or new album that did come out, called rocket. Um, it's such. I mean, this is such a great song. It's a great combination of hip hop and rap and even a little bit of like old school R&B. And just calling out some lyrics I barely catch a wink. I guess I'm not the Sandman's type. My only wish to be on your list. So you know, obviously dealing with some sleep issues here, and he's just thinking about someone and he wants to be on that, you know. You know, throw back the hollow notes, right, like he wants to be on their list, right, um, and so I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yacht rock matt?
Speaker 1:no, yacht rock hollow notes is like yacht rock adjacent right, it is yeah, adjacent, not exactly yacht rock, so, uh, but no, I don't know this. I I love this song. There was probably five other songs I could have picked off this album to put on this mix, so I just picked this one. But everyone just go out and listen to the new album because it's great, like a lot of his stuff, so I think everyone's going to enjoy this one Carrot track I'm in.
Speaker 2:I love Dominic Fike. His lyrics are always so catchy and clever and this song is no different. It's perfect in that way. If you like Dominic Fike, you're going to like this song and, like I said, it got me excited to go listen to the rest of the album, all right?
Speaker 1:Well, there you have it A new music mix, this time for the month of September. Jen, thank you so much for joining me this month and helping me out with the new music mix. Jen's going to be back next month with another new music mix. In the meantime, you can join Jen and I on the battle, of course, as we continue to try to find the ultimate yacht rock song, and you can follow us on social media Instagram and threads at Super Awesome Mix and YouTube at Super Awesome Mix, where you can follow us on social media, instagram and threads at super awesome mix and YouTube at super awesome mix, where you can follow this podcast and all the shows on the super awesome mix podcast network, including Jen show what are you listening to, which has new episodes this week. Actually, we have a new episode coming out this week, so she's got season seven just kicking off, which is very exciting. So Jen and I will work on our next new music mix for next month, but in the meantime, for Jen, this is Matt. We'll see you then.
