I'll start, considering you put this in my bag. This is Sigur Rós.
Christian told me I know this album very well.
You do.
I'm sure I do.
I have this thing where I'm not sure what goes to what albums with bands.
It's the one where you play it and you cry the whole time.
Right. And the only time I've seen Sigur Rós, I was on mushrooms at Outside Lands
feeling so weird, but this hopefully will not bring me back there.
I got a Benny Goodman record.
I'm obsessed with another record of his. It's the same of this series
but it has 'Sweet Little Headache' and a bunch of amazing songs
and Martha Tilton sings on it and she has such a sad voice.
Meditation, marijuana. That's this one for the month.
Great album.
Just have to have it for the collection. 1997.
Great year.
Cool, I got 'Sketches of Spain.' It's a Miles Davis record.
It's the follow-up to 'Kind of Blue,' came out in I think 1960.
It's got this kind of dramatic, brooding Spanish sound, which was new for him.
On the flight to London I watched that movie 'Miles Ahead'
which has Don Cheadle in it, and he talks about this record a lot.
You want me to make a note here?
Yeah, we'll just try it.
So we just had a baby.
Her favorite song is track 2 on this album 'Shadow People'
We were recording our album, some of it in Seattle, and we went to this coffee shop
I came in one morning and the song was on, and I don't really know their music that well
so I Shazam'd it, and I was like, this fuckin' song is awesome
and then we started playing it in the car when we were driving around Seattle and
our daughter just fell in love with it and stopped crying every time she heard it
I do think that Willa is gonna be bigger than Rihanna.
There's something about her, she's 11 months old
she's got an energy about her, I mean, I'm not trying to push her in any direction
but I think she's gonna be a massive star.
Sounds crazy.
I got 'The Downward Spiral,' Nine Inch Nails.
That was the first CD that inspired me to get into production.
There's this thing called a noise gate, right.
So what it does is, you put it on an audio signal, whatever it may be.
If there's noise in the room or something, basically when the person's not singing or there's no drums playing
it just cuts everything down to zero.
but what he did is, he set the threshold to where the drums really were.
The guy was playing normal drums but it would be cutting out at the most random spots.
It just created this insane chaos, and I don't think anyone really
had ever used a noise gate like that, creatively not just as a scientific tool to clean up an audio signal.
Meditation, marijuana.
No, just kidding, this is the new Radiohead album.
There's one song on it called 'Present Tense.' It's just
this amazing chord progressions in there that switch and do all these crazy things, and it just trips me out.
I love that song I love this record. Can't wait to get to know it more.
Another one I have is 'Marquee Moon' by Television.
They were kind of in that whole CBGB scene, post-punk thing
and one of the first bands to really have
not shreddy guitars, but they were lead guitars that were hooks
and it kind of made sense to me where The Strokes came from
because I always thought The Strokes guitar work was so interesting
then you listen to 'Marquee Moon' and you're like, oh I get it now.
Alright, so this is Spoon.
I lived in New York for ten years. Every time I was having a cool moment
cut my bangs, I got a leather jacket, Spoon came on, like, whoa.
and like I said, we're parents now, so we need a lot of leather jackets in our lives.
I just had to see what these guys were about
I had to get one just random one.
They look like they're having a good time.
This is the new Tame Impala record, which I haven't really heard yet, but I'm a huge fan of their first two.
There's a great Rihanna cover I heard the other day that I guess it's off this record.
I love that version of hers. When I first heard it I texted Hannah
there's this new Rihanna song, she's totally ripping off Tame Impala, it's amazing.
Rihanna made it so sexy, I mean she makes everything sexy.
To have that collabo there is just amazing.
I guess she was just covering them, but it felt like a collaboration.
I got some really cool soundtrack stuff by Maurice Jarre who died a couple years ago.
'Passage to India' and 'Doctor Zhivago' which is my favorite film
which is amazing. You know that score.
And then this is really dope because this is 'Lawrence of Arabia' but in French.
I have an American pressing of it, of my own, but the French one is pretty rare to get.
I guarantee this will be the most played album we're getting.
There are moments here that take you to a place you didn't even know you felt that way.
It's like I'm playing Candyland as a kid
and I'm in this insane dress that doesn't exist, and it's cold and warm.
I mean honestly, if I had to have one sound... this could be the soundtrack of my life.
Ok, and this one's Julian Baker 'Sprained Ankle'
She's one of my favorite artists to come out in the last few years.
19 or 20 years old, and it's kind of somewhere in between Elliott Smith and David Bazan.
And her guitar work is cool, it reminds me of Explosion in the Sky, but it's just her and a guitar
just very mature and talks about addiction and heartbreak
in a way that feels like she's probably 40.
This is a band I'm really excited about, called Car Seat Headrest.
I've heard a couple songs on NPR one night
I really liked what I heard, it has this raw kind of carelessness to it, which I really like
and he was really cool in the interview. Sounded like a cool dude.
Shout out The Ink Spots. Ryan introduced me to them.
Probably one of my favorite bands of all time now.
This is my favorite record of last year, a Kendrick Lamar record, 'To Pimp a Butterfly.'
The way that it blends jazz and funk and slam poetry and West Coast hip-hop
it's pretty remarkable and seamless, and it tells this story from beginning to end
of the trajectory of his career and it kind of culminates in this moment at the end of it.
It's so cinematic to me and, y'know, I always said 'Kid A' was probably the best record of my lifetime
but I think this is... I think this record means more.
This is a great film. You want to say it in French?
François Truffaut.
Sounds so pretentious.
There's more.
'Les Quatre Cents Coups'
This is Built to Spill 'Keep It Like a Secret,' which was a big record for me.
There's a song called 'Else' and they do this really cool bendy guitar thing
that I think every indie band does these days.
I think we do that in moments and you kind of can trace it back to this band.
And the last one is Nirvana 'Live at Reading'
You can trace the trajectory of my life back to this band for sure
and it's a super-iconic show, it's the one where
he was wheeled out in the hospital gown and acted like he passed out or died.
We have an 11 month old baby girl and we push her around in her favorite thing
It's a pink Corvette.
It's a pink Corvette car, and you push it she just like... it's amazing, she honks the horn
she looks so badass, but we actually decided to cover the Corvette in stickers
because I'm actually... I'm just big into stickers right now.
Well thank you so much guys.
Thanks for having us.
Thank you guys.