Grey Temples 45 – Nerd City, Population: Me

About this episode

The episode explores various music genres including synthesizers, indie pop, and vapourwave, featuring a mix of tracks and nostalgic references.

Do you like synthesizers. Like, really, really, really like synthesizers? I mean, either way, here we go! But before we get to that, we’ve got some rock tunes ranging all the way from mathy to nervy, starting out with a set of Cursive , Q And Not You , and The Statues . We then venture deep into Canadian pop-rock with a lo-fi-ish track from an unexpected source, pre-Steal My Sunshine Len ! We round out the set with a personal fave from The New Pornographers and then, straight from the cover of a 1974 issue of Tiger Beat, it’s Tony Defranco and the Defranco Family . Then we crank up the nostalgia with some vibed-out tracks from Dom , Renny Wilson , and a chillwave classic from Neon Indian . Are you a DJ at an indie pop night? Cue these tracks up. Then we move on to chillwave’s younger cousin, vapourwave, with a track by Saint John’s own Blank Banshee . Now, if you’ve never heard of vapourwave, it’s a genre of music inspired by screensavers, department store muzak, and old computer graphics, which brings us to out next track, Too Far by Jan Hammer . This is from the soundtrack of Beyond the Mind’s Eye, a 1992 CGI demo-reel featuring lots of…

Topics covered

• synthesizers
• music genres
• nostalgia
• indie pop
• vapourwave
• Canadian pop-rock

Keywords

• synthesizers
• indie pop
• vapourwave
• nostalgia
• Canadian pop-rock
• music tracks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cursive, Q And Not You, The Statues, Len, The New Pornographers, The Defranco Family, Dom, Renny Wilson, Neon Indian, Blank Banshee

Books & works: Beyond the Mind’s Eye, The Optical Race

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