BSIDE Sunshower by Couch

Featured Artist: Couch

Featured Vinyl: Sunshower

Alexis’ Hot Pick 

Jessie

Sam’s Hot Pick

L.A.

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CREDITS

Created and Hosted by Alexis Naylor

Co-Host: Sam Timmerman

Music by Alexis Naylor & Ruby Miguel

Voiceover: Ruby Miguel

Edited and Produced by Ruby Miguel

00:09 - Intro

Welcome to B-Side, the mini-series from Through the Creative Door. Join Alexis and Sam as they dive into the timeless world of vinyl. For Alexis, vinyl was more than music. It was a Sunday ritual she shared with her dad, listening, talking and soaking in the stories behind each album and the artwork on every sleeve. Though her dad is no longer with us, she continues this tradition with her friend, Sam Timmerman. Join them as they share their passion for vinyl and the stories these records hold. 

00:44 - Alexis (Host)

Hello brother. 

00:46 - Sam (Host)

Hello, hello. Look at you. It's good to see your face again. Other end of the country once more

00:49 - Alexis (Host)

And for the people listening, hearing your voice. 

00:57 - Sam (Host)

Exactly. 

00:58 - Alexis (Host)

All right, what do you got for me, brother? Wait, let me start the timer Ten minutes. Ten minutes All right, what have you got? 

01:04 - Sam (Host)

I have Sunshower by Couch. 

01:08 - Alexis (Host)

That is a perfect album title for something really gorgeous the abstract-y artwork on the front is really pretty. 

01:17 - Sam (Host)

Having not even thought of this until this exact moment. Sunshower is actually one of my favourite experiences just being in a sunshower. 

01:28 - Alexis (Host)

Oh really. 

01:28 - Sam (Host)

And it could sound super artsy and weird, but you know that's just me. And yeah, sunshowers are beautiful and I just thought that then. 

01:39 - Alexis (Host)

Now that you say that, that's actually probably pretty valid, because one I do like sunshine and I like the sound of rain. 

01:50 - Sam (Host)

Yeah, it's beautiful. This is going deeper than I thought we were going to go, so Do sun showers happen as much over there as over in the west, as we might say? 

02:05 - Alexis (Host)

I mean, I don't know percentages, but they happen sometimes. 

02:10 - Sam (Host)

That was my attempt at a segue to my hot take, hot pick of the album which is. Which was horrible, but we take it Again wasn't pre-planned. 

02:26 - Alexis (Host)

I apologise, but a hot pick for me is LA. Okay, talk me through this. 

02:33 - Sam (Host)

Partly because I mean what a sound We'll talk about the album sound in a minute, but what a sound that track has. It is massive. 

02:42 - Alexis (Host)

Absolutely huge. So for our listeners, I think we need to paint a little bit of a picture. 

02:47 - Sam (Host)

Yes. 

02:48 - Alexis (Host)

These guys are a seven-piece funk-pomp band out of the States. 

02:54 - Sam (Host)

Boston, massachusetts, boston, boston, how do you say it? Boston? I don't know. I don't know I think we should stop here. 

03:01 - Alexis (Host)

Don't come up, please don't cancel us. I don't know, I think we should stop. Don't come after us, please don't cancel us. But this particular record, like the best way to describe I think the sound, would be that it's like full, bright poppy lyrics, a lot of jazzy chords, because all of the players are like from lots of different influences and genres, um, really groovy and like funky drums. And obviously you know, for anyone who's in the know, drums and bass have, you know this marriage of solidness, so you know that funky groove is is with the bass as well. Um, and then they've also got some horns players in there? 

03:52 - Sam (Host)

Any fans of bands like Late Street Dive, lawrence, wolfpack? These are the. This is what we're talking about here. I came across these guys on a I think it was on a song radio from Lawrence and just blew me away. They've just returned from a. I think it was something like 30-something city tour with Corey Wong supporting Corey Wong, which is astronomical undertaking in itself, but 38 sounds right. Yeah, supporting the one and only Corey Wong sounds right. Yeah, supporting the one and only Corey Wong. And that is the sound that they create and they knock it out of the park and it is so much fun. 

04:34 - Alexis (Host)

Well, I didn't know who these guys were until I was with you, and either we were in the car or we were listening to something at your house. But I remember hearing it and being like oof, damn, what's this? 

04:50 - Sam (Host)

Oh, you said it was Jessie the track, Jessie, wasn't it? 

04:52 - Alexis (Host)

Yes, which is my hot pick. 

04:55 - Sam (Host)

There you go. 

04:56 - Alexis (Host)

It was just so funky and even before I got into the lyrics, just the melody lines and the hook, everything just got me straight away and I remember you being like oh yeah, I'll just send it to you. And I was like who are these guys? 

05:09 - Sam (Host)

What a bass line right what a bass line in that album. 

05:16 - Alexis (Host)

but then when I had a chance to dive in, not just listening, I mean I'm such a lyric person I froth at. I mean, look, a lot of lyrics are written about story, about relationship breakdowns. But I really enjoy when it's not a romantic relationship breakdown, when it's something else. And this song is about a friendship, about you know why are you not answering Like? You know, I've listened to your voicemail more than I've heard your own voice like and it's so relatable for anyone who's had a friendship breakdown as an adult. You know they're pretty painful, they're actually so much worse than romantic ones sometimes. 

06:03

But yeah, I just it was. Yeah, I was like yeah, damn great song. 

06:07 - Sam (Host)

For anyone who listens to the live in LA version of the record, they excuse me. They recorded the whole thing on tour in LA before they released. Beside of this record in particular is the live in LA show, and they introduced that song with this is for anyone who's been ghosted by a close friend yeah yeah, right, 

06:34 - Alexis (Host)

I mean yeah, I want to see more artists write songs like that. Totally, I, I've done it. It's true. 

06:50 - Sam (Host) 

I'm sorry if you guys are near, by the way. Yeah, but another example of really great groovy fun tunes written about painful subjects. 

06:59 - Alexis (Host)

Oh yeah, you need the vessel to be able to get in to have conversation and, why not, the layer of groovy, funky music. 

07:09 - Sam (Host)

So then, for people like me who like listening to the music, they can just go yeah, this is great. What are they talking about? I've listened to this album enough times to know most of the lyrics in other languages also. 

07:24 - Alexis (Host)

Really. 

07:24 - Sam (Host)

No, I'm exaggerating, but I've listened to this album a lot. But yeah, thinking of hot picks, I was thinking about what I was into at the moment and LA just came up. Just a it's a real feeling of being the other side of the country is okay. 

07:45 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, that's kind of how I took it yeah in a very, very small nutshell do you have a runner-up, a favorite? 

07:55 - Sam (Host)

yeah, um, I think I wrote down Someone With You because it just is so much fun. Um, yeah, lyrically and musically, it's just so much fun.

08:02 - Alexis (Host)

Well, true to my stylings, I love the sort of emotional power ballady kinds of vibes I really like. My runner-up is a song called All Right, which is the last one on the record. And it starts out real moody and then it like comes into itself a bit more. 

08:34 - Sam (Host)

But it's just like the chorus is epic. 

08:36 - Alexis (Host)

Oh, such an epic chorus. It's so glorious. Listeners, get onto this record. 

08:42 - Sam (Host)

Listen to it, because we're not going to play it for you. 

08:44 - Alexis (Host)

Go and listen to this record. 

08:46 - Sam (Host)

Buy this record, if you buy it. 

08:49 - Alexis (Host)

Oh, they're on. Bandcamp too, they're on. 

08:50 - Sam (Host)

Bandcamp If you buy it from oh, they're on Bandcamp too. They're on Bandcamp If you buy it from them. They will ship it to you, and I'm pretty sure they're still signing it. 

08:56 - Alexis (Host)

Oh, my goodness. So for those listening, sam's shoved into the camera part of the sleeve of the vinyl, which is a glorious picture of them holding umbrellas, which is one of their schticks that they do on stage and that is like part of their props, um, and they've signed it, which is beautiful find it hand signed, limited edition. 

09:20

And no joke, they sent this to me the day before they left on tour with Cory these guys are amazing didn't you say that, like the band members, one of them actually is like their manager, oh so they're all self-producing, self-managing. 

09:35 - Sam (Host)

Yeah, Zach, the guitarist is the band's manager. This record was majority produced by the band members. 

09:41 - Alexis (Host)

Except for one song which is All Right, yeah yeah. Speaking of, I was talking about the umbrellas and their stage and their shtick. 

09:51 - Sam (Host)

Oh, the couch. 

09:52 - Alexis (Host)

Can I just say, yeah, we, Sam and I had dived into this and found out about the fact that, yeah, they sort of have a different couch. That sort of is part of the aesthetic depending on the release, it's a different colour or a different, yeah, different, kind of couch which they absolutely love because they use it as a prop and have it on stage. But what did we read? Like an interview they did, and they were like, oh, it's so great, we love it. 

10:21 - Sam (Host)

They went away from the room and then came back and there was a cushion with Jeff Goldblum's face on it. 

10:26 - Alexis (Host)

Oh, my God true. Yes they did a show in Massachusetts and they'd just like gone oh my God, true, yes, I did a show in Massachusetts and they'd just like gone off to talk to people after the show and went back on stage to like load out and they found this really sparkly. I mean, what do they call those pillows? They're the pillows that have, like, the sequins on them. So when you push all the sequins one direction, oh yeah. 

10:50

And then when you push the sequins another way, it shows this picture face yeah of Geoff. 

10:58 - Sam (Host)

Of Geoff Geoff Ten minutes already. Ok, Sunshower by couch. 

11:06 - Alexis (Host)

You won't be disappointed. It is an earworm. Thanks, brother, that was a great one Signing off. 

11:11

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