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In this installment of "Album of the Month Club," Tara and Natalie discuss "Knower Forever" by Knower and "Action" by The Blackbyrds. Learn more about Record Store Society.
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0:00:01 - Tara
Hi Natalie, hey Tara, what's up? So much? Just. You know we got to be stocking the shelves. Oh my gosh, it's about to get crazy in here, isn't it? Oh yeah, it's busy, but it's good for you.
0:00:27 - Natalie
It's busy but it's good for us.
0:00:31 - Tara
It is. It is you know what. We haven't talked about our albums over the months in a long time.
0:00:37 - Natalie
In about a month Did we even talk about an album of the month, the last month.
0:00:43 - Tara
I feel like we didn't. Maybe we did,
0:00:45 - Natalie
did we miss a month.
0:00:46 - Tara
We might have.
0:00:48 - Natalie
We got to catch up because there's a crap ton of new stuff that's coming lately.
0:00:52 - Tara
Oh yeah, oh hi, how are you? I'm Tara,
0:00:53 - Natalie
I'm Natalie.
0:00:54 - Tara
Welcome to the store, let us know. Let us know if you need anything. We'll be talking about our favorite music over here.
0:01:02 - Natalie
Speaking of favorite music, I want to chat about the new album from Knower. It just dropped this year Knower Forever. I love it. Can we chat about it?
0:01:10 - Tara
Do you know what that I immediately noticed about this album, Knower Forever? The cover art is like the exact same as Downtown Rockers by TomTom Club, but it's black. I mean it's the same Like they copied. It's the exact same. We will file a complaint forthwith. I like that, though it's like. Remember I think we talked about Drug Dealer doing this, where they kind of copied Black Sabbath. I like it when newer folks copy or like, take inspiration from older groups.
0:01:40 - Natalie
I kind of dig that stripped down album art vibe anyway, where it's just just their busts, just from the shoulder up and they're just staring blankly into the camera, just no other, no other information. It's just like you don't know what you're getting into. I dig it. It's classic. Yeah, totally Okay. Knower jazz electronic funk fusion duo featuring multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, lewis Cole and Genevieve Bartotti, formed in 2009,. Both jazz studies graduates out of LA. In early 2010, they started releasing music on YouTube the rise of many musicians these days and their first video was a cover of Britney Spears song three, which is such a crazy song to pick, but they did something so cool with it. Later that year, they released their debut album called Lewis Cole and Genevieve Bartotti, and here we are in 2023. They are on their fifth studio album. It's been seven years since their last release, so this is a pretty big deal, this album. Are you a fan of Knower? Have you been following him on social media and whatnot?
0:02:41 - Tara
I did not know about nowhere, but I did know about Sam Gendell. It was Cole, sam Wilkes, and they've all played together, that whole family, and I saw Sam Gendell, sam Wilkes, at Big Ears and so, yeah, I know this whole Thundercat connections. Narky Puppy, of course we've talked about Moon Child before, not to get you know very much.
0:03:03 - Natalie
But yeah, creme de la Creme, they've got in terms of a musician network, that's for sure. Yeah, some big names on their records.
0:03:10 - Tara
And actually some of my friends just went to see Clowncore, which is another one of their projects, which is wacky, they're wacky.
0:03:18 - Natalie
I bet that's a crazy show. Yeah, so this album kicks off with a lovely short orchestral piece. It's really beautiful, really dramatic. The buildup is quite intense. Again, you're like, OK, what's getting ready to happen now. And then track two hits. It's called I'm the President, the first single from the album. So this track, it's fantastic. I think it's a great way to just like bust in after that intro. It's so bouncy and groovy. It's like they just dropped this funk bomb on your face out the gate. Love it.
0:03:57 - Tara
Yeah, I love that opener. It's so beautiful and, honestly, I did not expect that. It's orchestral and just so beautiful and I'm the president is so funky, it's like beautiful arrangement. Then boom, funky, loud fun in your face. It reminds me of Enan meets Dearhoof Really.
0:04:19 - Natalie
Enan meets Dearhoof.
0:04:19 - Tara
Yeah, enan.
0:04:21 - Natalie
Interesting, dearhoof, I wouldn't have guessed that.
0:04:24 - Tara
Yeah, you know, like Snoopy Waves In her, in Genevieve's voice, maybe. Yeah, that's probably. It's probably her voice, yeah.
0:04:29 - Natalie
Yeah, yeah. Well, they're really funny. The lyrics are very tongue in cheek. Genevieve's kind of like sneering at the idea of being president A la the former US dingus in chief. Just very, very quirky. I love it. I love the key solo on this from Paul Cornish, another amazing musician on this record. It's. It's like this bright splash of water in the face, moment. You know. Not just the playing itself, but the transition into it is really really slick. Nowhere they always have such fun compositional ideas and I love their transitions. You know the video for this is cool too. It's their, it's their standard, like just cramming everybody into a house and just setting up wherever you can find space and you've got Genevieve in the stairwell singing. And then, when it's time for the key solo, paul Cornish comes like running down the stairs, putting on a shirt like he's been taking a nap or something, and then hitting the piano at the bottom of the stairs just in time to start playing, which I think is kind of a fun effect.
0:05:23 - Tara
But yeah, what is their? They have a thing for sure with like cramming all their friends into one tiny little space and recording these wacky videos.
0:05:30 - Natalie
I think it's great. All right, the next track is another fave of mine. It's called the Abyss. So this one has more of that classic sound people associate with. Nor I think the grooves on this album are just so tight and staccato. You've got Manoni on on bass with Lewis Cole on the drums. That's just such a nasty combo. It's just so perfect and just very snappy in that groove. Sam Gendell on saxophone he's got this a killer solo on this track. Everybody breaks into crazy solos on this. You've got Ray Thistle Thwait on keys. Just the man is from outer space he also. He's a fantastic singer too. His scat game is really strong If you want to look him up online and check out more his music.
And, like you mentioned, nor is they're known for, you know, recording in the house, but they're also known for having like a particular mix style that is quite polarizing. But at this point it's clearly a choice. You know it's their shtick and they've been vocal about saying hey, you know, screw you guys if you don't like the mix. But for those who care, like the compression, the boxiness in the drums, you know it can get a little fatiguing on the ears if you're not used to it. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, definitely.
0:06:40 - Tara
I was going to say who is, who's the bassist. Again, manoni on, manoni on. I think I follow this person on social media.
0:06:47 - Natalie
They wear very colorful colors Quilted glasses yeah.
0:06:51 - Tara
Yeah, goggles, sweaters. Yeah, I follow this person on social media. So good. Oh, yeah, the shtick good bassist.
0:07:00 - Natalie
Yeah, it's crazy, crazy good Sorry. No but just mix wise. I'm not mad at it. On this album it doesn't bother me as much, I think, as it has on some of their past recordings, but maybe I've just gotten used to it started to just associate that sound with them. Plus, like, let's be real, I'd happily choose this over any of the hyper polished, sparkly music turds that are constantly thrown in our faces, you know.
I'll take a little boxiness, a little muddiness in the mix. Yes, I don't think they'd be able to get away with it, though, if it weren't for the fact that they are and that they engage with such world-class musicians and they're playing such A plus compositions.
0:07:34 - Tara
You know what I mean.
0:07:36 - Natalie
You tolerate it because it's their sound.
0:07:38 - Tara
It is interesting that they have such a fun, wacky sound for the level of musicianship that they're dealing with across the board, even with their friends, I don't know. It seems like they don't take themselves too seriously. I guess is what I'm saying. You know what I mean.
0:07:55 - Natalie
Yeah, no, you can tell they're just having a super serious composition.
They're having a good time a jazz musician, yeah, and they're just kind of taking the piss sometimes and I like that. It's a real chill vibe. It's like they know they don't have to prove anything to anyone, so they're just jamming out and having fun. Right, I like that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, so this boxy drums effect thing, I think is especially heavy on the next track and this is the first down tempo track on the album. It's called Real Nice Moment.
This is a lovely laid back tune that I think suits Genevieve's vocal style particularly well. But there is like, okay, I hate to keep going back to the mix thing because I really do love all of these tracks, but on this particular track there's like a synth that is detuned in a way or it's got some kind of like coursing, something's happening out of phase. That I think competes too much with the vocal. Like her voice is so soft and airy and I feel like that synth kind of cuts into it in places. Or maybe it's just me, I don't know, but I do think it's a really pretty song.
0:09:00 - Tara
I think I know what you're talking about. It's like in the hook. I can hear it.
0:09:03 - Natalie
It's just a little, that's really. A little searing at the time, yeah.
0:09:07 - Tara
Yeah, and I just want to say this song is, though, one of my favorites on the album. Real Nice Moment is exactly that A real nice moment. On the record, and I also wrote soft and lovely. It's funny. Every time you've described any of these songs, I've made notes that almost say the exact same, at least descriptors that you've said. So it's funny. We're spending too much time together in the store in Adelaide, I know man.
0:09:35 - Natalie
So next we have it's All Nothing Until it's Everything. This is probably one of the more dynamic tracks, moving between that tight, heavy staccato playing and then the tight singing in the verses and moving into this wide atmospheric synth pads and strings thing for the chorus. This is a cool track. It's probably not my favorite, except for that key solo from way. This will wait towards the end. My God, it's like a cosmic roller coaster ride with those ascending chords and the way the composition builds up around it. It's stanky. I love it. It's mad stanky, ooh.
0:10:16 - Tara
Do you know what this song reminds me so much of? Battles? What's that? Battles the band, I don't know Battles with the two drummers in the boxes, atlas, and all that Battles the band Listen to, I don't know. Choose a song from the album Atlas by Battles Ooh, interesting. Okay, I think it's because of the drums in this song.
0:10:47 - Natalie
I don't think I've ever heard of this band before. That's crazy. I'll have to explain.
0:10:50 - Tara
I know that is crazy to me. I feel like you enjoyed them. I spoke, I said the album Atlas, but I meant the album Mirrored, which does include this song Atlas, Gotcha gotcha.
0:11:00 - Natalie
All right. So the next track, track six, is called Nightmare. This is another funky little groove that's giving. It's giving me a bit of like purple rain, first Avenue vibes. Not a whole lot to say about this one. Just like a solid party dance track I feel like I'd hear in a club. It does have a neat little half tempo breakdown in the middle that lifts it up a bit for me. Yeah, it's kind of a background track for me. Next is Same Style, different Face. So this is really Genevieve's shining moment on the album. She's got this like sweet gentle ballad that it feels like something out of a Broadway musical, you know, or like something I associate with my youth. It's very familiar, but I can't get my brain to pin down a song title that it sounds like you know what I mean Interesting.
0:11:45 - Tara
Yeah, it's funny that you said shining moment for this one, because you said something kind of similar to Real Nice Moment and I would say these Real Nice Moment and Same Style, different Face, are similar in that sort of ballady softness.
0:11:57 - Natalie
Yeah, really showcasing for this.
0:11:59 - Tara
And I like both of those probably the most. They are shimmery like well, at least this one shimmery in almost like a shoe gaze-y way. And yeah, nostalgia, something 90s nostalgia, fuzz, softness, but loud.
0:12:12 - Natalie
You know what it sounds like to me it's like the penultimate tune from a Muppets movie, like something Kermit would sing to me before the big closing number, where I'm like learning the power of friendship or whatever you know.
0:12:23 - Tara
I mean I'm the best way possible?
0:12:25 - Natalie
Yeah, totally, it's just like a sweet little lullaby thing. Yeah, I like that, All right. Track eight is do hot girls like chords? And yes, they do, we can confirm.
0:12:35 - Tara
Hello. Yes, we can confirm this. You are what you eat. That makes me equally.
0:12:42 - Natalie
It's black and cold, that's all right. It's that red. I don't bother to say the name of it, nor is giving us dynamics here, because this one just like slaps you in the mouth after that little Muppets lullaby, I feel like this song is kindred spirits with it's all nothing until it's everything. But for some reason this one just kind of grips my bones. Better it's, it's dipping into rock and roll territory and I think I think that's why I really dig it All right. Next up we have Ride that Dolphin and here we get this super tight, straightforward. Benny and the Jets groove, yeah. And I think, personally I think Genevieve sounds the best on this track. There's like this really beautiful bridge with some choir action and she's singing over it and like kind of adlibbing. You don't hear her adlib much, but she's kind of adlibbing and it's giving Janet Jackson and she just sounds so soulful. Yeah, I think it's cool.
0:13:33 - Tara
I get to hear Janet Jackson meets like Reese Res.
0:13:36 - Natalie
Oh, reese, yeah, Reese man, I love her, yeah, me too.
0:13:40 - Tara
So good, well, I want next album of the month. I might have to choose that one, yeah, yeah, but Benny and the Jets, you nailed it. It does have that sort of like riff thing going on, 100 percent.
0:13:55 - Natalie
And you've got Sam Wilkes just delivering that monster bass all the way through. It's. It's great. Track number 10, it will get real. So Lewis Cole does an interview where he mentions loving Mario Kart's music and I so can feel that energy in this track. I can hear it. I'm on Rainbow Road. I'm throwing shells at people like I can see it when I hear this. This is the feel good dance track on the album. It's such a perfect way to start wrapping things up. That bass line from Mono Nyan goes just complete sicko mode on this track. It's so good.
0:14:36 - Tara
Yeah, it has like almost to a tinge of German bass, but not really. You know what I mean.
0:14:42 - Natalie
Not full on, but that's Lewis Cole all day Like, yeah, do his machine. If anyone could just play straight up high speed German bass it would be him for sure. All right. So the album concludes with Crash the Car, another really really great down tempo kind of borderline ballad thing. It's got great old school R&B vibes, especially in those chords in the hook. I'm back in, you know, the back of the family van on a road trip, drifting to sleep with you know my sister's mixtape playing. This is the kind of song I would hear, just really pretty and soothing and nostalgic, fantastic sax solo from David Denny, and I think the message is a great one to end on. It's just like don't worry what others say or think, don't play it safe, just floor it and go top speed into your dreams.
0:15:36 - Tara
Yeah, not into. Not into a brick wall, though Don't see that no one dreams of brick walls no we don't drive into brick walls.
0:15:42 - Natalie
Happy things drive into happy thoughts. But yeah, I think it's a great closer for this.
0:15:47 - Tara
Yeah, Also, if you go to bank camp, you apparently get a bonus track. I have not listened to it. Someone else should do that though.
0:15:54 - Natalie
And, yes, support the album on bank camp for sure. Yeah, all right. Well, if I can say one thing I really appreciate about Knower Forever, it's the fact that it does such a great job at showcasing its guests, artists. Everyone has time to shine. The solos are so thoughtfully incorporated you can tell they weren't just shoved in like some random rap feature. That doesn't make sense. You know, everything melts together so artfully and I think what keeps me coming back to Noor in the end, beyond just the sheer virtuosity, is definitely their sense of humor. You get it in the lyrics, you get it in the arrangements. They keep you guessing, they keep you smiling. They're just fun to listen to.
0:16:29 - Tara
Yeah, it's true, they do have such a good sense of humor they don't take themselves too seriously, even though they are seriously talented. Yeah, reminds me of Enon, Towa tei. Even maybe a tiny little bit of LCD sound system sometimes, dear Hoof Tom Tom Club, even maybe a tinge outside of the album cover and Battles, of course. Yeah, I'll check that out.
0:16:55 - Natalie
Flaming.
0:16:55 - Tara
Lips, marquee Puppy obviously. Yeah, that's nice, they're all in the family Broad. Yeah, they have a lot of little different things going on, all right, so I'm handing it off to you.
0:17:05 - Natalie
What do you have for this month?
0:17:06 - Tara
Well, speaking of a lot of things going on in some jazz-influenced fusion too, perhaps I am bringing to the table a record that I have never listened to all the way through until this, this exercise, this album of the month conversation. I wanted to explore an album I'd never really heard before, but I also wanted to take it back, and so this album is called Action and it's by the Blackbirds. It's from 1977. So yeah, Blackbirds are American Rhythm and Blues Jazz Funk Fusion Group formed in Washington DC in 1973. It's actually kind of the brainchild of Donald Bird, the famous professional trumpeteer. He, back in the I guess late 60s, cut a track for Blue Note called Blackbird and spelled same way, B-Y-R-D, like his last name, Blackbird, and it became the label's first million-selling album. So he was catching a ride off that whole jazz fusion thing that was happening across the plains.
Other jazz players, like Herbie Hancock, was starting to get into some successful crossovers. Soul and Rock. Audiences are really diving into that space and taking a cue from that title of that album, he, Donald Bird, got together with some of his music students and formed the Blackbirds. So Blackbirds featured Donald Bird himself on trumpet, Kevin Tony on keyboards, Keith Killgo on vocals and drums, Joe Hall on bass guitar, Alan Barnes on sax and clarinet RIP and Barney Perry on guitar. They signed with Fantasy Records in 1973, and they had a hit called Walking in Rhythm that received a Grammy nomination and sold over a million copies by May of 1975.
Outside of that, they have gone gold with three of their albums, and that is Citylife, Unfinished Business in Action, which is the record that we are discussing today. But I also just wanted to mention that Blackbirds have influenced a ton of hip hop music. They've been sampled a ton of times, so check them out outside of this record. But yeah, so let's get into this. I just want to say recommend it if you like. This album to me is Herbie Hancock Meets Earth, Wind and Fire Meets Steely Dan. Right on, no, you're telling me right.
0:19:40 - Natalie
I can hear that.
0:19:41 - Tara
Okay, cool, yeah, even some like Brothers Johnson moments, some like KC in the Sunshine band. Stevie Wonder it's funky, it's fresh, it's jazzy, it's awesome. Okay, diving in First track, supernatural Feeling. It's synthy, it's spacey, it's funky. I mean the bass guitar doesn't get any funkier than this. Like this bass guitar slaps. There's these like lush vocal harmonies. And I know Supernatural is in the title and this isn't just the reason why I'm about to say it, I'm about to say, but it does remind me a little bit of Superstition by Stevie Wonder.
0:20:26 - Natalie
I can hear that too. Okay, good, it's that squeak in the guitar.
0:20:30 - Tara
Yeah, and that bass yeah so good.
0:20:33 - Natalie
I know this is Supernatural Feeling, but this feels like summertime to me. It feels like there's a barbecue happening, you know, yeah, totally Beer out of a can hanging out. Oh, it's just like a laid back family reunion, picnic barbecue kind of vibe. Yeah, it's funky.
0:20:49 - Tara
It's so good.
0:20:50 - Natalie
That's probably where the reason I feel that way is probably because, without knowing, I've heard this at a family function at some point. It's highly highly likely.
0:20:58 - Tara
Yeah, I mean, put it on your boombox while you're playing hoops outside in the hot June or July weather. I mean, yeah, definitely a summer song for sure. All right. Number two Looking Ahead. Looking Ahead to number two. This one again is so groovy and so fun. It reminds me this time of like Sheik, or, you know, niles Rogers, vibes Casey and the Sunshine Band. This one is full on like Disco-y funk. Yeah absolutely.
0:21:37 - Natalie
This is one of my favorites, for sure, on the album. Yeah, I dig the bass, yeah.
0:21:40 - Tara
And that's all I really say about that one, because number three is probably one of the most standout tracks on the record and probably some of the most sampled. I think Wiz Khalifa samples it I'm drawing a blank on the others, but it's definitely been sampled a bunch of times. Mysterious vibes the opening is the best part, it's so nice that opening.
0:22:03 - Natalie
It's so psychedelic and yeah, it's crazy, it's a vibe.
0:22:15 - Tara
It is such a vibe, a mysterious vibe, it's spacey, it's got some sexy soprano sax and those again going back, those lush harmonies. They crush it with those harmonies.
0:22:25 - Natalie
And they're very subtle too because, like, for the most part, they're singing in unison. So when they do break into the harmony it's like, ooh, it just tickles the beat drum.
0:22:32 - Tara
Yeah, like brothers Johnson harmonies. Yeah, all right, something special this one. All I have to say about this one is I really like the way it starts, but it kind of starts to go. It veers into love boat theme song territory towards the middle and it's not my fave.
0:23:00 - Natalie
I like it. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I think that's probably why they put it in the middle you know, yeah, you want it to be sandwiched by the strong, the heavier hitting stuff.
0:23:07 - Tara
Yeah, the love boat, yeah, no, too cheesy.
0:23:12 - Natalie
Oh, great, yeah. Now all I see is like the opening sequence to you know some 70s evening drama now.
0:23:18 - Tara
Oh my gosh, those are the days for television. I know I miss it. Okay, number five, street games. This one is like war to me. It's funky but has, like I mean it's called street games but it does have like that street culture to it from the 70s. You know, war cameo this like 70s funk but like culture moment going on. I don't know.
0:23:51 - Natalie
Does that make sense? No, it does. It's kind of shocking. On this particular album it kind of I don't know if it like fits thematically with everything else you know yeah, right, totally. It's like shenanigans at the family picnic and then someone needs to be scolded.
0:24:06 - Tara
It's like the movie warrior with the guys in the world and like I love that movie so much. Yeah, warriors, yeah.
0:24:13 - Natalie
And you take it.
0:24:15 - Tara
Yeah, that's good Street games, playing street games. Only a couple left and this album is kind of short in terms of songs on here. Amount of songs, Wait, how long? What's the total length? What are we looking at here?
0:24:27 - Natalie
Do you have it pulled up? It's just under 34 minutes.
0:24:30 - Tara
Oh, okay, that's helpful, because that means it's like yeah it's short, but it's too long to be an EP, but it's pretty short in the grand scheme of things 34 minutes but yeah. So there's only two more songs just to run through. Track six is called soft and easy, and this one is like if you take Barry White and Serge Gainsbourg with Brigitte Bardot or Jane Birkin, you get this song soft and easy. It's got that sexy.
0:25:07 - Natalie
I love your recipes, your music recipes for these songs.
0:25:09 - Tara
It's like it's that sexy spoken word vocals, but it's got some like moaning and groaning and some like noises. A lot of moaning and groaning.
0:25:17 - Natalie
I was kind of like it kind of leaves you hanging in the beginning, like what is there going to be singing? Because there's kind of some talking and there's some moaning and then the song starts and it's just dead air. And then I'm like should I be here? Are they busy? Yeah, yeah.
0:25:34 - Tara
That's like, like I said, serge and Jane, man, they take that other song to just you're like I don't know if I this is not for me, this is private, yeah.
0:25:44 - Natalie
This is a adult business. I don't belong here, yeah.
0:25:48 - Tara
Yeah, but I think this track might have made it to the top 20, if I'm recalling the correct info. But I guess at the time it makes sense. You know, thinking about, like, studio 54 and some of the extravagant but sensual moments of the seventies, of the late seventies, yeah. And then, speaking of sensual again, I would say track seven, dreaming of you, has that groovy R&B vibes. It's got sexy trumpet solo from our man, donald Bird, but it does have more of a happy element as well. So I could almost imagine many ripper 10 singing this song or doing a cover of this one.
0:26:33 - Natalie
Yeah, yeah, I like this song. I recognize it. It's been sampled. I remembered it from do you remember the duo, the R&B duo, jeanet like from the? Late nineties oh yeah, yes, they had the song hey, mr DJ and Sending my Love. So yeah, they have a song called Crush. I think it was on their sophomore album. It wasn't on the debut one with all the really big, big breaking hits that they had, but I think it's on the second one. It's called Crush, anyway. Yeah, it came out in like 97.
0:27:04 - Tara
Let's listen to a little bit of it.
0:27:06 - Natalie
It's exactly this drum drum line here.
0:27:08 - Tara
Let's listen to a little bit of that sample. Yeah, I think this album is probably one of their most overlooked, knowing that most of their hits came from previous records in the earlier years of the Blackbirds. And it's such a good album. I also just think it's super underrated because if you hear this album and you go and you listen to, like Chic or gosh anything, kc in the Sunshine, not KC in the Sunshine, because those are all record radio hits, so it's maybe a little different. I don't know. It's just I feel like this one's kind of overlooked in the history of jazz, fusion and funk and disco. But the players weren't really. I mean Tom and Bird is a legend, so I mean he really inspired Kirby Hancock. So I feel like I don't know he had a fun time.
It's a good record.
0:28:04 - Natalie
It is a good record, it's great. It's for your next barbecue or house party, you know.
0:28:08 - Tara
Yeah, yeah, so what's our tie in here?
0:28:11 - Natalie
I think we nailed it without knowing it this week because, think about it, we've got jazz, funk, fusion, a lot of different styles happening. We've got music school educated, virtual, so you know players, legit jazz players, and freakiest of all isn't this. This is the fifth album from the Blackbirds, is it not Sixth?
0:28:32 - Tara
Sixth, Sixth studio album. Wait, unless I counted it wrong, hold on Cause I did. I tried to do the math.
0:28:38 - Natalie
Not counting like their film, like TV stuff, whatever, I'm talking about just their music.
0:28:43 - Tara
That's true. Okay, then if you don't count cornbread, earl and me, the soundtrack, then it's definitely their fifth studio album. This is their fifth album, yes.
0:28:52 - Natalie
As well as Noah, not counting all of their side projects and solo efforts. This is also their fifth studio album. Okay, and we are on a roll. We are killing it. We cannot be stopped. We can't be stopped. That's insane. We remain undefeated, I know. Wow, yeah, there you go. That's the Noah Blackbirds connection.
0:29:10 - Tara
Friends in the store. This is never planned Like this is always, it's really not. Super, hey, I'm, this album is the one I'm gonna be sharing. And then Ally's like, yeah, this is mine. And then we come together and it's like, wait what?
0:29:25 - Natalie
Yeah, no, this is perfect I'm telling you, man, we're on the same wavelength. I love it.
0:29:30 - Tara
Legendary, just like Donald Bird and Lewis Cole, eventually, well, a few more years. No, I think he's already legendary. He's already impacted so many people, he's already played on so many projects.
0:29:40 - Natalie
I think Lewis Cole and Genevieve Artadi have carved their place in music history pretty well. Yeah, they're doing it For sure. Cool, All right Well we did it.
0:29:49 - Tara
Yeah, good pics, man. I love it. So we're one of those Daft Punk Prodigy sample types and are looking for some inspo. I would definitely dig the Blackbird's action out of the crates, oh yeah, because I think you could probably pull some beautiful sample gems right off out of that record.
0:30:06 - Natalie
Yeah, for sure. All right, shall we finish stocking the shelves so we can wrap up? Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, all right, good chatting with you. Good chatting with you, as always.
0:30:18 - Tara
As always On the flip side, Yep see you All right Later.
0:30:22 - Natalie
Bye. Record Store Society is hosted by Natalie White and Tara Davies. If you'd like to contact the show, visit our website at recordstoressocietycom, or you can find us on all your favorite social media sites with the handle at Record Store Society. Left To Left.
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