215: Meredith Ramond (Soft Blue Shimmer): Prime Titanic Era
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews Meredith Ramond of the band Soft Blue Shimmer.
To celebrate the tour they're about to embark on together - Jeremy and Meredith talk California geography, Elliott Smith, playing violin, Hot Topic, playing bass while singing, being ready to play live, recording with Corey Coffman, touring with Movements, the new Soft Blue Shimmer album "They Will Leave Us With Nothing", and so much more!!!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, you know what time it is. It is time for that convulse records update on their new releases. |
| 0:07.2 | Just about the best label going around right now. So let's get into it. We got a new EP from punitive damage. It is called hate training. |
| 0:14.5 | Picking up with the 2022 LP, this is the blackout left off. This EP delivers enormous direct hardcore across six tracks. Lyrically, |
| 0:23.3 | hate training addresses historic cycles of oppression and their echoes today. Sonically, it gives you |
| 0:28.8 | everything you want from hardcore without any bloat or excess. It is fast, aggressive, and loud. |
| 0:35.8 | Up next we got the debut LP from Public Opinion. It is called |
| 0:39.4 | Painted on Smile, one part ultra catchy punk, one part exorcism. It's an album that |
| 0:45.4 | reckons with self-loathing and self-doubted so thoroughly that by the end of it, maybe |
| 0:49.8 | things don't seem as cursed after all. Painted on Smile somehow draws together the melodicism of early Otts Rock, the intensity |
| 0:56.8 | of hardcore, and the spiky swagger of primordial punk into a surprisingly cohesive blend. |
| 1:03.0 | Lyrically, the album hinges on Hart's ability to capture existential frustration without |
| 1:08.5 | stumbling into self-pity. You can order these incredible records and see what else Convulse has to offer |
| 1:14.4 | when you visit convulse records.bantamp.com. |
| 1:19.5 | First ever podcast. |
| 1:32.3 | First ever podcast welcome to the first ever podcast. Welcome to the first ever podcast. |
| 1:58.5 | I am your host and if this is your first time here, |
| 2:01.0 | this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their |
| 2:05.0 | art form that led them to where they are today. This is episode 215. And my guest this week |
| 2:13.5 | is Meredith Raymond of the band Soft Blue Shimmer, who I will be meeting tonight for the very |
| 2:22.3 | first time in person as we're kicking off the Touche Amora spiral in a straight line |
| 2:27.4 | headlining tour here in Los Angeles at the Regent Theater. If you're hearing this and you're |
| 2:33.7 | in town, you should come on down. |
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