Life Without Buildings with Blondshell

Bandsplain

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4.4 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Recorded live at the Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Yasi is joined by Sabrina Teitelbaum (a.k.a. Blondshell) to dig into Life Without Buildings, the Scottish cult band whose single and singular 2001 album, 'Any Other City,' is still worth talking about today. They discuss the band’s jagged sound, their art school roots, and the second life they found when “The Leanover” went viral on TikTok two decades after it was released. CREDITS:Host: Yasi Salek @yasisalekGuest: Sabrina Teitelbaum @blondshellProducer: Rob SundermannEditor: Adrian BridgesAdditional Production Supervision: Justin SaylesTheme Song: Bethany Cosentino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's with this band anyway?
0:07.0	I don't get it, can you please explain?
0:12.0	Wait, like bands played?
0:16.0	Never heard this band in my life.
0:20.0	Oh, you haven't? I love that. Really? Why?
0:23.6	Yeah, I love this song. Oh, I don't know that one.
0:27.6	Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain.
0:30.6	I really hate this band!
0:32.6	Whatever, I'm their biggest fan.
0:34.6	Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain. biggest fan band splain band splain band explain band plane band plane
0:39.3	band plane you guys hello and welcome to bandsplain how are you what's up boisey is it boise you guys it's up Boise?
0:54.9	Is it Boise?
0:55.9	You guys, I'm so sorry.
0:58.3	It's so inappropriate that I don't know that yet.
1:01.0	Who did?
1:04.1	Jewel, like my hands are small, I know.
1:04.8	That one?
1:09.6	I got to get into that part of the discography. But don't you feel like it's like slightly inauthentic for us to hit it with Boise? Like when people say Los Angeles like that? Well, yeah, kind of. I don't know. I don't know if there's an ethnic flair to it being Boisey or Boisey. Well... It's French. Okay, you can't be racist against French people that's not possible
1:27.5	okay true um really loving the vibes here you guys I gotta say um okay
1:36.1	proud proud town um all I did today was shop if I'm being honest but
1:40.6	fucking I scored I went to graveyardveyard Vintage. Shout out Graveyard Vintage. Got an amazing urge overkill shirt, which I genuinely feel like I stole from them because the price was so low. And you bought me a sweatshirt. I bought you a sweatshirt. It said, Talentless. And then the back said, please wash your hands. Yeah. In fairness, I send it to you being like, this is my sweatshirt of my life. And you were like, can I have it? I was like, you could buy it for me instead. Famously talented, but yeah, you can have it. What else did I do? I ate at Jersey mics. I sampled the local cuisine.
2:18.4	I didn't have time.
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