Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-26-26 hour 3

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0:39 Speaker 3: All things past Present turns to the past Just as all these memories.

0:44 Speaker 2: Fit into a dream We need to walk.

1:47 Speaker 4: We need them.

1:48 Speaker 3: To love, wake the one I cannot see. Stay right here, living all seems clear. The world is only you and me, fit into a dream. into a dream guitar solo.

2:57 Speaker 2: Thank you.

3:58 Speaker 5: Oh, what a great sound. I love that song. That is called Fade. The band is Soft Science. And let's see, we should have, joining us remotely via restream, Katie Haley and Ross Levine on the line with us. Hello, are you there?

4:16 Speaker 1: Hello, can you hear me?

4:18 Speaker 5: Hey, yes, I can hear you both. Is it just the two of you, Katie and Ross? yeah okay welcome to the show i love that song um that is so good i listened uh i listened to the whole album sand but i i especially love that uh it's got such a cool sound to it and you know it's um tell me what that song is about because my interpretation is it has to do is that it has to do with memories which i'm interested in because i'm a hypnotherapists and sometimes I help people to recover lost memories. But, um, that's kind of what the song means to me, but it can, can you tell me what that's about?

4:56 Speaker 5: And then I want to have a, a broader conversation about the album, but tell me about fade.

5:02 Speaker 1: Uh, I thought basically the, the idea of fade is, uh, about memories and change. And Katie and I, we, we both have teenagers, kids, um, And when you have a kid, you can really see the change is constant, right?

5:18 Speaker 6: Yeah.

5:20 Speaker 1: So you kind of really feel time. And it's how things change suddenly or slowly that all of a sudden seems suddenly, where it's like little bits here, a little bit there, a little bit there. And then you realize that the accumulation of little things has reached a point where your whole life is different and it's kind of snuck up on you.

5:43 Speaker 5: Yeah, I've observed that in other people. I don't have any children of my own, but I've noticed, you know, I've heard people talk about that, about that's kind of what having kids is like and how it does kind of affect time and your sense of time and, you know, the part you said about, you know, things kind of sneaking up on you. Um, that, that is something that, that I've heard a lot. So that, that makes sense. Uh, we should mention too, of course, Ross, you're, you're the guitarist and backing vocalist and keyboardist and Katie, you sing and do percussion as well.

6:15 Speaker 5: And, um, I love your voice, Katie. And I, I think on a song like that too, it's, it's just, uh, just, just really, really cool. I like the, um, you know, and there's kind of a dreamy I mean, part of it's the song and the production, of course, but there's kind of a dreamy element to it. And is that something, Katie, that you sort of strive for in terms of how you sing? Have you always kind of sung that way?

6:39 Speaker 7: Well, thank you for the compliment. I appreciate it. I'm really glad that you like how my voice sounds.

6:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we.

6:51 Speaker 7: I mean, I feel, I sing how I sing, but, but I mean, we do do some, there's, there's, there's some purpose.

7:02 Speaker 5: Right.

7:02 Speaker 7: And I do like kind of sing a little bit, maybe like lighter on some things to have it be more airy and, and dreamy. And, you know, have, have that sound where we use, that's the kind of, sound and texture that we... Well, yeah, reverb. There's a little magic. Not magic, but a reverb.

7:27 Speaker 5: Production.

7:27 Speaker 7: There's a lot of layers of vocals.

7:30 Speaker 8: Yeah.

7:32 Speaker 5: Well, that's why I was wondering, because not everyone can pull that off. You know, I've heard I've heard some singers try to pull that off, but you really nail it. And, you know, and it just works so well on a on a song like that. Can you tell me a little bit about the theme of the album? Because I feel like the album also, Sand. I feel like it also has kind of a theme to it. You know, it seems like it's about maybe some of the same themes as Fade specifically about memories and cycles and changes and relationships and all that stuff.

8:06 Speaker 5: But can you tell me about Sand and kind of the themes of it?

8:11 Speaker 1: Well, sorry. That's okay. The title track Sand is a song we actually had left over. from the batch songs that we had for lines. So that is the oldest song on the record. And when we started Soft Science years ago, we kind of had the attitude that if we had an opportunity to do something, we should do it. We should take it up because every time we have an opportunity, it could be it could be the last time you ever have that opportunity. So we need to take advantage of things and to, uh, you know, not take things for granted and think that, you know, we'll, we'll get a chance for that next time.

8:52 Speaker 1: We'll get them next time. So we put a lot of effort into the records because we don't want to, we want to make sure they're as good as possible and we don't look back and wish we did something different.

9:02 Speaker 8: Right.

9:02 Speaker 1: And then, you know, if we get an opportunity to play somewhere, we try our best to do it. We have a lot of limitations because the fact that, uh, you know, we have busy lives and kids and stuff and, and, uh, we all don't live in the same town anymore so it's a little bit more difficult to get together gotcha but we still make it work and so so sand was you know basically do it while we can uh just seize the moment and and uh because you don't know if you'll ever have that chance again and that is kind of the theme of the record in the uh permeates through a few of the songs it.

9:36 Speaker 7: Does well i think it it's also i always think oh go ahead go ahead.

9:40 Speaker 5: Max oh no i was just gonna say uh referring to what ross was saying it does it does feel like there's a certain urgency to the album um but but yeah go ahead katie.

9:51 Speaker 9: Oh no i just it's it's always interesting to me because i i think that we i don't think that we ever really go out when we're making an album intentionally with a theme.

10:02 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:03 Speaker 7: But it's interesting how this collection of songs does have a lot of lyrically. I think it's just processing this time in our lives. Ross and I collaborate on the lyrics. We have for years. And I.

10:23 Speaker 10: Just think that it, it's kind of interesting when I, when I step back and it does have this, you know, it's like processing relationships and, and, and memory and thinking about how, you know, and treasuring things, treasuring moments that have in your life, like fade into a dream. You know, one day, you know, I know you'll understand, you know, like Ross said about, you know, Sam, let's do it while we can. And it's really, I don't know. This album does feel a little bit different in that way. When we step back and look at the songs and look at them, it's like this moment in time and about treasuring moments and memories and processing things.

11:14 Speaker 7: Processing relationships. And I love that kind of magically or you know, during that course of time and making it came together like that.

11:26 Speaker 8: Yeah.

11:27 Speaker 5: Um, has the process changed because this is your, is this your fifth album? Is that correct?

11:36 Speaker 11: Yeah.

11:37 Speaker 12: Yeah.

11:38 Speaker 5: I would imagine, I would imagine the process has changed over the course of those.

11:41 Speaker 2: Oh, go.

11:44 Speaker 5: Ahead, Ross.

11:45 Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, we used to be able, we used to be able to, uh, when we all live in the same town, uh, we had a, I think it was Wednesday night practice and every Wednesday night we'd get together and work on songs. So we would have a lot of time to work on songs together in the same room. Uh, and then things like got complicated, people moved and got busy and now, and then we lost the space. And so now it's, we don't, it's much harder for us to get together. So, uh, our previous record lines, we, you know, it was very compartmentalized ever.

12:16 Speaker 1: We were very, because of the pandemic, he started working on me a little bit before the pandemic. So we've got a little bit together, but then it was really compartmentalized with just like people sending recordings, their takes in. And, and we really didn't get to, to work on things together. And I think the records, I liked the lines a lot, but one of the cool things about sand is, is we got, we made it, we found the time and we actually got, spent some weekends, you know, to really hammer stuff out as a band.

12:47 Speaker 1: You know, we obviously, you know, we wish we, you know, more would be better, but we got, we did make it happen. And we do a lot of, you know, scheduling can be rough, but we find weekends and we get together and we work on things. And because Matt, Katie and I on Wednesday nights and figured out parts and bounced ideas off each other and, and threw stuff out, brought stuff in, tried out a ton of different harmonies. Katie came up with a lot more vocal ideas just because we had the time to work on stuff.

13:23 Speaker 1: Me and my brother got to work on a lot more interesting guitar work just because, again, we had more time to bounce ideas off each other. it's a little harder than it used to be, but the fact that we exist is a victory.

13:38 Speaker 13: Yeah.

13:38 Speaker 1: And that's kind of ties into the theme of the record. Appreciate that. We still get to do this in some, some level. It's still got opportunities to talk to people like you and, and we're hoping this next year we're going to actually get out and play some shows. We're hoping to be able to announce some stuff pretty soon.

13:54 Speaker 14: Okay.

13:55 Speaker 5: Okay.

13:55 Speaker 6: Excellent.

13:56 Speaker 5: Speaking of playing shows, I'm curious, when you do play live as a band, do the songs change at all? Does the sound, the vibe change at all? Because it

14:10 Speaker 5: seems like some of this might be a little challenging to replicate live, or maybe not. Maybe it's easy for the unit that you have. Obviously, you've been around a while. You've been together a while as a band, so... Maybe those, maybe it's easy. I don't know. But what is it like trying to play these live and do the songs change at all?

14:32 Speaker 9: I would say the songs do not change. We try really hard to kind of sound like the record when we play live.

14:41 Speaker 7: So we, we, we try to replicate as closely as possible. I mean, it, it will sound a little different because it is live, but yeah. All the, all the parts are there. Excellent.

14:56 Speaker 5: Excellent. And on this album too, did you kind of turn up the guitars a little bit, um, in contrast with some of your earlier work? I mean, it seems like the guitars are, you know, the guitars are very present and so not, you know, not super heavy, obviously, but, um, and yet, I mean, it's a neat trick, right? Cause you've got the guitars there. You can, you can hear them. They're, they're driving the songs, but they're not, um, but they don't overshadow that sort of dream pop vibe that you've got going, uh, overall.

15:24 Speaker 5: I mean, did, did you intentionally turn up the guitars on that record? Am I just, am I imagining that? Am I, is what I'm hearing really there? It seems like the guitars are louder on sand.

15:38 Speaker 1: Uh, I, um, Kevin, um, uh, Kev Bolas mixed the record and he did a really good job and, and, and, my brother did give feedback to maybe turn the guitars up a little bit.

15:53 Speaker 8: Really?

15:53 Speaker 1: I didn't really realize, think of them as being louder than the previous records myself. But, you know, it's, yeah, I have to think about that. So I know, because the initial mixes, they were a little bit lower, but they turned them up a bit.

16:08 Speaker 5: Okay.

16:09 Speaker 1: But I don't think of them as loud. But we think of ourselves as a guitar-based band.

16:13 Speaker 7: Yeah.

16:13 Speaker 5: Yeah.

16:14 Speaker 7: For sure. Yeah.

16:15 Speaker 14: Yeah.

16:16 Speaker 7: They're just very present. They're very present. I think that this album has some of Matt and Ross' best guitar work to date.

16:26 Speaker 5: Really?

16:27 Speaker 1: Okay.

16:28 Speaker 7: In my opinion. Mainly Matt. Mainly, yeah. Well, I'm giving you some credit too there, Ross. Ross can basically play every instrument in the band.

16:41 Speaker 5: Oh, okay.

16:42 Speaker 1: But not every instrument.

16:44 Speaker 7: Jack of all trades. But Matt is especially a really great guitarist.

16:50 Speaker 2: Okay, okay.

16:51 Speaker 5: And by the way, are you guys playing 12 strings? Did I read that correctly?

16:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, we both have Rickenbacker 12 strings. They were or pandemic splurges for recording lines. And then I got jealous cause he got one. So I bought one too.

17:08 Speaker 5: Oh, no kidding.

17:10 Speaker 1: And once you get used to it, it's not so bad. No, the strings is a nightmare. Oh, I bet.

17:15 Speaker 13: Yeah.

17:16 Speaker 8: Yeah.

17:16 Speaker 5: I've heard though, once you get used to playing it, it's not bad, but, but so I'm curious though, what that contribute, like, does that, is that part of what supplies the texture, you know, that I hear in these songs and are you playing 12 strings throughout the album on every track?

17:33 Speaker 1: Not every, um, some, there are some, uh, six string parts and specials in the leads, but all the rhythms are 12 strings. And, uh, and we basically know wearing our sleeves are, are big influences like lush and ride have a ton of 12 strings. So like, you know, uh, nowhere and, and smile and gala they have. So we're, you know, we're not original on this, but we're, we've loved that lush sound. So we were just kind of, went head, head first into it and just, you know, lines was completely all 12 strings.

18:10 Speaker 1: And we almost had this thing, like, we don't want to use a six string because then we can't say it's all 12 strings. This one, we were so melted on it.

18:16 Speaker 13: Okay.

18:16 Speaker 1: And, uh, you know, the next record, who knows? It's just, it was just kind of a, uh, kind of a, uh, whatever, no idea that we just kind of got obsessed with.

18:28 Speaker 2: Right.

18:28 Speaker 4: Right.

18:28 Speaker 5: No, No, it's cool. Like I said, I mean, it sounds great. Do you feel that geography plays a role in your sound? Obviously, you know, Northern California, that whole sort of dream pop shoegaze. I don't even know how you feel about those terms, but I feel like if I didn't know where you were from and I just heard... your music without knowing and someone said, guess, guess where in the, you know, they're an American band, guess where in the United States they're from. I would probably say either California or I would say the West coast more broadly.

19:00 Speaker 5: But I mean, do you feel that soft science is kind of a, are you a product of your environment in a certain sense?

19:08 Speaker 7: Oh, I don't, I don't, I mean, I'll be interested. I don't think you've ever been asked this question. Um, I don't know. I think we're very influenced actually by, you know, bands from the UK.

19:20 Speaker 5: Really?

19:21 Speaker 7: Um, and not that we're not influenced by bands from America too, but Oh yeah. I'm like, um, you know, like mighty lemon drops and lush and ride and, um,

19:34 Speaker 7: but you know, also like love, not a surf and, um, things like that. But I don't know. Um, I don't know if the Ross, what do you think?

19:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one. I stumped you.

19:50 Speaker 2: You.

19:50 Speaker 1: I know. The titles, you know, when you talk about being called shoegaze or dream pop and dream gaze and all that stuff, it's really abstract. It's such a broad thing. We get called shoegaze sometimes, but like we don't sound like a lot of the new, you know, shoegaze nowadays, but we sound more like the old shoegaze, but then like, that's why we kind of, and we're way more song oriented. So we lean into pop or basically pop songs with, you know, we try to add some mood and reverb to dreamy textures, dreamy textures, but it's really abstract.

20:31 Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we, I, I, I was thinking, like, we call ourselves Shoe Gaze and Dream Pop because other people have called us Shoe Gaze and Dream Pop.

20:38 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.

20:39 Speaker 1: Not necessarily because, like, we think of ourselves that way.

20:43 Speaker 7: I definitely think we're Dream Pop. I think sometimes we have more Shoe Gaze-y songs. But if you, like, listen to, for example, like, Rides Going Blank Again, you know, you think about Twisterella. Like, that is, like, a pop song, you know? Totally.

21:03 Speaker 15: And I think that when Ross says we're more like an old school, I think if they were to pick a shoegaze band, I think we are more in the ride.

21:17 Speaker 7: Camp regarding our songs. We have albums that have more kind of like a dark wave element or more shoegaze element that are something more like a sway on our album.

21:34 Speaker 7: or threads got different, but, um, that are like, if I had the darker, like, like slower elements, then we have like, you know, pop songs, like hope.

21:44 Speaker 12: I mean, hope is just a pop song. Fade to me is a pop song that is just, you know, has, has dreamy textures and like long drawn out, you know, uh, notes and things that, that.

21:58 Speaker 7: Make it feel for lack of dreamy. So yeah. but I like the range in an album. It's not, we, we, we do try hard to curate, you know, when we were coming up, we're like, okay, well we need another pop song. We need another song. It's like a journey. You know, I like albums that have variations in song styles. So it's, it's almost like a, I was, I like to think of albums too, of like, they're almost like little books in a way.

22:28 Speaker 5: Yeah.

22:30 Speaker 7: You know, it's, if you sit and listen to it, there, there is like a, a story. There is a feeling it's a, it's a mood. And those are albums that I like to listen to. So that's really, I think Ross is probably on the same page with me on that. And that's, that's what we try to do too.

22:53 Speaker 5: No, that makes sense. So let me, Oh yeah, go ahead, Ross.

23:00 Speaker 1: Oh, I just, was going to agree with katie and like when we make a record record sometimes we go into it and we want to make a record that sounds like this you know kind of definite kind of set a goal but then it's a large degree just ends up being you know what you come up with and it drifts into other things and areas and then when you have almost have a record the batch of songs done you're like what really what do we really need to complement this to kind of round it out so that maybe at the end you kind of have a little more intention to come up with a more poppy song or a more dreamy song or something to kind of, uh, scratch that itch to kind of complete the, the journey of the record to make it seem like a good, uh, uh, you know, kind of round out the experience and have different aspects there.

23:46 Speaker 11: Right. Right.

23:47 Speaker 5: I like that. Um, well, let me ask the, uh, the obvious question. Uh, where does the name come from? Soft science.

23:54 Speaker 7: What is it?

23:54 Speaker 5: Uh, what's behind the name?

23:58 Speaker 7: I'm going to let Ross go with that one. He, he's the one that finally came up with that. We struggled. We were, we were together for a long time and not for a long time, but for, for, for many months, um, uh, we, we were in a, and we were in a band before we started soft science called California oranges.

24:17 Speaker 2: Oh, okay.

24:17 Speaker 7: And, um, then we, when they broke up, we got together and, um, we didn't have a name for while we were writing like our first album. And then we were like, okay, we need to come up with a name. And then Ross, how do you take it from there?

24:32 Speaker 1: Well, thinking of a name for a band is really hard because every name for a band has been taken. If you think of anything and you go to Spotify and put it in there, you'll find, you know, three of them. It was going through like, like, like Wikipedia, just like looking anything for just anything that sounds interesting. And in the, I just, you know, found soft science and it wasn't taken. So I'm like, Hey, maybe soft science. And it kind of had the idea of soft science being, you know, you know, things that are more, uh, less set in stone or.

25:07 Speaker 7: Well, it's more of a, it's not a hard science. It's not like, you know, there's no, there's no, there's no math involved. Like a humanity, like anthropology, um, you know, uh, those things and.

25:21 Speaker 1: And actually no math involved yeah um.

25:25 Speaker 7: But it's so i was like that just when ross said it i remember him saying it and he's not practicing i think i came up with the band name and i was like oh my gosh i love it yeah i love it so much.

25:37 Speaker 1: That's it yeah and uh and well between our first and second first and second record Because we go in hibernation. It takes us a while. It can be four years between records. But another band actually ahead of Utah put out an EP under the name Soft Science.

25:54 Speaker 2: Oh, no.

25:55 Speaker 1: Right before our second record came out. And I was like, what the? We put so much effort trying to think of a name that no one else had. And this other band just comes and takes our name before our second record's coming out. So I emailed them. I didn't get a response for a super long time. And then all of a sudden, they got back to me and they're like, okay, sorry for the delay. We've been thinking, all right, we'll change our name. We thought you guys had broken up because you haven't done anything in a while.

26:22 Speaker 1: We have a new record coming out in a few months. And they said, on one condition, will you buy our t-shirts? We just made a batch of t-shirts.

26:31 Speaker 5: Oh my God.

26:33 Speaker 1: So i'm okay we we bought a they were really good shirts oh really cool design oh that's so we just we bought their uh we bought their shirts and started selling through our band camp and it shows and oh wow it worked out oh that's funny they changed their name and that was it oh that's great that's great.

26:49 Speaker 7: You have one of our first t-shirts that's how that came about no kidding oh that's cool that was our first t-shirt yeah.

26:57 Speaker 5: Oh that's That's funny. I've, I've, I've heard a lot of, um, interesting stories when it comes to merch, but not nothing quite like that. That's amazing. How many, how many shirts was it?

27:08 Speaker 1: Like how many did you have to buy? I, it's, it wasn't a huge amount.

27:12 Speaker 14: Yeah.

27:13 Speaker 1: It was a few dozen.

27:14 Speaker 5: Oh, okay.

27:15 Speaker 1: Maybe like a hundred shirts.

27:17 Speaker 5: Oh, that's quite a few. That's great. I love that. I love that. Um, Well, so I'm going to let you both go in a couple of minutes, but I'm going to close our conversation with another great track from the album, Spinning. What can you tell me about this song? It's interesting to me lyrically, but what should we know about the song Spinning?

27:47 Speaker 7: Well, I know what it's about. It's really just about being caught in a loop conversation.

27:54 Speaker 8: Yeah.

27:55 Speaker 7: With someone, you know, and we've all had those moments.

27:59 Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

28:00 Speaker 7: You know, where you're just like, I'm, you know, you just, the communication is just being blocked or no one's listening or, you know, you don't feel like you're getting through and that frustration there. So that's what, that's what spinning's about. Very literal, I guess.

28:23 Speaker 5: But also relatable. Everyone's experienced that, certainly.

28:27 Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's so frustrating.

28:30 Speaker 5: Absolutely. 100%. Very good. So we'll hit that track in a moment, but also I want to ask you, where is the best place to go online for our listeners to keep up with everything that SoftScience is doing?

28:44 Speaker 1: We have a. I should have this memorized, but I'm going to... That's okay. Pull it up. You can go to us. We're on Instagram and Facebook and we can buy most of our stuff through band camp at, uh, what in our band camp address is soft science band dot band cap.com. Soft science band dot band camp.com. And you can buy all, uh, all our records and t-shirts there. Um, and, uh, at Instagram, we are at, uh, It's just Instagram.com slash SoftScienceBand. So if you put SoftScienceBand, you'll find us.

29:27 Speaker 5: Okay, wonderful.

29:27 Speaker 1: Go ahead.

29:31 Speaker 2: Oh, sorry.

29:32 Speaker 1: And we'll keep things updated. We have some shows that we're looking to announce soon. They're getting finalized soon. and that's where you can find out.

29:42 Speaker 5: Oh, very good. Very good. I'm glad you're on Bandcamp, too. Bandcamp is wonderful, very artist-friendly, and if you get music from Bandcamp, you get a high-quality file. which is something a lot of people don't realize. But Katie and Ross, I do want to thank you both for joining us today. We're going to close out with the song Spinning, another one of my favorites from the album. The album is called Sand. Everyone should check it out. But we'll definitely do this in the future as you're releasing new music or maybe if you put out another single.

30:09 Speaker 5: But again, Katie and Ross, thank you both so much for joining us today.

30:13 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having us.

30:16 Speaker 5: Absolutely. We'll do it again in the future.

30:18 Speaker 7: All right.

30:18 Speaker 5: We'll let you go. Take care.

30:19 Speaker 12: Bye-bye.

30:21 Speaker 16: All right.

30:22 Speaker 5: That is Katie and Ross from the band Soft Science. And again, I love the album, Sand, and I love their sound. This is so good. But let's give this another, well, another spin. The track is called Spinning. And again, the band is Soft Science.

30:49 Speaker 3: So go tell him you're in me Born again Here we go, round the bend All the same, now I stand And you've got me still gone Am I getting down now? And you've got me And you've got me spinning around Where am I getting from now? And you've got me spinning around.

33:29 Speaker 5: I love their sound. My God, that is so good. That is called spinning. The band is a soft science. They are from Northern California. And thank you again to Ross and Haley for joining us on the show. Unfortunately, there was, if you were listening live, there was a little bit of a weird delay. I think it was on Ross's end, but I'll kind of clean that up in the podcast a little bit. But I did really enjoy speaking with them a lot, and I do love this band. Again, Soft Science is the band, and the album is called Sand.

33:56 Speaker 5: But you can find all their albums online. Really, really good. We're actually going to play one more, in fact, because we have time. I'm going to play one more from the album. If you are just joining us, this is Matt Connerton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of WMNH, 95.3 FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And here's one more from Soft Science. This is called Understand.

34:51 Speaker 2: Thank you. Do you understand?

35:14 Speaker 13: Do you understand?

35:15 Speaker 2: Understand When things get hard Go back to the start You'll find that things You're lying to me Thank you.

37:15 Speaker 2: Under the sky Under the sky Under the sky Under the sky.

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39:04 Speaker 2: All the best, Jerry.

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39:42 Speaker 5: So, uh, thank you all for joining us today on the show. It's been a great show. We've had some great guests, uh, really enjoyed talking to Sam Lapidus. Of course, we just talked, um, just talked with, uh, soft science and, uh, who, geez, who'd we have in the first hour? I'll tell you what, it all becomes a bit of a blur. Sometimes my friends, it really does. Uh, let's see.

40:03 Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

40:03 Speaker 5: We had, uh, uh, the magnetic pets, tiny magnetic pets. I'm sorry.

40:07 Speaker 7: Uh, uh.

40:07 Speaker 5: in the first hour and we had a surprise call today uh... from malcolm would of legion of solace it's been a very busy show but uh... it's going to be a very busy day because later on today, doors open at 7 p.m. tonight at Terminus Underground in Nashua, New Hampshire at 134 Haynes Street in Nashua. Mental health benefits show to support On the Road to Wellness, a peer-supported arts-based mental health organization right here in Manchester, sponsored by Wanderlust Therapeutic Services. The Terminus Underground community is coming together for a special night of music, connection, and support benefiting On the Road to Wellness in Manchester.

40:49 Speaker 5: Mental health is something that touches every community. Sometimes the most important thing we can do is simply show up for one another, create a safe space to connect, and remind people that they don't have to face difficult moments alone. Join us for an all-ages show tonight. And that's important, too, that it is all-ages. There's not enough all-ages shows around, but the lineup tonight includes Phantasm, Witchspire, Graboid, Lobotomobile, my favorite band name ever to say, and PNPublic.com. It's actually not P in public.

41:18 Speaker 5: It's something slightly different, but I can't say it on the show. Certainly not on a Saturday morning. But this isn't just another show. It's an opportunity for our music community to come together for something bigger than ourselves to support an organization doing meaningful work and help keep the conversation around mental health going. Whether you're coming to support a friend, to see your favorite band, discover something new, or simply spend an evening surrounded by good people, there's a place for you here.

41:45 Speaker 5: Let's take care of each other, support our community, and use the power of music and art to remind someone that they matter. So that is tonight at Terminus Underground, Doors at 7. Jenny and I will be there. Please come say hello. And it's going to be a great night. I think what we're going to do right now, we're going to play earlier. We played a song from Graboid, one of the bands playing tonight at the event at Terminus Underground. I think we should play.

42:10 Speaker 1: Oh, you know what?

42:12 Speaker 5: Let's play this. Track called Dope Slinger. This is from Witch Spire. And again, you can see them tonight. It'll be the first time I will have seen them, that we will have seen them, live. But they will be playing tonight at Terminus Underground. They are part of the show. Again, the band is Witch Spire. One word, Witch Spire. It's hard to say. And the track is called Dope Slinger.

42:35 Speaker 3: Dope Slinger.

42:53 Speaker 4: Just to run off my bed, why the trail go with no end?

42:59 Speaker 16: Just to run off my.

43:03 Speaker 4: Bed, six in the morning.

43:06 Speaker 16: Till I'm on the trail.

43:13 Speaker 4: Thousand toes on my head.

43:18 Speaker 13: I make my money to lend to a company.

43:39 Speaker 16: Let your tear cross.

43:44 Speaker 4: The past when the billiards don't linger Let your eyes Cry through dark.

44:08 Speaker 16: We'll be right back.

45:27 Speaker 4: Yeah With the night.

45:35 Speaker 2: In my hand.

45:36 Speaker 13: There's a new call appearing with me With the night in my hand I've been led astray I've seen a part of.

45:53 Speaker 2: All my life Don't sling it. That's right.

46:27 Speaker 16: You can't do it right.

46:31 Speaker 4: Turn it once and.

46:34 Speaker 2: It's a win. Don't sling it.

46:51 Speaker 16: Don't play hard Don't play.

46:56 Speaker 5: Hard The track is called Dope Slinger. The band is Witchspire, and they are playing tonight at Terminus Underground for the Mental Health Benefits Show to support On the Road to Wellness. Again, they will be playing along with Phantasm, Graboid, Lobotomobile, PN Public. That all happens tonight, doors at 7. Come on down. It's going to be a great time. And for a good cause. Terminus Underground at 134 Haynes Street in Nashua, New Hampshire. We are going to begin to wrap up because the time does go so quickly, and we do have a World Radio premiere.

48:00 Speaker 5: For those of you just joining us, if you missed it, you'll be able to hear it in just a couple of minutes from our friend Lydia Reddy, a great artist from the UK who will be back on the show soon, I am quite sure. But it's been a fun show today. Again, thank you to everybody who joined us. Of course, we had Tiny Magnetic Pets. Sam Lapidus, Soft Science, and a surprise phone call from Malcolm Wood from, of course, Legion of Solace. Next week on the show, in the first hour, the great Ricky Mapleton will be joining us.

48:29 Speaker 5: Always look forward to seeing him. He makes us laugh. We have a great time. He's definitely in the Five Timers Club by now. He's been on the show quite a bit over the last few years. Eddie Scholar will be with us in the second hour. And in the third hour, the return of Jamdemic, a great band from the area. I cannot wait to see them. So that will all be next week on the show. If you missed any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at WMNHradio.org. And, of course, at my website, MattConnerton.com and MattConnertonUnleashed.com.

49:01 Speaker 5: You can find us on all the socials. and on YouTube, et cetera, et cetera. We're going to do two things to end the show this week. We're going to play one more track from Soft Science because I love this band so much. Again, from the album Sand, we're going to play the song Sway, which I think came up in our conversation. with Katie and Ross. And then we're going to end with the World Radio premiere one more time of the new single from Lydia Reddy. But that's going to do it for us for now. I will leave you with this, Sway by Soft Science.

49:32 Speaker 5: Hope to see you tonight at Terminus Underground. Door is at 7 p.m. And, uh, that's it.

49:37 Speaker 11: We're out.

49:37 Speaker 5: I'll talk to y'all a little bit later.

49:38 Speaker 2: Bye everybody.

49:39 Speaker 5: Stay safe out there. Ignore Easter. Don't get caught in a flood. It could be a lot of rain. All right. That's it.

51:10 Speaker 3: Time slows down with you in my arms.

52:58 Speaker 2: This land is for me. This land is for me.

53:32 Speaker 2: Thank you.

54:19 Speaker 11: You're listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on WMNH 95.3.

54:34 Speaker 5: Right now, exclusively on Matt Connerton Unleashed, the world radio premiere of the new single from Lydia Reddy, This Is How.

54:43 Speaker 4: You are listening to WMNH 95.3.

54:45 Speaker 2: World premiere.

55:06 Speaker 6: Their feet on sand.

55:13 Speaker 14: Made their way to the promised land.

55:19 Speaker 6: Many a man have been paid to look the fool.

55:26 Speaker 2: And just like them I.

55:27 Speaker 6: Followed down the whirlpool And I think this is how I die And nobody's questioning why Oh, why.

55:40 Speaker 14: Is this how I die?

55:45 Speaker 6: I want to make something of my life And I just cry Day through, day.

55:53 Speaker 14: Fast But I'll eventually be dead.

56:13 Speaker 6: Many a man had tried to escape their fates. I'd be a billion to one in a rat race.

56:26 Speaker 2: And I think.

56:27 Speaker 6: This is how I die.

56:31 Speaker 2: And nobody's questioning why.

56:38 Speaker 6: Is this how I die? I want to make some of my life And not just cry Is this how I die? Pull the sword out the soul and Watch as you crash and burn Put on my chain, may you love her And live you with all of the trauma Come and make me live longer Please make me stop suffocating Tighten my grip on my soul Pronounce my soul, Lord Be all the talk.

57:28 Speaker 2: All I want, heart and eye.

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