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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks, it'd be.

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Speaker 2: A feel.

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Speaker 1: And so this is Toy.

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Speaker 2: The album is Waves, and this song is called Sober.

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Speaker 2: Music reviewer Stelle Clifford's been listening Kilder.

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Speaker 3: One just the album I needed. This is cool, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and Sober is probably it's got that kind of minor

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Speaker 3: key darkness about it, but it's probably the only song

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Speaker 3: that really goes to that kind of space. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: I think for Toy because they're quite known for that

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Speaker 3: dub funk soul sound for a lot of it, the

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Speaker 3: tracks have that really more upbeat, positive groove, which Sober

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Speaker 3: still has. But I like it because they're sort of

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Speaker 3: going into a place where, you know, sometimes you go

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Speaker 3: to a darkness and you're like all trying to get

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Speaker 3: back on the right page. And it's sort of got

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Speaker 3: a murky kind of dubness about it, and I think

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Speaker 3: it's nice to see them branch away from just the

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Speaker 3: sunny the sunny kind of songs. Yeah, this album's kind

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Speaker 3: of interesting because they have done it in a way

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Speaker 3: where if you can, for a first few listens, go

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Speaker 3: from start to finish, that concept album where all the

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Speaker 3: songs kind of connect to each other as you listening

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Speaker 3: to the flow of it. The album opener Temata, which

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Speaker 3: is the Garden. It's actually the name of their home studio,

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Speaker 3: which is based in one of their gardens. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: And it's beautiful because it's got the sounds of birds

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Speaker 3: and then suddenly this urban sort of soundscape moves into

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Speaker 3: the electronic and then opens up into the beautiful funk

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Speaker 3: dubbed thing that they kind of do. And they shed

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Speaker 3: a little video and it's really great because they're in

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Speaker 3: the studio and then the dogs and the kids are

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Speaker 3: in the paddling pool straight outside, and I think it's

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Speaker 3: shown a real evolution of them as well, Like as

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Speaker 3: life changes and grows, you can't escape that, so you

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Speaker 3: just have to include it in your album.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, And I.

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Speaker 3: Think that's what these guys are really. They're really good

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Speaker 3: at they're really taking a soundscape and it's really nice

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Speaker 3: to hear that. I kind of go do many overseas

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Speaker 3: bands do that thing where you can record the two'es

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Speaker 3: out in your trees no, yeah, right, and then make

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Speaker 3: it part of your funk soul album. I just I

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Speaker 3: just think that's really I don't know it's called mahi

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Speaker 3: for me to hear that and then know that that

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Speaker 3: then can go to a bigger world stage, you know,

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Speaker 3: to hear that. Yeah, and they are they are good.

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Speaker 3: They're good at making these soundscapes. It made me feel

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Speaker 3: excited for summer and warmer weather. For those in the

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Speaker 3: Deep South who are going, oh we ever going to

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Speaker 3: have that? This might be the album that helps you

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Speaker 3: feel that.

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Speaker 1: You're looking together to embrace that.

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Speaker 3: There's some real super funky, cool licks on this Again,

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Speaker 3: they've been quite experimental. They've always got that big brass section,

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Speaker 3: which again, you know, it always sounds amazing when recorded albums,

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Speaker 3: but I think it speaks volumes for the fact that

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Speaker 3: these are the kinds of bands you want to see

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Speaker 3: live because all of that just comes to such a

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Speaker 3: bigger fruition on the live stage. A couple of interlude

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Speaker 3: tracks in this album, which sometimes a hit or miss

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Speaker 3: for me when you get those little bits in between

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Speaker 3: the big songs. But there's one called Sunday and it

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Speaker 3: has this real crackling static reverbs that have start and

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Speaker 3: you're like, whoa, that's like it's quite harsh in some

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Speaker 3: sort of ways. With the rest of it, but then

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Speaker 3: it opens up into this dreamy Sunday haze and again

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Speaker 3: really shows off their brass section that they have in

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Speaker 3: their band, which I think again shows them playing a

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Speaker 3: little bit more with what they can do, because they're

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Speaker 3: will really talented musicians. So I feel like they've hit

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Speaker 3: this album in the garden and is really played with

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Speaker 3: some of those layers that they do and how to

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Speaker 3: bring that all together.

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Speaker 2: Sounds very sound scapy as well.

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Speaker 3: It sound scapy, yeah, and again to hear that layering

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Speaker 3: and then sometimes electronic or just that full on bass

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Speaker 3: kind of groove sound that they get, it's playful and

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Speaker 3: it's clever, and I really like to hear that evolution

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Speaker 3: of what they're doing with their music. They're going to

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Speaker 3: be showcasing this album at MEOO and Wellington next week

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Speaker 3: on the twentieth cool, So if you get a chance

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Speaker 3: to see them, and I wouldn't be surprised, I would

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Speaker 3: assume making big assumption to please that you'll be on

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Speaker 3: the summer festival list somewhere right like when album that

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Speaker 3: speaks to summer surely. Also, if you haven't seen it yet,

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Speaker 3: definitely go into some of their social media because they

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Speaker 3: show you Timata, their studio and the beautiful place they record.

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Speaker 3: They share some stories behind the scenes of the songs.

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Speaker 3: There's also the video of the song they did for

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Speaker 3: the New Zealand Olympic team. Right, so they actually recorded

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Speaker 3: a song. Ain't just dreaming?

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Speaker 2: Well, they've got the Olympians singing, right.

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Speaker 3: It's right next Brown and at least Andrew because I

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Speaker 3: was like when I said the featured theme was like

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Speaker 3: just the video, right, but actually they are there in

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Speaker 3: the studio doing some of the chorus stuff out it was.

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Speaker 3: It was really cool. But they won some medals, So

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Speaker 3: maybe more of our Olympians need to get into the

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Speaker 3: studio before they go and compete.

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Speaker 2: Try their hands another thing. Yeah, oh very good. So

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Speaker 2: what'd you give it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great lesson. I'm going to give it.

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Speaker 3: I hate this, but I'm going to give it a

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Speaker 3: nine out of ten.

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Speaker 2: Okay, nine out of ten. Fantastic. That's pretty's very high.

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Speaker 3: It's a great listen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understan it. Yeah, I will.

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Speaker 3: Pelling off the layers. I feel like this is the

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Speaker 3: album to soak in and our care we artists too,

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Speaker 3: you know, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, we'll have more of a listen to a couple

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Speaker 2: of minutes. Thank you, Stelle. There is a Stelle comfort.

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Speaker 2: She's our music review a nine out of teen. Cherikins

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Speaker 2: Waves new album from toy is Worth. We'll have a

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Speaker 2: bit more of a listen a few minutes Age twelve for.

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