BSIDE Graphic Novel by The Reductors

Featured Artist: The Reductors

Featured Vinyl: Graphic Novel

 

Alexis’ Hot Pick	Code Variant
Sam’s Hot Pick	Body Scan

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https://thereductors.bandcamp.com/album/graphic-novel 

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CREDITS

Created and Hosted by Alexis Naylor

Co-Host: Sam Timmerman

Music by Alexis Naylor & Ruby Miguel

Voiceover: Ruby Miguel

Edited and Produced by Ruby Miguel

 

 

00:09 - Introduction (Announcement)

Welcome to B-Side, the mini-series from Through the Creative Door. Join Alexis and Sam as they dive into the timeless world of vinyl. For Alexis, vinyl was more than music. It was a Sunday ritual she shared with her dad, listening, talking and soaking in the stories behind each album and the artwork on every sleeve. Though her dad is no longer with us, she continues this tradition with her friend, Sam Timmerman. Join them as they share their passion for vinyl and the stories these records hold. 

 

00:45 - Alexis (Co-host)

Hello Sam. 

 

00:47 - Sam (Co-host)

Good afternoon evening. 

 

00:50 - Alexis (Co-host)

How are you brother? 

 

00:52 - Sam (Co-host)

Good, we are Surviving is the wrong word. We're thriving. 

 

00:58 - Alexis (Co-host)

Thriving. 

 

00:59 - Sam (Co-host)

How are you going? Anyone on the video can say you've got a haircut and it looks amazing. 

 

01:04 - Alexis (Co-host)

Yeah yeah it'll grow back. Hair grows back how's life? 

 

01:11 - Sam (Co-host)

I'll be well I'm good. 

 

01:12 - Alexis (Co-host)

I'm good, I'm excited for the offering you have for us today. 

 

01:19 - Sam (Co-host)

Oh yeah, this one was. I'm gonna show it straight away. 

 

01:22 - Alexis (Co-host)

Shall I start the 10-minute timer

 

01:27 - Sam (Co-host)

10 minutes. 

 

01:28 - Alexis (Co-host)

Go what you got?

 

01:31 - Sam (Co-host)

This is one by a Perth Bolly local band called the Reductors and it's called Graphic Novel and I've got some personal connections to it, which is how I came across this in the first place. But this has been an absolute adventure and it's been so fun and so interesting and just the art just grabs me straight away as well, by the way, which we'll talk about in a minute. But I think you have some personal connections and musical connections to these guys as well, which is super exciting. 

 

02:07 - Alexis (Co-host)

I didn't know that you told me about this record. It wasn't until I started listening to it and actually looked at some of the promo and I was like I know that guy. 

 

02:19 - Sam (Co-host)

You know these people. 

 

02:21 - Alexis (Co-host)

I know some of these people. Yeah, which was lovely, and yeah, so I didn't realize that this project of theirs, yeah, they'd release this stuff. 

 

02:31 - Sam (Co-host)

so, yeah, it was really lovely to have a listen recorded last year I believe, last year being 2024 at one of my favourite studio names ever at, at Poonshead Studio in Fremantle. It is Fremantle in Western Australia, so this is absolutely an Australian artist alert and we've just been starting a deep dive on the studio, which we'll also talk about in a sec. But do you have a hot pick in the album? 

 

03:04 - Alexis (Co-host)

Oh my goodness, I definitely have a hot pick. 

 

03:05

The album oh my goodness, I definitely have a hot pick my hot pick is um code variant fantastic I all of these tracks were such a vibe, but there was something about this sort of tension building in this song that really got me. So, um, listeners, you really need to listen to this track. It's very interesting, builds really well, but I quite enjoyed. It was almost this like speech singing, conversing sort of um, because the the imagery around this album is confronting themes of body image, disillusionment and the battle to preserve individuality. So that's weaved through all of the 10 songs. 

 

03:55 - Sam (Co-host)

We will say as well this is. Reductors are a post-punk band and this is my first foray into the punk world and it's been eye eye-opening. It's glorious it's the right way to describe it. 

 

04:08 - Alexis (Co-host)

By the way, yeah but, yes, the description of the album is perfect as well yeah, exactly, and I think this for the song that I is my hot pick, it really leans into that, because it's the imagery of the lyrics that are sort of spoken and sung and then the instrumentation really just brings that tension but holds space for those words to really, you know, they're really articulate and you can really, you know, have that land, and then suddenly vocals step aside and you've got this full band and this full energy, yeah, and it just sort of takes you through this journey and just as quick as it all comes together to the forefront, it's like right back down and then there's more, you know, vocals. So yeah, I don't know, I really enjoyed the journey of that song, really enjoyed the journey. But definitely, if I'm allowed to have a close second, I would say Implant was my close second, yeah, I really enjoyed it. There was Spoken Word, a female guest collaborator feature that was on there. 

 

05:14 - Sam (Co-host)

In that kind of military style almost, which was kind of fun. 

 

05:24 - Alexis (Co-host)

Really enjoyed that tapestry and that timbre. So yeah, I don't know a great vibey song, yeah. 

 

05:31 - Sam (Co-host)

I agree with that. I loved I was in full music brain for this one. I read the lyrics after listening to the entire record. Which was kind of a fun way to do it. 

 

05:44 - Alexis (Co-host)

Me too, and that's very rare for me. 

 

05:47 - Sam (Co-host)

Yeah, you're not wrong, you're a lyrics girl all the way. The amount of space that is given to the music to say something is very cool. A lot of the lyrics are written kind of not necessarily train of thought but kind of through composed kind of feel. It's not a lot of verse, chorus, structure going on, which is kind of fun, and they allow so much space around that particularly a bunch of these tracks are. They say their, their piece and then it's a minute and a half of music I really enjoy it. 

 

06:25

I really enjoy it and if you're, if you're a harmony brain and you want to go and analyze this stuff, there is some crazy stuff going on. It was a lot of fun to listen to um musically. My favourite was body scan. It had a um slightly different feels. The rest of them a tiny little bit more poppy, I thought um, but I had a lot of fun with that. So that, very quickly, was my hot pick, which I thought was cool. We've got to talk about this artwork, though.

 

06:54 - Alexis (Co-host)

Hot pick, though, like from the minute that you heard it, or was there something in the song? Yeah, okay, cool. 

 

07:01 - Sam (Co-host)

Absolutely, absolutely. I'm going to talk about this, the artwork which, if you're only listening, you're going to have to find it and find a photo, but I am holding it up right now, as we always do. What are these characters? 

 

07:18 - Alexis (Co-host)

Wait, these characters have their names on it and I can't remember what they were so to to put the picture, we've got two characters that are having a boxing match, and it's more in that sort of um cartoony, would you say, style yeah it, it's a little bit, I mean, hey, graphic novel. Yes. 

 

07:43 - Sam (Co-host)

Which is literally the style that we're talking about. It is leaning into that real graphic novel style. It's two kind of larger than life characters, but very, very different. Duking it out, Hard to describe. 

 

08:00 - Alexis (Co-host)

What's the name?  

 

08:01 - Sam (Co-host)

So you're're gonna have to find a photo of this thing, which are they? I can't remember because I can't see it, because I'm hiding it off the camera. Names are grin and scratchy love it, love it grin is a gray-skinned, purple haired, I'm guessing, six ish feet tall, probably 60 odd years old man with a mustache, getting his face absolutely punched in by one of the most powerful female figures I've ever seen in cartoon form, ever seen in cartoon form. Just yeah, right, jab straight to the face, that's all I can describe it 

 

08:44 - Alexis (Co-host)

Jab jab, uppercut that's it. 

 

08:51 - Sam (Co-host)

We are not fighters. I'm sorry, we do not have terms UFC fans. I'm so sorry. 

 

08:57 - Alexis (Co-host)

I had actually I think I looked up this artist that the cover art was done by 

 

09:05 - Sam (Co-host)

Tom Hoskisson. 

 

09:06 - Alexis (Co-host)

Yes, and I wrote you a note to say check him out on Instagram. It's up your alley, you will love him. 

 

09:22 - Sam (Co-host)

So Tom's work or his publicly published work is all reimagined superhero work and superhero and fantasy and that kind of again that graphic novel kind of style, super fun, really, really heavily characterized work where, like you've said, when it's coming right up my alley in that if you understand the context of these characters, you're looking at this stuff going, ah, I know what you're talking about. Super, super fun. A couple of really fun ones that I found from a couple of years ago when I did a full scrolly. 

 

09:55 - Alexis (Co-host)

Oh, so you did a full old scrolly. 

 

09:57 - Sam (Co-host)

I did a full the whole thing. I found some stuff from 2022 and it looks amazing. 

 

10:03 - Alexis (Co-host)

Amazing, so we're going to dive into the studio. 

 

10:09 - Sam (Co-host)

Oh, please, can we. Can we Just quickly? I don't know how much time we've got, but I reckon we've got a minute to go. Mr Rob Grant, who also did some backing vocals on Implant, by the way, was yeah, this studio Poons Head Studios in East Fremantle, western Australia is. I just want to go there. I just want to go there. 

 

10:35 - Alexis (Co-host)

For those listening, you need to jump on the website for this studio because there's actually fantastic photos of all of the equipment actually fantastic photos of all of the equipment. He's got a list and breaks down the consoles, the analogue, the digital, the recorders, like everything that you could ever possibly need in a studio. Plus, he's got photos of all of the excellent equipment, which is just like a kid in a candy store. I think I had a moment when I was looking through and I started with, obviously, some of the digital analogue stuff, but when I got through to a screen which it had like all of the keyboards and synths. 

 

11:22

I nearly weed my pants. 

 

11:29 - Sam (Co-host)

That's a timer, but very quickly, we'll try and link it in the show notes as well, if we can. That'd be fantastic. Go and check it out, rob and his studio. Looking at the client list that he has worked with as well. There are some names. There are some names which I will not read out because you've got to go to the website. 

 

11:51 - Alexis (Co-host)

That's a great segue. I love it. 

 

11:55 - Sam (Co-host)

But also, yes, graphic novel by the Reductors. 

 

12:01 - Alexis (Co-host)

Yeah, on. 

 

12:01 - Sam (Co-host)

Bandcamp, I believe. 

 

12:03 - Alexis (Co-host)

It is 100% on Bandcamp. So, like we say most times, support Australian artists, get on Bandcamp, buy all their things. 

 

12:14 - Sam (Co-host)

Buy all their things. 

 

12:15 - Alexis (Co-host)

All of their things. 

 

12:17 - Sam (Co-host)

Lovely to see you again, as always, my friend. 

 

12:24 - Alexis (Co-host)

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