Bella Union

My guests on this episode are Jack and Lily Walter of the Brighton, England-based band Penelope Isles.

Their new album, Three, is out September 25th on Bella Union.

The pair recently spoke with me about the material on this new LP.

how the meditative elements of surfing informed their creativity while in Portugal, and their desire to know more about the creative arcs of Coldplay and Kings of Leon.

Too kind.

You've been listening to a conversation with Jack and Lily Walter of Penelope Isles.

The group's new album, Three, is out September 25th on the Bella Union label.

You can learn more about the band at penelopeisles.com. You can learn more about this podcast and all programming on our station by visiting our website, kmuw.org.

My guest on this episode is Willem Smit of the Dutch band Personal Trainer.

The group's latest album, Human Assholes, is out September 4th via the Bella Union imprint.

Smith recently spoke with me about some of the inspiration behind the songs heard on this new LP, as well as his initial impulses to write songs as a younger person.

That's Willem Smits of Personal Trainer on Into Music coming up now.

I'm listening to it while mixing or something to not get too much into the technical headspace but see it at face value or something which is really hard but I just find that really funny and cool to try to be honest at some point it doesn't work anymore and it's just in your head too much and you just need to give it some space I was happy with it on a technical level and uh i i think also on the on the hopefully like a a first listen uh idea in my head um but um i i must say that i'm uh i'm not i've not like been hugely um um inspired to go back and listen to it uh for a while i have to listen to it once in a while for for boring stuff but yeah most of the time with records when it's actually out which is a little under a month from now then I can listen to it again and hear it through other people's ears hopefully and most of the time I'm actually quite okay with how it turned out then but I'm in my enthusiasm lull now

You've been listening to a conversation with Willem Smit of Personal Trainer.

Personal Trainer's new LP, Human Assholes, is out September 4th via Bella Union.

You can learn more about the band at their official website, personaltrainertheband.com. You can learn more about this podcast and all programming on our station by visiting our website, kmuw.org.

You know, to me, of course, that's what my job is.

So the debut album released June 2008 on Sub Pop and Bella Union record companies.

Now that really, straight away I'm thinking, straight away I went Sub Pop, I went Nirvana.

Bella Union, I went John Grant.

It was two record companies, because Sub Pop was very much a Seattle thing.

And obviously, Bella Union, they started the band called SARS, T-Z-A-R-S, and John Grant was part of that, and then John Grant went solo, which we did a preview of their album previously, which I'm a, deep down, I'm a really massive fan of them.

That's irrelevant, so that made me think, oh good, so two established record companies, and That's what they used the music on.

There's the American Band, which