What Even Is This Genius New Podcast???

If you are a) a fan of curious podcasts like Welcome to Night Vale or The Message, b) sympathetic to talking drum machines, or c) can’t stop buying ukuleles, you \need/ to check out Songonauts, the funny, catchy podcast from Jonathan Mann and Jonathan Mitchell (a real quiver of Jonathans).

In the pilot episode, which you can listen to on The Truth podcast (via iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, Spotify, Soundcloud etc.), Doc, Penny, and JoJo are looking for a new drummer for their garage band, and instead find themselves in possession of a drum machine that mysteriously arrives at the door. The drum machine turns itself on, the music gets very Of Montreal, and things turn veeeery funky when the band find themselves transported into their own songs and facing off against the imminent threat of Obscurity…

My thoughts after listening to the first episode are:

a) these guys know what it’s like to get ~lost in a song~ (same, guys, when I listen to Ed Sheeran),

b) the music is excellent, which surprises me 0% because it’s all written by Jonathan “Song a Day” Mann, the YouTube star (he has a whole album of Harry Potter songs!!1!) and member of SparkNotes’ extended fam,

c) I used to judge bands with drum machines, but now I don’t (especially after rewatching Labyrinth recently),

d) you can never have too many ukuleles, and

e) Buzzkill (you’ll find out who Buzzfill is) is *everything* I have spent my life trying to defeat.

Also, how long do we have to wait until the next episode?!!!

For now, catch episode one here, and watch a supercut of the Songonauts official theme song below.

Have you listened to Songonauts? What did you think?!