Do synthesizer runs taste like oranges? Sometimes. In Impressions, hosts and longtime friends Bizzy Hemphill and Nick Forrest take a deep dive into the sights, sounds, associations, histories, and even smells a song evokes. Each episode, you’re invited on a journey through a different theme, and your transportation mode is MUSIC. If you’re looking for music recommendations from some friends who don’t take themselves too seriously, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome! Visit impressionspodcast.com to see weekly playlists and learn more.
Episodes
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Episode 14: $tatu$
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
It's the money, honey!
1) Everybody wants to be...
2) Explore complicated malls with your new Walkman.
3) Shipwreck victims and cheering crowds... we're all going down.
4) I'm wearing fashion fabrics everyone in fashion knows (cotton).
5) Mohs hardness scale elites.
6) 0 coffees = house?
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Episode 13: Change and Transformation
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Set your clocks back and cozy up, babes!
1) Harvest time for whom? Aliens?
2) A bumpin' street party.
3) Is the magic spell just MINDFULNESS?
4) Eat a sundae every Monday and wear wtf you want.
5) The Tesla wants to go to the beach!
6) A country drive through all the seasons.
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Episode 12: Final Girl
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
I had an English test today, and then all of my friends died.
1) Opening credits.
2) Which sweater should I wear?
3) You might have to rely on the policeman in your head.
4) Like the grandma scene in Moana. Sort of.
5) Neve just wants to pay her taxes!
6) Crawling out of the basement.
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Episode 11: Costume Party
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Erving Goffman would say we're always wearing a costume.
1) Limp-wristed twisting.
2) A man-eating striptease.
3) Sister Act good vibes.
4) Yes, Therese!
5) Mental health matters <3
6) Your prosthetic nose is melting off your face.
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Episode 10: The Living Dead
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
If we'll eventually be dead, aren't we all just the living dead?
1) Is he talking about himself?
2) A funky party train to HELL.
3) The secret of my eyeliner is it's the vector of infection.
4) Learning to human again.
5) Warbled messages from beyond.
6) Alt-Indie parents on IG.
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Episode 9: Fears and Phobias
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Laugh through our fears with us!
1) What if people DO want to see you fail?
2) Pee Here Now.
3) Agoraphobia is IN.
4) An avalanche of snow - and melodrama.
5) A beautiful buddy song.
6) Hapless city slickers.
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Episode 8: Ghost Stories
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Historic hauntings and spectral soirées!
1) If you haven't read A Rose for Emily, here's your sign.
2) Maybe she's just trying to dance!
3) Seven Minutes in Purgatory.
4) You are on Native Land.
5) Is he saying "f*ck you" on the EVP?
6) I don't know who you will become.
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Episode 7: CruShhhhh
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Set my heart on fire, IMMEDIATELY.
1) The lethal beauty of cupid's arrow.
2) I love surrealist film!
3) An early 2000s trip hop beat w/ all the insecurities of youth.
4) Love Gutters available for only $1!
5) A sexy ?
6) Consensual sex is hot sex.
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Episode 6: The Morning After
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Every single morning is The Morning After something.
1) The Poseidon Adventure, but make it disco.
2) Stop eating your 505 Queso from the jar with a spoon.
3) You are a functioning adult in our capitalist system!
4) I'll get my own bagels.
5) Endless potential.
6) No words needed.
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Episode 5: Anger
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Microaggressions and breathwork and coiled snakes, oh my!
1) Your public voice while your brain explodes.
2) What does your anger demon look like?
3) Are you listening to Eminem?
4) Baz Luhrmann's Count of Monte Cristo.
5) A Trojan horse of a million middle fingers.
6) Gothy Singin' in the Rain.