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5 mentions in 1 episodes.

A. G. Cook

15:08 · Spire · named · high confidence
“It's laser bass, but mixed with these very clean — I think it's Spire doing those ones.”
Spire supplies the clean saw-wave synth layers that alternate with the distorted laser bass in Heartache.
1:05:45 · Spire · named · high confidence
“This synth, much more classic sort of saw wave — I think that's a Spire one as well, with the filters opening up.”
Spire provides the borderline-EDM saw and filter sweep in Serenade's second half.
1:40:29 · Spire · named · high confidence
“It's another very simple Spire sound, but the nice thing is that it has this pitch envelope, very simple, and some light chorus.”
A Spire patch with a subtle pitch envelope plays the counter-melody that lifted Lucifer's second chorus.
1:44:26 · Spire · named · high confidence
“I have this sort of sweeping — this is done in Spire again, really just a noise oscillator with some chorus on it.”
A raw Spire noise oscillator sweep acts as an intentionally generic, song-interrupting effect in Lucifer.
2:01:16 · Spire · named · high confidence
“I think early days, Spire. It's a very down-the-line subtractive synth plugin... that cold Euro aesthetic within PC Music.”
Asked which plugins defined his career, he names Spire as the synth behind the early PC Music sound and its aggressive detune, chorus and reverb.