Throwing shapes at the cops

This week: as a belated 10th anniversary special, we redraft our favourite albums of 2015-16, the first years of the music pod. Plus we put a bow on 2025 AOTY season before picking our first new albums for 2026. Also: streaming books, warped expectations, recurring characters, on the way to losing your way, steamed on headphones, the last compact disc, rubbery datekeeping, going off script, the singer songwriter blues, psychoanalysis by podcast, remembering to put things in the shownotes, shot clock violations, wolf bands < witch bands, Muse drivebys, riders on the storm, post-grunge supergroups, accidental discoveries, altered brain chemistry, not ready for a broken funkin’ arm, nuclear blasts, bridge albums, twiddles and schtick, Preston property values, #yourwelcome, Night Lords prequels, legacy fails, other people’s AOTYs, holding back the years, market correction, pre-release radar, classic Beeso picks, are the burgers really better at Hungry Jacks, everyone else is wrong, don’t write in to point out the Sydney Metro isn’t a loop we don’t care, fixing each other’s problems and getting clapped off. 4:18 Preamble 10:26 The top ten 46:46 Lightning round 57:24 Swings and misses 65:43 Everyone else’s 2025 AOTYs 71:55 Next week’s picks Next week: back to reality (and to reasonable-length podcasts?) with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays. Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other apps Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email