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59: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2023
Who will take Beyoncé's crown? Whose album will be deemed the best of 2023 by pitchfork dot com, the music website? Well, if you've visited the site recently, you likely already know the answer, but what our podcast presupposes it...what if you didn't? Join us as we read you an article and fight...
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58: Draft - Best Albums of 2023
We wouldn't leave you out in the cold during The Season of Lists, no matter how less-than-prolific we've been in podcasting as of late. We're drafting in anticipation of Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2023 and you're currently anticipating listening to said draft. Love you.
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57: Feist
It's just Feist this time, folks. Maybe that's all it needs to be. Jai Paul Posts Note Ahead of His Live Debut at Coachella 2023 | Pitchfork 100 gecs: 10,000 gecs Album Review | Pitchfork Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Album Review…
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56: Caroline Polachek | Gorillaz
Will Caroline Polachek finally make whatever album The Website's been apparently disappointed in her for not making yet? Can you teach an old cartoon band new tricks? Is there any good reason to spend twenty minutes talking about The Grammys in 2023? Who cares! Listen to podcast. Love podcast....
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55: Mac DeMarco
We're looking at the most anticipated albums of 2023. We're making a return trip to the vibe known as Mac DeMarco. And somewhere in the middle we're continuing our extremely scientific project of distilling the entirety of the 1990s into a one-song playlist. The 34 Most Anticipated Albums of 2023…
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54: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2022
Join your Best New Hosts as they read through The Website's 50 Best Albums of 2022 list and, more importantly, discover the winner of last episode's draft. Do this with us. You simply must. The 100 Best Songs of 2022 | Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2022 | Pitchfork Best Albums 2022: See The List
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53: Draft - Best Albums of 2022
Now knee-deep in the Season of Lists, we're drafting for The Website's Best Albums of 2022 and we're not afraid to say so. But first, we find ourselves in a bit of jeopardy.... Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2022 | Exclaim! Best Albums of 2022: Beyoncé, Rosalía and More - The New York Times…
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52: Weyes Blood
Continuing our newer habit of secondary and tertiary deep dives, we're going back to Weyes Blood! But first, we kick off a multi-episode project that's very hard to explain but it involves Mack probably hiding a CD-R in some bushes in Griffith Park. Or something. Editor's note: Apologies for the...
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51: Arctic Monkeys | Taylor Swift
We talk about the Best of the 1990s lists. We talk about Arctic Monkeys. We TALK about Taylor Swift. You're truly not going to find this much talking, about these specific topics, in this specific order anywhere else in Podcastland. That's the Best New Podcast guarantee! Disclaimer: Due to some...
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50: Built to Spill | Death Cab for Cutie | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Look, it's episode 50. We were feeling reflective. The only natural course of action was to construct a set of millennial midlife crisis deep dives. Built to Spill: Live Album Review | Pitchfork The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest | Pitchfork The Postal Service - Wikipedia…
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49: Beyoncé
Come for the overanalysis of one of the year's biggest event albums, stay for the multiple failed attempts at pronouncing "beabadoobee." Pharrell Williams - Cash In Cash Out (Official Video) ft. 21 Savage, Tyler, The Creator - YouTube The 39 Best Albums of 2022: Our Favorite Music of the Year So...
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48: Soccer Mommy
We're talking top 5's (of a sort). We're talking about the legendary "C Trilogy". We're talking about...LiveJournal for some reason. Beth Orton: "Weather Alive" Track Review | Pitchfork Soccer Mommy Slays Her Demons | Pitchfork Soccer Mommy: Collection Album Review | Pitchfork Soccer Mommy:...
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47: Kendrick Lamar | Arcade Fire
This episode we're deep diving into two of The Website's all-time heavy hitters, two artists known for speaking to the current moment who've been largely absent since 2017, two artists given to bold, ambitious statements. They're essentially indistinguishable, really, but we'll do our best...
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46: Wet Leg | Father John Misty | Belle & Sebastian
Today we investigate the power of indie rock myth via three different artists, from three different generations, and how they've construct their narratives (or how those narratives get constructed for them.) Kind of. Okay, that might be a bit of retroactive continuity — really it's just three…
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45: Rosalia | The Weather Station
Two artists following up on massive breakthrough albums, as well as a bright, brand new, soon-to-be-hit opening segment that you'll have to hear to believe. It's all happening, and it's all a podcast. Play ball! Duffy's Debuts Side Deck - caroline Duffy's caroline YouTube playlist Pitchfork's...
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44: Beach House | Spiritualized
Dream Pop...Space Rock.... Frankly, I'm stunned by how little the topic of drugs came up on this episode. Black Country, New Road Announce New Album, Share New Song: Listen | Pitchfork Black Country, New Road Frontman Isaac Wood Departs Band Days Before New Album Release | Pitchfork Beach House...
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43: Earl Sweatshirt | Mitski
Deep dives on Earl Sweatshirt and Mitski. Also, the 2021 Best New Podcast Year in Review. Or is it the inaugural Best New Podcast Awards? We didn't quite work that out. Anyways, how've you been? The 45 Most Anticipated Albums of 2022 | Pitchfork Did Chromatics' Album Dear Tommy Ever Exist in the...
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42: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2021
The time has come. The results are in. Join your Best New Hosts as they read through The Website's Best Albums of 2021 list and, more importantly, discover the winner of last episode's draft. The 100 Best Songs of 2021 | Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2021 | Pitchfork Give me fuel, give me fire,...
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41: Draft - Best Albums of 2021
At long last your Best New Hosts have returned for a good old fashioned draft in anticipation of The Website's 2021 year end list(s). Pitchfork Reviews: Rescored | Pitchfork Puja Patel's song of the year tweet
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40: Lorde | Deafheaven
This episode, two artists taking left turns. Also, we debut a new segment in which one of the worst modern US presidents becomes a kind of Carmen Sandiego-like figure, traveling mysteriously through time, space, and Pitchfork interviews. "Hold U" by Indigo De Souza Review | Pitchfork Clairo…
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39: Billie Eilish | Jack Antonoff
We're talking pop and you can't stop us. Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Album Review | Pitchfork https://web.archive.org/web/20200225234101/https://themusicnetwork.com/becoming-billie-how-apple-music-and-spotify-helped-make-billie-eilish-musics-new-gen-z-superstar/...
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38: Modest Mouse | Lucy Dacus | Tyler, the Creator
Three artists that we feel The Website is a little scared to admit they don't quite know what to do with. Note: At one point in the show we inaccurately claim that Tyler, the Creator's 2019 album IGOR won a Grammy in the "Urban" category. It in fact won the Best Rap Album Grammy and, for the...
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37: black midi | St. Vincent
In this episode we discuss two artists with origins in very prestigious music schools, where they presumably do very prestigious music things. Does all this prestige guarantee a BNM? Absolutely not. That's ridiculous and, frankly, I'm embarrassed for having suggested it. Flock of Dimes | "Hard…
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36: Julien Baker | The Hold Steady
Have you ever showed up to what you assumed would be the physical manifestation of a pop album, only to find out it was just a regular old theme park?! If so, you're not alone and this class action lawsuit may be for you. The Weeknd Says to Expect "No Special Guests" at Super Bowl 2021 Halftime...
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35: Drake
We've long known Drake claims to be a lover boy, but we've yet to see any real credentials to back that up. However, that may soon change. Join us as we discuss one of the new year's most anticipated albums, Certified Lover Boy. 2021 Music Preview: Our Most Anticipated New Albums The 41 Most...
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34: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2020
The time has finally come. Listen along as we read through The Website's year-end top albums list and determine the winners of this year's draft. That's about 10% of it. The rest, as usual, is mainly us mispronouncing things. The 100 Best Songs of 2020 | Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2020 |...
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33: Draft - Best Albums of 2020
With the year slowly starting to fade and with the release of The Website's year-end lists imminent, your Best New Hosts gather to do what they do just fine: draft. This episode we pick the albums we think will top the 50 Best Albums of 2020. First, however, with judgement in our hearts we take a...
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32: Adrianne Lenker | Jeff Tweedy
A cabin album! 😱 A quarantine album! 😱 Two singers toss their Big bands to the side and get contemplative. Or remain contemplative. I dunno, just listen to the podcast. Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker Announces 2 Albums, Shares New Song: Listen | Pitchfork Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Announces New Album…
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31: Fleet Foxes
A Fleet Foxes scramble-cast, for Shore. New Fleet Foxes Album Picks Up Literally Where Last One Ended, Robin Pecknold Says | Pitchfork Premature Evaluation: Fleet Foxes Crack-Up - Stereogum Robin Pecknold | Stereogum
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30: Sufjan Stevens | Matt Berninger
For an episode nominally about Sufjan Stevens and Matt Berninger, we sure do spend a lot of time talking about Wilco and "Big Mamas."
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29: Taylor Swift
In an uncharacteristic instance of somewhat timely podcasting, we put together a Deep Dive on Taylor Swift's new surprise release, folklore. "Betty" by Taylor Swift Review | Pitchfork Taylor Swift 'folklore' Review: An Indie Record Unconcerned With Being Cool - Stereogum The National's Aaron...
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28: 2020 Half-Year Contenders
In this episode, with nothing to deep dive, your hosts become bored and essentially just start talking about the upcoming 2020 year-end list anyway.
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27: Bob Dylan | Phoebe Bridgers
All aboard Lou Reed's Time Travelin' Dirigible! It's time to invent The Beatles! DEEP DIVES: Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher LIGHTNING ROUND: Jessie Ware – What's Your Pleasure? Maya Hawke – Blush Arca – KiCk i MIKE – Weight of the World Lamb of God, – Lamb of God…
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26: Moses Sumney | Perfume Genius | Car Seat Headrest
Do you have a personal relationship with Stephen Malkmus? DEEP DIVES: Moses Sumney – græ Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Car Seat Headrest – Making a Door Less Open LIGHTNING ROUND: Built To Spill – Built To Spill Plays The Songs Of Daniel Johnston Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song…
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25: The Taco Bell Concert Hole
25: The Taco Bell Concert Hole In retrospect, a lot of the concerts we've been to could or should have been live streams. Note: You may notice that Mike's audio in the final segment is...weird. We hate to lean on the old "technical difficulties" crutch, so let's just say that his laptop...
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24: I'm The Dog Man
In which we discuss how very concerned music journalists are about artists being derivative. Sometimes. Except when they aren't at all. Deep Dives HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III The Strokes - The New Abnormal Lightning Round Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves Of Your Life Laura Marling - Song for Our...
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23: The M. Night Shyamalan of Sexy
Your Best New Hosts blow off some Super Tuesday steam and then proceed to spend about ninety percent of the show unraveling the mystery of why one would title an album Kiss Land. DEEP DIVES: U.S. Girls - Heavy Light The Weeknd - After Hours Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud LIGHTNING ROUND: Megan Thee...
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22: A Sub-Bachelor Level of Entertainment
As we once sang on our now-legendary 2014 performance on The Late Show with David Letterman: "Podcasts change / But you know some podcasts never do." So, anyway, here's another episode. DEEP DIVES King Krule - Man Alive! Real Estate - The Main Thing Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Grimes - Miss...
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21: Where's Waldo-ing Himself
Breaking in the (still somewhat) new year by getting back to basics with some deep dives. Also discussed: some of your hosts' most eagerly awaited albums of 2020 and Duffy's nuanced take on the announcement of a new Bright Eyes record. Deep Dives Wolf Parade - Thin Mind Torres - SIlver Tongue...
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20: LIVE READING - The 50 Best Albums of 2019
20: LIVE READING - The 50 Best Albums of 2019 After a brief delay due to wintertime sniffles, your Best New Hosts have emerged from their NyQuil haze to finish what they started and read The Website's long-anticipated year-end best albums list. More importantly, the winner of the previous…
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19: Draft - Best Albums of 2019
The Season of Lists cannot be stopped. The Season of Lists soldiers on with another draft. The Season of Lists will soon provide The Website's Top 50 Albums of 2019, one presumes. Listen as your Best New Hosts scramble and bicker in preparation for this. Also, another rousing round of "Do We Give…
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18: Mom, I Know You, Man
A lovely, classic Deep Dives episode before we round out the year by diving back into the Season of Lists. We discuss two artists with similarly lengthy discographies and...well, the similarities pretty much end there! Plus, the return of a classic fan-favorite segment: Bowers or Burroughs....
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17: Live Reading - Best Albums of the 2010s
Your Best New Podcasters read through the The Website's list of the Best Albums of the 2010s and find out the winner of the previous episode's draft. Much, much yelling ensues. HYPERLINKS OF INTEREST Pitchfork - The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Best New Podcast - Drafts We're on Instagram a…
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16: Draft - Best Albums of the 2010s
The Season of Lists kicks into high gear with perhaps the biggest list of them all. Join us for a good old fashioned draft in anticipation of The Website's ranking of the Best Albums of the 2010s. HYPERLINKS OF INTEREST We're on Instagram a little bit. We also have a website, with things. Also,...
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15: The Jacuzzi
Better late than never? I sure hope so because, while we recorded this one over a week ago, The Website beat us to the punch, reviewing one of our Deep Dives while our all-star post production team was still hard at work fine-tuning the episode. Ah, such is life in podcasting's fast lane. Beep,...
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14: The Biggest Potato
It's all Lucy with the football with diamonds all over again. DEEP DIVES M83 - DSVII The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights Vagabon - Vagabon LIGHTNING ROUND Frankie Cosmos - Close It Quietly Vivian Girls - Memory Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence Pixies - Beneath the Eyrie...
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13: I Podcast With My Whole Body
Part seven of a twelve-episode special investigation into Whitney's beer hacks. DEEP DIVES Charli XCX - Charli Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar LIGHTNING ROUND Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love Lower Dens - The Competition Death Cab - The Blue EP Laurie Anderson - Songs...
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12: Midnite Diapers in the Moonlight Barking
This month we were so excited about our one year anniversary that we didn't actually check when it was. DEEP DIVES Bon Iver - i,i Taylor Swift - Lover Clairo - IMMUNITY Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold LIGHTNING ROUND Tool - Fear Inoculum Jay Som - Anak Ko G Flip - About Us !!! - Wallop…
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11: That'll Get You in Some Chinos
This month two artists move on from the mixtape and two more move into new band names. But first, your hosts take you on a tour of the 2013 BNM that almost was, as they spend about 20 minutes probably mispronouncing Jai Paul's name. DEEP DIVES Chance the Rapper - TBA Cuco - Para Mí The Soft…
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10: Sir Luscious Lefty Son of Left Foot
Join us this month in dissecting the music careers of a big ol' pack of aging dudes. How does one age gracefully in dance music? How does one age gracefully in rock music? How long can we go without referencing either Chillwave or Sandinista! by The Clash? Some say we'll never know…. DEEP DIVES...
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