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The BlackSheep's Top 2025 Albums · The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine

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  Speaker 1: I don't want to stand in this kitchen anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Shake the sugar beg, throw it on the floor, mainline, Danner, time,
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  Speaker 2: straight into my arm, dog with the milkman, Take it
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  Speaker 2: to the farm, Ran to the well, well the.
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  Speaker 3: Well, ran drive, take a bucket to the lake for
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  Speaker 3: a press.
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  Speaker 4: Now I lost dat set.
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  Speaker 3: Side today, We've got our friends Lindsey, Joe, Justin Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and then well, I would say Colin, but he's not
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  Speaker 3: really a friend of the podcast. He's just a co
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  Speaker 3: host of the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: We are gonna do our top albums of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just say upfront, guys, I don't know about you all,
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  Speaker 3: but twenty twenty five maybe the best year of music
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  Speaker 3: I've ever had in my own.
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  Speaker 5: Life, Mason said. He says it, yeah, every year.
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  Speaker 3: I do. I do think I say that every year,
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  Speaker 3: but I do think definitively this year actually does take
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  Speaker 3: the take take take the cake, you know, Colin, I
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  Speaker 3: remember years ago we did like this kind of like
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  Speaker 3: best years of at least of music listening years for us,
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  Speaker 3: best years of albums that we've ever had. And I
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  Speaker 3: remember like maybe it was like twenty eleven or twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 3: that like kind of took the cake at that time
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  Speaker 3: of the best years. I'm just saying for me, like
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  Speaker 3: I remember twenty eleven, incredible year of albums. I think
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five now is my top year. Like I
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  Speaker 3: truly believe that.
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  Speaker 5: I think you said that exact same thing last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, even if I did, I don't believe it anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Recncy bias, Mason, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I love a good litwer recency bias. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five incredible year, at least for me. We'll
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  Speaker 3: find out from these other great, incredible people. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're just gonna go through our top three albums, so
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  Speaker 3: each one of us in order, so like from least
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  Speaker 3: favorite of the three albums that we're about to list. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: all of these albums we love, but we're gonna go
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  Speaker 3: from least favorite to the best album for each one
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  Speaker 3: of us of twenty twenty five. So we're gonna go
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  Speaker 3: in order. Uh well, we'll do three, two and one,
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  Speaker 3: and then we'll mention some honorable mentions. So yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: got some great people here. Before we dive into all
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  Speaker 3: of that, I do think it's worthwhile to let each
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  Speaker 3: one of these incredible people introduce themselves and say whatever
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  Speaker 3: they want to say about themselves. So, lindsay, you're clearly
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  Speaker 3: the coolest looking person on the screen right now with
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  Speaker 3: your talking head shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, thank you, those.
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  Speaker 3: Those over the ear headphones. Yeah, say say more about yourself, lindsay,
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  Speaker 3: what do you what do you do in the world? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: What do you?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, whatever you want to say.
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  Speaker 1: I am, lindsay, that's me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I live in Saint Louis, Missouri, like slightly outside of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Missouri.
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  Speaker 3: I am a writer. I like am.
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  Speaker 1: A professional blogger. That is my job, but i also
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of writing on the side. And I've
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  Speaker 1: got three kids. And I think the only notable thing
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  Speaker 1: I've really done this year is I have successfully bleated
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  Speaker 1: art museum. So that's pretty much it.
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  Speaker 5: Holy hey art, Lindsay, every time that you write on
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  Speaker 5: the side, do you ever say, yeah, I've got my
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  Speaker 5: side piece I got to work on right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I say that pretty single time. Oh, I've got
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  Speaker 1: a side piece going, at least two side pieces usually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So that's always got a side piece and my regular piece.
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  Speaker 3: You're also probably the biggest Foxing fan of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Right and the biggest probably Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: Know my bands killed them. Oh no, wait, no, I'm scarddy.
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  Speaker 2: It's just my band recently opened for them in Alabama
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  Speaker 2: and we've been making the joke that they broke up
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  Speaker 2: because of us.
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  Speaker 5: Probably.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that they did that. I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: so cool. Were they basically they broke up?
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  Speaker 3: You're a big fan of breakups.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that. No, I am not. In every single
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  Speaker 1: city that they toured on for their self titled album,
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  Speaker 1: they had a different local band open up for them,
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  Speaker 1: but they're a Saint Louis band, and they had their
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  Speaker 1: farewell show on Saturday, and I cried multiple times and
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  Speaker 1: it was great. I loved it, and thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much Justin for killing them.
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  Speaker 5: I will say it was like one of the coolest
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  Speaker 5: like farewells. Like hey, we're not saying we'll never make
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  Speaker 5: music again, but like also like this is just healthy
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  Speaker 5: for us to take a little too.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot take Colin seriously, he looks like PC principle.
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  Speaker 2: I know I've already made that joke before we started,
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  Speaker 2: but oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I can't take him seriously.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna get home strong woman.
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  Speaker 3: You know what will really help you all is just
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  Speaker 3: never take Colin seriously and then you're you're going to
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  Speaker 3: understand Colin way better once.
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  Speaker 5: How do I look like the Rock? Nope, not even
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  Speaker 5: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Joe, you're next on my screen. Joe, what
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  Speaker 3: do you do in the world?
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  Speaker 5: I work in tech, and.
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  Speaker 4: I do some music, and I listened to music and
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  Speaker 4: that's pretty much it.
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  Speaker 3: You're just maybe you're also maybe the like the biggest
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  Speaker 3: teddy bear of a human being that there ever has been.
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  Speaker 4: I would hope, so, I would hope.
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  Speaker 5: So, uh, Joe, can we can we maybe like give
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  Speaker 5: a little teaser about what you're working on at all? Please?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm working on a new music project and it'll
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  Speaker 4: probably unveil in late twenty twenty six, maybe about a
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  Speaker 4: year from now before.
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  Speaker 6: The next Stottle Threat records.
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  Speaker 4: Hell very stoked about it. I think, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think most of y'all have heard it. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more intense than my previous outing and
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  Speaker 4: aggressive lyrically. It's definitely I'm definitely not holding back. I'm
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  Speaker 4: pretty pissed, so I'm pretty stoked. And then there's some
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  Speaker 4: stuff that sounds a little familiar for those folks who
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  Speaker 4: are familiar with light Worker, but there's also some parts
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  Speaker 4: that are straight up like you know, melodic death metal.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm pretty I'm pretty stoked. We have about three
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  Speaker 4: songs written musically, two of them need vocals, which are
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  Speaker 4: putting on this weekend, and pretty cool guests already wind
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  Speaker 4: up yep, hell yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And for those who aren't aware, like Joe is legitimately
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  Speaker 5: one of the most talented vocalists I've ever heard, like,
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  Speaker 5: and that's not just like glazing him right now, even
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  Speaker 5: though he's out of focus right now on my screen.
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  Speaker 6: At least, I'm gonna glaze Leona.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, Joe. Bring it on, Nuts, Joe Nut, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna give you a j Nut.
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  Speaker 3: For real.
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  Speaker 5: Though, if you haven't heard light Worker, go listen to
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  Speaker 5: light Worker. And if you have heard light Worker, be
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  Speaker 5: on the lookout for Joe caderon coming to your headphone sooner.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: The new project is called Joe Nut, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And it's all in that like scratch you
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  Speaker 4: like death metal, black metal, like font you know, it's.
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  Speaker 7: Except oh like like a glazed donut exactly, or a
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  Speaker 7: glaz jonnut all right.
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  Speaker 3: And last but not least, Justin Jones JJ, as you're
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  Speaker 3: known to me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm I'm basically one of the co hosts of this
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  Speaker 6: podcast at this point. I've been on like a dozen times.
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  Speaker 6: But Hi, my name is Justin and I'm an alcoholic.
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  Speaker 8: And uh I I work at a grocery store and
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  Speaker 8: I'm a counselor in the afternoon to work with a
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  Speaker 8: bunch of kids.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm a very part time, part time, part
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  Speaker 2: time member of a part time band called Idol Bretts.
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  Speaker 5: No, you're you're a full time member of a very
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  Speaker 5: very very very part time band. That's true.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, So I don't know, like we should have
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  Speaker 9: I love how I've said this literally two years in
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  Speaker 9: a row, but we should have a record count in
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  Speaker 9: the next.
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  Speaker 6: Like a little bit. So hopefully by the new year.
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  Speaker 6: I don't threat has new music, but we'll see. I
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  Speaker 6: still think we're gonna get GT six before then.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you'll be in GTA six. That's what you're holding out.
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  Speaker 6: For, Dude, that'd be so sick. But there's there's no way,
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  Speaker 6: there is no way.
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  Speaker 5: You're right, But here's the other deal. Again, Justin has
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  Speaker 5: showed at least most of us the new tunes, and
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  Speaker 5: they are so much better than the last record. And
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  Speaker 5: the last record was pretty damn good. So be on
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  Speaker 5: the lookout for some idle threat sometime in the next decade.
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  Speaker 2: I've leaked it to everybody, so just just DM me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably send it to you.
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  Speaker 3: It's that easy. It's that easy.
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  Speaker 5: Don't let the higher ups here that though.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, for legal purposes.
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  Speaker 4: That was a joke.
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  Speaker 5: I don't do that. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: You heard that, tooth and nail. No you didn't, because
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  Speaker 3: you don't listen to this podcast. But all right, then
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  Speaker 3: let's do our top three albums of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited to hear you all because I again,
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  Speaker 3: I just love this year so much. I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of overlap. It's totally fine if
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  Speaker 3: there's overlap in this episode. But yeah, I'm just so
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  Speaker 3: so so excited to hear what you all were listening
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  Speaker 3: to and jamming out too. So who wants to go first?
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  Speaker 3: What was your third favorite album of twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 3: Who wants to start out with?
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  Speaker 5: I think lindsay should go first.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I'm good that My number three a's no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that signal anymore. My number three.
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  Speaker 5: A's hold on. What signal did you do?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 5: Wow?
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  Speaker 6: And you said, I I think.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's been co opted by white supremacist.
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  Speaker 5: What did you do? The okay? Symbol?
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  Speaker 3: Number three?
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  Speaker 1: But I've been like this number three.
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  Speaker 5: You want to know how my son does it. This
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  Speaker 5: is how my This is how my son does three.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, it's like a referee, referee.
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  Speaker 5: I know, it's the coolest thing in the world. I'm like, Jude,
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  Speaker 5: You're the best.
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  Speaker 3: Kids are awesome. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Number three is pd USA is the yips.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So this is an album if if people are not
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  Speaker 1: familiar with him, he is basically a very like he
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  Speaker 1: has a TikTok, but he's not a TikTok musician, like
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  Speaker 1: he has a comedy TikTok meals has music, and he's
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  Speaker 1: really good at like taking really masculine stereotypes and making
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  Speaker 1: them very vulnerable. And with this album, he.
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  Speaker 3: Worked with Chris wall of her from Death Cap.
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  Speaker 1: For Cutie and like a lot of that influence comes through,
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  Speaker 1: like with the guitars and all that, because from what
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  Speaker 1: I understand, Chris actually went into the studio and did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the guitar works that Pete could just
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  Speaker 1: focus on making the music and the result is just
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  Speaker 1: a very stellar album. Like pretty much every single song
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  Speaker 1: from that album at a different point has been my
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  Speaker 1: favorite song, and it's just like constantly cycling through. So
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  Speaker 1: like God in the Gray is a really good one.
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  Speaker 1: There's a song called When Two People Dripped Apart where
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  Speaker 1: it's talking about like basically friendships and like the friendship breakup,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's maybe one of the best songs
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  Speaker 1: of maybe the only song I've ever heard of that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a very heartfalt album, and I just think
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  Speaker 1: that he did a fantastic job. I got Relli into
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  Speaker 1: him through his last album USA from Meg Ryan, the
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  Speaker 1: previous guest on this podcast. She told me about him.
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  Speaker 1: So then after that, I just haven't stopped listening. And
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  Speaker 1: then you put on a new one it I can't
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  Speaker 1: stop listening to that one either.
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  Speaker 5: Hell yeah, yeah, he was et at furnace Fest too.
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  Speaker 5: We saw at Yeah, it was fantastic one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of my favorite furnesce Fest sets. So PD
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  Speaker 3: so what's funny. So one of my most listened to
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  Speaker 3: songs this year was a pet song. It wasn't from
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  Speaker 3: the Yips, and I've got a thing to say about
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  Speaker 3: that for in a second, but that don't tell the boys. Boys,
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  Speaker 3: Holy cow. I remember when I first heard that song
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  Speaker 3: earlier this year. I was like going through some like
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  Speaker 3: really difficult stuff in my life at that time. I
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  Speaker 3: think I might have even texted you justin with that song,
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  Speaker 3: because I was I was texting every like guy friend
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  Speaker 3: in my life that song because I just was like
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  Speaker 3: so emotionally vulnerable at that moment, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: this song is life changing for me. And then obviously
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  Speaker 3: the Yips comes out Still to this day for twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, one of my favorite songs of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: five is the Milkman from the Yeps. So great album,
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  Speaker 3: Such a Lindsay album. So glad that you picked that
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  Speaker 3: one too. It's such a great album.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be really honest. I tweeted about PDUSA so
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  Speaker 1: much as somebody who actually worked on the album knew
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  Speaker 1: about him because they followed me. They're like, Hey, I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm actually gonna work with him. I'm like Okay, awesome,
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  Speaker 1: He's like, thanks for tweeting youbyes so much. So if
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  Speaker 1: you have music that you're passionate about, you should just
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: keep tweeting about them because it will influence their next stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's true, great pick, great pick, all right, who's next?
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  Speaker 5: Joseph Okay, sure, Jon Nutt.
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  Speaker 3: And jonnut Yeah, I love go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So number three.
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  Speaker 4: Is uh pruning of the lower limbs by moving mountains
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  Speaker 4: For me?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that the back half.
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  Speaker 4: Of this year has been extremely difficult for me, and
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  Speaker 4: I feel like this is the album that really just
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  Speaker 4: embodied a lot of that feeling and while still being
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  Speaker 4: very accessible and and but lyrically I could really relate,
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  Speaker 4: especially to everyone who is happy and nothing is good
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  Speaker 4: Blue and then wedding clothes and it just yeah, just
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  Speaker 4: really it hurts so good, I guess you could say.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, the only reason why it's not
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  Speaker 4: higher on the list is, I mean, it's it's my
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  Speaker 4: most listening to album of the year in terms of like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like going back and looking at your wraps
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  Speaker 4: or you know, recap or whatever it is that you have.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, phenomenal album. Much welcome return because they've been
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  Speaker 4: absent for quite some time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a while, and but.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just an absolutely gorgeous record.
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  Speaker 5: Great call, man, great call. Yeah. I can see why,
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  Speaker 5: you know, knowing kind of like where you've been at
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  Speaker 5: in like a mental space recently, why that album would
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  Speaker 5: really mean a lot to you right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know, Actually my ears perked up
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  Speaker 4: when Lindsay mentioned about like kind of like a like
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  Speaker 4: a a song about friendship breakups, because I feel like
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  Speaker 4: some of these songs could actually be interpreted in that
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  Speaker 4: way as well, totally, and and in fact, I'm writing
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  Speaker 4: about one and gonna be laying vocals down on one
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  Speaker 4: later this weekend. So that's just definitely been a theme
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  Speaker 4: that has been woven inside the record. And yeah, very
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  Speaker 4: special record.
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  Speaker 5: Do you at this point? Is that the song that
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: goes backstabber, fuck you, fuck you? No, it's not that bad.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: I'm just kidding, man, I'm just kidding.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe I have to dedicate a song to Justin Joe
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  Speaker 3: and that's.
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  Speaker 4: Goodness, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But basically, like while we were getting all this set up,
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  Speaker 2: I had already done my like top twenty five for
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  Speaker 2: the year, and just to make sure we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: overlap in my head. I was just gonna, like, as
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  Speaker 2: you guys were picking, I was gonna make sure that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't pick something that y'all had, so like I
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  Speaker 2: have it. This list is like up behind my setup
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  Speaker 2: right now, just to make sure that I don't pick
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  Speaker 2: something that y'all do. But yeah, my number three this
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  Speaker 2: year is actually my most listened to record, and that
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  Speaker 2: would be Deftones Private Music. Yeah, so dude, I freaking
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  Speaker 2: love deaf Tones. Sorry I meant, but yeah, it's if
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  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken. It's their tenth studio album, and they
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  Speaker 2: did it with the same producer that they did and
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  Speaker 2: Diamond Eyes with, so I felt like it kind of
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  Speaker 2: bridged the gap between and then, like, you know, no
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  Speaker 2: disrespect to Gore and Ohms, but I didn't love those
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  Speaker 2: records as much as you know, some of their earlier discography.
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  Speaker 2: But I really liked Private Music. I thought all the
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  Speaker 2: singles were great. I loved all the artwork that came
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  Speaker 2: with it, even all the little like production like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like toys and all that kind of stuff. It was
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  Speaker 2: It's just a fun record. I feel like they got
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  Speaker 2: back to making music that I would hear on like
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  Speaker 2: a Tony Hawk pro skater game. So yeah, I really
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  Speaker 2: really really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 3: I feel that it was one of my favorite albums
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  Speaker 3: of the year as well. I haven't my top ten.
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  Speaker 3: I forget exactly where in the top ten it lands,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, great album. I do think there's a few
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: songs from Oms that I like more than any of
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: the songs in this album. But as a cohesive unit,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: it probably is, in my opinion, better than Omes as
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: a cohesive unit. So but incredible album. Also, the album
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: artwork is so sick. So that's that green snake with
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: that white background. So cool? Hell yeah, all right, so
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: my turn for top three.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, all right.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I'm actually gonna make a last second change here because
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: looking at my third and fifth album, actually I kind
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: of want to make a little switch. This is what
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: like twenty twenty five, it was such a hard year
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: for me to like actually get things ranked, Like I
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: kind of had a good sense of what my top
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: ten was, but like getting something where like this is
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: my third and this is my second and this is
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: my first, Like that was really tough. I think I'm
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: actually gonna make a change though, last second and my
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: number three now will be from the World is a
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Beautiful Place and I'm no Longer Afraid to Die and
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the album is called Dreams of Being Dust. Okay, So
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: to just say a little bit about this album the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: last there was a few albums like in the mid
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: twenty tens from the World is Beautiful Place that I
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: really really liked, including Harmless, which I think was twenty fifteen,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: so literally a decade ago. That album potentially a top
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: fifty album all time for me, Like, I love that album.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I listened to it pretty regularly multiple times a year still.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: But then the last like number of albums that have
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: come out from them since then, I'm like, I've been
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: sort of okay on but nothing has really captured my
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: imagination like that album. But they've kind of increasingly became
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: a little bit more inde popish and they kind of
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: ticked the route that Foxing took. And lindsay, you'll appreciate this, right,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: so you know for a while, you know, obviously a
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: world just beautiful Place, very kind of like was that
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: fourth or third Wave? I always forget which one it
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: is of Emo? You would probably know better than history, lindsay,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: But whatever it is, third or fourth wave of Emo?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Probably fourth wave, I think Foxing's kind of in that
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: same ballpark of the same world of Emo. And then
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: they each one of those bands kind of got a
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: little bit popular, a little bit poppuler with each album,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, Foxing last year, which
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I think was maybe my top album last year. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: forget exactly it was so good. They all of a
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: sudden just like went post hardcore. And that's exactly what
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: The World Is a Beautiful Place did on this album,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: to the point where it's not even just like post
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: hardcore in some parts of the album, it's just straight
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: up hardcore. It's like some of the heaviest hardcore riffs,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: some of the heaviest like hardcore screaming you've ever heard
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: in an album. Yeah, it's incredible. So that album is
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: truly I just was not expecting that at all, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: then they just went this hardcore post hardcore route, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: it's some of the best you've ever heard in your life.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's all the things you love about the
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: World is Beautiful Place and post hardcore and hardcore. It's
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: just super cool. So anyway, that's my number three.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I dig that. That's a good pick, Mace, very
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: good pick. That was on my Honorable Mentions list as well.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: I do have a quick question are we going to
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: allow EPs this year? Because I mean usually I usually
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: give you shit for picking EPs, and I don't usually
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: have a pick EPs because I'm like, it's albums of
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: the year, not EPs of the year. But so we're
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: okay with EPs? Sure, Okay? This is not an EP.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Modern Worries by Tyson Mottson Baker I think was an
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: absolutely fantastic album that blew my mind. Last album was good,
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Milk Teeth was great from a couple of years ago.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: But this record is it spoke to me in a
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: completely different way. It's very lyric forward. So this record
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: was recorded in a way that was just really really
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: interesting to me because it feels like Tyson Mottson Baker
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: is like, you know, like the fruit furry people or
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: maybe maybe some of you guys, maybe me. Every once
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: in a while, you you ever do like those like
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: meditations like where you try to like open your third
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: eye or whatever. You know what I'm talking about. Anybody,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: you're muted justin no, no one knows.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, fine, okay, isn't a lot of meditation?
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Well, I dove into it quite a bit back when
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: I was in like college and stuff like that, and
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: a lot of like guided meditation. We'll talk about like
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: trying to open your third eye, like you like start
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: like feel warmth all down your body and everything like that.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: But like the way that it's recorded, it feels like
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Tyson Motts and Baker is like sitting or like singing
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: from like my third eye. So I don't even know
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: how to explain that in like a more succinct way,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: but that's kind of how it feels. So it feels
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: like it's almost coming from your own self, but it's
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: like the voice that lives with inside you. So it's
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: a really really uh interesting way that he recorded it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: But the but lyrically is where it really like hits
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: me in a completely different way. So much so many
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: like fresh and unique lyrical pieces here, the themes of each
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: song are completely different. It's like talking about like how
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: do you love someone in a world that is like
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: so weird right now? And how do we how do
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: we just like unplug from the digital world and maybe
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: aliens are real and things like that, So it just
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: it gets really really strange and esoteric, but it never
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: feels ungrounded in any singular way. It just hit me
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: in a completely new way that made me feel like
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: this is kind of a record that I've been needing,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: especially in this moment in life. So that's my number three.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: When we interviewed him, that honestly was like probably a
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: top ten interview we've done ever. I for me, I
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: think it's.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Just I think that's our best interview ever. Not not
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: because of us by any means, but just because the
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: way he's able to express his thinking as a musician
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: and as a lyricist is it's unrivaled to anything I've
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: I've or to anyone else that we've ever talked to.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he just was so open and honest about just
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: his thought process around obviously the album, but just like
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: his own anxieties, his own dreams, all of that. It's
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: just it was it was so well done. I just yeah,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: this album was incredible. Obviously the musicianship of it is
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: incredible too. So yeah, it's a great album. And true
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: he's such a solid singer.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Songwriter yeah, and a genuine soul Yeah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: So great great album, great pick.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Thank you all right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Number two lindsay you want to take it away again?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna go like really kind of basic
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: with mine, but I feel really good about it. Number
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: two is Haley Williams's ego death at the Bachelor Party.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Not basic at all? What are you talking about?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I know, I know it, just I feel like it's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: like really mainstream. But I at this point, but I
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: just cannot stop listening to this damn album. It's just
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: like it's some of the best songwriting that I've ever heard,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Like there are just so many verses that just take
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: me out, Like True Believer, Every single verse is fantastic,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: like the Jimmy Fallon performance that she did and to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: do it on the Jimmy Fallon Show, Like there are
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: just so many layers that were happening there, Like there
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: there are some like really fun lines. There are, like
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I like, it's a hard people are talking about their
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: favorite songs and I can't choose a favorite. That's like
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: choose I could probably choose one of my favorite kids
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: easier than I could choose one of.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Her favorites right now, right now, you rank your children?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Chester, who's my dog, but like they know he's eleven
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: years old, she doesn't have much longer. But no, so sorry,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I'm making like six different jokes I shouldn't be making anyway.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So Hailey Williams ego death at a bachelor party. Did
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you see that in the garden performance that she did
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: have killed me?
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: No?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, you guys need to do it because at the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: in the like she goes into the second verse and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: then she starts incorporating what is the song?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: But like.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: She doesn't mute without You song, she incorporates and me
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: without You song inter performance and it goes back into yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna have to send the link. But
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: it's just phenomenal, Like she incorporates so many different influences
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and there it's an important album at a time when
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: we need to have music like that, and the work
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: that she's doing alongside it, like basically saying if you're homophobic,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: if you're transphobic, you're not allowed at my shows to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: like go out like talk about radical racial justice and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: like say things like the South will not rise again
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: until it's paid for everything. I think it's maybe one
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of the most important albums of the year, and it's
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: definitely one of my favorites. I just I cannot stop.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I just love it. I love her, I love everything
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It's it's it's the record other than the Deftones record.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: It's probably the second most listened to on the list
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: that I have, and my girlfriend and I we just
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: like constantly have it playing at our apartment and stuff.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: So it's and like being a Nashvillian, it just it
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: resonates a little differently too. So I don't know, I'm
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: just I'm super proud of her for doing her thing
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: and just kind of taking her own lane and running
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: So I think there's something to be said as well.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Like I don't know about you guys, how big a
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: like Paramore fans you are but massive? I never was.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: I never was a very big Paramore fan, but I
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: really really do like this record.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was talking to somebody and he's like, I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: swear like if this is like if she just breaks
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: up Paramore and just does this, I'm a huge Paramore fan,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: but I'd be fine with it. Yeah, And that's how
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I feel too, And I like, I seriously cannot stop.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I was talking with Keigan Ozenski because I had, like,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I shared all of my most played albums of the year,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and she goes, it's crazy that that's your top most
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: played album and it came out two months ago, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: it's like, I just I'm not taking it off of
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: my rotation, Like really, it's just a constant loop. The
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: second that I hit Parachute and then whatever new out
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: song she's adding to the end of it, and that's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: another one's parachute. Like I seriously have never heard the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: emotions that she brings to the second verse, like she
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: is locked in, and it feels almost bad listening to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: it because you're like, I don't know if I'm supposed
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to know this, Like it's like just like rage and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: anger and like sadness, just all ball. It's so good.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: The vocal work on there is exceptual, the writing on
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: there is exceptional. It's just a testic album, and I
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: love her.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: I will say Mason and I have kind of a
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: bone to pick with Haley because.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, do you not get the tickets?
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: No, we were hoping to have her on at some
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: point and Mason desperately wanted to ask her about the
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Chariot and like her time hanging out with them and
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: stuff like that, and she went on a podcast, not
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: our podcast, and discussed, uh, somebody had asked her about
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: maybe it's maybe as actually a listener of our podcast,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: who knows, because we I can't imagine anyone else would
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: have like thought about this in particular. But he asked
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: her about the Chariot and Me without You and like
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: those formative years, and she like talked about it like
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: decently at length about it. So you know, that's, uh,
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: that's something that I'm kind of upset that she didn't. Yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: he was.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The second you hear her on like the it's just
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, like go on the is
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and shot each other on so good the fiance. Yeah,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I just I love her. I love that woman. She
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: is holding my sanity in her hands like a little
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: baby bird.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: She is true. I honestly I've not listened to the
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: album yet, but she's like truly one of a kind.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Uh just yeah, overall, I think I've heard like maybe
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: like some little bits and pieces here of the album,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: but my goodness, like and I will say I was
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: really disappointed I did not get a ticket to the
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: show because she like was playing these like smaller shows,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: like there's still like big venues, at least in my
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: opinion of venues here in the Twin Cities. But she
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: ended up getting a venue here in the Twin Cities
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: that was still, to me, really big, but way too
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: small for her caliber. And the tickets were outrageous, like
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: they were like five hundred dollars each or something.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't imagine.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: And that's yeah, that's general emission for like five hundred
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: dollars each. I was like, yeah, I can't.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna like when they when they do more
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: intimate settings like that, how do they How do they
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: make money if they don't jack up the prices? Like
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: I saw Lana del Rey in a two thousand cap
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: room that's right after she came out with Norman fucking Rockwell,
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: and it was incredible because the tickets were only like
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: twenty five bucks. It felt like it felt like I
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: was like stealing.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's inside. I feel like I was telling my
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: husband this earlier because I bought David Burnon tickets for
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: April today.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: I want to I want to go se.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I like every time I log in the ticket Master,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I feel like I am entering a war zone and
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: like I come out with a little bit of trauma.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to discredit people's experiences but I feel
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: like it's I feel like it's comparable. I'm just going
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: out tonight. I'm getting canceled. I kinda have no social
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: media presence after tonight. I'm gonna love it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: Uh justin number two albums, number two, I really can't decide,
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: but I'm gonna go with.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: So White Reapers only slightly empty. It's gonna be my
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: number two. So I had kind of been flip flopping
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: the Deathtones record with that one, but this record is
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: just really fun. Do any of y'all listen to White
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Reaper at all? Like just pulling the class, Okay, So
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: they're kind of in that like like class of bands
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: like military, Gun, drug Church, Like, oh yeah, that kind
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: of thing. Like White Reaper's been in some like taco
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: bell commercials and stuff like that. Like, but this new
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: record is just like fun and it's fuzzy in the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: right spots and like, I don't know, like you know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: there's some people online that complain that like the vocalist
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: is like acquired taste or whatever, but it's I don't know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: it's just like it it kind of does this weird
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: thing for me where it's like almost nostalgic, where it
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: makes me want to like go run around outside and
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: like I don't know, play sports in the summertime, or
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: like pick up a skateboard again or something like that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: So they're just a really fun band, and I really
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: recommend them to anybody trying to just you know, get
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: a scope of like modern like fun punk music.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Check it out, Yeah, please do.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I just have to say, I don't know anything about this. Man.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: If you were to tell me to, like name a
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: band that start in a Taco bell commercial, White Reaper
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: would be.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: Turnstyle.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but like I would throw them in that. Like,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: like I said that, like class of bands like they
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: they just they're just fun.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: So my number two album is a band that I've
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: been listening to for a number of years now, and
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is about h this band,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: But their previous albums, I you know, enjoyed them. You know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I've seen them live and I've enjoyed them. But this
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: album in particular just really did something for me. And
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: it has all the things that I think each one
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: of us love in music. It has all the metalcore
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: elements that you would love in music each one of
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: us love and music. It has all the Matthew things
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: that we all love in music. And I think what
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: this album does differently than their previous albums is they
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: really add a lot of emo elements, and not just
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: emo elements that are the sort of like Jim World
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: kind of guitar riffs that are emoe, but they also
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: like vocally do kind of the fun like orchestral kind
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: of vocal elements that we hear, like even in something
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: like My Chemical Romance. And so anyway, the band is
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: the Cowstow Boys and the album is called I Don't
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Want to See You in Heaven. It's just incredible. Albums
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: kind of has this sort of concept y thing going
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: on where like you know, you get the first song
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: is kind of not really a song, it's kind of
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: this intro thing and they've got the outro thing. Just
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: every moment in this album feels like a full cohesive album.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: It's so good. It has everything again that I think
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: each one of us love about alternative music. It's just
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: great all around. Just there are so many songs in
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: this album where it's like literally you would like mosh
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: to this in a way where like you've never mashed before.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Like it's just it's so heavy, and then there's parts
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: of this album where it feels like the most emo
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: thing ever, where it literally it could have been a
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: rip off of a my Chemical Romance album. There's just
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: it's got everything, and it does it so cohesively. It's
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: done so well. Anyway, Well my number two album for sure.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, good, pick good, pick it. It's one of those
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: that should be on all of our lists.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: I'm surpris I wouldn't be surprised if, like I either
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: stole it from one of you for your number one
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: or potentially for an honorable mention.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: But it's such I've actually never listened to them before. Dude, Joe,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I gotta, I gotta check it out because I I see.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: But the thing is that, not to go off on
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: a tangent here, but I've actually intentionally been trying to
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: limit how much new music I listened to because I
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: feel like in this streaming age, I don't I have
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: been able to connect to music as much as I
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: want to, and so I really limited limit how much
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: new music I get exposed to. Like I'll tell people
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: if they send me something, I'm just like, don't take
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: it personally if I don't listen to it, I just
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I really want to absorb the music like I used
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: to back when I would walk down the street with
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: my walkman and I only had enough money to have, like,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: you know, buy one CD a month, you know, and
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: so that CD was the CD I absorbed and so
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: and so it's nothing. I mean, I'm sure it probably
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: like I'm sure it's it's awesome. There's so much good
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: music out there. I just I just I misconnecting with
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: music like the way that I used to, you.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: Know what, Joe. That actually brings up a really interesting
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: point that I think is super important for everyone to hear,
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: because you know, we do these we do these top
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: albums of the year, and Spotify makes it such a
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: big deal, like, yo, you got to share that one
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: post a year that you know, you show, you know,
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: how many hours you've listened to X artist or whatever.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: But that's really not all that important, right. It comes
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: down to, like what speaks to you and what's important
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: to you? What what is it about whatever record that
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: you're listening to. It doesn't matter if it's you know,
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: a couple of years old, or if it's brand new,
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: or if it's you know, fifty years old, if it
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: speaks to you. It speaks to you, and you shouldn't
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: force yourself to listen to something else if there's something
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: speaking to you in that moment.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Exactly. I mean, that's how sleep Token ended up on
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: my top to moot stream songs. It was funny because
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: two of the songs really just captured me. I I
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: enjoyed them find but I wouldn't say that I was
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: really surprised they were on there because I think they
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: measure these listens by minutes, not by like song clicks.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: So and their songs, the songs that the two songs
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: that really stood out to me are really long. So
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: because by no means did their new album make it
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: in my top ten. So, I mean, I'm not that's
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: not hating. I like I said, I like them just fine,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: but they it wasn't a top ten album for me.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: But anyway, Sorry, I didn't mean to to take us
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: off into a tangent there.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: No. No, I think it's an important thing.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: But you also should feel guilty ofn't listened to the
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: COWVI stuff.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: No. I will definitely check it out. It's I mean,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: it's the exact same thing with There's that band that
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: you roll a TOMASI like, I listened to it, I'm like,
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: this is incredible. But I think for me, if if
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: it's something like I could hear it and I'm like,
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: this is technically amazing, you know, but I need I'm
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: a very much a lyric person, so if I can't
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: connect with that, and and again, especially with the back
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: half of this year being pretty brutal, you know, uh,
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: it's it's uh it kind of falls by the wayside,
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: which is so unfair to the artists, you know, because
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: they I so much work goes into writing and recording
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: these songs, and I'm just kind of like, dude, like
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: I I I'm just I really wish I could just
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: I wish Google would pay me just to listen to
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: music all day. That would be sick, Like, you know,
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: just sit there and then you just absorb it and
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: then you know, and and just reflect on it. But sorry,
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't mean to derail our combo.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: No good good good call there. Yeah, all right. My
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: number two is uh, it's one that I did not
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: know was going to be a big record this year.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: I think a lot of a lot of music outlets
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: are claiming it to be one of the best albums
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: of the year, and it's Bleeds By Wednesday, Lindsey got excited.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: I love it, dude. It's so cool. It's so cool.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: It's like an indie emo country gaze record. Which does that?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Do you say it's for the games, for the gaze,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: for the gaze, for the gays.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: I think it's for everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's such
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: an interesting record, and I feel like it touches on
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: so many nuanced positions in in the music world but
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: also like in real life, so like genre wise, I mean,
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: you can't really fit it into any like into any
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: particular box, right, but the way that they've weaved these
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: multiple genres in so many cool ways is so impressive
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: to me. And Carly Hartzman, who's the lead singer and
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: stuff like that. She she goes from like this like
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: twenty kind of like nineteen fifties style, Patsy Kleine esque
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: type singing, and then all of a sudden, the very
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: next line she'll be like straight up screaming, and it
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: is It's a combination that I've just never heard and
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: I know this is like their sixth studio album, right,
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: I've listened to their I've listened to one of their
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: other albums. This one though, like just captured me perfectly.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: And there's a couple different songs that like, you know,
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: transport me to like certain places. There's a song called Townies,
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: and I just imagine myself at my small town bar
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: and just like everything that goes on there is exactly
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: what I imagine in this in this in this song. Yeah,
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: it's just it's great, great record. You have to go
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: check it out. Super experimental but being very very accessible
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: at the same time. I've shown it to like my
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: country loving neighbors where I live out here in the
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: middle of nowhere, and everyone just listens to country around
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: me and they're like, this is really cool, and they're
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: even okay with like the screaming parts, which is pretty neat.
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: So and you could you could also play it, you know,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: downtown Minneapolis or Chicago or whatever else and it would
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: fit right in there too.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: So can I nerd out about this record?
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: Please do?
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Please do?
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: You're probably gonna nerd out way better than I would.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I think that Carly Hertsman is maybe one of the
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: best like lyricists on the scene today, Like Rat Saw God,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: the last album she like I just I it's like
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: William Faulkner, but less problematic for today's world. Like yeah,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: it's just like so American Gothic. But she has this
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: line on fish Pepsi where it's we watched we watched
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: a fish concert and human centipede, two things now I
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: wish I had never seen.
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: It's just.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: I had that on while I was in the gym
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: and I like just lost it. Like I'm just like
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: sitting there and I just like had to stop what
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I was doing and laugh. But there we had.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: A very similar situation there. I was in the middle
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: of doing bench press and I dropped the weight on
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: me because I heard it, and I'm like, wait what.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: It's like one of those ones where like you remember
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: exactly where you are when you hear that, Like Townis
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: has a line where it says you sent everybody in
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: my nudes, but I don't care because you died or
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: something like that. And then like Elderberry line is maybe
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: one of my top playing songs where it's so pretty
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: and like she has the line about like said, I
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: want to have your babies because you freckle, and I
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: tan I found comfort in that. Angels just don't give
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: a damn Like there's just sweet parts, but it's funny
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: and it's every genre like Wasp is a crazy song. Yeah,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I had tickets too.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: I love that you said American. I love that you
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: said like American Gothic. Like there's this kind of idea
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: that like American authors have like their own completely different
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: style of writing altogether, right, Like if you think about
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: like your your John Steinbeck's and individuals like that, where
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: they're kind of capturing like this this unique heart of
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: America and this strange culture that we have. She fits
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: into that perfectly perfect.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Corey from her last album I think is
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: one of the best examples where it's just like describing
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: a town where it's like kids in a pool, like
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: a blow up pool with lice in their hair and
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: their parents are outside arguing on the It's like I
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: grew up in that neighborhood. Like it's just perfectly described,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and I just I love them. I think they're one
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: of the best bands on the scene right now.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they get they deserve all the flowers
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: I think the way the way that you guys talked
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: about that album and then the p d U s
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: a like really like I've made notes. I'm just like,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go check this ship out. It's it's awesome.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: I love I love the passion. Uh so I'm just like, fuck, dude,
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: I don't want to I don't want to miss out.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: So yeah, those are two ones where like, if you're
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: a lyric person, I think you'll really like those. They're
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: just lyrically phenomenal.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Hell yeah, I love it.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: All right to our number one? Were ready, lindsay?
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: Oh did I sorry?
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Sorry Joe, Joseph, that's all yours? Sorry? Yeah, what's your
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: number two? Joe?
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: It's a band uh from Arizona called uh Darkly and
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: uh sorry what you said?
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: I said? Jimmy world think of did you say through
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: the Glass Darkly?
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Through a Glass Darkly? And the album is I think
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: it's I don't know, it's weird. It's like I think
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: it's Latin Speramus Meliora Resurgate sinder Ribis.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I'm in Catholic mass right now.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, And it's it's an album that kind of like
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: it was a left hook, like I didn't see it coming.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: And but it's kind of like this post rock, post
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: metal kind of combo and you just really get lost
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: in it. And I don't think sometimes I think as
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: much as I love lyrics, I think sometimes music just
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: says things that lyrics can't even convey. Yeah, and it's
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: totally it's you know, completely instrumental, and I mean they have,
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: you know, the songs on there called like from Our
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Wounded Heaven with frayed prayers and quiet hopes of absolution,
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: and there's this despair and then kind of this despondent
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: kind of feeling that just and I think it just
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: really reflected you know, where I've been at. And they'll
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: just repeat the same like measures of music for just
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: like two minutes. And yeah, I think all their songs
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: are like freaking yeah. The shortest song on this record
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: is six minutes and thirty five seconds, so it's it's
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: it's very immersive, but and it's about an hour, and definitely,
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know, I really kind of get lost in it,
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: and I think it's really good to take a walk
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: or drive and just I just yeah, I just kind
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: of float somewhere else and not to pay devastatingly haunting record.
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: Love it.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Great album, Great album, Lindsey. Now to your number one.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, have you guys been Geese Killed yet?
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's Geese Getting Killed is my number one. I
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: cannot stop listening to this album. I didn't see it
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: coming either, because I literal I think I've listened to
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: them like one other time and it just was not
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: a band I thought was for me. And then everybody
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: started talking about the new album Getting Killed, and I
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: put it on and I just it didn't leave my rotation.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: I listened to it all of the time. I think
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: that like it's one uh like lyrically it's a very
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: good album because I think that especially it's like for
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: me coming from religious, like from a very religious but
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: sort of negative background with religion, it's really interesting because
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: it feels like this is what religion could be if
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: it's not traumatizing, like it's somebody who finds like later
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: in life, it's like actually comforting. And he has like
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: this line where it's like like the like Joshua in
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the streets of Jericho, I'm gonna kick your ass up
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: and down the streets or something like that, where it's
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: like he just weaves religion and in like really unexpected ways.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: It's they have the song at the end Long Eye
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: and City Here I Come makes me feel like I
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: can probably break through every single brick wall that's in
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: front of me, like just full speed, just running. And
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: I every single day I find like a new song
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: to just hyper focus on. I feel like it came
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: out in October and I just cannot stop with it.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I that song's there. It starts out with this song
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: where it's just like kind of jazzy, kind of bluesy,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, he's screaming in the background,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: there's a bomb in my car. It's like so weird.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: But and like Cameron Winter's voice is very odd. It's
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: very apryic and lovely at times, but then just like
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: very deep and bluesy and at other times. And it's
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: like the most New York City art kid album I've
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: ever come across, where it should be pretentious, but it's
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: so accessible and I just I love it. I love
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: it very much.
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: Good Call, Good Call. Yeah, I have to check that
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: one out. I've listened to quite a bit of Geese,
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: but I need to check it out much more in
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: order to kind of get that same feeling that you're
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: talking about.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I did not expect I did not see
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: it coming because I like and I've started going back
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: and listening to their previous album, Three D Country since
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: then and Cameron Winter's solo stuff as well, and it's
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: really great. But getting Killed is just where it's apt
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: for me.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Does it have seven? Clearly I've not been geese pilled.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Does it have kind of like a does it have
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: like a brother sister or like it's all crazy vibe
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: from you without You?
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: I would not say.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: No.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: But his voice is weird, so you're right on the
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: money with that.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: But but even like the instrumentation is not as kind
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: of like art artsy because when I think of like
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: brother sister or it's all crazy, the the instrumentation is
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: pretty to me, like pretty art rock, you know.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: I actually I can kind of see parallels and it's
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: all crazy. And what's the one where it's there's the
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Fox and the Crow I have. I just spent all
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: last week listening to Me Without You on repeat and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I can't think of any of the song titles, which
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: is insane. But the Fox and the Crown, the Cookie
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: or whatever. It kind of does do that sort of
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: talking guitars at places, and it can be it's pretty artsy.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: But watching videos of them perform. Have you ever, like
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: watched the videos of MGMT at the beginning of their
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: career doing kids to like it has those vibes, It
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: has those vibes where you're like, oh, this is going
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: to be the next big thing in music. I truly
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: believe that. Like, if you're not hearing about Geese right now,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: next year, you're gonna get really tired of hearing about them.
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: That's a good way to put it.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: Uh JJ, what's your number one album of the year.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna kind of cheat. I have a tie.
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: And if you say the albums, yeah, I can't do it.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: It's Pupil Slicer. Come on.
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: So if you say two albums, the Idle Thread album
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: gets delayed one year more, that's.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: Fine, But yeah, it is Pupil Slicer's flesh work. And
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: then also Gray Havens Keep It Quiet.
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: But both are great records, but one you gotta choose
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: one of them. You can.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: If there if there, if there is a gun to
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: my head, I would probably say it's Grey Havens Keep
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: It Quiet. This this is a band that is just
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: aging like a fine wine. And I don't know, the
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: record just feels like, I don't know, it feels like
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I'm watching a movie from start to end. It just
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: kind of it's this nice little ride where like there's
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: heavy moments, there's melodic moments. I don't know, it's just
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: it's their best work. And then I just freshly saw them,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: like on on that album release tour two. So maybe
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: there's some recency bias there, but this band just can't
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: do anything wrong and they're they're just so talented and
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: all the singles are great. I know some people thought,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: you know, some of them were a little weird or whatever,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: but yeah, if you know, again trying to be concise,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: but like, if if you haven't listened to Grey Haven
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: and all, this is a great place to start and
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: then work your way backwards because they're one of the
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: best bands doing it right now, which is I know
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: I already said that with the cals Dowboys, but literally,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: like Gray Haven and the cals Dowboys are like right
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: up there.
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: So they finally got some good album artwork for this
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: record too.
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: Gray Haven is awesome, dude. I really like the new record.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: My only regret is that I haven't had enough time
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: with this record yet, So that's the only reason why
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: it hasn't It isn't. It's in my top ten, but
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: it's not cracking the top three. But I can definitely regon.
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: It's definitely a record you have to take time with too, right.
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: And and the thing is, I feel like that's who
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: they are, especially you know, uh after I would say,
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: starting with the record before this, they they've got so
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: many dimensions to them and they're just what I like
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: about them is that they clearly have their influences, but
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: they just absorb it in such a way that's just
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: undeniably just themselves. Like, yes, you can cite like you know,
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: kind of like the math core kind of stuff. But
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: like Brent's voice is very unique, especially his singing. You know,
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: he sounds like a man's man, you know, like kind
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: of vocal like look a you know, straight up dude.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: He doesn't have like that high pitched kind of emo voice.
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: I guess you know that is in a lot of
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: these kind of like heavier bands. But yeah, just you know,
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: I technical color Blues just awesome.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just want to quickly touch on Pupil
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Slicer too, unless culin if that's like your record but.
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: I love People Slicer, but it's okay, it's a little
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: bit lower.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Do my list for me cool so quickly. This is
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: a band that, ironically enough, I've found out about on
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: this podcast thanks to you, Colin, and this record came
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: out and I've probably texted you a dozen times, just
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: like I can't stop listening to it. It's just it's
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: just heavy in all the right places, and then there's
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: just some like weird little things to that I just
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: like love like the little like noises and stuff in
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: the background, and like, I don't know, it's just I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: I've been driving to that record a lot, uh you know,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: if I'm like working in the mornings and like doing
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: some like physical stuff or whatever. Like I've had it
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: on in my headphones a time. It's just it's such
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: a great record. I've been telling all my heavy music
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: pals about it.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: But I don't know a band that does like a
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: full frontal assault better than Pupil Slicer but doesn't like
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: completely turn you off with it or make you feel
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: scared or make you feel like all right, I can
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: only listen to so much of this, Like you can
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: listen to it pretty much indefinitely.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: What are the what are the top like you say,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: two tracks off this record, because I heavy music's my shit, so.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: So I really like it's like I'm gonna say it wrong,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: it's like stark Agains or whatever. Yeah, do you know
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: what it's called.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: I think it's called and then the other one that's
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: what it.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: Is, yes, okay, and then I really liked Gordian as well.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: But the whole record is great. You could throw a
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: dart at that list and you would enjoy it.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: So I love their Their tagline too, is trans inclusive
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: radical Hatred. That's brilliant.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Great albums. Uh, Joe, what's your number one?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah? So this band I think is at the forefront
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: of having music right now. I think they've just released
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: their best work.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: There. They're from Scotland and uh is it Maga It's uh,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: it's Zenith by Bleed from Within and it's got everything
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: that I like about heavy music, but also it's you
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: know accessible there. I mean there's even a guest vocal
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: from Brawn from a masted On on one of the songs.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: It's just pure groove. Uh, it's you know, there's moments
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: where it's Pantera without the racism, you know, like and
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: then there's moments where it's just complete thrash, and you know,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: the lyrics aren't the most complex. But I think my
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: favorite thing about Scott Kennedy's ability is that every time
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: I hear him like scream or or do that kind
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: of like pitch screaming thing, is I believe him. Like
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: it's like, okay, because there's a lot of vocalists out
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: there that are great, but I feel like they're just
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: you know, kind of going through the motions. But this
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: is a dude that I feel like, oh shit, like
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: especially with some of the lyrical content, because a lot
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: of their lyrical content has to do with like Scotland
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: being like an independent country and whatnot. And and he
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: just yeah, like I love his voice. And they're also
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: one of the bands that they'll have like twenty different
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: kinds of riffs for one song, and so it's just
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: kind of like and then they and especially if you're Ali,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: Richardson's also just one of the best drummers in the
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: scene right now. You can't fuck with him. He's also
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: in Silosis, so you know, so he's technical, but he's
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: got groove and uh, it's just uh, for if you're
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: if you're just like pissed, just a break fucking record.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: Hell yeah, dude, I need to listen to this, dude.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: Like the first song just goes off until like it's
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: like heavy heavy, and then it just goes off into
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: another corner. But it's just like, oh, now this is
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: the other side of heaviness that we do and it's
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: just and we I mean it just they just don't
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: hold back, and uh, I'm just kind of like, fuck yeah, dude,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: And I think you'll really like it if you know,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: if you know, it's uh. I love how they also
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: kind of in a sea of metalcore bands that are
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: kind of like doing a lot of the octane kind
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: of like stuff. These guys are like take like bringing
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: kind of more of a metal core. They're not even
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: I would say they're heavier than metal core, but they're
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: not quite like death metal or anything. But they also, uh,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: they're bringing thrash in there. They're bringing groove metal, like
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: I said with Pantera, without the racism, and it's just yeah,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: it's just fucking it's just straight up just balls, big
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: hairy balls, and I you know, as a big hairy dude,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: I'm like yeah, but.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: Wow, that sounds like an album that you've been pring too.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: Pring oh, Joe, Like you haven't like deadlifted to this
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: song yet.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: This, dude, I'm probably record. I don't the only thing
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: I lifted.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, maybe you've eaten more hot dogs than any
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: other time to this album. I don't know.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do one of these, Joe.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: All right, Joe, I love dog into some riffs.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: Here comes Joey Chestnuts.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. Justin maybe like a
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: month ago sent me a TikTok or a reel of
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: a guy, or like the reel was like the type
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: of guy who eats hot dogs for the shape, not
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: for the taste. I'm just saying, Joe, you might not beating.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: You might not be beating the allegations.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: Beating is an interesting word to use there.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: All right, a couple more here, Colin. Do you want
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: to go first? You want me to go first?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: Sure? All right?
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: My final record is an EP. This is totally an
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: unexpected record for me. I don't know how I found
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 5: this band, but they're called Spars and their EP is
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: also called Spares. It is a self titled EP. I
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 5: don't know if you guys are a fan of Interpol
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 5: at all, but think Interpol as if they were a
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: hardcore post punk band, so like super angular riffs, really
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 5: like JANKI almost almost like grungey punk basslines and stuff
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: like that. Every once in a while they're gonna throw
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 5: in like some like weird like minus the bear kind
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: of situation. It almost doesn't make sense. But then also
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: like it's like the guy who's saying, I don't know
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: his name because this is an insane the small band.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: I think they're out of Oregon.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: The guy who's it's crazy that your top album of
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: the year is an album where at least on Spotify
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: there's three hundred monthly listeners.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: Is that it?
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 11: Spotify?
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: So I don't know. This record is insanely slept on though,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 5: Like I've listened to this just about as much as
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: any other artist this entire year. That's that's that's saying
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: a lot.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: It's so well produced, it's so well written, it is
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: so much fun. I am still very upset because we
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: asked if they would come on and they said no
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: because you're a Christian adjacent podcast. But I still really
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: really dig this band.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: We gotta stop getting Justin Jones on this fucking podcast.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah you're killing so Yeah, Like I was saying, they'll
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: have like these like the the singer has like this
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: like Interpol. I don't know the guy from Interpol, like
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: the lead singer from Interpol, but he kind of has
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: like that kind of like tambre to his voice. But
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 5: then every once in a while he'll sound like the
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: Idols guy, the lead singer from Idols, and then like
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: he'll go into like this like guttural scream that just
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: it's like a yelling scream that kind of comes out
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: of nowhere and it sounds so delectable. And then every
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: once in a while they'll be like this like cool
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 5: like Russian circles, kind of like riffage. It's just really
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: really out there but feels very grounded, very easy to
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 5: listen to. It feels like a record I've never heard before,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: or an EP I've never heard before, or anything like it.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 5: Even so that's that's my number one. I really hope
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: that this band takes off because they deserve too big time.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: I'm I know I've talked to Mason about that.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: I was about to say, you've definitely sent me their
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: stuff and Yeah, it's great. It's great. It truly is great,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: all right, My number one totally opposite direction of three
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: hundred monthly listeners. Uh and a band that many people
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: have not heard of, and Taylor Swift. Not quite not
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: to that, not quite.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: I did notice that on our on our Spotify rapped
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 5: or whatever that you sent me that many of our
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: listeners are big fans of Taylor Swift.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was very strange.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: I think those numbers.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: You, whoever that is, you better, you better come forth,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: all right. The artist and the album, there's my number one.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: This is an artist that came out with an album
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: just a few years ago, uh, became one of the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: biggest albums of the year, became one of the biggest
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: rock bands of the year. And I think they've just
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: followed this up with an even better rack. I think
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: whatever they're they've already kind of struck gold with They've
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: even gotten better at that.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, but they just say it it.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: Is Turnstile, It's never enough. It's it's such a good album.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: Everything I loved about glow On, it's everything about that
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: is better with this album. In my opinion, all their
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: softer stuff is getting softer and more like pretty and
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: like kind of eighties like almost like post punk like
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: New Wavy, and all their hardcore stuff that they've done,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: especially from like glow On or even like the album
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: that The Real Thing is on it, I forget what
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: that Maybe the album is called Real Thing. All their
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: hardcore stuff is gotten even more hardcore, like they just
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: they just mix it so well. It's so well done.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: They have some songs where it's like it's a combination
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: of both of those things, where it's like you get
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: this like very eighties like kind of SYNTHI stuff, and
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: then you get like right into a like a hardcore riff,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: and it's just it's so cool. It's so well done.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: I just I love this album through and through. I've
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: listened to it so much. I think on Spotify it
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: was my most listened to album this year. It's just
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: it's so well done. I I just I cannot praise
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: this band enough. A few months ago, Colin and I
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: were at their concert and I still have a one
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: of my toenails got bruised and it's still too. I
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: still I could show you all, like I still got
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: a bruised toenail from a short turn style. No we
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: don't need to see it. Colin, all right, we're gonna
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: see it three Oh yeah, oh god, finally we're gonna
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: get monetized. Anyways, it's just incredible album.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: One of my favorite shows I've ever been to was
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: that Turnstile show a couple of months ago that Colin
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: came up to. Uh, and my youngest brother or sorry,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: my middle brother came up to and he literally had
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: never been to a hardcore show in his life, and
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: he just fell in love with it. He just he
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: was all into it. It was just so cool. I
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: broke my glasses, lost my glasses. These aren't new pair
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: of glasses, so I everything about it. It's just it's
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: all incredible. It's so good. I love it. Turnstile is
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: the best.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: Turnstile is also another band that I've never listened to.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: Joe Joe, just get on Spotify once. Just get on
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: Spotify once. See what happened?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: You know what. I am going to listen to each
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: one of these records that I that I haven't listened
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 4: to before. I really like the way that you guys
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: are like standing for them, so it's you know, I mean,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: there's clearly something special about these records. And that's why
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: I love doing like these kind of countdown things and
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: seeing what other people are into.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: Well, clearly a lot of people are into Turnstile because
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: Culin so much so he's even gotten his foot polished
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: by them.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: They were. They were the first band to do a
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: stage dive at a tiny desk con.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: That is true. That is true.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 5: What's that? What's that riff? Though? That? It's like an
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: early two thousands pop hit Dad Dan Dan Dan Dan
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: or whatever. Do you guys remember that?
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: That sounds familiar?
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds familiar. I know what you're talking about.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: Keep on dancing or whatever. Oh I think so is
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 5: it that song that the riff from uh Birds or
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: whatever is like the exact same almost I know, but
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm blanking right now. I'm I'm just blanking right now.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: But it's almost the exact same riff from that early
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: two thousands pop hit.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: So it makes sense why dancing?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 5: I think it's sound, but I could be wrong. Yeah, dude,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 5: I know what you're talking about.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 4: I just can't remember.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it would make sense then why they're riffs and
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: obviously like just Brennan's like vocals, they just they're so catchy.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: It's because they literally are just like taking like pop
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: stuff and turning them into hardcore riffs and hardcore vocal melodies.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, it's the Gwen Stefani song.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 5: Sorry, that's it. That's it, that's it.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: That would make sense. Ye, that would make sense. So
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: all right, well that's my number one. Let's just mention
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: a couple honorable mentions, because there are a few albums
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: that have not been mentioned that I definitely want to mention.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: I would imagine you all want to just briefly mention too,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: so very very very very very quickly. What are a
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: few albums that you want to mention?
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 5: Start us off, dude, I can start us off. Does
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 5: that work?
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: Do it?
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: Do it?
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 5: Okay? We had failed son on earlier on in the year.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 5: Denu mint is how I think it's supposed to be pronounced.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: That record was killer. That would really set me off.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: Magic Alive McKinley Dixon one of the coolest hip hop
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 5: records I've heard in recent memory. Shish by Portugal the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 5: Man was a huge surprise. They pulled off some like
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 5: metal all of a sudden, randomly out of nowhere, threw
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 5: me for a loop. And they did it well, like
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: full on screams and everything. The future is here and
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: everything needs to be destroyed by the arm. Yes, killer record,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 5: and it also got the the thumbs up by Iggy Pop,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: so you know it's got the cool factor as well.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 5: And last, but not least, I'll also say The Bad
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 5: Fire by Maguay and Magua has always been in my
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 5: top five most listened to artists every single year, and
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 5: I see them whenever they're anywhere nearby. The Bad Fire
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 5: is a killer record.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: So great album. Just a couple that I want to mention.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: One that got removed out of my top five or sorry,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: top three back to top five, but still obviously one
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: of my favorite albums of the year. Flesh Waters two
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: thousand in search of Yeah, Endless Sky record they haven't.
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  Speaker 3: They have a song on there called the Last Escape,
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  Speaker 3: probably my most listened to or at least certainly without
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  Speaker 3: a doubt, my most favorite song of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Such a great album they ended up I think it
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  Speaker 3: was either earlier this year or maybe it was late
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: last year that they ended up touring with Deaftnes. They
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: were like an opener for deaf Tones, super big deal
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: for them. I saw them earlier this year, I think
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: sometime in November. One of my favorite shows I've been
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: to earlier this year. Such a great such a great
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: live show, such an incredible album. It's one of those again,
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  Speaker 3: this is one of those years where it's like I
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: got to do a top three, but it's like really
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  Speaker 3: especially like for that like number three spot. It's really
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: hard to compete for a that's an album that really
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: should have been number three, but there's so many other
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: great number three albums, so that's right there for me.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: And then again one of those other albums that should
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: have been there for number three in most other years
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: but just couldn't quite make the cut this year, Movie
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: Mountains Pruning of the Lower Limbs. They also had one
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: of my favorite songs this year on that album. And
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: this is a band that has not I don't think
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 3: they've released anything for twelve years and just came out
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: of retirement out of nowhere, released one of the best
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: albums of the year. It's just everything you love about
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: indie emo. It's just it's so well done. It just
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: they're everything I ever love about EMO and they do
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: it all really well. And so anyway, Movie Mountains I
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: was gonna mention Gray Haven, obviously Jju already mentioned them.
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  Speaker 3: The only other album I'll mention that hasn't been mentioned before.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: Thrice released an album this year, Horizons West. Great album.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, one of potentially my favorite Thrice song ever
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  Speaker 3: was on this album. It's called Nash. It is so heavy,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: it is so hardcore, it is so punk. It's so
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: well done. I saw them play it live. It was
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: chaos in the pit, it was it's so cool. So
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: they do have like you know, obviously, you know, Thrice
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: has really kind of gone into this like more ambient route.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: They do that, but they also clearly do some of
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: this hardcore stuff still and that is all represented on
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  Speaker 3: this album. So great album. Just couldn't quite make such
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  Speaker 3: a great year. So anyway, those are my honorable mentions.
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  Speaker 3: Other honorable mentions.
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  Speaker 4: Joseph Okay, yeah sure for me, uh, I would say
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 4: advance God is the End. Yeah. I like, if if
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 4: I was like a little inebriated that that was playing,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 4: I'd probably end up in jail, like just because it's
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: so fucking heavy and just like it's it's awesome them,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: which is kind of the exact opposite of what the
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: lyrics are about but hey, it's all good, and then
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: hammocks nevertheless gorgeous lush. I mean, I'm a huge post metal,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: post rock fan, so yeah, they they and they've been
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: dropping albums like every year and a half and uh
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 4: but it's just uh it's brings a lot of peace.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: Uh uh. But in a different way than the Through
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: a Glass Darkly record does extortionists uh stare into the
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  Speaker 4: Seething wounds. This is the first band that I've heard
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: that does death core but with very very strong nineties
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 4: alice and chains like vibe and it's just like I've
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: never heard something like I don't know, it's just such
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: a like specific like area of rock that they're combining
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 4: their kind of deathcore with. I'm just like, that's really cool.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: And there is shout out to hope deferred darkenst Remains.
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  Speaker 4: I just love how brutal that record is. Don't agree
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 4: with some of the lyrics, but definitely loving uh just
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 4: the sheer brutality out of it. Rivers and Nile their
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 4: self titled record. I'm just a sucker for melodic death metal.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 4: What can I say? Just great stuff And I think, man,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: I think to myself, they would pair so well with
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: a band like Becoming the archetype because they kind of
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 4: have like a similar vibe in terms of like kind
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: of that progressive flow. They're definitely do in their own thing.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: I'll mention a couple more. There's an EP called The
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: Laura by kind of like an R and B artist
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: named el iLiads, and it's just amazing baby making music,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: you know, like it's just I mean, I love DiAngelo,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: I love Maxwell, you know, like just that kind of
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: like vibe is just I love it.
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  Speaker 5: So and everybody leave the room.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: Everybody leave the room. It's time for Joe Town.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 4: It's time for Joe Nuts. But and then the uh
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 4: last two I want to shout out are Explosions in
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: the Sky. They did the soundtrack for American Primeval, which
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: I thought, yeah, it's really really good. It's the first
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 4: Explosions in the Sky record that I've listened to in
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: a long time that I actually felt moved by. No
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: shade towards them, I just you know, didn't connect. But
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: this one, as I was watching American Primeval, while I
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 4: was just like, dude, this sounds like explosions and then boom,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: lumbhold and the top honorable mention is Hopefully I don't.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's the name of the band, but they're
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: called I Have a Friend in the band and they're
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: like a cool blend of kind of like punk with pop,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: not pop punk, but it's like punk with pop elements
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: and also like a heavy nineties influence. They've released two
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: singles and they're called counttrol so cun t rl and
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: and you might also recognize her in her other band
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: called I Set to Kill Oh yeah, and so it's
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: and it sounds completely different than that band, but Anissa
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: is the front person for Control, and I'm very stoked
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: on it. She's kind of got that gravelly, kind of
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 4: like shouty voice that's so sick and I yeah, I'm yeah,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: just I'm It's I almost kind of like imagined like
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: if they were to hit the road, I they would
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: pair really well with something like The Bronx, which is
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: one of my favorite bands. So but yeah, there you go.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Sick, great list, Janes, I'll burn through mind pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: But I just want to point out this is like
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: the third time I think i've I've done an Album
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: of the Year list with the guys, and I did
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: not put a rap artist in my top this time,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: so let's get into that. So there's a lot of
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: really good rap this year, especially from Freddy Gibbs. He
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: put out Alfredo too, Tyler Creator did Don't Tap the Glass,
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: and then like, I don't know, like outside of like
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: wrap the rap world, Like there's a lot of really
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: good pop music. And I know we were texting before
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: this and I made a joke about Sabrina Carpenter, but
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: Man's Best Friend is one of the best records that
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: came out this year. I have no shame. And then
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: like Doja Cat put out a really good record, Lady
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: Gaga put out a really good record. Probably my favorite
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: pop record that came out this year was Kesha. She
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: put out like Period, and honestly, that's probably the favorite.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: My favorite show I've been to this year was seeing
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: her in Nashville. But that record, and then from there
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: like with like the more heavier stuff, like Whitechapel's new
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: record was great. Full of Help put out a really
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: good record, Your Spirit Dies put out a really, really
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: really good record, Spirit Boxes Tsunami se is awesome.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 5: How is that one didn't get more of a mention
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: on here?
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm shocked. I so it's sitting on like
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: six on my list, but I was thinking that one
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: of you guys would take it, so I just kind
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: of let that one go.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 11: But but yeah, other than that, like I mean, there's
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 11: some good country that came out this year, like Jason
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 11: Isbel did Foxes in the Snow, Tyler Childers did Snipe Hunter.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 11: Like the entire spectrum of music this year was so
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 11: fun and it's really hard.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: To articulate like how great this year has been. But
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: the the biggest honorable mention I have, if you know,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: if I can like really push for somebody on this list,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: is a band called Slow Joy put out a record
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: called a Joy so slow at times that I don't
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: think it's coming, And if you haven't listened to that band,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: you should check that record out. So yeah, that's my
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five run through.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: Dude, I always love your your top ten list because
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 5: I'm all over the place, all right.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Lindsay, Okay, I was making sure I had all mine.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: I went like a lot more mellow this year, and
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: I think I just kind of needed it mentally, spiritually,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: emotionally everything. So the ones that I really connected with
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: this year were the Japanese Breakfast New One Melancholleague.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: Yes Me So good.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 5: That's definitely on my list.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: I can't it scratches a certain part of my brain,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: like on Magic Mountain and like Whenever. She also sings
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: the title line, Oh I love it, horse Girl, phonetics
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: on and on, where it's like very simple music, but
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: it's also very interesting, like just a lot of repetition.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: That one I was just like at the beginning, I
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: didn't take it off. I recently got really into the
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: Great Death album Die in Love. I had never heard
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: of them. They opened for Foxing. They are fantastic, and
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: country Girl is just like a song that I'm not
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: gonna stop listening to for the next three months. Mama
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: My Blue Sky, which is like ninety sort of poppy
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: rocky like they they remind me a lot of the band,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: a band that you would have seen on the OC
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: if they would have been around them and the OC
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: was happening. And also in that vein the Best Metals,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: I love that one. There was an album that came
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: out at the beginning of the year named Ela Minus Are.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: The artist's name is Ella Minus and the album is
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: Dia I think she is a Brazilian artist where it
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: just it feels like apocalyptic pop, which is a very
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: good sort of like thing for the year of twenty
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: twenty five. And then my summer album was Daughter of
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: Swords Alex where it was just like kind of like
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: poppy and fun and a little sleazy and a little
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: like just a little catchy, and yeah, I loved it.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: A really good year in music, and I had a
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: really hard time making a list.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel that. I feel like this year has
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: been the most difficult year for me to make any
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 5: kind of ranking.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: Say that every year.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 5: I don't say that every year. Mason's the one that
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 5: says that.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: Well, okay, yeah, Mason definitely does.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 5: But I have pushed back on Mason numerous times in
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: the past where I've said, no, this year was actually
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 5: kind of booty cheeks when it comes to making a
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: list because it was too easy because there's like three
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: good records that I liked this year. There was a lot.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 5: There really was a lot. Now, I do concur with
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 5: Mason from earlier on in the episode when he said
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 5: that this is, in my opinion, one of the best
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: years for music since twenty eleven. Maybe I don't know.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 5: Music is healthy and it's going in the right direction.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 5: It might not be economically all that healthy for the
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 5: music makers, but it is certainly a treat for us listeners.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: Truly, truly one of the best, one of the best
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: years for me. Whether whether it ends up in hindsight
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: becoming the best year, it's at least one of the
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: best years. And I think we can all definitively say that. So, uh,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: what incredible year. I'm looking forward to next year. We'll
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: see what happens. I'm sure there's already there's already kind
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 3: of teases of what might end up coming out. I'm
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: excited for it.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 5: So just want that Blindside record, That's all I care.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: You never know, you never know.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 5: That'll be my one through ten all.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 3: Heh, yeah, I never know, you never know. So well,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: thank you all for joining us. What an incredible year
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: for music, and uh yeah, I look forward to next
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: year and we'll we'll we'll see what happens.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 5: Round of applause to you beautiful people.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: Day.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: This is that it feel.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 7: Sex did not feel anything.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: This is what it feel.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: Sex did not feel anything.