59: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2023
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Who will take Beyoncé’s crown? Whose album will be deemed the best of 2023 by pitchfork dot com, the music website? Well, if you’ve visited the site recently, you likely already know the answer, but what our podcast presupposes it...what if you didn’t? Join us as we read you an article and fight amongst ourselves over last episode’s draft.
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58: Draft - Best Albums of 2023
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We wouldn't leave you out in the cold during The Season of Lists, no matter how less-than-prolific we've been in podcasting as of late. We're drafting in anticipation of Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2023 and you're currently anticipating listening to said draft. Love you.
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57: Feist
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It's just Feist this time, folks. Maybe that's all it needs to be.
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56: Caroline Polachek | Gorillaz
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Will Caroline Polachek finally make whatever album The Website's been apparently disappointed in her for not making yet? Can you teach an old cartoon band new tricks? Is there any good reason to spend twenty minutes talking about The Grammys in 2023? Who cares! Listen to podcast. Love podcast.
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55: Mac DeMarco
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We're looking at the most anticipated albums of 2023. We're making a return trip to the vibe known as Mac DeMarco. And somewhere in the middle we're continuing our extremely scientific project of distilling the entirety of the 1990s into a one-song playlist.
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54: Live Reading - The 50 Best Albums of 2022
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Join your Best New Hosts as they read through The Website's 50 Best Albums of 2022 list and, more importantly, discover the winner of last episode's draft. Do this with us. You simply must.
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53: Draft - Best Albums of 2022
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Now knee-deep in the Season of Lists, we're drafting for The Website's Best Albums of 2022 and we're not afraid to say so. But first, we find ourselves in a bit of jeopardy....
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52: Weyes Blood
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Continuing our newer habit of secondary and tertiary deep dives, we're going back to Weyes Blood! But first, we kick off a multi-episode project that's very hard to explain but it involves Mack probably hiding a CD-R in some bushes in Griffith Park. Or something. Editor's note: Apologies for the late posting here. We had hoped to get the episode out before The Website's Weyes Blood review. However, I ended up getting my foot stuck in a large hole. Now, you may think that the largeness of the hole would make it easy to get one's foot out. You don't know this hole. Anyways, that delayed things...
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51: Arctic Monkeys | Taylor Swift
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We talk about the Best of the 1990s lists. We talk about Arctic Monkeys. We TALK about Taylor Swift. You're truly not going to find this much talking, about these specific topics, in this specific order anywhere else in Podcastland. That's the Best New Podcast guarantee! Disclaimer: Due to some unfortunate technical problems, the audio on the Arctic Monkeys segment is...not up to our usual standards. Apologies. Best New Podcast regrets the error.
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50: Built to Spill | Death Cab for Cutie | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Look, it's episode 50. We were feeling reflective. The only natural course of action was to construct a set of millennial midlife crisis deep dives.
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Note: At one point in the show we inaccurately claim that Tyler, the Creator's 2019 album IGOR won a Grammy in the "Urban" category. It in fact won the Best Rap Album Grammy and, for the record, we did know that. We simply forgot it for about 30 minutes. Best New Podcast regrets the error.
Jimmy Eat World: Clarity Album Review | Pitchfork
Modest Mouse's Lonesome Crowded West | Pitchfork Classic Documentary
Lucy Dacus | "Thumbs" Official Audio | YouTube
The /b/ Boys: Odd Future and the Swag Generation | Pitchfork
Parents Music Resource Center - Wikipedia
Grammys problem with black artists like Lizzo, Tyler the Creator - Chicago Tribune
YouTube | HipHopDX | Tyler, The Creator Says 'Urban' Is Just Another Way To Say The N Word
NME | The Grammys have dropped the 'Urban' music term. What took so long?