New Week New Music

Today we review our 36th album for the year, "Maps" by Billy Woods and Kenny Segal.

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This is our 35th review for our 2023 album ranking series.

For our 2023 100 album reviews, the 34th album is "Special Occasion" by Emily King.

Today we review the 33rd album for our 2023 100 album rankings, "Violent Creed of Vengeance" by Smoulder.

Today we review our 32nd album for our 2023 100 album rankings, "Devil Music" by Portrayal of Guilt.

This week we review our 31st album for our 2023 rankings, "Echoes" by Fire! Orchestra.

Today we review HMLTD's "The Worm." This is the 30th album for our 2023 100 album rankings.

Today we review our 28th and 29th albums for the year, and its all thrash metal with Metallica's "27 Seasons" and Overkill's "Scorched"

Today we review our 27th album for our 2023 100 album rankings, "Crash Recoil" by Surgeon.

Today we review our 26th album for 2023, "No Highs" by Tim Hecker.

Rounding out the first quarter of the year with our 25th review, we have "False Lankum" by Lankum.

Our 24th album for the 2023 100 album rankings is "Raven" by Kelela.

Today we review our 23rd album for the year, "93696" by Liturgy.

Today we review our 22nd album for the year, "Scaring the Hoes" by JPEGmafia and Danny Brown.

Today we review the 21st album for our 2023 100 album ranking, "Periphery V: Djent is not a Genre" by Periphery.

For our 20th album of 2023, we review 100 gecs' new release "10000 gecs."

Today we review our 19th album for the year, "Ugly" by Slowthai.

For the 18th album in our 2023 100 album rankings, we review Macklemore's "Ben."

Today we re-visit Algiers for our 17th album of 2023, "Shook."

Today we review our 16th album for the 2023 album rankings, "Cracker Island" by Gorillaz.

Today we review our 15th album for the year, "This is Why" by Paramore.

Today we review our 14th album for our 2023 rankings, "Desire, I Want To Turn Into You" by Caroline Polachek.

This week we review the new Rebecca Black album "Let Her Burn." This is our 13th album for 2023.

Today we review two new albums from Skrillex "Quest for Fire" and "Don't Get Too Close" for our 11th and 12th albums of the year.

We're 1/10 of the way through our 100 albums for 2023! Today we do our 10th album of the year, "Gloria" by Sam Smith, and discuss the year so far.

Today we review our 9th album for the year, "Ultra Paradise" by Angel Electronics.

For our fourth album of 2023 we review Tujiko Noriko's "Crépuscule I & II."

For our third album of 2023 we review Cicada's "棲居在溪源之上 (Seeking the Sources of Streams)"

For the second album of 2023, we review Oedipus Apartment Complex's "The Blissful Sounds of Miracula."

In the first episode of our 2023 rankings, we review Esoctrilium's "Funeral."

This week we close out 2022 with albums #99 and #100 for the year. Brandon's picks are "Solidaritine" by Gogol Bordello and "Subatomic" by FNKPMPN.

This week we do our yearly Ben-driven Westside Gunn special with "10" and "Peace Fly God."

This week we review Klein's "Cave in the Wind" and Mason Bates with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with "Philharmonia Fantastique - The Making of the Orchestra."

This week, we finally get caught up and review 8 albums at once. We're doing:

Five Finger Death Punch: AfterLife
3 Days Grace: Explosions
Scarcity: Aveilut
The Gerogerigegege: >(decrescendo) the Final Chapter
Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder: Get on Board
Valyrie: MyWayThat ItsComingTo Befor <3 :)
Ashenspire: Hostile Architecture
Black Eyed Peas: Elevation

Probably not in that order.

This week we review CRRDR's "Damnbow" and Culprate's "αριθμόσ τέσσερα."

This week we review Mori Calliope's "Unalive" and Deco*27's "Mannequin."

This week we review Quadeca's "I Didn't Mean to Haunt You" and Weyes Blood's "And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow."

This week we review Backxwash's "His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering" and Nas's "King's Disease III."

This week we review "Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam" from The Comet is Coming, and JID's "The Forever Story."

This week we review Wormrot's "Hiss" and Cloud Rat's "Threshold."

This week we review Gilla Band's "Most Normal" and Gaerea's "Mirage."

This week we review Taylor Swift's "Midnights" and Bad Bunny's "Un Verano Sin Ti."

This week we review Muse's "Will of the People" and Panic! At The Disco's "Viva Las Vengeance." You already know how this is going to go...

This week we review Bjork's "Fossora" and Rina Sawayama's "Hold the Girl."

This week Brandon and Ben review Moor Mother's "Jazz Codes" and Danger Mouse & Black Thought's "Cheat Codes."

This week Brandon and Ben review Kenny Beats with "Louie" and DJ Khaled with "God Did."

This week we review Wilco's "Cruel Country" and Munly & The Lupercalians with "Kinnery of Lupercalia; Undelivered Legion."

This week we review Domi and JD Beck's "Not Tight" and Naked Flames' "Miracle in Transit."

This week we review Imperial Triumphant's "Spirit of Ecstasy" and Chat Pile's "God's Country."

This week we review the hottest music reviewer bait on the planet with Machine Gun Kelly's "Mainstream Sellout" and we go back to the podcast's roots with the one and only, the men, the myths the legends, the truly GOAT'ed: Dune Rats, with "Real Rare Whale."

This week we review Lizzo's "Special" and Beyonce's "Renaissance."

This week we review Esoctrilihum's "Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh" and Black Midi's "Hellfire"

This week we review "False Light" by White Ward and "We Used to Cut the Grass #1" by We Used to Cut the Grass.

This week we review "Flood Format" from Bird's Eye Batang and "For Trainspotters Only" from Ann Eyesermans.

This week we provide a serious review of Elucid's "I Told Bessie" and spend some time clowning on Drake's "Honestly, Nevermind"

This week we review Spiritualized with "Everything was Beautiful" and Matmos with "Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer."

This week we review Jack White's "Fear of the Dawn" and Sirom's "The Liquified Throne of Simplicity."

This week we review Immolation's "Acts of God" and Cult of Luna's "The Long Road North."

This week we review Flume's "Palaces" and Swedish House Mafia's "Paradise Again."

This week we review Otoboke Beaver's "Super Champon" and Pup's "The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND."

Eric and Ben pick songs for eachother to cover, with Brandon sitting out because he's a~F~r~A~i~D to compete with pure musical genius.

This week we review Pusha T's "It's Almost Dry" and Billy Woods's "Aethiopes."

We finally review the new Kendrick Lamar album, "Mr Morale and the Big Steppers."

Brandon wraps up the intro episodes by revealing his 9 selections. Next up - listening and ranking the 27 albums.

This week we review Zguba with "Znoj" and MyDreamFever with "Rough and Beautiful Place."

Second up, Eric selects 9 albums for the group to listen to and rank.

This weekend we review Fivio Foreign's "B.I.B.L.E." and Denzel Curry's "Melt My Eyez See Your Future."

The 27 Album ranking series is back for 2022. To kick it off, Ben picks 3 overrated, 3 underrated, and 3 favorite albums for us to listen to and rank.

This week we review Lost Dog Street Band with "Glory" and CMAT's new album "If My Wife New I'd Be Dead."

In this episode we review the legendary bad? genius? album from the Shaggs, "Philosophy of the World."

This week we review Binker and Moses' "Feeding the Machine" and Stefan Pasborg's "Ritual Dances."

We all know where this is going... this week we review Avril Lavigne's new record "Love Sux," the recent Korn release "Requiem," and check in with our favorite rock superstar's new metal album "Dream Widow."

This week, we review Sabaton's "The War to End All Wars" and Ghost's "Impera."

This week we review Earthgang's "Ghetto Gods" and Conway the Machine's "God Don't Make Mistakes."

This week we review "家​.​V1" from Knxwledge and "Humanity" by Koji Nakamura, Foodman, and Takashi Numazawa.

This week we review two self-titled metal albums, Ode & Elegy and Zeal & Ardor.

In this episode, we review Honningbarna's "Animorphs" and Black Dresses' "Forget Your Own Face."

In this episode, we look back at last year's music, to discuss our top 10 and bottom 5 songs from the year.

This week, we review two highly anticipated albums from artists that we've enjoyed previously on the show. Pinegrove's latest album, "11:11" and the new Black Country New Road record, "Ants From Up There."

This week we review "Extreme Witchcraft" from Eels, and "The Gods We Can Touch" from Aurora.

This week, we look at the new releases from FKA Twigs, with "Caprisongs" and Pan Daijing with "Tissues."

For the first review of 2022, we discuss The Weeknd's "Dawn FM" and Earl Sweatshirt's "Sick!"

This episode we have some fun wrapping up the year by awarding some superlatives to the albums we listened to in 2021.

This week, while waiting for new albums to drop in 2022, we look back at our 2020 album rankings, compare to the 2021 list, and discuss what we'd like to see from this year's releases.

In part 2 of our top 20 greatest songs of all time, we reveal and discuss number 10 through number 1 on our lists.

In this episode, we each reveal and discuss our top 20 greatest songs of all time. In part 1, we cover our selections for number 20 through number 11.

In this episode we reveal our Top and Bottom 10 albums of 2021, as well as discussing our overall album rankings for the year.

To quickly jump to a section, use the timestamps below. Note the top and bottom 10 timestamps are a summary, with the reveal occurring during the top and bottom half discussion sections.

Bottom Half Discussion: 05:02
Top Half Discussion: 31:59

Number 50 Album: 02:54
Bottom 10 List: 75:29
Top 10 List: 77:46

We wrap up 2021 with our final two reviews for this year, Converge and Chelsea Wolfe with "Bloodmoon: I" and Tones and I with "Welcome to the Madhouse."