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The Season of Lists cannot be stopped. The Season of Lists soldiers on with another draft. The Season of Lists will soon provide The Website's Top 50 Albums of 2019, one presumes. Listen as your Best New Hosts scramble and bicker in preparation for this.

Also, another rousing round of "Do We Give a Shit?"

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A lovely, classic Deep Dives episode before we round out the year by diving back into the Season of Lists. We discuss two artists with similarly lengthy discographies and...well, the similarities pretty much end there! Plus, the return of a classic fan-favorite segment: Bowers or Burroughs.

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Your Best New Podcasters read through the The Website's list of the Best Albums of the 2010s and find out the winner of the previous episode's draft. Much, much yelling ensues.

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The Season of Lists kicks into high gear with perhaps the biggest list of them all. Join us for a good old fashioned draft in anticipation of The Website's ranking of the Best Albums of the 2010s.

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Better late than never? I sure hope so because, while we recorded this one over a week ago, The Website beat us to the punch, reviewing one of our Deep Dives while our all-star post production team was still hard at work fine-tuning the episode. Ah, such is life in podcasting's fast lane.

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DEEP DIVES

• FKA twigs - MAGDALENE
• Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

LIGHTNING ROUND

• Devon Walsh - True Love
• Swans - Leaving Meaning
• Big Thief - Two Hands
• SUNN O)))- Pyroclasts
• Mikal Cronin - Seeker
• Danny Brown - uknowhatimasaying?
• That Dog - Old LP
• Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
• DIIV - Deceiver
• Anna Meredith - FIBS
• Rex Orange County - Pony
• Jeff Goldblum - I Shouldn't Be Telling You This

It's all Lucy with the football with diamonds all over again.

DEEP DIVES

• M83 - DSVII
• The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
• Vagabon - Vagabon

LIGHTNING ROUND

• Frankie Cosmos - Close It Quietly
• Vivian Girls - Memory
• Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
• Pixies - Beneath the Eyrie
• Devendra Banhart - Ma
• Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'm Just Like You
• Kanye West - Jesus is King

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Part seven of a twelve-episode special investigation into Whitney's beer hacks.

DEEP DIVES

• Charli XCX - Charli
• Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls
• (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar

LIGHTNING ROUND

• Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love
• Lower Dens - The Competition
• Death Cab - The Blue EP
• Laurie Anderson - Songs from the Bardo
• Blink-182 - Nine

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• Pitchfork feature: Charli XCX Is the Pop Star of the Future
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This month we were so excited about our one year anniversary that we didn't actually check when it was.

DEEP DIVES

• Bon Iver - i,i
• Taylor Swift - Lover
• Clairo - IMMUNITY
• Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold

LIGHTNING ROUND

• Tool - Fear Inoculum
• Jay Som - Anak Ko
• G Flip - About Us
• !!! - Wallop
• Ride - This Is Not a Safe Place
• The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
• Whitney - Forever Turned Around

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• Mase - P4K Sunday Review
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This month two artists move on from the mixtape and two more move into new band names. But first, your hosts take you on a tour of the 2013 BNM that almost was, as they spend about 20 minutes probably mispronouncing Jai Paul's name.

DEEP DIVES

• Chance the Rapper - TBA
• Cuco - Para Mí
• The Soft Cavalry - s/t
• Purple Mountains - s/t

LIGHTNING ROUND

• Maxo Kream - Brandon Banks
• BJ the Chicago Kid - 1123
• Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Iz Here
• Ed Sheeran - No. 6 Collaborations Project

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Join us this month in dissecting the music careers of a big ol' pack of aging dudes. How does one age gracefully in dance music? How does one age gracefully in rock music? How long can we go without referencing either Chillwave or Sandinista! by The Clash? Some say we'll never know….

DEEP DIVES

• Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
• Titus Andronicus - An Obelisk
• Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
• Hot Chip - A Bath Full of Ecstasy

LIGHTNING ROUND

• Baroness - Gold & Grey
• The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger
• The Black Keys - Let's Rock
• Hatchie - Keepsake

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