Best New Podcast

How much consistency is too much? Are capital letters inherently more effective than lowercase? Should an artist's non-musical antics influence their album reviews?

Who knows. Here's another episode of Best New Podcast!

• Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
• Holly Herndon - PROTO
• Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
• Mac DeMarco - Here Comes The Cowboy

• The National - I Am Easy to Find
• Tim Hecker - Anoyo
• Lil Kim - 9
• Flying Lotus - Flamagra

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Duffy is off tending to his very own best new small human child, so Mike and Mack take the opportunity to really stretch out and luxuriate in the sound of their own voices. Will they successfully keep on track? Will they even attempt to? Don't look at the episode runtime, JUST HIT PLAY.

• Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
• The Mountain Goats - In League With Dragons
• Anderson .Paak - Ventura
• Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride

• The Flaming Lips - King's Mouth
• Khalid - Free Spirit
• Kevin Morby - Oh My God
• Kelsey Lu - Blood

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How many synths must a Malkmus use, before you stop talking about his old band? How many vocals must be autotuned, in order to Chop & screw a Lamb?

These questions and more will go unanswered in this action-packed edition of Best New Podcast!

Stephen Malkmus - Groove Denied

American Football - S/T

Jenny Lewis - On The Line

Lambchop - This (is what I wanted to tell you)

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell

These New Puritans - Inside The Rose

Avey Tare - Cows on Hourglass Pond

Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet

Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima

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As you all know by now, Best New Podcast isn't about fun. It's about beating each other at a made-up game. For fun.

We award ourselves points based on the accuracy of our predictions. Those points are awarded as follows.

Closest to the actual rating gets 3 points, unless it's a tie – then each get 1.5 points. In the event of a 3-way tie, each player receives 1 point.

A Perfect Pitch (a guess that ends up exactly matching Pitchfork's rating) awards the winner an additional 4 points. If, on the other hand, there is a tied Perfect Pitch each pitcher gets 2 points, or 1.33 points each for a triple Perfect Pitch.

Finally, an accurately guessed "Best New Music" designation yields an additional 1.5 points, while an inaccurately guessed BNP removes 1.5 points from the player's total.

Same as above, but all point values are cut in half.

Note: This scoring criteria will eventually reside in an assumedly much more pleasing-to-the-eye form on an honest-to-goodness Internet Web Site. At some point soon. The haunted Roomba that writes these show notes simply hasn't gotten around to the task of building it yet. (It's caught in a corner.)

A large, content-rich episode awaits you this month, featuring Deep Dives into new releases from Ariana Grande, Jessica Pratt, Panda Bear, HEALTH, and Cass McCombs.

Up top we discuss the recent dry spell in Best New Tracks and what it might mean in terms of the 'Fork's evolving digital strategery. (Then, a few days after recording, they posted a new BNT, ending said dry spell. Is this all part of a larger conspiracy on the part of The Website to foil our segments? Likely. We're looking into it. Meanwhile we're confident that our larger points still stand.)

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Recorded Thursday, January 24th, 2019

New year, new BNP! We kick off 2019 discussing a host of old favorites, as well as a newer soon-to-be-favorite. Plus, a brand new hit segment is born. What a time to be alive!

Deep Dives: Girlpool - What Chaos is Imaginary Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow Beirut - Gallipoli

Lightning Round: FIDLAR - Almost Free Pedro the Lion - Phoenix Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life

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We couldn't wait a whole month this time! In this very special episode your valued hosts gather to count down Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2018 and reveal the winner of last episode's fantasy draft. We hope you're not averse to a healthy dose of gloating, 'cause the draft champ sure wasn't.

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The holiday season is well underway and we are in a celebratory mood as we prepare for what is unquestionably the most important event of the year: Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2018! And there is of course no better way to prepare than a good old fashioned fantasy draft. In this episode we choose from a pool of the year's most highly-rated albums and each try to put together a roster that best reflects the themes of 2018. Oh, and yell. We yell quite a bit.

In this episode we discuss upcoming releases from Sun Kil Moon, Kanye West, Jeff Tweedy, Moonface, and Smashing Pumpkins. Also discussed: clunky album titles, our poor pronunciation skills, and the varying states of Mack's kimono.

Current standings, as of this recording:

1st - Michael, 3 points

2nd - Mack, 1.5 points

3rd - Duffy, -1.5 points

In this, our inaugural episode, we discuss upcoming albums for October 2018. Other topics include: guitar solos, string quartet tributes, and Australians talking over music.