Welcome to Hot on the Presses, in which Sophie and Megan recap some of the last 2 weeks' music releases and give their thoughts on them. This session, we debut our illustrious and highly anticipated award show, THE PRESSIES, to cap off the year. in it, we go ham for our favorite, groan our way through the worsts, and make sure you remember that this is not a numbered list.
Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed: soon :)
00:05:20 shamir - heterosexuality
00:08:29 charli xcx - crash
00:13:44 rico nasty - las ruinas
00:22:20 haru nemuri - shunka ryougen
00:31:37 elucid - i told bessie
00:40:44 jack white - fear of the dawn/entering heaven alive
00:45:05 WORST OF THE YEAR: panic! at the disco - viva las vengeance
00:53:20 UNRANKED MOST UNIQUE
00:55:16 caroline - caroline
00:59:19 soul glo - diaspora problems
01:03:21 gilla band - most normal
01:08:50 fax gang - dataprism
01:13:27 perfume genius - ugly season
01:17:18 water gun water gun sky attack - total swarm for young men
01:21:39 asian glow - stalled flutes, means
01:27:23 wu-lu - loggerhead
01:31:58 rich ruth - i survived, it’s over
01:36:40 special interest - endure
01:41:27 lowertown - i love to lie
01:42:15 backxwash - his happiness shall come first even though we are suffering
01:42:51 heffner - perfect heaven
01:43:24 arctic monkeys - the car
01:45:07 chat pile - god’s country
01:46:18 cmat - if my wife new i’d be dead
01:48:00 gutter punk - punk everlasting
01:49:26 beabadoobee - beatopia
01:51:15 ethel cain - preacher’s daughter
01:56:56 robocobra quartet - living isn’t easy
02:01:27 everything everything - raw data feel
02:06:26 beyoncé - renaissance
02:11:54 ghais guevara - there will be no super slave
02:18:27 otoboke beaver - super champon
02:22:47 daniel rossen - you belong there
02:28:11 jockstrap - i love you, jennifer b
02:35:33 billy woods - aethiopes
02:42:21 tim bernardes - mil coisas invisiveis
02:48:54 THE BEST OF THE YEAR: black midi - hellfire
3:00:59 outro (happy new year!)