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 :)

00:00:00 intro

00:03:00 UNRANKED WORST

00:05:20 shamir - heterosexuality

00:08:29 charli xcx - crash

00:13:44 rico nasty - las ruinas

00:17:58 ghost - impera

00:22:20 haru nemuri - shunka ryougen

00:26:46 sza - sos

00:31:37 elucid - i told bessie

00:35:53 lizzo - special

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

01:41:12 SHOUTOUTS

01:41:27 lowertown - i love to lie

01:41:59 tricot - fudeki

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

01:54:26 BEST

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!)

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 discuss dubious live shows, cry over monkeys, abuse the ___ on my ___ til i ___ format, and break down a stacked end of the year lineup.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3V5lvudhnEJzttvCWpT8oW?si=3da1b7adb19b4b0e

00:00:00 intro

00:01:39 channel 5 LIVE review by sophie

00:12:59 epic games sued for BEAUCOUP BUCKS

00:13:57 SUGRIVA INTERLUDE

00:15:37 epic games topic RETURNS feat. twitter n elon talk

NEW 4 U

00:23:16 MEGAN’S PICK: queens of the stone age - s/t

00:41:09 SOPHIE’S PICK: viktor vaughn - vaudeville villain

ALBUMS

00:58:12 gupi - paper eater

01:06:52 sza - sos

01:33:37 little simz - no thank you

01:48:41 brakence - hypochondriac

02:10:50 tricot - fudeki

02:28:22 end of year sentimentality!

02:32:58 quadeca comment response + clarification

SINGLES

02:44:08 gorillaz - skinny ape

02:50:44 biig piig & deb never - picking up

02:52:42 mercury - fear mercury EP

02:56:09 caroline polachek - welcome to my island

02:59:47 pile - poisons

03:00:40 100 gecs - snake eyes

03:07:51 snow ellet - playing dead

03:13:21 paramore - the news

03:15:48 aesop rock & blockhead - pumpkin seeds (feat. lupe fiasco)

03:19:34 vylet pony - brohoof

03:21:56 earl sweatshirt - making the band

03:25:13 outro + plugs

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 discuss emerging from holes, next level gatekeeping, and so many of the internet rap guys. And Natalie Mering.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4xUA78yf9BoCXrpwBcA1xL?si=2c1ebf47962444b2

00:00:00 intro

00:00:30 where the h*ll we’ve been

00:07:52 when r u really a “fan”? and what the sam hill even is genre?

NEW 4 U

00:29:18 SOPHIE’S PICK: lil ugly mane - mista thug isolation

00:43:23 MEGAN’S PICK: fleet foxes - helplessness blues

ALBUMS

01:04:04 BROCKHAMPTON - the family

01:22:53 quadeca - i didn’t mean to haunt you

01:42:17 $ilkmoney - i dont give a fuck about this rap shit, imma just drop until i dont feel like it anymore

01:52:53 weyes blood - and in the darkness, hearts aglow

HONORABLE MENTION

02:15:43 richard dawson - the ruby cord

EPS & SINGLES

02:22:50 mike/wiki/the alchemist - one more

02:27:06 hotel mira - eventually

02:30:35 HNNY - being in love

02:32:54 lil ugly mane - split ends/redacted fog

02:35:08 vylet pony - needle pusher (+ furry music discussion)

02:39:37 kimbra - replay!

02:40:48 yungmorpheus - distant places

02:44:03 remi wolf - last christmas/winter wonderland

02:45:53 puzzle - love is a place to hide

02:47:17 liv.e - wild animals

02:48:24 tennis - one night with the valet

02:48:37 andy shauf - wasted on you

02:50:37 outro + plugs

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 discuss a real life application of the fabled skin hypothetical, experience cosmic levels of bafflement at Lizzo’s LP, and run a musical marathon with rap god Geordie Greep.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03qlf6Ge3RLP69OMi6PFuG?si=p68rDUrAQB2lnc5meD_bNg

00:00:00 megan’s top song

00:00:24 intro

00:00:46 megan’s personal hell: the boss baby irl

00:08:02 rolling loud update

00:11:25 the gerogerigegege & the skin hypothetical: tooth remix

00:23:33 SOPHIE’S PICK: landlady - the world is a loud place

00:33:10 MEGAN'S PICK: king crimson - discipline

ALBUMS:

00:49:34 lizzo - special

01:26:48 jaywood - slingshot

01:33:36 beabadoobee - beatopia

01:45:12 quinn - (self-titled)

01:55:13 rico nasty - las ruinas

02:14:51 the koreatown oddity - isthisforreal?

02:32:02 wu lu - loggerhead

02:42:49 black midi - hellfire

SINGLES:

03:23:32 pearl & the oysters/biche - coordonnees ep (split)

03:25:01 porter robinson - everything goes on

03:26:25 the beths - expert in a dying field

03:26:51 panda bear & sonic boom - go on

03:28:54 danger mouse & black thought - aquamarine (feat michael kiwanuka)

03:29:35 phum viphurit - healing house

03:31:27 genesis owusu - gtfo

03:33:15 jessie ware - free yourself

03:37:04 the garden - orange county punk rock legend

03:39:51 billie eilish - tv/the 30th

03:41:25 megan thee stallion - presurelicious (feat. future)

03:43:08 comanavago - leave him

03:47:22 panic at the disco - middle of a breakup (this song is godawful)

03:54:08 outro + plugs

03:56:38 sophie’s top song

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 discuss Kanye and his inability to gig, Megan is crucified by ska, and the 1975 are cursed for their musical sins.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kdCW5Va4SyqJCy6wT1Yzw?si=3af2f9be617f45e5

00:00:00 tim bernardes - fases

00:00:29 kanye west cannot complete a gig

00:03:46 megan’s ex robs her of her kanyinity

00:10:06 kanye news 2: failure to pay boogaloo

00:14:30 SOPHIES PICK: jeff rosenstock - worry.

00:23:38 MEGANS PICK: masumi hara - 4 x a dream

ALBUMS:

00:42:51 soccer mommy - sometimes, forever

00:54:52 jer - bothered / unbothered

01:05:39 lupe fiasco - drill music in zion

01:22:29 tim bernardes - mil coisas invisíveis (a thousand invisible things)

01:36:32 robocobra quartet - living isnt easy

01:50:58 viagra boys - cave world

02:06:14 moor mother - jazz codes

SINGLES/EPS:

02:17:00 city hag - nothing new under the sun ep

02:17:41 heffner - bends of life

02:18:22 gorillaz - cracker island (feat. thundercat)

02:19:04 death's dynamic shroud - messe de E-102

02:20:09 the wonder years - wyatt's song

02:20:42 chance the rapper - the highs & the lows (feat. joey bada$$)

02:21:23 sbtrkt - bodmin moor

02:22:39 young the giant - wake up

02:24:24 jazz emu - still waiting

02:25:43 glaive - minnesota is a place that exists

02:26:54 joey bada$$ - where i belong

02:27:49 loyle carner - hate

02:29:19 julien baker - guthrie

02:31:10 young fathers - geronimo

02:33:26 the 1975 - part of the band (the matty healy gets flushed segment)

02:38:10 outro + plugs

02:40:22 robocobra quartet - chromo sud

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 discuss childcare, awful bars, and complete infatuation with two respective albums.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5EfeGayv1iLBzTZ83uY5BW?si=bX7Vrr0UTWOxAPI42gNrkQ

00:00:00 megan’s pick

00:00:28 intro

00:01:04 at home with pressescast

00:01:47 vampire weekend: whitest ever?

00:05:02 at home record collections

00:07:08 did fall out boy fall off (boy)

00:10:05 megan is a teacher now

00:17:10 sophie’s experience with karens & guns at summer camp

00:19:34 sophie’s smash ultimate local is too stacked

00:23:22 covid infiltrates the podcast + too much discussion of cough drops

00:26:20 fuck the supreme court, from HOTP

ALBUMS:

00:29:31 flume - palaces

00:49:16 andrew bird - inside problems

00:06:29 boldy james & real bad man - killing nothing

01:18:59 everything everything - raw data feel

01:32:51 fax gang - dataprism

01:40:13 elucid - i told bessie

01:56:27 700 bliss - nothing to declare

02:08:37 sound of ceres - emerald sea

02:17:43 perfume genius - ugly season

02:37:31 asian glow - stalled flutes, means

SINGLES:

02:56:45 diana ross & tame impala - turn up the sunshine

02:58:59 rina sawayama - this hell

03:00:45 boris - she is burning

03:01:42 daphnia - cherry

03:05:26 oliver sim - hideous bastard (feat. jimmy sommerville)

03:07:44 alex g - blessing (watch for insane ass video)

03:10:08 the garden - freight yard

03:15:37 of montreal - marijuana’s a working woman

03:17:51 ocean kelly - multiverse of kuntness (feat. adrianxpression)

03:20:28 la femme - sacatela

03:23:40 pharrell williams - cash in cash out (feat 21 savage & tyler, the creator)

03:26:25 serengeti - sufjan dennehy

03:29:41 enumclaw - jimmy neutron

03:30:11 pet shimmers - edge lord

03:30:36 meechy darko - kill us all (k.u.a)

03:34:32 black midi - eat men eat

03:37:47 outro + plugs

03:40:18 sophie’s pick

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 ponder bodily harm, the overrated-ness of having good takes, and Australian goblins.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wekAkTAVFOPrpoStGtYVQ?si=dbbef7984e5a418b

00:00:00 intro

00:06:52 hpotheticals

00:08:04 tummy restaurant taxation

00:09:25 is skin a possession?

00:19:39 new segment!

00:21:36 megan’s pick: protomartyr - relatives in descent

00:35:52 sophie’s pick: blanck mass - dumb flesh

00:43:27 does ‘getting it’ matter?

00:52:21 melody's echo chamber - emotional eternal

00:58:53 king gizzard & the lizard wizard - omnium gatherum

01:14:18 dalek - precipice

01:27:37 bob vylan - bob vylan presents the price of life

01:38:18 redveil - learn 2 swim

01:44:30 gutter punk - punk everlasting

01:58:33 haru nemuri - shunka ryougen

02:14:42 sorry - there's so many people who want to be loved

02:15:53 soccer mommy - unholy affliction

02:18:00 viagra boys - ain't no thief

02:19:06 dj sabrina the teenage dj - call you

02:21:32 beabadoobee - see you soon

02:22:28 flume - palaces

02:26:31 another michael - water pressure

02:27:10 wilma vritra - every evening

02:28:27 arcade fire - unconditional i (lookout kid)

02:30:37 iceage - all the junk on the outskirts

02:34:30 the week ahead

02:38:23 outro + plugs

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 discuss 6 year long drone projects, white men have a good week, and Sophie finds a new love to top Big Thief.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2go4b7gfaVGMzptHQivpyw?si=fe0ab8a68a314f28

00:00:00 intro

00:01:28 sophie’s encounter with an NPC

00:04:14 the puppycide database

00:07:41 happy 4/20

00:08:58 various men from NYC/LA

00:10:07 new to megan: hella - hold your horse is

00:11:33 new to sophie: world inferno friendship society news

00:15:01 megan’s froggy love origins

00:16:38 beatboxing professionals

00:17:27 the vore tracker

00:19:51 bull of heaven tangent

00:25:50 jack white - fear of the dawn

00:37:40 orville peck - bronco

00:52:41 daniel rossen - you belong there

01:07:17 father john misty - chloe and the next 20th century

01:36:09 yung lean - stardust mixtape

01:44:43 sault - air

01:51:16 billy woods - aethiopes

02:18:26 action bronson - subzero

02:20:25 arca - cayó

02:22:06 quelle chris - alive aint always living

02:23:52 100 gecs - doritos and fritos

02:27:20 kikagaku moyo - cardboard pile

02:28:57 lizzo - about damn time

02:34:00 fax gang - reprieve

02:37:19 knoll - felled plume

02:40:03 king gizzard - kepler-22b

02:41:37 minecraft youtuber dream tangent

02:42:51 the fluidcast

02:43:53 plugging + outro

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 week, we take a walk down memory lane & may or may not lose control of our bowels live on air.

Exhaustive playlist of ~everything~ discussed: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6naQeFWaebQuoCdf4Dfib0?si=53e879c562d64ac9

INTRO

00:00:00 intro

00:02:26 what’s new to us?

00:05:25 postmodern jukebox tangent

00:09:37 our pasts as EDM-heads

00:17:57 shitting yourself, LIVE!

ALBUMS

00:21:30 duster - together

00:35:53 denzel curry - melt my eyes see your future

00:56:05 destroyer - labyrinthitis

01:06:22 kilo kish - american gurl

01:10:21 pup - the unraveling of puptheband

01:19:46 niechęć - unsubscribe

01:30:53 soul glo - diaspora problems 

SINGLES

01:43:33 ezra furman - book of our names

01:44:41 lady lamb - wolves of my want

01:46:46 nordista freeze - secret

01:48:30 soccer mommy - shotgun

01:50:45 street sects - history is everyone’s fuck

01:51:51 sports team - r entertainment

01:56:49 superorganism - it’s raining

01:59:47 masked wolf & bring me the horizon - fallout

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 week, our local festival Savannah Stopover has happened, Sophie has her stonewall, and Megan is clogged beyond words.

Playlist of everything we discuss! (literally everything)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4F131dw7s7hw3LTUIaqQcw?si=c36cd5bd6d194f8a

00:00:00 savannah stopover stories

ALBUMS:

00:30:36 rosalia - motomami

00:51:33 benny the butcher - tana talk 4

01:05:03 charli xcx - crash

01:15:44 jenny hval - classic objects

1:25:25 ghost - impera (ft. megan editing error jump scare)

1:36:25 weatherglow - weatherday and asian glow

1:43:40 bladee/ecco2k - crest

1:53:26 alex cameron - oxy music

2:08:05 weezer - szns: spring

SINGLES:

2:16:01 kaycyy & gesaffelstein - tw20 50 EP

2:19:07 king gizz/tropical fuck storm - satanic slumber party EP

2:20:38 arcade fire - the lightning i, ii

2:25:21 everything everything - teletype

2:31:20 andrew bird - atomized

2:36:26 post animal - puppy dog

2:37:08 rachel chinouriri - all i ever asked

2:37:48 trash fashion - beat goes round (and round)

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