Jams and Tea

This week’s Record Club is a special deep dive into some of the 2000s’ most regrettable Christian radio rock to make it big on the charts and in wider culture. First of all we dig into the massive success of Switchfoot at their prime with 2003’s The Beautiful Letdown, before plunging into the depths of the genre’s lowest with Skillet’s abysmal - but hugely successful - 2009 record Awake.

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It’s Sunday once again, and Jake and Ryley are joined by Jakob to talk about the hottest new releases. Today we dive deep into the heavily anticipated new record from Pusha T, IT’S ALMOST DRY, discuss the “Ye vs Pharrell” debate, and consider the strengths and weaknesses of Push as a writer versus as a crafter of albums. Following this, we also dig into the 20th album (and first double album) of legendary Australian rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, OMNIUM GATHERUM. How does this varied amalgamation of their many sounds hang together as a single record? Tune in to find out as the gang break it all down.

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This week’s Record Club is our fourth Porcupine Tree episode, as we dig into the band’s penultimate record before their hiatus, the conceptual, intense, and collaborative Fear of a Blank Planet.

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In this week’s main episode of Jams & Tea, Jake and Ryley are joined by special guest Brett to review two of the most beloved and rapturously received records of the year so far, abstract hip-hop mainstay Billy Woods’ nightmarish new opus Aethiopes, and Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear’s solo debut with the delightfully warm and colourfully progressive You Belong There.

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This week’s Record Club looks back on a classic of the distinctly 90s meeting point of rock, hip-hop, and rave music, the short-lived but ecstatic era of Big Beat, represented most powerfully by The Chemical Brothers and their dynamic, explosive second album Dig Your Own Hole, which recently turned 25 (just a couple of days before Ryley!). Join us as we dig into the unique sound and appeal of this overlooked classic.

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In this week’s main episode of Jams & Tea, Jake, August, and Ryley are back to review two hotly anticipated records from iconic figures. First up is Father John Misty’s soulful turn as a 1920s crooner in the baroque and ornate Chloe and the Next 20th Century, followed by a closer look at Jack White’s perplexing new ProTools-recorded garage rock exercise, Fear of the Dawn!

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This week’s Record Club is maybe our most unhinged to date, as we dive into the bizarre gentrified adult contemporary of 80s AM radio staple Michael Bolton, specifically to review his successful 1989 record Soul Provider. Join us as we fall into the rabbit hole of this bizarre and surreal era of popular music and attempt to understand the success and appeal of such a radically intense voice in this world.

In this week’s main episode of Jams & Tea, the gang are back to review three new records: the auspicious comeback from pod favourite band Placebo, the raucous and self-destructive new album from PUP, and the latest creation from the Red Hot Chili Peppers!

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This week’s Record Club sees us celebrating a band and a record that remain among the most successful in all of popular metal, and yet still haven’t received the proper critical reappraisal they deserve: Evanescence, guided by the stirring vocals and lyricism of the inimitable Amy Lee, altered the face of alternative metal, and presented a potent counterpoint to the hypermasculine dominance of the nu-metal wave in the early 2000s, though success did not come without costs…

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In this week’s main episode of Jams & Tea, Jake and Ryley are joined by regular guest Jen to discuss the fiery, intense new record from hardcore band Soul Glo, DIASPORA PROBLEMS! We also break down the heavily anticipated and luxurious sounding new return from Denzel Curry, MELT MY EYEZ SEE YOUR FUTURE, and discuss at length the bizarre and ugly pop punk of chart mainstay Machine Gun Kelly and his new album MAINSTREAM SELLOUT.

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