Let's Play Ten

MP and Ben plan a stop gap episode, contemplate a road trip, and have multiple conversations about stuff that you don't care about. You will however, care about this episode's "diabolically good" playlist, carefully curated for your lawn mowing introspection.

Episode Playlist:

• THICK, "Mother"
• Beautiful Freaks, "Loser Sellouts"
• Wishy, "Love On The Outside"
• MAITA, "girl at the bar"
• Future Teens, "Mourning Time"
• Sunday (1994), "Our Troubles"
• Jess Day, "Lilith"
• Losers, "Red Sweater"
• 86TVs, "Tambourine"
• Slate, "Sun Violence"
• TAKER, "Youth"
• Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, "Human Compression"
• BONUS MATERIAL: Losers, "Fear"

Edible Merch? Record Store Day malaise? Borderline obsessions? Disappearing institutions? Sure, we've got all of that. Plus a lively conversation about how little kids process music and why it matters to their future selves. As always, Ben and MP proudly present 10 brand new indie rock tracks that will adorn your psychic bulletin board.

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• Council Grounds, "Tied Down"
• Emily Wolfe, "Kill The Love"
• Of All Things, "Will You Give It A Taste?"
• Snarls, "Baby Bangs"
• The Joy Hotel, "Jeremiah"
• The Upsides, "Context"
• Jessica Boudreaux, "Be Somebody Else"
• McKenna Esteb, "All Time Record"
• ILA, "Glory"
• wilt, "More Than This"
• Gaffa Tape Sandy, "Dead To Me"
• swim school, "Seeing It Now"
• BONUS MATERIAL: McKenna Esteb, "Letters"

Dedicated to Steve Albini, 1962-2024

There's new gear in "the bigloo" and new sump pumps in the furnace room. So Ben and MP not only sound better, but they stayed dry. The guys dissect the album everyone is talking about, and rock a playlist of ten brand new indie/DIY songs that will flood your basement....with rock!

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• Kate Clover, "The Apocalypse Dream"
• Bad Bad Hats, "My Heart Your Heart"
• Chelsea King, "It Makes Me Think Of You"
• From Indian Lakes, "The Flow"
• Jess Locke, "Rocket To Ride"
• Carb On Carb, "2009"
• Swapmeet, "Ceiling Fan"
• Gloom Girl MFG, "Crimes"
• Moaning Lisa, "fainter"
• Moonpools, "Never Mind"
• Perennial, "Art History"
• nico sorenn, "Lucid"
• BONUS CONTENT: Moonpools, "Say Anything"

Ben and MP emerge from the crescent-shaped shadows of the eclipse to talk about "the Cowboy Carter effect", and consider the awesome power of the question mark? Plus, ten new indie rock tracks to usher you safely through the rapture.

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• Slowmove, "Wish You Never"
• Slow Joy, "Pulling Teeth"
• Baits, "Up In The Air"
• Cloudbelly, "Fascinated"
• Budge, "Hrtstrngs"
• hey, nothing, "Lost Boys"
• irossa, "Capillari"
• LEAP, "One Way Out"
• Bug Seance, "Aardvark"
• Stereo League, "Wasted Wonderful"
• Thank You, I'm Sorry, "When I Come East"
• Another Sky, "The Pain"
• BONUS CONTENT: Cloudbelly, "Handfuls"

What would you listen to if you knew the end was near? Ben and MP contemplate the soundtrack to the apocalypse. On a more serious note, the boys discuss something they call "personal cancel culture", the point at which an individual decides that an artist's ideology makes their art undigestible. Heady stuff, and a playlist of new indie rock that will blow up your sun.

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• The Cliffords, "If The Shoe Fits"
• Gustaf, "Close"
• Sachet, "The Lodger"
• Martial Arts, "Warsaw"
• Mini Trees, "Burn Out"
• The Rocky Valentines, "Sing The Song"
• Poolhouse, "Rose Colored Killer"
• Pit Pony, "Fuzzy"
• Pillow Queens, "Like A Lesson"
• Sweet Pill, "Sympathy"
• Perve Endings, "You're Not On My Mind"
• The Bevis Frond, "Empty"
• BONUS TRACK: Mini Trees, "Shapeshifter"

Does your general frame of mind dictate how you feel about certain music at a certain time? Ben and MP discuss why we like a record one day and don't like it the next. Are we fickle? We'll never know. Luckily we have a playlist of ten brand new indie rock songs that we will love forever.

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• Leisure Hour, "Forgiveness"
• Hana Vu, "Care"
• Council Grounds, "Bofa"
• Bendigo Fletcher, "Sweet Tooth"
• Street Racer, "Camp Crush"
• Been Stellar, "Passing Judgement"
• porcupine, "Character Flaws"
• Fan Club, "Westbound"
• VIAL, "Apathy"
• Brother Bird, "Quitter"
• Scarlett Taylor, "Machine"
• The Hard Aches, "January 5th"
• BONUS CONTENT: Brother Bird, "State of Mind"

Ben and MP have stumbled across the formula to balance your electrolytes and keep you up all night. It's ten brand new indie/DIY tracks, vigorously shaken and violently stirred.

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• Sick Day, "Overexposure"
• Sasha Assad, "Bad Nature"
• Bradford Michela, "10 am"
• total tommy, "Microdose"
• Them Moose Rush, "Cake Crisis Resolved"
• Blush Always, "Coming of Age"
• Catcher, "Rubberneck"
• Wet Denim, "Stuck With You"
• Cloudy Heads, "Blue"
• GreenWing, "At The Time"
• swim school, "Give Me A Reason Why"
• Danielle Durack, "Shirt Song"
• BONUS CONTENT: Sasha Assad, "Frankenstein"

It's such a minor milestone that Ben and MP barely mention it. The boys go "topic-free" (or do they?) for their thirtieth, and globe-trottiest, episode.

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• DARTZ, "Paradise"
• Effy Marella, "Shoes"
• Sophisticated Dingo, "I Don't Mind"
• Equal Creatures, "Check Engine Light"
• Bah-Bah Genesis, "Confession"
• Slow Fiction, "Apollo"
• Linka Moja, "High and Dry"
• Bluesomn, "Ghost"
• No Windows, "Song 01"
• Teenage Riot, "Doomed"
• There Will Be Fireworks, "Something Borrowed"
• Raue, "Weak Blood"
• BONUS CONTENT: Linka Moja, "Unravel Me"

Ben and MP talk about depressing record stores and take a deep dive into the newly released SPRINTS album. And of course they've got ten new indie rock tracks from artists you probably haven't heard of, and now won't be able get enough of. Let's do this, 2024!

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• SPRINTS, "Cathedral"
• ALLERGEN, "No Rest"
• Francis of Delirium, "Blue Tuesday"
• Parallel Park, "One Third"
• Joan & The Giants, "Good Time"
• Fool of Stars, "Motheather"
• Davis Gestiehr, "CCTV"
• hotgirl, "Wrong"
• Cuffed Up, "Finer Things"
• Hipsy Gap, "Fantasize"
• Career Woman, "Passing"
• Bodega, "Tarkovski"
• BONUS CONTENT: Francis of Delirium, "Quit F*****g Around"

Ben and MP talk about what music and Let's Play Ten meant to them in 2023. They also run down their top ten releases of the year. It's the last episode of 2023, and the first episode in the brand new "Big-Loo" studio space - you can really hear the newness! Sit back and enjoy.

EPISODE PLAYLIST:

• Black Country New Road, "Across the Pond Friend"
• Annabel Lee, "Alas, I'M a Lady"
• Wednesday, "Bath County"
• Goo, "De Novo"
• oldsoul, "Leave Them Standing"
• Hannah Jadagu, "Dreaming"
• Empty Country, "Syd"
• Ratboys, "Morning Zoo"
• Ruby Archer, "Purple Fatigue"
• Joiner, "Lucky You"
• Man/Woman/Chainsaw, "What Lucy Found There"
• Sjowgren, "Be"