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!)