Listen. I tried something, it didn't work. Happens to the best of us. Wanna know what I'm talking about? Only way to find out is to listen to the latest episode, a special/not so special two-for-the-price-of-one podcast extravaganza. Don't say you weren't warned! Albums discussed below:

Drake & 21 Savage - Her Loss

Dream Unending - Song of Salvation

Elder - Innate Passage

Fleshwater - We're Not Here To Be Loved

Golden Drag - Promenade

Smidley - Here Comes the Devil

Special Interest - Endure

Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Man RIP Takeoff! What the hell! Another young legend gone...I'm getting pretty sick of this crap. Anyway. Death is some heavy stuff, and a lot of the records discussed on this month's episode deal with complicated emotions. Big shout out to Bob McCully for joining me once again so I'm not wading through all this turbulence alone! Albums discussed below:

Backxwash - HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST

Birds in Row - Gris Klein

Burial - Streetlands EP

Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Pigments

Dead Cross - II

Gillian Carter - Salvation Through Misery

Taylor Swift - Midnights

Show Me The Body - Trouble the Water

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...and we're back. After August's sabbatical (don't worry you really didn't miss any good music anyway), Phil's back with more good meat and potatoes ph5 content. September more than made up for the garbage of August with tons of great new releases...but unfortunately some big disappointments as well. Ain't that just how life goes. Releases discussed below!

Alex G - God Save the Animals

Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram

Bjork - Fossora

The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist

City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters

Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed

The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta

No Devotion - No Oblivion

Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen

Does anyone actually know what the deal with Civic Day is? I'm not complaining I just don't understand it. Anyway, what better to do on a completely ambiguous holiday such as Civic Day than spend ~100 minutes discussing the music from the previous month? My thoughts exactly. This month I welcome back Bob McCully to discuss the new Scarcity record and black metal in general, and I go deep on pop's newfound love for early dance music, as well as - of course - my other favourite records from July. Albums discussed below:

beabadoobee - Beatopia

Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE

black MIDI - Hellfire

Chat Pile - God's Country

Flo Milli - You Still Here, Ho?

Greg Puciato - MIRRORCELL

Scarcity - Aveillut

Wake - Thought Form Descent

Summertime is in full swing and things are getting hot and heavy here in the city! With a resurgence of fantastic aggressive music, things are getting hot and heavy in Phil's ears too! June saw some of the biggest stars in the world move in some unexpected directions, and featured some of the more intriguing, mysterious music to be released this year. Albums discussed below:

Alexisonfire - Otherness

Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain

Candy - Heaven is Here

Drake - Honestly, Nevermind

Elucid - I Told Bessie

Perfume Genius - Ugly Season

Post Malone - Twelve Carat Toothache

Shearwater - The Great Awakening

Ah...summertime. Sweat stains, sunburns...and new music! Lots of it. On this month's episode, Phil dives into the music of May, featuring a lengthy discussion on one artist's opus of generational trauma...that's right folks, we're talking about Ethel Cain's new album. Oh yeah, Phil talks about that other one too. You know which one I mean. Albums discussed below:

Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Killing Nothing

Cave In - Heavy Pendulum

Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter

Gospel - The Loser

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Lykke Li - EYEYE

The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention

700 Bliss - Nothing to Declare

April was crazy busy and I worked every day this month - thank god for the amazing ambient records that came out this month to help ease the pain. On this month's episode, I talk about ambient's healing powers, some much needed closure with one of my all time favourite bands (that came from an unexpected place) and a few rap records that were wildly different - in both substance and quality. RIP Gabe Serbian. Albums discussed below:

ASkySoBlack - Autumn in the Water

billy woods - Aethiopes

Future - I Never Liked You

Greyhaven - This Bright & Beautiful World

Helms Alee - Keep This Be the Way

Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8

Pusha T - It's Almost Dry

Whatever the Weather - Whatever the Weather

March always does that really annoying thing where it pretends Spring is beginning like 4 times. It sucks! At least the music was good though. March saw the release of a lot of exceptional yet wildly different takes on pop by really talented women, as well as some old favourites rearing their heads again after extended absences - to mixed results. I promise you I don't talk about Will Smith. Albums discussed below!

Charli XCX - Crash

Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future

Jenny Hval - Classic Objects

Lack the Low - God-Carrier

Oso Oso - sore thumb

Rosalia - MOTOMAMI

Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

Vein.fm - This World Is Going To Ruin You

February sucks! Luckily, February's new music didn't. On this second episode of the new year (at what point do we stop calling it the 'new year' and just...the year?), Phil runs down a bunch of February's releases, and is joined by guest Matt Bankuti, who has been on the show so many times now (twice) that he might as well take it over. Two white guys talking about Animal Collective...what is this, 2008? Albums discussed below:

Author & Punisher - Kruller

Beach House - Once Twice Melody

Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero

Bunuel - Killers Like Us

Huerco S. - Plonk

SASAMI - Squeeze

Skin Tension - OMNI

Yung Kayo - DFTK

Welcome back to ph5! Let's never be apart that long again. I've missed you so. This marks the first official episode of the new year! Phil starts off a brand new season of ph5 by talking about some familiar faces in a familiar format...with some exciting new twists. What was the album that kickstarted Phil's love of music this year? Which album really pissed him off? Were any of his thoughts coherent? Only one place to find out: here at ph5. Albums discussed below:

Anxious - Little Green House

Babyface Ray - Face

Burial - Antidawn

Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave

Deaf Club - Productive Disruption

FKA twigs - Caprisongs

Foxtails - Fawn

Gunna - DS4ever

Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion

The Weeknd - Dawn FM