"I chose the Guillemots' debut album, Through the Windowpane, for this episode. An eclectic offering from 2006, there's a daring sense of adventure to this, and a personal connection through what it represented to me at the time. It's also a journey – a messy, chaotic and beautiful one." -Iain

Stay up to date and listen to Matt's pick before episode 5: Jackson Jackson's The Fire Is on the Bird

PLUS for episode 7 we will do our first listener-suggested episode! Tweet at us @TheAlbumFiles and let us know what you want us to listen to. 

What we've been listening to lately...

Matt: Dave Matthews Band - Madman's Eyes, Little Simz - NO THANK YOU, Ben Barnes - 11:11, Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings music video

Iain: Sadness - Kiss in October, Paramore - You First, Phoebe Bridgers/Christian Lee Hutson

Abby: The 1975 - Paris

You can find a playlist of the music we discussed in episode 4 of The Album Files here. You can find us on social media @abimickey, @iaintreloar and @climbingcyclist.

Abby's pick for episode three is Little Simz's Sometimes I Might Be Introvert and Iain and Matt have some thoughts. And for episode four make sure to listen to Iain's pick Through the Windowpane by Guillemots. 

What we've been listening to...

Iain: Conor Oberst - Desert Island Questionnaire, Kate Bush - Cloudbusting, Kate Bush - Breathing, 파란노을 (Parannoul) - After the Magic

Matt: Smashing Pumpkins - ATUM, The Smith Street Band - Life After Football, DOMi & JD Beck 

Abby: The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language, Ed Sheeran - F64, Boygenius - $20

You can find a playlist of the music we talked about on episode 3 of The Album Files here. You can find us on social media @abimickey, @iaintreloar and @climbingcyclist. 

For this week's episode, Matt chose Lizzy McAlpine's five seconds flat. You'll have to listen to the episode so Matt can explain why he didn't hesitate to pick this album as his first for the podcast. 

Find us on social media @abimickey, @iaintreloar, and @climbingcyclist and make sure you listen all the way through to catch Abby's pick for episode 3 and listen along with us before the next episode. 

Welcome to The Album Files, a book club-style podcast for music. For each episode, one member will pick an album to listen to. After two weeks we will get together to talk about it...our likes and dislikes, and probably go off on a few random paths along the way.

We will announce the next album at the end of each show and would love for you to listen along with us between episodes. 

For this first episode, Iain Treloar picked The Weeknd's Dawn FM.

Thank you to Matt de Neef for the opening music and Tao Geoghegan Hart for our cover art. 

You can find us on social media @abimickey, @climbingcyclist, and @iaintreloar.