Tracks

Like Coca-Cola or John Lewis, Spotify have managed to secure their place in the festive calendar by convincing us that they're out friends, not some scary capitalist behemoth. The day your 'Wrapped' playlist drops is an exciting one. You show me yours and I'll show you mine.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

Look, we're busy people. We have jobs, lives, friends. We try our best to keep up with every single record that gets released, but it's not physically possible. Sometimes things slip through the net, and here we pick them up again.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

Orlando Weeks. Jeremy Corbyn. On a train. Together. Smiling. Laughing, even. Need we say any more?

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

The climax of our podcasting year is approaching - The Tracks Awards. We'll soon be naming our very favourite albums and songs of the year and celebrating our new heroes, but before we do we need to thank some others. Next year they may top a list but, for this year at least, they're our honourable mentions.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

Not content with conquering the podcasting world, this year Tim took live music this year like some kind of depraved media mogul. By which we mean: he threw an all-dayer in a Brighton venue for the first time, and it was really, really, really fun. Today we're looking back on it.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

You might think this is an odd choice for an episode. You might think Chance has had a quiet year. You might think that, but you'd be wrong. He lit up our summer and he's about to light up your 16th of December.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

There comes a certain point in every day when being alive gets tiring. Being upright is a little much. You're ready to slump. Gloriously horizontal, remote in hand, eyes fixed on a screen. This is when TV and film takes over from the (clearly) more cerebral podcasting medium, and today we're talking about the best things we saw in these moments.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside. Oh we do like to be beside the seeeeaaaaa. And we like it even more when there's a music festival there. The Great Escape is our home. Our basecamp. Our bread and butter. We're looking back at a stellar edition of the best event around.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

On a fateful night back in February, we made our way up to London. Some of what happened that night will stay between us two until the end of time, and some of it we're going to tell you about in this episode. Namely: the bit where we watched Kendrick Lamar.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.

To be a podcast creator you have to be a podcast lover too. It's just the rules. We have a lot of favourite counterparts and we couldn't fit them all into the last podcast episode, so we're going again. WE GO AGAIN.

We do not claim ownership of any of the music played in this episode, although the intro and bed music was made with Harry's very own little hands. Nice one, Harry.