“They kind of impart that feeling of very laidback… edness… laidbackedness?”

On the show this week:

00:00:51 News

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00:13:01 Tuff Times Never Last by Kokoroko album review discussion

00:44:02 Upcoming releases this week

Album rankings:

1. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam

2. The Weather Station - Humanhood

3. Squid - Cowards

4. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon

5. Black Country New Road - Forever Howlong

6. Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)

7. Obongjayar - Paradise Now

8. Soot Sprite - Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon

9. Nazar - Demilitarize

10. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade?

11. Subsonic Eye - Singapore Dreaming

12. Akira Kosemura - MIRAI

13. Anxious - Bambi

14. Barker - Stochastic Drift

15. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way

16. Courting - Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’

17. Rival Consoles - Landscape from Memory

18. Om Unit - Acid Dub Studies III

19. Charmer - Downpour

20. Zement - Passagen

21. Flipturn - Burnout Days

22. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

23. SASAMI - Blood On the Silver Screen

24. Freckle - Freckle

25. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Soft New Magic Dream

26. Zach Phillips - True Music

27. Ethel Cain - Perverts