Weekly Drive-By

Albums reviewed this episode: Lamp - 一夜のペーソス (Dusk to Dawn) [10/10/23], BrokenTeeth - 추락은 천천히 (How to Sink Slowly) [2/23/23], MIKE - Burning Desire [10/13/23], betcover!! - 馬 (Uma) [10/17/23], Sufjan Stevens - Javelin [10/6/23], Ὁπλίτης [Hoplites] - 'Aντιτιμωρουμένη [10/1/23], Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle [9/29/23], and Avenade - Our Raging God Unknown to Us [10/13/23].Another late upload here folks but my past few prekends have been busy for reasons I'll explain next episode. We spend most of this week talking about some BS headlines, the new Speaker of the House, and some more energy drink reviews (feat. Green Dragon and Meltdown).This was a pretty long show so a good amount had to get cut. There are a couple of sekrit bonus reviews at the end. If you're interested in hearing those, email [email protected] and we'll hook you up.

This week's albums: Oneohtrix Point Never - Again [9/29/23], Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE [8/31/23]*, Sufjan Stevens - Javelin [10/6/23], Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden... [9/29/23].A day late again but I was lazy yesterday.We're talking about some of the existential questions we all face today - "pizza, or burrito?", "dove, or pigeon?" - reviewing some more energy drinks (feat. Ghost, G-Fuel, and Mountain Dew), and giving some thoughts on Deadwood and John Adams.

This week's albums: Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips [9/29/23], Neupink - This Town Is Death [1/13/23], The Turin Horse - Unsavory Impurities [3/24/23], Slauson Malone 1 - EXCELSIOR [10/6/23], and BrokenTeeth - 추락은 천천히 (How to Sink Slowly) [2/23/23].We start off the show making everyone mad, then jump years late into the chicken sandwich debate. Then after some more sip reviews (feat. Bucked Up, ASHOC, Alani Nu, and Rockstar), we offer some sympathies to the Amish, revisit a certain Drive-By Alumni facing some fresh federal charges, and review friends of the show The Chats' recent headlining show in Salt Lake City.

This week's albums: Stegosauro - Stegosauro [3/31/23], Pejzaż - List I [9/28/23], Approaching Mountains - Ley [8/4/23].One of us was celebrating a career move a bit too much so this week's show is choppy at points, but we still find time to talk about the embarrassment of being Kevin McCarthy, give some volleyball updates, and review a G-Fuel energy drink, HBO's new documentary The Ringleader, and some dinosaurs. Podcast responsibly, friends.

This week's albums: Zach Bryan - Boys of Faith [9/22/23], The Lousy - Another Lousy Tape [4/20/23], amaii - In the Eleventh Hour [6/22/23], what is your name? - My Name Is... [9/13/23], Smiling Broadly - Smiling Broadly [8/31/23], THE HAMPURILAI SYÖN TEKIJÄT - THE HAMPURILAI SYÖN TEKIJÄT [7/16/23], yeule - Softscars [9/22/23], and Asia Menor - Enola Gay* [8/25/23].So that's a lot, but we actually get through it all pretty quickly. We spend more time talking about the Alabama House District 55 special election primary, some good volleyball news, more Dollar Store Sip Reviews (feat. Rip It & Monster), thoughts on HBO's Six Feet Under & Hulu's The Bear, how we feel about the new voices in the Rick and Morty S7 trailer, and the end of the writer's strike.

This week's albums: Jean Dawson as "Phoenix" - "XCAPE", PT. 1 [5/11/23], Jamie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) [8/25/23], and Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy [9/1/23].The first section is pretty much a whole show in itself this week. Over the course of about an hour and forty minutes we cover a lot of ground, but the main topics are why Alabama's in the news again, more energy drink reviews (feat. Bang and Rockstar), doing our duty as Americans in giving barely informed opinions on foreign countries (Canada and India), reviews of the pilots of four TV shows (Gangs of London, Dark Winds, True Detective, and The Outsider), and a rant about an issue affecting the common man: absurd toilet paper roll sizes.

This week's albums: Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire [8/25/23], Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE [8/31/23].One of the hosts had a pretty long Saturday, and the other one got into some volleyball. We're also putting in another entry in the dollar store sip reviews series (feat. Rip It and Bang), talking about the different ways that McDonald's is leading the charge in making you pay more for less, and look into some 9/11 gambling. Then after the new music reviews, we drop some addendums on last week's Slowdive episode in the "essential shoegaze" albums we hadn't heard, and Slowdive's under-listened EPs.

This week's album: Slowdive - Everything Is Alive [9/1/23].For the second time in the show's history, our friend Sam guest hosts with us to review the new Slowdive album. After that, we all give our rankings of Slowdive's LPs and drop some opinions on Slowdive drummer Simon Scott's list of 10 shoegaze albums everyone should own. Did I mention Slowdive?

This week's albums: bdrrm - I Don't Know [6/30/23], Backwoodz Studioz - High Bias [4/7/23], The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons [8/11/23], and Hail the Sun - Divine Inner Tension [8/11/23].After last week's near three hour show, we're pulling it back to the two hour mark this week and giving some first impressions of Argentinian contender Javier Milei, getting paranoid about kidney stones, getting scammed by doctors, discussing Amazon's "Just Walk Out" tech, giving you tips for the hot new diet of this Fall, and asking when we can play the upcoming Jesus RPG. We also get into quick thoughts on HBO's docuseries Q: Into the Storm and revisit Amazon's Jury Duty now that we've both seen it.