Weekly Drive-By

Actually last week's episode but I was figuratively dying from heat stroke sorry bout that one chiefs.

Albums reviewed this week: King Krule - SHHHHHHH! [6/20/24], Stephan Crump - Slow Water [5/3/24], Agriculture - Living Is Easy [5/3/24], Charli XCX - brat [6/7/24], Alcest - Les chants de l'aurore [6/21/24], 王若琳 [Joanna Wang] - 破爛酒店 (Hotel la Rut) [5/7/24].

Headlines discussed this week:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-13579909/bryson-dechambeau-golf-match-donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-debate-handicap.html

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/jacksonville-tire-shop-flies-nazi-flag-spring-park/M53BPQMCWFEMLKCZVO7EHSWHWI/

https://time.com/6993760/joe-biden-debate-disaster-democratic-panic/

https://nypost.com/2024/06/27/us-news/im-a-zoomer-heres-how-trump-can-win-over-voters-like-me/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-white-house-hezbollah-israel-c-q-brown-8f434d70

https://www.newsweek.com/how-will-progressives-reign-terror-end-opinion-1916928

https://apnews.com/article/oakland-mayor-fbi-investigation-raid-fbe9e42c7e5ff71ca460ec8f8ce0dc60

https://ksltv.com/657286/utah-idaho-top-sales-of-dr-pepper-creamy-coconut-getting-bonus-batch/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/home-internet-landline-amazon-smartphone/676070/

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/06/28/opinion-biomedical-graduate/

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/icp-violent-j-explains-why-135607402.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china-tells-taiwanese-visit-high-spirits-execution-threat-rcna159581

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/best-bbq-sauce-pitmaster-experts-8666813

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-resorts-dark-fleet-supply-oil-ally-cuba-2024-06-25/

We got some apartment moving tips because we never stop moving, an explanation for why dogs aren't animals, some live shows to talk about, the sekrit meanings of the number 25, a quick shoutout to manganese, an obilgatory reaction to the Biden/Trump debate, and a revisit of Top Dog Law.

Albums reviewed this week: saddyowner & Tanooki Alex - Minewest Emo [2/19/24], Conifère - L'impôt du sang [4/11/24], Beak> - >>>> [5/28/24].

We're really only talking music for the last 30 minutes of this one. Before that, we weren't too excited about the House of the Dragon S2 premiere, have an unfortunate update on a Drive-By Alumni, review some Gorilla Mind since GHOST is still ignoring us, ramble through a review of Ren Faire, drive by They Called Him Mostly Nameless, look at Esquire's Top 10 Albums of the Year So Far, brainstorm camps to put political opponents in, and are entirely fed up with particle physicists.

Featured album: Arooj Aftab - Night Reign [5/31/24]

Other albums reviewed: Turnabout - Obscura Noctis Mors [3/1/24], Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement [5/3/24], Maruja - Connla's Well [4/26/24], Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee [3/29/24], Tomeka Reid Quartet - 3+3 [4/26/24], Vince Staples - Dark Times [5/24/24]

Lot of music to get to this week, after a friendly reminder that your university email will eventually expire so you might not want to store your boarding passes in it, and more TV talk about The Boys and The Jinx.

Originally recorded 1/19/24.

We're on break this week, but this is a bit I forgot to add into an old episode in January. We gave some thoughts on the new season of True Detective after the first episode.

[Originally recorded 5/22/24]

Featured Album: EABS - Reflections of a Purple Sun [5/10/24]

Other albums reviewed: Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To [5/10/24], twikipedia - For the Rest of Your Life [5/10/24]

We got a homebrew update, a definitive answer as to how many kinds of saws there are, some cooking, Zoom becoming an enemy of the show, and how Ronald Reagan was right.

Albums reviewed this week: English Teacher - This Could Be Texas [4/12/24], Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones - New Monuments [3/15/24], The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - The Iliad and The Odyssey and the Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick [4/25/24], Shum - Pulzáló dobok tisztítják meg az eget [3/15/24], High on Fire - Cometh the Storm [4/19/24].

Films reviewed this week: Civil War [3/14/24].

This is the political show - after the editor (me) cut some things said about Israel / Palestine for a while, it made it into the show today (spoiler alert: this is not a "leftist show" but you can definitely put us there). It was only natural though, with one of us being a newly minted PA resident where an American vote actually matters, and seeing the results of the recent primary there. But of course, that's not all we talked about in our new longest show on record. Taco Bell's got a new LTO, and we can finally do some real cheesesteak reviews.

Albums reviewed this week: Eunuchs - Harbour Century [4/5/24], Wisp - Pandora [4/5/24], Chemtrails - The Joy of Sects [1/19/24], and Convulsing - Perdurance [3/1/24].After some rambling about Taco Bell and finding common ground between religion and fast food, we have a pizza delivery gone wrong, check in on some pretty recent Drive-By Alumni, give as much time to Max's mini-series The Regime as it deserves, and debate the Negroni Alignment Chart.

This week's albums: RiTchie - Triple Digits (112) [4/5/24], Hannah Frances - Keeper of the Shepherd [3/1/24], The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis [3/15/24], Rosali - Bite Down [3/22/24], Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us [4/5/24], Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future [3/22/24], Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers [3/22/24].

Tiger Woods has stunned us with his success at the Masters, and we're wondering if we can attribute it to his pseudo-Lenten promise, and we take too many trips back to Death Grips' mixtape Exmilitary, specifically the track Beware.

Credits where they're due:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZfwYVgbuPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VguczSkNEO0