Welcome to 2025, my friends! How are we feeling? Ready for another exciting trip around the sun? The year is already off to a wild start. But, before we get into all that, it’s time for another installment of our yearly roundup - The Bird Report! Over the next few episodes, we’ll share some of our favourite stuff from 2024 and look back on what was a rollercoaster of a year for both of us. As with all our year-end reports, this is by no means a definitive or objective “best of” list. We’re just sharing what we love from the past twelve months. Thankfully, there were some amazing releases and we have lots to talk about.
We kick things off with a little banter about the holiday season, New Year’s Eve, the past year, and how crazy 2025 is shaping up to be but decide to hold our full thoughts for the Lazy Bird Report coming in a few weeks. Otis plans to do it international style and eat some hot chicken very soon while PALMREADER is freshly back from his time in PA and tired from the holidays.
From there, we spend most of this episode talking about our favourite music because a lot of good stuff came out last year. We both share our picks for 2024 (some of which overlap) and some of our honourable mentions. Included in this list are bands and artists like Fred Again.., Vince Staples, Knocked Loose, Counterparts, Drug Church, Doechii, Better Lovers, Mk.Gee, ScHoolboy Q, The Story So Far, Blink 182, Matt Champion, $uicideboy$, Four Year Strong, Alkaline Trio, Mannequin Pussy, Fontaines DC, Tyler, The Creator, Kendrick Lamar, IDLES, Big Hit, and much, much more. Plus, remember that rap beef that took up most of the year? We look back on that, too.
We end the episode with a short discussion on what we’ve been playing (which truthfully hasn’t been that much this year) including previously released games that we’ve been catching up on like “Baldur’s Gate 3”, “Lies Of P”, and “Fallout 3”, new DLC’s and updates that we love like Build 42 of “Project Zomboid” and the updates/DLC for “Crusader Kings 3”, console ports like “Sea Of Thieves”, and some new games like “Animal Well” and “Helldivers 2” (both of which are super dope).
So, what are some of your favourites from 2024? What did we miss? Let us know! We’ll be back next week to talk about movies and TV! In the meantime, always remember to…
INITIATE BIRD PROTOCOL!
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