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New Music PodcastBEST Songs and Albums of 2024
RECORDED 12/19/25
To close out 2024 on the podcast with a high note, this episode saw us recapping the best of the year. Here we do our top 25 albums by consensus and our individual favorite top 10 songs. Let us know your favorites in the comments below!
00:00 Intro
00:27 25 - 20
05:22 Top 20
21:05 Top 10
38:51 Top 10 Best Songs (Individual lists)2024-12-2258 minNew Music PodcastWORST Songs and Albums of 2024
RECORDED 12/12/25
As 2024 comes to a close, we begin our year-end lists. To start, we decided to rip the band-aid off and cover the worst of what we heard. Bad news first is always better, right? The start of this episode recaps our bottom 25 by average cumulative score for what was reviewed this year on the podcast. Stick around until the end to see Micah and I's Top 10 Worst Songs lists individually! We'll be back next week in the same format to go over the best of what 2024 had to offer.
00:00 Intro
00:29 25 - 20
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New Music Podcast5 GREAT ALBUMS YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF | New Music Podcast | Liana Flores, Vylet Pony, Nala Sinephro, Samlrc, Gao the ArsonistRECORDED 12/5/24
This week we went back through and picked five albums from the year that we skipped over to review. They're all from some lesser-known artists, so we're hoping to give you some new and fresh recommendations! There's some excellent stuff here, make sure to check them out/support the artists if anything here sounds interesting :)
00:00 Liana Flores - Flower of the Soul
07:08 Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
12:37 Gao the Arsonist - AND THEY MINE FOR OUR BODIES
24:31 Samlrc - A Lonely Sinner
37:31 Vylet Pony - Monarch of Monsters
52:47 Outro/Conclusion2024-12-0854 min
New Music PodcastGMX is CRAZY | New Music Podcast | Kendrick Lamar, Father John Misty, Amine, HackleRECORDED 11/26/24
A surprise album from Kendrick Lamar really shook the world of music this week. A long-anticipated Father John Misty album is making a comparatively low amount of buzz, but it says a lot that it's even being noticed.
00:00 Kendrick Lamar - GNX
14:52 Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
22:22 Buckshot & Hackle - WICKERMEN
27:15 Amine - .mp3s2024-11-2931 min
New Music PodcastLinkin Park's Controversial Return... | New Music Podcast | Poppy, Denzel Curry, Cordae, FemtanylRECORDED 11/19/24
This week marks the important and significant return of Linkin Park, which was our biggest point of discussion. There were also some surprising and impressive releases this week from Poppy, Cordae and more! As the year starts to wrap up and come to a close, it seems like 2024 is going out on a strong note.
00:00 Linkin Park - From Zero
12:12 Poppy - Negative Spaces
21:03 Cordae - The Crossroads
32:29 Denzel Curry - KING OF THE MISCHEIVIOUS SOUTH (Reissue)
40:57 femtanyl - REACTOR2024-11-2650 min
New Music PodcastThe Cure's FINAL and BEST Album!? - New Music Podcast (Mount Eerie, Lil Uzi Vert, BONES, The Garden)RECORDED 11/5/24
We've got two major, important releases this week, with new albums from Mount Eerie and The Cure. It's The Cure's first album in a whole 16 years, so it's pretty exciting to see their return. There's a Lil Uzi Vert album too...
00:00 Mount Eerie - Night Palace
19:53 The Cure - Songs For a Lost World
36:09 Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake 2
44:59 BONES - Cadaver
53:34 The Garden - Six Desperate Songs
2024-11-1259 min
New Music PodcastChromakopia is Tyler the Creator's BEST Album?? - New Music Podcast (Laura Marling, Soccer Mommy)This was a very significant week in music for the both of us, because Tyler the Creator has at long last dropped his eighth studio album, "Chromakopia". We had a lot of thoughts on it here, and probably could've gone on even longer than we already did. There were also a couple of notable albums in the Indie space from Soccer Mommy and Laura Marling. We took a look at those here as well, alongside a couple of very exciting singles.
00:00 Tyler the Creator - Chromakopia
18:49 Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
27:08 Soccer Mommy...2024-10-3142 min
New Music PodcastYeat Fell Off!? - New Music Podcast (Jean Dawson, Machine Girl, Kelly Lee Owens)RECORDED 10/22/24
This week's music felt particularly significant in a year that's already been so significant. The most popular realease this time around is Yeat's "Lyfestyle" which is making just as big of a splash as his "2093" album earlier this year. There were also some notable records from Jean Dawson, Machine Girl, and more! Some of our favorite songs of the whole year landed in this episode.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Yeat - LYFESTYLE
08:36 Jean Dawson - Glimmer of God
19:10 Machine Girl - MGULTRA
27:40 Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate
32:40 Juice WRLD...2024-10-2438 min
New Music PodcastBrat Remix Album is Pretty Strange... - New Music Podcast (Chat Pile, Current Joys, Turquoisedeath)This was supposed to go up here much earlier, but we ran into some technical difficulties. Apologies for the wait!
RECORDED 10/15/24
The mix of albums we have here is one of the most diverse so far. The biggest album itself is also one of the most diverse albums we've covered on here. The Brat remix album is certainly a wild moment in music, and the other albums here live up to the moment easily.
00:00 Charli XCX - Brat and it's completely different but also still brat
19:44 Chat Pile - Cool World
28:55 Current Joys - East My...2024-10-2256 min
New Music PodcastGeordie Greep Made a Perfect Album? - New Music Podcast (Godspeed You, The Smile, Blood Incantation)RECORDED 10/8/24
It's the biggest week for music in 2024 by far. We loved most of the albums here, and they deserve all the love they're getting as a whole. We've got some future-classic, genre-defining stuff this week, and it's one to remember.
...There's also a Coldplay album.
00:00 Geordie Greep - The New Sound
18:30 Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
31:42 Coldplay - Moon Music
42:33 The Smile - Cutouts
50:13 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE
1:03:50 Outro2024-10-101h 06
New Music PodcastSOPHIE Posthumous Album is Rough... - New Music Podcast (Lady Gaga, Xiu Xiu, Ghost Mountain)RECORDED 8/1/24
This album brought us some very strange moments in music. SOPHIE now has a posthumous album under her name, Lady Gaga has created a Harley Quinn themed cover album, and that's just the tip of the iceburg. There was even some unexpected comeback singles we talk about at the end, so stick around for that!
Sorry for the technical issues with this one. Micah recorded on a $10 webcam by mistake. It's rough. We're sorry.
00:00 SOPHIE - SOPHIE
14:00 Lady Gaga - Harlequin
22:52 Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
40:09 Origami Angel - Feeling...2024-10-031h 08
New Music PodcastIs This Comeback Album Worth the Wait? - New Music Podcast (Jamie xx, The Voidz, Katy Perry, Future)RECORDED 9/24//24
This week brought us the first record in multiple years from three different notable artists, an unexpected Future mixtape, so it's a pretty stacked one. There's also some great albums that came out from artists that are more underground, so stick around until the end to hear about those! There's lots to discuss here, and the quality varies massively.
00:00 The Voidz - Like All Before You
10:14 Jamie xx - In Waves
17:43 Future - MIXTAPE PLUTO
26:15 Katy Perry - WOMAN'S WORLD
35:18 Rapp Kattz - Kattnip Vol 1
44:15 Kaizo Slumber...2024-09-2754 min
New Music PodcastKendrick Isn't Done Yet...? - New Music Podcast (Playboi Carti, The Weeknd, julie, JOBA, Charli XCX)RECORDED 8/27/24
This week was very slow on albums, other than a couple cool ones we covered. There was a ton of singles though! Despite the lack of albums, several major artists are back with new singles and exciting announcements. Next week is packed with albums, so stay tuned!
00:00 Kendrick Lamar - Untitled
05:50 Playboi Carti - ALL RED
08:19 The Weeknd - Dancing in the Flames
11:07 Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine
16:26 Charli XCX and Troy Sivan - Talk Talk
19:19 Dev Lemons and Billy Lemos - At the...2024-09-2050 min
New Music PodcastThe Dare's Album is... Controversial - New Music Podcast (Molchat Doma, MJ Lenderman, Boston Manor)It's a pretty odd week for us over here, and we ended up covering quite the range of music. We got a pretty interesting debut album, some sad folk rock, some gothic synthwave spoken in Russian, and more! There's qutie a bit to discuss, and make sure to stick around until the end to hear us talk about a really cool more underground artist.
00:00 The Dare - What's Wrong With New York:
09:49 MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
17:40 Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa
27:00 Boston Manor - Sundiver
34:58 Datagirl - Hello World
41:02 Outro
2024-09-1241 min
New Music PodcastWild God is WILD - New Music Podcast (Nails, Nick Cave, Maruja...)This week gave us a pretty wide range of exciting new music including two impressive comebacks! Was eight years worth the wait…?
00:00 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God
09:02 Nails - Every Bridge Burning
20:30 Destroy Lonely - LOVE LASTS FOREVER
30:03 Gonnn and The Human Nature - eigengrau
39:12 Maruja - The Vault
49:46 Outro2024-09-0650 min
New Music PodcastImaginal Disk is AMAZING?! (Magdalena Bay, Fontaines DC, Sabrina Carpenter)RECORDED 8/27/24
With the most celebrated album of the year coming out this week, it seems we're all back on track. There's a lot of exciting music to discuss this week, and even more upcoming. Stay tuned!
00:00 Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
08:48 Fontaines D.C. - Romance
17:06 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
22:18 LIGHTNING ROUND TRANSITION
23:52 Melt Banana - 3 + 5
27:34 Khary and Abhi the Nomad - Icarus
30:02 Liniker - CAJU
31:46 Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something
33:04 Illuminati Hotties- POWER
35:02 Outro2024-08-2936 min
New Music PodcastWORST ALBUM(s) of 2024 - New Music Podcast (Falling in Reverse, Post Malone, Mori Calliope, Drake)RECORDED 8/19/24
It's music's day of reckoning! August has brought us some crazy bad albums, and we're here to show you some of them. This week has a pretty surprising top pick, so make sure to stick around to the end and see where things rank out. It's a wild week.
00:00 Intro
00:04 Drake - 100 GIGS
04:30 Post Malone - F-1 Trillion
14:08 Falling in Reverse - Popular Monster
25:46 Tones and I - Beautifully Ordinary
32:59 Mori Calliope - PHANTOMIME
38:00 GEL - Persona
41:45 Rankings/Outro2024-08-2143 min
New Music PodcastLogic's BEST Album?! - New Music Podcast (Beabadoobee, King Gizzard, MAVI, Osees, your arms cocoon)RECORDED 8/13/24
It was a packed week, and a surprisingly good one at that! We opted to cover an additional album for this week's episode, and we were so glad we did, because they just kept getting better. Make sure to tune in next week, because it'll probably be the best selection of albums we'll ever review :)
00:00 Intro
00:05 Logic - Ultra 85
14:13 Beabadoobee - This is How Tomorrow Moves
20:13 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - FLIGHT b741
29:02 Osees - SORCS 80
28:32 MAVI - shadowbox
49:29 your arms are my cocoon - death of a rabbit
1:00:20 Rankings/Outro2024-08-161h 02
New Music PodcastJPEGMAFIA vs. ¥$ (Parannoul, Auric Echoes, Killer Mike, Kanye West)
RECORDED 8/6/2024
This is the strangest episode we’ve recorded so far. Two of the five albums have some controversial circumstances, and three of the five albums didn’t even drop on Friday! Parannoul and JPEGMAFIA’s albums are being respected as the best albums of the whole year, and the newest Vultures album is being received entirely in the opposite direction. Even with all of that in mind, an unexpected album that got sent our way ended up stealing the show for us.
00:00 Intro
00:06 JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
16:08 Kanye West a...2024-08-091h 02
New Music PodcastIT'S " SMILE :D " SUMMER! - New Music Podcast (Porter Robinson, Ice Spice, Mustard)RECORDED 7/30/2024
Porter Robinson's wonderful follow-up SMILE :D has finally come to fruition, and the result was a pretty huge moment in music. Other albums this week, some of significance, did, in fact, release. They're... something.
0:00 Intro
00:06 Porter Robinson - SMILE :D
07:14 Ice Spice - Y2K!
16:23 Mustard - Faith of a Mustard Seed
23:14 Joy Again - Song and Dance
28:34 Discussion and Summary/This Week's Rankings/Outro2024-08-0133 min
New Music PodcastDenzel Curry Made the AOTY? - New Music Podcast (Childish Gambino, Glass Animals)This week saw big returns from both Denzel Curry and Glass Animals! It also saw what's likely the final chapter to the Childish Gambino discography. There's a lot great to be had in the main releases, but a more underground release was the one to impress us the most of the bunch by far.
00:00 Intro
00:26 Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2
10:14 Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & The New World
18:42 Glass Animals - I Love You So Much
25:45 Aler Himself - Anything Helps No Drugs
34:43 DJ Re:code - ReVertPunk!
41:45 This Week's Rankings
44:11 Outro2024-07-2845 min
New Music PodcastGen Z CANCELED EMINEM?!?! - New Music Podcast (Jojo Siwa, Clairo, Remi Wolf, SPEED, MALNEEZY)RECORDED 7/18/24
With the dramatic return of Eminem and the newest from Clairo impressing the masses, this is a pretty crazy week for music. Even with these major releases considered, the lesser-known artists ended up stealing a lot of the show. Whether for their controversy or their greatness, there's a lot to discuss in this episode's albums.
00:00 Intro
00:42 Jojo Siwa - Guilty Pleasure
07:53 Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
24:57 Clairo - Charm
30:35 MALNEEZY - To Cause Harm
37:42 Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
45:26 SPEED - ONLY ONE MODE
50:21 Skin Theory - June (Single)
52:48 Rankings
54:20 O...2024-07-2055 min
New Music PodcastZach Bryan, Kasabian Death's Dynamic Shroud, Hotel Pools ALBUM REVIEWS - New Music Podcast2024-07-1447 min
New Music PodcastBAD CAMEO is a MASTERPIECE?! - New Music Podcast (Lil Yachty, Lupe Fiasco, Imagine Dragons, Uboa)RECORDED 7/4/2024
After a bit of a drought, the music gods have returned to bless us with a packed week full of significant records! This week brought us Lil Yachty’s long-anticipated follow-up, an album with two Drake features, what some are considering Lupe Fiasco’s magnum opus, and that’s just scratching the surface! The quality ranges about as widely as it possibly could, so there was a lot to discuss and debate.
00:00 Intro
00:36 James Blake and Lil Yachty - BAD CAMEO
10:55 Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
15:33 Camila Cabello - C,XOXO
23:55 Imagine Dragons - LOOM
30:26 Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart...2024-07-0745 min
New Music PodcastKing Krule is BACK! - New Music Podcast (Pond, The Story So Far, Kill Bill: The Rapper, Wage War)
RECORDED 6/27/2024
This is a fairly mixed bag of a week that brought some surprises. King Krule's new EP needed a close look, and we throw our hat in the ring with the discussion around Gracie Abrams. There are four other widely assorted albums in this episode, and they're... interesting.
00:00 Intro
00:29 King Krule - SHHHHHHH! EP0
5:20 Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us
10:06 Pond - Stung!
20:44 The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear
25:14 Wage War - STIGMA
32:38 Kill Bill: the Rapper...2024-06-2843 min
New Music PodcastDon Toliver's New Album Is... - New Music Podcast (Ulcerate, Parannoul, $uicideboy$, Thou)
RECORDED 6/20/2024
This is week brought us an eclectic and quite intriguing assortment of albums! From a couple semi-mainstream rap albums with a lot of discourse to some of the heaviest music we've heard this year, there was plenty of interesting conversation to be had. Tune in next week to hear us discuss new music from King Krule and Pond!
LIST OF OUR ALBUM RANKINGS FOR THE YEAR: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/pass-the-aux/list/186740/albums-of-2024-ranked-by-the-new-music-podcast/
0:00 Intro
0:35 This Week's Albums
2:09 Don Toliver - Hardstone Psycho
9:38 Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
17:08 Parannoul and Fax Gang - Scattersun
24:49 Thou...2024-06-2244 min
New Music PodcastBRAT is AMAZING? - New Music Podcast (Charli XCX, Joey Valence/Brae, Aurora, Ski Mask the Slump God)From a huge cultural moment for the online music space to an artist's long-awaited return, we have quite the episode cooked up for you this week.
LIST OF OUR ALBUM RANKINGS FOR THE YEAR: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/pass-the-aux/list/186740/albums-of-2024-ranked-by-the-new-music-podcast/
0:00 Intro
0:28 This Week's Albums
1:56 Charli XCX - BRAT
10:29 Charli XCX - brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not
14:19 Joey Valence and Brae - NO HANDS
24:19 Kaytranada - Timeless
30:50 Ski Mask the Slump God - 11...2024-06-1557 min
New Music PodcastBEST Album of 2024?! (Wallows, Marias, Jack Name, "You Like Music", Ten Ton Slug)
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RECORDED 6/2/2024
Turnabout: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2crhDD8M5Zg3Q5MzOA5VYn
The Marias: https://open.spotify.com/album/03guxdOi12XJbnvxvxbpwG
Wallows: https://wallowsmodel.bandcamp.com/
Death's Dynamic Shroud and Galen Tipton: https://deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/album/you-like-music
Jack Name: https://mapledeathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fabulous-soundtracks
Ten Ton Slug: https://tentonslug.bandcamp.com/album/colossal-oppressor
LIST OF OUR ALBUM RANKINGS FOR THE YEAR: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/pass-the-aux/list/186740/albums-of-2024-ranked-by-the-new-music-podcast/
00:00 Intro
00:57 Thou - Umbilical
1:41 This Week's Albums
04:09 Turnabout...2024-06-081h 09
New Music PodcastBring Me The Horizon Have RETURNED - NEW MUSIC PODCAST (+Twenty One Pilots, Vince Staples, Black Dresses Hotel Pools)RECORDED 5/30/2024
The Hot Topic Stock is rising astronomically, and our interest is peaked.
00:00 Intro
02:01 Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen
14:00 Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
25:47 Vince Staples - Dark Times
32:08 Black Dresses - LAUGHINGFISH
41:57 Hotel Pools - Nature
45:40 Outro/Rankings2024-06-0447 min
New Music PodcastChief Keef FINALLY Dropped - NEW MUSIC PODCAST (+Knocked Loose, Iglooghost, Gunna, A.G. Cook)RECORDED 5/16/2024
May is continuing to be a super crazy month! Chief Keef's incredibly-long-anticipated "Almighty So 2" released. This week we also covered fantastic new records from Knocked Loose, Iglooghost, and more!2024-05-181h 17