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Today we review our 37th album for the year.

Today we review our 36th album for the year, "Maps" by Billy Woods and Kenny Segal.

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This is our 35th review for our 2023 album ranking series.

For our 2023 100 album reviews, the 34th album is "Special Occasion" by Emily King.

Today we review the 33rd album for our 2023 100 album rankings, "Violent Creed of Vengeance" by Smoulder.

Today we review our 32nd album for our 2023 100 album rankings, "Devil Music" by Portrayal of Guilt.

This week we review our 31st album for our 2023 rankings, "Echoes" by Fire! Orchestra.

Today we review HMLTD's "The Worm." This is the 30th album for our 2023 100 album rankings.

Today we review our 28th and 29th albums for the year, and its all thrash metal with Metallica's "27 Seasons" and Overkill's "Scorched"

Today we review our 27th album for our 2023 100 album rankings, "Crash Recoil" by Surgeon.

Today we review our 26th album for 2023, "No Highs" by Tim Hecker.

Rounding out the first quarter of the year with our 25th review, we have "False Lankum" by Lankum.

Our 24th album for the 2023 100 album rankings is "Raven" by Kelela.

Today we review our 23rd album for the year, "93696" by Liturgy.

Today we review our 22nd album for the year, "Scaring the Hoes" by JPEGmafia and Danny Brown.

Today we review the 21st album for our 2023 100 album ranking, "Periphery V: Djent is not a Genre" by Periphery.

For our 20th album of 2023, we review 100 gecs' new release "10000 gecs."

Today we review our 19th album for the year, "Ugly" by Slowthai.

For the 18th album in our 2023 100 album rankings, we review Macklemore's "Ben."

Today we re-visit Algiers for our 17th album of 2023, "Shook."

Today we review our 16th album for the 2023 album rankings, "Cracker Island" by Gorillaz.

Today we review our 15th album for the year, "This is Why" by Paramore.

Today we review our 14th album for our 2023 rankings, "Desire, I Want To Turn Into You" by Caroline Polachek.

This week we review the new Rebecca Black album "Let Her Burn." This is our 13th album for 2023.

Today we review two new albums from Skrillex "Quest for Fire" and "Don't Get Too Close" for our 11th and 12th albums of the year.

We're 1/10 of the way through our 100 albums for 2023! Today we do our 10th album of the year, "Gloria" by Sam Smith, and discuss the year so far.

Today we review our 9th album for the year, "Ultra Paradise" by Angel Electronics.

Today we review our 8th album for the year, "Dealer's Choice" by Dealers Of God.

Today we review our 7th album for the year, "Let's Start Here" by Lil Yachty.

Today we review our 6th album for the year, "The Coral Tombs" by Ahab.

Today we review our 5th album for the year, "After the Magic" by Parannoul.

For our fourth album of 2023 we review Tujiko Noriko's "Crépuscule I & II."

For our third album of 2023 we review Cicada's "棲居在溪源之上 (Seeking the Sources of Streams)"

For the second album of 2023, we review Oedipus Apartment Complex's "The Blissful Sounds of Miracula."

In the first episode of our 2023 rankings, we review Esoctrilium's "Funeral."

In this episode, we finish looking back at 2022 by giving out some superlatives to last year’s albums.

In this episode, Ben and Eric discuss a recent Black MIDI concert they attended.

Better late than never! In this episode we rank 27 albums which we picked in bonus episodes which aired from May 6th - 20th in 2022. Listen in to hear us argue over these albums, and revisit the May episodes if you’d like the background on why these albums were picked.

This week we look back at new music in 2022 and pick our top 10 and bottom 5 songs of the year.

This episode we reveal our top 10 albums of 2022 and discuss them.

In this episode we look at our 2022 album rankings as a whole, and reveal our bottom 10 albums of 2022. Next episode we’ll review the top 10.

This week we close out 2022 with albums #99 and #100 for the year. Brandon's picks are "Solidaritine" by Gogol Bordello and "Subatomic" by FNKPMPN.

This week we do our yearly Ben-driven Westside Gunn special with "10" and "Peace Fly God."

This week we review Klein's "Cave in the Wind" and Mason Bates with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with "Philharmonia Fantastique - The Making of the Orchestra."

This week, we finally get caught up and review 8 albums at once. We're doing:

Five Finger Death Punch: AfterLife
3 Days Grace: Explosions
Scarcity: Aveilut
The Gerogerigegege: >(decrescendo) the Final Chapter
Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder: Get on Board
Valyrie: MyWayThat ItsComingTo Befor <3 :)
Ashenspire: Hostile Architecture
Black Eyed Peas: Elevation

Probably not in that order.

This week we review CRRDR's "Damnbow" and Culprate's "αριθμόσ τέσσερα."

This week we review Mori Calliope's "Unalive" and Deco*27's "Mannequin."

This week we review Quadeca's "I Didn't Mean to Haunt You" and Weyes Blood's "And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow."

This week we review Backxwash's "His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering" and Nas's "King's Disease III."

This week we review "Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam" from The Comet is Coming, and JID's "The Forever Story."