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Lot of fun weird number stuff going on here. This is the last episode of the 5th season of ph5...5x5=25. This episode covers my top 25 record of 2025. So yeah! That's a thing I noticed. Cool right. But anyway that's it, the year's over, and that means a podcast about lists could only end with one thing - one more list, but a bigger one this time. Overall, 2025...pretty solid. Lots of great records with a few potential all timers.

In the past I've been a dick about it and made you listen to the episode to see the list but I've softened in my old age so here it is below. See you next year.

25. Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun

24. hell - submersus

23. Anxious - Bambi

22. Armand Hammer - Mercy

21. Blood Orange - Essex Honey

20. Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstacy

19. Kathryn Mohr - Waiting Room

18. Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate

17. Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer

16. Dean Blunt - lucre

15. The Mars Volta - Lucro sucio

14. Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power

13. La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car

12. aya - hexed!

11. Sudan Archives - The BPM

10. Turnstile - Never Enough

9. Nourished by Time - The Passionate Ones

8. billy woods - GOLLIWOG

7. Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath

6. Bad Bunny - Debir Tiras Mas Fotos

5. Rosalia - Lux

4. Purelink - Faith

3. Los Thuthanaka - Los Thuthanaka

2. Deftones - private music

1. Oklou - Choke Enough

Putting out a best of November episode in the midst of the week where every publication is releasing their year end lists makes this whole thing feel about as futile as you can imagine. But the year's not over yet!! Like I've seen so many pubs putting the Cameron Winter album and songs on their year end lists and its like yo! That album came out last year! Maybe if you hadn't jumped the gun on your round ups you wouldn't be in this ridiculous situation. Anyway. November was absolutely stacked. Albums discussed below.

Armand Hammer - Mercy

The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton - AVTT/PTTN

Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. II

Ben Quad - Wisher

Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons

Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy

Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer

Rosalia - Lux

The only thing spookier than Halloween is when Halloween falls on a Friday, adding another slate of releases for me to get through before I can sufficiently start recording. Not to make it sound like a chore or anything! In fact, October was one of the strongest months of the year in terms of new releases. I'm just making excuses for my lateness. I was doing so good for like, a month or two there. This was another one of those months where any number of records could've hit that number one spot and I had to make some really tough decisions that I will probably regret later. That's what life's all about though really. Albums discussed below!

AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun

Blawan - SickElixir

Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo - Into the Earth Again

Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun

Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath

Stay Inside - Lunger

Sudan Archives - The BPM

Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate

I can't remember the last time I actually dropped an episode on the first of the new month. Is it because I'm that eager to talk about September's music? I just have nothing better to do? A healthy mix of both? I'm back in the right headspace to really enjoy new music again, so September's episode was a lot of fun for me! With only a few solid months of new releases left, each passing month has more pressure on it to deliver the goods. How did September do? Tune in and find out. Albums discussed below!

Ariel Pink - With You Every Night

Cardi B - Am I The Drama?

Deaf Club - We Demand A Permanent State of Happiness

Doja Cat - Vie

Geese - Getting Killed

Joanne Robertson - Blurrr

La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car

Maruja - Pain to Power

Timbaland voice It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you....that's right folks after a delayed absence we are BACK! Why the absence? Well you'll just have to go ahead and listen to find out won't you? Given the delay I am a bit rusty, so what better way to shake that rust off by doing a deep dive on my favourite thing in the entire world to talk about. That's right, this month's episode is a bit different as instead of rambling about new music releases, I am rambling about my all time favouite band Deftones, as I look to determine where their new record sits along their all time great discography. We'll pick up traditional ph5 format episodes next month, but for now this is kinda all I really wanna talk about okay?

Insanely late again ok but at least I have a good excuse this time. What's the excuse? And what's this so called 'twist' I'm referring to in the episode title? Listen and find out! I can't be giving everything away in these little blurb things. I already tell you the albums I talk about which in my opinion is more than enough. I actually started doing that back in the first season of the show when my friend Will politely asked me to include them and I don't think he's listened to the show in years. Oh well old habits die hard or whatever. Plus including them gives me an opportunity to tag the artists I talk about when I post about it. Although honestly some artists probably wish I didn't. Anyway. Albums discussed below!

Addison Rae - Addison

Higher Power - There's Love In This World If You Want It

Joliette - Pérdidas Variables

Lorde - Virgin

Purelink - Faith

Putridity - Morbid Ataraxia

Turnstile - Never Enough

Two things! Firstly, yes ok this episode is very late. Maybe the latest ever. But at least it's here ok? I'm busy! Sorry! Secondly, I have no idea where the Mentions soundbite has disappeared off to. I'ff track it down for next time. Ok now that we've got those out of the way, hi and welcome back to ph5! This time around we're talking about May 2025 releases. May is a special month for me because I was both born in it and it's my last name. That said, May kinda sucked. But the music didn't! Take a listen to the episode and see for yourself. Albums discussed below!

Alan Sparhawk - With Trampled By Turtles

billy woods - Golliwog

The Callous Daoboys - I Don't Want To See You In Heaven

Emma Goldman - all you are is we

Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful

Model/Actriz - Pirouette

These New Puritans - Crooked Wing

yeule - Evangelical Girl Is A Gun

Wherein I go in way over my head and talk about shit that I have absolutely no business talking about. But that's part of the fun of this whole thing isn't it? How can you best articulate what is swirling around in your head, even if you barely understand it yourself? I had to bend some of the sacred rules in this episode and I'm sorry about that but I would have truly been remiss to not talk about a few of the records I missed last month. Don't worry I filed a complaint with management on all of your behalf. Albums discussed below!

aya - hexed!

Djrum - Under Tangled Silence

Heavy Heavy Low Low - Pain Olympics

Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz

Los Thuthanka - Los Thuthunaka

The Mars Volta - Lucro sucio; Los ojo del vacio

Snooze - I Know How You'll Die

Viagra Boys - viagr aboys

Shit was looking pretty dicey for a minute there I'm not gonna lie. The very fate of ph5 podcast hung by a thread...would it survive or would it perish after four long, fruitful years? Thankfully, March came ready with the goods. March was easily the best month for new music yet in 2025, with the return of some old favourites and some promising new upstarts. It was also the month with the most significant amount of new heavy music release. Surely just a coincidence. Repeat after me: everything is going to be just fine. Albums discussed below:

Backxwash - Only Dust Remains

Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal

Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power

Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar

Mikau - Agartha

Playboi Carti - Music

Teitanblood - From The Visceral Abyss

YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds

Who named this dumbass month though? Seriously? I stand by February is the worst month of the year and its ridiculous name doesn't really help its case. Did the music of February redeem it? Well...kind of. There were a bunch of good to pretty good records out this month but we're two months into the year and I can't honestly say I've heard anything GREAT yet. Really selling this episode aren't I! It's still worth a listen I swear! Albums discussed below:

Anxious - Bambi

Darkside - Nothing

oklou - choke enough

Panda Bear - Sinister Grift

Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness

Richard Dawson - The End of the Middle

Vacuous - In His Blood

venturing - Ghostholding

We're back! And we're late! But we're back. ph5, one or two people's favourite monthly music roundup show returns with some big life updates and some good old fashioned music chats. Some of the biggest artists in the world are featured in this month's episode. After drifting further and further into obscurity has Phil finally sold out? Yeah probably! Can you blame him! Albums discussed below.

askysoblack - Touch Heaven

Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Màs Fotos

Boldy James - Murder During Drug Traffic / Permanent Ink

Ethel Cain - Perverts

fka twigs - Eusexua

Kathryn Mohr - Waiting Room

MIKE - Showbiz!

The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow

Originally this episode was going to be at least an hour longer and begin with a really stupid drawn out bit about Santa Claus but all those recordings ended up being unusable so you're getting this instead! You're off the hook this time. It's always fun to look back on a full year of music and attempt to arbitrarily rank them to see how your thoughts and feelings towards records shift as time goes on. One takeaway? 2024 was one of the better years for new music in a while. Albums discussed below in alphabetical order. If you want the actual ranking you'll have to listen to the episode! Yeah! I'm a sicko like that! See you in 2025.

Actress - Statik

Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

Boldy James - Across the Tracks

Ceremony of Silence - Hàlios

Charli xcx - BRAT

Chat Pile - Cool World

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

Civerous - Mazy Envy

Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

Floating Points - Cascade

Foxing - Foxing

Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath

Julia Holter - Something In the Room She Moves

Kali Malone - All Life Long

Kali Uchis - Orquídeas

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

Mitocondrion - Vetriseptome

Mustafa - DUNYA

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God

oso oso - life till bones

Paysage D'hiver - Die Berge

Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have To Lose Something

State Faults - Children of the Moon

Stay Inside - Ferried Away

Episode 50. What the hell. Make it make sense. In this episode, I attempt to do so, along with talking about my favourite records of November. It's been a wild ride, thanks for sticking with me. Here's to the next 50. Albums discussed below:

The Body - The Crying Out of All Things

Boldy James - The Bricktionary

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

Paysage D'hiver - Die Berge

Kendrick Lamar - GNX

Mitochondrion - Vetriseptome

Too much going on! There was no way I was going to be able to contain October's episode to the standard 8 album format so I went a bit overboard. Don't blame me, blame all the artists releasing thought provoking music last month. I'm a victim of circumstance. Lots to talk about this month so stop reading this stupid episode description and start listening! Albums discussed below:

Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible

Black Curse - Burning in Celestial Poison

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

Charli XCX - brat and it's completely different but it's still brat

Chat Pile - Cool World

Cosmic Putrefaction - Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains

ELUCID - REVELATOR

Halsey - The Great Impersonator

Immortal Bird - Sin Querencia

Lowen - Do Not Go To War Tith The Demons Of Mazandaran

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja

September! The kids go back to school, the months all start ending in 'ber'...I wonder if that's because it gets colder out, so everybody is always saying 'brr'. Could be. Anyway here's a new episode of ph5. This episode almost didn't happen as I wasn't feeling great but it's okay. I'm feeling better now. Appreciate your concern. Lots of great records this month that moved me both physically and emotionally. Maybe not so much mentally. Also, if you can, please donate to Spirit of the Beehive's gofundme (https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-spirit-of-the-beehive-recover-stolen-gear) as they had over $100,000 worth of gear stolen a few days ago while on tour and they need all they help they can get. They are an amazing band and lovely people so they deserve it. Albums discussed below:

Alan Spearhawk - White Roses, My God

Floating Points - Cascade

Foxing - Foxing

Heriot - Devoured by the Mouth of Hell

Jamie xx - In Waves

Madara - Gorephiliac

Midwife - No Depression In Heaven

Pyrrhon - Exhaust

August is over, which means the world is growing dark and cold and all the leaves are falling from the trees and the cold that chills your bones is about to set in. Just kidding - that's next month. August was a wild wonderful month with a goldmine of new releases to accompany it. Let's talk about them. Albums discussed below:

Concrete Winds - Concrete Winds

Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

Fontaines DC - Romance

Gel - Persona

Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

Nails - Every Bridge Burning

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God

oso oso - life till bones

SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING

Yeah yeh yeah I know I'm so late. But to make up for it I'm giving you my shortest episode in...years? To be honest this episode almost didn't happen, if it weren't for a few very special records and people urging me on. Also shout out New Friends Fest. Also I'm not going to name names but if you were one of the people who told me to check out the new Eminem album, consider yourself disowned from ever giving me recommendations ever again. Albums discussed below!

Ceremony of Silence - Halios

Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady

Respire - Hiraeth

Scarcity - The Promise of Rain

Show Me The Body - CORPUS II EP I

Speed - ONLY ONE MODE

State Faults - Children of the Moon

Wand - Vertigo

It's been really hot lately and I haven't been sleeping well and my voice kinda sounds like a duck. Thanks for tuning in to the June 2024 edition of ph5. This episode has me running down my favourite records of June through a hazy fog of sweat and heat exhaustion. I hope it makes sense. Along with the records, I talk about the importance (and rarity) of consistency in music and reflect on why I was such a weirdo about certain music growing up. Albums discussed below!

Actress - Statik

Boldy James - Across the Tracks

Camilla Cabello - C,XOXO

Charli xcx - Brat

Foreign Hands - What's Left Unsaid

Skee Mask - Resort

Sumac - The Healer

200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures

First off, RIP Steve Albini. Isn't it wild that that only happened last month? Time isn't real. What IS real is ph5 podcast, and we've got a hot and steamin' brand new episode ready to go for you. Sorry for the wait - I've been busy. I made up for lost time by talking for way too long about things that don't really matter. I'm sure you're used to that at this point. May 2024 was a particularly exceptional month for hip hop, and it was nice to spend some time talking about music that wasn't purely functioning to destroy my ears and brain. There were still a lot of that too, let's be real. Albums discussed below!

Chief Keef - Almighty So 2

Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition

Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

Mach-Hommy - #RichAxxHaitian

Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive

Shellac - To All Trains

Thou - Umbilical

Vince Staples - Dark Times

Still out here, still doing this. April didn't reach the absurd heights of March, but was still full of fantastic new releases by some old friends (literally in some cases. Well I guess just one). I tried not to talk about you know what but it ended up happening anyway. She is unescapable. Also yeah I know the recording sounds weird on this one. I think I might need a new mic. It sucks. Album's discussed below!

Adult Jazz - So Sorry So Slow

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

claire rousay - sentiment

Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism

Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss

Golden Drag - Twin Paradise

Inter Arma - New Heaven

Justice - Hyperdrama

First of all I want to apologize to all the albums I listened to in March and loved and wanted to talk about but couldn't because of these ridiculous self-imposed limitations I've given myself for this show. Surely someone else out there has and will give you the love and attention you deserve. March was insane. I could've done like three episodes on March along. Instead you get this one. I hope you like it. Albums discussed below:

Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter

Civerous - Maze Envy

Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet

Gouge Away - Deep Sage

Jlin - Akoma

Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves

Stay Inside - Ferried Away

Tierra Whack - World Wide Whack

If January kicked off the year with a bang, February caused that momentum to come to a screeching halt with more of a slowly deflating whoopie cushion. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but come on - in terms of new releases, it wasn't great. Have no fear, I still managed to find something to talk about for 72 minutes. Really selling this episode, aren't I? Let me start over. Another month, another episode, another batch of fantastic new music! Phil goes deep on February's new music releases and concerts while also spending time reflecting on the moral boundaries we set for ourselves when we consume art. Albums discussed below:

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

Kali Malone - All Life Long

Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign - Vultures 1

Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyon's Slingshot

meth. - SHAME

Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

Spectral Voice - Sparagmos

Yeat - 2093

And we're back, with the first episode of season 4. Make it make sense. While most years start with a stretch and a yawn, January roared to life with a series of extremely impressive releases by some new favourites and some old friends. Speaking of old friends, the amount of name drops and callbacks in this episode was ridiculous. Talk about fan service. There's no way of knowing for sure, but if the rest of 2024 keeps up like this, we're looking at one of the stronger years in new music in recent history. Albums discussed below:

21 Savage - American Dream

Boldy James & Nicolas Craven - Penalty of Leadership

glass beach - plastic death

Infant island - Obsidian Wreath

Kali Uchis - Orquídeas

Kid Cudi - INSANO

Knoll - As Spoken

Nailah Hunter - Lovegaze

The Smile - Wall of Eyes

I might be insane releasing this episode two days before Christmas but the reality is that, in a lot of people's minds, the year 'ends' with Christmas and that weird week afterwards leading up to New Year's Eve doesn't really exist with a particular time and space so still focusing on things that happened that year during that week is like uh why are you bothering the year's over just move on with your life. Plus from my general experience ph5 is a huge hit at family parties so I wanted to help you all out. This is the last episode of the year, talking about my favourite top ten records of 2023. We won't be back in action until the end of January so make sure you get your 'phill' of ph5 while you can. Sorry I had to. For all the cowards who don't want to listen to ~3 hours of me talking to myself to determine my favourite records of the year, I've listed the full list for you below. Roast me drag me praise me please just engage with me!! See you next year.

25. Jesus Piece - ....So Unknown

24. 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs

23. George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya

22. Animal Collective - Isn't It Now?

21. MSPAINT - Post-American

20. Jpegmafia & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes

19. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

18. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

17. Boldy James - Indiana Jones

16. James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities

15. Jerome's Dream - The Grey In Between

14. Naomi Sharon - Obsidian

13. Dreamwell - In My Saddest Dreams I Am Beside You

12. Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current

11. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us

10. yeule - softscars

9. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

8. Panopticon - The Rime of Memory

7. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

6. Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Pt 1: The Clandestine Gate

5. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit

4. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps

3. Tim Hecker - No Highs

2. Jane Remover - Census Designated

1. Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun

Every artist who has ever released music has done so in hopes to end up on a year end list. it's literally the whole point of doing it. I'm mostly kidding, but December is always a fun time of year for reflecting back on the past 12 months and determining how the music you listened to helped to shape and define them. As always, we start of by going through #25 - #11 of my favourite records of the year, before finally finishing things off by going through the top ten. I'll record that episode next week or something I dunno. Maybe someone will surprise drop something and screw the whole list up. I guess it's too late now. Do you agree with my picks? Do you think I'm a tasteless jerk? Let me know!

It's getting cold and dark, might as well settle in with a brand new episode of ph5. October was a bit of a return to reality after the abundance of September. Instead of 3 album of the year candidates we only got one. What a shame! Wild how these things vary month to month. Also, just want to make it as clear as possible that ph5 is wholly against the genocidal war crimes being committed not only in Palestine, but in Sudan and the Congo as well. Ceasefire now. Albums discussed below:

Dreamwell - In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You

Jane Remover - Census Designated

Naomi Sharon - Obsidian

Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved!

Sampha - Lahai

Short Fictions - Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me

Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version)

Year of the Knife - No Love Lost

Listen. What else was I supposed to do, okay? There were FIVE Fridays in March. And great records released on every single one of those Fridays. Rules are meant to be broken or whatever. On this month's episode, I go long (like, way long) on the unexpected highs (and lows) of March's releases, and muses on the unlikely cultural and foundational growth of one of my favourite genres. RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto. Also sorry Katie Gately, I have no idea why I said you were Australian. Albums discussed below:

Debby Friday - GOOD LUCK

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

Gel - Only Constant

The HIRS Collective - We're Still Here

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hos

Katie Gately - Fawn/Brute

Liturgy - 93696

MSPAINT - Post-American

slowthai - UGLYY

ves Tumour - Praise A Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Zulu - A New Tomorrow

100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs

February. What a stupid word! Like come on. It's like purposefully difficult to say, kinda like how the month is purposefully difficult to survive. I hate February. Didn't hate its music releases though! In this month's episode, Phil gets in touch with his youth, in more ways than one, and reflects on what it actually means to enjoy music. How do we learn to enjoy things that are intentionally impenetrable? Find out the definitive answer by tuning in! Albums discussed below:

Algiers - Shook

Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

Paramore - This is Why

Pile - All Fiction

See You Next Tuesday - Distractions

Skrillex - Quest For Fire

Ulthar - Anthronomicon & Helionomicon

Yeat - Afterlyfe

I don't know how we got here but here we are, at the end of the first month of 2023. As Smash Mouth wisely stated, 'the years start comin' and they don't stop comin''. January started the year off relatively weak in terms of new music, save for a flurry of excellent releases at the end of the month. Is there any better feeling than hearing that first record of the year that you really like? Probably. But that feeling's up there. Albums discussed below:

Boldy James - Indiana Jones

Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.

Mark William Lewis - Living

MOLLY - Picturesque

Nicole Dollanganger - Married in Mount Airy

Oozing Wound - We Cater to Cowards

Parannoul - After the Magic

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12

This was a year filled with opuses so it only seems fitting that we conclude it with an opus of our own! Join Phil on the longest ph5 episode to date as he runs down his top 10 albums (and top 5 songs) of 2022. Come on, its that weird time between Christmas and New Years where nothing exists and nothing matters, not like you're doing anything else important anyway! Thanks as always for tuning in, we'll see you next year.

Albums discussed below (in alphabetical order...tune in for the actual ranking!)

billy woods - Aethiopes

Burial - Antidawn

Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter

Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed

Huerco S. - Plonk

oso oso - sore thumb

Rosalía - MOTOMAMI

Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen

The Weekend - Dawn FM

Everyone knows that the only real reason to listen to new music is to make a list about it at the end of the year, and we're finally here! You guys have already read everyone else's year end lists so you might as well check out mine too. Although historically speaking (sample size: 1) the #25-11 episode has the lowest listenership of any episode of the season; good thing I made this one 90 minutes long! The last episode of the season containing Phil's top 10 albums and top 5 songs of 2022 will come...soon. Stay tuned.

Listen. I tried something, it didn't work. Happens to the best of us. Wanna know what I'm talking about? Only way to find out is to listen to the latest episode, a special/not so special two-for-the-price-of-one podcast extravaganza. Don't say you weren't warned! Albums discussed below:

Drake & 21 Savage - Her Loss

Dream Unending - Song of Salvation

Elder - Innate Passage

Fleshwater - We're Not Here To Be Loved

Golden Drag - Promenade

Smidley - Here Comes the Devil

Special Interest - Endure

Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Man RIP Takeoff! What the hell! Another young legend gone...I'm getting pretty sick of this crap. Anyway. Death is some heavy stuff, and a lot of the records discussed on this month's episode deal with complicated emotions. Big shout out to Bob McCully for joining me once again so I'm not wading through all this turbulence alone! Albums discussed below:

Backxwash - HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST

Birds in Row - Gris Klein

Burial - Streetlands EP

Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Pigments

Dead Cross - II

Gillian Carter - Salvation Through Misery

Taylor Swift - Midnights

Show Me The Body - Trouble the Water

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...and we're back. After August's sabbatical (don't worry you really didn't miss any good music anyway), Phil's back with more good meat and potatoes ph5 content. September more than made up for the garbage of August with tons of great new releases...but unfortunately some big disappointments as well. Ain't that just how life goes. Releases discussed below!

Alex G - God Save the Animals

Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram

Bjork - Fossora

The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist

City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters

Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed

The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta

No Devotion - No Oblivion

Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen

Does anyone actually know what the deal with Civic Day is? I'm not complaining I just don't understand it. Anyway, what better to do on a completely ambiguous holiday such as Civic Day than spend ~100 minutes discussing the music from the previous month? My thoughts exactly. This month I welcome back Bob McCully to discuss the new Scarcity record and black metal in general, and I go deep on pop's newfound love for early dance music, as well as - of course - my other favourite records from July. Albums discussed below:

beabadoobee - Beatopia

Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE

black MIDI - Hellfire

Chat Pile - God's Country

Flo Milli - You Still Here, Ho?

Greg Puciato - MIRRORCELL

Scarcity - Aveillut

Wake - Thought Form Descent

Summertime is in full swing and things are getting hot and heavy here in the city! With a resurgence of fantastic aggressive music, things are getting hot and heavy in Phil's ears too! June saw some of the biggest stars in the world move in some unexpected directions, and featured some of the more intriguing, mysterious music to be released this year. Albums discussed below:

Alexisonfire - Otherness

Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain

Candy - Heaven is Here

Drake - Honestly, Nevermind

Elucid - I Told Bessie

Perfume Genius - Ugly Season

Post Malone - Twelve Carat Toothache

Shearwater - The Great Awakening

Ah...summertime. Sweat stains, sunburns...and new music! Lots of it. On this month's episode, Phil dives into the music of May, featuring a lengthy discussion on one artist's opus of generational trauma...that's right folks, we're talking about Ethel Cain's new album. Oh yeah, Phil talks about that other one too. You know which one I mean. Albums discussed below:

Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Killing Nothing

Cave In - Heavy Pendulum

Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter

Gospel - The Loser

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Lykke Li - EYEYE

The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention

700 Bliss - Nothing to Declare

April was crazy busy and I worked every day this month - thank god for the amazing ambient records that came out this month to help ease the pain. On this month's episode, I talk about ambient's healing powers, some much needed closure with one of my all time favourite bands (that came from an unexpected place) and a few rap records that were wildly different - in both substance and quality. RIP Gabe Serbian. Albums discussed below:

ASkySoBlack - Autumn in the Water

billy woods - Aethiopes

Future - I Never Liked You

Greyhaven - This Bright & Beautiful World

Helms Alee - Keep This Be the Way

Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8

Pusha T - It's Almost Dry

Whatever the Weather - Whatever the Weather

March always does that really annoying thing where it pretends Spring is beginning like 4 times. It sucks! At least the music was good though. March saw the release of a lot of exceptional yet wildly different takes on pop by really talented women, as well as some old favourites rearing their heads again after extended absences - to mixed results. I promise you I don't talk about Will Smith. Albums discussed below!

Charli XCX - Crash

Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future

Jenny Hval - Classic Objects

Lack the Low - God-Carrier

Oso Oso - sore thumb

Rosalia - MOTOMAMI

Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

Vein.fm - This World Is Going To Ruin You

February sucks! Luckily, February's new music didn't. On this second episode of the new year (at what point do we stop calling it the 'new year' and just...the year?), Phil runs down a bunch of February's releases, and is joined by guest Matt Bankuti, who has been on the show so many times now (twice) that he might as well take it over. Two white guys talking about Animal Collective...what is this, 2008? Albums discussed below:

Author & Punisher - Kruller

Beach House - Once Twice Melody

Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero

Bunuel - Killers Like Us

Huerco S. - Plonk

SASAMI - Squeeze

Skin Tension - OMNI

Yung Kayo - DFTK

Welcome back to ph5! Let's never be apart that long again. I've missed you so. This marks the first official episode of the new year! Phil starts off a brand new season of ph5 by talking about some familiar faces in a familiar format...with some exciting new twists. What was the album that kickstarted Phil's love of music this year? Which album really pissed him off? Were any of his thoughts coherent? Only one place to find out: here at ph5. Albums discussed below:

Anxious - Little Green House

Babyface Ray - Face

Burial - Antidawn

Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave

Deaf Club - Productive Disruption

FKA twigs - Caprisongs

Foxtails - Fawn

Gunna - DS4ever

Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion

The Weeknd - Dawn FM

This is it! This is what it's all about! Our end of season festivities conclude today with Part 2 of the ph5x5, where Phil counts down his top ten favourite records of the year. Grab some egg nog and switch things up with the family by listening to this episode instead of watching Love Actually or whatever - it's about the same length of a feature length movie anyway! Thanks so much to everyone for tuning in. ph5 will return in 2021.

Albums discussed below (in alphabetical order - to see how they ranked you'll have to tune in, sucker!)

Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2

Doja Cat - Planet Her

Eyelet - The Devil Shining Out Your Eyes

Fiddlehead - Between the Richness

GAS - Der Lange Marsch

Grouper - Shade

Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

Iceage - Seek Shelter

Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get To Phoenix

King Woman - Celestial Blues

Kowloon Walled City - Piecework

Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

Low - Hey What

Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti

Pi'erre Bourne - The Life of Pi'erre 5

Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone

Serpentwithfeet - Deacon

Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst

Spellling - The Turning Wheel

Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death

Succumb - XXI

Taking Meds - Terrible News from Wonderful Men

Turnstile - Glow On

The year end festivities continue with the big kahuna, what we've all been waiting for...the ph5x5 (just my dumb way of saying the Top 25 of 2021). This episode, Part 1, covers #25 - 11, and Phil also discusses the first bunch of his favourite songs of the year as well. What made the cut!? What didn't?! How high did Red (Taylor's Version) place?! You'll just have to tune in to find out. Part 2 coming soon!

The year end celebrations will continue! But not today. Episode 12 is a traditional ph5 episode rounding up November's releases. Phil wasn't too impressed with what November had to offer (apart from a few fantastic records) but that's what happens when Adele drops. Shouts out to all those brave artists who released music anyway! Albums discussed below:

Burial Waves - Holy Ground

Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon I

Corbin - Ghost with Skin

Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell

Glassing - Twin Dream

Jon Hopkins - Music For Psychedelic Therapy

Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki

Taking Meds - Terrible News from Wonderful Men