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Today Paul and Will dig into the story of popstar turned avant-garde troubadour Scott Walker and his 1995 album Tilt. This is a wild one, so hang on to your butts!

Will and Paul talk about their favorite new and old albums from October 2022. They discuss giants such as the Beatles and Kendrick Lamar, exciting current artists like Billy Woods and Courting, as well as smaller favorites like Reptar and whatever the hell Will is listening to. As always, send questions comments or fascinations to ntwicpod@gmail.com!

Paul and Will get funky in a discussion of the 1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers album, Californication. The two discuss how the album straddles two halves of the Chili's career, how the California boys were too drugged out for Rick Rubin, what a Chili Peppers album produced by David Bowie might have sounded like, and much more. As always, send questions comments or fascinations to ntwicpod@gmail.com!

Today the boys dive into the spiritual free jazz of Pharoah Sanders, throat singing and all! If you have any thoughts, questions, or otherwise, please send them along to ntwicpod@gmail.com!

Will and Paul discuss Titus Andronicus' sophomore effort The Monitor, its blend punk, Springsteen storytelling, and self-loathing, getting pretty deep into their own mental health history while they do. As always, send questions comments or fascinations to ntwicpod@gmail.com!

Paul and Will discuss their favorite and other notable releases from September, from Sudanese-inspired fiddling to German neoclassical strumming to Shanghai's best bleeps and bloops. Let us know what you've been listening to and reach out with any other questions of comments to ntwicpod@gmail.com

Will and Paul continue their quest to determine a definitive top 10 albums with this absolute facemelter of early-70's jazz fusion. We dive into Will's introduction to fusion as a contrarian teenager and explore how out hosts feel about the genre now. As always, send questions comments or fascinations to ntwicpod@gmail.com!

Paul and Will return with a new format, ranking their top ten favorite albums of all time... however many albums that happens to be. We discuss the discs in Paul's Dad's CD changer, and the heavy Buddy Holly and incel vibes on this album. As always, send any thoughts or questions you have about the show to ntwicpod@gmail.com, thanks for listening!

We're back baby! Paul and Will return to talk about what they've been listening to over the month of August and introduce a new format for the show going forward. Let us know what you've been listening to and reach out with any other questions of comments to ntwicpod@gmail.com

Wrapping up MF DOOM's blistering creative run in 2003 / 2004, we covering the second Victor Vaughn album VV:2 and the extremely idiosyncratic MM... Food, which might be the most "DOOM" album we've covered yet. On the way we talk about Star Wars samba covers and the transitional stages of rap in the early 2000's. s always, send any thoughts or questions you have about the show to ntwicpod@gmail.com, thanks for listening!

Apologies for the delay, but we're back! We had Covid and vacations but we're here to talk more MF DOOM. After a lengthy detour to discuss Rate Your Music metagaming and the newest Kendrick Lamar album, we jump into one of the most exciting sections of MF Doom's discography. We discuss his third alter - ego, Victor Vaughn, and then jump into his most famous album: Madvillainy. As always, send any thoughts or questions you have about the show to ntwicpod@gmail.com, thanks for listening!

On episode 2 of our MF Doom discography dive, we listen to the first album of abstract hip-hop he released under that moniker as well as the sole LP from his pseudonym King Geedorah. Things have changed since the KMD days, now we are getting to the good stuff! As always, send any thoughts or questions you have about the show to ntwicpod@gmail.com, thanks for listening!

Paul and Will start a new series covering the early days of British-American Rapper MF Doom aka Daniel Dumile aka King Geedorah aka Victor Vaughn, aka one of the most mysterious and talented rappers of all time. They cover his early albums with his brother Subroc, his iconic sampling style, and what to do if your favorite band cancels at a music festival. Please send any questions or comments to ntwicpod@gmail.com!

Today we finish our exploration of My Bloody Valentine with a brief overview of their most recent release from 2013 and some speculation about what the future holds for the notoriously delayed possible 4th album. Will is lazier than Paul, so the playlist for this series is cultivate by Spotify this time around, check it out here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX6ujZpAN0v9r?si=3410be2c445540d8. Please send any questions or comments to ntwicpod@gmail.com!

Well, we finally made it! On this episode Paul & Will talk about My Bloody Valentine's masterpiece Loveless, its extended production issues, and the EPs released during the tumultuous 3-year recording span. Spoiler alert, this might be one of our favorite albums of all time! Thanks for listening, and please send any comments or questions to ntwicpod@gmail.com

Today Paul & Will dive into My Bloody Valentine's first studio LP and the two EPs that proceeded it. With Belinda Butcher added the the band and the financial backing of Creation Records, the band has finally found a sound closer to the shoegaze we know and love, but will we like their first stabs at this style? Find out with us on this episode and email us at ntwicpod@gmail.com with any questions or comments you have about the show!

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Today we start our second series, a deep dive into the discography of shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine! But before they were melding ear-splitting noise and ethereal dream pop, they were just kind of a bad post-punk cover band as you are about to discover with us in this episode. Come along for this new journey and let us know if you have comments or questions at ntwicpod@gmail.com

Well, surprise surprise! Turns out, during the run of our Godspeed series, the band's much rumoured and long-lost demo cassette finally leaked onto the interwebs. Join Paul and Will as we dive in to see if this is a hidden treasure or a skeleton that should have stayed in the closet. Email us at ntwicpod@gmail.com with any questions or comments you have about the show!

We wrap up our thought on Godspeed with a long and, hopefully rewarding conversation, followed by our album rankings. If you're interested in checking out similar bands, Paul put together a further listening playlist that you can find here. If you have any questions, observations, or suggestions for new games please email us at ntwicpod@gmail.com, enjoy the show!

We discuss the some of GY!BE's later albums, the filled with powerful guitars and dreadful drones. We talk about how labels can prime us, Paul talks too much about vegetables, and we find out who is Canadian and who isn't. If you have any questions, observations, or suggestions for new games please email us at ntwicpod@gmail.com, enjoy the show!

With episode 3 of our Godspeed You! Black Emperor series, we finally arrive and traverse the fabled hiatus. Also, we spend a fair amount of time reading Wikipedia articles aloud, the telltale sign of a great podcast. If you have any questions, observations, or suggestions for new games please email us at ntwicpod@gmail.com, enjoy the show!

In episode 2 of our Godspeed You! Black Emperor series, Paul and Will dive into the ravings of an open-mic mystic, a beloved EP, and an album that is perhaps the crown jewel of the band, neigh, the entire genre of post-rock! We hope you enjoy our show and please send any emails to ntwicpod@gmail.com, we promise we'll probably read them!

On our first "official" episode, Paul and Will ramble about post-rock for about an hour before finally getting into Godspeed You! Black Emperor's first album F#A#∞. Too long? Arguably. Too funny? Definitely Not. Enjoy!

Will and Paul finish up discussing their favorite albums of 2021. If you have any comments, questions, or other goodies to share, please send an email to ntwicpod@gmail.com and we'll get to you message on the show!

Will and Paul intro the podcast and discuss their favorite albums of 2021. If you have any comments, questions, or other goodies to share, please send an email to ntwicpod@gmail.com and we'll get to you message on the show!