"it's comforting... like a blanket, but maybe not your blanket"

On the show this week:

00:00:53 News

• Jeff Rosenstock calls out venues claiming merch profits

00:08:24 everything is alive by Slowdive Album Review Discussion

00:38:3 Upcoming releases

Album rankings

1. Squid - O Monolith
2. White Reaper - Asking For A Ride
3. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
4. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
5. Strange Ranger - Pure Music
6. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE
7. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
8. Ratboys - The Window
9. Little Dragon - Slugs of Love
10. Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing To Us
11. Kelela - Raven
12. Pile - All Fiction
13. Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination
14. Everything But The Girl - Fuse
15. Feist - Multitudes
16. Overmono - Good Lies
17. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun
18. Gorillaz - Cracker Island
19. Babymetal - The other one
20. bdrmm - I Don’t Know
21. boygenius - the record
22. Complete Mountain Almanac - Complete Mountain Almanac
23. Killer Mike - MICHAEL
24. This Is The Kit - Careful of Your Keepers
25. Mandy, Indiana - i’ve seen a way
26. Kate NV - WOW
27. Cut Worms - Cut Worms
28. Alex Lahey - The Answer Is Always Yes
29. Foyer Red - Yarn The Hours Away
30. Erik Hall - Canto Ostinato
31. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power
32. Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12
33. Yaeji - With A Hammer
34. Current Joys - LOVE + POP