Weak Desires Podcast: Recent Episodes
Chris Nicholas
I, Chris Nicholas, interview my musician friends, discussing their career in music and whatever else comes up. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/weakdesires/support
This may be the 32nd episode but this is the first of the new format for the podcast. It's a shorter one this week but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.
Album Recommendations:
Casey - How to Disappear
Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers
Check out Isaac Walker's music:https://open.spotify.com/artist/7KoVmdjjDNATTmHwChDDAo?si=n0rTJ7dcQY2umOsVXcEF9A
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We're back with some albums reviews! On this episode, Scott and I list some of our favorite albums from 2023.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weakdesires/support
Albums released in November and December:
Dayseeker - Dark Sun
He is Legend - Endless Hallway
Disturbed - Divisive
Tallah - The Generation of Danger
Jared Dines - the grey
Fantasy League - self titled
AVOID - Cult Mentality
Johnny Booth - Storyteller
Turnover - Myself in the Way
Gable Price and Friends - The Consequence of Being Alive
LS Dunes - Past Lives
Chelsea Grin - Suffer in Hell
Wolves at the Gate - Lowborn EP
Thousand Below - Hell Finds You Everywhere
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These are the albums we discussed for the month of October:
Counterparts - A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Charlie Puth - Charlie
Sunsleeper - While You Can
The 1975 - Being Funny In A Foreign Language
We Came as Romans - Darkbloom
Bilmuri - Goblin Hours
Boston Manor - Datura
Boundaries - Burying Brightness
The Early November - Twenty
Varials - Scars For You to Remember
Sleeping with Sirens - Complete Collapse
Architects - the classic symptoms of a broken spirit
Taylor swift - Mightnights
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time
Kings Kaleidoscope - Baptized Imagination
Fit For a King - The Hell We Create
Arm’s Length - Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
Driveways - Into the Past
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
Within Destruction - Lotus
Love is Noise - Euphoria, Where Were You?
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Here are the albums we reviewed in September
Stray From the Path - Euthenasia
Armor for sleep - The Rain Museum
Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist
The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay
Electric Callboy - Tekkno
Noah Cyrus - The Hardest Part
The wonder years - The Hum Goes on Forever
Tyson motsenbocker - Milk Teeth
Aviana - Corporation
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying...And the Dead!
Miss May I - Curse of Existence
Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
Slipknot - The End, So Far
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Here is the music we reviewed from this month (with a little bit from early September)
Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing For Me
Arch Enemy - Deceivers
Muse - Will of the People
Heart of Gold - Beautiful Dangerous
Spite - Dedication to Flesh
Orthodox - Learning to Dissolve
I Prevail - True Power
Royal Coda - To Only a Few at First
Demi Lovato - Holy Fvck
Oceans Ate Alaska - Disparity
Miss May I - Curse of Existence
Yungblud - self titled
156/Silence - Narrative
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Here are the albums we reviewed from this month:
Camp trash - The Long Way, The Slow Way
Jason Richardson - II
Opponent - Sentinel
Yours Truly - is this what I look like?
Chief state - Waiting for Your Colours
Senses Fail - Hell is in Your Head
Rain City Drive - self titled
Deaf Havana - The Present Is a Foreign Land
Anberlin - Silverline
Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer
Stick To Your Guns - Spectre
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Here are the albums we reviewed from June:
Red Handed Denial - I'd Rather Be Asleep
No pressure - self titled
Thornhill - Heroine
Memphis May Fire - Remade in Misery
Bleed From Within -Shrine
Valleyheart -Heal My Head
All get out - Kodak
Motionless in White - Scoring the End of the World
Secrets - The Collapse
Dragged under - Upright Animals
Joyce manor - 49oz to Fresno
Moodring - Stargazer
D.R.U.G.S - Destroy Rebuild
Vatican - Ultra
Emery - Rub Some Dirt on It
Alexisonfire - Otherness
Limbs - Coma Year
Spiritbox - Rotoscope (3 Song EP)
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Albums released in this month:
Silverstein - Misery Made Me
Simple Plan - Harder Than it Looks
Flor - Future Shine
Stand Atlantic - f.e.a.r.
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
State Champs - Kings of the New Age
Harry Styles - Harry's House
Halestorm - Back From the Dead
Three Days Grace - EXPLOSIONS
Julia Zivic - Good Cry
Moon Tooth - Alpha Howl
Better Love - I Wasn't Ready Then, But I Think I Am Now
With the Punches - Discontent
Hollow Front - The Price of Dreaming
(I said 20 or so in the episode but some were cut due to not having enough to talk about with some of the albums)
Also check out Blue Chips, the rock band from New York (which was mentioned but not named during Julia Zivic's album review)
And check out the new Beartooth single "Riptide"
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Podcast episodes mentioned in this episode: Mick Gordon | The Riffhard Podcast
Albums released in these months:
Bad Omens - The Death of Peace and Mind
KEYAN - Gradient EP
Anxious - Little Greenhouse
A Will Away - Stew
Wolves at the Gate - Eulogies
Haunted Shores - Void
Bastardane - Is This Rage?
Meshuggah - Immutable
Belmont - Aftermath
Drug Church - Hygiene
oso oso - Sore Thumb
Coin - Uncanny Valley
Pup - The Unraveling
Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Pusha T - It's Almost Dry
Monuments - In Stasis
Molly Tuttle - Crooked Tree
LIGHTS - PEP
Cancer Bats - Psychic Jailbreak
Northlane - Obsidian
Greyhaven - This Bright and Beautiful World
Vagrants - Be Consumed
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Here are the albums we talked about for this month:
Comeback Kid - Heavy Steps
Fit For an Autopsy - Oh What the Future Holds
Enterprise Earth - The Chosen
Underoath - Voyeurist
Skillet - Dominion
Shadow of Intent - Elegy
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Albums released in November and December:
Silent Planet - Iridescent
Bullet For My Valentine - self titled
Adele - 30
Sion - self titled
Mayday Parade - What It Means to Fall Apart
Volumes - Happier?
Like Pacific - Control My Sanity
Between You & Me - Armageddon
Scott's Top 10 of 2021:
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Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole
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nothing, nowhere - Trauma Factory
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Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
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Architects - For Those That Wish to Exist
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ERRA - self titled
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Ice Nine Kills - Welcome to Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2
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Capstan - SEPARATE
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Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake of My Life
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Can't Swim - Change of Plans
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Empty - Made of Fire
Chris's Top 10 of 2021:
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Beartooth - Below
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ERRA - self titled
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Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
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Empty - Made of Fire
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Jonathan Young/Galactikraken - Starship Velociraptor
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Pentakill - III: Lost Chapter
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Sion - self titled
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Termina - Dysphoria
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Volumes - Happier?
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Wage War - Manic
Lots of new music to come out this year so stay tuned for more reviews
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Heliocentric is a one man metal band from North Carolina. Jared and I go into the creation of Heliocentric and learning to do it all through trial and error.
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Here are the albums we talked about from this month:
Wage War - Manic
Asking Alexandria - See What's on the Inside
Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
Ice Nine Kills - Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood
Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life
Don Broco - Amazing Things
Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance
Empty - Made of Fire
Every Time I Die - Radical
Can't Swim - Change of Plans
Circa Survive - A Dream About Love
Relent - Heavy
Sentinels - Collapse by Design
Attack Attack! - Long Time, No Sea
Mastodon - Hushed & Grim
Ware of Ages - Rhema
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Here are the albums we talked about for the month of September: (in no particular order)
You Me and Everyone We Know - Something Heavy
Thrice - Horizons/East
Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
Hawthorne Heights - The Rain Just Follows Me
The Plot in You - Swan Song
Real Friends - Torn in Two
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Eidola - The Architect
The Band CAMINO - Self Titled
Chris Renzema - Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart
Earth Groans - The Body
Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms
Podcasts mentioned in this episode:
The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine
-Episodes - Dustin Kensrue: Thrice and Jeremy Schaeffer: Earth Groans
Lead Singer Syndrome with Shane Told
-Episodes - Andrew Wells (Eidola, Dance Gavin Dance)
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Here are the albums we talked about in the months of July and August:
John Mayer - Sob Rock
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Gone Are the Good Days
The Maine - XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time
Capstan - Separate
Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
Between the Buried and Me - Colors II
Turnstile - Glow On
Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Phinehas - The Fire Itself
Trash Boat - Don't You Feel Amazing?
Caskets - Lost Souls
Switchfoot - Interrobang
Grayscale - Umbra
early September release:
Earth Groans - The Body
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Here are the albums we talked about from May and June of 2021:
The Devil Wears Prada - ZII
Twenty One Pilots - Scaled & Icy
Waterparks - Greatest Hits
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
Dodie - Build a Problem
August Burns Red - Leveler (Remastered)
Beartooth - Below
Light the Torch - You Will Be the Death of Me
Bo Burnham - Inside
Free Throw - Piecing it Together
Mentioned but not reviewed:
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
Tyler, The Creator - Call Me if You Get Lost
Other artists mentioned in this episode:
Fit For a King, Architects, Wage War, Greta Isaac, Orla Gartland, Lauren Aquilina, Dragged Under
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In this episode, Max and I talk about the differences of our instruments, different music genres (including jazz), and the instruments that follow said genres.
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Here are some of the albums released in April of 2021:
Termina - Dysphoria
Galactikraken (Jonathan Young) - Starship Velociraptor
Greta Van Fleet - The Battle at Garden's Gate
Tilian - Factory Reset
Birdy - Young Heart
Tetrarch - Unstable
Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
Hail the Sun - New Age Filth
Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake of My Life
Royal Blood - Typhoons
While She Sleeps - Sleeps Society
Other artists mentioned in this episode:
The Devil Wears Prada, A Lot Like Birds, Royal Coda, Sianvar, Makari, Monuments, WVNDER, Orla Gartland, Greta Isaac, Lauren Aquilina
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Here are some of the albums released in March of 2021:
Chase Atlantic - Beauty in Death
Tigers Jaw - I Won't Care How You Remember Me
ERRA - ERRA
Justin Bieber - Justice
Middle Kids - Today We're the Greatest
The Spill Canvas - Conduit
LANDMVRKS - Lost in the Waves
Citizen - Life in Your Glass World
'68 - Give One Take One
Stepson - Help Me, Help You
The Midnight - Horror Show
John the Ghost - I Only Want to Live Once
Other bands mentioned in the episode:
For Today, Beartooth (new album Below out June 25th), The Maine, The Devil Wears Prada, LIGHTS, He is Legend, Savage Hands, While She Sleeps, Greta Van Fleet, The Chariot
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In this episode, Tim and I talk about the music he's written over the past several years, the gear he's used to write and record music, and different venues located around Asheville, North Carolina, amongst other topics related to music.
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BONUS EPISODE: My buddy Scott and I talked about some of our favorite albums released this year, as well as other related artists that came up in conversation. Here are all of the albums and bands we mentioned in the episode:
Earth is a Black Hole - Teenage Wrists
For Those That Wish to Exist - Architects
Trauma Factory - Nothing, Nowhere
Pressure - Wage War (2019)
Medicine at Midnight - Foo Fighters
FLOWERS for VASES/descansos - Hayley Williams
Mirrored Images - Parris Bridge
Little Oblivions - Julien Baker
Amorphous - Icon for Hire
Who Am I? - Pale Waves
Departures - Jon Foreman
Dark & Beautiful Secrets - Normandie
Timeless - Of Mice & Men
You're Welcome - A Day to Remember
Other artists/bands mentioned:
Fit For a King, Dayseeker, Convictions, Spiritbox, My Epic, Valleyheart, ERRA, The Weeknd, Matt Heafy, Justin Bieber, Chevelle, Tiger's Jaw, The Spill Canvas, Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas
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In this episode, Jason and I talked about his musical upbringing, his company New Blue Entertainment, and how the current music industry is operating.
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In this episode, Jordan and I catch up and talk about our experience at the Contemporary Music Center in Nashville, TN, as well as projects we are currently working on and how we get to where we are.
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In this episode, Micah and I continue to talk about bands we like, shows we've been to, and online learning through Skype lessons and Music Mentors Online.
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In this episode, I talked with Micah about how we met in our church, our love for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, and having a career in music.
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In this episode, Kyle and I talk about musical influences, streaming on twitch.tv, tiktok, promoting yourself, and taking a risk to do you what you love.
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In this episode, Tim and I talk about how our musical interests changed from our parents' interests to our own, as well as some other podcasts and artists we like to listen to.
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In this episode, Desiree and I talk about screaming vocals, how modern music has changed genres, music movies, and more!
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In this episode, Desiree and I talk about how we both grew up around music and how we've both grown in the past few years.
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In this episode, Kelcie and I talked about her band Room Twenty-Seven and the history of her music career.
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Episode 1 - Brent Funkhouser joins me on my very first episode to talk about life as a musician, the current state of the world, and how people are coping with it.
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