Weekly Drive-By

This week's albums: Foo Fighters - But Here We Are [6/2/23], Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire [1/27/23], Squid - O Monolith [6/9/23], and MSPAINT - Post-American [2/20/23].Long time listeners will note that two of these albums have been reviewed previously, but this time, they're being reviewed by the other host. We're also digging into the Reddit blackout some more and giving some quick thoughts...

This week's albums: Liturgy - 93696 [3/24/23], Beach Fossils - Bunny [6/2/23], Victory for the Sun - Dance You Monster to My Soft Song! [5/26/23], Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis [6/2/23], and Kostnatění - Úpal [5/26/23].Did anything happen in 2006? Is Tim Scott still a virgin? How are this year's Republican presidential candidates looking so far? What's going on with the enshittification of Red...

This week's albums: London Brew - London Brew [3/31/2023], and Aindulmedir - Star Lore [2/17/23]. Music takes a backseat this week to our final Succession discussion, where we talk about the last three episodes of the fourth season (America Decides, Church and State, and With Open Eyes) and how we'll remember and rank the show in TV history.

This week's albums: 2hollis - 2 [5/11/23], Kash Krabs - The Krusty Pack [5/3/23], Spring 2005 - Ellie Kemper [5/12/23], The Canyon Observer - Figura [1/9/23], Colin Stetson - When We Were That What Wept for the Sea [5/12/23], and Angel Olsen - Forever Means [4/14/23].HBO's streaming service got another name change, the writers are striking, flying is a terrible experience, and airports deserve to...

This week's albums - Softcult - See You in the Dark, Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love, Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire, Alfa Mist - Variables, Avalon Emerson - And the Charm, EABS Meets Jaubi - In Search of a Better Tomorrow, Animal Collective - A Night at Mr. Raindrop's Holistic Supermarket, Cacola - Alive, Jards Macalé - Coração bifurcado, Takeshi's Cashew - Enter J's C...

If you stick around to the end, we pre-review some of the albums we'll be talking about next week, but the rest of the show is more or less a reminder to podcast responsibly while we rediscover Steve Albini's thoughts on Odd Future from 2011, talk about food analogies, go over Utah's role as the newest battleground in the Woke Wars, read way too much of Cory Doctorow's essay "The Enshittification...

This week's albums: 凛として時雨 [Ling Tosite Sigure] - last aurorally [4/12/23], BRAIDS - Euphoric Recall [4/28/23] ,ТДК [TDK] - Nemesta [3/8/23], Bill Orcutt - Jump On It! [4/28/23], OZmotic & Fennesz - Senzatempo [4/14/23].On the front half, we quickly mention another recent bank failure, check in on a Drive-By alumni, give a review of Adult Swim's animated show Ballmastrz: 9009, give an ex...

This week's albums: Covet - Catharsis [4/7/23], Maruja - Knocknarea [3/17/23], Megumi Acorda - Silver Fairy [3/17/23], Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current [4/14/23], Zorn - Zorn [3/10/23], Lankum - False Lankum [3/24/23].Music's all on the back half this week, but on the front half, we get into the temptations in working from home, sip reviews centered on a single brand, and call us Click and Clac...

This week's albums: Wednesday - Rat Saw God [4/7/23], chini.png - El día libre de Polux [3/31/23], Lavarr the Starr - Illusions Ago [4/12/23], and Black Magick SS - Burning Bridges [3/15/23].More of us doing Roycast better than Roycast with the front half dedicated to the episodes 3 and 4 of Succession. Quick chats about some classic cocktails, and the Fox News / Dominion case's end. One of the mo...

This week's albums: Tim Hecker - No Highs [4/7/23], Dispirited Spirits - The Redshift Blues [3/10/23], Depeche Mode - Memento mori [3/24/23], Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust [3/24/23], and Andrea - Due in Color [3/23/23].Porters vs stouts. The absolute state of Italy. Bee sentience. The ecological niche of mosquitos. The experience of WinCo. Channeling our inner Roycast. All the ingredients...

This week's albums: Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting to Die [2/17/23] and MSPAINT - Post-American [3/10/23]. We also get into a couple handfuls of bonus reviews, including debut albums from on4ward ( In Rainbow Roads , 1/13/23) and Black Button ( Rejoice , 1/13/23). That's all on the back half, while we spend most of the front half talking about the Season 4 premiere of HBO's Succession and jumping...

This week's albums: LOVEBITES - Judgement Day [2/22/23], slowthai - UGLY [3/3/23], Avey Tare - 7s [2/17/23], and Turpitude - Une interprétation de la dissolution glaciale en quatre mouvements [1/6/23].Music's on the back half, but in the front half we have the return of the Mocca Shots plus some other caffeine talk, a date story, and more Utah talk. We also check in on some Drive-By alumni, give a...

This week's albums: The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part Two [3/3/23] and The Necks - Travel [2/24/23].Apologies in advance for the poor audio quality at some spots here but you know it's gonna be worth it to hear us talk about the films in the title and the albums up top, on top of hearing our technical difficulties in real time, a new listening project one of us is starting, and some apartment h...

This week's albums: Paramore - This Is Why [2/10/23], Complete Mountain Almanac - Complete Mountain Almanac [1/27/23], Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World [2/10/23], Harto Falión & Eera - Extra Curriculum [1/27/23].Pretty self-explanatory one this week folks, but drop in for a few more gems.

This week's albums: Parannoul - After the Magic [1/28/23], The Tubs - Dead Meat [1/27/23], Wreckage - Our Time [1/1/23], and Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12 [1/17/23].If you hadn't heard, there's also a new OK Computer of RYM, so we check in on that and what it means. On top of so brief stories about the quietest room in the world and the company trying to re-create extinct animals, we talk some Oscar noms,...

This week's albums: The Lanterns - Holy Water & Honey [1/7/23], Margo Price - Strays [1/13/23], Dryad - The Abyssal Plain [1/20/23], and Ezra Varier - estonian snow [1/20/23].In other news: Mountain Dew shook up the game by dropping a Baja Blast flavored hot sauce, we process disappointment in a limited time product in real-time, we review Angry Angel's Tropical flavored energy drink, rant abo...

This week's albums: Iravu - A Fate Worse Than Home [1/6/23] and Asian Glow & sonhos tomam conta - Dreamglow [1/6/23]First Drive-By of 2023! We have thoughts on a potential new podcast we'd listen to, why we're happy the Republicans took the House, why we hate navigating news online, an idea for a new experimental music project, and an energy drink taste test, along with some other classic conv...

Spoilers below! But we'd never do the podcast equivalent of making you click through 50 pages just to get you the list you want. Here are our separate picks in order, separated by person with slashes:10. Just Mustard - Heart Under / Naked Flames - Miracle in Transit09. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed / Angles - A Muted Reality08. The Chats - Get Fucked / Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems07. billy woods -...

Originally recorded 12/12/22.This week's album and EPs: The Sound of Animals Fighting - Apeshit [12/16/22], Fabiano Do Nascimento & Itiberê Zwarg Collective - Rio Bonito [12/9/22], and Asian Glow & Weatherday - Weatherglow [3/17/22].Other classic WDB topics: energy drinks, Mountain Dew, and Taco Bell. But we also get into some Boardwalk Empire talk, argue about post-hardcore, and complain...

Originally Recorded 12/5/22.This week's albums: White Lung - Premonition [12/2/22] and Neptunian Maximalism - Finis gloriae mundi [11/25/22].Gotta be honest with you chiefs, I started editing this two weeks ago and don't remember much. But we talk about The Sopranos and whether it's a good show or a great show. 

Originally recorded 11/29/22. I swear I'm almost caught up guys. This week's albums: 잠비나이 [Jambinai] - 發顯 (Apparition) [11/11/22] and Elder - Innate Passage [11/25/22]And a bonus film review: Everything, Everywhere, All the TimeThe Drive By Boys also try and figure out the early history of Korea, talk about the side effects of being tired, and get into some more movie talk about The Batman (...

Originally recorded 11/21/22.This week's albums: Quadeca - I Didn't Mean to Haunt You [11/11/22] and Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow [11/18/22]We finally get to some sip reviews we've been holding off on for a long time from brands we love like Monster, Reign, Red Bull, Bang, and Gridlock, and throw in some bold takes on Mountain Dew while we're at it. We also come up with one of t...

Originally recorded 11/14/22.This week's albums: Horse Lords - Comradely Objects [11/4/22] and Fleshwater - We're Not Here to Be Loved [11/4/22]After a quick review of the situation surrounding Qatar and the World Cup, we got another certified WDT Classic talking about black midi, Goodfellas, Elon being Elon, and the absolute state of Twitch political influencers.

Originally recorded November 8th, 2022.This week's films: Terrifier 2 [10/6/22] and The Banshees of Inisherin [10/22/22].We do get into some music too, but the main point of today's show is the movies, complete with ratings of the most famous film festivals, none of which we've actually been to. And of course, we have to get some early thoughts on this year's midterm elections.

This week's albums: Stumpwork - Dry Cleaning [10/25/2022] and Ghost Funk Orchestra - A New Kind of Love [10/28/2022]Some bad audio on this one and a late upload, but you know it's worth a listen. BUT, we got new anti-shoutouts, a top sekrit bar trick for the real alkies out there, some more classic Halloween candy talk, third wheeling vs fifth wheeling vs seventh wheeling, our favorite Halloween t...