ph5
Season 3
February 2023 - Puzzle
January 2023 - Credit
Season 2
ph5x5 2022 Pt. 2 - #10-1
ph5x5 2022 #25-11
November 2023 - Duality of Man
October 2022 - RIP Takeoff
September 2022 - Valid
July 2022 - What's the Appeal
June 2022 - Roots
by Phil Maye
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 ReplyForward
...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