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We're back for our end of year round up. It's the only end of year list that matters, forget the rest. Who will come out on top of Louis and Joe's 2023 list? Will there be fights or will there be harmony? Featuring albums from PJ Harvey, Caroli
This week we talk all things Manchester and the region's significant contribution to music. We focus in on A Certain Ratio's Sextet, a classic experimental album from the early Factory Records era. Contemporaries of Joy Division, this album saw
We're feeling a little bit of nostalgia as two giants of the old radio rock world have come back with new albums recently. Queens of the Stone Age and the Foo Fighters have both supplied acclaimed new records and Louis and Joe discuss their fav
This week we discuss our new website and platform beatentrackpod.com. There's a discussion of what we're listening to at the moment including but not limited to; Wednesday, Model/Actriz, Pet Shop Boys and Queens of the Stone Age. We also touch
We're throwing out the rule book. If the Beaten Track has been known for anything it's a maverick attitude and unwillingness to bend to the popular will. Joe and Louis are back to take you through 2023 so far and in the new format we're not jus
It is an exact science. Don't listen or read any other album round ups. This is the only one that matters. Joe and Louis count down the definitive top ten albums of 2022. Will BCNR top Joe's list two years on the bounce? Will Arctic Monkeys tak
All bangers, no clangers! A seminal album to get us back into the swing of things. Few records sound as angular and mechanically violent as Gang of Four's minimalist post-punk classic 'Entertainment!'. From tracks such as 'Natural's Not in It'
The long awaited collaboration between the acclaimed producer Danger Mouse and Philadelphia's legendary Black Thought. Embracing old school hip hop soundscapes and dipping into 60s and 70s soul, psych and jazz sounds, this record is a triumph i
We took our time with this one, ensuring we got each position in this top 5 album list exactly right. Elliott Smith deserves such close attention as well, with his remarkably strong discography which stretched from lo-fi demos to power pop ambi
This week it was a band that both Joe and Louis have great affection for. Canadian Indie Poppers Alvvays followed up their fuzzy and nostalgic debut in 2014 with Antisocialites, released in 2017 it brought more sugary hooks, delightful melodies
Industry industry industry. This week we discussed the pioneers of industrial sound Throbbing Gristle and their ironically titled 20 Jazz and Funk Greats. Featuring a classic Beachy Head album cover and some of the most immersive and honest ind
Another album ticked off in our grand quest to cover them all, and this one is from this year! Nilüfer Yanya delivered her much anticipated second album earlier in 2022 following her brilliant and messy Miss Universe in 2019, featuring the same
And like a bolt from the blue it's 3 episodes in 3 weeks for the best alternative music podcast out there. And this week it's a beautiful, bright, noisy, pummelling, maelstrom of sound from Rhode Island noise duo Lightning Bolt. Creating a wall
What a Killer! Miraculously Louis has waited 65 episodes to choose a Neil Young album to discuss but finally the moment has come. With over 3,000 studio albums and over 1 million if you count the live ones, lost ones and archives it can be diff
After a short break we're back to what we do best, diving head first into a shoegaze swirl with this 1996 album from Swirlies. With an impressively long album title and even more impressive experimental songwriting, the album provides an altern
It's a whopping great double album for Louis and Joe to dive into this week. Big Thief's big album demands big praise. After two albums in 2019 from the Indie Folk outfit they spent the pandemic recording an eclectic collection of songs across
Plunging our feet into the sludge this week with the young dinosaurs. With wild, distortion heavy, flanged out guitars and sugary hooks Dinosaur Jr. led the move away from the hardcore punk of the 80s. An iconic band in terms of their influence
A compilation? Gospel music? Are you sure? Yes, do not adjust your sets we're venturing into the gospel universe through the lens of a compilation record released on David Byrne's Luaka Bop label in 2019. Wonderfully crafted and combining the m
Don't you wish you never, never met her. Although we'll never know what the PJ stands for (pearl jam? percy jackson? personal jesus?), we know that her discography stands as one of the very best of modern times. Erupting from the 90s alternativ
Black Country, New Album! Joe wasn't going to let us miss this one was he? Our latest episode tackles the second album from the offbeat and multi-instrumental Cambridgeshire outfit. Its release has coincided with the departure of frontman Isaac
BOO! Scared you didn't I... Well get used to it cos this week we've got some ghostly garage rock from the Wytches. Released in 2014, their debut album Annabel Dream Reader fused doomy atmosphere, monster riffs and spooky surf rock. Louis and Jo
On the last day of 2021 we bring you a ranking of our favourite albums of the year. Will there be harmony across the camps like last year or will there instead be mild disagreement and bickering?
Ho Ho Ho. What better way to celebrate the festive season than a slice of Australian Post Punk? Rowland S. Howard cuts a murky figure in the alternative guitar scene, as the former lead guitarist of the Birthday Party he had perhaps slipped int
I know a secret or two about Goo. For our 55th episode we address the legends of alternative noise music, Sonic Youth. On the back of their breakout record Daydream Nation the band moved to major label Geffen, but lost none of their subversive
This week we conceptualise the concept album. Made popular in the days of prog excesses, concept albums have made a sort of mini comeback in recent years. Join us as Joe provides us one of his great big lists and we focus in on the best concept
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