S4 E25 - Porter Robinson - Smile! :D

Our fifth annual Albums of the Year Special Episode, highlighting our favorite albums of 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015 and 2025.

Seth Sturgill joins us for our Season 4 Finale as we dig into Porter's 2024 album full of retro sounds and influences, and explores themes of grappling with fame, para-social relationships and nostalgia.

This week we get a peek into Green Day's early influences on their surprising 2000 release.

This week we celebrate the approach of the 25th anniversary of Deftones’ brooding, career-defining masterpiece.

This week we take quite the journey across the textured landscapes of a jazz funk fusion legend.

This week we explore the sullen landscape of Young's unusual 1970 studio album.

This week we travel the dusty roads of John Prine's 1973 studio album, Sweet Revenge.

This week we tackle the impressively experimental fifth studio album of one of the most important and most fiercely independent bands in American history.

This week we challenge ourselves by covering the fully instrumental, fully contemplative, and fully incredible 2007 opus by Austin's own Explosions In The Sky.

This week we groove to the funk-fueled, career-defining, breakout masterpiece that is Outkast's 1998 album Aquemini.