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This week: Our classic album for this month is J Dilla’s Donuts. Chris and Graham talk about how much it means both to them and to hip hop more widely, Dilla’s influence on the development of hip hop in the early to mid 2000s, and his relationship with peer, friend and fellow traveller Madlib. TRACKLISTING J Dilla – Donuts (Outro)/Workinonit J Dilla – Waves Aphex Twin – Avril 14th / Kanye West – Blame Game J Dilla – Lightworks Ghostface Killah – Whip You With a Strap J Dilla – Stop Quasimoto (Madlib) – Come On Feet J Dilla – Time: The Donut of the Heart

This week: Chris and Graham rattle through some of their personal listening highlights from the year so far, including Drake, Wild Beasts, John Carpenter, Panda Bear, and Bob Dylan’s album of Sinatra covers. TRACKLISTING D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Prayer Drake – Know Yourself John T. Gast – White Noise/Dys Mo Kolours – How I (Rhythm Love Affair) Wild Beasts – Soft Future John Carpenter – Vortex Panda Bear – Mr Noah Belle and Sebastian – Allie Bob Dylan – What’ll I Do Viet Cong – Continental Shelf The Phantom Band – Local Zero Neneh Cherry and RocketNumberNine – Buffalo Stance (live)

This week: the first proper episode of the year finds Graham and Chris playing catch-up on three months’ worth of new releases, looking at the collaborative album from BADBADNOTGOOD and Ghostface Killah, Ibeyi’s debut and the new Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains EP, and airing their anticipation for whatever Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West have in store over the coming months. TRACKLISTING Kendrick Lamar – i BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Nuggets of Wisdom BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Ray Gun (feat. DOOM) Ibeyi – River Ibeyi – Oya Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains – Ayan Filé Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains – Dessine

This week: completing our round-up of 2014, Josh and Chris each count down their top ten films to gain UK release last year. Josh’s Top Ten 1. The Wolf of Wall Street (d. Martin Scorsese) 2. Boyhood (d. Richard Linklater) 3. Inside Llewyn Davis (d. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) 4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (d. Wes Anderson) 5. Gone Girl (d. David Fincher) 6. Bastards (d. Claire Denis) 7. Godzilla (d. Gareth Edwards) 8. 12 Years a Slave (d. Steve McQueen) 9. Under the Skin (d. Jonathan Glazer) 10. The Wind Rises (d. Hayao Miyazaki) Honourable mentions: Her (d. Spike Jonze) Edge of Tomorrow (d. Doug Liman) Life Itself (d. Steve James) Paddington (d. Paul King) Nightcrawler (d. Dan Gilroy) 22 Jump Street (d. Chris Miller & Phil Lord) The Babadook (d. Jennifer Kent) Mistaken for Strangers (d. Tom Berninger) Mr. Turner (d. Mike Leigh) Starred Up (d. David Mackenzie) Two Days, One Night (d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne) A Touch of Sin (d. Jia Zhangke) Only Lovers Left Alive (d. Jim Jarmusch) We Are the Best! (d. Lukas Moodysson) Goodbye to Language (d. Jean-Luc Godard)   Chris’ Top Ten 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (d. Wes Anderson) 2. Boyhood (d. Richard Linklater) 3. Inside Llewyn Davis (d. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) 4. Under the Skin (d. Jonathan Glazer) 5. The Wolf of Wall Street (d. Martin Scorsese) 6. Goodbye to Language (d. Jean-Luc Godard) 7. Her (d. Spike Jonze) 8. 12 Years a Slave (d. Steve McQueen) 9. Bastards (d. Claire Denis) 10. Nymph()maniac (d. Lars von Trier) Honourable mentions: God Help the Girl (d. Stuart Murdoch) Venus in Fur (d. Roman Polanski) Two Days, One Night (d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne) The Overnighters (d. Jesse Moss) Mr. Turner (d. Mike Leigh) The Homesman (d. Tommy Lee Jones) The Wind Rises (d. Hayao Miyazaki) We Are The Best! (d. Lukas Moodysson) Only Lovers Left Alive (d. Jim Jarmusch) Stranger by the Lake (d. Alain Guiraudie) Edge of Tomorrow (d. Doug Liman) Calvary (d. John Michael McDonagh) Noah (d. Darren Aronofsky) Maps to the Stars (d. David Cronenberg) A Touch of Sin (d. Jia Zhangke)

This week: Because this is the world we’ve created for ourselves, Chris and Graham each present their top ten albums of the year. Graham’s Top Ten 1. GoGo Penguin – v2.0 (Track played: Garden Dog Barbeque)2. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (Under the Pressure)3. Caribou – Our Love (Julia Brightly)4. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Coronus, the Terminator)5. FKA twigs – LP1 (Pendulum)6. Moiré – Shelter (Attitude)7. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 (Blockbuster Night Part 1)8. BadBadNotGood – III (Can’t Leave the Night)9. Leon Vynehall – Music for the Uninvited (Be Brave, Clench Fists)10. D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah (Sugah Daddy) Chris’ Top Ten 1. Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – Piano Ombre (The Way to the Forest) 2. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Turtles) 3. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 (Oh My Darling Don’t Cry) 4. D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah (The Charade) 5. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata (Lakers) 6. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Jim Wise) 7. Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else (No Thoughts) 8. The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave) 9. St. Vincent – St. Vincent (Huey Newton) 10. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Chamber of Reflection)

This week: Chris and Josh use the release of Interstellar as an excuse to look back over the oft-divisive career of Hollywood’s premier sturm und drang man Christopher Nolan. TRACKLISTING Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive The Dismemberment Plan – Memory Machine

This week: God Help the Girl revisited (at length) because now Chris has seen it too and has things to say about it, two separate yet thematically overlapping all-night horror marathons and assorted other bits and pieces from our past couple of months’ viewing. TRACKLISTING Tom Waits – Jockey Full of Bourbon Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town

This week: Jean-Luc Godard turns his deconstructive eye to 3D with Goodbye to Language, and why neither Gone Girl nor Nightcrawler should be read as treatises on wider societal malaise. TRACKLISTING Annie Philippe – C’est La Mode Spoon – I Turn My Camera On

This week: our classic album for this month is Björk’s ageless, swooningly gorgeous apex Homogenic. TRACKLISTING: Björk – 5 Years Björk – Army of Me/Hyper-ballad/The Modern Things/It’s Oh So Quiet/Big Time Sensuality/Like Someone In Love/Venus as a Boy Björk – Unravel Björk – Pluto Björk – Hunter Björk – The Anchor Song Björk – Jóga

This week: Chris and Graham continue to batter through their month in music, taking in Caribou’s Our Love, that thing the BBC are referring to as a cover of “God Only Knows”, The Vaselines’ third album in 25 years and The Hold Steady live. TRACKLISTING Caribou – Can’t Do Without You Caribou – Mars Caribou – Second Chance Caribou – All I Ever Need Caribou – Our Love Your TV license money at work – God Only Knows The Vaselines – One Lost Year Aby Ngana Diop – Dieuleul-Dieuleul The Hold Steady – Stay Positive