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Welcome everyone to a special episode of Dysect. I'm your host Cole Kushna. This is our fifth

annual best of the year music podcast.

Joining me, as he always does every year, is Camden Ostrander. It's been a while, Cam. How are you doing?

I'm doing great, Cole. Thank you for having me back. I'm excited. I love doing this every year.

And we also have a very special guest coming from the studios in New York City, Margo. Hi. Hello. I've been a fan of your stuff for a couple years. I've been following on social media, you're a master music curator. Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you. So you're here to expand our musical palette specifically. Sure. Yeah, thank you for joining the show. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm really excited. Cool. Well, we're going to go through four categories this year. We are going to talk about our favorite, not our best. This is, I like to make the distinction that this is not trying to be, you know, claiming to be the best music of the year. It is just our personal favorites. And we have four categories

we're going to be talking about. We have our favorite musical moment. We have our favorite quote

unquote underground album, which is just a release from a lesser known artist that we wanted to

highlight. And then the main categories are our three favorite albums of the year each and our

three favorite songs at the year each. our three favorite songs at the year each.

So we'll go through the categories here in a second.

I guess I always try to open this conversation up with our general feeling about the music

that came out this year, the year in music in terms of quality and output and all of that.

I feel like for me personally it's been like an amazing year for music and output and all of that. I feel like for me personally,

it's been like an amazing year for music

and it's coming off the back of 2024,

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