The most anticipated spring albums

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

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Summary

We look ahead to the most anticipated albums due out this spring, including Rico Nasty's LETHAL, the return of Car Seat Headrest and Lucius, the existential punk rock group Pup and more.

Featured artists and albums:
1. HAIM: "Relationships," from a "not yet announced fourth album"
2. Blondshell: "Two Times," from 'If You Asked For A Picture'
3. M(h)aol: "DM:AM," from 'Something Soft'
4. Car Seat Headrest: "Gethsemane," from 'The Scholars'
5. PUP: "Hallways," from 'Who Will Look After The Dogs?'
6. Kara-Lis Coverdale: "Daze," from 'From Where You Came'
7. Lucius: "Gold Rush," from 'Lucius'
8. Rico Nasty: "TEETHSUCKER (YEA3x)," from 'LETHAL'
9. Jenny Hval: "To Be A Rose," from 'Iris Silver Mist'

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this episode contains explicit language.
0:04.8	How's everyone doing?
0:05.8	Is it okay to ask that question, Hazel?
0:08.2	No, it's not okay.
0:09.3	Do not ask me how I'm doing.
0:12.0	I was reading an article about what brain fog is this morning, because there's all those
0:16.4	COVID anniversary pieces, and I was like, I still don't know what brain fog is so fuzzy I can't even
0:23.1	get my head around it it's like I have brain fog reading this article about trying to define brain
0:28.6	fog are you concerned that you have long COVID or no well no no no I definitely don't I've
0:35.0	never had thank God long COVID symptoms but I do feel like I don't operate as
0:41.5	efficiently as I did before the pandemic, but it's always like a big mystery. It's like, is it the pandemic?
0:48.1	Am I just older? Like, I don't know. Yeah, whenever I go to the doctor, they always ask me the same
0:54.1	questions.
0:54.7	And one of them's like, are you fatigued?
0:56.8	Are you tired?
0:57.6	And I think, well, yeah, all the time.
0:59.8	Yeah, exactly.
1:00.9	And I'm not, I don't have some special medical condition.
1:05.0	It's just called a living being on the planet right now.
1:08.9	Sheldon?
1:10.0	Yeah, I guess I'm doing all right.
1:12.3	I don't think I'm experiencing rain fog, so that's a plus.
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