This is the Pitchfork Review.

I'm Jeremy Larson, the reviews director on this week's episode.

We pull back the curtain and go behind the scenes on the kinds of testimonies, arguments, gut checks, and full-on fights that take place in the lead-up

to our annual Best Songs of the Year list.

We're going to get into which songs deserve to be on the list from albums that don't just

have one hit but are filled with hits, like Hunter Gecks, Ice Spice, Zach Bryan, Billy Woods,

you name it, we're going to talk about it.

Joining me in the Octagon today is my favorite sparring partner, even though we agree about everything.

It's editor-in-chief, Pugia Patel.

We don't agree about everything.

Pooja, how are you doing today?

How's it going?

Good.

And they call him the clock cleaner.

He's got a haymaker that'll make you take back things they never stole.

It's Features Editor Ryan Domble.

Hey.

Ryan, how are you?

I'm good.

I'm ready to rumble.

So, before we get going and talk about some of these songs, I thought we should set the table to just sort of talk about like what goes into the actual process of making our year end list, which we've done for many, many years now. So Pujo, like, how does this whole thing start? So we basically start this late September, early October. And honestly, bless everyone at Pitchfork. Shout out our fellows.

Shout out our associate editor. Shout out our executive assistant. Because they spend so much time literally pulling from the reviews archives and from Fork Tracks, which is our internal

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