Welcome everyone to Dissect. I'm your host Cole Kushna. Today is our annual favorite music of the year

podcast episode. I'm joined with Camden Ostrander. I think this is our fourth year doing this.

This is year four, Cole. This is a lot. That's crazy. Yeah, that's pretty wild. This has been an

exciting music year to say the least. We had our part one of this episode that the year was so packed with great stuff that I decided to do two episodes. One, if you missed it last week, was focused specifically on hip hop. We went through the Drake and Kendrick Lamar battle, and we also highlighted our favorite rap lyrics of the year and dissected those.

It was a great episode, so check that out if you haven't.

But today is our traditional episode where we're going to cover our favorite music of 2024,

including our favorite musical moments of the year, our favorite songs, our favorite albums.

We're going to do some underrated albums, some Lucy's. We've got a bunch of

categories we're going to go through. But let's just open the conversation up, Cam, with,

and for those that don't know, I should introduce you properly. Camden Ostrander is here.

He was the co-writer on Because the Internet season, which is celebrating its 11th anniversary today as we record this.

But also you helped with the Igor season, the Mac Miller season, and the MF Doom season.

So a long time front of the show, our fourth year doing this annual episode.

And we were just talking before, we started recording of

just how jammed pack this year has been for music. And we were reflecting on last year's

2023 episode, where we were kind of struggling for picks. And this year, it was like, man,

how am I going to talk about everything that I loved this year? You had year you had the similar experience right Ken I did last year we had like a bit

of a talk that was kind of sad like there wasn't enough good stuff and then this

year it's too much yeah like I don't I guess all the artists didn't talk they didn't

at their union meeting they weren't conversating and planning this out very well

for us,

I guess was what happened. But this year's been incredible. Yeah, it's been a special year for a

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