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EP. 64 | Rosalia | LUX – This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

Welcome to Episode 64 of This Is Not Happening. An Album of the Month podcast. In Part 1, we review and Album of the Month. This month Joey brings perhaps the most critically acclaimed album of 2025, Rosalia's 'LUX'.In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. As it's January and everybody is back in the gym or re-starting running program's we've picked 'songs to get injured to'._______________________Part 1 | Album of the Month | Rosalia | LUX________________________This is a big one. Big in many ways. Massively popular, globally. But more importantly MASSIVE in scope, scale and ambition. Rosalia's 4th album takes a major turn from the reggaeton, digital urgency of Motomami. This a symphonic, spiritual, complex and challenging collection of songs presented in 4 movements (if you're on vinyl). It requires you to focus, engage and consume with purpose.It's undeniable that it is ambitious, its brilliance is clear … but will any of us actually like it? Does it make you want to listen to it? Are you drawn to come back to it?Listen to the album here.Watch some of the videos for the tracks here.Check out the Zane Lowe interview with Rosalia here.___________________Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | Songs To Get Injured To _____________________New Year New Me. The gyms are packed. People are begging to get injured. What should you chose as your soundtrack to that achilles rupture or that rotator cuff tear? The answer is probably in this 16 track play list that we created.We each pick 4 tracks for the playlist and submit 1 track and ask the simple question 'Spin It Or Bin It'?Joey chose 'Baddadan' by Chase & Status et al.Guy chose 'Go' by Chemical Brothers.David chose 'Kool Thing' by Sonic Youth.Nolan chose 'Stop What You're Doing' by Apathy.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/

1. EP. 64 | Rosalia | LUX 01:13:15
2. EP. 63 | Our Top 10 Albums of 2025 01:20:41
3. EP. 62 | Juniper | Joy Crookes 01:14:05
4. EP.61 | Blood Orange | Essex Honey 01:12:50
5. EP.60 | Wet Leg | Moisturizer 01:11:11

We usually pick a (relatively) new album release to focus on but this month we changed things up. The start of the year is a funny time for album releases and 2022 was no different. We decided that rather than spend a month and a podcast talking about something that we weren’t too passionate about, we’d take a different path.  This month is the first TINH ‘Album Club’.

The format for this podcast is simple. The four of us all (randomly) chose  someone from the Team-TINH to pick an album for. The album should be from the past 10 (ish) years and should represent something special that the recipient might have missed. A modern classic perhaps.

This episode was loads of fun to make. There’s loads of agreement, a little bit of niggle, a fair chunk of nerdery … something for everyone. The following are the albums that we discussed, who chose them, who they were chosen for and some links that take you to some of the things that popped up in the discussion.

First-up – Joey chose Deerhunter’s 2010 ‘Halcyon Digest’ for Guy;

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
The ethereal video for Helicopter can be watched here
… or watch them perform the poptastic ‘Memory Boy’ here

Next-up – Nolan chose Kanye West’s 2016 ‘Life of Pablo’ for David (what could go wrong?);

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
Nolan highly recommends NORE’s podcast interview with Kanye here…
… and if 2.5hrs of Kanye wasn’t enough here’s part 2

Next-up – David chose Wye Oak’s 2011 ‘Civilian’ for Joey;

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
Watch a live NPR Tiny Desk performance of ‘Civilian’ here

Finally – Guy chose Enny’s 2021’s ‘Under 25’ for Nolan;

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
Watch the video to ‘I want’here
… and the video for ‘Peng Black Girls’ here

We hope you enjoy this episode. Let us know if you know these albums. Do you love them? What are your thoughts?

This Is Not Happening:
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Produced and Edited by Guy and Nolan.
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