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EP.66 | Jill Scott | To Whom This May Concern – This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

Welcome to Episode 66 of This Is Not Happening. An Album of the Month podcast. In Part 1, we do a deep drive review of our Album of the Month. This month David brings Neo-Soul back into focus with Jill Scott and her comeback album 'To Whom This May Concern.In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month the theme is 'Neo-Soul, and it's a belter.  —— Part 1 | Album of the Month | Jill Scott | To Who This May Concern ——Jill Scott's debut was released in 2000, it played a big part in some of our lives. But most of us lost touch after this release. It's 26 years later and Jill has been through some shit.This album is big, it's a lot. There is a lot to take in digest and consider. It works big time for some of us … not so much for others. Have a listen, let's get into this!Listen to the original album here.Tiny Desk concerts are getting better and better, here is Jill's.Watch some videos, interviews and performances here.                  —————- Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | New Music —————- The theme is Neo-Soul, the task is pick a track that fits the theme, the objective, get more 'spins' than your friends. We each pick for tracks for a 16 track play list  (that is fire).We then each pick select 1 track and ask the simple question 'Spin It Or Bin It'?Guy chose 'Heard it all Before' by Sunshine Anderson.Nolan chose 'Serve this Royalty' by Cody Chesnutt.David chose 'Don't Mess with My Man' by Lucy Pearl.Joey chose 'Untitled (How Does It Feel) by D'Angelo.We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/

1. EP.66 | Jill Scott | To Whom This May Concern 01:06:54
2. EP. 65 | Zach Bryan | With Heaven On Top 01:12:22
3. EP. 64 | Rosalia | LUX 01:13:15
4. EP. 63 | Our Top 10 Albums of 2025 01:20:41
5. EP. 62 | Juniper | Joy Crookes 01:14:05

This month’s podcast could be re-titled ‘How to Disagree Nicely.  Welcome to Episode 58 of This is Not Happening (TINH), an Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast. 

In Part 1 we deep dive into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play ‘Spin it or Bin it’.  We pick a theme and each pick a song that represents that theme. We judge the selections by asking the question ‘Spin It or Bin It’?

In Part 1, Guy is in the seat. He brings Lucy Dacus’ new album, Forever is a Feeling for us to consider and discuss.

In Part 2, we celebrate the summer, it was hear, it has already gone. Nolan’s specialist subject, the Summer Night track is our theme for Spin It or Bin It.

                            —– Part 1 | Lucy Dacus | ‘Forever is a Feeling’ —–

We have varying levels of experience and history with Lucy Dacus but Guy has fallen for this album in a big way. It’s Lucy’s 4th solo album and sits alongside her work as part of Boygenius. The album is a really easy listen, it can sit with you on repeat for a significant chunk of time. The question that we explore is, can penetrate beyond a nice listen … opinions vary but at least one of us has this in their album of the year list at this point in the year.

Listen to the album, listen to the pod, tell us what you think. Here are some links that we mention on the pod or think could be useful to explore;

• Listen to the album … HERE.
• Listen to the the ‘A Deeper Listen interview / podcast … HERE.
• Watch some videos (particularly the live performances) … HERE.
• Buy some stuff … HERE.       

                          —– Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | ‘Summer Nights’ —–

The theme this month is ‘Summer Nights’. Which tracks give us big summer night vibes. Ever since I’ve known Nolan he has always immediately given songs a season, I’ve never known anyone think as ‘seasonally’ about music. So no pressure but we play Spin It or Bin it with his specialist subject!

• David chose ‘Tropical Gangsters’  by Kid Creole & the Coconuts.
• Nolan chose ‘Thinking About You’ by Saraga.
• Joey chose ‘Tomas’by Girl Ultra, Empress Of and  Chromeo.
• Guy chose ‘Fly Life Xtra’ by Basement Jaxx.

Here is a link to our 16 track playlist of religion-inspired tracks – with the first 4 tracks being our picks for this month.

(and just for a laugh, here’s the video of DC10 we talked about…)