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Hit record episode 49: Remain in Light

·2 hr 7 min

A full house for Hit Record. Sam opens with Guinea, Adam, and Cron, and the first stretch is mostly the four of them checking that everybody is actually there and laughing about how long it has been since this exact lineup happened. They talk about the show landing into a steady rhythm: recorded on the Thursday a week and a bit before release, with the last few episodes going out about eight days after recording. It gives the whole thing a familiar lag, which suits the room just fine. Then Hamilton takes over. Guinea says it was fine, says parts of it were really good, and thinks Lin-Manuel Miranda's songwriting style can feel a bit lazy at times, even while admitting how hard it is to write two and a half hours of music. The talk does not stay polished for long, and nobody tries to pretend the show is not problematic in places. The jokes keep cutting in anyway. David Diggs comes up in a riff about not singing about murdering and vampires enough, and about being the only one of them who had been a professional rapper beforehand. Burn gets mentioned, but it does not make much of a mark. The King song does. By the end they are laughing at how far off course the conversation went, apologising for talking so much about Talking Heads, and teasing the next round of picks before signing off.

As heard by us

A loose, funny panel review that works by sounding like real friends.

Hit Record uses Remain in Light as a loose frame for a full-house hangout, and that is where the appeal sits. Sam and Guinea are joined by Adam and Cron, and the chemistry keeps the talk moving without forcing it into a neat shape.

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Why you'd press play

You want a full-house Hit Record hang with a Hamilton detour and plenty of side chatter.

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