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Every Fortnight (for the most part) Sam, Ginty, Kron, and Adam take turns picking albums to subject to everyone else and we get to find out just how much everyone dislikes each others music taste and question their friendship.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A loose, funny Music show where album picks turn into taste tests, running arguments, and scrappy conversation.
Hit Record: A Very Unprofessional Album Review Podcast belongs in Music's album-talk lane, but it is looser than a straight review show. Each sampled episode has a chosen record at its center, including Toxicity, Remain in Light, This Is Happening, The Man Machine, and…
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Sixty episodes in, Hit Record turns Scaring the Hoes into a funny, loose conversation that still lands its album talk.
Sixty episodes in, Hit Record opens on JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown's Scaring the Hoes with a loose, funny conversation that starts in the room before it settles onto the record.
A shaggy, self-aware return that leans into the banter.
Hit Record returns with a self-aware stumble of an opening and a joking apology for the break, then settles into a conversation that keeps correcting itself, interrupting, and circling back until the point finally lands.
A Vampire Weekend review that stays loose, but keeps the album at the center.
This episode uses Vampire Weekend's Only God Was Above Us as the anchor for a loose, focused album conversation. It is a two-host, no-guest format, and the record gets real attention, including the case for calling it one host's album of the year.
Loose, self-mocking music talk that gets better once the conversation settles.
Sam and Ginty open with a loose, self-mocking stretch that drifts through video games, books, and hard-sci-fi opinions before it settles on the music.
A loose, funny album chat that takes its time getting to Them Crooked Vultures.
Hit Record opens like a mate's catch-up that has gone on a bit too long. The hosts note the six-week gap, drift through film plans and TV, and lean into a bit of self-mockery before the album talk really lands. That looser start gives the episode an easy shape.
A shaggy, fond album chat that drifts but still lands somewhere real.
Hit Record stays loose and conversational as Sam and Ginty work their way toward John Hopkins' Singularity, and the detours are part of the charm.
A delayed Panda Bear review that stays messy, funny, and worth the detours.
Hit Record circles back to Panda Bear's Sinister Griff after a long delay the hosts freely joke was their own mess to untangle, and that honesty gives the episode its loose charm.
Loose, funny album chat that gets to Thundercat through easy chemistry.
The episode starts in an unruly place, with a long run of poop talk, before it settles into Thundercat's Apocalypse. That detour gives the discussion its looseness, and the three hosts sound like they are genuinely reacting to one another.
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Annual Songlines Music Awards ceremonies spotlighting global artists, from Afrobeat to sevda.
A high schooler's music diary — Grammys press pass stories to family concert interviews.
Stephen Hyden and Ian Cohen argue about indie rock, one Metacritic score at a time.
Sam, Ginty, and Kron open Hit Record Episode 66 by joking about Stoves and More in North Berwick before revealing that Ginty picked Hiromi’s Silver Lining Suite, which they call the podcast’s first jazz album.
Sam and Guinea open Off the Record by explaining that the episode was recorded on Monday of release week because people were busy, then quickly move into games they have been playing instead of the normal album schedule.
Hit Record opens by joking through an absurd asbestos-themed intro before settling into its loose, chatty rhythm.
Sam and Ginty come back after a six-week gap and quickly joke about how little they have kept up with things.
Hit Record Episode 61 pivots from a long pre-show poop bit into a Thundercat album discussion that keeps circling back to whether the record actually happened or whether the hosts are still stalling for more chatter.
Hit Record Episode 56 centers on Kron’s choice of Beastie Boys’ 1989 album “Paul’s Boutique,” framed as a classic-cycle pick that arrived after the show’s January plan had already slipped three cycles.
Hit Record Episode 54 is a group review of De La Soul’s "3 Feet High and Rising," with the hosts repeatedly calling out tracks like "I Know," "Me Myself and I," "Plug Tunin'," and "The Magic Number." The discussion also covers Prince Paul’s production, the Native Tongues context, and why the album’s skits and bright cover art mattered in hip-hop history.
Hit Record marks its 60th episode with Sam, Guinea, and Adam kicking off on JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown's Scaring the Hoes.
Sam and Ginty open with their usual hello routine and joke about being, once again, the only regular co-hosts.
Sam and Ginty review Joe Keery’s DECIDE, opening with the album title in all caps and a joke about recording at 4:30 in the afternoon after work.
Hit Record Episode 62 centers on the band-league riffing that frames Sam’s pick of Lianne La Havas’s self-titled third album, while the hosts repeatedly detour into Oasis, Daft Punk, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles.
Hit Record: A Very Unprofessional Album Review Podcast spends much of this episode on three recent gigs before reaching Interpol’s Antics, including Shania Twain at the Sterling Summer Sessions, Rammstein in Dublin, and LCD Sound System at the Barrowlands.
Hit Record Episode 64 is built around Joey Valence & Brae's album Punk Tactics, with Sam, Ginty, Adam, and Kron treating it as a long-awaited pick.
Hit Record: A Very Unprofessional Album Review Podcast uses a Deltron 3030 episode to spiral into Florence, Northern Lights, and Silent Hill 2 before settling back on the album.
Hit Record Episode 57, Hyperdrama, opens with Sam and Ginty derailing their album-review format to talk about Elden Ring, Metroid Prime, and Nintendo Direct news before settling into Justice's Hyperdrama.
Sam and Ginty review Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures while spending a long stretch on recent life updates, including Civil War, the Indiana Jones game, and Tayside Tussle in Dundee.
Hit Record Episode 75 returns after a gap since July 25th and eventually centers on Sinister Grift by Noah Lennox, aka PandaBear, of Animal Collective.
Hit Record Episode 50 pivots from repeated Helldivers jokes into a review of Wide Awake!
Hit Record Episode 70: Abbey Road opens with Sam and Gideon joking that the show has been absent since January and that the “fortnightly” podcast has not exactly been weekly.
Hit Record: A Very Unprofessional Album Review Podcast spends this episode on Fightstar’s 2006 album Grand Unification, with Sam and Guinea weighing how it sits between emo, metal, and pop-punk.
Sam and Guinea open with Twitch, Disco Elysium, and a plan to review Geordie Greep’s The New Sound after “30 to 35 minutes” of side talk.
Music podcast hosts discuss John Hopkins' 'Singularity' album while frequently digressing into concert experiences, drum and bass culture, UK venue rankings, and friend group music adventures.
Sam and Ginty open with a messy reset, explaining that Kron could not make it and that this became an Off the Record episode instead of the planned album review.
Sam and Ginty spend much of Hit Record Episode 55: This Is Happening on Ginty’s Florida trip, including Kennedy Space Center, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, Disney World, Universal’s Velocicoaster, and a detour into American food like Taco Bell, IHOP, Waffle House, Cheez-Its, and peanut butter M&M’s.
John and Ginty open Hit Record episode 69 by naming Vampire Weekend’s 2024 album Only God Was Above Us as the review target and saying it is John’s album of the year.
Hit Record Episode 59 spends its opening stretch on COVID, nose spray, and the recurring joke that Aginti19, Cron, and Sam are all dealing with symptoms or test results.
Sam and Ginty open Hit Record Episode 63 by joking that only “all two of us” are present, then spend time on how the show’s music-focused episodes perform versus the ones that drift into games and movies.
Sam and Ginty review Burial's 2007 album Untrue after a long stretch of their usual side conversations about vinyl, listeners, and the podcast's loose format.
A full house for Hit Record.
Sam and Ginty frame Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine as a 1978 “sound of the future” album, point out the vinyl cover behind Sam, and joke that Kraftwerk were already being called “the Robots” before the record came out.