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Arctic Monkeys - The Car

Join us for our second Picky Bastards Mini Podcast, a series in which members from across our team will get together to discuss a single album at a time.


Today, it’s Matt and Fran putting their friendship on the line to discuss The Car by Arctic Monkeys. Both have been huge fans of the band in the past, but opinions differ on the trajectory of their career as a whole. Will they come to agreement when discussing the band's 7th studio album? Probably not.

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