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S00E22 ALBUMS ONLY CLUB The Parlour by Picture Parlour

Season 0, Ep. 22

THE PARLOUR BY PICTURE PARLOUR: Reviewed! 


It’s Album Club *wine glasses clink sound*. That’s right, Albums ONLY Club. No things that are not albums! And this is episode 1. How many episodes of albums only club will there be? Well how many months in a year are there? So that many, in 2026! In theory. Well, minus two, because we’re starting in March. Why do you make me explain things in such a long-winded way?  


Anyway, we’re so happy to debut a new spin off show and we’re so happy to tell you it is completely free of charge … this month *big eyes emoji* 


Albums Only Club will be a new monthly series in which we review an ALBUM! Christopher’s pitch starts us off with The Parlour by Picture Parlour. Picture Parlour are a 5 piece indie rock band formed by Katherine Parlou and Ella Risi and this is their debut album, released in 2024. It’s time to get your 14-15 listens in, with all ticks sent through either in text message form to the whatsapp group or discord (existence status tbh) and we’ll catch up on your scores later. Will we guess your scores though? We’re not sure, we’re doing actual scores and guesses a bit differently for this series. We’re doing out of ten and averages. You can calculate the average mean number from a set of data by adding up the numbers and then dividing by how many numbers there are. Don’t tell us we don’t cover everything on our show(s)!  

 

Listen to the album on streaming here: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-parlour/1831977424


Buy the album from the band’s website here: https://shop.pictureparlour.co.uk/


Read about the band on their Wikipedia page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Parlour


The DIY article that Christopher said turned him on to Picture Parlour: https://diymag.com/interview/picture-parlour-the-parlour-november-2025


Buy tickets to the Hackney Oslo show here: https://www.oslohackney.com/events/picture-parlour/


OUR COLLECTIVE CCCAAH/AAACH score: seven out of ten 


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Christopher’s guess for the year of my next pitch: 2006

The actual year for my next pitch: 1970 


Spoiler below for next month’s album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC7JF-okbsA

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  • 20. S06E20 Then this one tiny little camera switch to the little boy playing the drums

    01:08:54||Season 6, Ep. 20
    THE NEWSROOM SERIES FINALE SEASON 3 EPISODE 6: Reviewed!We finally did it (we’re here) and we’re going from a pilot to a finale in the course of a handful of episodes. Season six truly is a season of wonders. And spoilers. It’s not just episode spoilers today, it’s whole show spoilers. Details spoilers. Quote spoilers. Character arc spoilers. Relationship spoilers. Will they won’t they … they did or did not spoilers! So yeah. It might be gibberish if you have never Newsroom’d. If you would like to Newsroom … maybe go listen to us reviewing the pilot and see if it tickles your fancy. Or if you’re ambivalent but enjoy hearing friends really (hurriedly) go into the weeds discussing the series finale of a show they have just finished watching … then great, we’re happy to have you! *shuffles papers*Watch the finale of The Newsroom by going on to eBay and buying Season 3 of The Newsroom like I did dammit: ebay.co.uk Shout out Hasan Mutlluuz on Dailymotion (you’ll have to do some scrolling and/or searching to find it but hey): https://www.dailymotion.com/hasanmutlluuzLet’s listen to the actual greatest podcast in the world … roast Aaron Sorkin for 8 hours straight. That is right. As mentioned on our podcast (an up and coming podcast) they roast him good, hot diggety damn. But hey … it is my contention that if your art is just so damn unique to you that your corpus can be roasted for nearly 8 hours straight across various works … then surely … you have a singular-ass style! And surely this is what we should all be striving for. To be the most ourselves possible. But yes, let’s lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsYg97XM_6sOk now that we have the roasting out of the way and the critical temperature has been balanced out here … let’s watch Aaron Sorkin talking to David Brooks about CHARACTER. David Brooks is well into CHARACTER and as such, a pretty good conversation is had: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucVNYQNGAsRichard Lawson wrote a review of the series finale for Vanity Fair, which is well worth a read: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/12/the-newsroom-series-finaleThe Atlantic (before it was bad) explained to us the real life incident from 1998 that inspired “Operation Genoa” in the show: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-news-vs-i-the-newsroom-i-was-there-a-real-genoa-report-yes-in-1998/278795/Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher started banging on about how it is an indictment of this sixth season’s #REVIEW1THING format that we don’t roll into the order of who guesses and scores first that smoothly (like has he heard heard our run ups to a thirty second game) … bro I literally don’t know what you’re talking about, who cares about the order!? OUR SCORES ARE LOCKED IN! I literally don’t know what you’re talking about when you bang on about this. Christopher, you came down here, insulted my format and demanded to know why we didn't prepare a better one. Let me add this to the conversation. For two years I've been listening to people like you say they can't believe no one's been prosecuted for these Wall Street crimes and after two years I'm still fuzzy on what crime was committed and who should be prosecuted for it. You're a podcast host who gets to spend an hour on one subject. And I'm at least an average consumer of news, and you have failed to get me to understand what you've called the most important story of the last ten years. So, after you get done telling me how badly we did *our* job last night, you may want to do an internal investigation of your own work.SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv6owsCvw
  • 19. S06E19 Relatives, friends, place of residence. Sitcom.

    01:03:26||Season 6, Ep. 19
    KEVIN CAN F*** HIMSELF PILOT: Reviewed!Welcome to another episode of that show we do. You know the one. We do it every bloody week of our lives. You did it, you’re here and all that good stuff. You know all our catchphrases. We’ve got “you did it, you’re here”, as mentioned … what else … well, never mind, the thing is, with six seasons in the bag, we are definitely the kind of show that theoretically *could* have lots of catchphrases. And in the end, isn’t that what really matters? No, not really, we need actual catchphrases? Who are you to demand such things of us? We give you an hour worth of content every week. Christopher moaning about how we have to long stuff out in the #ReviewOneThing era?? Bro, we had to long things out before. The whole podcast is just us longing everything out, get with the (long!) programme!Anyhoodles, today we’re joining Alison and her meaningless life in this week’s episode. We have a helluva time talking all Kevin Can Fuck Himself. Yep, that’s right. These are explicit as fuck shownotes where we can just write out that blasphemous word. No caving to network censors here. But yeah. Who among us cannot relate to the idea that life can be both a frivolous little sitcom and a heavy-as-fuck melodrama? Well, this show doesn’t think seeing life in such a binary black and white kind of way is a bit too on the nose at all, in fact, this show thinks that is perfect! Are we on to a winner? Well surely someone has to win this episode? Or are we simply moving our streak obsession from a-streak-of-specials to a-streak-of-draws? Kindly pay attention to the programme and all your questions will be answered. Probably.Watch the pilot of Kevin Can F*** Himself here … when you buy the DVD, psych!: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kevin-Can-Himself-Season/dp/B09FC86K6W Valerie Armstrong (creator of the show) talks about creating the show with Rolling Stone: https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/kevin-can-fk-himself-valerie-armstrong-worldbuilding-interview-1234975353/Annie Murphy (star of the show) talks about being star of the show here: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/annie-murphy-kevin-can-f-himself-interview-1179519/Christopher is troubled knowing I am on the precipice of finishing a full show, which he pitched an episode of back in the day … so here’s a clue for him: https://tenor.com/bCQEM.gifCheck out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher started fangirling about whatever he was fangirling about and I was like damn shall I change my pitch then and then I was like … ah, let him have it, I guess. SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: https://www.nowtv.com/watch/the-newsroom/iYEQZ2rcf32XLRGi2yRAY1/seasons/3/episodes/what-kind-of-day-has-it-been-episode-6/A5EK65Bcwd6NeCPyQKHYm