At this point it feels almost antithetical to what we're worrying about in 2022 to talk about the pandemic, like we’ve come to regard it as some sort of distant, fuzzy memory. The scourge wasn't that long ago, and if you judge by my last trip to the supermarket, some folks are still sweating the outcome.

A few months back Ryan and Mark and I put together our pandemic mixtape show, a glorious (and occasionally weepy) montage of the feels we found during those times. But Shane couldn't make that taping, and he proposed that we record a sort of adjunct episode, a Shane-centric one, if you will.

So here we are, dialing up a sublime and occasionally hysterical batch of Shane's memories, from the 'What the hell did I just see' of Thundercat to the modern buzzy throwback of Bachelor to Run The Jewels (which gave me occasion to tell my ACL-TV story) to the nerdy upbeat bliss of Dayglow.

And more. Because pandemic records were totally a thing, and so was pandemic listening. We reveal the escape where we can find it.

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Tamar Aphek - Crossbow
Run The Jewels - Ooh La La
Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To
Anderson .Paak - Lockdown
Thundercat - Dragonball Durag
Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy
Billy Eilish - My Future
Sylvan Esso - Ferris Wheel
Dayglow - Medicine
Bachelor - Stay In The Car
Clairo - Amoeba
Haim - Summer Girl