This week: new albums from In Hearts Wake, Hockey Dad and !!!, cheesy offshoots, worst of both worlds, cackhanded symbolism, reliable crowds, staying off the everything, toddler tantrums, dedication to the bit, intimate sympathy, This Is Actually Hardcore, sugary snacks, mostly harmless, rotation fillers, asterisk takers, I see what you did there, algorithm is a dancer, #makuthink, passengers on heroin, bad Batman good soundtrack, miss me with the interpersonal dramas of superheroes, Clone High II: Clone Higher, rotisserie chooks, the James Williamson story, punished with Raw Power, neauw meausic, Scandinavian effery, sad indigents, facing traces, picking bands for the bio, leaden metaphors for geographical distance, selling out your premise, imaginary friends, trying real hard and audio explosions. Next week: new LPs from Melbourne-LA indie type Jess Cornelius, Germano-Swedish old-school metallurgists Lucifer and shouty upstate NY garage monkeys THE BOBBY LEES (their caps). Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our long-awaited mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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