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tripping balls (a music podcast) is for lovers - of new music, and old people arguing about it. Formerly BALLS After Dark.
This week’s new albums: High Fade | Mary in the junkyard | Radkey
Also: Crowbarred stings, single-sided podcasting, the opposite of jazz, the opposite of emo, one of every duo is having a worse time than the other, Weird Al without jokes, space-filling cheese, Tom Hardy’s holiday job, Wu as a lifestyle, swears North Americans are bad at, Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Album, society’s to blame, on the tiles with Tadej, chasing the green, getting publically owned, failed experiments in nation building, Flemball Begins, bigging up Bangers, gap Phil-ers and the truth about cats and dogs.
1:37 High Fade
7:21 Mary in the junkyard
11:55 Radkey
14:45 Next week’s albums
25:11 After Dark - STONKS, TdF, BBL, fan ownership, test cricket
Next week’s new albums: Twisted Teens | Inspectah Deck | Maada
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Nia Archives | Quicksand | Yard Act
Also: Premature preamble, fast love, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePromoBumf, turtle power, Greek mythology, thematic confluence, tuatara albums, Lars slander, bad workout music, badly-animated Marshall stacks, Tom Waits for no man, having a Barrie, the easiest job in early ‘00s Australian television, headlining LSW Fest, we hope you like our new direction, Shark Week, Beeso finds even worse places to get album recommendations, work wallpaper, televising boring sports, kids ask your parents what Reebok was, Roglic’s last day as a GC contender, it looks like a fillum, Bridie and Brady, getting owned and running away from home.
1:48 Nia Archives
9:40 Quicksand
16:21 Yard Act
22:53 Next week’s albums
21:04 After Dark - darts, cycling, crossfit, basketball
Next week’s new albums: Radkey | Mary in the junkyard | High Fade
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: Jack White | Nubiyan Twist | Public House
Also: Bog people, the project slash the excuse, unrelenting self-promotion, girl parts, legacy defined, planning permission, 80s precision, neurospicy rhythm method, tooting and tinkling, prejudgement night, Wolfgang & McClurg, fridge temperatures of Europe, a junglist on a jungle list, English spumante, TISM collab nightmares, helmet meets pavement, Hughesy goes Musey, it worked until it didn’t, Last Week’s Game Tonight with John Oliver, the ghost of George Gregan, anatomy of a breakaway, Lance ruins everything, domestique violence and Poggio drone chases.
5:03 Jack White
10:17 Nubiyan Twist
15:21 Public House
18:52 Next week’s albums
27:17 After Dark - World Cup schadenfreude, Le Tour
Next week’s new albums: Nia Archives | Quicksand | Yard Act
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: Alewya | Julez and the Rollerz | Crocodiles
Also: You don’t need to get ready if you stay ready, the Molly Meldrum of this podcast, Arabian twists, #ContentOverAll, rich and stupid, disappearing bios, second hand Cars, Weezer (complimentary) vs Weezer (derogatory), the low ceiling of retro genre pieces, cross-town rivalries, The Long-Dead Weather, Carl Cox car cave, Doc Reads Words That Don’t Exist, balancing on a pallet, dying doing what you love: listening to terrible music, rocket-propelled labradors, whither Red Bull house style, gaming your own hosting rules, abandoned rowing venues, the carnival is (almost) over, bringing back national service, why the French have already won (and lost) the World Cup, [loser game show noises] and moneyball with unlimited money.
1:09 Alewya
6:16 Julez and the Rollerz
9:45 Crocodiles
13:40 Next week’s albums
21:04 After Dark - World Cup, EPL, womens T20
Next week’s new albums: Jack White | Nubiyan Twist | Public House
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Boards of Canada | Mulga Bore Hard Rock | Dead Pioneers
Also: Let it go, keeping score, Death Stranding 3 England 0, why do/are people like this, ancient culture, lived experience, multi-directional palate cleansers, uneven flow, old mate Sleafords, murder logs, the Jesus and the Mary and the Chain, guest recommendations, listen harder, multi-hyphenate artists, kia kaha SBS servers, galaxy brain coaching decisions, run it until they stop it, Argentina’s Messi problem, medieval trebuchets, vibes everywhere, performative heroism, trickless ponies, trying to understand Boston, unserious basketballers, the Doc Rivers decision tree, doing nothing, Ange’s next job, the Ancelotti scale, movement off the ball and singular malt.
1:21 Boards of Canada
5:15 Mulga Bore Hard Rock
8:57 Dead Pioneers
12:41 Next week’s albums
21:04 After Dark - World Cup, cricket, NBA, more World Cup
Next week’s new albums: Alewya | Julez and the Rollerz | Crocodiles
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: The Heavy Eyes | Jon Spencer | The Scratch
Also: Large medium effects, delayed drops, controlled explosions, bringing that high heat late in the game, let’s play two, hair and thrash, delusions of credibility, you got any more of that Bob Vylan, brown sets and brown suits, good job by us, oppressed minorities, live reacting to WC games, picking fun RO32 games, and a surprising volume of basketball takes for which we apologise in advance.
1:37 The Heavy Eyes
4:10 Jon Spencer
10:12 The Scratch
16:03 Next week’s albums
22:22 After Dark - World Cup, NBA
Next week’s new albums: Boards of Canada | Dead Pioneers | Mulga Bore Hard Rock
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: The Bobby Lees | Lee ‘Scratch' Perry x Mouse on Mars | The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore
Also: Half melted heroes, thinking vs pounding, the Bob Marley Effect, still in the league, the RATM-Primus nexus, retiring from public life, horny on main, you can’t make it up, fans of the weirdness, podcast mixtapes, you gotta keep ‘em separated, getting past the bit, hits and missus, a very long and heavily selective memory, AB no longer original, there’s a lot of it about, in no position to boycott, no bad teams, no bus parking, badly aged Turkiye technique takes and the Fanatics level up.
1:37 That really long name ambient thing
5:51 The late Mr Scratch-Perry and Mouse on Mars
8:08 The Bobby Lees
22:20 Next week’s albums
26:59 Legacy Slop Watch
32:25 After Dark - World Cup
Next week’s new albums: Jon Spencer | The Scratch | The Heavy Eyes
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: SLIFT | Modern Woman | Ben Kidson
Also: The most important of the least important things, Highlander soundtrack fantasy booking episode 27, nobody wants that, stop hammertime, performative tantrum throwing, welcome to Gympie, jokeless musical comedy, leftover legacy slop, corporate sucks rock, the longest band and/or album title in the history of this music podcast, Doc reads LinkedIn profiles, unique triangulations, hassling amateurs to make triphop for you, too much blues explosion, Riyad Mahrez erasure, going full Arsenal, Beach football, old school Brazil, who asked for this much Ed Kavalee, pro-am world cups, club vs international management, 20 years of A-League player development, Seppo exceptionalism and all Gas no brakes.
1:23 SLIFT
4:03 Modern Woman
7:00 Ben Kidson
10:00 Next week’s albums
20:06 After Dark - a lot of World Cup and a bit of F1
Next week’s new albums: The Bobby Lees | Lee ‘Scratch Perry x Mouse on Mars | The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Little Barrie | Elder Island | Elder
Also: Vibe restorers, three-act festivals, too big for small rooms, screen assists, whither hammock time, underproduction values, late night brown spirts albums, getting dragged to Woodford, Legacy Slop Watch, ghosts of girlfriends past, bio-engineering, reclaiming our status as Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast, early red mist, Mike Brown Appreciation Hour, it’s all Bill Simmons’ fault, France play football now?, your first World Cup, ASO v ACO and prevailing over the profiteers.
3:26 Elder
6:19 Elder Island
9:49 Little Barrie
18:34 Next week’s albums
27:48 After Dark - NBA finals, kids’ football, World Cup
Next week’s new albums: Modern Woman | SLIFT | Ben Kidson
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: Friko | The Lords of Altamont | Harsh Riddims 5
Also: Failed HIAs, making a real difference, underground club nights, Substack music recs, false advertising, stale airport sandwiches, live listener counts, Celebrity Head updates, lorem ipsum lyrics, self-deleting albums, music and food, Kingsmill’s algorithm, Slim Pickens, how is Chris Brown still in the league, post-climate-change triphop, door number two, misplaced villain energy, the worst San Antonio will be for years, the 2002 Nets of 2026, defining yourself by failure, Sacramento Kangz: Talent Factory, getting spoilered by podcast playlists and a far too early TDF preview.
2:11 Harsh Riddims 5
6:36 Friko
10:35 The Lords Of Altamont
16:08 Next week’s albums
23:43 After Dark - NBA, Champions League, cycling
Next week’s new albums: Little Barrie | Elder Island | Elder(no relation)
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: RJD2 & Supastition | Bloody Knees | EPs from Little Simz and Grocery Bag
Also: confirmation bias in action, warm blankets, pen pal collabs, all the gear and no ideas, bucket hat dads, shooting down trial balloons, garbage bags, change-ups, who was the subject of Powderfinger’s ‘Celebrity Head’, the tripping balls of record labels, bad tattoo ideas, Arsenal won but at what cost, no relation, broke boy Blazers guy, suboptimal geopolitical analogies, who is Wemby’s Zydrunas Ilgauskas, the stench of America, the perfect way to lose, and spider-god spider-god does whatever a spider-god does.
2:20 RJD2 & Supastition
9:44 Bloody Knees
15:13 Little Simz
17:40 Grocery Bag
20:43 Next week’s albums
30:16 After Dark - Arsenal, NBA, World Cup
Next week’s new albums: Friko | The Lords of Altamont | Harsh Riddims 5
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | Melanie Baker | ISTA
Also: Headbanging, getting dog’s abuse in book dedications, dingy downstairs sessions, that one tool that does that one job, that’s fairly interesting, possibly the longest unbroken monologue Beeso has ever delivered on the podcast, point/counterpoint, get a diagnosis, 30 year mysteries solved, moving the sliders, different conclusions, pink butterflies, very superstitious, rabbit hole EPs, #BeesoReadsDatesWrongly, Titanic spoilers, tiny houses, the end of losing on purpose, when your first mover advantage has been moved past, falling in love with one good idea and important clarifications.
1:55 The Black Keys
5:06 Melanie Baker
13:00 ISTA
19:20 Next week’s albums
27:00 After Dark - NBA, futbol
Next week’s new albums: RJD2 & Supastition | Bloody Knees | EPs from Little Simz and Grocery Bag
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email
This week’s new albums: Trials | KNEECAP | Iguana Death Cult
Also: Out of touch royalty, when catching up with high school mates goes wrong, Bad Boy Bubby vs Let’s Get Skase, your own private Wild Colonial, love something like Labour governments love criminalising protest, shouts to Genius.com, unexpected Dutchmen, Dave Callan joins Viagra Boys, hurting your own brand, celebrating valiant failure, art project or psy-op?, fake Canadians, cartoon realism, Beetle avoidance, bicoastal clashes of energies, popcorn and beer, podcasting no-sells, old British people stop hating trans people challenge (impossible), sim to end, turning your club off and back on again, it’s nice to win stuff, Wrex on deck, Koaching Korner, 1989 Easts vs Broncos and a tribute to Three Knees Hancock.
1:50 Trials
6:42 Kneecap
12:08 Iguana Death Cult
16:15 Next week’s albums
27:00 After Dark - NBA playoffs, EPL relegation, 80s rugby league
Next week’s new albums: Melanie Baker | ISTA | The Black Keys
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's 2026 mixtape | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Hermitude | Angine de Poitrine | Abronia
Also: earning a crust, Liam Ro-see-ya, last week Raye-visited, pre-emptive disappointment, made for TikTok, diluted chemicals, podcasting therapy, weird TV soundtracks, how did you get here, this year’s stalking-beetle, anti-buzz cynicism, world music defined, the Gaelic calendar, secretly Canadian, profiting from complacency, Nugs-Wolves post mortem, Swans-Weagles areas, everybody needs somebody, the real final, Mudgee travel notes, mo’ Mou’, unpaid plugs, knockoff jerseys and rain stopped play.
4:18 Hermitude
8:41 Abronia
13:27 Angine de Poitrine
16:56 Next week’s albums
22:45 After Dark - touch footy, NBA playoffs, more touch footy
Next week’s new albums: KNEECAP | Trials | Iguana Death Cult
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's 2026 mixtape | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Courtney Barnett | Eaves Wilder | RAYE.
Also: compromised assets, novelty Olympic single B-sides of the early '90s, the Rogers Continuum, winery tour nostalgia, Rumble vs Vulcanella, half a room of reverb, the rewards of low expectations, my skin is crawling, Find My Spouse, main character energy, on the hour every hour, musical theatre superstructure, reading the phone book, the producers’ cut, comfort is the enemy, Stoner to Rossi, reasons to end the podcast, Wallpaper TISM, stereotypes are a great time-saver, journeys of personal realisation, the narrative cannot hold, LeBron Ain’t Clutch and other historically badly aged takes, #AdamReadsBoxScores, the East is a joke and Boston will win it, casual fan journeys, Howie: Australia’s Oprah, Lol @ Strom, the asbestos is load-bearing and swearing on podcasts.
2:03 Courtney Barnett
8:15 Eaves Wilder
12:32 RAYE.
29:27 Next week’s albums
35:26 After Dark - NBA, rugbaloig, podcasts
Next week’s new albums: Hermitude | Angine de Poitrine | Abronia
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's 2026 mixtape | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Morgan Nagler | Truckfighters | Holy Funk*
Also: Pointing and shouting, crossfit crossover, peaking on track one of album one, is the vibe still sick, expert knitting, a prominent advantage of subscription music streaming, Bandcamp's triphop revival, not wanting to be a member of any club that would have you as a member, losing control of your art, declarative statements, bot hype, Doc misremembers bandnames, punctuation fetishists, less of a fun vibe, domin-Ayton, Angry Ant energy, running your stuff, getting fired on your day off and getting out while the getting out is good.
2:03 Morgan Nagler
3:42 Truckfighters
7:39 New triphop
12:10 Blasphemous expletive
20:36 Next week’s albums
24:34 After Dark - NBA playoffs, college coaching
Next week’s new albums: RAYE | Courtney Barnett | Eaves Wilder
*thanks v. much Apple Podcasts
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Hellripper | Telenova | Surfbort
Also: A pre-dusk after dark, physios in Mudgee, the Filo diaspora challenge, explaining black metal to kids, choose the form of the destroyer, BYO nostagia, rainy day electronica, Justine Frischmann erasure, how to lose a guy in ten hours, legacy avoidance, cruise economics, are Apple good at anything except what they started at, music to bend the horizon with, international politics corner, the company you keep, AU get off my cloud, the Roggets, playing Operation on difficult mode, #NeverGoogle and bring back screenshots of emojis.
4:31 Hellripper
8:59 Telenova
12:22 Surfbort
18:59 Next week’s albums
28:45 After Dark - NBA, a lament for ye olde internet
Next week’s new albums: Holy Frick |* Truckfighters | Morgan Nagler**
*yes, I know and you know they’re not called that but let’s just pretend to get these shownotes past various podcasting platforms’ punishing content filters
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Puma Blue | VIAL | Yin Yin
Also: You can dance if you want to, DOC triphop, getting icky with Tricky, the drugs don’t work, go be weirder, moving targets, diversity vs unevenness, engagingly naive, we’ve got enough Irish angst, ‘70s travelogues, 37 chambers, this hasn’t aged well, big label washed legacy stuff, cinearma, Doc reads Insta posts?, Robbie Burns riffs, Beeso’s anti-Pitchfork albums bracket, the benefits of relentless mediocrity, Save our Simz, Skypidi toilets, the twin paradox, West playoff matchups, in defence of momentum, Adam Silver is asking you to please unpack the dishwasher, signs of the apocalypse: the #10 seed in the East will finish over .500, LeBron’s travel tips, Nashville is in Texas?, non-playing captains and running up that hill (after a dog)
1:53 Puma Blue
7:08 VIAL
11:02 The U2 comeback
12:30 Yin Yin
16:14 Next week’s albums
20:47 Beeso’s bracket
26:26 After Dark - NBA
Next week’s new albums: Surfbort | Telenova | Hellripper
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Girl Scout | Blackwater Holylight | Automobile Club
Also: Reaching an understanding, geometric averages, not wanting to be at the front of the mix, internet clothes purchases, Fleetwood Mac’s big muff, Purple.Monkey.Dishwasher, Jizz Witch, your flatmate’s girlfriend’s band, Old Mate Molko, some assembly required, K&D vs GENA, sparkling London lo-fi electronica, Loyle Slander, what to answer when your dad asks are RHCP any good, top five live, SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY, feels like racism, finding Boondall, don’t write in, raising your children right, blame the A-League, saving the BBL, engagingly village, air fryer architecture, in defence of Montjuich, problems with Charlotte, and we check in with the Real Madrid medical department.
2:06 Girl Scout
6:32 Blackwater Holylight
12:46 Automobile Club
14:37 Kruder & Dorfmeister, for some reason
16:38 Next week’s albums
27:32 After Dark - sokkah, T20, stadium design, coaching
Next week’s new albums: Puma Blue | VIAL | Yin Yin
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: GENA | Vegas Water Taxi | The Black Crowes
Also: Darts real ones, icy cold cans of coke, getting a D on the group project, Cagey performances, you can’t see the join, albums that would have saved careers, Chris Robinson: Friend of Conan, breaking half of the Black Keys’ gear, a limited number of ideas, more black bands, spring fog, Scandipositivity, reviewing without listening, in defence of streaming, getting that Tim Webster cosign, Minidisc memories, Apple design. the abiding philosophy of the podcast, wilfully stupid NBA expansion takes, contractually obligated Shoresy references, getting other people paid, being loud wrong to get on TV, and Max Verstappen appreciation corner??? (he won, of course)
1:38 GENA
7:05 Vegas Water Taxi
9:37 The Black Crowes
15:59 Next week’s albums
23:34 On streaming
37:42 After Dark - NBA, F1
Next week’s new albums: Blackwater Holylight | Girl Scout | Automobile Club
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: GUM | Dub Pistols x Freestylers | THUMPER
Also: Resurfacing the worst of the 19th century, engagement stalkers, old mate three names, 80s soundtrack slow jams, fax divorce, nice biscuits, push-pull factors, it’s fun to enjoy something, quadrant quotients, inherent Irishness, uh oh Jazzamatazz, off-topic blitherings, solving pop, accessing other parts of the field, it’s empty for a reason, it’s Tubby’s fault, unethical basketball, is anything real, world championship cheese-rolling and arming children with sharp weapons.
3:18 GUM
8:13 Dub Pistols x Freestylers
13:23 THUMPER
18:49 Next week’s albums
29:06 After Dark - Bam’s 83, fake world cups, darts
Next week’s new albums: GENA | The Black Crowes | Vegas Water Taxi
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Bruno Mars | Earth Tongue | The Stripp
Also: Bad times on the bullet train, Wednesday night gigs, sweaty skeevy schtick, chasing the Latin zeitgeist, Anglo mild, AI art, stuff normies like, Ty one on, late night SBS movies, tell us what you really think, the bleeding edge of clip, second hand Datsuns, 80s 90s and today, Nick Cave does rockabilly, unnecessary flair, triple-barrelled mates, emoji album picks, Styles over substance, off-label mouthwash, grime will make you get down now, never make a F1 take before FP3, World Cup patsies, nine ball finishes, this is our year, Swans Casual Corner, every NBA news story, being mediocre for 20 years and cancelling the play-in.
2:49 Bruno Mars
10:51 Earth Tongue
14:47 The Stripp
20:37 Next week’s albums
24:23 After Dark - more music, F1, T20, code, NBA
Next week’s new albums: Dub Pistols x Freestylers | THUMPER | GUM
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Karnivool | Sahara Hotnights | The Molotovs
Also: Analogue brains, a bit of snippety-snip, all pre-apologies, a rush to judgement, Grafton TAFE copping strays again, getting kicked out of the club, can I push it, grown up teens, Double J winery tours, our bass player didn’t write this, no adult supervision, stacks of acts, iso swearing, critic narratives, Silk Sonic, Dodge Demon Hunters, dangerous floaters, there’s your problem, the Scandi seal of approval, bring back the Deccan Chargers, depending on Pakistan, Constable Care, close the borders, distance derbies, OKC shouldn’t exist, Michael Bay Round, 40 before 20, who owns who, the trials of Zion, ‘it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter’ is not a business plan and ‘Shoresy’ is not a life guide.
1:56 Karnivool
8:48 Sahara Hotnights
12:50 The Molotovs
21:25 Next week’s albums
31:15 After Dark - T20WC, NRL in Vegas, NBA
Next week’s new albums: Bruno Mars | Earth Tongue | The Stripp
Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapes | All our playlists
The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives
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This week’s new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails
Also: Water is insidious, outsourcing your admin, work with what you have, not ready for prime time, bad with intent, Ed Cowan centuries, never go back, momentum killers, Pink Floyd (derogatory), female chicks, big stacks, horse_ebooks, fully sick, two sets and an encore, pre-empting the After Dark, calling for the screens, immediately contravening your own anti-legacy-act policy, Scandinavian anti-aging, more horse_ebooks, nobody asked for this, the old blues muscle, spinny wings, post-match spy interviews, when the false flag drops, good vs interesting, over-indexing the future of the NBA on half an all-star game, coaches are losers, nothing to play for, inventing new snow stuff, muting America, peer review and Def Leppard for Beeso.
2:27 Keli Holiday
7:54 Demob Happy
15:09 Dream Nails
19:00 Next week’s albums
31:15 After Dark - F1, NBA, cricket, music again
Next week’s new albums: Karnivool | The Molotovs | Sahara Hotnights
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This week’s new albums: Playboy Manbaby | Gluecifer | Sargent Baker
Also: Hardline weather, guitar flavours, bipolar oscillations, on the ‘Sky, Insta reels in audio form, brain downloads, inside you there are two EPs, bands you missed, shouts to Oslo, diatribing about the state of the world, Surf Coast roadies, Giants of Science, left tenants, horse under water, slow burners, Newgurgitator, bogan masking, explaining Australian music to Australians, #BeesoReadsPressReleases, talking to kids, explaining the world, the F1 movie, every sports movie, incentive structures, failure is always an option, it’s always the KANGZ, expansion fees, making sure you don’t have to go to the US, the dangers of downhill, what it sounds like when you record before Zimbabwe beats Australia, a festival of joke sports, the same dudes, getting deported to Mudgee, massive backhanders, accidentally pre-empting Lando, electric horses, range anxiety and club vs state.
2:14 Playboy Manbaby
6:54 Gluecifer
10:48 Sargent Baker
15:30 Next week’s albums
27:01 After Dark - F1, NBA, T20WC, FIFA, F1 again, AFL origin
Next week’s new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails
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This week’s new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | Goldfinger
Also: Mic checks, none of this is making the podcast, the Lexus nexus, midseason form, Cletus stolen valour, he was not actually sorry and was not trying to delete it, Mother Focaccia, old enough to know better, holding two contradictory viewpoints in your head at once, none of this is making the shownotes, poster font size tiering, the shortcomings of the Victorian state education system, beats from the back shelf, I can’t read, albums Beeso missed, Portishead members Beeso missed, second drafts, #stillintheleague, open heart physio, plans for bans, half-strength decaf, hardline fanatics, what mountain biking is all about, self-adhesive stamps, live at McGazza Fest, expanding loopholes, all about that wheelbase and unpaid promo for Bandcamp Friday.
2:16 Poppy
5:03 Black Two Piece Band Name
9:55 Goldfinger Presents The ’99 Vans Warped Tour All Stars
16:15 Next week’s albums
24:08 After Dark - Gents, Jeffs, NBA trades, MTB, F1
Next week’s new albums: Sargent Baker | Gluecifer | Playboy Manbaby
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This week we are live from Chateau de Godfather of Grime with new albums from Megadeth and Robbie Williams.
Also: Drinking local, tuatara evolution, was it always like this, Leonard Cohen has notes, Care Bear picnics, many of years, inherent ridiculousness, halftime smoko, fat dancers, elaborate trolls, sad world mirrors, in a time of chimpanzees he was a monkey, multiple Joey Fatones, the Meatloaf Position, fantasy job swaps, fifteen on Metacritic, setlist apartheid, the untied state of America, trading Giannis, suddenly Palpatine again??, out with mono, long live 15 minute recaps, suddenly Man U again???, vibes > schemes, building your whole diet out of gateway drug, dead rubber specialists, badly photocopied SVG, beyond the Super Smash, Connor Coopelly, early 2000s crowd sledging and like and subscribe.
1:39 Megadeth
14:40 Robert Williams
25:41 Next week’s albums
28:36 After Dark - NBA, NFL, EPL, cricket
Next week’s new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | Goldfinger
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Live from Lantanaland with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays.
Also: Proudly uneconomic, judging books, what was that shot, Timberland flow, who is Frank Hoover, diversify your bonds, confirming your priors, the setlist, tripping balls talks to kids, your Hottest 100 halftime report, a two piece and a biscuit, pre-reviews, quick trolls, make sure they’re gone, the Olivia Dean will continue until morale improves, looking at the man in the mirror, Olympic Smudge, the Anti-Beeso, on the Busses, we were basically Defector, sponsorship gone wrong, unintended consequences, learning to win, Le Mans starts, GM vs Ford vs Ferrari, Audi doody, a potted history of Red Bull sports investments, and Detroit knows least.
2:19 Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore
4:54 Nas & DJ Premier
8:59 DZ Deathrays
14:00 New album picks for two weeks’ time with Beeso
21:09 New album picks for next week with Adam
24:49 After Dark - T20, NBA, cycling, F1 vs sportscars
Next week’s new albums: Megadeth | Robbie Williams. Tell me it’s an Adam episode without telling me it’s etc etc
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This week: as a belated 10th anniversary special, we redraft our favourite albums of 2015-16, the first years of the music pod. Plus we put a bow on 2025 AOTY season before picking our first new albums for 2026.
Also: streaming books, warped expectations, recurring characters, on the way to losing your way, steamed on headphones, the last compact disc, rubbery datekeeping, going off script, the singer songwriter blues, psychoanalysis by podcast, remembering to put things in the shownotes, shot clock violations, wolf bands < witch bands, Muse drivebys, riders on the storm, post-grunge supergroups, accidental discoveries, altered brain chemistry, not ready for a broken funkin’ arm, nuclear blasts, bridge albums, twiddles and schtick, Preston property values, #yourwelcome, Night Lords prequels, legacy fails, other people’s AOTYs, holding back the years, market correction, pre-release radar, classic Beeso picks, are the burgers really better at Hungry Jacks, everyone else is wrong, don’t write in to point out the Sydney Metro isn’t a loop we don’t care, fixing each other’s problems and getting clapped off.
4:18 Preamble
10:26 The top ten
46:46 Lightning round
57:24 Swings and misses
65:43 Everyone else’s 2025 AOTYs
71:55 Next week’s picks
Next week: back to reality (and to reasonable-length podcasts?) with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays.
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This week: for music ep 450, we revisit the music of 1996.
In a Very Special Episode to mark 450 music episodes (Big Round Number!) and kick off season 2026, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft, snipe and gripe their way through a snake draft of the biggest and best albums of 1996, and discover that the Venn diagrams of ‘biggest’ and ‘best’ might not overlap as much as you’d think.
WARNING. NOSTALGIA IS AN ADDICTIVE DRUG. Symptoms of nostalgia fixation can include solely listening to music from your teens and twenties, claiming to not know the names of any top 40 acts or complaining endlessly about modern Triple J. If you or someone close to you is addicted to nostalgia, help is available. Call 1-800-TRIPBALL and a Doctor will prescribe you some weird loud nonsense off his Release Radar with a couple hundred Spotify listeners.
7:58 Draft order pop quiz, hotshot
11:49 A somewhat consensus first pick
18:19 A challenging number two
23:13 #3 - a difficult second album vindicated
28:53 #4 - a career 180 on the turn
32:45 #5 - anyhow* here’s Wonderwall
38:59 #6 - alternative universe sequels
44:30 #7 - Toowong Sanity vs HMV Pitt St
47:29 #8 - ONE OF US
53:12 Intermission - Adam’s favourite albums of 2025, 2024 and 2026
57:18 Bad ad reads and worse medical advice
58:40 #9 - unpredictable predictabilities
62:59 #10 - undiscovered discoveries
66:45 #11 - there’s always a punisher
72:36 #12 - missed by a continent and many consonants
75:37 #13 - nostalgia for live acts, $2.50 beers and trying too much
83:34 #14 - it’s called ash, or æsc in the original Old English Latin
90:28 #15 - you can’t be it if you can’t see it
94:08 Also mentioned in dispatches
Next week: enough wallowing in 90s nostalgia, we’re quantum-leaping into the future, straight to… 2015-16. It was good for Leicester and LeBron, if noone else. We’ll be drafting our favourite albums of the first year-and-a-fair-bit of the pod, but will all the albums actually be from the pod?
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This week: it’s Album Of The Year time. Doc and Beeso count down each of our five favourite albums of 2025, and talk near-misses, disappointments and trends from the year just gone. Also: Dead week revisited, yes-no-maybe, accepting your flaws, best releases vs best albums, immediately failed predictions, albums you neither enjoy nor recommend, NYC real estate, early mover advantage, Mrs Beeso Reads Bios, the Venn diagram of Mike Skinner, Amy Taylor and Barry the Baptist, wholesome punk, fuzzy everything, the fine line between stupid and clever, Chubs and Crockett, Tate modern, judicious skipping, hipster cred, bringing back 2015 pod energy, Will Pharrell, mind the gap, a dangerous day to forget your 2024 #1, near-misses and disappointments, it’s Martin/Molloy’s fault, whither Australia, more 2024 #1 erasure, live at KEXP, sniper risks, remembering some albums, imperfect censuses, the new Kingsmills, consensus AOTYs, other people’s AOTYs, more teaches from Peaches, Swift backlash and Woodford vs reality.
12:11 Our number fives
16:19 Beeso’s #4
21:40 Doc’s #4
25:17 Beeso’s #3
33:11 Doc’s #3
39:22 Beeso’s #2
46:27 Doc’s #2
55:57 Beeso’s #1
61:51 Doc’s #1
66:17 Honorable (or otherwise) mentions
80:35 1996 albums redraft preview
90:45 2026 albums we’re looking forward to
94:09 After Dark (production, Woodford, 1996, trolling)
Next week: for tripping balls/BALLS After Dark (i.e. the music show) episode 450, it’s our now-traditional 30-years-on best albums re-draft for the year 1996, guest-starring the Godfather of Grime, Adamhfoto. There will be sniping and there will be griping.
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This week: it’s Bring Out Your Dead week, our last chance to review new albums for 2025, featuring albums from Alien Weaponry | Alison Wonderland | Automatic | Bee Bee Sea | De La Soul | Erick Sermon of EPMD | Mini Skirt | Powder Chutes | ROMES | These New South Whales. No we’re not doing timestamps for all that, it was enough of a hassle splicing in Beeso’s island-internet-addled voicenotes. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.
Next time: it’s our Album Of The Year top 5 countdown for 2025. Here's Doc's first-pass (aka thirty albums that might be worth your time)
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This week’s new albums: Mungo’s Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | Pabst
Also: unexpected empathy, geographical separation, rejected premises, previous benchmarks of this genre, pulling stumps, group credit, previous benchmarks of this artist, planning ep 1 of 2027, fantasy booking album 10/10, hiphop AOTY, sample detectives, the least worst stuff Diddy did, back of a length, release the masters, 4000 postcode noise, the magic number is 983 (not including classics/jokers), AOTY feels, algo fails, posthumous celebrations, band name reallocation, Chowder Putes, proof of concept, when music production is milk production, even dafter punk, the Konnichiwa doctrine, set the controls for the heart of the perineum, wins record false narratives, now and future kings of the West and the Kiwi-led rebounding renaissance.
1:01 Mungo’s Hi-Fi
5:18 Troy Kingi
18:39 Pabst
23:17 Bring Out Your Dead Week album picks
37:45 After Dark (NBA)
Next time: it’s BOYD week, which means piling the playlist high with end of year clearance items from Alien Weaponry | De La Soul | Erick Sermonof EPMD | Automatic | Powder Chutes | Alison Wonderland | Bee Bee Sea | ROMES | possiblyMini Skirt&These New South Whales if we can get round to them
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This week’s new albums: Avett Brothers & Mike Patton | Cheap Trick | Home Front | Dick Move
Also, in a bonus-length holiday special*: 25% extra, country folk, now this is going to be fun, the wrong kind of WTF, it might be Tomahawk actually, tuatara evolution, big in Japan, five bands you’ve seen live, hello there and/or goodnight ladies and gentlemen, going home, heaven knows I’m not miserable enough now, we fix punk, coherent social arguments, Simz timestamps, scheduled leave, rescheduled Wrappeds, forgotten February albums, podcast personas, RSA in India, Uz agrees with Doc, when all you have is T20 talent every game looks like a T20, the Arc of Ange, IPL rooting interests, threes versus fives, unexpected East teams, trying circumstances, blaming the Warriors PR guy, an unconvincing argument for why this is an interesting NBA season, does anyone want Ja or Trae, a long useful middle, mercurial superheroes, broadcasting technical difficulties and sympathy for robophobic quicks.
0:53 AVTT/PTTN
6:06 Cheap Trick
11:45 Home Front
14:27 Dick Move
17:19 Next week’s picks
28:51 After Dark - cricket
49:53 After Dark - basketball
66:42 After After Dark - more cricket
*We’re on holiday next week, back in your feed mid Dec with the following albums -
Next time: Mungo’s Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | Pabst
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This week’s new albums: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
Also: Tech SNAFUs, more amateur dramatics, a million in prizes, unserious operators, live from Las Vegas, learning nothing and growing not at all, music to boomer to, Frenzal sledges, fictional 2002 girlfriends, painful and cringe, narrative throughputs, accidental fash, shouts to Canada, the most Beeso pick in the history of Beeso picks, happy 21st, aided and avetted, oh beehive, two days in Perth is more than enough, drive to the conditions, that escalated quickly, bad balls, Trav’s D1NZ doppelganger, it’s golf’s fault, Boxing day plans foiled, India’s groundsmen: welcome to the resistance, and the nexus of NBA, EPL and skydiving.
0:52 Creeper
7:03 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
10:32 Teen Jesus & the Jean Teasers
18:34 Next week’s picks
25:26 After Dark
Next week: Dick Move | Home Front | Cheap Trick | Avett Brothers & Mike Patton
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This week’s new albums: DJ Premiertwice over | The Vasco Era | Arseless Chaps
Also: Interchangeable descriptions, throwbacks on throwbacks, the repeatability crisis, second verse same as the first, the two sweetest words in the English language, #ColesRadio, HAAY HAAY HAAY HAAY YEAH, Sizzletown Extended Universe, literal joke joker albums, Christian or emo?, Minecraft tributes, weirdest timeline Kingi, the white whale of modern triphop, actually it’s only 42 miles on the M5, AAA Advance Aardvark Assemblers Pty Ltd, music criticism is not a ten month a year job, every circus needs its clown, forgetting the Luka Mavs were a NBA finals side, things you can put through hot butter, who stops OKC, fit in or Fox off, #NeserMustPlayButProbablyWont, plane graveyards and blowing up big versus just blowing up.
0:56 DJ Premier
3:58 The Vasco Era
7:10 Arseless Chaps
10:47 Next week’s picks
22:15 After Dark
Next week: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
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This week’s new albums: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | Mhaol
Also: Add jingles, big hag energy, habitual lane selectors, Niamhe say Niamhe again, words vs music, no seriously the state of these lyrics, HJ Premier, singles night, our consensus (second) favourite album of 2017, albums that don’t exist, getting away with it, running out of years, the best time to be beaten up, our first annual mention of the Efficiency Landscape, Knuckles Connolly areas, breaking: Morant, the NBA-poker nexus, the only other Blazers fan in Dunedin and the proliferation of anti-Wemby munitions.
1:34 The New Eves
4:53 Militarie Gun
6:13 Mhaol
11:35 Next week’s picks
19:09 After Dark
Next week: DJ Premierx2 | Arseless Chaps | The Vasco Era
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This week’s new albums: Geese | GANS | The Pack A.D.
Also: Listener feedback, mouse models, trying everything, dissonant shifts, the wisdom of crowds, it could even be a boat, old school 4ZZZ areas, liquid skin irritations, Kenny Beats strays, texting it in, greatest misses, first album energy, best laid plans, the least worthwhile GoFundMe in history, finally a working definition of post-punk, massacring Gaelic pronunciations, one-week-late week-one overreactions, LinkedIn lessons for leadership, gambling podcasts, the house always wins, txt yr m8s see who’s keen, finding Jesus and reclaiming Rip City.
3:36 GANS
10:46 Geese
15:55 The Pack A.D.
24:39 Next week’s picks
31:37 After Dark (mostly NBA)
Next week: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | Mhaol
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This week’s new albums: The Southern River Band | The Superjesus | St. Paul & the Broken Bones
Also: Mineral extraction, late Foos, wasting heartbeats, knob and the attainment thereof, falling in the gutter, we have Airbourne at home, Greta drivebys, Gizzard drivebys, Thirsty Merc drivebys, hollow eyes, twenty years off, trapped in amber, going gangbusters, not looking for customer feedback, learn to swims, 1990s Lexuses (Lexii?), manufactured precisely to specification, live from Auchenflower platform 2, beer was a bad decision, active vs passive voice, free labour, the second best bit of rugbaloiging this year, Gold Coast $500 excess for damage, justice for photographers, around the grounds, early NBA overreactions, Zak Brown’s Boys, not watching people you don’t like win things and unprofessional broadcasters.
4:31 The Southern River Band
11:46 The Superjesus
18:05 St. Paul & the Broken Bones
22:16 Adam’s gig guide
26:22 Next week’s picks
28:05 After Dark
Next week: Geese | GANS | The Pack A.D.
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This week’s albums: New Olivia Dean and Rocket | Old Skunkhour
Also: Byron piano fights, Shield chat, live from a grass hill at UQ, big label regret, festival mixtapes, non-existent albums, Stockdale discovers Grammarly, the best of the Grafton TAFE, sweet flat whites, soundtrack bait, aging rock chicks, chuck brick and two smoking barrels, your call is important to us, extended exposure to pop, Taylor avoidance, production house PTSD, mistaking the internet for people, stolen valour, ah! soul action, noisy scrollwheels, regional radio voiceover guys, and previously on tripping balls series 2.
Then: for old time’s sake, you can have a little After Dark NBA season preview, as a treat. Or skip it entirely, as Beeso will.
Our judging rubrik/production notes
3:54 Skunkhour - The Go (2001)
12:09 Rocket - R is for Rocket
17:23 Olivia Dean - The Art Of Loving
30:28 Next week’s picks
40:22 After Dark NBA East preview
58:29 NBA West preview & season predictions
Next week: St. Paul & the Broken Bones | The Superjesus | The Southern River Band
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This week’s new albums: The Living End | Say She She | Snõõper
Also: Country pubs and rail trails, digital cleanliness, backloaded takes, this song is not profound, the two kinds of Taylor discourse, the last good website, failed segues, Beeso re-reads bios, Baggio copped worse for less, AI summaries, UN resolutions against the proliferation of the word ‘punk’ in music genres, everyone’s a diacritic, egg vs chain, picture photos, last on the to-do list, Jordan on the Wizards, Covid year feelings, a series of demands, first obnoxious mover advantage, Piastri pessimism, 2014 Souths winning the 2025 comp, a womens CWCup-date, badly-aged Bathurst takes, NASCAR-shaped blobs and horse boxing.
5:56 The Living End
13:36 Say She She
21:21 Snõõper
24:27 Next week’s picks
31:03 After Dark
Next week: Olivia Dean | Rocket | old Skunkhour from back in the day
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This week’s new albums: Playlunch | Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of Death
Also: Beeso hates your children, the Aunty Donna effect, PNW climate soundtracks, vibe dependency, future JJJ faves, garage bands on GarageBand, stealth mic’ing, drops without builds, Spotify genre or new hop varietal?, more slide whistle, ten cent beer disco demolition night, stopped clocks, jetskis mitigate against creativity, the algorithm says you’re washed, DJ Napster, getting thrown out of Angus & Robertson, short notice offers, GC Indy > Singapore GP, the Bart Simpson defence, self-policing karma, Playlunch innings, era corrections and glory hunting fails.
1:01 Playlunch
6:52 Queen Rodeo
10:06 Bass Drum Of Death
17:33 Next week’s picks
27:27 After Dark
Next week: Say She She | Snõõper | The Living End
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This week’s new albums: Faithless | TV Death | GHOSTWOMAN
Also: good old Collingwood forever, bring your kids to work day, Death Stranding 3 Juventus 4, chronological fails, Marmite vocals, unacquired tastes, big noise and big gestures, Jesus and the Mary Chain, it’s the vibe, haunting the group chat, annual assignments, get in on the ground floor, the very definition of a joker album, the future is in the future, Rash predictions, Ange vs Nuno, and just out here having a crack vs just out here cracking.
2:32 Faithless
7:40 TV Death
11.44 GHOSTWOMAN
17:29 Next week’s picks
23:12 After Dark
Next week: Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of Death | Playlunch
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This week’s new albums: The Beaches | The Beths | The Hives
Also: homeopathy, chicks can be guys too, apologetic swag, Tarantino source material, Denny Green albums, straw polls, bad places to get music recs, Sons of Gallagher, on them things, depression diptyches, respectful listening, anti-social media, NFL Bluesky, festival acts vs stadium acts, never use an interlude, pub rock phylogeny, the Al Michaels Affair, Uncle Dennis, Beeso capes for management over labour, unhelpful defences, Ban Hammer v. Smoking Gun, failing at spotfixing, Belichick’s nepo era, and people of America: shoosh.
Timestampy goodness:
00:00 Intro
01:12 Beaches
08:56 Beths
15:22 Hives
21:27 Next week’s picks
28:00 After Dark
Next week: Faithless | Ghostwoman | TV Death
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This week’s new albums: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka Superfly
Also: the full Hetfield, legacy confirmation bias, outlap heroics, resolutely turn of the century, lamb chops play-along, jungle revivals, what killed triphop, big noises and teenage sneering, guiltiest pleasures, living through the worst versions of every ‘00s genre, great modern cover albums, volume shooters, celebrity karaoke vehicles, you can’t stop the music, Jerry A. of ‘80s Portland punks Poison Idea (not THAT much of a celebrity I will grant you), new horizons in boomer communications, orange you glad we didn’t pick this album, they have a lyric that is almost exactly this but somehow I'M the crass one, the enemy of creativity, a touch of the ‘tism, Beeso kills off 2000s TV actors, drama in Dallas (series 2), Eurobasket cases, shop windows, Lando v Oscar and qualified successes.
*One of said 'Moe problems' being it was actually Lenny who said 'please don't tell anyone how I live', but tbf misquoting ancient Simpsons bits is as core a tenet of gen X culture as complaining about the Hottest 100, this is how WE live
Next week: The Beaches | The Hives | The Beths
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This week’s new albums: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult Python
Also: make Australia 1982 again, written warnings, oversouled, don’t phake the phunk, recycling last week’s shownotes jokes, shouty chookpen renovations, tapas plates, forever 1996, House music, Britpop vibes, live fact-checking, newsletter rusted-ons, your gig guide for two weeks ago in Milton Keynes, sound of the funky drummer, second-level filtering, side-project side-projects, giving up after two weeks, Brentford’s big year, knowing your level, Maximising your final years, last week of school vibes and this week in poultry husbandry.
Next week: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka Superfly
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This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | As December Falls | NO CIGAR
Also: Mid maxing, the kids are alright, self-service, Marmite 90s U2, black and white comparisons, losing everyone early, punk phylogenetic trees, not that close, great truckin’ songs have a renaissance, binary scales, mid-oughts everywhere except where it should be, Find My Flatmate, coming up next: Tonia Todman, drummer exchange programmes, Vine Inch Nails, musical tapas, full Fab, EPL round 1, owning the owners and the weird accent Clasico.
Next week: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs fromLammpingandCult Python
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This week’s albums: new Hotline TNT and Skinner Brothers | old (and new) Hilltop Hoods
Also: Minimal viable product, meaningless terminology, doing too much, like and subscribe, front-loaded nostalgia, Em bits, Uncle Beeso’s Story Time, growing old together, SIX60 drivebys, 25 years in, say no to (some) drugs, shouts to Koolism, being objective vs being objectionable, on the cusp of a nosebleed, why try, protect the algorithm, we have Max Martin at home, dust cover blurbs, MKG > MGK, preloading in Nottingham, emo is not a dirty word, Lantanaland Clasicos, and the lowest-imaginable rent version of World Series Cricket.
Next week: The Black Keys | NO CIGAR | As December Falls
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This week’s new albums: Public Enemy | Kokoroko | NODEGA
Also: wintering in Beenleigh, that JJJ Australian all-time H100: it could have been worse?, Oz hiphop’s diversity hire, failed segues, the disease of more, never go full Duckett, the rise and fall of activist hip-hop, offline translation, only getting what you give, conversation stoppers, prioritising the bit, self-explanatory vibes, the first Foos approach, not enjoying not enjoying things, MS Paint covers, before they were famous, stuff you could do with CDs, the Patton-Hutchence nexus, Kaden Groves: destined to be more than just a dude who looks like a ripped Young Mendo, Montmartre forever, the art of racing in the rain, unpaid Defector promotions and failed second endings.
Next week: new Skinner Brothers and Hotline TNT | old Hilltop Hoods (so old it’s out of print and not on streaming)
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This week’s new albums are from Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship.
Also: who he play for, VPLs, neurodiverse ranting, it’s over for Beeso, overpromising and underdelivering, Brett Suede, dead climbers and deranged bikers, salt and vinegar chips, two wrongs make a wronger wrong, distrusting Substack, revenge of the colonised, Brooklyn Vegan recs, American country slush, Triple J’s engagement bait hundred, DDOS’d by normies, go listen to early Sabbath, deleting unnecessary sequels from your head canon, Trey Parker: welcome to the resistance, the Simpsons renaissance noone saw, Tour jerseys, that’s in Queensland, Athletic v Defector, going full Merckx, ice cream for dinner, good writing gets you into sports, three weeks of pointlessness and Dame Home Time.
Next week we are joined by: NODEGA | Kokoroko | Public Enemy
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This week: new music fromLoaded Honeyand Wet Leg | an underground classic from Danger Mouse and MF DOOM | remembering Mu from Fat Freddy’s Drop
Also: overcommitting in relationships, coaching trees, third wheels, old mate bangers, heavy ‘Flo, it’s 2025 and tedious indie music purity tests are somehow still a thing, horny on main, unexpected theme weeks, the Janet English Finishing School, random genre generators, ignoring all recommendations, cultural zeitgeist dodgers, missing the references, young DOOM was a PROBLEM, a tall tree falls, force amplifiers, long-awaited albums, avoiding the neighbours, riding up hills on inappropriate equipment, the Mongoose flies, time for an opener-off and the undefeated, unmitigated loser energy that radiates off New Zealand cricket fandom .
Next week’s new-new: Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship
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This week’s new music: LPs fromZig Zags+Teen Mortgage | EPs fromRoxferry+Polish Club
Also: time dilation, enjoying Rockhampton, a degree of riffage, how do you do fellow kids, you can take the girl out of Lismore, albums of the century, getting off the gear, upsetting metaphors, Warish-ish, schlock horror, dudes rock, through the fame vortex, we want to get loaded, on the job with Mike Patton, Danger Mouse’s ruining other people’s stuff era, everything should be 80s thrash and burning sports reckons.
Next week: Wet Leg | Loaded Honey | an underground classic from DANGERDOOM
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This week: a SOLO MAN mini-ep from the Doc in which he conspiciously fails to do any better than a certain 60-something inner-west MP at making Australian song lists. REJECT THE REMINISCENCE BUMP.
Background reading: Staffo's Graun piece on Albo's list
Next week: we're back with new LPs from Zig Zags & Teen Mortgage and EPs from Roxferry and Polish Club
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This week’s new albums: Saya Gray | Frankie and the Witch Fingers | Gardna
Also: Frente goes to Austin, hurling yourself off a cliff, wild energetic flailing, irresistable interstitials, we’ll do it live, Triple J’s latest normie-magnet countdown, Fatboy Slim Dusty, who listens to the radio, public playlist anxiety, HRC to HRT, shouts to Joe Don Baker, Aerobics Bristol Style, vibes guys, that cafe band, garage days revisited, scoring in singles, Van Hagar, NSW selection bias, the kids are alright, slurs unheard since the 1880s, albums unheard since the 1990s, fixing Malone’s vibes, the Lakers sell big, lower-league low-hanging fruit, BONCOS exceptionalism, some kind of Game 7 preview,
Next week: Zig Zags | Teen Mortgage | EPs fromRoxferryandPolish Club(18 minutes is NOT an album lads)
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This week’s new albums: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin Shamel
Also: not quite day ones, heist movie set pieces, that one album of Lily Allen’s, no room for grey area, internal monologues, none more black, brain backdoors, Frenzal Rhomb are not a very good band (say it in Japanese), podcast sponsorship, hitting a cardboard box with a hammer, trying to be chaos agents, call me maybe, sasscore and whitebelt, parked in the joker space, celebrating the game, niches of niches of niches, cable comebacks, DAZN’s big dip, Game 4, good night to Celtics lite, Carlisle in the middle, vibes-based coaching, hope outside the big three, bonsai wicketkeepers and palindrome dudes, Beeso loves Bezos and Stephen A.I.
Next week: Saya Gray | Gardna | Frankie and the Witch Fingers
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This week’s new albums: Erika de Casier | CIVIC | Dead Pioneers
Also: the minimum requirements for a triphop album, retrograde inspirations, making people uncomfortable, shut up and listen, production choices, alphanumeric insults, too profitable to be discontinued, is Ange just Thibs plus vibes, the Knicks’ next ex-coach, Beeso’s bad take of the week, the two kinds of game 2, the creation of cool, the secret tournament and Hali picks his moment.
Next week: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin Shamel
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This week’s new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | Zzzahara
Also: Deepest commisserations, early retirement, Project mushroom coverage, single track thinking, it’s transphobia all the way down, old mates, pharma bros, bogs vs swamps, nothing is off limits and everything is off colour, full tilt Iggy, feeling your feelings, long national nightmares, unconvincing picks and recycled Garbage.
Then in the After Dark [28.16]: Knicks-Pacers endgame, Jokic and the Jokicettes, 1997 movie spoilers, we thought this last time, Indiantagonists, not in Kansas anymore, PSG won a thing, Kvaradona’s big year, welcome to Wrexham: Championship edition, building a wall at 17th, being seen in Wales, Yates’ seeds finally flower and Pogi’s Reverse Patreon (help him buy a watch).
Next week: CIVIC | Erika de Casier | Dead Pioneers
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This week: new albums from Black Country, New Road, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and HotWax.
Also: requiem for a basketball podcast, musical theatre kids, Butch Vig and the art of getting out of the way, Dave Grohl’s unfinished book, diversifying your bonds, trip hop, yurt glampers, stalking Dave Graney, Balkan fight songs, wins pool perpetual trophies and a life less online.
Then, in the triumphant return of the After Dark [35.05]: Beeso watches Barça, gritted-teeth praise for Inter, defending SGA, blaming the Knicks for your bad internet hygiene, Max Daddy (make you jump jump), the F1 movie, does it matter that it doesn’t matter and Spurs manager exit interviews.
Next week’s new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | Zzzahara
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This week in sport: Prizegiving ceremonies, pub orientations, draining the pool, fluffy selfies, who knew this guy would turn out a wrong’un, local celebrities, inexplicable firings, great understatements, western congestion, taking crazy pills, the Suns set in the west, fair and balanced tanking, live reactions, King Solomon parenting, eff them picks, Arsenal’s new guy, kneeds must, STONKS, infectious stupidity, modern HR, this guy isn’t that into you, Weagle erasure, it’s not Blake’s fault, impression nesting dolls, OKC’s road heroics*, disrespected one-seeds, young Bulls, international fixtures, touring the precinct, Florentino’s Galacticos and Ranger danger.
*yes obvs Heath Franklin’s Chopper is just Eric Bana’s with more Sharpie
**that 37 win number is either the total away wins record, or some stuff Doc made up in his head
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This week’s new albums: The Devils | Bilk | Fake Dad
Also: That sort of language, smells like teen spirit but tastes like Oasis, breaking the cycle, long Wire bows, uncategorisable content, leave ‘em wanting more, unwanted reminders of your ‘90s relationships, inappropriate wedding songs, bootleg merch, misplaced disappointment, selection criteria, the other deep south, Neapolitan polymaths, Daryl Somers erasure, let the world burn down, pig iron, we’ve done all of Brighton, demented gig guides, Kasabiani unpleasantness, you made it through and this Swan’s made for you.
Next week: HotWax | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Black Country, New Road
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This week in sport: RIP Beeso, the Rockets’ red glare at their remaining schedule, them Euro forrens, fingerguns, noone is scared of anyone, Beef Stew beef, tanking at fixing tanking, Utah’s one shot, Ringer house style (aka shouty white homers crowbarring tired pop culture references into sports coverage), whither SexLand, happy in Salt Lake, fantasy Bookering, overpaying for brand names, country style, all wins pool business will be settled today, grape skins and sump oil, FA Cupdate, Villa are real, the next Ange and long goodbyes retracted.
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This week’s new albums: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ Deep.
Also: laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Triphopper, technically a car podcast, a literal airbus, walking around looking at things, Paris: it’s basically Melbourne, starter kits for other people’s stuff, bowel-shaking earthquakes, anyway here’s Wonderwall, sausage royalty, they’ll be better next week, on my way to steal your girl, done done onto the next one, percentage plays, English superheroes and catastrophic outros.
Next week: The Devils | Fake Dad | Bilk
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This week in sport: 2018 was another country, YouTube slop supercuts, Giddey up, stupidity by the Gallen, Distracted King, old man on campus, OKC’s next scapegoat, we had no idea at this moment that the Grizzlies were hours away from sacking their head coach and two of his assistants, America hello.jpgs itself, Quebec separatism, junior football, space constraints, Beeso invents gegenpressing, reheated Mourinho, subsets, the very occasional good game of union, subterranean Irish pubs, Red Bull clips your wings, not that Aussie kid the other one, the last time Williams were serious, football tactics 101, the best times for batting (on a historical scale) and President SAS.
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This week: new albums from The Velveteers and Rum Jungle, and an Other People’s Classic fromNeutral Milk Hotel.
Also: Streisanding yourself, geographical confusion, doing too much, Legoland developments, made-up names, bottomless mixes, ‘70s speakers, the control for Beeso’s parenting experiments, poor lifestyle advice, uncut Js, Alabama Shakes in an elevator, your dads are morons, building out your music universe, mysterious and uneven, The Boys playlist, choice internet munters, minimising your time loss, banned by the chief censor and bailing on your Vincent Price Thriller bit.
Next week: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ Deep
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This week in sport: Much madness, Substack Nazis, dog days, the Boston Sell-ticks, geological time, Saudi money, addicted to darts, the diplomatic nightmare of World Cup 2026, LIV Basketball, long-distance away trips, crackpot theories, shenanigans afoot, billionaire socialism, there is no off position on the Process Karma switch, horse race coverage, before Grantland, differing views, trying to get people fired and there’s always next week (until there isn’t).
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This week’s new albums: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC(Jurassic 5)
Also: Practical engineering, remanifesting 1992, there is power in a union, sandwich beats, nostalgia self-bait, the next fun Irish album, massive psychotic perverts, British comedic sensibilities, twenty-something-th anniversaries, stupid but brilliant, putting the cyst in romanticist, closer to the coast, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePressReleases, it’s all Gosford, conversations we never had, curating your kids’ music tastes (now with a blog on the subject thereof), drunk on a desert island, come back to the light my son, if it’s flooded floor it and still feeling woozy.
Next week: Rum Jungle | The Velveteers | an Other People’s Classic fromNeutral Milk Hotel (1998)
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This week in sport: Styles make fights, office space, degree of difficulty, fortune-telling tracksuits, owner power rankings, the Little Yin, well actually, repetitive strain injuries, Ömer Aşık slander, a dearth of Knicks positivity, The MVP Conversation™, there will be a point to this, two guys out, Oklahoma geography, Beeso solves America, bread and circuses, heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc, pitching Brisbane Olympic sports, Shoresy merch, sprintcar shirts go hard, whoever dies with the most free swag wins, teach your children well, maximum Canadian, Villa do Europe, kicking someone when you shouldn’t have kicked someone, a moron and a cheapskate and FM radio Doc.
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This week’s new albums: Pastel | Charm School | Asian Glow
Also: the front fell off, Britpop Brexiting, please help me budget this, rules for friendship, uncanny valleys, play some bangers man, the only other reason for mentioning Clone High on this podcast, dictionary definitions, other rappers are available, self-destructing darlings, #DocReadsBios does requests, feel the grimness, getting bored with your own ideas, Steph heaters, second choice to a dinosaur, out of memory, Doc's Insta algorithm tells on him and remembering some sketches.
Next week: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)
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This week in sport: Work-adjacent podcasting, Beeso’s big swim, we’re bloggin’ again, don’t pin this on me, disinterested side characters, how can the Luka trade have become worse since it happened, playoff sufferball, antigravity Steph, the seesaw of bad decisions, the Clips look better than they are, built on a burial ground, laying the groundwork, forgetting Indiana, learning nothing, hard chargers, Cleveland attempting to beat the allegations, Tobias Harris over everyone, Mustang Cupdates, losing your shape, give the people what they want, not drowning waving, being kicked in the head, and having all the gear and no idea. (Production note: Doc's audio improved dramatically around 3.40 once he remembered he needed to record it.)
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This week’s new albums: Bad Bunny | The Wombats | Death By Unga Bunga
Also: weapons grade awful, BioGPT, cuddly and playful facades, 1990 Magna tapedeck hiss, getting your Frenzal and Grinspoon riffs confused, tumble in the rough, the Latin Taylor Swift, 808s and horn breaks, remaining cynical, BODO/GLIMT and soft-launching a soft music theory (which Doc expands on in his reanimated blog here.)
Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian Glow
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This week in sport: misguided enthusiasm in the group chat, the big two-v-three, who is Rick Rickleton, prioritising that money, prioritising not getting blowed up, win the stink win the match, all star game narratives, the clot thickens, no future is promised, figuring it out, around the grounds, Jacques Kallis strays, Kyrie talking nonsense, Australian archetypes, white mascots, Trez in residence, flipping off Amazon, timing your three months of good health, BANE, big-offs, Steph + Jimmy, two suns, some badly aged preview chat for the Dubs’ stomping of the KANGZ, pair of V’s, not mnemonic worthy, losing live, DPOY odds and Courtney-Love crashouts.
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This week in sport: a half-episode with half the BALLS MotorSportNerdPod, where Doc previews the upcoming F1, Indycar, Supercars, Nascar, sportscar and MotoGP seasons with one key question: should you bother watching?
Updated albums for next week’s music ep: The Wombats | Bad Bunny | Death By Unga Bunga
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This week’s new albums: Teddy Swims | Magic City Hippies | The Hellacopters
Also: Post Karcher, live from Montjuic, Doc outsources reviews to bios, pool deck vibes, time and place and frame of mind, Christmas glassware, delete option Autotune, ‘90s intro faff, consumer motoring advice, cheap tricks, carpal tunnel syndrome, vinyl freaks, stealth Christian rock, racist makeup, a lack of proper note-taking and pairs of shoes.
Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian Glow
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This week: The Mavs traded Luka.
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This week’s new releases: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | Ghoulies
Also: Nextmen up, golden era DMCA, you can’t filter flat, egg punk vs dolewave, how Beeso got banned from the gym, noiuww means noiuww, vegan longbows, increased susceptibility to ads for seniors insurance and cruise holidays, drink like it’s Livid 2002, get the lemon pepper wings, albums people have heard of, lowered expectations and word of the day.
Next week: Teddy Swims | The Hellacopters | Magic City Hippies
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This week in sport: Test cricket, or whatever else is going on. Also: the 2x follow-on rule, a casual 60 over spell, you’re unfit and you’re not trying hard enough, making better decisions, Alex Hartley appreciation corner, it’s funny to watch England give up, Kuhnemann: come together with your plan, production meetings, getting weird before All Star, Jimmy and the Heat are each other, where does the Fox go, Blazers tradebait, full parachute, Spurs playing better D off the court than on, Zuck around and find out, abandoning the NFL one game early, making the honours board engraver work a second day and the Mustang Cup.
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This week: new albums from Lambrini Girls, Brown Spirits and Every Possible Way - A Compilation.Also: running in please parse, see you next Tuesday, stacks on, buying dummies, Zach Braff strays, trading while in solvent, Jazz Odyssey, unexpected snipings, 0.01 of a joker, nanobands, algorithm and blues, audio Draino, Doc’s terrible Venn diagrams, Gen X’s boomer Hottest 100 takes, the most Channel 7 thing imaginable, Tiktok pop, #DemocracySausages, Chappell moans and training the house down.
Next week: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | Ghoulies
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This week in sport: having one foot on the plane while being thrown under the bus, Meth Booney, four more years girls, Pez erasure, our extensive match report from Phoenix 0 Mariners 0 (crowd 14,034), a literal MVP conversation, the world’s least likely Russ superfan, the last truly stupid owner in the NBA and getting upset at popularity contests.
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It’s our one contractually obligated nostalgiafest ep of the year, as Beeso, Adam and Doc draft our favourite albums of 1995.
Also: Guess Who, Kmart Gladstone, never try to be clever, how to get played on Triple J in 1995, veritable snipes, parenting tips, quoting Dostoyevsky, avoid at all costs, rigid niches, challenge accepted, more bangers less knobs, Betamax Amigas, horseshoe theory, hot corners, deliberately obtuse, geographically correct, sneaky desk-drumming albums, #GenXAreWorseThanBoomers, one for the content, Muse Factor prequels, too heavy or too weird, chopper PTSD, collective CD collections, confected narrative, it were all trees round here, perfect Venn intersects, the lost art of original soundtracks, lounge lizards, lightning rounds, unfocused fury, acid jazz, Chandlers Lismore, Techno Sucks, Dave’s demos, you’re only as good as your fans, remembering some guys, worst purchased albums, worst imaginable gigs, shortest imaginable long-lists, being reggaetonedeaf and handbrake turns.
Next week: welcome to 2025 with new albums from Brown Spirits, Lambrini Girls and Every Possible Way - A Compilation… of ‘90s indie covers. You can never escape nostalgia, you can only hope to contain it.
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This week: what it says on the tin. We're counting down our top five albums of 2024.Also: colonial appendage swinging, bad grime and Dua Lipa, second chance draws, we heard what you said about us, process over results, midfield divebombs, gratuitous namedrops, Bobby Bragg, representative examples of the marque, finding your fastball, Double J inflight magazines, not understanding what EDM is, falling off a cliff, less is more, more is less, backyard bands, different approaches to melancholy, not safe for all ages, period-correct solos, popping off, pure legacy, no bonus credits, everyone else’s AOTYs, Brat nuclear winter, misguided longing for shared experience, don’t get music recs from NBA writers, boomers in disguise and old school recordings.
Next week: our second annual incursion into Gen X nostalgia bait with our fantasy draft of the best albums of 1995, which is now thirty (30) years ago, allegedly.
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This week in sport: ratings beratings, how are the Cavs, fake winning streaks, knowing your ceiling, the East finally achieves respectability, KANGZ landing, rough trades, DNP-conflagration, the big three and the rest, getting got by half price League Pass, marginally-less-exploitoball and two-tier Tests.
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This week: our annual Last Chance Qualifier for AOTY 2024, featuring Mashd N Kutcher, High Fade, Kim Deal, the Spyrals, White Denim and Lyrics Born.
Also: Endorphin rushes, Clarke & Dawe 2024, the early 90s funk revival, bonus stages of grief, profiting off Gen X nostalgia, Red Hot Chatsy Peppers, no more from you, leaving with a vibe, hoping for a different album than this one, a shed in an industrial estate, simping R&B, badly-aged BBL timestamps, welcoming opinions on 1995, wombat facts, Doc’s top 40 probably-worth-listening-to albums of the year, other people’s AOTY opinions, listening to Americans talk about music, and the miseducation of Doc & Beeso.
Next week: we’re off, while we selflessly throw ourselves into Hammock Time aka listening back to the albums of the year in order to figure out what the hell our top five albums of 2024 were, probably while drinking beer in the sun. We do this for you people, obvs. Back mid Jan with our 2024 AOTY special.
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This week in sport: actually having NBA thoughts, collecting trophies like Pokemon, the MVP straw poll, the Thunder’s rough week, a minor Traensformation, multi-layer revenge games, can Dennis Schroeeuueeuder stop the Dubs putting up duds, Jimmy Butler’s Mythbusters vibe, Shut Up And Front Office, NBA Cup improvements, NBA All Star unimprovements, the most unlikely mistaken identity in world sport, franchise fraudulence, NBA Europe, the value of live sports, flat track bullies, MVPs on bad teams, previewing the Xmas Day slate, justice for McSwindle, Santner baby and fast bowling night terrors.
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This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ramkot and Stress Eater (CZARFACE x Kool Keith). Also: new Ice Cube x Brandy collab, double not negatives, representative examples of the marque, blank canvases, beach roadtrips, #DocMisReadsBios, desert rock Pokemon, if in doubt play it louder through better speakers, the Minister for Czarface, the poet laureate of the podcast, more Kendrick slander, live from 1992, twelve-track one-trick ponies, holiday plans, ocean pools and get back on the bus Wishart.
Next week: our annual Bring Out Your Dead last-chance-qualifier featuring Kim Deal, Mashd N Kutcher, High Fade, White Denim, the Spyrals and Lyrics Born.Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport: Jimmy is rustling Miami’s jimmies, the end of superstar mobility, quadrupling down, players aren’t bad but contracts can be, NBA Cup quarterfinals, peak Knuckles Connolly hours, Happy learned how to putt, don’t use Tottenham’s training staff, leaps v blips, LeBron is all of us, things Bill Belichick could be doing rather than coaching a mediocre college team, doing it for the kids, I’m on a boat, how the English lost an empire, nice night to go to the pub and the link between Angeball, Franklins nightfill and rugby league coaching.
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This week: new albums from Kendrick Lamar, Pa Salieu and Ocean Grove.Also: west coast tourism, you and me problems, space-filling models, 1980s muscle car history, foreign exchange, fake freestyles, statements endorsed by 50% of the podcast, the worst thing about 2001, Mariah Carey waterboarding, call and response, Old Soul Christmas, justice for Last Christmas, Brazilian Funkmas, a time of Faith, performative baggage, regional accents, newsreader bloopers, kids these days etc etc and avoiding ads.
Next week: Fat Freddy’s Drop | Stress Eater(CZARFACE x Kool Keith) | RamkotSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport: multiple Australia-India walkovers, Worldwide Pant, getting a sendoff from a Grease 2 villain, pick your favourite Jokic on-off stat, MVP conversation small talk, Ja performatively gives up dunking, the Great Barrier Thief, mini-slumps, freelancing against coaching advice, knowing the rules in order to break them, would Brett Kimmorley have made a good Shanahan system QB, sunk costs, timestamps, not caring enough to look up who picked Danny Dimes up on waivers, most of QB success is situation and the reason the NBA cup was invented.
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This week: new albums from Michael Kiwanuka, Thunderpussy and Vypers.Also: knocking your audience loose, music to topple castles by, outgunned but not outnumbered, Mark Ronseal, orbital sander albums, not a producer’s extruder, polish club, incomplete assignments, unreleased comeback albums, unspoiled by success, don’t put in the paper that I got mad, stealing Killer Mike’s car and Famalam’s Drill-O-Gram.
Next week: Kendrick Lamar | Pa Salieu | Ocean Grove(and not the new album by [REDACTED] although Beeso reckons it’s decent)
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This week in sport: the worst 11-1 team in NFL history, the multiEberflusverse, the three kinds of Cavs losses, the Ant Edwards School of Motivational Speaking, teachable moments, Beeso refuses to be Knicks-positive, America cannot geography, the Rockets’ next move, Boxing Day at the Smoothie King, the last club sandwich, Detective Chief Inspector Joel Embiid, ban this podcast, merchandise even more unnecessary than our own, the oldest we have ever sounded, the goggles do nothing, unrecognisable cities, unironic passion for graphic design, the romance of the Cup, and WIBBLE.
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This week: new albums from A. Swayze & the Ghosts, Warmduscher and Faderdaze. Also: safe assumptions, Covid bumps, beat poetry, misleading introductions, nutritional information, introduce yourself (right on!), Gladstone starter kits, random music recs, this podcast was inevitable, soft furnishings, sad indie manic pixie dream girls, sabotaging engagement farming, one-shot live versions, too much sault, grand opening/grand closing, outrageous fortune, describing posts and getting way too excited about paying Netflix to watch bad NFL games at Christmas.
Next week: Michael Kiwanuka | Thunderpussy | VypersSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport: some poorly aged thoughts on Indian batting competence, Captain Grumpy on the rack, having twice the success, Celts-Cavs fallout, shot deserts, blame it on woke, thinking free to air television is going to save you like it’s 1984, is bad basketball less watchable than bad other-sports, styles make fights, create-a-player Grizzlies, Sixers Process Karma is undefeated, Beeso is basically Nick Nurse, blame it on the Boogie, don’t look directly into the East, Wagner goes Valkryies on the Lakers, places to plant your Flagg, cricket and admin, the Australia A’ification of NBA All Star, moral choices in EPL fandom, seeing the Wood for the Forest, sporting polygamy and police harassment.
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This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub (again), Yoo Doo Right and Greenleaf. Also: almost professional, recency bias, what’s the difference, parkourlife, This Isn’t Cinema, missing narratives, the central tenets of this podcast, the Kyuss School, Swedish deserts, top five fixations, being lied to by the internet, Morningside for life, words matter, unproductive foraging, more bold evolutions and the art of the play-out in-joke.
Next week: Faderdaze | A. Swayze & The Ghosts | WarmduscherSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport: live sausagemaking, started at the bottom now we here, Thursday scaries, unintended consequences, duelling stats, Traede Young, the Cavs already have the 1 seed, Wemby ruins narratives, Rudy reinforces them, Dub mixes, washed references, strength of schedule, escaping to BlueSky, arguing with yourself, non-starter starter packs, Le Sulk, Mbappe having a mbad time and the difficulty of the three-man weave.
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This week: new albums from Maverick Sabre, Mr. Gnome and Jon Spencer.
Also: reanimating your dead time, I can’t believe they’ve taken Warren’s wealth, Instagram filters for music, bold and inventive evolutions as an artist, hitting zones, three bangers, you make me sick I make music, swamp origins, prog stoner nonsense, decoding the Dub project, getting the concept backwards, turkeys for Christmas, the MC-nil, other albums are available and the late night wars.
Next week: Yoo Doo Right | Greenleaf | Salmonella Dub againSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: we’re a cricket podcast. Don’t let anyone tell you different. #MeaninglessBilaterals #Wibble
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This week: new albums from Amyl and the Sniffers, Confidence Man and The Offspring. Also: Weird Al parodies, gluing the floor scrapings back on, what’s ‘shameless fan service’ in Portuguese, upsetting the ghost of Beeso, straying from the light, Protracker punk riffs, a very long run-up for a very obvious joke, the estate of Chrissy Amphlett is preparing legal papers, FIGJAM, where’s the drop, where’s the Vengabus, solid bops, burner accounts and pensioner naps.
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This week in sport: trying to make sense of a week of NBA games that told us not a lot more than a day did. Also: school holiday childcare, three-heavy basketball sucks, an entire team going 50-40-90, statue or stat someone else?, big outliers, big worries, a Dyson that doesn’t suck, capture the Flagg, the Tobias Harris revenge tour, the Josh Giddey Experience, Wilkinson Beard, new coach bumps, running out of plays, who are these people who sign the releases to appear on RBT, Tim Horton hears a who, India hits their 80s-90s England phase, NSW exceptionalism, do you want weird at the top, deposed regimes hanging around to ruin the vibes, serial killer coaches, and wishcasting Wemby into averaging a 5x5.
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This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub and Magic Machine, and a Hanni El Khatib collection from 2017. Also: unhoused marine mammals, the polymath-to-flog pipeline, organ donors, rushed homework, George Lucasing your masterpieces, ocean metaphors, deploy the Troy Kingi, Sabre rattling, getting Kneecapped, dear Jons, rejected Bob Vylan covers and Fidler on the hoof.
Next week: Amyl and the Sniffers | Confidence Man | The Offspring
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This week in sport: our traditional massive overreactions to one game of NBA basketball episode, in which we… yeah you can probably figure it out eh. Also: insulting Scotland, serial killers, non-showering teenagers, unserious organisations, false advertising, altitude sickness, Kawhi are you not playing, Bermuda triangles of suck, robust characters, high voltage rock and roll, Ace Frehley, the frozen envelope of NBA commissioner outfits, keeping your third eye open, reconsidering your life choices, Liberty reclaimed, all hail our new BLACKCAP overlords, and the house wins (the house always wins).
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This week: new albums from TISM, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit. Also: rolling in dog dirt, pure uncut fan service, forced interstitials, ultramarathon training, exactly what was expected, unsafe working at height, the best of what’s left of, biscuit meditations, structural thought, the Dan Auerbach Cinematic Universe, this won’t help, this won’t make the mix and Doc Fails To Read Bios.
Next week: Salmonella Dub | Magic Machine | Hanni El KhatibSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport: Adam, Beeso and Doc are in for our annual snake draft of the NBA teams we think will win the most games this year, as a way of previewing the upcoming NBA season (and to land one of us some free booze some time next year).
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This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular, the pointy end. Background reading: Doc and Beeso’s original top 50 favourite albums lists from 14 years ago. How has the pod changed our music tastes? Who wins the ultimate deathmatch of nostalgia and recency bias? Listen and find out.
Next week: new albums from TISM, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit.Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular, over two instalments. Background reading: Doc and Beeso’s original top 50 favourite albums lists from 14 years ago. How has the pod changed our music tastes? Who wins the ultimate deathmatch of nostalgia and recency bias? Listen and find out.
Later this week: tb400 part two. No sports this week, NBA wins pool draft next week.
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This week in music: new albums from FIDLAR, Hello Mary and Carver Commodore. Also: talking yourselves into doing a top fifty GOAT albums list for your 400th, prematurely declaring the death of the album, renting vs buying, Substack squats, there’s never money in this banana stand, a thousand handstands, Almost Free (of a unifying genre), a bad week at the well, disavowing Past Songwriter You, unsafe music, reformation resolutions, stadium shows, U2 nuffies, unproven biographical claims, accidental shuffle, reading the comments, and looking forward to wallowing in the Gen X of it all.
Next week: our 400th episode of this music podcast. They said we’d never make it, which was clearly an attempt to manifest an outcome into existence. Here’s Doc and Beeso’s top 50 albums of all time duelling blog posts from 2010, when blog posts were a thing (ask your parents).
Also, here’s Beeso from this week with a brand new post on yet another soon-to-be-abandoned blog platform talking about the premise of our music show and how our pre-pod top 50s came about.
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This week: KAT to NYK, business decisions, introducing violence to the wins pool, who benefits from swallowed whistles, Butler gives up the bit, the white Ben Simmons, the oldest man in Oklahoma City, Big Ballers back, inventing new ways to lose, that notoriously stodgy KD Warriors team, Crossfit Corner, rogues gallery, being made to play nice, is anyone one Brandon Ingram away from contention, the Wizards’ generational stench, blackmail opportunities in expansion drafts, redrawing American geography and of gods and Muppets.
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This week in sport: edit shed cold opens, duelling piano men, Danny Glover areas, a successfully executed jinx, policy updates, syphilis vs chlamydia finals, weaponising HIAs, pure Manly, ‘there’s not really much going on in the NBA’/‘the Knicks need a centre’ and other talking points invalidated within 60 minutes of this recording, Kawhi’s phased brokenedness, Lowe loses his Post, Danny Ric loses his day gig, parental focus, Ohtani invents new big round numbers for baseball people to froth over, the confounding nature of American postseasons, and in defence of meaningless one-dayers.
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This week in music: new albums from Ginger Root, the Jesus Lizard and Massive Hassle. Also: whisky tasting, lines of quirky, blood sugar sex muzak, the carbon cost of emails that meetings could have been, mental basket cases, still being obsessed with rock jernalism, playing to the crowd, do the voice, Doc reads bios and pretends they’re his review, FODMAP compliance, beach music, affection for random cities, GTA Tokyo incidental music, unexpected genius, the bit is lost, time constraints, unsuccessful joker pitches, men only want one thing from AI (and it’s disgusting), additional to previous, what are they teaching these kids, see it’s in the shownotes are you happy, and an extended tripping balls After Dark posing the most important question of our time: what the hell are we doing for music ep 400? (Answers on a postcard, or the 2024 equivalent)
Next ep: FIDLAR | Hello Mary | Carver CommodoreSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport: traditional markers of the NBA off-season, roasting each and every one of the City Edition jerseys in alphabetical order, NBA media silly season, it’s the final Wojbomb (doo-doo-doo-doo), newsbreaking is for the young, nobody knows anything: NFL edition, Beeso attempts FPL, Tottenham attempts to score, Doc’s imperfect generational talent metric, padding Beeso’s CV, again with the jerseys, Captain Piastri, what happened to Red Bull, Newey goes for a Stroll, Doc misrepresents St Bonaventure’s NCAA Division 1 status and Deadpool vs the Kingdom of Saud.
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This week in music: new albums from Charly Bliss, Los Bitchos and Full Flower Moon Band. Also: the mould is my enemy, uncut chipmunk, diabetes, where we’re going we don’t need lyrics, I agree with me, melancholy mazzing, the picture matches the label, Eaton Roots and leaves, live geography, PE in partial effect, Twin Towns vibes, basically in Nottingham, urban decline, aggressive elevator soul, banned in 1995, late TISM and beats by Ray.
Next week: Massive Hassle | Ginger Root | The Jesus LizardSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport: karma meteorologists, actionable twitter posts, station idents, ninja turtle burner accounts, Taika strays, Australian cricket media’s kryptonite, bring back 1994, the Will Pucovski of the NFL, sunshine shenanigans, completely blanking on Mike McDaniel, the Niners’ worst of both worlds, run it until it stops working, ability vs dependablity, people don’t like or care about the best team in the East, black ops basketball and an uncredited guest appearance.
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This week in music: new albums from North Coast megafaunaAnd So I Watch You From Afar, the Buoys (who are girls) and Troy Kingi's just deserts. Also: Sports Takes As A Service, outsider trading, it’s still 1996 somewhere, Schroedinger’s podcast, making stuff on the computer, shed tinkerers, how do you do fellow kids, one hour specials, it’s also still 1998 somewhere, soundtracks again, big round number specials, unaffordable drama, narrower targets, weak spots and weird stains, it’s also still 1994 somewhere and that place is Bristol, too frothy, sweary Manc elephants in rooms, unnecessary reunion tours, Faith No More no more, fine print disclaimers, what people really miss about Oasis, you had me at keytar, markers of interesting people, it’s been a while, views backed by no evidence, hating all streaming platforms equally, deceptively rapid horses and Gary Oldman’s most notorious role.
Next week: Los Bitchos | Full Flower Moon Band | Charly BlissSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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No sports pod this week due to the lack of NBA content to pod about, so here’s a mini-ep on the lack of NBA content to pod about. Also: Chiefs-Ravens, conference comps, spare Kelces, Pablo Torre and Nate Tice explain NFL play calling, the tush push, the NRL Spoon Bowl and bets best not bet lest you regret.
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This week in music: new albums from Soft Play, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and Painted Shield. Also: explaining soundtracks to your kids, orchestral bang ’n’ clang, print is back baby, 65 not out, how many things can you make out of of these other things, competing theories, rising above it because you’re a professional, old mate three names, never happier to be shouted at, don’t read the comments, constructive feedback, ten points for a razor scooter, spoiling the big reveal, legendary moments in soft R&B and cutting bluegrass.
Next week: Troy Kingi | The Buoys | And So I Watch You From AfarSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in sport (?): the two reasons to buy a professional sports franchise, Jeffrey Bezos, Steph gets bored on Insta, no need for a blue tick, losing dead weight, what the hell are Chelsea doing, accidental Brexit, Beeso is basically Ballmer, blue windscreens of death, actual consumer motoring advice, life is a highway and experiential GPS.
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This week in music: new albums from Jack White, Grinspoon and Empire of the Sun. Also: quitting Spotify, minor leagues, bashin’ riffs, nitpicking, Dead Weather origins, concepts of various descriptions, Patton’s Disease, local legends, unlikely elder statesmen, tradie vibes, corporate gigs, Powderballads, dead cats, this is where I take my leave, 40 years too late or three months too early, GenX H100 fury, answers on a postcard, taking the temperature of the space, exit pursued by a Beetle, editing jobs, this hasn’t aged well, 960 photos of Beeso's backside, you can’t Bake without a Spoon and getting Mr and Mrs N. Z. Taxpaper to fund your holiday.
Next week: Soft Play | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Painted ShieldSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: culture war draft-dodging, academic grifts, apply gradient and send invoice, getting full value from the plane ticket, Montmartre < Kapelmuur, duathlon ring-ins, casuals and boomers, obscure constitutional precedents, the San Angeles Wakers, the Crossfit deep-dive you didn’t know you needed to hear, do it Toomey, when to cancel your scheduled posts, watching a guy ride very slowly down a hill, charity in the community, European football being back infers European football ever went away, manifesting the end of FTA TV, advertising: they do it because it works, the Big Tobacco playbook, Doc knows betting, why are Chainsmokers and booze ’n' pills.
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This week (month?) in music: new albums from GUM/Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Highly Suspect and Gangstagrass. Also: long-haul airport chilli roulette, the lack of international standards for chip packet colours, visiting Pornland, Ric Flair woo, butt rock, sphagnumcore, the fine line between stupid and clever, old mate three names, unbroken brains, travel music, steal this album, early 2000s confidence, remembering some bands, Sonic bangers, Stuart Littlemore, methadone, the Seattle Skepta, Bob Vylan > Bob Dylan, the best bits of the Late Show, King Wally Otto in the soundproof booth and semi-pro hockey night in Canada.
Next week: Jack White | Grinspoon | Empire of the SunSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: Beeso’s back from the touch world cup and has TAKES on the Olympics, the NBA and the paucity of single malts in mid-priced Midlands travel hotels. Also: sabotaging your own tape, fit people, the big two killed my tourney, local competition, are we having fun yet, you can’t win anything with kids, European vacations, Australia sucks, players-only meetings, three-time Olympian podcasters, escaping the Cletus channel, filthy casuals, puncturing in the Louvre, USA Basketball’s last stand, Goorjian’s last gasp, we report you decide, NBA Xmas Day snubs, fried Nuggets, Podziemski erasure, unsatisfactory endings, attempting to manifest a Celtics implosion and capture the Flagg.
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This week in music: new albums from Aaron Frazer, Pond and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.
Also: Grand Unifying Theory II: Electric Boogaloo, insufficiently racist, unnecessary remakes, the death of genre, reintroductions, more brass than class, Now This Is Going To Be Fun dot jpg, false advertising, soft-launching your libertarian anti-vax side project, Nottingrime, non-league collabs, #CouchPeleton punishers, bogan bakers and the worst Yorkshire accents ever recorded.
Next week: we’re off for our mid-year solstice. Back in a bit.Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in music: new albums from Joywave, Fu Manchu and The Tibbs. Also: hockey music, in defence of Coldplay??, fulfilling your contractual obligations, hair grunge, shifting air, Kingi of the desert, swing revival survivors, TOCB, too much work, the fine line between enjoyable and annoying, deluxe edition origin stories, bluegrass Turbonegro and Cletus hiphop.
Next week: Aaron Frazer | Pond | Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night SweatsSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week in music: new albums from Alfie Templeman, Earth Tongue and Hockey Dad. Also: fame chasers, defining indie, pro-vaccine takes, oooo spoooky, taxation multiplication, rat sweat, colour charts, we’ve just run out of indie cliches, nothing ventured or gained, ice ice ice, Swingers vs Singles, ripping off the ripoff, dot dot dot, the Ugly Duckling school of song titling, out of context music cues and yet more hockey content.
Next week: Fu Manchu | The Tibbs | JoywaveSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: New albums from Emma Donovan, Whores and Bad Nerves.Also: Paul Blart Touch Coach, dream collabs, lots of bits, all stand, making Gore happy, credits roll, obscure NBA jokes, early 90s without context, teaching your children well, Sunset Strip hair farmers, Gen X authenticity wars, zero nutritional value, keep off the Supergrass, two Beetles, parental pride, bona fide polymaths and giving the people what they paid for.
Next week: Alfie Templeman | Earth Tongue | Hockey DadSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: New albums from Cage The Elephant, Big Special and Arab Strap. Also: call and response training, evolutionary musicology, a missed opportunity for a Glenn McGrath joke, ranting about misery, misery about ranting, soft acts to follow, Beeso falls for the old deluxe edition banana in the tailpipe, make fun noises, no relation and no leg to stand on.
Next week: Bad Nerves | Emma Donovan | WhoresSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: Beeso’s live report from Jungle, plus new albums fromNia Archives, The Zutons and Slash. Also: not bhed good soize, architect visions, setlist analytics, rusted-on karaoke, big beat is back, keep it moving, rockstar cosplay, it’s twenty louder, conditioned by poor choices, Kool-Aid entries, finding religion, more Seventies than the Seventies, the Nile dries up, when all the takes have been taken, nunsploitation films, Killing Floor ripoffs, running duo, Apple's cloudshouters vs cloutchasers countdown, a nostalgia for collective experience, MVP narratives, being let down by your friends, to do: lists, how do you pronounce hegemony anyway, better than the alternative and Guess The Next Kingi Genre.
Next week: Nia Archives | The Zutons | SlashSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: new albums from English Teacher, Wine Lips and Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol.Also: tailoring banking to your needs, the laundry-related talk-singing UK band Doc couldn’t think of is Dry Cleaning, punishing theatre kids, indie Thursdays, joke metal alloys, pro Canada, rocking horse rarities, after-dinner gelato, getting headless, Chic freaks, treble-hat-Gibson triple threats, Led Zep starter kits, Jungle gym and Team Beeso's mission to prove the Zoo owners wrong.
Next week: Nia Archives | The Zutons | SlashSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: new albums from Brittany Howard, Master Peace and Mdou Moctar. Also: government handouts, closed Zoos, Rev limiters, ranked Arenas, broken records, Music Hall passes, live performance headwinds, tiny desks, managing to both misspell and mislocate Seattle’s KEXP, the Black Keys playing your high school hall, not in those shoes mate, an inverse Bonnie Tyler, security risks, Sunday night blues, Jungle at the BRIT Awards, African cooking, a lack of imajighenation, sub-Saharan geography, Beeso hates joy, Beeso hates the 2023/24 Suns, Prince cosplay, lead white dudes, Pop music, unpicked options, teach your children well, the Demon Knight soundtrack, pocket-dialling the internet and underage outrage.
Next week: English Teacher | Wine Lips | Rickshaw Billie’s Burger PatrolSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: new albums from Justice, Marcus King and Regurgitator.Also: listener endorsements, Kiwi mild butter chicken, walking in Memphis, archived angst, Rick Rubin is still in the league, confusing a severe weather event with a LA glam metal band, off chops, perfect bops, Gurge side projects, where does Quan do his big shop, barely recalled reviews, Shakes Gilgeous Alabama, doubling down, if ‘dog’s breakfast’ is your drinking phrase congratulations on your unconsciousness, countries that are near Nigeria that are not Nigeria, everything on the internet is a bit and double joker weeks.
Next week: Brittany Howard | Master Peace | Mdou MoctarSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
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This week: new albums from Khruangbin, BODEGA and West Thebarton.Also: Barry Football, travelogue incidentals, new-old stock, first-year arts discourse, Talking Heads, low-energy genres, no dunks, violent dreams, melancholy Cletus, 2018 was a Different time, reciprocal memberships, Adelaide connections, grunge-informed noise, stupid Zac Efron movies, what Tim and Guy did next, always up to something, New Words With Doc, pull your pants up, going too early, anything could happen/nobody knows anything and the legacy of legacy acts.
Next week: Justice | Regurgitator | Marcus KingSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape
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This week: new albums from Tyla, the Libertines and the Dandy Warhols. Also: dangerous sand-atoll-adjacency, Adam Nation rise up, chillin’ with the vylan, in protest of protest music, an off-brand off-chops Pete Davidson, eight years late, how to get a number one, glum half-paced rubbish, terrace anthems, blaming Metacritic, Casiotone demo modes, urban jungle, whither backannouncers, the habit of 25 years, having a crack, having a Slash, thick girls, my god it’s full of B-sides, a National disgrace, rap beef, blowing up deluxe, clearing out the angst backlog and an unexpected Big Rock Ending.
Next week: Khruangbin | West Thebarton | BODEGASpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape (NEW!)
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This week: new albums from Bob Vylan and The Black Keys, and last year’s next big thing Nothing But Thieves.Also: Muse for beginners, is this good, sprinkle-free, deluxe additions, having a guy, wallowing in nostalgia as a business plan, two piece endpoints, some of the same words, the raw and the cooked, Arc’ing up, kitchen vibes vs humming metrics, arrested chavelopment, getting robbed, Rage funk covers, peculiar samples, two weeks of picks, (Bodega’s Version), Shirty the Slightly Aggressive Bear, labels getting twitchy and Doc’s list of albums that exist.
Next week: The Libertines | The Dandy Warhols | TylaSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
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This week: new albums from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Drunk Mums and Gesaffelstein.Also: valiant pushes, random edit points, canefield circlework, the end of Splendour, does Kylie talk to kids, the Graun on festivals, the minimal viable product model of setlists, mind the gap, still chasin’ status, why FOMO can FO, reaction dependency, mic-clipping levels of disgust, both types of music, the irony of complaining about production on a podcast with bad production, I’m aware of tripping balls, being confidently wrong about the release date of an album, eating all your Easter eggs at once, entrenched in disco, navigating by McWhirters, settling your bets, zero alcohol beers, the Libertines moment and resetting your Release Radar.
Next week: Bob Vylan | The Black Keys | Nothing But ThievesSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
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This week: new albums from Judas Priest, the Black Crowes and Talk Show.Also: never knowingly oversold, 1980s metal panic, greatest bits, doing yourself proud, the Powderfinger of the NWOBHM, unserious thrash, easing the seat back, have we learned nothing, pencil case recommendations, you give legacy acts a bad name, Babylon tings, new country for old men, box-set stans, every album is a journey, don’t bore us get to the chorus, sinister funk, major international releases, finding your audience and sweet Carol Ryan.
Next week: The Jesus and Mary Chain | Drunk Mums | Gesaffelstein
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This week: old dogs, old tricks from Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Pulp fan fiction from Yard Act and SoCal fuzz from Meatbodies. Also: a message from our sponsored, unifying principles of Britpop, slipping into adult contemporary, more fluid than Jeff Beck, Wolfmother 4 Liverpool 3, live from the EPS, who needs lyrics, necessary psychedelia, lists of indeterminate length or purpose, the OWOBHM, the green zone, drinking for content and the ol’ check 1-2.
Next week: The Black Crowes | Judas Priest | Talk Show
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This week: new albums from DARTZ, Sheer Mag and Mannequin Pussy.Also: Insert Amen Break Here, subverting the bogan paradigm, inappropriate kiddie choirs, troubling Venn intersects, two years behind being two years behind, high pitched whining, labouring to carve out discernably singular positions, evangelical lyricism, enjoying the noises, release date randomness, early year optimism, metallurgy experience, no accounting for takes, teenage rebellion, holy communion and ending on a positive.
Next week: Meatbodies | Yard Act | Liam Gallagher & John Squire
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This week: new albums from grime merchant Ghetts, Glaswegian minstrels the Snuts and Neapolitan riff fiends the Devils.Also: Crüe 1982, mixed bags, apologies to Scotland, underwater tunes, a hard earned joker, full Rufus spec, improving the White Stripes, nunsploitation vibes, you belong in the Zoo, Wellington Chats, tripping balls OnlyFans, the inside of Jack White’s brain, vinyl Criterion Collections, umming and aahing, science podcasting, bad kicks and playing your way back down the divisions.
Next week: DARTZ | Sheer Mag | Mannequin PussySpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
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This week: new albums from Middle Kids and Black Grape, and EPs from Little Simz, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Matt Cameron. Also: traditional apologies, mostly harmless, that one theme from that one show, a clarification, old mate Dave, the Taylor-P!nk demarkation line, another triumph of Big Data, talking about pop music, having opinions about the Beatles, on the buckets, ice cream on hash browns, universal reactions, techno sucks and other very 1995 worldviews, different inspiration and/or different drugs, UK grim(e), live at Levitation, cleanliness is next to grunginess, Ghetts’ guests, nothing from Scotland can ever be bad, aggressive losses, pre-emptively avoiding Double J, official bootlegs, the Pearl Jam military-industrial complex and what’s my age again (spoilers: a lot).
Next week's new albums: Ghetts | The Devils | The Snuts
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This week: new albums from Sigma, Courting and Wolves of Glendale.
Also: the 2023-24 NBA trade deadline of new album weeks, obvious rips of boomer riffs, having a go and/or getting a go, Stock standard, Disco v2.000, blood feuds with autotune, Darkest Timeline Weird Al, trolling tin-chuckers at 4.30am, Tripod and Tenacious D, one sentence reviews, Pippen and Jordan, the least plausible Bob Marley comp in the history of west coast hip-hop, starting at Be Here Now, smorgasboards, Inflo outflow and the perils of not doing your own research.
Next week: Middle Kids | Black Grape | EPs from Little Simz, BRMC and Matt Cameron
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This week: brand new 2024 albums from SPRINTS, The Smile and Ty Segall.
Also: new music evangelism, new occasional segment klaxon, investing in 2032 futures, season ten, takeaway food demarkation disputes, having a menty B, a few stars short of a supergroup, psychotic breakbeats, arrest Alex Turner, a land beyond songs, we all need unconditional support, condensed reviews, alleged classics, Australian hiphop is truly in great hands, Jay Masochist and white-knuckling the early year grimness. Plus: a very special ASMR After Dark, for the dedicated weirdos.
Next week: Courting | Sigma | Wolves of Glendale
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This week: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times.
Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, second-hand CDs, the Sanity at Toowong Village, busted Telstars, Fat Pizza, pretending you had a better taste in music than you did, BOGOF deals, chunky guitars, disavowed classics, fantasy booking the Alley, desperately attempting to appear interesting to women, milquetoast track sevens, supernatural John Wick, preemo, do albums have a ringpiece, Doc’s ‘Possibly Getting Beeso’d’ Big Board, opening your mind to darkness, the 4CCC no-play list, music that happened to other people, highly specific Spotify subscriptions, jukebox favourites, androgyny, analogue algorithms, bandname dyslexia, the Kiwi Silverchair, emotion sickness, wombling over your own legacy, unsuccessful snipers, securing the bag, Beeso’s stage debut, off the bingo card, gateway drugs, albums you are sure you owned at one point, realising you are kind of a big deal, one-man revival tours, having your Gen X card pulled, the Soderbergh cut, grunting in the direction of the problem, day 1 in the Britpop wars, strategic gold reserves, Protracker guitar samples, and a cast of thousands too numerous to mention at this particular juncture.
Next week: we kick off 2024 with Ty Segall | SPRINTS | The Smile
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This week: we count down our top five albums of the year for 2023.
Also: WAOTY, the importance of having clear number ones, #HammockSZN, necking cleanskin red and listening to 70s prog, crossover potential, voodoo science, aiming for competence, immaculate vibe-matches, the genre expects, they can’t keep getting away with this, the Scandiwegian-Strayan axis of riffs, peanut empire punk, a long way from 2015, getting absolutely upholstered with Jack White, the Mabo of it all, you pays your money and you takes your choice, lacking an instinct for the dramatic, shoplifting in Queenstown, misinterpreted larceny, joyous nihilism, this just in: dudes are wrong and need to be hit with a stick, the new gold standard, Bomfunk MC’s ain’t die for this, comedy misdirections, instagram DJs, bringing back a favourite hashtag, previously on Bring Out Your Dead, 80s Volvos, shouts to Was Not Was, The Beekeeper, other people’s AOTYs, other people’s picks, the sniper's art, blaming Liberty Media for the ruination of UK big-beat dance and derelict munter poetry.
Next week: we draft 1994 in albums.
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This week: Militarie Gun, NO CIGAR and Dallas Tamaira aka Joe Dukie of Fat Freddy’s.
Also: bomb tracks, soft hardcore, genre skeletons, grading on a curve, getting your Troy Kingi on, wandering remixes, Spotify-era success stories, milquetoastsimpwave, measures of distance, beige smorgasbords, pen-throwing levels of crossness, chasin’ Statham, Wytchfest ’23, here be Dragons, El Mariachi cosplay, sounding the Andy Cooper klaxon and our official podcast position on INXS playing the Glen Hotel in Gladstone on NYE.
Next week: Our End-Of-Year Bring Out Your Dead Listening Special featuring CZARFACE, Alison Goldfrapp, Helmet, Chase & Status, The Grogans, Captain Monk, Andy Cooper and anyone else interesting who turns up on AOTY charts in the interim.
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This week: new albums from Spiritual Cramp, PinkPantheress and Busty and the Bass. Also: vanity musicals, wilted Lily, time dilation, pasty white continuums, KOMA FM, BPSI, what’s my motivation, [citation needed], homeopathy, an addendum, not sure how we missed this Pulled Apart By Horses joint last year, Joaquin-spec Jokers, friends of the show, pre-empting safe legacy picks and getting let down by the algorithm.
Next week: Militarie Gun | NO CIGAR | Dallas Tamaira
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This week: new albums from Tkay Maidza, Madnessand Bully.Also: vaudeville sideshows, play the hits, the Sanity two-track test, Beeso vs modern Australian hiphop, call centre scripts, yeah well that’s just like your opinion man, have we ever sounded older than this? answers on a postcard, #WhitePeopleProblems, Albini Approved, assuaging your Spotify guilt, going full send, Adam attempts to start a blood feud with the most powerful woman in the world, shouts to O-Rod, everything is a remix: the remix, we are turning into boomers, running out of classic albums, running out of songs, better feelings, and we will see you next week next week.
Next week: Spiritual Cramp | PinkPantheress | Busty and the Bass
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This week: new albums from Black Pumas, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and The Scratch. Also: do the bit, trad sliders, the universality of the Khe Sahn punisher, angst and misery, saying the quiet part loud, the real Bolivian, Bocelli vs Kram, basing your entire review around one cheesy pun, backloaded goodness, emergency Georgie Parkers, EDM word association, Fans Also Like, jokers are for jokers, and yes this is all going in the podcast.
Next week: Tkay Maidza | Bully | Madness
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This week: Nirvana’s In Utero 30 years on, plus new albums from electronic veteran DJ Shadow and Montreal party-punks NOBRO.Also: in with the old, difficult second second albums, let’s get Bob Rocked, sometimes the label gronks are right, takes Beeso wasn’t brave enough to admit to, PNW cookers, Taylor becomes a horse girl, the international sample shortage, imported dance condiments, built for Shoresy, I don’t want to be on the internet, understanding the assignment, paid in full, Puma Kings, legendary status, flute artists, the TISM school of song titling, Celtic weaponry and artificial argumentativeness.
Next week: Black Pumas | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | The Scratch
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This week: new albums from The Kills, Stepmother and Clowns.Also: was I supposed to listen to this, family reunions gone wrong, bleeps and blurps, vibe matches, irrational likes, investment disclaimers, e-motion, this is the end, extremely loud and very silly, growing musical kids, bring back flute solos, a waste of technological resources, raiding Ace’s stash, Doc was loud right??, a lack of gravel, chasin’ Statham, Conan and friends, relatable Gen X content, the crime of party playlist song skipping, the premature end of one of our favourite bands and the Swift-Beatles Discourse.
Next week: DJ Shadow | NOBRO | In Utero 30 years on
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This week: new albums from Beastwars, Electric Six and the Rolling Stones.Also: daily doses, obeying the riff, Adam's questionable mic technique, anger > despair, America’s fault, the sensations, just here for the beer, we didn’t end the Fire, ludicrous men, curse of the title track, Beatles heresy, reanimated Mutts, channelling Lemmy, sweary boomers, Ronseal, beats from the beyond, the Martin Tyler of classic rock, hand solos, doing 45 over the limit, somebody once told me and the bane of Track One theory.
Next week: The Kills | Stepmother | Clowns
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This week: new albums from Olivia Rodrigo, Kylie Minogue and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers. Also: gurlz rock!, acknowledging greatness, too young to be this washed, resolutely Canberra, into the algorithm, forever caping for Seether, corporate covers bands, enjoying bits a lot versus enjoying lots of bits, puff pastry, relatable content, stop trying to make O-Rod happen, Kim Petras ≠ Kim Mulkey, Rosalia drivebys, album Venn diagrams, attempt sixteen, return invitations, Scooter McGavin, Fire walk with me, palate cleansers, the best sort of music collaboration, the Streets have no shame, the Dr Yobbo School of Parenting and Max don’t have sex with your ex, it will make your life complex.
Next week: The Rolling Stones | Electric Six | Beastwars doing niche NZ covers
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This week: new albums from Ash, The Wytches and Frankie and the Witch Fingers. Also: relevance through autotune, playing the hits of the 80s 80s and 80s, panther pride, dead air, perfect competence, keeping the lights on, surf sludge, all possible spellings, proof of concept, Jungle fever, Beeso tries to be helpful, who listens to the radio, allyship week and drifting off.
Next week: Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers | Olivia Rodrigo | Kylie Minogue
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This week: new albums from Royal Blood, The Record Company and C.O.F.F.I.N. Also: comic timing, WWOS incidental music, not attending in order to fornicate with arachnids, the oil that protects all kinds of diesel engines, firing up them You Tubes, crookest timeline Kram, atomic playboys, transcendant bogandom, giveaway hats, building blocks, Nashville-adjacency, AAA league, diminishing returns, seizing the means of production, the new Bristol, shouts to disco, the Muse Hole, witch week redux, 2015 revisited and they’re good years Bront.
Next week: The Wytches | Frankie and the Witch Fingers | Ash
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This week: new albums from Tash Sultana, Osees and The Chemical Brothers.Also: cold opens, no geography, parallel imports, Californian lizards, interesting messes, short stories, Annie and/or Fanny, Brexit through the gift shop, numerical order, ratbag Australiana, Scandinavian deserts, coaching commitments, schedule notes, Stockholm syndrome, mystery supergroups and a little NBA After Dark.
Next week: Royal Blood | The Record Company | C.O.F.F.I.N.
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This week: new albums from Jon Batiste and Killer Kin, and the new Dan Auerbach-helmed blues compilation Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound). Also: nine coronas, brain delays, radio interstitials, the MSG of modern music, dipping into the weekend, reprehensible violence, Doc’s kryptonite, conversation pieces, record label samplers, referencing your source material, buzzless surprises, uninformative bios, uncommitted bits, entry level loopy stuff and currant affairs. Doc’s mic levels this week were kindly set by Killer Kin’s producer. #cominginhot #willdobetternexttime
Next week: The Chemical Brothers | Osees | Tash Sultana
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This week, live from Lantanaland: new albums from Jungle, the Hives and 3rd Secret. Also: 2pm whisky is for winners, Jackson 5 vocal filters, bedroom albums, doing what you’re good at, the best rock frontman of the last three decades, sweaty box venues, in the conversation, Led Zeppelin III III, rooster tales, showing your podcast partner an album on your phone doesn’t translate on audio, bios by Mum, reviews by Curtis, The Cat Empire (The Cat Empire’s Version), ratbag noise and violence, self-titred, did the Fyre Festival need a gritty reboot and scheduling snafus.
Next week: Jon Batiste | Killer Kin | Tell Everybody!Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape
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This week: new albums from Strawpeople, Durand Jones and Bilk.Also: Logan parenting, duelling Fionas, D.O.C. triphop, dirty gear, first track syndrome, caning it, solo album divergency, more evidence this podcast has ruined Beeso’s music taste, ancient and cynical, young monkeys, self-selecting album picks, not doing what it says on the tin, bedroom recreations, live market research, compression vs elevation and reputational damage.
New next week: The Hives | Jungle | 3rd Secret
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This week: new albums from Britpop legends Blur, indie hiphop outkasts Paris Texas and Roman stoners Black Rainbows. Also: 21 today, on a scale from boring to infuriatingly boring, critics’ darlings, cool uncles, words we can’t say on this podcast, joker variance, lounge act jealousy, wonky dischordancy, the same members but not the same people, Italians cosplaying as Scandinavians cosplaying as Californians, road trip anthems, The Nebulous Zone, deep V’s, the NZ Tracey Thorn, pod business, early evolutions, vibes > knowledge, looking to next week, stay hairy and flax facts.
Next week: Durand Jones | Bilk | Strawpeople
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This week: new albums from PJ Harvey, Skating Polly and Tigercub. Also: free plugs, dead celebrities, painful parental music, ruining your kids’ social standing, creating creative tension, missing the dirt, music for boring tories, cancelled export orders, do or not do, Metric-adjacency, opening premises, know who you are, handstand accompaniment, that’s iron clad that’s a real guarantee, sick airs, confounding bios, competing ethoses, this podcast is old enough to have reviewed the last Blur album in period, Noel Gallagher’s High Sided Vehicles, froot plattehs, the last big reunion act, the next Spinal Tap, the best bits of the Late Show and a bonus After Dark/mini sports ep on the NYT sportsdesk, professional gamblers, magic sauce, high-variance Segunda weirdness, being motivated by sausage, GOATs in Florida swamps, the Apple-MLS business model and Beeso buying a bus.
Next week: Blur | Black Rainbows | Paris Texas
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This week: new albums from Killer Mike, DZ Deathrays and Royal Thunder. Also: Beeso’s bin on holidays, caping for dumb stuff, herky-jerky flow, not suitable for mixed company, dial-up beats, Americans talking about Nas, anti-ageing remedies, Auntie Sarah and Uncle Tim go on the telly, a conspicuous lack of heavy construction noises, royal decrees, teenage dirtbags, own-brand versions, the Hottest 100 of pub covers bands, the origins of Like A Version, getting carded, Polly amorous, a bit too much Queenslanderness, Google speaker grenades, calendar chaos, Elephant’s never forgotten, Wiggle cosplay, angry birds, making Bluey, riots on the streets of Sodor, off-brand Star Wars and a little lamb with a lot to learn.
Next week: PJ Harvey | Skating Polly | Tigercub
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This week: new albums from Queens Of The Stone Age, Louise Post and Rival Sons. Also: imperial phases, interesting slabs, disavowing responsibility, superfluous salt, marital strife, Hollywood endings, misunderstanding Everlong, country hats, old man shouts at music, generic Americana, Battlesnake reigns supreme, retweeting praise and capitalism wins again.
Next week: DZ Deathrays | Royal Thunder | Killer Mike
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This week: new albums from Ben Folds, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and The Barnestormers. Also: running to the hills and/or for your life, stop singing, punisher don’t preach, being victimised by your influences, exhaust fumes, playing grown-ups, who does number 2 work for, reptile deplatforming, thrash cosplay, nonagon finito, Captain Planet level subtext, Pinball Dreams guitar, fit but you know it, apocalypse factchecking, genre tourism, screaming about truck drivers, patriarchal speech impediments, finger-popping grooves, off-chops hubris, cold on Chisel, Covid projects, player options, desert migration, early-year amnesia, orchestral insults, every band you like from the 90s is now terrible, Tay-Tay sanctioning fees and my baby wrote me a letter.
Next week: Queens Of The Stone Age | Rival Sons | Louise PostSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape
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This week: new albums from Swedish desert pummellers Dozer, preposterous Sydney metallurgists Battlesnake and a non stop block of classic rock from the Foo Fighters (BYO icy cold cans of Coke). Also: entirely made of bits, rotating through thrash, short term revivals, lots of riffs jammed into the same space, pace vs heft, astonishing Tay-Tay admissions, creepily accurate predictions, monetised grief, marks out of ten, therapy dumps, unsatisfactory hugs, enough rope, just the drummer in the band, venerated to oblivion, leaning into the bit, Sensational Adelaide and going the tonk.
Next week: Ben Folds | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | The Barnestormers
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This week: new albums from Body Type, scissor sister Jake Shears and the Whatitdo Archive Group. Also: leather preconceptions, Be Here Now Theory, Alley tiny desk sessions, geographical confusion, calling your shot, riding through Studio 54 on a horse, the gold standard for disco whimsy, reading challenges, budget brand spy movies, failed soundtrack pitches, untenable villainy, multiple doomed attempts to ‘bring it back to music’, don’t give Adam ideas, the sciencey bits, Red Rocks Ronseal and creative activities for the holiday period.
Next week: Foo Fighters | Dozer | Battlesnake
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This week: new albums from Dave Matthews Band, Demob Happy and Kid Koala. Also: Murray Walker music takes, straight shots, no purpose on purpose, Diamond Dave’s Plumbing, three-thirty-itis, lo-fi irritants, confusion and self-indulgence, not Britain’s greatest five years, the Little Simz Effect, amateur rewiring jobs, Melbourne feminist collectives, nominative determinism in 00’s disco, whisky-fuelled research, Foo fears, Primavera primadonnas and the man who clocked the tripping balls album review playlist... AND LIVED.
Next week: Body Type | Jake Shears | Whatitdo Archive Group
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This week: all-Aussie adventures in new albuming c/- Private Function, Alex Lahey and BAD//DREEMS. Also: beautiful podcasting, Coldplay tax, throwing change-ups, being confused for an astronaut, a woman out of time, the warm cuddle of nostalgia, ugly but memorable, Mendo on meth, heel turns, failing your children, you’re only as good as your stans, used car dealers, board game soundtracks, lovely bottom ends, terrible sponsor reads, 1998 Triple J Week and an old-school After After Dark on the Venn intersect of Ja Morant and late-era AC/DC.
Next week: Demob Happy | Dave Matthews Band | Kid Koala
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This week: new albums from Olivia Jean, Danava and Fred Again with Brian Eno.
Also: orchestra hits, Goldilocks week, aggressive spacing, energy vampires, coke and Moogs, Balkan Eurovision, making metal great again, the Auld Beeso Checklist, dark timeline B52s, thirty-five year grudges against Clannad alumni, bangers defined, earworm resistance, havin’ a geez, down on Australia, Tim Rogers cosplay, taking bullets, house party of my youth areas and constructive performance reviews.
Next week: Private Function | BAD//DREEMS | Alex Lahey
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This week: new albums from The National, Fake Names and Metallica.
Also: ABBA commercials, party political statements, compromising photos, why people take drugs, OK boomer, Suzuki Mighty Boys, unexplored literary references, Spoon men, the high floor of pop punk, my mourning song, no need for term two, self-help for teens, getting value from your CD-R, power dirges, snare sounds solved, no-repeat weekends, compensating for incompetence, a looming presence from the bottom end, worse versions done more expensively, #toomanyhashtags, next week previewed, whose side are you on, Powerball sponsorships, Ron Markson and getting your old ducks in a row.
Next week: Olivia Jean | Danava | Fred Again… + Brian Eno
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This week: new albums from The Heavy, Laurel Canyon and Ghost Woman.
Also: whisky of the month, entirely to spec, Stuart the highway, banned from the pod, first track syndrome, random C90s your uncle dubbed, many dudes with MPCs, Doc insults the neurotypicals, getting all your new music recs from Beeso, going too hard too early, forgetting all Adam’s ancestral titles, collectors’ item snipings, why so much heat, Scandinavian loudness, sounding like 1982 and a bonus tight five from Beeso’s Coaching Corner.
Next week: Metallica | Fake Names | The National
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This week: new albums from Bass Drum Of Death, The Black Delta Movement and El Michels Affair & Black Thought.Also: speaking clocks, the Westfield school of album production, learning nothing, Beeso reads bios, having a Barrie, fixing NFL Sunday, back of a length, Jazzamatazz, Danger Mouse grudges, Commitments house bands, Asheton-worshipping hazes, absolute flutes, two-name two-pieces, putting the mid in midweek, reruns, sleep debt, Australian philosophers, one-armed timpanists, and that one guy in college who played too much Dave Matthews Band.
Next week: The Heavy | Laurel Canyon | Ghost Woman
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This week: new albums from Mudhoney, Frenzal Rhomb and Sarah and the Safe Word. Also: justice for Milli Vanilli, Beeso fails to do crimes properly, 1986 Tipper Gore energy, Ronseal gifs, shouts to David Foster, old mates on Facebook, never had so much fun, now and then, Judg(e)ment Night, Sir Mix-A-Lot stays on message, life is a cabaret, rock eisteddfod vibes, bah gawd that’s TikTok’s music, seamless recovery, the Al Michaels Affair and no seriously did no other adults under the age of 55 have input into this.
Next week: The Black Delta Movement | Bass Drum Of Death | El Michels Affair x Black Thought
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This week: new albums from Black Honey and Grade 2, EPs from FIDLAR and Only Fools And Corpses, focused on excess, fifth through tenth seeds, bad with genres, being shouted at by angry Welshmen, Letterkenny algorithms, pop filters, grading on a scale, preformed gigs, diminishing returns, manic pixie sad indie dream girls, delayed deliveries, words Doc cannot say, bands Mrs Beeso cannot play, Garage Days Re-Re-Revisited and pensioner nap eras.
Next week’s albums: Frenzal Rhomb | Sarah and the Safe Word | Mudhoney
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This week: new albums from Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Hello Mary and Laid Back Country Picker. Also: commercial radio is the same old song, first Blood, vale Uncle Doug, the Dallas Mavericks of 2023 albums, vibes > concepts, finding Beeso's OG-one Kinobe, the hint was in the bio, lowered expectations, wacky homicides, live in Denver, the Eve 6 of Adelaide, statues of limitation, Crow throwbacks, the kids are alright, landing the plane, six jokers, craft beer recipes, writing stuff down, probbo side projects, failing geography O-levels and everything louder than everything else.
Next week’s albums: Black Honey | Grade 2 | EPs from FIDLAR and Only Fools And Corpses
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Half an After Dark from Adam and the Doc on dropping mics, washed legacy acts, covers music as a service, potty mouthed grey nomads, going off your cornflakes, Beyawnce, the Muppet Show doesn’t talk to kids, TISM on Hey Hey, learning new words, the Unit 25 tour, the Pleasantville effect, bad hiphop and yacht rock, and the most ironic complaint about professional broadcasting standards ever recorded.
Next week’s albums: Hello Mary | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Laid Back Country Picker
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This week: new albums from Gaz Coombes, The Subways and Nia Archives. Also: tired Gen X dads, an impersonation of an impersonation, 1950s skiffle, corporate indie pop, this isn’t Steel Panther, the history of the Amen Break, shouts to ASIO, corny dad raps, weirdo side projects, swimming pools ’n’ movie stars, Kentucky fried pickin’, Nextmen mashups, one foot in the truckstop, banjo drivebys, death to ums, it’s all Beenleigh, million dollar Commodores and more copycat killers.
Next week’s albums: Hello Mary | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Laid Back Country Picker
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This week: new albums from Westing, Lucero and Steel Panther. Also: the nut behind the wheel, zero entendre, get a warrant, easily amused, the album of 1987, the Hot Fuzz theory of glam metal revivalists, graffiti appreciators, our 2016 Led Zep classic albums ep, same note too bro, D-Gen parodies, little ditties, getting fooled by the internet, Liberation 2 Tripping Balls 0, going full Norwegian, our late-90s one-hit wonder of the week, grating Greta, hot desking, hanging out in the subcontinent and lighting the beam.
Next week’s albums: Nia Archives | The Subways | Gaz Coombes
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This week: new albums from Gorillaz, Shame and Death Valley Girls.Also: you’ve lost that drinking feeling, grand unified theories, degrees of listenability, collaboration saturation, Flimsy Steve, the worm guy, other people’s drugs, sacrificial vocals, not looking for new friends, not looking to upset old friends, inexplicable Slowthai love, single entendres, Batman Forever wasn’t, flute solos, our soundtrack special actually began episode 150 and ran for a couple of weeks, Tommy Raudonikis Hour, FSO do Dark Knight and Beeso’s contractually obligated Letterkenny reference.
Next week’s albums: Westing | Lucero | Steel Panther
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This week: new albums from old-school house heads Orbital, Northern doomslayers Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and Auerbach throwbacks The Arcs.
Also: specific conceits, the evolutionary tree of sludge, clubhouse leaders, what’s the frequency, plumber from another mother, Sleaford ubiquity, urban renewal ASMR, a man out of time, period dressups, very solid plays, two Skrillex albums too many, albums we should have an opinion on, one-line Wiki bios, nü-metal facial hair and the Bluesfestivus airing of grievances.
Next week’s albums: Death Valley Girls | Shame | Gorillaz
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This week’s albums: Portland weirdos Quasi, Birdman rally monkeys CIVIC and Scandiwegian metal veterans In Flames. Also: bass drum of butthurt, unmodified thrash, Roxette covers, dumped at Pipe, keeping it 100, shouts to Anthony, there is no try, organ work, it’s always 1995 in Portland, stealth legacy side projects, reverse trilogies, winery tour club nights, seven little pigs, blue keys, all about that brass, parenting goals, shoehorning gratuitous mentions of Beeso’s charity masochism into the podcast, stinky fungus, born to duet and we have always been at war with Bazball.
Next week’s albums: Orbital | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | The Arcs
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This week in tunes: new albums from old heads Iggy Pop, Belle and Sebastian and Moby. Also: 24 hour party people, long Covid, menu screen music, tuberculosis vectors, encouraging throwbacks, hurt in the garage, twee as a service, hop country, getting deplatformed by St Vincent, learning with Wikipedia, why is Slowthai, ratbag 70s throwback stuff, judging an album by its cover, some of Pitchfork’s finest work, Mogadon infinity, inauspicious starts, portents of the end days and Hank Shapiro.
Next week’s albums: Quasi | CIVIC | In Flames
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Exit music for a year: this week we put a bow on 2022 via a tour through the year-end album lists of the likes of Pitchfork, the Guardian, NME, Rolling Stone, various J’s and others. Mentioned in dispatches: Wet Leg, Spacey Jane, King Stingray, Beyonce, Kendrick, Bob Vylan, Arctic Monkeys, Danger Mouse + Black Thought, the Bobby Lees, the Black Keys, Yard Act, the Weeknd, Wu-Lu, Nova Twins, Sudan Archives, Big Thief, Rosalia and the 1975. Shouts to Kerrang, you the real MVPs. 2023 starts now! And by now we mean next week.
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The annual highlight of our new music review show: our end-of-year AOTY special, showcasing the best from what we listened to this year. Each year we listen to a hundred or more new albums, and each year since 2018 we haven't had a single top five album in common. Will this change in 2022? Would I have mentioned it if not? Or is this just an elaborate double bluff?? Also: that’s nice dear, the benefits of Jokerfication, Doc's bangers blog, Beeso’s Simz angst, prequels > sequels, the iron fist of joy, everything everywhere all at once, legacy marking penalties, random AC/DC interstitials, ceiling picks, music writer nonsense, jumper punching, graphic novels, abusive sponsorship requests, label cosigns, consensus positions, the Godfather of Grime, stop hammock time, bar of the year, forces of nature, 2020 revision, purist misogynists, podcast USPs, Samboy chip riffs, death to groupthink, the year’s busiest week, this isn’t getting past the ethics committee and playlist plugs. Speaking of: our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: our final new albums of 2022 courtesy Hermanos Gutiérrez, Vero and Alien Nosejob. Also: Cocktail hour, the mighty ‘buch, phat Alberts, the winner of Beatles vs Stones, this died in the R’s, last pick remorse, differences of opinion, best vs most important, Maverick and Mimi, singlehandedly keeping the practical effects industry alive, the_blues_respecter logs on, presumptive tiering, 99 not out, could you be any more Guardian, Serious High-level Intensive Trial research, this isn’t made for you, the Waste of Time, keeping the spirit of Christmas alive, reinventing Whamageddon, Mariah-Celine PTSD and ’tis the season to get cancelled.
We’re back in the second week of Jan with our annual tripping balls AOTY Special, counting down our favourite review albums from 2022. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in music: new Little Simz, Tropical Gothclub and dub-remixed Spoon. Also: rubbing Sault into the wound, beats and loops and twinkles and goops and burps and blurps, straying further from the light, stump mic bars, everyone’s getting a three piece together, high school musical, lightly breathed-on, third strips, unexpected crossovers, bits that fell out of other recording sessions, Duolingo Beeso, Swedish insurance, everyone else’s AOTYs, the time limit on rap album skits, RTJ revisited and hammock and/or pool action.
Next week: Hermanos Gutiérrez, Vero and Alien Nosejob are our final new album picks for 2022. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: new releases from These New South Whales, Body Type and 3rd Secret. Also: no taste, no joke, grimcore, trying a bunch of stuff, top quartile albums, Led Zeppelin 3.1, picking albums yet to exist, punctuation correction, Doc’s annual RTJ3 AOTY rant, down for dub, pre-podcast albums, deep Third Man, confused convictions and unnecessarily lengthy yet arguably entertaining After Darks looking at our review year in review.
Next week: new albums from Little Simz, Tropical Gothclub and… a dub remix of a Spoon album we’ve already reviewed this year? Sure. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in tunes: new albums from blues youngblood Marcus King, chunky jumper prog exponents Polyphia and post-punk’s Paranoyds. Also: rubbing off, less than rapt with Spotify Wrapped, Doc’s 30 Albums Worth A Second Listen list, premature recommendation, review filibustering, not a vegan but well off-chops, every album is a genre piece, eating too much cake mix, abstract and illegible, 1992 amounts of slap bass, it’s been a long year, only three listening weeks till Christmas, TISM as a service, #DocReadsBios, Gen X sellouts, yet again we massively fail to predict the sound of an album we haven’t listened to, diversity picks, shouts to Violent Soho and/or Violet Coco, and the least interesting grime act. Next week: new releases from These New South Whales, Body Type and 3rd Secret. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in tunes: new Black Angels and Emancipator, and near-new Dub Garden. Also: bad website death watch, Elon’s newest customer, episode 12, copyright issues, surf roadie soundtracks, failing to secure the bag, day into night, off the plan, DUB101, got milk, background briefing, the Auerbach Cosign, Steve Vai sightings, drunk in Sheffield, everything is awesome, devo’d, large chunky guitars, past performance is not an indicator of future performance, closing down Vegas, the biggest band in New Zealand and containers of multitudes.
Next week: new albums from Marcus King, Polyphia and the Paranoyds. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in music: new albums from DARTZ, Dazy and Loyle Carner. Also: phantom albums, a little bit eeeehhh a little bit meeeehhh, bogan cosplay, Deja Voodoo deja vu, the not-for-me bucket, extremely 1995 areas, being derelict in your duties, self-explanatory Graun reviews, #KNIFECRIME, wet simps, wild colonials, Angels 1 Witches 0, the Black Lees, shirt retirements, sleeping giants, #DocReadsBios and pre-purchase buyers’ remorse.
Next week: new Black Angels and Emancipator, and near-new Dub Garden. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in music: new albums from Wu-Lu, THE BOBBY LEES and Sonic Flower. Also: playing chicken, tiers for fears, selective dementia, drive-thru recommendations, spacetime invariance, participation prerequisites, 90s speakers, unpaid promotional considerations, pachyderm confusion, impossibly liff-raden, we’ve all got stuff going on, blog ideas, Mikayla Patton, hair metal diss tracks, finding fault, punisher albums, other audio brands are available, prequels before sequels, which witch is which, delta swamp evilness, prisoners of the Mandela effect and the real reason Beeso is upset about the death of trip-hop.
Next week: new Dazy, DARTZ and Loyle Carner. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in tunes: new albums from Clutch, Big Scary and Eve 6. Also: Back of the Y areas, a lot of big and dumb, grifting the grifters, more songs about having crabs, pedal faster, failed sales jobs, the soundtrack of seasonal affective disorder, claiming it into existence, goodnight Springton there will be no encore, not caring enough to do the background reading, the spacetime constraints of trip-hop, ALL CAPS ENERGY, the Horizon has not been defeated, slash artists, planned obsolescence, Tay-Tay vs CRJ and bringing a knife to a house fight.
Next time: new BOBBY LEES, Wu-Lu and Sonic Flower. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in music: new albums from Troy Kingi, Pabst and Broken Bells.Also: flute solos, step back in time, in jokes you aren’t in on, sit Ubu sit, wishcasting collabs, can openers, the inherent value in decency, urology referrals, conventional weapons, shimmery pop, getting on the spirit vegetables, can 90s pop punk bands have a classic lineup, album reviews in the form of tweets, Wurzels earworms, terminating lantana with extreme prejudice, Butch Viggo, missing the subtext, cancelling culture and Forza Horizon understeer issues.
Next ep: new albums from Clutch, Big Scary and Eve 6.Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week in music: new albums by the Beths, Psychlona and King Stingray. Also: slagging off ESPN podcast production values, two-tone season, setting appropriate expectations, doin’ it live, vocal mismatches, things bist lift to rot, c’mon Ozzy, the rather swollen elephant in the room, nominative determinism goes horribly wrong, music to operate heavy machinery to, too many NBA analogies, Gizzard drivebys, too broke for yacht rock, breaking through the fourth wall like the Kool-Aid man, legacy fatigue, kingly quests, moustaches why?, Beeso Recommends, sunlight is the best disinfectant and life without parole.
Next time: new albums from Broken Bells, Pabst and Troy Kingi. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: OZZY! PUPPY! DOC! ADAM! NOT AS MUCH SHOUTING AS THESE CAPS WOULD SUGGEST! Also: the golden age of 30 second sketch comedy, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, fishing for a point, more fluid than Jeff Beck, lying snowblind in the sun, featuring nobody, post Post Malone, get off my lawn areas, recurring Siamese dreams, Vulgar Displays of Pantera, songs with bad ideas, ten internet points to anyone who guessed the track Doc was thinking of was Cherub Rock, Taco Bell explosions, Maroon 5 superfans, our contractual obligation album of 2022, remembering regional radio callsigns, as white as white whats?, Mike Brady drivebys, watching Hamilton > visiting Hamilton, the only person in the Venn intersect of the Gunners undercards, the same conclusion we always reach, the last Moore-ish Bond film, gritty reboots of Home Alone and ASMR corner.
Next week: Beeso’s back from lowering Northern Beaches property values to chat new albums by the Beths, Psychlona and King Stingray. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: box-fresh 2022 releases from Kenny Beats, the Schizophonics and Dub War. Also: one direction, Cymru Hill, period pieces, straight to Netflix, odd one out, pointless pastiches, the whitest imaginable genre, travelling through time, live admin, Beth Rammstein, a bit sharky, edit shed interludes and magic 8-balls.
Next week: new Ozzy and Puppy with Adamhfoto; Beeso’s back in a couple of weeks with new Beths, Psychlona and King Stingray. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: new albums from the Chats, Danger Mouse + Black Thought and Kasabian. Also: second verse same as the first, country Straya is fash, not for me Clive, the most unlikely Chats fangirls in all of music, born like this, surf cops, bedcasting, rank long hops, traditional marriage, impending doom, who produces the producers, eight seconds or less, answers to questions nobody asked, URL fails and 90s TMNTer or Red Bull athlete?
Next week: Kenny Beats, the Schizophonics and Dub War. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: new albums from Beyoncé, Black Midi and Nebula. Also: another brick in the wall, AI side projects, a man of many parts, voice of the Beyhive, Getty archive beats, putting the mid in midrange, Gizzard completists, Crow bars, our large round number soundtrack special (and its two sequels), yet another thing millennials killed, from beyond the grave, UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A, Happyland erosion, sucking the air out of the room, getting written out of history, DIY joker weeks, violent hatreds and the national anthem of drunk engineering students dropping trou.
Next week we’re reviewing new albums from the Chats, Danger Mouse + Black Thought and Kasabian. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: new albums from grunge grrls Momma, Glaswegian kiss-and-tellers Baby Strange and Britpop afterthoughts Kula Shaker. Also: mindworms, Nigerian patois, massive generalised statements about this year’s music, the ceiling is the roof, as cool as Kim Deal, sell out with me tonight, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, shouts to Subaru wagons, concepts nobody asked for, the downside of the democratisation of music resourcing, songs about A-roads, roast lamb battles, indulgent dross, helping the aged, two hours of Russ trade talk, the choice of SLSCs statewide, user-submitted Spotify bios, economically problematic, kids don’t say the darnedest things, bumper sticker editorial positions, colonial powers, Dave Warner: Union Strong, throwing shade, toilet paper avoidance and workshopping our next sure-fire business opportunity.
Next week: Nebula, Black Midi and Beyoncé. All our recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: new albums from Canadian indie kids Metric, midwest thunderlords Telekinetic Yeti and Swedish weirdbirds Viagra Boys. Also: ASMR-souls, head cleaner, imperial measures, sub-prime La Roux, dominant backlines, cubic metres of noise, unseen outside captivity, not quite a tiny desk, variations on a theme, do your own research, old people music, stolen MIND THOUGHTS, dogs needing oil, strange babies, the least worst of late Britpop, bad places to consume all your stash, the only winner from the Splendour washout, big in Japan, almost a word, mindfulness exercises, throwing money at washed idiots, LIV and let die, ‘avagoyamug, suboptimal guards, history’s greatest martyr and maintaining our standards of discourse.
Next time: new albums from Momma, Baby Strange and Kula Shaker. All our recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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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This week: new albums courtesy Little Boots, Oceanator and Black Seeds. also setting the tone, Super Hard No, have to enjoy the good stuff while you have it, long walks, yes, no, maybe, the bad batting of albums, into the foreground, Brisbane council minutae everyone loses, The U2, just give me the album, it’ll be on Spotify, or will it?
Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) available elsewhere on the internet.
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This week: new albums courtesy Nova Twins, Kaelin Ellis and Adrian Quesada. Also: blame the Guardian, no metal is better than nü metal, party movies, sunglasses-on apologies, doing bits, finding yourself through Son House cosplay, making up backstories to keep yourself interested, niche-on-niche, Triple J whimperpop, doing your research, La asteRoux, the Indiana Pacers of BBQ reggae, Matariki explained, Frank Bennett remembered, an op-shop hop with Pop and getting SEO’d out of existence.
Next week: new releases from the Black Seeds, Little Boots and Oceanator. Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) 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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This week: new albums from Britpop veterans Reef, non-fakers-of-the-funk Orgöne and Te Whanganui-a-Tara metallurgists End Boss. Also: alarming regularity, not the conceit, disappointing successes, being misremembered for one thing, we hope you like our new direction, the last ten percent of throttle travel, warm hoodies, catastrophic bowel movements, melodic sludge, do better next time, week of the year, visitors from the past, Graun music recs, evil timeline Veronicas, another of those producer types, black Pumas, the Shea Serrano of Texas soul, explaining the podcast, take it offline, giving up hangovers and having your Glastonbury broadcast delayed by a sausage magnate’s ex.
Next week: new Nova Twins, Kaelin Ellis and Adrian Quesada. Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) 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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This week: new albums from reggae legend Horace Andy, D4 alum Dion Lunadon and SoCal racketeers the Zibs. Also: don’t give up your day job, podcast maths, traditional storytelling, hybrid Corollas, reg-grey, the bug is the feature, Taylor’s version, gentlemanly conduct, blues-punk chameleons, Boa constrictions, Staffo’s TISM interview, being committed to the bit, the short-lived late-90s trend of big labels signing Oz indie bands, Polydor deep-dives, Good Things, the ultimate live music critics, over 35s at festivals, album titles that are also album reviews, come around to my way of thinking, being aware of the week(e)nd, fundie parent punishers, one of them things, third recommendations, Perfume Genius user reviews, not being as committed to the bit and YouTube rabbit holes.
Albums of the week next time are from Orgöne, End Boss and Reef. Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) 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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This week: new albums from Fontaines D.C., Obongjayar and BODEGA. Also: Danger Mouse collabs, it’s in the Google doc, other people’s top fives, not your picture postcard Irish, the_achievement_respecter has logged on, punishing ex-pat feels, snap and/or crackle, in need of a little Simz, incredibly descriptive detail, Brooklyn Alleys, hipster music head canon, after the D4, prime ministerial album swaps, shakedown AK79, narrator: he did not edit this so it made sense, rhythm is a driver, failing to avoid typecasting, the existence of James Dolan’s music career disproves Beeso’s thesis, the last coach on Pop’s bench, music direction, sledging Waikiki, profanity upgrades, random Canadian flotsam, what Fridays are for, almost thinking the latest Chemical Brothers album was good, Albo moments and making a club dance album while too old to be on any of the club dance supplements.
Next week: dancehall legend Horace Andy, D4 alumnus Dion Lunadon and SoCal day-job-avoiders the Zibs. Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) 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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This week: new albums from Dorsal Fins, Post Animal and The Lazy Eyes. Also: tag lines, film reviews, The Athletic further diversifies, not the kind of cheese you were looking for, Celebrant Rifles, disregard this music bed, not the target audience, indie without pop, (listening to the) flower people, wombling about for a ferociously long period, squandering the joker, the only thing that can stop a bad man with a door is a good man with a door, second degree racism, disproving precisely no stereotypes, the worst feeling of the week, surfing drones, John Kocinski’s second career and dashcam owners USAF. Next week’s featured albums are from Simz collaborator Obongjayar, Dublin howlers Fontaines D.C. and Brooklyn book-keepers BODEGA. Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) 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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This week: new albums from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Black Cab and Stöner. Also: Derek Smalls areas, breakfast radio production, starting in second gear, bleak Friday nights, ScoMo’s next bit, cratedigger sample playlists, this is a limitation, five beers deep, doing handstands, dumb fun, justice for drummers, going cheese, doing your own research (then forgetting all your notes), Greens candidates, role models and the algorithm knows all.
Next week’s albums: Dorsal Fins, Post Animal and The Lazy Eyes. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Kendrick Lamar, the Black Keys and Röyksopp (not Roy Scott.) Also: Jonestown areas, minor points, six and a half minute arguments, undefeated champions, grading on a curve, crossover audience cut-through, funky Gibbons, fleet-spec ute speakers, whoa-oh we’re halfway there, score draws, filthy grooves, flautists, Woke Dad diaries, a real Manly vs Brisbane affair, post-merger naming conventions, right in the Stockdale Zone and misplacing New Italy.
Next week: that new from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Black Cab and Stöner. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new Hermitude, Ocean Grove and Bob Vylan. Also: it’s a megablast, Maccas fries, the sun and the moon, falling asleep in the pool, back into ’92, milk’s off, spitting fire, hat tips to the legends, Australian young person music, fun cheese, cultural representation, the most Norwegian band we’ve ever listened to, dirty old electrified blues, keeping the lights on, and reluctantly giving into popular culture.
Next week's new albums are from Röyskopp, the Black Keys and Kendrick Lamar. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Swedish House Mafia, Bakers Eddy and CZARFACE. Also: the man in the mask, super what?, big raps, Beeso does himself a mischief, sleeping wrong, late subs, different eras of generic, back in the naughty corner, dropsaw work, last loyalties, knockoff Wairunga, Milton stormwater drainage, LA rooftop music and Zoo Miami.
Next week: new Hermitude, Ocean Grove and Bob Vylan. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from the Crystal Method and Warmduscher, and a throwback classic from Brassy. Also: audience participation, round trips, multiverse prequels, Boiler Room areas, decolonise dance music, brand recognition, double dropping, getting lapped on your victory lap, powdered condiments, good samples, upsetting sleaze, formatted kills, out of category awards, chronic indecisiveness and understanding your commitments.
Next week: new albums from Swedish House Mafia, Bakers Eddy and CZARFACE. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Jack White and Wet Leg, the Janet English Retrospective Collection from Spiderbait, and what turns out to be a Zero 7 album from 13 years ago. Also: JK Rowling’s less objectionable traits, maximal shredding, New Crow, upholstery, inverted palettes, last relevant in 2009, elevated elevator music, Kevin07, After Happyland, tonight: alright, Thrash Frente, anticipating the launch, Dragon slander, relentless weirdness, it’s got guitars in it?, Adelaide strays, cancelled Edgar Wright projects, avoiding typecasting, deep cuts, people say we monkey around, round trips, legally actionable, familial resemblance, crack for gen X music podcasters, doubling down on dumb and European vacations.
Next week: new albums from the Crystal Method and Warmduscher, and a potential undiscovered masterpiece from Brassy. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Red Hot Chili Peppers have Unlimited Love, Kojey Radical has a Reason to Smile and PUPTHEBAND are UNRAVELING. Also: Chicken Tonight, another block of non-stop schlock, banger counts, old and weird, too washed for Double J, if you are what you eat then what does that make millennials, Ts & Cs, not a sausage, peanut butter and narcolepsy, not enough heroin in the world, Steve Albini’s plumbing quote, being sober in Boondall, the 2021-22 Lakers of 2021-22 music, Fidlar conversations, the Abdominal Theory of Dirt, one out and one back, Uptown Funk Ghana give it to ya, the Stock Aitken & Waterman of indie, content uber alles, justice for Meg White, standard issue, holiday vibes, away colours, not understanding modern music, playing the hits, unfinished Spanish galleons, stranded grandads and vale Chris Bailey. Next week: new albums from Wet Leg and Jack White, the Janet English Retrospective Collection and what turns out to be a Zero 7 re-release from 2009 (oops). Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Denzel Curry, Charger and Cypress Hill. Also: munted vowels, less unpleasant than ScoMo, what happened bro, disappearing into two places at once, test cases, everything is a comic book movie, six buckets in, defending corners, B-Real at Toastmasters, tenuous transitions, riffs and stupidity, critical success, buying more time, death metal typefaces, not that kind of relationship, on a scale of one to Sol Invictus, agreeing with the Fauves, beef history, failed farewells, forgetting where you live, Letterkenny Night In Canada, anecdotes aside and demon summonsing.
Next week: Kojey Radical has a Reason to Smile, Red Hot Chili Peppers have Unlimited Love and PUPTHEBAND are UNRAVELING. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new Mysterines and Hoodoo Gurus, and near-new Durand Jones & The Indications with Aaron Frazer. Also: machine gun drive-bys, Kim K's kitchen nightmares, the worst possible reason to have to retire a bit, Dave’s 2IC, a week behind, parasitic preachers, biting the bullet, too loud for the golf club, unwise departures, electric chairs, contradictory opinions, something everybody can enjoy, ineligble for your consideration, Silk Sonic slander, Triple J heartland, the worst possible time to release a slasher movie about killing off the Foo Fighters, what you’ve come to expect, thirty years too early for the weed boom and Cosby sweating.
Next week: new albums from Denzel Curry, Charger and Cypress Hill. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Rot TV, St Paul & the Broken Bones and the Wiggles (and friends). Also: I get that reference, uninspiral carpets, recording live to potato, far-too-early long list chat, UB40xAB3, get (rid of) Carter, why does this exist, Mike Love’s Beach Boys, Wurzels erasure, maintaining one bit for 30 years, Don Spencer > Don Burke, straight outta Radar, gold watches and total recall.
Next week: new Mysterines and Hoodoo Gurus, and near-new Durand Jones & The Indications with Aaron Frazer. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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 t (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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Six years and 250 episodes later, it’s time for Desert Island Discs II: This Time It’s Marginally More Professional. Beeso and the Doc revisit the desert island discs concept - attempted shambolically in ep50 - to determine which five albums they’d be prepared to live with (plus a 'hall pass' bonus track) at the exclusion of all other music for the rest of their days, and whether having listened to several hundred new albums in the interim has warped their music worldview.
Next week: new albums from St Paul & the Broken Bones, Rot TV and the Wiggles (and friends). Those and our previous review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new Midnight Oil, Methyl Ethel and a double-EP joker from Khruangbin + Leon Bridges. Also: tired and emotional, boomer drip twitter, TOFORSL, live on Goat Island, great legacy-act comeback albums, pod-night tweeting, who can we hold responsible for Sol Invictus, being loud wrong in real time, not for me Clive, misgendering your pets, 1991 Bristol areas, what’s a good billionaire, ideas that aren’t good enough for a full album, charcuterie, two and a half hours none of us can get back, and suddenly the stunt goes horribly wrong, this is your new universe, everybody in the house of love, starting fives, cheese, island amnesia, setting your priors correctly, feel the pain, paralysed by choice, internal assessment exercises, therapy?, deserted by choice, DJ Beeso on the wheels of steel, we’re gonna need a bigger island and packing a ski jacket for Rarotonga.
Next week: six years and 250 episodes later, it’s about time for Desert Island Discs Re-Revisited: This Time It’s Marginally More Professional. All our review albums, surprisingly enough, can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new tunes from Spoon, Mild Orange and Eddie Vedder. Also: Matters arising, the ‘It’s not that bad’ defence, Official Positions, perfect for what it is, crashing into a tree, Cornell-Vedder duets, prohibited ideas, Dunedin’s Own, Shin-mery, electronically reinforced, Sad Indie Girl Summer, stop making Karens, helmet chat, you can’t beat the system, misgendered chemistry, vale the Arena, a tradition like no other, Beeso gets trolled by the Hoods, never give ‘em a window and it’s weird how doing a music podcast for seven years makes people think you’re opinionated and judgemental about music. Luckily our infamous Desert Island Discs two-part drunkcast from 2016 is lost to the mists of the internet so noone can ever challenge us on our assertion we were actually nowhere near as drunk and obnoxious about everyone else’s choices as we thought oh no wait dammit.
Next week: new Midnight Oil, Methyl Ethel and a double-EP joker from Khruangbin + Leon Bridges, all of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Adam and Doc defend/celebrate/obfuscate their problematic faves in the form of bollox-disregarders the Sex Pistols and Californicators the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also: Skinner dipping, people used to listen to the radio, homeopathic dilutions, Sports Tonight outro montages, pivoting to popularity, rock spiders, too much sun, separating optics from reality, the Backstreet Boys of ‘70s punk, doing the same thing slightly differently over and over again, excess and wombling about, do it for the #content, old bands: you don’t need to release new stuff to tour your old stuff, Choirboys catching strays, there’s far too much of it about, the lone arranger, legacy act white whales, two weeks in 1991, the last time U2 tried anything, getting what you pay for, Win95 launch music, surprise Pinkerton and adult contemporary smoko time.
Next week: new tunes from Spoon, Mlid Orange and Eddie Vedder, each of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: we unbox our first 2022 delivery of new albums from Blood Red Shoes, Yard Act and Eels. Also: large number inspo, being on twitter too much, Questlove agrees with us, albums of garbage, performative sadness, extremely northern, Cockerian belligerence, sportspod outro Easter eggs, feeling seen, wrong pronouns, the drugs do work, not realising how good we had it in the late ‘90s, RINGZZZ culture, “indie pop doesn’t necessarily have to be bad”, dominating every room and ancient oils.
Next week: new tunes from Spoon, Mlid Orange and a Mr Edward Vedder, each of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: duelling early-00s jokers from Turbonegro (hat tip to Hank von Hell) and Peaches. Also: full jokerification, bands of bad takes, algorithmic recommendations, dream collabs, emergency psychiatric wards, XL-ence, Rammstein areas, horny Trent, feel the Berlin, troubling the builders, rating yourself, 2019 revisited, monkey business, Balearic munters, and their best album since their last good one.
Next week: box-fresh 2022-model-year albums from Blood Red Shoes, Yard Act and Eels, all of which you can find on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including previous years' top 5 lists) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: It’s our Album Of The Year top five countdown for 2021. At last.
Also: H100 feels, Bond adventures, an album late, Kool-Aid Man entrances, Abs collabs, everything is flawed, drops > drips, more than a genre piece, distilled weirdness, it’s not his go, top 20 is not damning with faint praise, photocopier etiquette, failed crossovers, doing what it says on the label, playing spades, also receiving votes, Japanese concept albums, other peoples’ opinions, five percent more TISM, son I am disappoint, getting into psychedelics, rubber soul, being disavowed by your 21 year old self, deeply mediocre vs genuinely obnoxious, horse doxxing, jokerfication, grimy Gaga, Beeso’s contractually obligated Letterkenny reference, various abuses, scaring Norwegians and deliberately running counter to everyone else’s AOTY schedule.
Next week: a couple of early-oughts jokers from Turbonegro (as a belated hat tip to Hank von Hell)andPeaches. You can find all our review albums on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed over the year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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Live from the fringes of the Hottest 100 top ten, an old-school After Dark micro-ep on dissing the Alley, craft beer v Triple J H100s, mediocrity was the winner on the day, yay for Ye, nostalgia is a sometimes food and these are definitely some times, Beeso’s last Hottest 100 voting slip, not doing your homework, 2016 vs 2017, the top ten always sucks and predicting the #1.
Next week: our Album Of The Year top five countdown for 2021. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (now including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: our end-of-year 2021 album clearance special featuring Urthboy, Turnstile, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Bat Fangs, the Drippers, Pist Idiots and JASSS.
Also: beach v pool, inner-urban troubadours, a very Australian Christmas, Eric Bana with a polystyrene hat, green onions, hardcore history, other people’s lists, an album too late, lack of consensus, coastal elites, Motörhead filth, flat spots, PLU12, crowdsourced bios, foreshadowing the AOTY episode, decomposing composers, the end of groupthink, moments of zen, Little Kenz, pining for nonexistent nostalgia, Motor Ace’s one song, speaking it into being, Doc’s long list, binning off January, depth vs peak, theory vs practice and the Year of the Album.
tripping balls is back in two weeks with our Album Of The Year special, counting down our top five new releases of 2021 from the 100 we reviewed this year. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week in new music: 1977 funk-soul from Silk Sonic, ancient Delta blues from Buffalo Nichols and we're-still-not-quite-sure-what-this-is from Bicurious. Also: Not bad not bad not good, in defence of Andy Paak, more plastic than a Netflix F1 fan, I like your old stuff better than your new stuff, tiny desks, continuation specials, lacking the dirt, Canned Heat ≠ Canned Heat, oh the BLUES blues, shoes optional, dentition also optional, it’s it (what is it), sliding off your brain, narrator: that’s a yeah nah on the lyrics, A Very Gravy Christmas, Horses punishers, #RapperDad: The Saga Continues, Nice Mics Records, inconsistency at the top level, doing things to your stereo, missing our quota, growing to appreciate Scandinavian violence, the Celebrant Rifles and a stop to hammock time.
Next week: EVERYTHING MUST GO - our end-of-year 2021 album review clearance special featuring Turnstile, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Bat Fangs, the Drippers, Pist Idiots and Urthboy’s new Christmas album. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Birdz, gloo and the Darkness (plus bonus Wolfmother, if you’re into that sort of thing). Also: fake work getting in the way of actual work, domestic model Subarus, polished to a dull sheen, amateur carpentry, bars over beats, 80s Oils areas, garage to bedroom flow, jokes over everything, serious legitimate musical theatre, Japanese synthwave, concepts on concepts, Ronseal Stockdale, the successful negotiation of very low bars, horse partitioning, half hour delivery guarantees, make-or-miss algorithms, particularly zeitgeisty, Bootsy v Muggsy, the blues is the blues, never saying no, Brest screening, leaving the single off the album, Spotify Half-Wrapped, quarantining your kids’ terrible music off your account, talking over generic Casiotone, dad rap tags, throwing hands at Verzus, magnetic cheese, we talkin’ bout practice, insipid Canadian disses, ridiculous claymation violence, seasonal nut allergies and a snapback for the diss track.
Next week: Buffalo Nichols, Bicurious and an evening with Silk Sonic. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Adamhfoto jumps on for an evening of slow jams with Silk Sonic and a half hour of heroically unironic riffage with new Wolfmother, plus bonus Ashes day 1 immediate reax and absolute-state-of-the-NBA-wins-pool chat. Also: out-of-sequence strategies, thoughts of darkness, production notes, listed as component parts, decorative boots, NYC catcalling, Paaklife, ponderous conserves, expensive photocopies, holding your own, anti-Wu Tang, there’s still pop radio out there?, gourmet popcorn, welcome relief, Tolkien efforts, songs about rooting, DIY attitudes, Sabbath > Zeppelin, Purple covers, grudging respect, Kiss offs, original ideas, the cost of sounding pretty, 80s memes, a joke made by an egomaniac, four weeks of Splendour, better living everyone, recycled riffs, staying humble, Bangalow Plaza Shoppingtown, the Stockdale-Nicholls equilibrium, shut up Warnie, played for and got, 147 broken, overhead savings, we’ve already sold the ads, live Lonny look-ins, Keeve O’Steefe, calling isos for Isa, a low bar for amusement, normal service resumes, explaining maths to Queenslanders, DFL on D, surprise! the Kangz are eleventh!, the Cavs persist, taking the Pistons, New BALLS Clasićo II, how much of Wiggins Island is below MHWM, Grizzlies bear down, the west is the east, a lot of roast beef, Barça-bound Dante, sizzling the upcoming Motorsportnerdpod, pride in the name of love, the underrated value of getting punished for your mistakes and consistent flautistry. BALLS.308 (the sports bit) kicks off around 30 mins in, if that's what you're here for; chapter markers are included for those on poddy platforms that respect them.
Next week: Beeso’s back to the future for new albums from Birdz, gloo and the Darkness. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Even, Lisi and Warbly Jets. Also: you make me sick I make music, dramatic beats vs actual beats, Hennessy on a XXXX Gold budget, u wot m8, straight outta Goodna, a product of its times, 2017 wasn’t such a crap year after all, the last interesting U2 album, melancholywobbles, deep in his bag, suspension of disbelief, Fisher-Price My First Beats, Frogstomp to Neon Ballroom, this is not a tribute, abrasive high-energy output, all cheese all the time, shouts to la niña, the worst part of early parenthood, getting your rig out for no reason, sledging time, lying about your age, fit but you just know it and taking it to the grave.
Next week: Birdz, gloo and the Darkness(and not Wolfmother, but if you want to give that a crack don’t let us stop you). Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Hollie Smith and ’68, and Electric Six unlock their inner RSL covers band. Also: two kinds of (other people’s) music, more brass than class, the Guardian’s lost-and-found section, Squires on the A-League, tears before bedtime, the Boss can’t count, un-Googleable bands, coherence of purpose, things we can do without, Doc’s favourite album of 2017, Ladyhorse, I’ve been to Goodna but I’ve never been to me, A Very Paul Kelly Christmas, Staffo’s Patreon yarn with Ash Naylor, lord of the flies, lawnmower fuel and shamlessly shilling for contra.
Next week: Lisi, Warbly Jets and Even bring the new new. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new RÜFÜS DO SOL, Parquet Courts and the Sore Losers. Also: gin-related news, low ceilings, chunky bits, avoiding festivals, Metallica have a lot to answer for, singer-songwritery, it seems like we’ve been doing this for a very long time, well well, failing to capture the zeitgeist, grid walk shenanigans, tour to survive, yes somebody made a documentary about the Fauves, is it 1998 again, desk jockeys, and my music taste has been slandered (my groceries just gone). Next week: new albums from Hollie Smith and ’68, and Electric Six go all Garage Inc.. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: we’re off to Neville Neville Land as tripping balls’ Official Metallica Correspondent Adamhfoto joins the Doc to look back at the the Black album on its 30th birthday, the accompanying Metallica Blacklist all-star covers collection, and new stuff from Polish Club. Also: Christian sucks rock, OK boomer, apostrophe apologies, H100 strays, problematic parties, the end of the podcast, FOAD here’s Wonderwall, grenading your own legacy, pariahs in period, the Brown Hornet, doing it live, first-team all-NBA game ops tunes, harpsichord hate, even flow, starting fives, everybody hates Lars, recycled devices, show tunes and spaghetti westerns, the new guy, justice for Jason, alternative Rock classics, learn to count with Phil Rudd, trying to out-Metallica Metallica, Portugal power-rankings, algorithmic attention-seeking, inappropriate horns, Bob breaks the fourth wall, songs to get arrested for, and a hard earned thirst needs a big nose beer. Next week: Beeso’s back from the bay for new RÜFÜS DO SOL, Parquet Courts and the Sore Losers. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Alabama 3, Twelve Foot Ninja and Dazy. Also: grime hat-tips, cletuses on acid, clearing out for iso, 90s TV one-hit wonders, BSB updates, Patton recognition, alternative timeline greatest hits, magazine freebies, sharing a brain, narcolepsy, Xzibit memes, long-list entry requirements and gin-neric drinking practices.
Next week: no man is an island but Beeso's off on one for the weekend so Parquet Courts, RÜFÜS DO SOL and the Sore Losers will have to wait for his return. Instead: regular third wheel on the TBP tricycle, the Godfather of Grime and our Official Metallica Correspondent Adamhfoto joins the Doc to establish whether the thirtieth anniversary remaster of the Black album has absolutely ruined it (or whether releasing a 15 hour super duper deluxe version did that automatically) and whether any of the covers on the Blacklist are worth a spin. Also: new Polish Club.
Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Yizzy, Shihad and the Bronx. Also: the Godfather of Grime, lived experience, bringing the troopz like AFTV, apologetic beef, problematic accents, self-aggregating, highlights specials, trying to avoid starring in Adele, 35, getting barred from West Auckland, The Pacifier Experience, no pretenses, Sunset Strip hair farmers, how music normally works, why would you want to do that, death metal font, Rolling Stone’s 500 worst albums, Dave Graney’s suit recommendations and time-travelling sausage manufacture.
Next week’s new albums are courtesy Dazy, Twelve Foot Ninja and Alabama 3 Queensland Reds 6. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new stuff from Amyl and The Sniffers, CHVRCHES and Calva Louise. Also: our plan to save modern EDM, getting maggoted, Marmite areas, start as you mean to finish, fine lines, sniff tests, obscure WA politics references, bilingual bangers, DIY Rage, more Doubt, Spanish swearing, learn to play the Bogut way, the great Avril replacement, MECHA-STREISAND, closing loops, do godfathers outrank princes, deluxe EPs, Dave Graney's hiding place, getting pepperoni grease out of linen suits, anger management and substance abuse as a personality trait.
Next week’s new albums are courtesy Yizzy, Shihad and the Bronx. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Rudimental and Chubby and the Gang, and a classic from A Tribe Called Quest. Also: more M1 chat, spokey-dokeys, last week tonight, the same stuff, Your Mate, double concept albums, bad bad not good, chubby checker, this is hardcore, room-borne elephants, evolution not revolution, feel the beat drop, jazz and hip hop, consensually gross, a shot in the dark, a bit too nyeaahh, Vlad Chiriches, matter of fact I got it now, post-ironic cheese, UK tuna imports, new MCU superheroes, score check, the decline and fall of empire, Ben Simmons vs Sid Fogg, we remember a guy, and it turns out that antivaxxers: not ideal. Next week: new stuff from CHVRCHES, Calva Louise and Amyl and The Sniffers. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Alien Weaponry, Jungle and Andy Cooper. Also: parking the bus, reverse jinxes, being pro-creep, The Matrix 2.1, light and shade, emo faffage, macron confusion, self-parodying monarchs, disco strutting, controlling your energy, getting upset at randomness, cannot and/or will not stop, primary producers, government names, all downhill, a busy day at the record store, Kool-Aid entrances, not talking to your friends, improving Coolangatta, te reo for kids, earning the tag, pre-emptive bullying and blazers in Brisvegas.
Next week: new albums from Rudimental and Chubby and the Gang, we complete the set of classic 24 September 1991 releases with A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, and Doc might even have his mic on the correct setting. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Little Simz, Drapht and Meatbodies. Also: novel anxiety, gathering no moss, things of that nature, Therapy?, too much salt, degrees of difficult, Paul Simon areas, never being to me, self-help apps, new-age Bond themes, no swag, a little bit terrible, reading the room, dearly depahhhted, outside help, stacks and bricks, edited highlights, seemed like a good idea at the time, prog flog, Craig vs Moore, heavily polished, alley days re-revisited, Spotify in confusing two different artists shock, this is your fault, firing from both ends, psychedelic counterpoints, Kendrick slander, I don’t have time to feel bad about this, jungle weaponry, inventing something new, legacy mountain, humming index, 60% new content, getting the band back together, vegan barbequing, recapping very old jokes in very bad ways, scab league avoidance, no news is no news, don’t sell work stuff on eBay and gender equality.
Next week: new albums from Jungle, Alien Weaponry and Andy Cooperand not Shihad. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cam Cole and L’Orange x Namir Blade. Also: Disappearing acts, concert context, old bangers, bridging sets, unjustified mu-mus, contractually-obligated playlist additions, royal punishment, humblebragging about getting to have holidays, lorazepam, stacks and straps, cratedigger origin stories, beats without bars, the world is still chaos, it’s the vibe, Layne Staley on a crackly conference call, getting mutual, dropping furniture, acronym in-jokes, critical vs commercial, near-death metal, the Ty Segall Cinematic Universe, the secret life of breaking early-00s Melbourne indie-pop bands by using their music in hipster TV dramas, hiphop bias, downing tools, the Bucs almost stop, aging strawberry dodgers, content factories, smart-casual cases, reasons not to go to parties, Beeso talks to kids, and needless to say I had the last laugh.
Next week: new albums from Meatbodies, Drapht, and most unexpectedly, Little Simz. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new Nas, new Ty Segall, and (near) new Faithless. Also: times of chaos, firehose creativity, the 33rd best band of the 90s, Gen X are worse than boomers, parental fails, non-Noonans, cultural touchstones, Jack Johnson tribute acts, insomnia cures, ivermectin doesn’t work on earworms, floral arrangements, rotting tennis centres, Nike knockoffs, made in the sunshine, collaboration cancellations, Ford Fiesta racing, live to tape, Glasgaw chverchves, one-man bands, becoming overinvested in 2016, late night veganism, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, lockdown fields of view, 1989 Corollas, Mad Monday on a Tuesday, Jimmy Anderson won’t go away, Mosgiel slander, Knuckles Colony and chilled-out Tunes.
Next time: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cam Cole and L’Orange x Namir Blade. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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.
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This week: new albums from U.N.K.L.E. and Ayron Jones, and ZZ Top’s 1983 classic Eliminator (vale Dusty Hill). Also: for who for what, you done messed up A-A-Ron, Mr Big areas, Doc probably meant forgettable, Bruckheimer soundtracks, country conventionality, 85 minute car chases, Uncle Arthur, Stevie Wonder’s organ, wallpaper*, old blues bands, southern remits, bottle cages, goin’ 50, nods from the old heads, alternative jokers, non-deluxe versions, unnecessary covers, coming attractions, know your Nas’s and doing the doo. Next week: new albums from Nas, Ty Segall and one you might have missed from Faithless. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Red Fang, Greentea Peng and SAULT. Also: shouts to Sludge II, feeling like 1992, this is fine, whisky misters, unobjectionable content, violent cuisine, day-after triphop, mushroom records, on a heater, chemistry experiments, post-credits sequences, punishing Seppos, Rachel gets racial, not you Mike Skinner, if you can’t be good, inventing time travel, Ronin 1 Liverpool 0, dudes who think they’re Prince, ROFLcopter, presidential erasure, how to identify different members of ZZ Top from very far away, and loser talk.
Next week: new albums from U.N.K.L.E. and Ayron Jones, and a 1983 classic in the form of ZZ Top’s Eliminator (RIP Dusty Hill). Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Tigercub, Troy Kingi and an Asian fusion experience from TEKE::TEKE. Also: putting the production meeting in the podcast, soft centres, disproportionately large riffs, cheer up, be still, flat spots, wall-to-wall Mumford, yes Beeso is listening in reverse track order again, death (death), banger afterthoughts, decolonising our history, if you don’t like this wait six months, this is not Guitar Wolf, shining lights on the hill, ‘well that’s a thing’ isn’t an arts review, white Kayne and/or Konye fans, third person bios, 1.15 listeners, this is your captain howling like a dying banshee, act now, two white guys sitting in a basement, being taught by TISM, editorial decisions by the production team, getting nailed in the bits, clouds of chloroform, the decline of clubland, Roofers Du Sol, poncing about in the loungeroom throwing shapes to old man bands, #yourwelcome, school punishment, and accidentally inventing things.
Next week: new albums from Greentea Peng, Red Fang and a limited-time offer from SAULT. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC from Czarface x MF Doom and Stöner, and an all-star Gang Of Four tribute album. Also: basket cases, getting your wife to stop talking to you, comic books and wrestling promos, backward music opinions, impending doom, coastal elites, influences’ influences, not great man, a look you haven’t heard, ‘umlaut’ doesn’t actually have an umlaut, doing it live, lowered expectations, nancy boys, go folk yourself, mixed reviews, avoiding social media, anyway here’s the new Wonderwall, dead kills, Nashville: it’s not just Cletus music, it’s soccer Moses not soccer Jesus for soccer God’s sake, spoilers: he did not manage to report in from the road that week, and boy did these sporting takes age well. Next week: new albums from Tigercub, Troy Kingi and a (very) joker from Japanese-Quebecois fusion experience TEKE::TEKE. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Adam joins Doc to talk albums from Jacob Collier and the Blue Stones. Also: remixing Beeso, being paid to go away, spending too much time in your bedroom, ya big jessie, containing multitudes, gifted child syndrome, Protracker nerd evolution, leave it alone son, playing for your own pleasure, all night long, what’s a CD grandad, Ed Hardy shirts, double the complexity, print is dead, too white for this, alphabetised covers, doing what it says on the tin, absolutely skithouse, Maroon 5 strays, call now, secret Canadians, build it from the riff up, and amen (break) to music (music music).
Next week: Beeso returns with new music (music music) from Czarface + MF Doom and Stöner, and a grab-bag all-star Gang Of Four tribute album. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Wolf Alice, Skegss and Sleater-Kinney. Also: where are my teeth, would you like to borrow some words, tooling around for a bit, unearned lupinity, shouts to Frenté, Doc doesn’t get out much, they rock more than you do, the Dunedin Sound, world famous in New Zealand, Beeso victimises the elderly, unintentional segues, imagine 1994, rambling beat poetry, albums that precede comeback albums, back in my day, outta phase, the Tennants Perpetual Trophy, true history of the Paul Kelly Gang, postcode chats, never mention Doc’s Bob Dylan’s impression, wild overcorrections, Discover Weekly form slumps, Worst. Episode. Everrrr., umlauts rock, live from the desert, bands you haven’t heard of that influenced bands you have, all kinds of weirdness, Waimate Beach, Delta variants, Kyuss-offs and Shins splints.
Next week: Adamhfoto joins Doc to talk new/near-new produce from the Blue Stones and Jacob Collier. When Beeso returns from the war: new stuff from Czarface + MF Doom and Stöner, and a grab-bag all-star Gang Of Four tribute album. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Kings, the Datsuns and You Am I. Also: the absolute temerity, trap beats and coke raps, No-tearoa, tropes under licence, terrible segues, full Nashville Cletus, good Lenny Kravitz vibes?, sense of propulsion, Before The Muse Paradox, melted goths, performative past tense, Devils slander, get mad and get even, the Men’s Shed of 90s indie, songs ruined by popular culture, White Stripes gateway drugs, Wolf Something, not quite Aardman and getting St Vincented. Next time: new albums from Wolf Alice, Skegss and Sleater-Kinney. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Neapolitan ice screamery from The Devils, Afro-Asiatic anime beats from Flying Lotus and bourbon-and-bank-robbery delta blues from the Black Keys.
Also: drug cocktails, sick riffs, deliberately using the most mellow track from the album as a drop to make your cohost’s opinions look vaguely ridiculous, late night SBS B-movies, #DocReadsLabelBios, the Kevin Bacon of ‘90s-‘10s rock, narrator: he did not edit all that out, bank robbery enabling, the raw and the cooked, the Black Keys’ big come up, the entire history of white rock ’n’ roll, music to nod off at the wheel to, hanging up your sword because of some… unpleasantness, Blade Runner knockoffs, giving away the plot in the song title, Lynchian collabs, the Doc’s favourite band of the past 20 years, non-Football non-Kingz, bootleg Drake art concepts and baseline controls.
Next time by: new Australasian album sounds from the Datsuns, Kings and You Am I. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Iceage, DJ Format and Genesis Owusu.
Also: bad allies, are Scandinavians allowed to be boring, unlimited attempts, is playing in time and singing in key just stuff that only washed boomers care about, interesting looking horses, R Sage, late night lounge sets, losing your abs, the Avalanches School of Random Sampling, get your rocks off, spaces between, points for trying, 80s sports movies, lyrical themes, when the chips are down, Kingi-fisher, Mark Lanegan frequencies, special guest stars in order of appearance, getting mistaken for Thundercat, lifetime bans, consensus picks, professional cowardice, preparing yourself for disappointment, throwing back to a random week in early 2017, who asked Coldplay to come back, and yes mate we’ve all got stuff going on.
Next week: new albums from Neapolitan ice screamers The Devils, West Coast beatmaker Flying Lotus and delta frequent-flyers the Black Keys.
Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Adamhfoto joins the Doc to review new-old stock from vowel-dodging sadboi The Weeknd and Pitchfork faves Greta van Fleet. Also: RWC final spoilers, Heineken hats, what if Google was one of us, alleged greatest hits, working blue, weird spam, differently dull, that one song Bruno Mars did, take what you’re given, 808s and lunchbreaks, pay to play, showing your working, are Canadians allowed to use the N word, picking the wrong Led Zep noises to rip off, #DocReadsPitchforkReviews, heroin is confusing, ethical tackle shops, paying for the full hour, indifferent to opinion, no stairway? denied!, turns out Rage Against The Machine were a bit political, selling out for a Zinger and chips, upsetting Jamie Oliver, who reviews the reviewers, Buzz Rothfield’s ABC opinions, have we run out of music, shouts to Wa Wa Nee, self-strangulation, Reel Short Sets, has Adam’s dad been 70 years old forever, acoustic guitars are boring, the other Phil Jamieson, Tex Perkins humblebrags, the Questlove of RocKwiz, James Brown is dead, singing with your pianist, accidentally Even and pathetic halts. Next week: Beeso’s back with new albums from DJ Format, Iceage and Genesis Owusu. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: we review new albums from Royal Blood and Warish, and revisit Gorillaz’ debut 20 years on. Also: cartoon bad guys, that don’t upset me much, in a lot of ways kids are just small humans, never go full Moz, diluted Bleach, writing music for your dad’s workplace, don't try to beat Tony Hawk at pool, not what we came for, Muse cleanskins, setting appropriate expectations, a nink and a wod, on further review, Weezer do another Beverly Hills cover, blues-driven nastiness, Men Behaving Badly: Britpop Edition, fish with feet, sad hiphop filters, go listen to the Deltron 3030 album, rejecting puppet leadership, his father’s son, powerfully physical version of rock band, Denmark’s 1992 Euros team, bringing analytics to a reality food show and the big reveal of the cover art for the BALLS ep (if you know you know). Next week: Adamhfoto joins the Doc to review new-old stock from the Weekend and Pitchfork faves Greta van Fleet. Beeso's back in a couple of weeks to talk new albums from DJ Format, Iceage and Genesis Owusu. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Balthazar, Haunt and Andy Cooper + Marietta Smith. Also: dark necromancy, high-definition indie-pop, very long run-ups, if you say ‘it’s all fine’ with a rising inflection is it really all fine, chroming habits, 1982 states of mind, technical proficiency, type specimens, more or less, opposites attract, the Kool-Aid Man School of Rap, #DocReadsBandTweetThreads, technically we called if ‘Museification’ before At The Drive Thru but they posted first, playing chicken with picks, Jive Bunny mastermixes, self-titled debut albums: normie or normie as hell?, time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’ into the future, spicy content, the bitcoin of the 1700s, mixtape picks, Doc’s been calling it Beautiful Destruction instead of Distraction all week and probably isn’t going to stop now, and the time-honoured parental tradition of barracking for weather abandonments on Saturday sports mornings. Next week: it’s a big'un with new albums from Royal Blood and Warish, and revisiting Gorillaz’ debut 20 years on. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff from this year in our 2021 review archive along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all albums ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Tomahawk, CIVIC and GHLOW. Also: clowning Spurs, industrial brutality, art projects, chunky sections, unsound engineers, interesting bridges, still holding tickets, worth it for the #content, Canberra brewpubs, fearing for your life in a Honda Civic, 1978 lyrical content, milk stouts, doing someone else a favour, LISTEN, escaping on a technicality, failed pitches, Kasabian’s one (half of a) good song, AJ Tracey discovers basketball, digital interactions, the last good Tame Impala track, entirely competent rock bands, meeting with your German suppliers, Joker drive-bys, track ones and your guarantee of quality. Next week: new Andy Cooper + Marietta Smith, Haunt and Balthazar. Recent new review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify - earlier stuff is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: reviewing new albums from Gentleman’s Dub Club and Grande Royale, and revisiting The Fratellis’ debut from 2006. Also this week: poorly rated openers, who’s got next, hammock selection trials, being screamed at by hairy Scandinavians, Chuck Berry > Buckcherry, narrator: it was actually seven minutes, character portraits, Scottish twitter, caustic monkeys, Patton recognition, ferocious bells, ‘indie’ isn’t intended to mean ‘independently wealthy’, blaming the algorithm, you can’t spell ‘ambient’ without Ambien, Spearfishing Confidential, 2015 Balls After Dark spec drunken commentary, OG collabs, Beeso gets back into food writing, the death of blogs and the joys of having a partner who doesn’t read your tweets. Next week: new stuff from Tomahawk, CIVIC and GHLOW. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week in new music: JJJ crooner Odette, obscure indie outfit Dog Ears and Soul Cough-shoot Ghost of Vroom. Also: Listening audients, stepping up, as predicted, hungover Sunday morning areas, vague Jesus complexes, more bacon, comparative joy, blaspheming against Beasties production, the two sweetest words in the English language, music critic schadenfraude, strawpeople, there’s a lot of it about, crimes of mediocrity, laying up short of the green, Scandiwegian deathpunk, football chants and punishing your plumber with Resin Dogs chat. Next week: Gentleman’s Dub Club, Grande Royale and terrace legends The Fratellis’ debut from 2006. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from SoCal’s Nopes, 1993’s Grouplove and Teutonic weirdness’s the Notwist. Also: Drum ’n’ Benj, not here for this, Slim Dusty dusty, dig your own hole, manic pixie dream pop, bringing the wrong stuff back, buying the Ikea kitset of a post-peak Breeders album, nominative determinism, Chamber music, the voice of reason, the miracle of bad taste, Wellington council politics, Hillsong house bands, cult bands’ cult bands, self-submitted bio of the week, the word Doc was looking for was ‘residuals’, again with the Patton side projects and getting blocked from the club. Next week’s newness is via Odette, Dog Ears and Ghost of Vroom by Soul Coughing’s Mike Doughty. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from the Melvins, Blu DeTiger and shame, committing to early decisions, comedy genius, the leftovers, unmatched high points, MA15+ ratings, beached as bro, margarine jingles, all about that bass, deep Norwegian, the boomers win again, no umlauts, who brings cameras to a bush doof, problematic search terms, waiting for April, Festy Hall souvenirs, explaining Fat Pizza, rock ghosts and everything is Ric’s. Next week's new albums are by Nopes, Grouplove and the Notwist. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: Swedes, mangos and peaches; new produce from Viagra Boys and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and a 2007 classic from Dub Pistols. Also: finding enjoyment, disowning the joker, interesting reactions, 182cm hicks, letting the weird go, calling an audible, Loaded areas, GTFO Rodney, other uses of the Apollo 11 countdown, electronic arts, dropped speccies, boomers gonna boom, QAnon Metallica, two dudes called Warren, vale Michael Gudinski, essential job requirements, just don’t be sad, socmed follows is not a quality metric, general wombling, separating your recycling, dirges and stupidity, sub-anthems, a bad week to be on psychedelics, mental shortlists, experiential reviews, US remakes and explaining bodyline. Next week: new albums from shame, Blu DeTiger and the Melvins. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Tash Sultana and Kid Kapichi, and a recent joker/classic contender from Four Fists via listener Wheatman. Also: pop filters, pillow talk, raisin' hell, immature BS, adult contemporary slow jams, Parklifeyacunce, Run The Jewels 5 Tottenham Hotspur 2, backloaded singles, helmets in helmets, Statler and Waldorf, suddenly parenting, reliable happiness, Wayne Gardna, reggaeton airhorns, sitting in the dark for 45 minutes and reflecting on your choices, Hank Pop, writing your own jokes, aaaannnnd SCENE, playlist updates, it's Mabo, wasting a pick, helium-light stupidity, self-cancelling hosts, you can make anything funny with an airhorn, and DIY-ing the beat for One More Time. Next week: new stuff from Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and Viagra Boys and a 2007 classic from Dub Pistols since their newbie turned out to be a bunch of remixes of last year's album. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from You Me At Six and Mush, and a rudey nudey style 1991 classic from Prince. Also: not as advertised, Snyder cuts, six word reviews, the AU Falcon school of art, reviewing last year’s model, Beeso gets confused, push the little daisies and dance like a duck, poll dancing, Smash Hits 1989, For International Listeners, Mike Patton’s normie band, 6am sex albums, covering yourself, logistical support, Still Happy Gilmore, old people talking about the music that was important when they were young, early ‘90s erotica, pre-millennium tension, as advertised, NWOBHM areas, Florida Man, February lulls, no through roads, critical disconnects, contractual obligations, pivoting from video, drunk at 1.0x speed, ad skipping, unsponsored endorsements and too many podcasts. Next week: Kid Kapichi, Tash Sultana and Four Fists (a listener joker/classic submission from 2018). Speaking of 2018, here’s that Kimber ep from when Doc was overseas. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 MIXTAPE featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: New albums from Foo Fighters, Madlib and The Dirty Nil. Also: let’s dance, manipulatively anthemic, Triple M baggage, pass marks, essential Daveness, marking time, HR issues, the drawer under the sink, convenience samples, interesting cul de sacs, genre fluidity, what’s my name again, the most hairmetally of all the punks, explaining 90s rave culture, Tooheys Red is never a good choice, 3D routines, the algorithms are converging, a Very Special #DocReadsBios, cut the Snyder, Andy’s organ, dance commander, new romantics, better than MJ, swag surfing and Eddie’s special word. Your man Dave’s quite good on the latest Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend also. Next week: new albums from Mush and You Me At Six and a classic from Prince. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 MIXTAPE featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: new albums from Sleaford Mods and Nancy, and one (or two) you may have missed last year from Sault. Also: British variance, points for concept, Patton does T-Rex, unregistered counselling, east Midlands geezer hiphop, Stockdale Award frontrunners, better on paper, production crossover, group projects, disco jams, middle aged white guys, back of the shed demos, fix it in post, analogue dirt, the outer limits of joker acceptability, Dave’s True Stories (now available in an actually readable format) and music suitable for toilet breaks. Next week: new Madlib, The Dirty Nil and Foo Fighters. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has all the new albums we reviewed last year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from those albums. The full list of all the new and classic albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: our first new albums of 2021 from Aaron Frazer and Here Lies Man, and a new/old/classic/best-of joker from the KLF. Also: short shortlists, A-A-Ron, getting your hour back, complete flutes, NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME, understanding where you come from, walls of sound, know your bangers, revoltingly stupid songs, scaring the kiddies, telling your own story, CV news tickers, too much attention, some old crap Doc wrote, Atari teenage nerdout, self-populating playlists, score draws, albums you might have missed, socialist art-punk turf wars, Allan Frazer’s test career, our listeners have three-album thoughts, the Australian KLF, plus an old-school After Dark hitting pirate radio on Twitch, Letterkenny on TSN and why not everyone should pivot to video. Next week: new 2021 freshness from Sleaford Mods and Nancy, and a 2020 throwback from Sault. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed last year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from this year’s albums. The full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod since the beginning, and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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This week: can we agree on ten artists that had a run of three genuinely classic albums in a row? #NotOffSeasonFiller Also: notes app apologies, the zeitgeist, not in those shoes, not in this conversation, go speculator, justifying to the unwashed, ten years gone, going to war, LA residencies, not good podcasting content, breaking format, encroaching washedness, you are here, reheated leftovers, entry points, sitting in a closet shouting into a bin, farting into a polystyrene cup, technological reproducibility, sending one in, problematic individuals, bad photocopies, black and white, national conversations, stadium misery, legacy whoopie cushions, into the FUTURE Future future, angry Brexit punk, plot devices for Chats songs and how to write a #1 pop song. Next week: new albums from Aaron Frazer and Here Lies Man, and a new/old/classic/best-of joker from the KLF. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed last year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from this year’s albums. The full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod since the beginning, and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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103 new albums, two top five lists and a generous excess of Knife Party IPA: yes folks it's time for the tripping balls 2020 Album Of The Year special, counting down our favourite albums from all the new music we've reviewed on the music pod this year. Also mentioned in dispatches: opening remarks, appreciating the good, earning all caps, darkness in the sunshine, joy as a tiebreaker, Paul’s Boutique for washed GenXers, having the time, algorithmic nonsense, fun in the time of coronavirus, button pushing synergy, doing a good job of a bad job, Canadian phases, deep in his bag, where is your brain, starting points, vibe bias, really really, inappropriate injury rehab, hors catégorie albums, highly commended, speculative Hail Marys, quarterly reviews, being a month behind the zeitgeist, which witch is which redux, mid-90s grunge aesthetics, pointlessly damp, don’t believe the hype, legacy rescue jobs, joker stretches, on-air production meetings and being unable to stop the rock. Next week: three-album runs. Yes, only a month behind the zeitgeist (look, we were on leave.) Recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed this year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from this year’s albums. The full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod since the beginning, and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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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Our final new music review ep of 2020, featuring new albums from The Nude Party and Model Child, and a look back at the Black Sorrows’ Hold On To Me. Also: exile from Main Street, performative self-destruction, trapped in 1980s amber, cardboard kicks, alternative Christmas playlists, rays of sunshine, Doc’s long shortlist, three-album top fives, built for Reverse Patreon, other people’s AOTYs, other unwanted diseases from the Northern Beaches, unicorn faves, safety first, Venn overlaps and hammock season.
Have a great holiday break - we’ll be back in mid January with our Album Of The Year Special, because what kind of two-bit organisation of frauds and charlatans wraps 2020 in November.
Our recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has the full archive of all the new music we’ve reviewed this year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from this year’s albums.
The full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod since the beginning, and Beeso's playlist for his boys, are also available elsewhere on the internet.
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This week: new albums from Kruder & Dorfmeister, Cut Off Your Hands and Dick Move; reflections on 250, craft beer advent calendars, rejecting labels, more of the same, not in those shoes mate, time capsules, better trips home, two-drink buzzes, long shortlists, LSD, #NotAllAustrians, chopping and changing, received pronounciation, deliberately bad house bands, idiot stuntmen, homeopathic white boy funk, blank stares, three word reviews, and suddenly the stunt continues to go horribly wrong, 1989 aged poorly*, artificial Swedeners, La Rouxette, influential cellists, say that to my face, partying nude, voting below the line, stoned Dunning-Kruger as a service, variations on previous themes, Tay-Tay’s new undercard and shed-based therapy.
*The pop music of the period not the Taylor Swift album, though YMMV
In next week’s final new music review ep of 2020: new albums from Model Child and The Nude Party, and revisiting the Black Sorrows’ Hold On To Me. Those and other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 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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It’s our 250th (ish) Music Episode Spectacular, in which Beeso and the Doc review brand new albums from Dennis Cometti, The Money War and Magick Mountain, before we pick our personal top five Most Influential Albums of all time. Also this week: Right Said Fred are nutters, Spotify Wrapped is a joke, bogan self loathing, the entire point of punk rock, hating the CBD, snap crackle and thud, Greybeard stout reviews, boldly insipid, straight burglaries, taunting Sweden, podcast albums, excessive fuzz, doom metal power pop, do one, new old stock, give ‘em a taste of Kiwi, melancholy feelings, an album of clown music, accurate first drafts, it’s too loud and you’re too old, early influences, rambling storytelling, Thatcherite labour policies, back-to-back Jacks, cringe picks, the importance of late ‘80s smash hits compilations in a regional new music desert, two for one deals, heavy to the core, reappreciating Nirvana, albums doing numbers, Hey Hey it’s Saturday Night Palsy, Machiavellian scheming, non-existent albums, Skinnys vs Butter Beats, cruising the mean streets of Lismore, Monsters of Roxette, moments of discovery, triphopping into dub, garage days revisited, man’s not hot, also receiving votes, coming down off heavy benders, misunderstood geniuses and clocking music. Next week: new albums from Kruder & Dorfmeister, Cut Off Your Hands and Dick Move. Those and other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 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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This week: Adam joins the Doc for an Other Peoples’ Classics ep featuring Smashing Pumpkins and Transvision Vamp. Also: emergency guest hosts, Girlclumsy’s legit Spectre hate, noone listens to double albums, The Most Profound Lyricist Of Our Generation, teenage angst, Christian re-writes, who are you calling a can’t, night and day, director’s cuts, suspicions confirmed, not listening to our AC/DC takes, a bit too much information about Doc’s 80s pop crushes, sax crimes, missing the zeitgeist, the ASMR queen of 1988, grab bags of ideas, pop ain’t easy, stanning Bros, Your Mates, Smash Hits ’88, significant cringe, previewing our 250th ep conceit, Countdown Revolution, them’s drinkin’ words, TayTay v2.0, gateway drugs, the internet is made of randos, watching other people play video games, furniture reviews, Full House crushes, live pianisting and Frank Zappa: Problematic Fave.
Next week in tripping balls.250 we ask what’s the five albums that’ve been most significant in forming your music taste? Plus new albums from Magick Mountain of The North, and a WA double play of The Money War and Dennis Cometti. Those and other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 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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This week we're reviewing new albums from AC/DC, Matt Mays and White Denim. Also: showing some mongrel, kids album energy, give Jurassic Joe his flowers, Pokemon is a gateway drug to evolutionary palaeontology, factchecking the Fauves, killer-to-filler ratio, Stiff competition, thinking you were washed at 30, the album of a year, the Bond films of hard rock, doomsday riff repositories, prosthetic eardrums, the genius of simplicity, sledging Birmo, maple syrup and melted butter, rotating tropes, morning sickness, Basils are faulty, cycling to a GnR concert, replacement Axls, very loud noises in a concrete box, good bands on bad nights, sitting down on the job, competitive woodchopping, so you’re saying there’s a chance, appetite for Appetite and extended Rain periods. Next week: Adam joins for an Other Peoples’ Classics ep featuring Smashing Pumpkins and Transvision Vamp; then when Beeso gets back from international duty we’re smashing new Magick Mountain and a WA double play of The Money War and Dennis Cometti. Those plus our other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 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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This week: new albums from The Pack a.d., Fuzz and Bee Bee Sea, craft beer corner, screaming against a hurricane, remember when the Dollop was funny, PNW aesthetics, it was indeed fun while it lasted, DJ Letterkenny, our new segment: Doc guesses about TV shows he doesn’t watch, violence against photocopiers, caught by the fuzz when I was still on the Fuzz, Italy’s leading Britpop act, skipping the prequels, the Ronsealiest, feeling it in your bones, 70s speakers were basically heavy carpentry, hey you get off my algorithm, TISM road safety campaigns, posthumous axework, old new Top Gear, The Amazing Racists, The Maize Runner, world famous in Canada, Iggy rides the bus, completely cactus, maple syrup and Timbits, taking it to the grave, rude covers, heyyyy ‘rona, and our usual high-level US political analysis. Next week: A NEW ALBUM FROM AC/DC. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. ALTHOUGH IT MAY SOUND LIKE SOME OTHER FORM OF HEAVY MACHINERY. Also new stuff from Matt Mays and White Denim. Those plus our other recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with the full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our tripping balls 2020 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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This week: Westside Gunn, Goldminds, the Bill & Ted 3 soundtrack, World Series Half-Cut Taped-Up-Tennis-Ball Cricket, beats as advertised, too much disrespect for even us, blocked and reported, riches and bitches, on commission, Muse does Highlander, Gen X nostalgia cash-ins, the Stones vs Beatles of 90s high school dropout movies, Stockdale Writes Bios, parts ≠ sum, old Datsuns, Melbourne returns, struggle filters, good is great, long shortlists, playoff locations, Gizzardian output levels, Canadian indie runs, Alien Weaponkingi, Ill Lombardia, not a week for that Dead Kennedys energy, Dr Seuss rhymes and seven Skepta references or less. Next week: new albums from The Pack a.d., Fuzz and Bee Bee Sea. 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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This week: Elderbrook, Didirri, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, stout for breakfast, lactose tolerance, good head, ENG101-spec homebrew, king parrot sightings, falsettohoods, making excuses, low on IBUs, Which Witch is Which II: Witch Harder, callback and response, instrumental bridges, cooking your algorithm, apologies for last week, context clues, them raps, silver spoons, improv troupe promo shots, explaining ancient Late Show bits to people who should have been watching in period, Rodney Dangerfield routines, wasted jokers, soundtracks to movies you will never watch, you had to be there, Education Department sleeper agents, Les is more (more or Les), slightly over-ripe opening lines, the TISM creative process, hating Ed Kavalee, Nortons on Norton and getting yourself relegated. Next week: Westside Gunn, Goldminds and the Bill & Ted 3 soundtrack. 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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This week on TBP's new music show: Andy Cooper from Ugly Duckling has no egrets, Osees, Oh Sees and/or Thee Oh Sees are caught by the fuzz and James Williamson and Denis Tek are offering Two To One on their album sounding like Stooges-meets-Birdman 40 years on (get on at that price). Also: old grooves, inexplicably big in Europe, personal commissions, even more still hungry, coffee shop sugar theft, grime guests, fixating on the seventh-best Beatles album at the expense of listening to anything released in the last decade, west coast Beasties, insufficient Patreon tierage, washed dads, writing about your lived experience, Do Not Want, interestingly weird vs unlistenably weird vs just weird, amplifiers full of gravel, where are we going and why have we taken so many drugs, hinging off ancient runes, our Blues Explosion classic albums ep, driving through mud, Sydney nightlife: it always sucked, some working parts, second divorce Guardian boomer energy, wandering off into the countryside, #DocReadsBios, Harry Styles styles, sick as a parrot, no we have no idea what Doc is saying either but we're very very sorry and last week tonight. Next week: Elderbrook, Didirri and Frankie and the Witch Fingers. 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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UNCLE JAM'S ARMY IS HERE. This week: new albums from Public Enemy, Deftones and A. Swayze & the Ghosts. Also: blaming it on the boogie, ageism, 80s mixtape energy, hope skips a generation, old man shouts at cloud, retconned pranks, things you don’t want on your CV in 2020, the parenthetical shoving of it, smashing helmets, don’t call it a comeback, 4am gym excitedness, is agit-punk a thing, Very South Melbourne, production choices, sounds from another time, has music been clocked, optional global roaming, hating everything on purpose for the win, Ugly Duckling cygnets without trace (sorry), ASMR-sholery, sounding like 1978, Little Simz before Little Simz, not getting excited, filthy casuals, executive chefs, tasting notes, Radiohead exceptionalism and least favourite kids. Next week: Andy Cooper, Osees and Detroit punk legends James Williamson and Denis Tek. 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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This week: new albums from Troy Kingi, The Atomic Bitchwax and Vika & Linda. Also: camping with kids, pop culture references from 1990, monster footprints, sorry the office was shut, treadmill tracks, just keep doing more riffing, boomer music mag takes, other people’s classics, Trolling Stone, Radio National, lockdown Christmas albums, John Legend’s to-do list, dark back stories, imagined recreations, genre be goode, James Brown apologists, lost media, lost Brisbane indie band Bandcamp, making yer own fun, recognisable heads, the Leeds away game of tripping balls weeks, buying your own sales job, tone deaf fans, old def jams and sinking the slipper. Next week: new Deftones, A. Swayze & the Ghosts and Public Enemy. 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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This week: Adamhfoto joins Doc to spin a couple of Other People’s Classic Albums (as-yet unheard by your correspondents) from Living Colour and Amy Winehouse. Also, terrible intros, getting high, episode 250 pitches, burning jacarandas, deliberately forgetting the ending, new-old beats, Adele’s Berlin heroin period, washed millennials, monetised pain, family rehab, songs not to perform on X Factor, rail safety, the 27 Club exists for a reason, the Bob Rock of grunge, 1991 had a lot going on, as did 1988, the Vai-Satriani nexus, the Reverse Elvis, Love Rears 2: Electric Boogaloo, end of the evolutionary line, Mick Jagger’s LinkedIn, Sunshine covers, Guitar Hero on hard, and when seven inches is all you need. Thanks to Adam for guesting on the music pod this week - check out his Saturday nite request sessions live on FB and be sure to request the Soul Power remix of Love Rears Its Ugly Head, if only to drown out Beeso drunkenly demanding random album cuts from Little Simz or the Bobby Lees.
Next week: Beeso’s back with new albums from Troy Kingi, The Atomic Bitchwax and the iso gospel according to Vika & Linda. 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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This week: new albums from All Them Witches, LA Witch and Tricky. Also: when the premise is better than the product, hunka hunka gurnin’ love, Romulus and Remus, sandwiches, Postcards from Morgs, adverse reactions, beekeeping, featured bugs, iron deficiencies, engaging with abusive drunks, ethereal BS, home brand Fiji, barbeque reggae adjacent slop, pounding decibels, isn’t purview a weird word, occasional furniture, keen on Jesus, the new Liberal MP for Beenleigh Heights, edit shed interludes, old fashioned music, dark energy, unofficial national anthems and therapy fuel. Next week: we call an audible and get Adam in to listen to a couple of as-yet-unconsidered 'other people’s classics' from Living Colour and Amy Winehouse. Next Beeso ep, once he sobers up and floats back down the coast on an inner tube: new albums from Troy Kingi, The Atomic Bitchwax and the iso gospel according to Vika & Linda. 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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This week: we welcome official cheesy 80s hair metal correspondent of the pod Adamhfoto to discuss in what possible universe is Poison’s Open Up And Say… Ahh! a classic (hint: the year 1988) as well as new albums from Cable Ties and the Casanovas. Also: yet another band playing Chuck Berry, going for a Slash, classically trained pianists, not well ‘ard, every rose, audience participation, watching your mates’ cover bands, the most relatable of all the axe gods, Phil Rudd drum solos, de-probbo’d Chili Peppers, all about that bass, TdF leadout guys, kebab fights, unsuccessful reunions, Finger vs Gurge, contravening the Trade Descriptions Act, self-inflated delusions, redneck cops getting owned, hairspray and riffs, burning down Flame Trees, punishing covers bands playing hipster album cuts instead of the pop hits you actually want to hear, Gen Z’s Gambler, Clementine Ford starts a punk band, Bobby Less, baggy Roberto Carlos style ’02 fits, meeting your Waterloo, back shop works burgers, Dude perfect, seven great years, learning to count in Denmark, classic Sledges, Lloyd Webber coke dreams, slow sad string covers for movie trailers, Who’s Got The Rona, score draws, unstable isotopes, which witch is which, it’s tricky to write a rhyme to write a rhyme that’s right on time it’s tricky, taking dubs and tape deck target demographics. What have we become indeed. Next week: All Them Witches, LA Witch and Tricky have new albums to share with you (and us). 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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This week: new albums from The Luka State, Drab City and Naked Giants. Also: white boy rap, one word reviews, RIP AOR, where in the world, frosted tips, kissin’ Cousens, American cheese, saving syllables, triphop aesthetics, trying to fall in love, recreational sadness, bleep off, $2 shop Black Mirror tropes, contractually obligated mentions 2020 style, talk about... pop music, failed interventions, targeted niches, other feeds are available, naked but’s, unwanted Cure, blame the second guitarist, Dragons Den for joker albums, Cuban Heal(ing)s, following stock trucks, rudey nudey style allusions, DIY album art, conservative Christian hysteria, the Minister for Cheesy Rock, more white boy rap, full pyro, winding up Metallica fans, some things are good that are actually bad, last gasps of hairspray, hey dude don’t call me dude, lizard people, show us ya Nasty, cut the interview, bad outros, self backpats and going out on a high note.
Next week: we’re on Melbourne lockdown with new Cable Ties and Casanovas, plus a most post-ironic classic in the form of Poison’s Open Up And Say… Bleaaaahh! (as the Mad magazine parody probably would have gone. Rest in power, king.) 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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This week: new LPs from Melbourne-LA indie type Jess Cornelius, old-school Scandi metallurgists Lucifer and shouty upstate NY garage monkeys THE BOBBY LEES (their caps). Also: Teflon music, full brains, two year old timestamps, a lot of this, ridiculousness, Poison’s information service, McDonalds cheeseburgers,SORRY FOR SHOUTING, the reason this podcast exists, Zack White, suboptimal flatmates, mowing over extension cords, deaf magnetic, 100 years of LOUD, troll AOTY picks, new contractual obligations, earning your stripes, bungling through time and space, she’s a man, when Eric eats a banana a fantastic transformation occurs, Doc reads Guardian profiles, even better than the real thing, your list is invalid, prisoner of society and/or the moment, priorart, washed baseball fans and classic album After Darks. Next week: new albums from Naked Giants, Drab City and The Luka State. 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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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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This week: short sharp shocks from the Buoys and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, is Pulp’s This Is Hardcore a classic, gender identification, paying by the minute, good bones, range rovers, late for the zeitgeist, hashtag sick of winning, not getting the joke, cocaine fever dreams, rejected premises, performance reviews, hot thoughts, meetings that should have been emails, clunky segues, Pitchfork's very Pitchforky top Britpop albums list, alternative universe Be Here Nows, charity bin escapees, class comedy, punishing left wingage, aged care, objectively correct takes, dealing with fame, coming round to viewpoints you already held, time is a flat tyre, thrift shop David Bowies, grunge commonalities, never go full HR, old dudes at the pool, tears of a clown, unsearchable band names, pipeline masters, the next Unit and we’re all someone’s daughter and/or someone’s son. Next week: new albums from Hockey Dad, !!! and In Hearts Wake. 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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This week: new albums from Lime Cordiale and BOIDS, '90s alternative tribute album Fuse Box, apparently RATM were political, citation needed, history repeating, loving yourself some yourself, this is an audio medium, Fans Also Like, money talks, definitive seven-word reviews, sweaty cuddles, top hits, the most Triple J Triple J bands of 1995, urgey gurgey, gritty reboots, fake drama, Kazoo TV, [SPOILERS], great opening lines, Greek theatre, conscientious objection, anyway where’s Wonderwall, The Neverending BALLS Podcast Story, translating jokes into Swedish, participation trophies, never review Tay-Tay, Raven Bond, bad content is good content, beaning Astros, leaning into the camp and Northern Beaches pubs. Next week: we cut it short with EPs from the Buoys and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, while examining the classic essence of Pulp’s This Is Hardcore. 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new stuff from the Beths, Lianne La Havas and the Meanies, putting some respect on the OG’s name, corporate sucks rock, getting locked out of NZ, accidentally Angie Hart, show your working, ensemble solo acts, shortlists aren’t what they used to be, 1970s Dennis Lillee runups, Sunday afternoon chill, explaining Mental as Anything to Gen Z, inevitable disappointments, upsetting Radioheadheads, inspiring a generation of snotty punk kids, bricks by the ton, entente cordiale, Montreal impact, mid 90s Doc areas, kazoo solos, Wyld Stallyns’ difficult comeback album and political statements. In part 2: supersized Nuggets, bread and circuses, ruining niche sports, production values, stuff: there’s a lot of it about, crowd noise barometers, the Draymond Memorial Dump Button, old country smack talk, bubble entry fees, Woj goes rogue, forgot about Stein, nobody knows anything, Kanye cosplay, blazing hot takes, uncharted territory, clutch sides vs Klutch sides, opaque contract reporting, Easts’ salary cap is a Flexfit, Doc’s Theology Corner, on-time podcasting, moderating performative bellends, NBA jam, knowledge vs wisdom and doing a bit.
Next week: new albums from Lime Cordiale and BOIDS, and mid-90s JJJ-adjacent AC/DC tribute album Fuse Box. 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Dream Wife and Pabst, and a recent classic from Tax The Heat. Also: chopping wood off your chops, border patrol demarkation disputes, proto-allies, Cyndi Lauper with sad clown makeup, thirst vs feniminisnms, the joker shortlist jinx, arts and crafts, ich bin ein Berliner Musikband, unconventional decisions, ripoff artists, drunk in a national park, hitting vowels with a hammer, owning your cheese, taxing the Miami Heat, dragging Beeso’s year, informed by Motown, hardcore Britpop, imaginary minions, Doc is Loud Wrong, tiny desk fans, a career of self-titled albums, the Dry July Courtney Barnett, flaming Edgars bursting in air, the laughably brief swing revival of the 90s, missing Homebake, too cold for coronavirus, insta-bombing your own FB, washed Walkers, let’s gone home Warriors, experimenting on vulnerable migrant populations, Brisbane exceptionalism, NRL blog boys, LEEDSLEEDSLEEDSLEEDS, promotional considerations*, the BALLS Podcast EPL Clasico, the next Norwich vs the next Sheff U, lock-outs vs lock-ins, young bodies heal quickly, the LA Crushers, rugby league but bad and weird, go BONCOS, big hits of the 90s, the Zion Williamson Seeding Tournament, shotgunning Napa pinot, relatively sensible ownership, Citeh getting away with it (all messed up), Pep’s selective wokeness, fans of chaos, Jim Ratcliffe vanity projects and knife parties. For those just here for the sports chat we’ve included chapter marks to suit.
*Of course by the time we posted this, the Championship has already finished (as are Brentford’s automatic promotion hopes, good luck in the playoffs lads - and shouts to Albion Love Den’s Baggies on getting the other automatic spot behind Leeds)
Next week: new stuff from Lianne La Havas, the Beths and the Meanies. 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: we review shiny new 2020-flavoured musical albums from Khruangbin, Beans and GUM. Also: Jazz Club (nice), kitchen salmonella, fake profoundity, Americans have bad taste in music, homer picks, 80s lifts, kicking into the wind, Life on Mars, never get enthusiastic about anything, Beck on deck, emotional instability, playlist bombing, making out, Doc Badly Remembers Bios, Doc Badly Reads Press Releases, Doc Badly Does Maths, ironic PBRs, forgotten* NIN classic album eps, revising Meat Loaf’s arithmetic, starting the lawnmower, the Batsmans’ Union, canned balls, twitter is occasionally good, the Washington Racial Slurs, cancelled candy, black lives continue to matter despite old angry white men arguing to the contrary, the old-timey quaintness of The Decision, following indecisive Frenchmen around with a camera and some ironic discussion of our audio quality (we’ll sort it next week, promise.) Next week: a recent classic from Tax The Heat plus new albums from Dream Wife and Pabst. 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from John Legend and Sports Team, classic Jesus and Mary Chain from 1985, The BALLS Podcast Story, Presets presets, corny wedding songs, putting your back into it, diabetic alarms, the Russell Wilson of R&B, lesser spotted Britpop, dunking on West Wing tragics, Dude And The Band Names, walls of white noise, punk on valium, industrial droning, popular after the fact, social distancing compliant gigs, sonic blackface, the best band in the world, Geetroit Rock City, Bill Oddie aesthetics, old mate Kev, imaginary mood boards, favours from Molly, Victoria's bitter, firing Australia’s groundstaff, looking good on telly, the Anthony Seibold Experience, Liverpool’s legacy and BeIN-n-Out burgers. Next week: new albums from hot-right-now Houstonites Khruangbin, and Oz indie acts Beans and GUM. Beeso promises to plug his mic in properly next week. Recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums we've review. 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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This week: new albums from Spacey Jane and Lucern Raze, and a recent classic-adjacent from Feral Ohms. Also: arguing with yourself, l33t h4x0rz, wearing your shirts inside out, more information than anyone needs, West Coast Cooler in the sun, Kmart catalogue models, garbage-in-garbage-out, nooks and crannies, rapping like an emo teen, 2 Dogs (no relation to Ken Sutcliffe), Billy Thorpe with his bits in a vice, Monkey business, white noise revisited, US college radio, embiggening up, saying no to yacht rock, we stan Chrissy Teigen, not writing left handed, the Franti-Legend-Peas-Harper nexus, join your union, Game of Obvious Jokes, the Barnaby Joyce of basketball, ooohh Kevin is replaced on earth, the most progressive sport on the planet (apart from its fans), F1 calendar crunch, getting schooled on the twitterz, the NBA vs Florida Man, baseball’s long slow decline, an invisible odourless weightless tasteless virus, Nerd Pledge is nerdy, Bradman retconned, your rights at work and the Dougie Walters School of Modelling. Next week: John Legend, Sports Team and classic Jesus and Mary Chain. 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: RTJ4, Benny Walker, school drop-off etiquette, power rankings, percussive maintenance, seal eggs and Christmas miracles, keeping Zack in work, 1 v 4, boom-boom-boom raps, nobody wants to be the woke white sidekick, cat people, old hermits, blunt instruments, band on the run, reference spotting, excessive sax, the LCQ League, of course Beeso didn’t send the link to that Semenuk thing and Doc couldn't find it, we finally built the mixtape, clapping back at 2016, Skype-delayed flow, BLM Week, order from disorder, never channel post-peak Foos, all we need is a punch in the face, clean runnings, Western promise, agricultural critiques, the Goldilocks zone, Carly Rae B-sides, moving air, Beeso and the Yob, origin stories, bubble resistance, retiring Harden’s jersey, moral perverts, reverse jinxing the Landers and Covid in the same sentence, Brees changes direction, Nascar gets woke, sport is back, Twiggy is back, the Tokyo Sexwales and shouts to all our listeners in Mount Morgan.
Next week: Spacey Jane, Lucern Raze and Feral Ohms from a couple of years back. 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. If you’re really keen, the playlists for Rock in the Time of Corona aka Beeso’s fantasy league for music nerds are linked here for week one, two, three, four and five, plus bonus rounds. 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new music from Patrón and Aitch and old music from Ween. Also: project restart, Fisher-Price My First Grime Album, job applications, financial advice, stacks of slacks, diversify yo bonds, needing a shower, Nick Cave sex music, Marmite, trying too much, coherent messaging, fantasy football for music fans, breach of contractual obligation, shaking it, AOTY for Xmas, old man rage, solving gestures at the state of everything through the gift of song, vox Pops, the death of dynasties, random #rugbaleag knowledge, forgetting Bob Paisley and Kenny Dalgliesh, Williams F1: from trophy to atrophy, killing your darlings, Beeso’s unified theory of NY hate, Woody Guthrie week, what’s the technical term for washed, Format en Français, Abs goes fishing, the NBA plays safe, weeknight fitness, GSW strawmen, helicopter parents, Russ never sleeps, performance management vs player development, NZ Warriors live updates, earning your keep, limited munters and the return of the Northern Eagles. (Yes it does go on a bit and spears off into #hotsportstakes areas so if you’re just here for the tunes feel free to bail around the half hour. You’ll know when.) Next week: Benny Walker and Run The Jewels. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full playlist archive of this year's new albums. The 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. If you’re really keen, the playlists for Rock in the Time of Corona aka that fantasy league for Beeso’s live music mates are linked here for week one, two, three, four and five, plus bonus rounds. 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: Old Strokes, New Strokes and Yves (might be a) Tumor, The 12th Man Again Again, Doc's Zencaster handle of the week, I don’t even own a TV, average sex, was this it, giving up 2002, Central tunnel acoustics, bad decisions, millennial music mags, pulped Bond themes, pushing buttons, in defence of cheese, childlike wonder, you come at the Prince you best not miss, definite sex haver albums, only nineteen, Reverse Patreon, live music substitutes, the year of crotchy album covers, the Seppo Gurge, disproportionately successful in Australia, theoretical mixtapes, interstitial instrumentals, the Canberra Comets of the NRL, the Knicks are an inside job, Doc reads a book, the 1985/86 Australian WSC team, spotting Mo Matthews in Randwick Franklins and being surprised by your own jokes. Next week: Sleaze-merchants Patrón, Northern grime monkey Aitch and late ‘90s lophotrochozoan enthusiasts Ween. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: New music from Jaguar Jonze and LOSER, Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut: singular statement or saccharine demo tape?, we might have been drinking, unworthy of 250, Triple M aversion therapy, caping for the Beatles, music rag confectionery, the soft-loud, the deliberate… pause, anyway here’s my laptop, the shouty banger album, the sensation you are feeling is the U2ification, Danny Bonaduce house band deep cuts, down with this sort of stuff, everything is the blues, spare guitarist virus denialism, Grohl on live music, unleaded supergroups, short comebacks, hit and missy, jobs for your mates, the distilled essence of trip-hop, overselling your picks, full length releases, the Andrew Stockdale Prize for Biographical Fiction, were we wrong or were they, bangers and mash, everything is different when it’s live, hiding in the doof tent, caught by the fuzz, avoiding being caught stealing, BDO 2004 and spicy hot Wings. Then, in ‘the garbage we do afterwards’: NBA comeback specials, Office Space feels, Twitter: making your life worse since 2016, Trent Woodhill power-ranks NRL coaches, wrestling in a purple shirt, the walking death of the big man, World Cup campaigns, destroying your own creation and all-duck-fat training diets. (On that, Beeso’s insta is worth a look. As is Dave Grohl’s storytelling one, tbh).
Next week: the Strokes then and now, and it might be Yves Tumor. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: a new EP from Little Simz, Kiwi emo-metal via City of Souls, Little Simz' new EP, ‘60s jangle-twang from Dead Ghosts and would you look at that it’s a new EP from Little Simz. Also: Mike Patton does what Mike Patton does, it’s not Mabo, preconceived notions, the Toyota Hilux of podcasting, THRRRUUUSSST, two minute warnings, a return to mediocrity, self-cancelling headphones, Dead bits, oblique edges, stealing for your kids, early morning snipers, Tū Pac, Dr Yobbo reads Spotify bios, keeping up with the Jonzes, gender subverting photography exhibitions, handy for Bristol, Tri Phop, the worst profile of the week, Death To Title Case, kicking on overseas, Brazil: it’s bigger than you think, Reject Shop supergroups, Ronald Ray Gun, built from bits, never pay full price and fifty shades of beige - plus some leftover bootleg motorsportnerdpod #content on Formula 1 returning, the Bathurst 12 Hour not, cartel franchises, Seb gets subbed, Lando TV and putting the no in Renault. Next week: Jaguar Jonze, LOSER and Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Maddy Jane, Wyldlife and Best Coast, would you like to play a game, procrastinating from home, pick-sniping, needing to see other people, internet-famous for the wrong reasons, Missy Barnett, performatively regional, cheese-producing Bass Strait island power-rankings, scrotal fungi, that’s a lot, recurring themes, intensely disposable, love songs and dedications, Marvel bangers, banks of knobs, the mediocrity of large groups, the awesomeness of old Datsuns, the music taste of an eight year old, FU boomer, contractual obligations, 2-1 losses, EP tracks vs album tracks, gala sets vs hour specials, touching wood, forced presence, strawpeople, the Eric the Eel of grime, new-old stock, unsuccessful anythings, the gravitational pull of 2003, padding on the internet, typing on the internet, points for Simpsons references, apologies in advance for what Doc just did to your eardrums, getting played on radio stations you don’t listen to, Auckland city mission, the University of YouTube, being too poor to be anti-vax, RUGBA LEAGUE, axeing for trouble, C-P-free from ringz, overpaying for one good run, underestimating how long NZ emo-metal albums can be and reconditioned Clutch discs. Next week: Dead Ghosts, City of Souls and the new EP from Little Simz. Obvs. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 indie RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your opinions on the contents are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Violent Soho and Tom Misch with Yussef Dayes, Brothers Stoney’s Stone Broke. slacker grunge grab bags, the Billy Corgan Appreciation Society, The Freshmaker, shouts to the 4122, the best Pearl Jam song ever released, ‘phoning it in, incidental instrumentals, carpet sample books, this is lazy, mates from Adelaide, hiphop landmarks, finders fees, super professional if a little bit stoned, who’s the boss, DIY aesthetics, DIY wetsuit warmers, radio resets, live Gizzard, Nutbush: the national dance of Australia, memes are all Dicky Dawkins’ fault, bad bad not good, a series of noises that are vaguely interesting, Team Lockdown, Kenny Stardustat the K West, I don’t go to parties baby, Soundtrap for young players, making songs suck less, ChemBros listening parties and Bonus BALLS (since the sport pod is off next week) on ball-tampering spit-takes and Luka vs Trae. Next week's new albums are from Wyldlife, Maddy Jane and Best Coast. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from the Smith Street Band, Naked Six and [Public] Enemy [Radio], RUGBY LEAGUE, mating calls, definitely albums, Weddings Parties Anything covers bands, Fitzroy turf wars, Things Of Stone And Wood That Aren’t Beer, don’t talk just go, sax offending, loud is enough, insufficient stickiness, stop eating the microphone, Chuck & friends, old man flow, the Facebook uncle of hiphop, 10 albums in 10 days, not for broadcast, incredibly local, kings and cutthroats, lost in the 90s, hit and Misch, Alvin Stardust, songs to get off heroin to, panned Labyrinth, it’s been a long week and the whisky’s kicking in, Choirboys don’t like big muff, black metal cats, tunnel vision, industrial disease, Tarzan albums, influential vs good, mental pedometers, angry Collective Soul, Garage Days Re-Revisited, RUGBY LEAGUE and the longest uninterrupted string of washed 1980s references in the history of this or indeed any podcast.
Next week: Violent Soho rep the 4122, a new Tom Misch/Yussef Dayes collab and Brothers Stoney’s underground debut Stone Broke. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Laura Marling and Rookie, while the Stones’ satanic majesties request that you Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out! thanks luv. #okboomer #totesinapprops Also: Classic Rock Week, frothing on campfire folk, clocking Spotify, evolutionary developmental musicology, Marling and me, first year drama projects, ending up where you should have been all along, false advertising, Ahhyynnnnjaaayyyyeee, party’s over, the rise and fall of the album, another band playing Chuck Berry, the Wreck-On-Tours, inventing stadium rock, corporate raiders, the history of Oz indie music in 30 tracks, demarkation disputes, scaring the censors, Hov & Ye, Keef’s book, Leonard Bernstein Leonid Brezhnev Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs, binary narratives, maintain the rage, a nation of ultracops, it’s just a search away, lockdown divorces, DoCS interventions, scripture vs blasphemy, bad UK hiphop crossovers and a tight two minutes from the Big Yin. Next week: new albums from the Smith Street Band, Naked Six and [Public] Enemy [Radio]. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Brisvegas-UK hiphop collab Hash Butta Synergy, Geordie doom-metal bludgeoners Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and the pride of St Theresa's Catholic College Noosaville The Chats. Also this week: day drinking with Dr Mrs Beeso, first wave Oz MCs, fitball hiphop, yet-imaginary mixtapes, stop picking your own albums, core meltdowns, Staffo sez do yourself a favour, Beeso’s 10kg spud bag era, received wisdom, fact-checking punk songs, aging tools, outsourcing your mistakes, sad and/or indie, jumpsuit rock, were there any good Stones albums, fishing with muppets, Rube Goldberg machines and being drunk and disorderly. Next week: new LPs from Laura Marling and Rookie, while the Stones’ 1970 live album Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out! is our joker album for the week. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts V andVI, The Heavy Eyes, Jay Electronica, bulk atmospherics, gen X angst, cancelled export orders, All Blacks, album of the year of the week, starting slow, Gardening tips, new-old stock, psychologically baffled, Hillsong Hoods, coaching your kids, detox Donnas, having a story to tell, sad indie endies, seven little pigs and carnie cosplay. Next week: UK doom-metallurgists Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Brisneyland hiphop collab Hash Butta Synergy and performative Sunny Coast bogans The Chats. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: revisiting Beyonce’s Lemonade, new albums by Kingswood and Sky Valley Mistress, early morning takes, theoretical mixtapes, the New Wave Of Australian Yacht Rock, Previously… on tripping balls, ridiculous on purpose, breakdown service, no reservations, paying for the full hour, profitable draggings, the currency of pop, music in lockdown, I’m so rona-ry, inventing content, legacy cutoffs, Stig helmets, washed recognise washed, the greatest #DocReadsSpotifyBios in history, bold strategies, titular superheroes, here’s what this album is, Anti Stockdale, getting washed on your own album and the Extended Balls Universe. Your welcome. Next week’s new review albums are Jay Electronica, The Heavy Eyes and NIN’s Ghosts V andVI (just to be completists). Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 separately and together on Omny Studio, as well as on Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your takes, reckons and feels are always welcome via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new ambient electronica from Tycho and Swedish garage filth from The Goners, tripping balls, beige Nissans and white Landcruisers, it’s gotta be red, Wheel of Goon, pulp fiction covers, Swedish Ronseal, the problem with your band, grim endings, the Geoff Harvey Orchestra, self-backgrounding, self-advocating, cut and move, high-end hold music, tiny desks, what makes a good album (hint: not a compilation playlist from an energy drink reality show), strictly commercial, recent classics, therapy in public, biting the head off Ozzy Osbourne, complete bankers, the problem with algorithms and the plus side of covid cabin fever, plus some bonus Crankworx/WSL coverage. Next week: reviewing new albums by Kingswood and Sky Valley Mistress, and revisiting Beyonce’s Lemonade. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week on The Podcast Formally Known As BALLS After Dark: new albums from metal OG Ozzy Osbourne and Sydney indies Crocodylus, belated rebrands, the Chinese Democracy of hip hop, kicking over tentpoles, has anyone checked on 007, Covid’s worse enemy, Rik Mayall’s Backbreakers, bizarre collabs, boomer death songs, vocal tics, late era Lara, stay away from Post Malone, using up all your ideas, shouting your own name during sex, tight support acts, yes-anding incoherence, playing both kinds of music, participation prerequisites, Danger Mouse gets woke, narrative satisfaction, 80’s kids cartoon reboots, more Airwolf, what’s the Swedish for ‘Ronseal’, searching for modern EDM that’s not trash, chunky knitwear, Scott Hanson’s side hustle, Grammy noms ≠ listenable tunes, Twitter getting its shots up, chasing that Young LNP rage-listening audience, and living your life like a candle in the wind.
Next week: new stuff from US electronic artist Tycho and Swedish munters The Goners. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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Tripping Balls? Yes, we're rebranding BALLS After Dark. Shouts to us for only taking five years to come up with a better title for our music podcast.
This week: new albums from Norwegian metallurgy enthusiasts Kvelertak and French desert stoners Slift, finding joy, Dogdirt Weekly, shouty Dave, the Beeso Method, interfering with farm animals, return of the Protracker guitar sample, for domestic consumption, learning Norwegian in a week, space man, 1am farm drunk, 72 minute singles, having your Cake, the 90s are the 70s, top 50 of 1995, Jacinda’s mum (has got it going on), bogan clapback culture, songs about gobbies, help the aged, walking legacy, succulent Chinese meals, the Betoota of pub punk, how good is licking cane toads, and doom metal as a paediatric sedative. Next week: Sydney indie rockers Crocodylus and some acid-washed old boomer who calls himself Ozzy. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's review albums and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Leeds art-rock fumblers Mush and NZ-Detroit beats-n-bars collab the Leonard Simpson Duo, Tunes With Friends, Blunted styles, intercontinental ballistic missives, hairy organs, carryover champions, impressions of impressions, translations of translations, bad saxophone, quid bro quo, metalsome kids, French grime, self-perpetuating cliches, losing it in weird ways, classic album eps from 2015, loose cousins, yes we canned, fallen stars, dead ends, Joey Wrong, belated All Star takes, playing for time and NBA (New Beeso Acquisition) Desktop. Next week: French stoners Slift and Norwegian metallurgists Kvelertak. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's review albums and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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Guest host Adamhfoto is in to talk La Roux and EDM, Protracker nerds, raiding Pinball Dreams for samples, no that’s Stunt Car Racer, killing more than the Somme, Carmen Sandiego meets Football Manager, the most inexplicable game in the history of gaming, Sensible Soccer origin stories, shake it off, it turns out getting shot hurts, loot crate culture, corporate pinkwashing, it doesn’t get better, next week’s After Dark, high speed Australian internet, very giga, and lifestyles of the old and washed. Next week: Beeso's back with new albums from Leeds art-rock fumblers Mush and NZ-Detroit beats-n-bars collab the Leonard Simpson Duo. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's review albums and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from La Roux and Desert Colossus, soothing sounds, if you like that there’s this, Gravity X turns 15, desert origins, Fu fighters, bulk jam, ya girl Elly, capturing the 80s, Maximum Martin, get your Rox off, the worst of the 90s, Sack-her DJ, stealth solo acts, Two Dads, making picks on LSD, Leeds are falling apart again, conversations about beige bands, racist boomer Alexa, past U2 is a different country, the Vedder-Dylan impersonation matrix, performatively depressed teens, Lakers exceptionalism in musical form, a bit of everything, it’s terrifying it’s terrible and it’s there, singing to save your life, police corruption, don’t let the bells end, turn it up, D-Wade does parenting, what’s a shameleon, finally watching Space Jam, blue light discos in Logan, reasons for a Patreon, losing Faith in old acts, ten years is a lifetime and digital immunity.
Next week: new albums from Leeds art-rock fumblers Mush and NZ-Detroit beats-n-bars collab the Leonard Simpson Duo. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's review albums and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week on the After Dark: new albums from Bombay Bicycle Club and Dune Rats, BBC sessions, Neverclear, Sesame Street goes rogue, Clusterstruck, Faith No More no more, cash considerations, the most Washed Gen X tour ever, fried chicken punishers, DIY JJJ, time-travelling radio playlists, curb your enthusiasm, too many clothes for Duran Duran and going double Dutch. Next week: La Roux and Desert Colossus. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's review albums and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week on the After Dark: new albums from from the Courteeners and The Good The Bad & The Zugly, our Top 10s of the 2010s album playlist, I ain’t going back to that mill, Thai gorillas, grime will tear itself apart again, crossover winners, social stratification by media choice, melted Goths, court out, a time when all was brown, CORTINA FACTS!, how to get popular, your fave could never, larger training groups, January blues, write about what you know, very much our areas, old as Dirt, Ronseal legacy acts, run to the Alex Hills, plugging bothparts of our decade retrospective, putting it out there and Men At Woodwork. Next week: new albums from Bombay Bicycle Club and Dune Rats. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's review albums and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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Part two of our After Dark special (part one is available here), featuring our top ten albums of the last ten years, sun-drenched sugar hits, Bae of Islands, disappointingly prescient, painting your ceiling, good for parts only, how Swede it is, the most of this sound, DIY dance instructionals, Joe Ingles colour charts, D-Rose for MVP, the five year rule, spirit silverbacks, curbed enthusiasm, veteran mentorship, Lavar Beeso, relatable content, like everything else worth saying TISM said this 20 years ago, commercial FM occasionally works, first things first, recency bias, the difficult second album, critical snubs, write-in candidates, the kids are all wrong, comeback stories, shots fired, Captain Datestamp, bring out your dead, no bad ideas (no good ideas either), fake diversity, synth and chloroform, decade countdowns from regular guests Dan, Ben and Adam, the butterfly effect, CORTINAS! and Andrew Stockdale invents time travel.
Next week: new albums from the Courteeners and The Good The Bad & The Zugly. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify.).Last year's review albums are archived here, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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Part one of our After Dark special featuring our top ten albums of the last ten years, weird niche Venn overlaps, Big Kev areas, The Billie Eyelash ASMR Hour, the last days of CDs, Win95 insta skins, 1990s albums of the week, splitting hairs, Oscar obsolescence, discovering new music, reordering old music, #FreeJanet, work whistlers, first and last tracks and Gen X punishers. Part two available here. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: our annual AOTY special, featuring Beeso and the Doc’s top five albums of 2019 from releases reviewed on the pod last year, along with our Oz and NZ AOTYs, favourite legacy albums and general thoughts on the year just passed. Also: Dry Six Days In January, ambling pre, blaming the world in general for your poor choices, picking stuff you like, no loylety, manufactured intensity, hard crossovers, let’s do five, who’s got next, Raleigh New Zealand, Norwegian wood, cheap kills, protest music, dating caravan park DJs, Butchered albums, mislabelled mixtapes, misguided thrashes, sneaking up the tower, meeting your contractual obligations, bonsai desks, less talk more action, Spotify don’t lie, sweaty Arenas, EPL tax write-offs, Ronseal albums, nothing sweet about Britain, get another job, stop being woke, chasing stars, tiers before bedtime, next week’s Top 10s of the 2010s episode, dusting off iTunes, the greatest potato chips of 2015, recency bias, and making declarative statements that most certainly won’t come back to bite one in the backside. Next week: our top albums of the last ten years, pre- and post-podcast. Tell us yours - hit us up on socials (links below). All our 2019 review albums are archived on this Spotify playlist, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums (2015-19) and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: our final new albums of 2019 courtesy Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard and Welsh noisemakings' Pretty Vicious. Also: what firetwirlers do in a total fire ban, boring end-of-decade arguments, did imaginary dragons write this list, guest host Flipper, making a Foo Fighters album, college sports should be cancelled, college rock may well have been, Georgia v Alabama, the colour and the sound, heavy foreshadowing, things you might have missed, 81 not out, stealing sunshine, the best Christmas movie, the Ringer occasionally gets it, Not Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Soderbergh is washed, best year of the decade, the Sad Indie 500, High Fidelity II: Fidelity Higher (yeah yeah the original was set in Chicago), Beeso’s midlife crisis year and life advice for 2020.
Have a great end of year break - we're back in mid-Jan with our Album Of The Year Special for 2019. You can find review albums from recent eps on our album review playlist on Spotify, where you'll also find our full archive playlist of all our review albums from 2019 and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums 2015-19 and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from self-reflecting Scientologist Beck and Warrnamboolian warriors Airbourne, the perils of in-store radio, facts vs feels, do something nice for yourself this Christmas, breaking: AC/DC aren't like Radiohead, complexity through simplicity, last of their line, the Wolfmother effect, who's got next, Tame Impala B-roll, everlasting nothing, Spidey Bells, scared of bird attack, Scandicanadians, end of year cowards, Tone Deaf hiphop takes, better social commentary than Slowthai, weapons not food not homes not schools not need just feed the war cannibal animal eye, Mike Patton nonce music, let's go Sharks, unintended consequences, lyrics look stupid, ornery and indifferent vocals and outsourcing your bio. Next week's final new albums of 2019: Brittany Howard and Pretty Vicious. Current & recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Gardna and Deaf Radio, Spotify Wrapped SZN, is RTJ4 about to drop at Xmas and bollox everyone’s end-of-year lists (spoilers: no), remedial reading for bad AOTY reckons, do you care if the thing you like is popular, wombling free, voice of the Beyhive, the end of consensus, we’re on to Cincinnati, baseline metrics, brain injuries, visits Wellington once, it’s the intro to intro, a long time between sessions, Albarn-Frischmann relationship minutiae, Beeso continues to fundamentally misunderstand the meaning of the term ‘legacy act’, Balter sells out and navigating the sub-craft beer offerings of your NZ supermarket chiller. Next week: Airbourne and Beck. Current & recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week, live from Lantanaland: new Fat Freddy’s Drop and L7, whiskey in the jar-o, NZ's national band, money for old jam, washed at wineries, when you’re more of a Samantha, dating while Gen X, making vital connections, Courtney Hole, narrator: he did not record an add-on the next day, the downsides of podcasting in person, pushing buttons, Wayne Gardna, reciprocal rights, avoiding old people, Coldplay saves the regional newspaper industry, legacy o’clock, Celine’s DIY pyro and extinct mowers. Next week: new albums from Dub Club associate member Gardna and desert rockhoppers Deaf Radio. Current & recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new stuff from Bad Dreems and the Hard-Ons, Oscar buzz, letting it go, go hard early, Frozen 2: It’s The Thawed That Counts, representation matters, industrial deafness, Beasts of Suburban, old dudes making noises, Adelaide alive, short-range throwbacks, do more of that, et tu Caesar, Detroit Brock City, the first Sabrina reference in any kind of media since late 1989, we solve Taylor Swift’s career crisis, culture vs sales, Beyonce album power rankings, Unkle Shadow, fake bands with real merch (and yes kids In The Worst Possible Taste is somehow still allowed online), refusing to accept the world has moved on, original parts and the last great protest album. Next week: new Fat Freddy’s Drop and L7. Current & recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Mini Mansions and Cigarettes After Sex, quality assurance, the BALLS Podcast Network, #NotAnEuphemism, committing to the bit, warding off scurvy, no bad ideas, Clippy played guitar, what did you expect to achieve here, leaning away from legacy acts, the 20th anniversary of whatever happened 20 years ago, tell ya story walking, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, interest free terms, difficult third albums, local indie ecosystems, we want the Funk, Club sandwiches, good luck to me, being sad in Australia, unHappyland and pop filters are for cowards. Next week: new stuff from Bad Dreems and the Hard-Ons. Current & recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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Yes it's another big ol' round number special on the After Dark for episode 200, in which Beeso (fresh* from riverdancing at the Riverstage with the Chemical Brothers on a school night), Adamhfoto and the Doc pick out and count down their favourite song intros of all time. Also: art installations, solving Brexit through dance music, old VHS copies of ZOO TV, hitting the Wall, twitter boomer bantz, shut up and dubstep, anyway here isn’t Wonderwall, hating bangerz, dark energy, Gen X protest music, top 200 Patton side projects, the Beesoing Experience, wonky back ends, purple fireworks, the never ending introoooo, air raid offense, five syllables, the land of the ice and snow, being unable to stand it, strange slabs, Bristol scales, explodey action theme music, amen brother, they don’t make ‘em whiter, we’re all just playing Chuck Berry, expensive sample clearance, it’s still 2019, mah brother-in-law Billy-Bob has the fastest boat in the whole damn river, sugar free diets, olé olé olé, Beatles slander, forgetting to plug in, the alpha and the omega, on-brand for Brisbane, lazy tropes, audio installer tips, two outta three ain’t bad and discovering you are Danny Glover. Next week: back to the new stuff with albums from Mini Mansions and Cigarettes After Sex. Current & recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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This week: new albums from Maundz and the Neptune Power Federation, Always Late with Beeso and Dr Yobbo, doing the voice, spousal appreciation, worldwide appeal, mind-altering substances, new power generation, Forever Malcolm Young, never go full Darkness, more ridiculousness, rock bedrock, continuation specials, spare hoodies, back in trackydacks, backpackers doing cashies, not doing the voice, doing your own thing, Britishness innit, hiphop is for the old heads, live from the gutter, ‘Brisbane isn’t as important as Sydney or Melbourne’, Friday presenteeism and getting strung out on life. Next week: our BALLS After Dark 200th Episode Craptacular. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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New albums from Warish and Mike Patton, existential angst, we stan the Gallaghers, alternative timeline Cobain idols, eleven divided by three, arthouse vs outhouse, all we need is a smack in the face, rock and roll is where Mike hides, noone’s gonna care, played to deaf, terrible late ‘80s Eurodance hits, dirty Oz hiphop, the Doc ruins music, the Post Malone of 2003, the Chemical Dependency Brothers, albums you were probably going to listen to anyway, Something Else, it’s still 1998 in Caloundra, easter eggs of the insane, Doc’s top 25 second chance albums of the YTD, home runs and strikeouts, Late Show hold music, the first ever After Dark review ep, the thrill of fear and This Is 40’s. Next week: new Maundz and Neptune Power Federation. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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