"Why would you speak that into existence? That's horrific."

On the show this week:

00:01:30 News

• JYP is making an AI K-pop artist

00:09:47 Straight Line Was A Lie by The Beths album review discussion

00:52:16 Upcoming releases this week

Album rankings:

1. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam

2. The Weather Station - Humanhood

3. Squid - Cowards

4. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon

5. Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer

6. Black Country New Road - Forever Howlong

7. Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)

8. Obongjayar - Paradise Now

9. Soot Sprite - Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon

10. Nazar - Demilitarize

11. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade?

12. Subsonic Eye - Singapore Dreaming

13. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last

14. Akira Kosemura - MIRAI

15. Anxious - Bambi

16. Barker - Stochastic Drift

17. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way

18. No Joy - Bugland

19. Courting - Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’

20. Rival Consoles - Landscape from Memory

21. Kloke - Lucidity

22. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dust

23. Om Unit - Acid Dub Studies III

24. Charmer - Downpour

25. Far Caspian - Autofiction

26. Zement - Passagen

27. Forth Wanderers - The Longer This Goes On

28. Flipturn - Burnout Days

29. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

30. SASAMI - Blood On the Silver Screen

31. Freckle - Freckle

32. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Soft New Magic Dream

33. Zach Phillips - True Music

34. Ethel Cain - Perverts