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

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