tripping balls (a music podcast?)

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 Post
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: the NBA draft, the Gradey Dick Experience and England win the Ashes on vibes. Also: Jokic has the trots, post-draft narrative fiction, getting your mates drafted, get a haircut and get a real job, figure skating villains, ESPN won’t get fooled by bad quesadillas again, worst-case slippage, MJ sells up, we were loud wrong, getting ten weeks off, feeding the meter, Dray’s pay day, Expendables vibes, basketball EQ, return of the zombie big men, interviewing Wemby, institutional backbone, predicting free agent stupidity, Lloyd George knew my father, thanks for the assist, do as I say not as I do, Jacinda of the Week, Head to bed, cool runnings, fill in the blank, batting to your average, the death of 87, England’s next great spin hope, usurping yourself, forgetting Origin and elevated pitches.

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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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: the end of the NBA and the start of the Ashes, with Doc and Adam. Including: No Mitch policies, reverse Clarrie Grimmetts, the remnants of failed white supremacy, being shouted in and out of ad breaks, too pretty to be captain, variant predictions on the pace and outcome of the first test, compelling the insecurity out of England cricketers, rooted predictions, golden Nuggets, long runups, live wickets, The Bishop, everybody hates their job, the enemy of narrative, western questions, Ja’s ban, the Grade Cricketer of the NBA, being loud right, bah gawd that’s Scott Foster’s music, Real Housewives, shipping Harden to Phoenix, making other people enjoy their job on your behalf, unlikeable superstars, Who’s Next, tickling the bottom of the eight, energy conservation, Giannis’ exit strategy, the end of small ball, sporting psychopaths, the BALLS Podcast soundboard, Shanghai jazz club, rats in cages, crowdfunding Grealish a new liver and Team Bonesaw buys golf.

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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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: our final takes on finals, of both NBA and World Test Championship varieties. (Or at least our final ones before Beeso flies to Denver to drive the BALLS Bandwagon in the championship parade.)

Also: backyard ultramarathon victory laps, adjustments to adjustments, increasingly obscure podium games, facing death to feel alive, Pearce off Jack, size matters, miscast superstars, Jimmy v James, weird flex not OK, wind-sniffing, couldn’t cut it as a Wiseman, comfortable ignorance, solid dudes, whiffy techbros, busted Windows, the end of Cam Green’s IPL career, the most ostentatious (and successful) reverse jinx ever attempted on this podcast, #NeserMustPlay, London geography, West Ham wins a thing, NBA industry super funds, having unreasonable confidence in the Australian mens cricket team, live Le Mans updates, competing against distant cousins and Beeso’s victory tour.

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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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: massive overreactions to one game of the NBA finals. Including: the Nuggets are not the Celtics, Adam Gordon, Min Strus, big bois, 6-9 theory: not so nice, burnt-out Heat, the worst kind of Joker box score, Point Godzilla, slow Italian string-pullers, Malone time, last man standing, Wemby’s people, allegedly not allegedly, salary floors, game seven tickets, Mitsubishi Challenge, VR experiences, small town solicitors, vibrating only on present and future frequencies, desperate in Detroit, Bob Bye-rs, Denver microbrews, the take economy, Bill Simmons memeface, force multipliers and basketball is the real winner.

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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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: the Nuggets bandwagon needs more wagons, the Celtics ruin everyone's jokes and LeBron has an existential crisis. Also: the patriarchy of Double Dragon, Beeso’s hip to be square, live podcast maths, ratings self-flagellation, old takes exposed, the decline of SI, parades of gasbags, Duncan Robinson, the Wile E. Coyote model of gravitation, Malone vs the hot-take military-industrial complex, Denver’s fourth assistant coach, bludging on the blindside, spicy Nuggets Heat, vacation disruption, repping vs ripping the Ringer, unintended CBA consequences, American wine, teenage drinking in your thirties, LeBron generates content, Wollongong the brave, Nick Wright’s bit and Jokic’s flowers.

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