This week: living that RIC3 life, broken by the process, hiding behind Bob Marley GIFs, trading all your problems to LA, the Vivek-Boehly scale of desperation, deferring to chunky Balkans, ruining everyone’s year, sympathy for the Nets, getting banned from Orlando, earned disrespect, soggy middles, rebuilding the 2014 Blazers for a third time, getting shopped in fake trades, Bob Myers farewell gifts, Bones and Barnes, let's name young Kings, preseason cemetery darts, participation prerequisites, that’s the list and all my apps gone.

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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.

Next week’s albums: Iggy Pop | Belle and Sebastian | Moby
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2022 albums | 2022 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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Back for 2023, Beeso and Dr Yobbo do their best to feign interest in the All Star starters, the pointlessness of coaching, players’ favourites, the unattractiveness of Trae and Atlanta, rolling Thunder, Delly vs Giddey, ridiculous Kings, ironic Reschs, weird mobs, frustrated chemists, blame management for load management, the case for 72 games, the MLS model, creating a new thing that is also important, bubble basketball, Dolan’s trivial grievances, valiant Pacers, knowing when to hold ‘em and/or fold ‘em, the price of chips, booking a Nets-Knicks first round series and Bob the Builder doesn't do demolition jobs.

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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: Snyder cuts, going ham, nine dart finishes, filthy casuals, the Suns sink in the west, starting a fight in an empty room, all the voices, the Rob Lowe post, surviving major outs, unsung heroes, the Lakers bump, the East exists, Tankwatch, Tintin slander, Fidler on the roof, the fourth Musketeer, what happened to Boston’s defence, meanwhile in the wins pool, Cricket Australia gets back with its probbo ex, weird people cheering for less BBL, the BALLS Clasico and the Real Housewives of the USMNT. 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: Regressive professionalism, tales of Woj, allegedly unallegedly, perineum confusion, different levels of understanding, tiering the title contenders, the new king of New York, a trade away, Magic City, DNP (busted head), potential vs actual ooze, you are very unattractive basketball, taking the wrong message from 2019, a bad year to schedule bad Xmas Day games, selling the Suns, shut up and business, Messi areas, World Cup final <<< Carabao Cup round of 16 and drillcore disco dongs. 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 in sport: attracting new listeners, airbrushed roads, #HeadBall, spectacular failures, bowling captains, the only smart person in England, pool rehab 1982 style, Fat Cat has no friends, the wrong kind of mentorship, flat track bullies, ten Thunders, time and opportunity, beaten by the bench, efficiency landscapes, underestimating Jokic, running to space, statistical anomalies, I was saying Boo-ston, the new golden era Spurs, maths ain’t lying, Bull markets, the Lakers have interest, should the Dubs tank, 1 & 2 in the draft/the West/our hearts, deep house, Stockdale bios, Stepien rules, NBA Fantasy with Beeso, kicking in the clutch, Magic Russ, live from the garage, Second-Rate Spectrum, watching the ball vs watching the space, the Craig Bradley Podcast, Australian sokkah snatches defeat from the jaws of the Victory, that’s the thing about football, cheap frills and the absolute state of LinkedIn.

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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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