tripping balls (a music podcast?)

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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2022 albums | 2022 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: unrecordable thoughts on likeable Knicks, indefensible Blazers, breaking-bad Morant, weak West, universally-adaptive Durant, undefeated Bucks, flatulent Hollinger, small-market Celtics, haunting Heat, circus-handle Randle, the secret to playoff success, NBATV-avoiding Cavs, ubiquitous wrestling references, onanistic blue-ticks, ayahuasca-dabbling Simmons, future-facing Nets, racist Kendrick bars, gegenpressing Russ, self-slicing Jokic, self-sabotaging US player development, handsy Windy, tired teenagers, experimental Wemby, cocainey Snyder, shambolic owners, sovereign citizens, laughable LACs, spectating Kidd, problematic-vibe Grizz, home-track-bully India, dead follow-ons, insufferable Victorians, Head cases, legacy Blackcaps, fifth edition Wagner, crowded-out England, coaching corner Beeso, far-gone Warriors, bootleg magic rounds and Eels feels.

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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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2022 albums | 2022 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: A call for calm, thoughts with the Cumminses, the Ian Healy Batting Masterclass, Dan Ledecky, Beeso gets ghosted, Atlanta’s coaching search, not doing it for the ‘gram, that photo was actually from the 2013-14 Hawks who went 38-44, Prunty Time, unenthused by All Star, Balkan reunions, shouts to Doogie Howser, no shouts to Shaedon Sharpe, massive overreactions to one night of basketball, who is Pat Simmons, Russ plus-minus, pray for Victor and declaring a national holiday for (most of) Aotearoa. 

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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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2022 albums | 2022 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: clock management, why is Skip Bayliss, is anyone that bothered about All Star, RIP the TNT Bulls, #DocMisreadsGraphs, scraping the bottom of the buyout bargain bin, looking for Love in all the wrong places, the absolute state of MVP absolutes, the rabbit holes are bigger in Utah, the Simmons discourse, Tasmanian fauna, the underestimation of Steven Adams, the Blazerfication of the Mavs, it’s a Tankathon not a sprint, Kawhi’s trade market, new Astro Boy 5s just dropped, you can’t spell ANGST without SGA, unintended consequences, more Orlando chat than anyone could have reasonably expected, man you really don’t want Elon to buy your club, and our weekly NRL preseason/Sydney weather update.

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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
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2022 albums | 2022 mixtape
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: laying landmines for lefties, the enemy of Dan Gilbert is my friend, Maccas vs Rockpool, seconds out, KD’s market value, the Nets’ undo button, more wings than Buffalo, disagreeing with Zach Lowe, Simmons’ Pirlo role, the DLo-Rudy weird-off, who stops the Suns, Bonesless Nuggets, Memphis grizzles, two shooters in Dallas, plugs at the end, RIP the east being better than the west late 2022 - early 2023, Takeshi’s Castle Portland Edition, what are these people doing, ill-timed pensioner naps, a trade request falls in the forest and everyone ignores it, on-court fit vs commitment to the bit, getting various bands back together, there’s always a tweet, free for a reason, heavy years ahead, drafting for need, Finals predictions, the end of the dog days, do the Lakers make the play-in, as a staff/record label/MFing crew, a distinct lack of sauce bottles and donate here to prolong Beeso’s suffering for 24 Hours of Heroes Australia.

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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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