tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: new albums from Beyoncé, Black Midi and Nebula. Also: another brick in the wall, AI side projects, a man of many parts, voice of the Beyhive, Getty archive beats, putting the mid in midrange, Gizzard completists, Crow bars, our large round number soundtrack special (and its two sequels), yet another thing millennials killed, from beyond the grave, UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A, Happyland erosion, sucking the air out of the room, getting written out of history, DIY joker weeks, violent hatreds and the national anthem of drunk engineering students dropping trou.

Next week we’re reviewing new albums from the Chats, Danger Mouse + Black Thought and Kasabian. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite 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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We’re… back? This week in sport: books bought solely to be in Zoom backgrounds, playing boring cricket slowly, Beezball, Big Baller Bron, this guy can Scoot, Deadfall vs the house of Saud, the Q Cup of the NFL, Christmas Day showdowns, making yourself scarce, the Ringer attempts to talk sokkah, a good year, benchmarking the general level of Argentine national team coaching, have Essendon sacked their coach yet, keep Walkering, shooting All Blanks, walking fridge magnets, tissue culture tips, England and then more England, the enemy of my enemy, forked in the road, and is this thing a thing. 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: new albums from grunge grrls Momma, Glaswegian kiss-and-tellers Baby Strange and Britpop afterthoughts Kula Shaker. Also: mindworms, Nigerian patois, massive generalised statements about this year’s music, the ceiling is the roof, as cool as Kim Deal, sell out with me tonight, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, shouts to Subaru wagons, concepts nobody asked for, the downside of the democratisation of music resourcing, songs about A-roads, roast lamb battles, indulgent dross, helping the aged, two hours of Russ trade talk, the choice of SLSCs statewide, user-submitted Spotify bios, economically problematic, kids don’t say the darnedest things, bumper sticker editorial positions, colonial powers, Dave Warner: Union Strong, throwing shade, toilet paper avoidance and workshopping our next sure-fire business opportunity.

Next week: Nebula, Black Midi and Beyoncé. All our recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite 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: new albums from Canadian indie kids Metric, midwest thunderlords Telekinetic Yeti and Swedish weirdbirds Viagra Boys. Also: ASMR-souls, head cleaner, imperial measures, sub-prime La Roux, dominant backlines, cubic metres of noise, unseen outside captivity, not quite a tiny desk, variations on a theme, do your own research, old people music, stolen MIND THOUGHTS, dogs needing oil, strange babies, the least worst of late Britpop, bad places to consume all your stash, the only winner from the Splendour washout, big in Japan, almost a word, mindfulness exercises, throwing money at washed idiots, LIV and let die, ‘avagoyamug, suboptimal guards, history’s greatest martyr and maintaining our standards of discourse. 

Next time: new albums from Momma, Baby Strange and Kula Shaker. All our recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite 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: new albums courtesy Little Boots, Oceanator and Black Seeds. also setting the tone, Super Hard No, have to enjoy the good stuff while you have it, long walks, yes, no, maybe, the bad batting of albums, into the foreground, Brisbane council minutae everyone loses, The U2, just give me the album, it’ll be on Spotify, or will it?

Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite 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) 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: new albums courtesy Nova Twins, Kaelin Ellis and Adrian Quesada.
Also: blame the Guardian, no metal is better than nü metal, party movies, sunglasses-on apologies, doing bits, finding yourself through Son House cosplay, making up backstories to keep yourself interested, niche-on-niche, Triple J whimperpop, doing your research, La asteRoux, the Indiana Pacers of BBQ reggae, Matariki explained, Frank Bennett remembered, an op-shop hop with Pop and getting SEO’d out of existence.

Next week: new releases from the Black Seeds, Little Boots and Oceanator. 
Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite 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) 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: Action and drama and Club Tropicana as Kyrie opts in, KD opts out and Dray shakes it all about. Also: Doc finally learns mic technique, leave all this in, transfer requests, putting the K in Lakers, solving your problems at premium expense, Ringles > Woj, Gobert Island, getting into the conversation, Denver and the last dinosaur, very very large super-dunky mans, glorious packages, always use protection, Dray is already old media, Vegas knows, nice list Kevin - shame if anyone was to completely ignore it, the Suns’ championship window gets crowbarred open again, terrible choices but unquestionable loyalty, hitting pay-Dort, brown box picks, Nobody Knows Anything The Revenge, AFL media doing AFL media things, Buddy Shanklin, Roe vs bros, NBA No Star, Nelson Piquet: always trash, the difference between 4 and 7, George Russell strays, Seb Vettel’s taste in shirts, the first fifth test, international diplomacy with Pat Stevens, the AU Falcon taxi of cricket grounds and the unwatchability of Origin. 

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: new albums from Britpop veterans Reef, non-fakers-of-the-funk Orgöne and Te Whanganui-a-Tara metallurgists End Boss.
Also: alarming regularity, not the conceit, disappointing successes, being misremembered for one thing, we hope you like our new direction, the last ten percent of throttle travel, warm hoodies, catastrophic bowel movements, melodic sludge, do better next time, week of the year, visitors from the past, Graun music recs, evil timeline Veronicas, another of those producer types, black Pumas, the Shea Serrano of Texas soul, explaining the podcast, take it offline, giving up hangovers and having your Glastonbury broadcast delayed by a sausage magnate’s ex.

Next week: new Nova Twins, Kaelin Ellis and Adrian Quesada.
Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite 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) 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, cast adrift betwixt NBA draft and free agency: Kangzing intensifies, taint misbehaving, Dame time, flip them picks, imaginary assistant coaches, Schlossy’s shoe, NBA twitter’s next top model, matchmaking your two least stable friends, nobody knows anything, good Herb, markers of a failed state, The Lineup, stealing people’s money, America needs pro-rel, fixing the draft, the Dubs’ shadow development program, embarrassing slugs, everyone hates the new Jazz jerseys including the Jazz, again: nobody knows anything, I’m taking my talents to Taco Bell, Dyson doesn’t suck, heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc etc etc and Victoria’s bitter.

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: new albums from reggae legend Horace Andy, D4 alum Dion Lunadon and SoCal racketeers the Zibs. Also: don’t give up your day job, podcast maths, traditional storytelling, hybrid Corollas, reg-grey, the bug is the feature, Taylor’s version, gentlemanly conduct, blues-punk chameleons, Boa constrictions, Staffo’s TISM interview, being committed to the bit, the short-lived late-90s trend of big labels signing Oz indie bands, Polydor deep-dives, Good Things, the ultimate live music critics, over 35s at festivals, album titles that are also album reviews, come around to my way of thinking, being aware of the week(e)nd, fundie parent punishers, one of them things, third recommendations, Perfume Genius user reviews, not being as committed to the bit and YouTube rabbit holes. 

Albums of the week next time are from Orgöne, End Boss and Reef. Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite 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) 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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