tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: the Dubs win the chip, Steph is undeniable, Andrew Redmayne misses his calling and career advice from Jack Brabham. Also: interrupting Tims, $5 bandwagon investments, start as you mean to continue, the worst Warriors, moving goalposts, short kings, performative Mambaing, Drew Hanlen drivebys, not all turnovers are created equal, Tatum totem poles, the blackest (and Markest) Finals ever, giving Steph his flowers, shopping for trainers, travel sickness, spending money to make money, cheap Nuggets, so ALL IN you’ve put it on a shirt, another failed attempt to rehash Doc’s Christian Wood joke, do you pay Klay and Dray, Wig vs Kyrie, rebrAndscape, down with democracy, the Suns’ next title, the junior Dubs, getting a bag together, Stepholution, streaming excellence, Doc talks to kids, getting out of PE, middle distance tactics, invigilators: mount up, the opposite of a golden generation, Ringles > Jingles and owning it. 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 Fontaines D.C., Obongjayar and BODEGA. Also: Danger Mouse collabs, it’s in the Google doc, other people’s top fives, not your picture postcard Irish, the_achievement_respecter has logged on, punishing ex-pat feels, snap and/or crackle, in need of a little Simz, incredibly descriptive detail, Brooklyn Alleys, hipster music head canon, after the D4, prime ministerial album swaps, shakedown AK79, narrator: he did not edit this so it made sense, rhythm is a driver, failing to avoid typecasting, the existence of James Dolan’s music career disproves Beeso’s thesis, the last coach on Pop’s bench, music direction, sledging Waikiki, profanity upgrades, random Canadian flotsam, what Fridays are for, almost thinking the latest Chemical Brothers album was good, Albo moments and making a club dance album while too old to be on any of the club dance supplements.

Next week: dancehall legend Horace Andy, D4 alumnus Dion Lunadon and SoCal day-job-avoiders the Zibs. 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: the NBA finals continue, the Suns’ sick leave, shoehorned NHL coverage, Spurs DNA, the death of the death lineup and the fight for golf’s soul (lol). Also: can’t feel my feet when I’m with you, the dog and duck, Harvey Norman levels of interest, hiding the spicy cough, floating loaves, fake unicorns, the first of multiple Shoresy references, the Oilers go out as they came in, SNL sketch band names, Basketball Illuminati on CAA pulling strings in Utah, weird bus-driving uncles, Quit Snyder, power-ranking Pop replacements, abusive relationships, weird experiments in central Florida, MDA looks south, the worst people in the world, put some respect on Ettore Messina’s name, having better things to do than watching Boston win, that’s all for small ball, poking the refs, third quarter Dubs < fourth quarter Celtics, drop coverage coverage, Phil Gould’s responsible for everything that goes wrong, and going maybe one night too early on declaring the terminal decline of NZ test cricket. 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 Dorsal Fins, Post Animal and The Lazy Eyes. Also: tag lines, film reviews, The Athletic further diversifies, not the kind of cheese you were looking for, Celebrant Rifles, disregard this music bed, not the target audience, indie without pop, (listening to the) flower people, wombling about for a ferociously long period, squandering the joker, the only thing that can stop a bad man with a door is a good man with a door, second degree racism,  disproving precisely no stereotypes, the worst feeling of the week, surfing drones, John Kocinski’s second career and dashcam owners USAF.
Next week’s featured albums are from Simz collaborator Obongjayar, Dublin howlers Fontaines D.C. and Brooklyn book-keepers BODEGA. 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: disproportionate overreactions to game 1 of the NBA finals, as is the custom of our people. Also: Isn’t it ironic, gruntingly cretinous, we’ve seen this story before, benching Draymond, is Bob Ryan right about threes ruining basketball, Smart tactics, a unified theory of ugly blowouts, next-level NBA thinkers, interesting whistles, it’s not easy being green, rendering the first three quarters irrelevant, incredibly flip-floppy, rookie wriggle room, not conducive to good content, New Zealand v New Zealand A, nominative determinism, JL’s Big Get Square, shut up Bandanna Man, the lion and the butterfly, shoplifted summer book club, managing upwards, Knights in shining tracksuits, trojan hood ornaments and who does number three work for.
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 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Black Cab and Stöner. Also: Derek Smalls areas, breakfast radio production, starting in second gear, bleak Friday nights, ScoMo’s next bit, cratedigger sample playlists, this is a limitation, five beers deep, doing handstands, dumb fun, justice for drummers, going cheese, doing your own research (then forgetting all your notes), Greens candidates, role models and the algorithm knows all.

Next week’s albums: Dorsal Fins, Post Animal and The Lazy Eyes. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also 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: Raging against the dying of the conference semifinals, pub rock versus jazz, Tripe Williams, Troll Embiid, sympathy for the devil, trash-talk historians, shutting the window on yourself, bring back the biff, Heat culture means always being injured, winning (quarter) time, the OKC bounce, building around Luka, Nets narcissists, Dortlandia, does this count as a UCL final preview, too dumb for the Dubs, Chris Paul Chris Pauls, rebound relationships, getting paid to go away, golf for billionaires, defensive about Denver, hood ornaments, it’s always better to avoid relegation if you can, saving the Sharks from ScoMo, indigenous artists vs corporate branding punishers, thirty seconds of hockey coverage, draft dorks, we know very little about AFL scouting and Beeso’s excitement about the NBA draft lasts just as long as it takes him to remember who the owner of his team is.

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 Kendrick Lamar, the Black Keys and Röyksopp (not Roy Scott.)
Also: Jonestown areas, minor points, six and a half minute arguments, undefeated champions, grading on a curve, crossover audience cut-through, funky Gibbons, fleet-spec ute speakers, whoa-oh we’re halfway there, score draws, filthy grooves, flautists, Woke Dad diaries, a real Manly vs Brisbane affair, post-merger naming conventions, right in the Stockdale Zone and misplacing New Italy. 

Next week: that new from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Black Cab and Stöner.
Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape.
The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also 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: Is this a hockey podcast now, narrator: Dallas did not win by 20, predicting the Suns’ weird collapse, revisionist Luka history, centres cannot hold, paying no attention to draft chat, the end of the OKC tank job, Dyson doesn’t suck, deserting your team because it’s owned by a reprehensible garbage person, Jokic bots, playing for sheep stations, the Denver brain drain, awards for attendance, Euroskeptic basketball fans, playtime’s over, divorcing the Celtics, going Mega Barkley, legacy act comeback albums, Te Puke Thunder, big picture analysis, Roy came from the future, India’s greatest pitchman, inbred gronk relatability, burying the Leeds and the Canyonero Sport Edition. 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 Hermitude, Ocean Grove and Bob Vylan. Also: it’s a megablast, Maccas fries, the sun and the moon, falling asleep in the pool, back into ’92, milk’s off, spitting fire, hat tips to the legends, Australian young person music, fun cheese, cultural representation, the most Norwegian band we’ve ever listened to, dirty old electrified blues, keeping the lights on, and reluctantly giving into popular culture.

Next week's new albums are from Röyskopp, the Black Keys and Kendrick Lamar. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and mixtape. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also 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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