tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week in sport: RIP Beeso, the Rockets’ red glare at their remaining schedule, them Euro forrens, *fingerguns*, noone is scared of anyone, Beef Stew beef, tanking at fixing tanking, Utah’s one shot, Ringer house style (aka shouty white homers crowbarring tired pop culture references into sports coverage), whither SexLand, happy in Salt Lake, fantasy Bookering, overpaying for brand names, country style, all wins pool business will be settled today, grape skins and sump oil, FA Cupdate, Villa are real, the next Ange and long goodbyes retracted.

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This week’s new albums: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ Deep.
Also: laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Triphopper, technically a car podcast, a literal airbus, walking around looking at things, Paris: it’s basically Melbourne, starter kits for other people’s stuff, bowel-shaking earthquakes, anyway here’s Wonderwall, sausage royalty, they’ll be better next week, on my way to steal your girl, done done onto the next one, percentage plays, English superheroes and catastrophic outros.

Next week: The Devils | Fake Dad | Bilk
Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: 2018 was another country, YouTube slop supercuts, Giddey up, stupidity by the Gallen, Distracted King, old man on campus, OKC’s next scapegoat, we had no idea at this moment that the Grizzlies were hours away from sacking their head coach and two of his assistants, America hello.jpgs itself, Quebec separatism, junior football, space constraints, Beeso invents gegenpressing, reheated Mourinho, subsets, the very occasional good game of union, subterranean Irish pubs, Red Bull clips your wings, not that Aussie kid the other one, the last time Williams were serious, football tactics 101, the best times for batting (on a historical scale) and President SAS.

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This week: new albums from The Velveteers and Rum Jungle, and an Other People’s Classic from Neutral Milk Hotel.
Also: Streisanding yourself, geographical confusion, doing too much, Legoland developments, made-up names, bottomless mixes, ‘70s speakers, the control for Beeso’s parenting experiments, poor lifestyle advice, uncut Js, Alabama Shakes in an elevator, your dads are morons, building out your music universe, mysterious and uneven, The Boys playlist, choice internet munters, minimising your time loss, banned by the chief censor and bailing on your Vincent Price Thriller bit.

Next week: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ Deep
ZSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: Much madness, Substack Nazis, dog days, the Boston Sell-ticks, geological time, Saudi money, addicted to darts, the diplomatic nightmare of World Cup 2026, LIV Basketball, long-distance away trips, crackpot theories, shenanigans afoot, billionaire socialism, there is no off position on the Process Karma switch, horse race coverage, before Grantland, differing views, trying to get people fired and there’s always next week (until there isn’t).

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This week’s new albums: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)
Also: Practical engineering, remanifesting 1992, there is power in a union, sandwich beats, nostalgia self-bait, the next fun Irish album, massive psychotic perverts, British comedic sensibilities, twenty-something-th anniversaries, stupid but brilliant, putting the cyst in romanticist, closer to the coast, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePressReleases, it’s all Gosford, conversations we never had, curating your kids’ music tastes (now with a blog on the subject thereof), drunk on a desert island, come back to the light my son, if it’s flooded floor it and still feeling woozy.

Next week: Rum Jungle | The Velveteers | an Other People’s Classic from Neutral Milk Hotel (1998)
Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: Styles make fights, office space, degree of difficulty, fortune-telling tracksuits, owner power rankings, the Little Yin, well actually, repetitive strain injuries, Ömer Aşık slander, a dearth of Knicks positivity, The MVP Conversation™, there will be a point to this, two guys out, Oklahoma geography, Beeso solves America, bread and circuses, heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc, pitching Brisbane Olympic sports, Shoresy merch, sprintcar shirts go hard, whoever dies with the most free swag wins, teach your children well, maximum Canadian, Villa do Europe, kicking someone when you shouldn’t have kicked someone, a moron and a cheapskate and FM radio Doc.

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This week’s new albums: Pastel | Charm School | Asian Glow
Also: the front fell off, Britpop Brexiting, please help me budget this, rules for friendship, uncanny valleys, play some bangers man, the only other reason for mentioning Clone High on this podcast, dictionary definitions, other rappers are available, self-destructing darlings, #DocReadsBios does requests, feel the grimness, getting bored with your own ideas, Steph heaters, second choice to a dinosaur, out of memory, Doc's Insta algorithm tells on him and remembering some sketches.

Next week: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)
Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: Work-adjacent podcasting, Beeso’s big swim, we’re bloggin’ again, don’t pin this on me, disinterested side characters, how can the Luka trade have become worse since it happened, playoff sufferball, antigravity Steph, the seesaw of bad decisions, the Clips look better than they are, built on a burial ground, laying the groundwork, forgetting Indiana, learning nothing, hard chargers, Cleveland attempting to beat the allegations, Tobias Harris over everyone, Mustang Cupdates, losing your shape, give the people what they want, not drowning waving, being kicked in the head, and having all the gear and no idea. (Production note: Doc's audio improved dramatically around 3.40 once he remembered he needed to record it.)

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This week’s new albums: Bad Bunny | The Wombats | Death By Unga Bunga
Also: weapons grade awful, BioGPT, cuddly and playful facades, 1990 Magna tapedeck hiss, getting your Frenzal and Grinspoon riffs confused, tumble in the rough, the Latin Taylor Swift, 808s and horn breaks, remaining cynical, BODO/GLIMT and soft-launching a soft music theory (which Doc expands on in his reanimated blog here.)

Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian Glow
Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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