“sorry, it was a bit beyond my intelligence level”

On the show this week:

00:01:12 News

• K-pop group NewJeans loses legal battle against agency

00:08:35 WE WERE JUST HERE by Just Mustard album review discussion

00:37:54 Upcoming releases this week

Album rankings:

1. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie

2. Wednesday - Bleeds

3. Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not To Have A Thought

4. Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam

5. The Weather Station - Humanhood

6. Squid - Cowards

7. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon

8. Geese - Getting Killed

9. Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer

10. Black Country New Road - Forever Howlong

11. Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)

12. Obongjayar - Paradise Now

13. Soot Sprite - Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon

14. Nazar - Demilitarize

15. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade?

16. Subsonic Eye - Singapore Dreaming

17. Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

18. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last

19. Akira Kosemura - MIRAI

20. Anxious - Bambi

21. Jay Som - Belong

22. shame - Cutthroat

23. Barker - Stochastic Drift

24. Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun

25. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way

26. No Joy - Bugland

27. Courting - Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’

28. Rival Consoles - Landscape from Memory

29. Kloke - Lucidity

30. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dust

31. Om Unit - Acid Dub Studies III

32. Charmer - Downpour

33. Far Caspian - Autofiction

34. Zement - Passagen

35. Forth Wanderers - The Longer This Goes On

36. Flipturn - Burnout Days

37. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

38. SASAMI - Blood On the Silver Screen

39. Freckle - Freckle

40. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Soft New Magic Dream

41. Zach Phillips - True Music

42. Ethel Cain - Perverts