tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week’s new albums: Boards of Canada | Mulga Bore Hard Rock | Dead Pioneers   Also: Let it go, keeping score, Death Stranding 3 England 0, why do/are people like this, ancient culture, lived experience, multi-directional palate cleansers, uneven flow, old mate Sleafords, murder logs, the Jesus and the Mary and the Chain, guest recommendations, listen harder, multi-hyphenate artists, kia kaha S...

This week’s new albums: The Heavy Eyes | Jon Spencer | The Scratch Also: Large medium effects, delayed drops, controlled explosions, bringing that high heat late in the game, let’s play two, hair and thrash, delusions of credibility, you got any more of that Bob Vylan, brown sets and brown suits, good job by us, oppressed minorities, live reacting to WC games, picking fun RO32 games, and a surpris...

This week’s new albums: The Bobby Lees | Lee ‘Scratch' Perry x Mouse on Mars | The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore Also: Half melted heroes, thinking vs pounding, the Bob Marley Effect, still in the league, the RATM-Primus nexus , retiring from public life, horny on main, you can’t make it up, fans of the weirdness, podcast mixtapes, you gotta keep ‘em...

This week’s new albums: SLIFT | Modern Woman | Ben Kidson Also: The most important of the least important things, Highlander soundtrack fantasy booking episode 27, nobody wants that, stop hammertime, performative tantrum throwing, welcome to Gympie, jokeless musical comedy, leftover legacy slop, corporate sucks rock, the longest band and/or album title in the history of this music podcast, Doc rea...

This week’s new albums: Little Barrie | Elder Island | Elder   Also: Vibe restorers, three-act festivals, too big for small rooms, screen assists, whither hammock time, underproduction values, late night brown spirts albums, getting dragged to Woodford, Legacy Slop Watch, ghosts of girlfriends past, bio-engineering, reclaiming our status as Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast,...

This week’s new albums: Friko | The Lords of Altamont | Harsh Riddims 5 Also: Failed HIAs, making a real difference, underground club nights, Substack music recs, false advertising, stale airport sandwiches, live listener counts, Celebrity Head updates, lorem ipsum lyrics, self-deleting albums, music and food, Kingsmill’s algorithm, Slim Pickens, how is Chris Brown still in the league, post-climat...

This week’s new albums: RJD2 & Supastition | Bloody Knees | EPs from Little Simz and Grocery Bag Also: confirmation bias in action, warm blankets, pen pal collabs, all the gear and no ideas, bucket hat dads, shooting down trial balloons, garbage bags, change-ups, who was the subject of Powderfinger’s ‘Celebrity Head’, the tripping balls of record labels, bad tattoo ideas, Arsenal won but at wh...

This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | Melanie Baker | ISTA Also: Headbanging, getting dog’s abuse in book dedications, dingy downstairs sessions, that one tool that does that one job, that’s fairly interesting , possibly the longest unbroken monologue Beeso has ever delivered on the podcast, point/counterpoint, get a diagnosis, 30 year mysteries solved, moving the sliders, different conclusions...

This week’s new albums: Trials | KNEECAP | Iguana Death Cult Also: Out of touch royalty, when catching up with high school mates goes wrong, Bad Boy Bubby vs Let’s Get Skase, your own private Wild Colonial, love something like Labour governments love criminalising protest, shouts to Genius.com, unexpected Dutchmen, Dave Callan joins Viagra Boys, hurting your own brand, celebrating valiant failure,...

This week’s new albums: Hermitude | Angine de Poitrine | Abronia Also: earning a crust, Liam Ro-see-ya, last week Raye-visited, pre-emptive disappointment, made for TikTok, diluted chemicals, podcasting therapy, weird TV soundtracks, how did you get here, this year’s stalking-beetle, anti-buzz cynicism, world music defined, the Gaelic calendar, secretly Canadian, profiting from complacency, Nugs-W...

This week’s new albums: Courtney Barnett | Eaves Wilder | RAYE .  Also: compromised assets, novelty Olympic single B-sides of the early '90s, the Rogers Continuum, winery tour nostalgia, Rumble vs Vulcanella, half a room of reverb, the rewards of low expectations, my skin is crawling, Find My Spouse, main character energy, on the hour every hour, musical theatre superstructure, reading the pho...

This week’s new albums: Morgan Nagler | Truckfighters | Holy Funk* Also: Pointing and shouting, crossfit crossover, peaking on track one of album one, is the vibe still sick, expert knitting, a prominent advantage of subscription music streaming, Bandcamp's triphop revival , not wanting to be a member of any club that would have you as a member, losing control of your art, declarative statemen...

This week’s new albums: Hellripper | Telenova | Surfbort Also: A pre-dusk after dark, physios in Mudgee, the Filo diaspora challenge, explaining black metal to kids, choose the form of the destroyer, BYO nostagia, rainy day electronica, Justine Frischmann erasure, how to lose a guy in ten hours, legacy avoidance, cruise economics, are Apple good at anything except what they started at, music to be...

This week’s new albums: Puma Blue | VIAL | Yin Yin Also: You can dance if you want to, DOC triphop, getting icky with Tricky, the drugs don’t work, go be weirder, moving targets, diversity vs unevenness, engagingly naive, we’ve got enough Irish angst, ‘70s travelogues, 37 chambers , this hasn’t aged well , big label washed legacy stuff, cinearma, Doc reads Insta posts?, Robbie Burns riffs, Beeso’s...

This week’s new albums: Girl Scout | Blackwater Holylight | Automobile Club Also: Reaching an understanding, geometric averages, not wanting to be at the front of the mix,  internet clothes purchases, Fleetwood Mac’s big muff, Purple. Monkey. Dishwasher, Jizz Witch, your flatmate’s girlfriend’s band, Old Mate Molko, some assembly required, K&D vs GENA, sparkling London lo-fi electronica, Loyle...

This week’s new albums: GENA | Vegas Water Taxi | The Black Crowes Also: Darts real ones , icy cold cans of coke, getting a D on the group project, Cagey performances, you can’t see the join, albums that would have saved careers, Chris Robinson: Friend of Conan , breaking half of the Black Keys’ gear, a limited number of ideas, more black bands, spring fog, Scandipositivity, reviewing without list...

This week’s new albums: GUM | Dub Pistols x Freestylers | THUMPER Also: Resurfacing the worst of the 19th century, engagement stalkers, old mate three names, 80s soundtrack slow jams, fax divorce, nice biscuits, push-pull factors, it’s fun to enjoy something, quadrant quotients, inherent Irishness, uh oh Jazzamatazz, off-topic blitherings, solving pop, accessing other parts of the field, it’s empt...

This week’s new albums: Bruno Mars | Earth Tongue | The Stripp Also: Bad times on the bullet train, Wednesday night gigs, sweaty skeevy schtick, chasing the Latin zeitgeist, Anglo mild, AI art, stuff normies like, Ty one on, late night SBS movies, tell us what you really think, the bleeding edge of clip, second hand Datsuns, 80s 90s and today, Nick Cave does rockabilly, unnecessary flair, triple-b...

This week’s new albums: Karnivool | Sahara Hotnights | The Molotovs Also: Analogue brains, a bit of snippety-snip, all pre-apologies, a rush to judgement, Grafton TAFE copping strays again, getting kicked out of the club, can I push it, grown up teens,  Double J winery tours, our bass player didn’t write this, no adult supervision, stacks of acts , iso swearing, critic narratives, Silk Sonic , Dod...

This week’s new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails   Also: Water is insidious, outsourcing your admin, work with what you have, not ready for prime time, bad with intent, Ed Cowan centuries, never go back, momentum killers, Pink Floyd (derogatory), female chicks, big stacks, horse_ebooks, fully sick, two sets and an encore, pre-empting the After Dark, calling for the screens, immedia...

This week’s new albums: Playboy Manbaby | Gluecifer | Sargent Baker Also: Hardline weather, guitar flavours, bipolar oscillations, on the ‘Sky, Insta reels in audio form, brain downloads, inside you there are two EPs, bands you missed, shouts to Oslo, diatribing about the state of the world, Surf Coast roadies, Giants of Science, left tenants, horse under water, slow burners, Newgurgitator, bogan...

This week’s new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | Goldfinger Also: Mic checks, none of this is making the podcast, the Lexus nexus, midseason form, Cletus stolen valour, he was not actually sorry and was not trying to delete it, Mother Focaccia, old enough to know better, holding two contradictory viewpoints in your head at once, none of this is making the shownotes, poster font size tiering, th...

This week we are live from Chateau de Godfather of Grime with new albums from Megadeth and Robbie Williams . Also: Drinking local, tuatara evolution, was it always like this, Leonard Cohen has notes, Care Bear picnics, many of years, inherent ridiculousness, halftime smoko, fat dancers, elaborate trolls,  sad world mirrors, in a time of chimpanzees he was a monkey, multiple Joey Fatones, the Meatl...

Live from Lantanaland with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore , Nas & DJ Premier , and DZ Deathrays .  Also: Proudly uneconomic, judging books, what was that shot , Timberland flow, who is Frank Hoover , diversify your bonds , confirming your priors, the setlist, tripping balls talks to kids, your Hottest 100 halftime report, a two piece and a biscuit , pre-reviews, quick tr...

This week: as a belated 10th anniversary special, we redraft our favourite albums of 2015-16, the first years of the music pod. Plus we put a bow on 2025 AOTY season before picking our first new albums for 2026. Also: streaming books, warped expectations, recurring characters, on the way to losing your way, steamed on headphones, the last compact disc, rubbery datekeeping, going off script, the si...