tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week’s new albums are from Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship.

Also: who he play for, VPLs, neurodiverse ranting, it’s over for Beeso, overpromising and underdelivering, Brett Suede, dead climbers and deranged bikers, salt and vinegar chips, two wrongs make a wronger wrong, distrusting Substack, revenge of the colonised, Brooklyn Vegan recs, American country slush, Triple J’s engagement bait hundred, DDOS’d by normies...

This week: new music from Loaded Honey and Wet Leg | an underground classic from Danger Mouse and MF DOOM | remembering Mu from Fat Freddy’s Drop

Also: overcommitting in relationships, coaching trees, third wheels, old mate bangers, heavy ‘Flo, it’s 2025 and tedious indie music purity tests are somehow still a thing, horny on main, unexpected theme weeks, the Janet English Finishing School, random genre generators, ignoring all reco...

This week’s new music: LPs from Zig Zags + Teen Mortgage | EPs from Roxferry + Polish Club

Also: time dilation, enjoying Rockhampton, a degree of riffage, how do you do fellow kids, you can take the girl out of Lismore, albums of the century, getting off the gear, upsetting metaphors, Warish-ish, schlock horror, dudes rock, through the fame vortex, we want to get loaded, on the job with Mike Patton, Danger Mouse’s ruining other peop...

This week: a SOLO MAN mini-ep from the Doc in which he conspiciously fails to do any better than a certain 60-something inner-west MP at making Australian song lists. REJECT THE REMINISCENCE BUMP.

Background reading: Staffo's Graun piece on Albo's list

Next week: we're back with new LPs from Zig Zags & Teen Mortgage and EPs from Roxferry and Polish Club

Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc a...

This week’s new albums: Saya Gray | Frankie and the Witch Fingers | Gardna

Also: Frente goes to Austin, hurling yourself off a cliff, wild energetic flailing, irresistable interstitials, we’ll do it live, Triple J’s latest normie-magnet countdown, Fatboy Slim Dusty,  who listens to the radio, public playlist anxiety, HRC to HRT, shouts to Joe Don Baker, Aerobics Bristol Style, vibes guys, that cafe band, garage days revisited, scori...

This week’s new albums: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin Shamel

Also: not quite day ones, heist movie set pieces, that one album of Lily Allen’s, no room for grey area, internal monologues, none more black, brain backdoors, Frenzal Rhomb are not a very good band (say it in Japanese), podcast sponsorship, hitting a cardboard box with a hammer, trying to be chaos agents, call me maybe, sasscore and whitebelt, parked in the joker...

This week’s new albums: Erika de Casier | CIVIC | Dead Pioneers

Also: the minimum requirements for a triphop album, retrograde inspirations, making people uncomfortable, shut up and listen, production choices, alphanumeric insults, too profitable to be discontinued, is Ange just Thibs plus vibes, the Knicks’ next ex-coach, Beeso’s bad take of the week, the two kinds of game 2, the creation of cool, the secret tournament and Hali pic...

This week’s new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | Zzzahara 

Also: Deepest commisserations, early retirement, Project mushroom coverage, single track thinking, it’s transphobia all the way down, old mates, pharma bros, bogs vs swamps, nothing is off limits and everything is off colour, full tilt Iggy, feeling your feelings, long national nightmares, unconvincing picks and recycled Garbage.

Then in the After Dark [28.16]: Knicks-Pac...

This week: new albums from Black Country, New Road, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and HotWax.

Also: requiem for a basketball podcast, musical theatre kids, Butch Vig and the art of getting out of the way, Dave Grohl’s unfinished book, diversifying your bonds, trip hop, yurt glampers, stalking Dave Graney, Balkan fight songs, wins pool perpetual trophies and a life less online.

Then, in the triumphant return of the After Dark [...

This week in sport: Prizegiving ceremonies, pub orientations, draining the pool, fluffy selfies, who knew this guy would turn out a wrong’un, local celebrities, inexplicable firings, great understatements, western congestion, taking crazy pills, the Suns set in the west, fair and balanced tanking, live reactions, King Solomon parenting, eff them picks, Arsenal’s new guy, kneeds must, STONKS, infectious stupidity, modern...

This week’s new albums: The Devils | Bilk | Fake Dad 
Also: That sort of language, smells like teen spirit but tastes like Oasis, breaking the cycle, long Wire bows, uncategorisable content, leave ‘em wanting more, unwanted reminders of your ‘90s relationships, inappropriate wedding songs, bootleg merch, misplaced disappointment, selection criteria, the other deep south, Neapolitan polymaths, Daryl Somers ...

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...

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 st...

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 ...

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 univ...

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 a...

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&...

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 Bris...

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, Step...