tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week’s new albums: Mungo’s Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | PabstAlso: unexpected empathy, geographical separation, rejected premises, previous benchmarks of this genre, pulling stumps, group credit, previous benchmarks of this artist, planning ep 1 of 2027, fantasy booking album 10/10, hiphop AOTY, sample detectives, the least worst stuff Diddy did, back of a length, release the masters, 4000 postcode noise, the magic number is 983 (not including classics/jokers), AOTY feels, algo fails, posthumous celebrations, band name reallocation, Chowder Putes, proof of concept, when music production is milk production, even dafter punk, the Konnichiwa doctrine, set the controls for the heart of the perineum, wins record false narratives, now and future kings of the West and the Kiwi-led rebounding renaissance. 1:01  Mungo’s Hi-Fi5:18  Troy Kingi18:39  Pabst23:17  Bring Out Your Dead Week album picks37:45  After Dark (NBA)Next time: it’s BOYD week, which means piling the playlist high with end of year clearance items from Alien Weaponry | De La Soul | Erick Sermon of EPMD | Automatic | Powder Chutes | Alison Wonderland | Bee Bee Sea | ROMES | possibly Mini Skirt & These New South Whales if we can get round to themSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums: Avett Brothers & Mike Patton | Cheap Trick | Home Front | Dick MoveAlso, in a bonus-length holiday special*: 25% extra, country folk, now this is going to be fun, the wrong kind of WTF, it might be Tomahawk actually, tuatara evolution, big in Japan, five bands you’ve seen live, hello there and/or goodnight ladies and gentlemen, going home, heaven knows I’m not miserable enough now, we fix punk, coherent social arguments, Simz timestamps, scheduled leave, rescheduled Wrappeds, forgotten February albums, podcast personas, RSA in India, Uz agrees with Doc, when all you have is T20 talent every game looks like a T20, the Arc of Ange, IPL rooting interests, threes versus fives, unexpected East teams, trying circumstances, blaming the Warriors PR guy, an unconvincing argument for why this is an interesting NBA season, does anyone want Ja or Trae, a long useful middle, mercurial superheroes, broadcasting technical difficulties and sympathy for robophobic quicks.0:53  AVTT/PTTN6:06  Cheap Trick  11:45  Home Front14:27  Dick Move17:19  Next week’s picks28:51  After Dark - cricket49:53  After Dark - basketball66:42  After After Dark - more cricket*We’re on holiday next week, back in your feed mid Dec with the following albums - Next time: Mungo’s Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | PabstSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean TeasersAlso: Tech SNAFUs, more amateur dramatics, a million in prizes, unserious operators, live from Las Vegas, learning nothing and growing not at all, music to boomer to, Frenzal sledges, fictional 2002 girlfriends, painful and cringe, narrative throughputs, accidental fash, shouts to Canada, the most Beeso pick in the history of Beeso picks, happy 21st,  aided and avetted, oh beehive, two days in Perth is more than enough, drive to the conditions, that escalated quickly, bad balls, Trav’s D1NZ doppelganger, it’s golf’s fault, Boxing day plans foiled, India’s groundsmen: welcome to the resistance, and the nexus of NBA, EPL and skydiving.0:52 Creeper7:03 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets  10:32 Teen Jesus & the Jean Teasers 18:34  Next week’s picks25:26  After DarkNext week: Dick Move | Home Front | Cheap Trick | Avett Brothers & Mike PattonSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums: DJ Premier twice over | The Vasco Era | Arseless ChapsAlso: Interchangeable descriptions, throwbacks on throwbacks, the repeatability crisis, second verse same as the first, the two sweetest words in the English language, #ColesRadio, HAAY HAAY HAAY HAAY YEAH, Sizzletown Extended Universe, literal joke joker albums, Christian or emo?, Minecraft tributes,  weirdest timeline Kingi, the white whale of modern triphop, actually it’s only 42 miles on the M5, AAA Advance Aardvark Assemblers Pty Ltd, music criticism is not a ten month a year job, every circus needs its clown, forgetting the Luka Mavs were a NBA finals side, things you can put through hot butter, who stops OKC, fit in or Fox off, #NeserMustPlayButProbablyWont, plane graveyards and blowing up big versus just blowing up.0:56 DJ Premier3:58 The Vasco Era  7:10 Arseless Chaps 10:47 Next week’s picks22:15 After Dark Next week: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean TeasersSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | MhaolAlso: Add jingles, big hag energy, habitual lane selectors, Niamhe say Niamhe again, words vs music, no seriously the state of these lyrics, HJ Premier, singles night, our consensus (second) favourite album of 2017, albums that don’t exist, getting away with it, running out of years, the best time to be beaten up, our first annual mention of the Efficiency Landscape, Knuckles Connolly areas, breaking: Morant, the NBA-poker nexus, the only other Blazers fan in Dunedin and the proliferation of anti-Wemby munitions.1:34 The New Eves4:53 Militarie Gun 6:13 Mhaol 11:35 Next week’s picks19:09 After Dark Next week: DJ Premier x2 | Arseless Chaps | The Vasco EraSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso’s 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email