tripping balls.238 ‘Do you still enjoy doing the podcast?’ and other failed interventions

This week: new albums from The Luka State, Drab City and Naked Giants. Also: white boy rap, one word reviews, RIP AOR, where in the world, frosted tips, kissin’ Cousens, American cheese, saving syllables, triphop aesthetics, trying to fall in love, recreational sadness, bleep off, $2 shop Black Mirror tropes, contractually obligated mentions 2020 style, talk about... pop music, failed interventions, targeted niches, other feeds are available, naked but’s, unwanted Cure, blame the second guitarist, Dragons Den for joker albums, Cuban Heal(ing)s, following stock trucks, rudey nudey style allusions, DIY album art, conservative Christian hysteria, the Minister for Cheesy Rock, more white boy rap, full pyro, winding up Metallica fans, some things are good that are actually bad, last gasps of hairspray, hey dude don’t call me dude, lizard people, show us ya Nasty, cut the interview, bad outros, self backpats and going out on a high note.

Next week: we’re on Melbourne lockdown with new Cable Ties and Casanovas, plus a most post-ironic classic in the form of Poison’s Open Up And Say… Bleaaaahh! (as the Mad magazine parody probably would have gone. Rest in power, king.) Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our long-awaited mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from The Luka State, Drab City and Naked Giants. Also: white boy rap, one word reviews, RIP AOR, where in the world, frosted tips, kissin’ Cousens, American cheese, saving syllables, triphop aesthetics, trying to fall in love, recreational sadness, bleep off, $2 shop Black Mirror tropes, contractually obligated mentions 2020 style, talk about... pop music, failed interventions, targeted niches, other feeds are available, naked but’s, unwanted Cure, blame the second guitarist, Dragons Den for joker albums, Cuban Heal(ing)s, following stock trucks, rudey nudey style allusions, DIY album art, conservative Christian hysteria, the Minister for Cheesy Rock, more white boy rap, full pyro, winding up Metallica fans, some things are good that are actually bad, last gasps of hairspray, hey dude don’t call me dude, lizard people, show us ya Nasty, cut the interview, bad outros, self backpats and going out on a high note.

Next week: we’re on Melbourne lockdown with new Cable Ties and Casanovas, plus a most post-ironic classic in the form of Poison’s Open Up And Say… Bleaaaahh! (as the Mad magazine parody probably would have gone. Rest in power, king.) Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of earlier review albums from 2020 and our long-awaited mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.