tripping balls.293 Everything must go

This week: our end-of-year 2021 album clearance special featuring Urthboy, Turnstile, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Bat Fangs, the Drippers, Pist Idiots and JASSS.

Also: beach v pool, inner-urban troubadours, a very Australian Christmas, Eric Bana with a polystyrene hat, green onions, hardcore history, other people’s lists, an album too late, lack of consensus, coastal elites, Motörhead filth, flat spots, PLU12, crowdsourced bios, foreshadowing the AOTY episode, decomposing composers, the end of groupthink, moments of zen, Little Kenz, pining for nonexistent nostalgia, Motor Ace’s one song, speaking it into being, Doc’s long list, binning off January, depth vs peak, theory vs practice and the Year of the Album. 

tripping balls is back in two weeks with our Album Of The Year special, counting down our top five new releases of 2021 from the 100 we reviewed this year. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet.

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