tripping balls.323 Every superhero has an origin story

This week in music: new albums by the Beths, Psychlona and King Stingray. Also: slagging off ESPN podcast production values, two-tone season, setting appropriate expectations, doin’ it live, vocal mismatches, things bist lift to rot, c’mon Ozzy, the rather swollen elephant in the room, nominative determinism goes horribly wrong, music to operate heavy machinery to, too many NBA analogies, Gizzard drivebys, too broke for yacht rock, breaking through the fourth wall like the Kool-Aid man, legacy fatigue, kingly quests, moustaches why?, Beeso Recommends, sunlight is the best disinfectant and life without parole. 

Next time: new albums from Broken Bells, Pabst and Troy Kingi. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 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 (including our top 5s from previous years) is 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.

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