tripping balls.329 Hey Google, ruin dad’s Spotify algorithm

This week in tunes: new albums from blues youngblood Marcus King, chunky jumper prog exponents Polyphia and post-punk’s Paranoyds. Also: rubbing off, less than rapt with Spotify Wrapped, Doc’s 30 Albums Worth A Second Listen list, premature recommendation, review filibustering, not a vegan but well off-chops, every album is a genre piece, eating too much cake mix, abstract and illegible, 1992 amounts of slap bass, it’s been a long year, only three listening weeks till Christmas, TISM as a service, #DocReadsBios, Gen X sellouts, yet again we massively fail to predict the sound of an album we haven’t listened to, diversity picks, shouts to Violent Soho and/or Violet Coco, and the least interesting grime act. Next week: new releases from These New South Whales, Body Type and 3rd Secret. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made 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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