This week on the After Dark, Dan aka Ace McWicked from At The Drive Thru joins the Doc to review new stuff from the Drums and Dandy Warhols, offer some pre-review reckons on the Chemical Brothers' new album and nominate his favourite albums of the last year and a bit. Also: Production power moves, waveform jealousy, NZ's next top podcast, AOTYTD, previously on After Dark With Ace, grimy sharehouses, the Beeso School of Picking Albums, drums solo, forgotten years, lost Britpop, BIO101, white men finally get a break, judging by covers, Ye nah, Wellington Beds, Westside for life, Doc hates television, 70s sitcom catchphrases, classic Tales, leaning into Cletusry, playing that one song from that one ad, live bands with terrible albums, everyone has their knockers, explaining TISM, two Melbournes, Press Club slander, everyone's a bogan, definitive opinions, this collaboration demeans us both, Peep Show tributes, Guardian angles, the right noises in the right order and counting blackbirds. Next week: Beeso returns to argue more about the new Chemical Brothers album, plus a new recording from Clowns. The Melbourne punk band, not us. Well OK us too. All our 2019 review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and full list of review albums are available elsewhere on the internet. You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.