This week: CRJ, Zig Zags, the Heavy, Gen X are banned from doing protest music, diabetes, high fructose corn syrup, Spack Aimless & Waterbrain, making people happy, tough hangs, a star is bored, This Is The Chorus, won't somebody think of the algorithms, this joke is ded, shout out to my eggs, thinking too much, a star is still bored, stuck in the mud, the right kind of 80s nostalgia, not safe for work, 'phoning it in, background briefing, stop having fun, extended EPs, everything is a throwback, big riffage, NZMM commitments, heavy fusion, frente‽, slow TV and it's been a week. Next week: new albums from the Skints and Hunt The Witch. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (older stuff from 2019 archived here), 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.