This week: new albums from King Gizzard &c. and Jade Imagine, towards 200, too many options, our views on old Tools, banned in Queensland, an expensive way to play cassettes, Problematic Bay, the Brisbane Music Graveyard, hard bands to google, a lack of umedgination, sit down and shut up, outkicking your coverage, Beesoing 2.1, everything is a concept album, holes in the sky, tfw you’re not as clever as you think you are, starkly terrible Ben Elton novels, the perils of overanalysing the narratives of prog-thrash space operas, the Church of Latter Day Gizz, original source material*, give ‘em a taste of Kiwi, more ungoogleable bands, unlikely Spice Girls remixes, decolonising the future, Elon’s Ark B, the satireproof president, not out here to look clever, yo dawg I heard you like solos so I put solos on your solos and the reasonable supposition that a rock is indeed out of the question.

Next week: Tropical Shag Storm (ffs) and improbable supergroup The Damned Things. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

*Look it’s basically Sabbath albums 3 through 6 smashed into the geometric mean of Kill ‘Em All and Ride The Lightning, with a dash of 1979/80 Motörhead for energy.