This week: new albums from the Damned Things and Tropical Copulation Storm, dunking on stuff you don’t like, supergroups?, forgotten conversations, words you couldn’t use on the cover of Picture magazine in 1995, texting your parts, too cool for school, Gizz get real, Pacmanning through the hospital pharmacy, can’t get any let alone enough, fire and electrical, the hidden shame of Generation X, please Hammer don’t hurt ‘em, taking advice from Facebook, Noel vs Grohl, season 1991/92, Stockholmmm syndrome, Doc does maths, Beeso forgets 2015, a night at the opera, private schools in the former Yugoslavia and a bunch of After After Dark nonsense. Next week: DZ Deathrays and Holy Holy. 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.