This week: our annual AOTY special, featuring Beeso and the Doc’s top five albums of 2019 from releases reviewed on the pod last year, along with our Oz and NZ AOTYs, favourite legacy albums and general thoughts on the year just passed. Also: Dry Six Days In January, ambling pre, blaming the world in general for your poor choices, picking stuff you like, no loylety, manufactured intensity, hard crossovers, let’s do five, who’s got next, Raleigh New Zealand, Norwegian wood, cheap kills, protest music, dating caravan park DJs, Butchered albums, mislabelled mixtapes, misguided thrashes, sneaking up the tower, meeting your contractual obligations, bonsai desks, less talk more action, Spotify don’t lie, sweaty Arenas, EPL tax write-offs, Ronseal albums, nothing sweet about Britain, get another job, stop being woke, chasing stars, tiers before bedtime, next week’s Top 10s of the 2010s episode, dusting off iTunes, the greatest potato chips of 2015, recency bias, and  making declarative statements that most certainly won’t come back to bite one in the backside. Next week: our top albums of the last ten years, pre- and post-podcast. Tell us yours - hit us up on socials (links below). All our 2019 review albums are archived on this Spotify playlist, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums (2015-19) 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.