Part two of our After Dark special (part one is available here), featuring our top ten albums of the last ten years, sun-drenched sugar hits, Bae of Islands, disappointingly prescient, painting your ceiling, good for parts only, how Swede it is, the most of this sound, DIY dance instructionals, Joe Ingles colour charts, D-Rose for MVP, the five year rule, spirit silverbacks, curbed enthusiasm, veteran mentorship, Lavar Beeso, relatable content, like everything else worth saying TISM said this 20 years ago, commercial FM occasionally works, first things first, recency bias, the difficult second album, critical snubs, write-in candidates, the kids are all wrong, comeback stories, shots fired, Captain Datestamp, bring out your dead, no bad ideas (no good ideas either), fake diversity, synth and chloroform, decade countdowns from regular guests Dan, Ben and Adam, the butterfly effect, CORTINAS! and Andrew Stockdale invents time travel.

Next week: new albums from the Courteeners and The Good The Bad & The Zugly. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify.).Last year's review albums 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.