tripping balls.409 Mostly cliches and dumb stuff

This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ramkot and Stress Eater (CZARFACE x Kool Keith). Also: new Ice Cube x Brandy collab, double not negatives, representative examples of the marque, blank canvases, beach roadtrips, #DocMisReadsBios, desert rock Pokemon, if in doubt play it louder through …

tripping balls.408 You can’t do that on television

This week: new albums from Kendrick Lamar, Pa Salieu and Ocean Grove.  Also: west coast tourism, you and me problems, space-filling models, 1980s muscle car history, foreign exchange, fake freestyles, statements endorsed by 50% of the podcast, the worst thing about 2001, Mariah Carey waterboarding,…

tripping balls.407 This week in industrial abrasives

This week: new albums from Michael Kiwanuka, Thunderpussy and Vypers. Also: knocking your audience loose, music to topple castles by, outgunned but not outnumbered, Mark Ronseal, orbital sander albums, not a producer’s extruder, polish club, incomplete assignments, unreleased comeback albums, unspo…

tripping balls.406 Come and get it

This week: new albums from A. Swayze & the Ghosts, Warmduscherand Faderdaze. Also: safe assumptions, Covid bumps, beat poetry, misleading introductions, nutritional information, introduce yourself (right on!), Gladstone starter kits, random music recs, this podcast was inevitable, soft furnishings,…

tripping balls.405 Largely funk-driven filth and nonsense

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub (again), Yoo Doo Right and Greenleaf. Also: almost professional, recency bias, what’s the difference, parkourlife, This Isn’t Cinema, missing narratives, the central tenets of this podcast, the Kyuss School, Swedish deserts, top five fixations, being lied t…

tripping balls.404 Listen to more music

This week: new albums from Maverick Sabre, Mr. Gnome and Jon Spencer. Also: reanimating your dead time, I can’t believe they’ve taken Warren’s wealth, Instagram filters for music, bold and inventive evolutions as an artist, hitting zones, three bangers, you make me sick I make music, swamp origins,…

tripping balls.403 Where’s our simp anthem

This week: new albums from Amyl and the Sniffers, Confidence Man and The Offspring. Also: Weird Al parodies, gluing the floor scrapings back on, what’s ‘shameless fan service’ in Portuguese, upsetting the ghost of Beeso, straying from the light, Protracker punk riffs, a very long run-up for a very …

tripping balls.402 Why’d you give up on miso soup

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub and Magic Machine, and a Hanni El Khatib collection from 2017. Also: unhoused marine mammals, the polymath-to-flog pipeline, organ donors, rushed homework, George Lucasing your masterpieces, ocean metaphors, deploy the Troy Kingi, Sabre rattling, getting Kn…

tripping balls.401 And you know you are

This week: new albums from TISM, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit. Also: rolling in dog dirt, pure uncut fan service, forced interstitials, ultramarathon training, exactly what was expected, unsafe working at height, the best of what’s left of, biscuit meditations, structural thought, the Dan Auerbach…

tripping balls.400 part 2: Choosing your favourite children

This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular, the pointy end. Background reading: Doc and Beeso’s original top 50 favourite albums lists from 14 years ago. How has the pod changed our music tastes? Who wins the ultimate deathmatch of nostalgia and recency bias? Listen and find out. …