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. …

tripping balls.400 part 1: Tiers before bedtime

This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular, over two instalments. 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 …

tripping balls.399 We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas

This week in music: new albums from FIDLAR, Hello Mary and Carver Commodore. Also: talking yourselves into doing a top fifty GOAT albums list for your 400th, prematurely declaring the death of the album, renting vs buying, Substack squats, there’s never money in this banana stand, a thousand handst…

tripping balls.398 Can I get out of the lift now

This week in music: new albums from Ginger Root, the Jesus Lizard and Massive Hassle. Also: whisky tasting, lines of quirky, blood sugar sex muzak, the carbon cost of emails that meetings could have been, mental basket cases, still being obsessed with rock jernalism, playing to the crowd, do the vo…

tripping balls.397 An intoxicating mix of the desperately washed and the never-heard-of

This week in music: new albums from Charly Bliss, Los Bitchos and Full Flower Moon Band. Also: the mould is my enemy, uncut chipmunk, diabetes, where we’re going we don’t need lyrics, I agree with me, melancholy mazzing, the picture matches the label, Eaton Roots and leaves, live geography, PE in p…