This week: new albums from the Smith Street Band, Naked Six and [Public] Enemy [Radio], RUGBY LEAGUE, mating calls, definitely albums, Weddings Parties Anything covers bands, Fitzroy turf wars, Things Of Stone And Wood That Aren’t Beer, don’t talk just go, sax offending, loud is enough, insufficient stickiness, stop eating the microphone, Chuck & friends, old man flow, the Facebook uncle of hiphop, 10 albums in 10 days, not for broadcast, incredibly local, kings and cutthroats, lost in the 90s, hit and Misch, Alvin Stardust, songs to get off heroin to, panned Labyrinth, it’s been a long week and the whisky’s kicking in, Choirboys don’t like big muff, black metal cats, tunnel vision, industrial disease, Tarzan albums, influential vs good, mental pedometers, angry Collective Soul, Garage Days Re-Revisited, RUGBY LEAGUE and the longest uninterrupted string of washed 1980s references in the history of this or indeed any podcast.

Next week: Violent Soho rep the 4122, a new Tom Misch/Yussef Dayes collab and Brothers Stoney’s underground debut Stone Broke. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.