This week: new albums from Sleaford Mods and Nancy, and one (or two) you may have missed last year from Sault. Also: British variance, points for concept, Patton does T-Rex, unregistered counselling, east Midlands geezer hiphop, Stockdale Award frontrunners, better on paper, production crossover, group projects, disco jams, middle aged white guys, back of the shed demos, fix it in post, analogue dirt, the outer limits of joker acceptability, Dave’s True Stories (now available in an actually readable format) and music suitable for toilet breaks. Next week: new Madlib, The Dirty Nil and Foo Fighters. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has all the new albums we reviewed last year and our tripping balls 2020 mixtape of our favourite tracks from those albums. The full list of all the new and classic albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys 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 we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.