This week: New albums from Foo Fighters, Madlib and The Dirty Nil. Also: let’s dance, manipulatively anthemic, Triple M baggage, pass marks, essential Daveness, marking time, HR issues, the drawer under the sink, convenience samples, interesting cul de sacs, genre fluidity, what’s my name again, the most hairmetally of all the punks, explaining 90s rave culture, Tooheys Red is never a good choice, 3D routines, the algorithms are converging, a Very Special #DocReadsBios, cut the Snyder, Andy’s organ, dance commander, new romantics, better than MJ, swag surfing and Eddie’s special word. Your man Dave’s quite good on the latest Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend also. Next week: new albums from Mush and You Me At Six and a classic from Prince. Recent new review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, which also has our 2021 MIXTAPE featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the 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.