This week: Neapolitan ice screamery from The Devils, Afro-Asiatic anime beats from Flying Lotus and bourbon-and-bank-robbery delta blues from the Black Keys.

Also: drug cocktails, sick riffs, deliberately using the most mellow track from the album as a drop to make your cohost’s opinions look vaguely ridiculous, late night SBS B-movies, #DocReadsLabelBios, the Kevin Bacon of ‘90s-‘10s rock, narrator: he did not edit all that out, bank robbery enabling, the raw and the cooked, the Black Keys’ big come up, the entire history of white rock ’n’ roll, music to nod off at the wheel to, hanging up your sword because of some… unpleasantness, Blade Runner knockoffs, giving away the plot in the song title, Lynchian collabs, the Doc’s favourite band of the past 20 years, non-Football non-Kingz, bootleg Drake art concepts and baseline controls.

Next time by: new Australasian album sounds from the Datsuns, Kings and You Am I. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls 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.