This week: It’s our Album Of The Year top five countdown for 2021. At last.

Also: H100 feels, Bond adventures, an album late, Kool-Aid Man entrances, Abs collabs, everything is flawed, drops > drips, more than a genre piece, distilled weirdness, it’s not his go, top 20 is not damning with faint praise, photocopier etiquette, failed crossovers, doing what it says on the label, playing spades, also receiving votes, Japanese concept albums, other peoples’ opinions, five percent more TISM, son I am disappoint, getting into psychedelics, rubber soul, being disavowed by your 21 year old self, deeply mediocre vs genuinely obnoxious, horse doxxing, jokerfication, grimy Gaga, Beeso’s contractually obligated Letterkenny reference, various abuses, scaring Norwegians and deliberately running counter to everyone else’s AOTY schedule.

Next week: a couple of early-oughts jokers from Turbonegro (as a belated hat tip to Hank von Hell) and Peaches. You can find all our review albums on our album review playlist on Spotify. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we reviewed over the year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet.

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