This week: new tunes from Spoon, Mild Orange and Eddie Vedder.
Also: Matters arising, the ‘It’s not that bad’ defence, Official Positions, perfect for what it is, crashing into a tree, Cornell-Vedder duets, prohibited ideas, Dunedin’s Own, Shin-mery, electronically reinforced, Sad Indie Girl Summer, stop making Karens, helmet chat, you can’t beat the system, misgendered chemistry, vale the Arena, a tradition like no other, Beeso gets trolled by the Hoods, never give ‘em a window and it’s weird how doing a music podcast for seven years makes people think you’re opinionated and judgemental about music. Luckily our infamous Desert Island Discs two-part drunkcast from 2016 is lost to the mists of the internet so noone can ever challenge us on our assertion we were actually nowhere near as drunk and obnoxious about everyone else’s choices as we thought oh no wait dammit. 

Next week: new Midnight Oil, Methyl Ethel and a double-EP joker from Khruangbin + Leon Bridges, all of which you can find 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 last year (2022 version coming once we listen to enough stuff to start a mixtape.) 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. 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