This week: new albums from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Black Cab and Stöner. Also: Derek Smalls areas, breakfast radio production, starting in second gear, bleak Friday nights, ScoMo’s next bit, cratedigger sample playlists, this is a limitation, five beers deep, doing handstands, dumb fun, justice for drummers, going cheese, doing your own research (then forgetting all your notes), Greens candidates, role models and the algorithm knows all.

Next week’s albums: Dorsal Fins, Post Animal and The Lazy Eyes. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year, and our 2021 review archive and 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.