This week: new albums from Britpop veterans Reef, non-fakers-of-the-funk Orgöne and Te Whanganui-a-Tara metallurgists End Boss.
Also: alarming regularity, not the conceit, disappointing successes, being misremembered for one thing, we hope you like our new direction, the last ten percent of throttle travel, warm hoodies, catastrophic bowel movements, melodic sludge, do better next time, week of the year, visitors from the past, Graun music recs, evil timeline Veronicas, another of those producer types, black Pumas, the Shea Serrano of Texas soul, explaining the podcast, take it offline, giving up hangovers and having your Glastonbury broadcast delayed by a sausage magnate’s ex.

Next week: new Nova Twins, Kaelin Ellis and Adrian Quesada.
Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 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 (including our top 5s from previous years) 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.