This week: new albums courtesy Nova Twins, Kaelin Ellis and Adrian Quesada.
Also: blame the Guardian, no metal is better than nü metal, party movies, sunglasses-on apologies, doing bits, finding yourself through Son House cosplay, making up backstories to keep yourself interested, niche-on-niche, Triple J whimperpop, doing your research, La asteRoux, the Indiana Pacers of BBQ reggae, Matariki explained, Frank Bennett remembered, an op-shop hop with Pop and getting SEO’d out of existence.

Next week: new releases from the Black Seeds, Little Boots and Oceanator. 
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.

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