This week: new albums from the Chats, Danger Mouse + Black Thought and Kasabian. Also: second verse same as the first, country Straya is fash, not for me Clive, the most unlikely Chats fangirls in all of music, born like this, surf cops, bedcasting, rank long hops, traditional marriage, impending doom, who produces the producers, eight seconds or less, answers to questions nobody asked, URL fails and 90s TMNTer or Red Bull athlete?

Next week: Kenny Beats, the Schizophonics and Dub War. Recent 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) is 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.