This week in tunes: new albums from Clutch, Big Scary and Eve 6. Also: Back of the Y areas, a lot of big and dumb, grifting the grifters, more songs about having crabs, pedal faster, failed sales jobs, the soundtrack of seasonal affective disorder, claiming it into existence, goodnight Springton there will be no encore, not caring enough to do the background reading, the spacetime constraints of trip-hop, ALL CAPS ENERGY, the Horizon has not been defeated, slash artists, planned obsolescence, Tay-Tay vs CRJ and bringing a knife to a house fight. 

Next time: new BOBBY LEES, Wu-Lu and Sonic Flower. 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.