This week: new albums from Ben Folds, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and The Barnestormers. Also: running to the hills and/or for your life, stop singing, punisher don’t preach, being victimised by your influences, exhaust fumes, playing grown-ups, who does number 2 work for, reptile deplatforming, thrash cosplay, nonagon finito, Captain Planet level subtext, Pinball Dreams guitar, fit but you know it, apocalypse factchecking, genre tourism, screaming about truck drivers, patriarchal speech impediments, finger-popping grooves, off-chops hubris, cold on Chisel, Covid projects, player options, desert migration, early-year amnesia, orchestral insults, every band you like from the 90s is now terrible, Tay-Tay sanctioning fees and my baby wrote me a letter.

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