This week: new albums from PJ Harvey, Skating Polly and Tigercub. Also: free plugs, dead celebrities, painful parental music, ruining your kids’ social standing, creating creative tension, missing the dirt, music for boring tories, cancelled export orders, do or not do, Metric-adjacency, opening premises, know who you are, handstand accompaniment, that’s iron clad that’s a real guarantee, sick airs, confounding bios, competing ethoses, this podcast is old enough to have reviewed the last Blur album in period, Noel Gallagher’s High Sided Vehicles, froot plattehs, the last big reunion act, the next Spinal Tap, the best bits of the Late Show and a bonus After Dark/mini sports ep on the NYT sportsdesk, professional gamblers, magic sauce, high-variance Segunda weirdness, being motivated by sausage, GOATs in Florida swamps, the Apple-MLS business model and Beeso buying a bus.

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