BALLS with Dr Yobbo and Beeso

This week's new albums: Playboy Manbaby | Gluecifer | Sargent BakerAlso: Hardline weather, guitar flavours, bipolar oscillations, on the ‘Sky, Insta reels in audio form, brain downloads, inside you there are two EPs, bands you missed, shouts to Oslo, diatribing about the state of the world, Surf Coast roadies, Giants of Science, left tenants, horse under water, slow burners, Newgurgitator, bogan masking, explaining Australian music to Australians, #BeesoReadsPressReleases, talking to kids, explaining the world, the F1 movie, every sports movie, incentive structures, failure is always an option, it's always the KANGZ, expansion fees, making sure you don't have to go to the US, the dangers of downhill, what it sounds like when you record before Zimbabwe beats Australia, a festival of joke sports, the same dudes, getting deported to Mudgee, massive backhanders, accidentally pre-empting Lando, electric horses, range anxiety and club vs state. 2:14  Playboy Manbaby6:54  Gluecifer10:48  Sargent Baker15:30   Next week's albums27:01  After Dark - F1, NBA, T20WC, FIFA, F1 again, AFL originNext week's new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | GoldfingerAlso: Mic checks, none of this is making the podcast, the Lexus nexus, midseason form, Cletus stolen valour, he was not actually sorry and was not trying to delete it, Mother Focaccia, old enough to know better, holding two contradictory viewpoints in your head at once, none of this is making the shownotes, poster font size tiering, the shortcomings of the Victorian state education system, beats from the back shelf, I can't read, albums Beeso missed, Portishead members Beeso missed, second drafts, #stillintheleague, open heart physio, plans for bans, half-strength decaf, hardline fanatics, what mountain biking is all about, self-adhesive stamps, live at McGazza Fest, expanding loopholes, all about that wheelbase and unpaid promo for Bandcamp Friday. 2:16  Poppy5:03  Black Two Piece Band Name9:55  Goldfinger Presents The '99 Vans Warped Tour All Stars16:15  Next week's albums24:08  After Dark - Gents, Jeffs, NBA trades, MTB, F1Next week's new albums: Sargent Baker | Gluecifer | Playboy ManbabySpotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week we are live from Chateau de Godfather of Grime with new albums from Megadeth and Robbie Williams.Also: Drinking local, tuatara evolution, was it always like this, Leonard Cohen has notes, Care Bear picnics, many of years, inherent ridiculousness, halftime smoko, fat dancers, elaborate trolls,  sad world mirrors, in a time of chimpanzees he was a monkey, multiple Joey Fatones, the Meatloaf Position, fantasy job swaps, fifteen on Metacritic, setlist apartheid, the untied state of America, trading Giannis, suddenly Palpatine again??, out with mono, long live 15 minute recaps, suddenly Man U again???, vibes > schemes, building your whole diet out of gateway drug, dead rubber specialists, badly photocopied SVG, beyond the Super Smash, Connor Coopelly, early 2000s crowd sledging and like and subscribe.1:39  Megadeth14:40  Robert Williams25:41 Next week's albums28:36  After Dark - NBA, NFL, EPL, cricketNext week's new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | GoldfingerSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

Live from Lantanaland with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays. Also: Proudly uneconomic, judging books, what was that shot, Timberland flow, who is Frank Hoover, diversify your bonds, confirming your priors, the setlist, tripping balls talks to kids, your Hottest 100 halftime report, a two piece and a biscuit, pre-reviews, quick trolls, make sure they're gone, the Olivia Dean will continue until morale improves, looking at the man in the mirror, Olympic Smudge, the Anti-Beeso, on the Busses, we were basically Defector, sponsorship gone wrong, unintended consequences, learning to win, Le Mans starts, GM vs Ford vs Ferrari, Audi doody, a potted history of Red Bull sports investments, and Detroit knows least.2:19  Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore4:54  Nas & DJ Premier8:59  DZ Deathrays14:00  New album picks for two weeks' time with Beeso21:09  New album picks for next week with Adam24:49  After Dark - T20, NBA, cycling, F1 vs sportscarsNext week's new albums: Megadeth | Robbie Williams. Tell me it's an Adam episode without telling me it's etc etcSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: as a belated 10th anniversary special, we redraft our favourite albums of 2015-16, the first years of the music pod. Plus we put a bow on 2025 AOTY season before picking our first new albums for 2026.Also: streaming books, warped expectations, recurring characters, on the way to losing your way, steamed on headphones, the last compact disc, rubbery datekeeping, going off script, the singer songwriter blues, psychoanalysis by podcast, remembering to put things in the shownotes, shot clock violations, wolf bands < witch bands, Muse drivebys, riders on the storm, post-grunge supergroups, accidental discoveries, altered brain chemistry, not ready for a broken funkin' arm, nuclear blasts, bridge albums, twiddles and schtick, Preston property values, #yourwelcome, Night Lords prequels, legacy fails, other people's AOTYs, holding back the years, market correction, pre-release radar, classic Beeso picks, are the burgers really better at Hungry Jacks, everyone else is wrong, don't write in to point out the Sydney Metro isn't a loop we don't care,  fixing each other's problems and getting clapped off.4:18  Preamble10:26  The top ten46:46  Lightning round57:24  Swings and misses65:43  Everyone else's 2025 AOTYs71:55  Next week's picks  Next week: back to reality (and to reasonable-length podcasts?) with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays.Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: for music ep 450, we revisit the music of 1996. In a Very Special Episode to mark 450 music episodes (Big Round Number!) and kick off season 2026, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft, snipe and gripe their way through a snake draft of the biggest and best albums of 1996, and discover that the Venn diagrams of ‘biggest' and ‘best' might not overlap as much as you'd think.WARNING. NOSTALGIA IS AN ADDICTIVE DRUG. Symptoms of nostalgia fixation can include solely listening to music from your teens and twenties, claiming to not know the names of any top 40 acts or complaining endlessly about modern Triple J. If you or someone close to you is addicted to nostalgia, help is available. Call 1-800-TRIPBALL and a Doctor will prescribe you some weird loud nonsense off his Release Radar with a couple hundred Spotify listeners.7:58  Draft order pop quiz, hotshot11:49  A somewhat consensus first pick18:19  A challenging number two23:13  #3 - a difficult second album vindicated28:53  #4 - a career 180 on the turn32:45  #5 - anyhow* here's Wonderwall 38:59  #6 - alternative universe sequels 44:30  #7 - Toowong Sanity vs HMV Pitt St47:29  #8 - ONE OF US53:12  Intermission - Adam's favourite albums of 2025, 2024 and 202657:18  Bad ad reads and worse medical advice58:40  #9 - unpredictable predictabilities62:59  #10 - undiscovered discoveries  66:45  #11 - there's always a punisher72:36  #12 - missed by a continent and many consonants75:37  #13 - nostalgia for live acts, $2.50 beers and trying too much83:34  #14 - it's called ash, or æsc in the original Old English Latin90:28  #15 - you can't be it if you can't see it94:08  Also mentioned in dispatches Next week: enough wallowing in 90s nostalgia, we're quantum-leaping into the future, straight to… 2015-16. It was good for Leicester and LeBron, if noone else. We'll be drafting our favourite albums of the first year-and-a-fair-bit of the pod, but will all the albums actually be from the pod?Spotify playlists: 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: it's Album Of The Year time. Doc and Beeso count down each of our five favourite albums of 2025, and talk near-misses, disappointments and trends from the year just gone. Also: Dead week revisited, yes-no-maybe, accepting your flaws, best releases vs best albums, immediately failed predictions, albums you neither enjoy nor recommend, NYC real estate, early mover advantage, Mrs Beeso Reads Bios, the Venn diagram of Mike Skinner, Amy Taylor and Barry the Baptist, wholesome punk, fuzzy everything, the fine line between stupid and clever, Chubs and Crockett, Tate modern, judicious skipping, hipster cred, bringing back 2015 pod energy, Will Pharrell, mind the gap, a dangerous day to forget your 2024 #1, near-misses and disappointments, it's Martin/Molloy's fault, whither Australia, more 2024 #1 erasure, live at KEXP, sniper risks, remembering some albums, imperfect censuses, the new Kingsmills, consensus AOTYs, other people's AOTYs, more teaches from Peaches, Swift backlash and Woodford vs reality.12:11  Our number fives16:19  Beeso's #421:40  Doc's #425:17  Beeso's #333:11  Doc's #339:22  Beeso's #246:27  Doc's #255:57  Beeso's #161:51  Doc's #166:17  Honorable (or otherwise) mentions80:35  1996 albums redraft preview90:45  2026 albums we're looking forward to94:09  After Dark (production, Woodford, 1996, trolling)Next week: for tripping balls/BALLS After Dark (i.e. the music show) episode 450, it's our now-traditional 30-years-on best albums re-draft for the year 1996, guest-starring the Godfather of Grime, Adamhfoto. There will be sniping and there will be griping.Spotify playlists: 2025 review archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: it's Bring Out Your Dead week, our last chance to review new albums for 2025, featuring albums from Alien Weaponry | Alison Wonderland | Automatic | Bee Bee Sea | De La Soul | Erick Sermon of EPMD | Mini Skirt | Powder Chutes | ROMES | These New South Whales. No we're not doing timestamps for all that, it was enough of a hassle splicing in Beeso's island-internet-addled voicenotes. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.Next time: it's our Album Of The Year top 5 countdown for 2025. Here's Doc's first-pass (aka thirty albums that might be worth your time)Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Mungo's Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | PabstAlso: unexpected empathy, geographical separation, rejected premises, previous benchmarks of this genre, pulling stumps, group credit, previous benchmarks of this artist, planning ep 1 of 2027, fantasy booking album 10/10, hiphop AOTY, sample detectives, the least worst stuff Diddy did, back of a length, release the masters, 4000 postcode noise, the magic number is 983 (not including classics/jokers), AOTY feels, algo fails, posthumous celebrations, band name reallocation, Chowder Putes, proof of concept, when music production is milk production, even dafter punk, the Konnichiwa doctrine, set the controls for the heart of the perineum, wins record false narratives, now and future kings of the West and the Kiwi-led rebounding renaissance. 1:01  Mungo's Hi-Fi5:18  Troy Kingi18:39  Pabst23:17  Bring Out Your Dead Week album picks37:45  After Dark (NBA)Next time: it's BOYD week, which means piling the playlist high with end of year clearance items from Alien Weaponry | De La Soul | Erick Sermon of EPMD | Automatic | Powder Chutes | Alison Wonderland | Bee Bee Sea | ROMES | possibly Mini Skirt & These New South Whales if we can get round to themSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Avett Brothers & Mike Patton | Cheap Trick | Home Front | Dick MoveAlso, in a bonus-length holiday special*: 25% extra, country folk, now this is going to be fun, the wrong kind of WTF, it might be Tomahawk actually, tuatara evolution, big in Japan, five bands you've seen live, hello there and/or goodnight ladies and gentlemen, going home, heaven knows I'm not miserable enough now, we fix punk, coherent social arguments, Simz timestamps, scheduled leave, rescheduled Wrappeds, forgotten February albums, podcast personas, RSA in India, Uz agrees with Doc, when all you have is T20 talent every game looks like a T20, the Arc of Ange, IPL rooting interests, threes versus fives, unexpected East teams, trying circumstances, blaming the Warriors PR guy, an unconvincing argument for why this is an interesting NBA season, does anyone want Ja or Trae, a long useful middle, mercurial superheroes, broadcasting technical difficulties and sympathy for robophobic quicks.0:53  AVTT/PTTN6:06  Cheap Trick  11:45  Home Front14:27  Dick Move17:19  Next week's picks28:51  After Dark - cricket49:53  After Dark - basketball66:42  After After Dark - more cricket*We're on holiday next week, back in your feed mid Dec with the following albums - Next time: Mungo's Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | PabstSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean TeasersAlso: Tech SNAFUs, more amateur dramatics, a million in prizes, unserious operators, live from Las Vegas, learning nothing and growing not at all, music to boomer to, Frenzal sledges, fictional 2002 girlfriends, painful and cringe, narrative throughputs, accidental fash, shouts to Canada, the most Beeso pick in the history of Beeso picks, happy 21st,  aided and avetted, oh beehive, two days in Perth is more than enough, drive to the conditions, that escalated quickly, bad balls, Trav's D1NZ doppelganger, it's golf's fault, Boxing day plans foiled, India's groundsmen: welcome to the resistance, and the nexus of NBA, EPL and skydiving.0:52 Creeper7:03 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets  10:32 Teen Jesus & the Jean Teasers 18:34  Next week's picks25:26  After DarkNext week: Dick Move | Home Front | Cheap Trick | Avett Brothers & Mike PattonSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: DJ Premier twice over | The Vasco Era | Arseless ChapsAlso: Interchangeable descriptions, throwbacks on throwbacks, the repeatability crisis, second verse same as the first, the two sweetest words in the English language, #ColesRadio, HAAY HAAY HAAY HAAY YEAH, Sizzletown Extended Universe, literal joke joker albums, Christian or emo?, Minecraft tributes,  weirdest timeline Kingi, the white whale of modern triphop, actually it's only 42 miles on the M5, AAA Advance Aardvark Assemblers Pty Ltd, music criticism is not a ten month a year job, every circus needs its clown, forgetting the Luka Mavs were a NBA finals side, things you can put through hot butter, who stops OKC, fit in or Fox off, #NeserMustPlayButProbablyWont, plane graveyards and blowing up big versus just blowing up.0:56 DJ Premier3:58 The Vasco Era  7:10 Mhaol 10:47 Next week's picks22:15 After Dark Next week: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean TeasersSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | MhaolAlso: Add jingles, big hag energy, habitual lane selectors, Niamhe say Niamhe again, words vs music, no seriously the state of these lyrics, HJ Premier, singles night, our consensus (second) favourite album of 2017, albums that don't exist, getting away with it, running out of years, the best time to be beaten up, our first annual mention of the Efficiency Landscape, Knuckles Connolly areas, breaking: Morant, the NBA-poker nexus, the only other Blazers fan in Dunedin and the proliferation of anti-Wemby munitions.1:34 The New Eves4:53 Militarie Gun 6:13 Mhaol 11:35 Next week's picks19:18 After Dark Next week: DJ Premier x2 | Arseless Chaps | The Vasco EraSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Geese | GANS | The Pack A.D.Also: Listener feedback, mouse models, trying everything, dissonant shifts, the wisdom of crowds, it could even be a boat, old school 4ZZZ areas, liquid skin irritations, Kenny Beats strays, texting it in, greatest misses, first album energy, best laid plans, the least worthwhile GoFundMe in history, finally a working definition of post-punk, massacring Gaelic pronunciations, one-week-late week-one overreactions, LinkedIn lessons for leadership, gambling podcasts, the house always wins, txt yr m8s see who's keen, finding Jesus and reclaiming Rip City.3:36 GANS10:46 Geese15:55 The Pack A.D.24:39 Next week's picks31:37 After Dark (mostly NBA)Next week: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | MhaolSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: The Southern River Band | The Superjesus | St. Paul & the Broken BonesAlso: Mineral extraction, late Foos, wasting heartbeats, knob and the attainment thereof, falling in the gutter, we have Airbourne at home, Greta drivebys, Gizzard drivebys, Thirsty Merc drivebys, hollow eyes, twenty years off, trapped in amber, going gangbusters, not looking for customer feedback, learn to swims, 1990s Lexuses (Lexii?), manufactured precisely to specification, live from Auchenflower platform 2, beer was a bad decision, active vs passive voice, free labour, the second best bit of rugbaloiging this year, Gold Coast $500 excess for damage, justice for photographers, around the grounds, early NBA overreactions, Zak Brown's Boys, not watching people you don't like win things and unprofessional broadcasters. 4:31 The Southern River Band11:46 The Superjesus18:05 St. Paul & the Broken Bones22:16 Adam's gig guide26:22 Next week's picks28:05 After DarkNext week: Geese | GANS | The Pack A.D.Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's albums: New Olivia Dean and Rocket | Old SkunkhourAlso: Byron piano fights, Shield chat, live from a grass hill at UQ, big label regret, festival mixtapes, non-existent albums, Stockdale discovers Grammarly, the best of the Grafton TAFE, sweet flat whites, soundtrack bait, aging rock chicks, chuck brick and two smoking barrels, your call is important to us, extended exposure to pop, Taylor avoidance, production house PTSD, mistaking the internet for people, stolen valour, ah! soul action, noisy scrollwheels, regional radio voiceover guys, and previously on tripping balls series 2. Then: for old time's sake, you can have a little After Dark NBA season preview, as a treat. Or skip it entirely, as Beeso will. Our judging rubrik/production notes3:54 Skunkhour - The Go (2001)12:09 Rocket - R is for Rocket17:23 Olivia Dean - The Art Of Loving30:28 Next week's picks40:22 After Dark NBA East preview58:29 NBA West preview & season predictionsNext week: St. Paul & the Broken Bones | The Superjesus | The Southern River BandSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: The Living End  | Say She She | SnõõperAlso: Country pubs and rail trails, digital cleanliness, backloaded takes, this song is not profound, the two kinds of Taylor discourse, the last good website, failed segues, Beeso re-reads bios, Baggio copped worse for less, AI summaries, UN resolutions against the proliferation of the word ‘punk' in music genres, everyone's a diacritic, egg vs chain, picture photos, last on the to-do list, Jordan on the Wizards, Covid year feelings, a series of demands, first obnoxious mover advantage, Piastri pessimism, 2014 Souths winning the 2025 comp, a womens CWCup-date, badly-aged Bathurst takes, NASCAR-shaped blobs and horse boxing.5:56  The Living End13:36  Say She She21:21  Snõõper 24:27  Next week's picks31:03  After DarkNext week: Olivia Dean | Rocket | old Skunkhour from back in the daySpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Playlunch | Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of DeathAlso: Beeso hates your children, the Aunty Donna effect, PNW climate soundtracks, vibe dependency, future JJJ faves, garage bands on GarageBand, stealth mic'ing, drops without builds, Spotify genre or new hop varietal?, more slide whistle, ten cent beer disco demolition night, stopped clocks, jetskis mitigate against creativity, the algorithm says you're washed, DJ Napster, getting thrown out of Angus & Robertson, short notice offers, GC Indy > Singapore GP, the Bart Simpson defence, self-policing karma, Playlunch innings, era corrections and glory hunting fails.1:01 Playlunch6:52 Queen Rodeo10:06 Bass Drum Of Death 17:33 Next week's picks27:27 After DarkNext week: Say She She | Snõõper | The Living EndSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Faithless | TV Death | GHOSTWOMANAlso: good old Collingwood forever, bring your kids to work day, Death Stranding 3 Juventus 4, chronological fails, Marmite vocals, unacquired tastes, big noise and big gestures, Jesus and the Mary Chain, it's the vibe, haunting the group chat, annual assignments, get in on the ground floor, the very definition of a joker album, the future is in the future, Rash predictions, Ange vs Nuno, and just out here having a crack vs just out here cracking.2:32 Faithless7:40 TV Death11.44 GHOSTWOMAN 17:29 Next week's picks23:12 After DarkNext week: Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of Death | PlaylunchSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: The Beaches | The Beths | The HivesAlso: homeopathy, chicks can be guys too, apologetic swag, Tarantino source material, Denny Green albums, straw polls, bad places to get music recs, Sons of Gallagher, on them things, depression diptyches, respectful listening, anti-social media, NFL Bluesky, festival acts vs stadium acts, never use an interlude, pub rock phylogeny, the Al Michaels Affair, Uncle Dennis, Beeso capes for management over labour, unhelpful defences, Ban Hammer v. Smoking Gun, failing at spotfixing, Belichick's nepo era, and people of America: shoosh.Timestampy goodness: 00:00 Intro01:12 Beaches08:56 Beths15:22 Hives21:27 Next week's picks28:00 After DarkNext week: Faithless | Ghostwoman | TV DeathSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka SuperflyAlso: the full Hetfield, legacy confirmation bias, outlap heroics, resolutely turn of the century, lamb chops play-along, jungle revivals, what killed triphop, big noises and teenage sneering, guiltiest pleasures, living through the worst versions of every ‘00s genre, great modern cover albums, volume shooters, celebrity karaoke vehicles, you can't stop the music, Jerry A. of ‘80s Portland punks Poison Idea (not THAT much of a celebrity I will grant you), new horizons in boomer communications, orange you glad we didn't pick this album, they have a lyric that is almost exactly this but somehow I'M the crass one, the enemy of creativity, a touch of the ‘tism, Beeso kills off 2000s TV actors, drama in Dallas (series 2), Eurobasket cases, shop windows, Lando v Oscar and qualified successes.*One of said 'Moe problems' being it was actually Lenny who said 'please don't tell anyone how I live', but tbf misquoting ancient Simpsons bits is as core a tenet of gen X culture as complaining about the Hottest 100, this is how WE liveNext week: The Beaches | The Hives | The BethsSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult PythonAlso: make Australia 1982 again, written warnings, oversouled, don't phake the phunk, recycling last week's shownotes jokes, shouty chookpen renovations, tapas plates, forever 1996, House music, Britpop vibes, live fact-checking, newsletter rusted-ons, your gig guide for two weeks ago in Milton Keynes, sound of the funky drummer, second-level filtering, side-project side-projects, giving up after two weeks, Brentford's big year, knowing your level, Maximising your final years, last week of school vibes and this week in poultry husbandry.Next week: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka SuperflySpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: The Black Keys | As December Falls | NO CIGARAlso: Mid maxing, the kids are alright, self-service, Marmite 90s U2, black and white comparisons, losing everyone early, punk phylogenetic trees, not that close, great truckin' songs have a renaissance, binary scales, mid-oughts everywhere except where it should be, Find My Flatmate, coming up next: Tonia Todman, drummer exchange programmes, Vine Inch Nails, musical tapas, full Fab, EPL round 1, owning the owners and the weird accent Clasico.Next week: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult PythonSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's albums: new Hotline TNT and Skinner Brothers | old (and new) Hilltop HoodsAlso: Minimal viable product, meaningless terminology, doing too much, like and subscribe, front-loaded nostalgia, Em bits, Uncle Beeso's Story Time, growing old together, SIX60 drivebys, 25 years in, say no to (some) drugs, shouts to Koolism, being objective vs being objectionable, on the cusp of a nosebleed, why try, protect the algorithm, we have Max Martin at home, dust cover blurbs, MKG > MGK, preloading in Nottingham, emo is not a dirty word, Lantanaland Clasicos, and the lowest-imaginable rent version of World Series Cricket.Next week: The Black Keys | NO CIGAR | As December FallsSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Public Enemy | Kokoroko | NODEGAAlso: wintering in Beenleigh, that JJJ Australian all-time H100: it could have been worse?, Oz hiphop's diversity hire, failed segues, the disease of more, never go full Duckett, the rise and fall of activist hip-hop, offline translation, only getting what you give, conversation stoppers, prioritising the bit, self-explanatory vibes, the first Foos approach, not enjoying not enjoying things, MS Paint covers, before they were famous, stuff you could do with CDs, the Patton-Hutchence nexus, Kaden Groves: destined to be more than just a dude who looks like a ripped Young Mendo, Montmartre forever, the art of racing in the rain, unpaid Defector promotions and failed second endings.Next week: new Skinner Brothers and Hotline TNT | old Hilltop Hoods (so old it's out of print and not on streaming)Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums are from Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship.Also: who he play for, VPLs, neurodiverse ranting, it's over for Beeso, overpromising and underdelivering, Brett Suede, dead climbers and deranged bikers, salt and vinegar chips, two wrongs make a wronger wrong, distrusting Substack, revenge of the colonised, Brooklyn Vegan recs, American country slush, Triple J's engagement bait hundred, DDOS'd by normies, go listen to early Sabbath, deleting unnecessary sequels from your head canon, Trey Parker: welcome to the resistance, the Simpsons renaissance noone saw, Tour jerseys, that's in Queensland, Athletic v Defector, going full Merckx, ice cream for dinner, good writing gets you into sports, three weeks of pointlessness and Dame Home Time.Next week we are joined by: NODEGA | Kokoroko | Public Enemy Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: All our review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: new music from Loaded Honey and Wet Leg | an underground classic from Danger Mouse and MF DOOM | remembering Mu from Fat Freddy's DropAlso: overcommitting in relationships, coaching trees, third wheels, old mate bangers, heavy ‘Flo, it's 2025 and tedious indie music purity tests are somehow still a thing, horny on main, unexpected theme weeks, the Janet English Finishing School, random genre generators, ignoring all recommendations, cultural zeitgeist dodgers, missing the references, young DOOM was a PROBLEM, a tall tree falls, force amplifiers, long-awaited albums, avoiding the neighbours, riding up hills on inappropriate equipment, the Mongoose flies, time for an opener-off and the undefeated, unmitigated loser energy that radiates off New Zealand cricket fandom .Next week's new-new: Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His LordshipSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new music: LPs from Zig Zags + Teen Mortgage | EPs from Roxferry + Polish ClubAlso: time dilation, enjoying Rockhampton, a degree of riffage, how do you do fellow kids, you can take the girl out of Lismore, albums of the century, getting off the gear, upsetting metaphors, Warish-ish, schlock horror, dudes rock, through the fame vortex, we want to get loaded, on the job with Mike Patton, Danger Mouse's ruining other people's stuff era, everything should be 80s thrash and burning sports reckons.Next week: Wet Leg | Loaded Honey | an underground classic from DANGERDOOMSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: a SOLO MAN mini-ep from the Doc in which he conspiciously fails to do any better than a certain 60-something inner-west MP at making Australian song lists. REJECT THE REMINISCENCE BUMP.Background reading: Staffo's Graun piece on Albo's list Next week: we're back with new LPs from Zig Zags & Teen Mortgage and EPs from Roxferry and Polish Club Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Saya Gray | Frankie and the Witch Fingers | GardnaAlso: Frente goes to Austin, hurling yourself off a cliff, wild energetic flailing, irresistable interstitials, we'll do it live, Triple J's latest normie-magnet countdown, Fatboy Slim Dusty,  who listens to the radio, public playlist anxiety, HRC to HRT, shouts to Joe Don Baker, Aerobics Bristol Style, vibes guys, that cafe band, garage days revisited, scoring in singles, Van Hagar, NSW selection bias, the kids are alright, slurs unheard since the 1880s, albums unheard since the 1990s, fixing Malone's vibes, the Lakers sell big, lower-league low-hanging fruit, BONCOS exceptionalism, some kind of Game 7 preview, Next week: Zig Zags | Teen Mortgage | EPs from Roxferry and Polish Club (18 minutes is NOT an album lads)Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive | Doc and Beeso's 2025 mixtapesThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin ShamelAlso: not quite day ones, heist movie set pieces, that one album of Lily Allen's, no room for grey area, internal monologues, none more black, brain backdoors, Frenzal Rhomb are not a very good band (say it in Japanese), podcast sponsorship, hitting a cardboard box with a hammer, trying to be chaos agents, call me maybe, sasscore and whitebelt, parked in the joker space, celebrating the game, niches of niches of niches, cable comebacks, DAZN's big dip, Game 4, good night to Celtics lite, Carlisle in the middle, vibes-based coaching, hope outside the big three, bonsai wicketkeepers and palindrome dudes, Beeso loves Bezos and Stephen A.I. Next week: Saya Gray | Gardna | Frankie and the Witch FingersSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Erika de Casier | CIVIC | Dead PioneersAlso: the minimum requirements for a triphop album, retrograde inspirations, making people uncomfortable, shut up and listen, production choices, alphanumeric insults, too profitable to be discontinued, is Ange just Thibs plus vibes, the Knicks' next ex-coach, Beeso's bad take of the week, the two kinds of game 2, the creation of cool, the secret tournament and Hali picks his moment.Next week: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin ShamelSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | Zzzahara Also: Deepest commisserations, early retirement, Project mushroom coverage, single track thinking, it's transphobia all the way down, old mates, pharma bros, bogs vs swamps, nothing is off limits and everything is off colour, full tilt Iggy, feeling your feelings, long national nightmares, unconvincing picks and recycled Garbage.Then in the After Dark [28.16]: Knicks-Pacers endgame, Jokic and the Jokicettes, 1997 movie spoilers, we thought this last time, Indiantagonists, not in Kansas anymore, PSG won a thing, Kvaradona's big year, welcome to Wrexham: Championship edition, building a wall at 17th, being seen in Wales, Yates' seeds finally flower and Pogi's Reverse Patreon (help him buy a watch).Next week: CIVIC | Erika de Casier | Dead PioneersSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: new albums from Black Country, New Road, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and HotWax. Also: requiem for a basketball podcast, musical theatre kids, Butch Vig and the art of getting out of the way, Dave Grohl's unfinished book, diversifying your bonds, trip hop, yurt glampers, stalking Dave Graney, Balkan fight songs, wins pool perpetual trophies and a life less online. Then, in the triumphant return of the After Dark [35.05]: Beeso watches Barça, gritted-teeth praise for Inter, defending SGA, blaming the Knicks for your bad internet hygiene, Max Daddy (make you jump jump), the F1 movie, does it matter that it doesn't matter and Spurs manager exit interviews.Next week's new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | ZzzaharaSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe archive: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week in sport: Prizegiving ceremonies, pub orientations, draining the pool, fluffy selfies, who knew this guy would turn out a wrong’un, local celebrities, inexplicable firings, great understatements, western congestion, taking crazy pills, the Suns set in the west, fair and balanced tanking, live reactions, King Solomon parenting, eff them picks, Arsenal’s new guy, kneeds must, STONKS, infectious stupidity, modern HR, this guy isn’t that into you, Weagle erasure, it’s not Blake’s fault, impression nesting dolls*, OKC’s road heroics**, disrespected one-seeds, young Bulls, international fixtures, touring the precinct, Florentino’s Galacticos and Ranger danger. *yes obvs Heath Franklin’s Chopper is just Eric Bana’s with more Sharpie **that 37 win number is either the total away wins record, or some stuff Doc made up in his head Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: The Devils | Bilk | Fake Dad Also: That sort of language, smells like teen spirit but tastes like Oasis, breaking the cycle, long Wire bows, uncategorisable content, leave ‘em wanting more, unwanted reminders of your ‘90s relationships, inappropriate wedding songs, bootleg merch, misplaced disappointment, selection criteria, the other deep south, Neapolitan polymaths, Daryl Somers erasure, let the world burn down, pig iron, we’ve done all of Brighton, demented gig guides, Kasabiani unpleasantness, you made it through and this Swan’s made for you. Next week: HotWax | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Black Country, New RoadSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: RIP Beeso, the Rockets’ red glare at their remaining schedule, them Euro forrens, *fingerguns*, noone is scared of anyone, Beef Stew beef, tanking at fixing tanking, Utah’s one shot, Ringer house style (aka shouty white homers crowbarring tired pop culture references into sports coverage), whither SexLand, happy in Salt Lake, fantasy Bookering, overpaying for brand names, country style, all wins pool business will be settled today, grape skins and sump oil, FA Cupdate, Villa are real, the next Ange and long goodbyes retracted. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ Deep.Also: laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Triphopper, technically a car podcast, a literal airbus, walking around looking at things, Paris: it’s basically Melbourne, starter kits for other people’s stuff, bowel-shaking earthquakes, anyway here’s Wonderwall, sausage royalty, they’ll be better next week, on my way to steal your girl, done done onto the next one, percentage plays, English superheroes and catastrophic outros. Next week: The Devils | Fake Dad | BilkSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: 2018 was another country, YouTube slop supercuts, Giddey up, stupidity by the Gallen, Distracted King, old man on campus, OKC’s next scapegoat, we had no idea at this moment that the Grizzlies were hours away from sacking their head coach and two of his assistants, America hello.jpgs itself, Quebec separatism, junior football, space constraints, Beeso invents gegenpressing, reheated Mourinho, subsets, the very occasional good game of union, subterranean Irish pubs, Red Bull clips your wings, not that Aussie kid the other one, the last time Williams were serious, football tactics 101, the best times for batting (on a historical scale) and President SAS. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from The Velveteers and Rum Jungle, and an Other People’s Classic from Neutral Milk Hotel.Also: Streisanding yourself, geographical confusion, doing too much, Legoland developments, made-up names, bottomless mixes, ‘70s speakers, the control for Beeso’s parenting experiments, poor lifestyle advice, uncut Js, Alabama Shakes in an elevator, your dads are morons, building out your music universe, mysterious and uneven, The Boys playlist, choice internet munters, minimising your time loss, banned by the chief censor and bailing on your Vincent Price Thriller bit. Next week: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ DeepZSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Much madness, Substack Nazis, dog days, the Boston Sell-ticks, geological time, Saudi money, addicted to darts, the diplomatic nightmare of World Cup 2026, LIV Basketball, long-distance away trips, crackpot theories, shenanigans afoot, billionaire socialism, there is no off position on the Process Karma switch, horse race coverage, before Grantland, differing views, trying to get people fired and there’s always next week (until there isn’t). Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)Also: Practical engineering, remanifesting 1992, there is power in a union, sandwich beats, nostalgia self-bait, the next fun Irish album, massive psychotic perverts, British comedic sensibilities, twenty-something-th anniversaries, stupid but brilliant, putting the cyst in romanticist, closer to the coast, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePressReleases, it’s all Gosford, conversations we never had, curating your kids’ music tastes (now with a blog on the subject thereof), drunk on a desert island, come back to the light my son, if it’s flooded floor it and still feeling woozy. Next week: Rum Jungle | The Velveteers | an Other People’s Classic from Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Styles make fights, office space, degree of difficulty, fortune-telling tracksuits, owner power rankings, the Little Yin, well actually, repetitive strain injuries, Ömer Aşık slander, a dearth of Knicks positivity, The MVP Conversation™, there will be a point to this, two guys out, Oklahoma geography, Beeso solves America, bread and circuses, heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc, pitching Brisbane Olympic sports, Shoresy merch, sprintcar shirts go hard, whoever dies with the most free swag wins, teach your children well, maximum Canadian, Villa do Europe, kicking someone when you shouldn’t have kicked someone, a moron and a cheapskate and FM radio Doc. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Pastel | Charm School | Asian GlowAlso: the front fell off, Britpop Brexiting, please help me budget this, rules for friendship, uncanny valleys, play some bangers man, the only other reason for mentioning Clone High on this podcast, dictionary definitions, other rappers are available, self-destructing darlings, #DocReadsBios does requests, feel the grimness, getting bored with your own ideas, Steph heaters, second choice to a dinosaur, out of memory, Doc's Insta algorithm tells on him and remembering some sketches. Next week: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Work-adjacent podcasting, Beeso’s big swim, we’re bloggin’ again, don’t pin this on me, disinterested side characters, how can the Luka trade have become worse since it happened, playoff sufferball, antigravity Steph, the seesaw of bad decisions, the Clips look better than they are, built on a burial ground, laying the groundwork, forgetting Indiana, learning nothing, hard chargers, Cleveland attempting to beat the allegations, Tobias Harris over everyone, Mustang Cupdates, losing your shape, give the people what they want, not drowning waving, being kicked in the head, and having all the gear and no idea. (Production note: Doc's audio improved dramatically around 3.40 once he remembered he needed to record it.) Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Bad Bunny | The Wombats | Death By Unga BungaAlso: weapons grade awful, BioGPT, cuddly and playful facades, 1990 Magna tapedeck hiss, getting your Frenzal and Grinspoon riffs confused, tumble in the rough, the Latin Taylor Swift, 808s and horn breaks, remaining cynical, BODO/GLIMT and soft-launching a soft music theory (which Doc expands on in his reanimated blog here.) Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian GlowSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: misguided enthusiasm in the group chat, the big two-v-three, who is Rick Rickleton, prioritising that money, prioritising not getting blowed up, win the stink win the match, all star game narratives, the clot thickens, no future is promised, figuring it out, around the grounds, Jacques Kallis strays, Kyrie talking nonsense, Australian archetypes, white mascots, Trez in residence, flipping off Amazon, timing your three months of good health, BANE, big-offs, Steph + Jimmy, two suns, some badly aged preview chat for the Dubs’ stomping of the KANGZ, pair of V’s, not mnemonic worthy, losing live, DPOY odds and Courtney-Love crashouts. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: a half-episode with half the BALLS MotorSportNerdPod, where Doc previews the upcoming F1, Indycar, Supercars, Nascar, sportscar and MotoGP seasons with one key question: should you bother watching? Updated albums for next week’s music ep: The Wombats | Bad Bunny | Death By Unga Bunga Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Teddy Swims | Magic City Hippies | The HellacoptersAlso: Post Karcher, live from Montjuic, Doc outsources reviews to bios, pool deck vibes, time and place and frame of mind, Christmas glassware, delete option Autotune, ‘90s intro faff, consumer motoring advice, cheap tricks, carpal tunnel syndrome, vinyl freaks, stealth Christian rock, racist makeup, a lack of proper note-taking and pairs of shoes. Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian GlowSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: The Mavs traded Luka. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new releases: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | Ghoulies Also: Nextmen up, golden era DMCA, you can’t filter flat, egg punk vs dolewave, how Beeso got banned from the gym, noiuww means noiuww, vegan longbows, increased susceptibility to ads for seniors insurance and cruise holidays, drink like it’s Livid 2002, get the lemon pepper wings, albums people have heard of, lowered expectations and word of the day. Next week: Teddy Swims | The Hellacopters | Magic City Hippies Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.