This week: new albums from Tyla, the Libertines and the Dandy Warhols. Also: dangerous sand-atoll-adjacency, Adam Nation rise up, chillin’ with the vylan, in protest of protest music, an off-brand off-chops Pete Davidson, eight years late, how

tripping balls.381 The record company’s gonna give me lots of money and everything’s gonna be alright

11 days ago 36m 23s

This week: new albums from Bob Vylan and The Black Keys, and last year’s next big thing Nothing But Thieves.Also: Muse for beginners, is this good, sprinkle-free, deluxe additions, having a guy, wallowing in nostalgia as a business plan, two pi

tripping balls.380 Dumb fun and dead festivals

18 days ago 36m 36s

This week: new albums from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Drunk Mums and Gesaffelstein. Also: valiant pushes, random edit points, canefield circlework, the end of Splendour, does Kylie talk to kids, the Graun on festivals, the minimal viable product

tripping balls.379 Never go full Kiedis

25 days ago 33m 44s

This week: new albums from Judas Priest, the Black Crowes and Talk Show.Also: never knowingly oversold, 1980s metal panic, greatest bits, doing yourself proud, the Powderfinger of the NWOBHM, unserious thrash, easing the seat back, have we lear

tripping balls.378 That boy needs therapy

Mar 23rd, 2024 19m 53s

This week: old dogs, old tricks from Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Pulp fan fiction from Yard Act and SoCal fuzz from Meatbodies. Also: a message from our sponsored, unifying principles of Britpop, slipping into adult contemporary, more fluid t

tripping balls.377 The ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting

Mar 13th, 2024 25m 5s

This week: new albums from DARTZ, Sheer Mag and Mannequin Pussy. Also: Insert Amen Break Here, subverting the bogan paradigm, inappropriate kiddie choirs, troubling Venn intersects, two years behind being two years behind, high pitched whining,

tripping balls.376 Slow jams about the NHS

Mar 6th, 2024 28m 55s

This week: new albums from grime merchant Ghetts, Glaswegian minstrels the Snuts and Neapolitan riff fiends the Devils.Also: Crüe 1982, mixed bags, apologies to Scotland, underwater tunes, a hard earned joker, full Rufus spec, improving the Whi

tripping balls.375 Sixpence none the wiser

Feb 28th, 2024 35m 26s

This week: new albums from Middle Kids and Black Grape, and EPs from Little Simz, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Matt Cameron. Also: traditional apologies, mostly harmless, that one theme from that one show, a clarification, old mate Dave, the

tripping balls.374 Even Rocky had a montage

Feb 21st, 2024 30m 20s

This week: new albums from Sigma, Courting and Wolves of Glendale. Also: the 2023-24 NBA trade deadline of new album weeks, obvious rips of boomer riffs, having a go and/or getting a go, Stock standard, Disco v2.000, blood feuds with autotune,

tripping balls.373 I wanna be mildly sedated

Feb 7th, 2024 31m 43s

This week: brand new 2024 albums from SPRINTS, The Smile and Ty Segall.Also: new music evangelism, new occasional segment klaxon, investing in 2032 futures, season ten, takeaway food demarkation disputes, having a menty B, a few stars short of

tripping balls.372 Deep in our bag like the fries are at the bottom

Jan 31st, 2024 1h 41m

This week: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times.Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, sec

tripping balls.371 The Hammock Time Multiplier Effect: top five albums of 2023

Jan 24th, 2024 54m 30s

This week: we count down our top five albums of the year for 2023. Also: WAOTY, the importance of having clear number ones, #HammockSZN, necking cleanskin red and listening to 70s prog, crossover potential, voodoo science, aiming for competence

tripping balls.370 Listening to hold music in a tent

Dec 23rd, 2023 31m 33s

This week: Militarie Gun, NO CIGAR and Dallas Tamaira aka Joe Dukie of Fat Freddy’s. Also: bomb tracks, soft hardcore, genre skeletons, grading on a curve, getting your Troy Kingi on, wandering remixes, Spotify-era success stories, milquetoasts

tripping balls.369 You’re a naughty one, Saucy Jack

Dec 13th, 2023 22m 28s

This week: new albums from Spiritual Cramp, PinkPantheress and Busty and the Bass. Also: vanity musicals, wilted Lily, time dilation, pasty white continuums, KOMA FM, BPSI, what’s my motivation, [citation needed], homeopathy, an addendum, not s

tripping balls.368 There’s too much of this and none of it is necessary

Dec 6th, 2023 27m 33s

This week: new albums from Tkay Maidza, Madness and Bully.Also: vaudeville sideshows, play the hits, the Sanity two-track test, Beeso vs modern Australian hiphop, call centre scripts, yeah well that’s just like your opinion man, have we ever so

tripping balls.367 He won’t stop singing Champagne Supernova

Nov 29th, 2023 27m 9s

This week: new albums from Black Pumas, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and The Scratch. Also: do the bit, trad sliders, the universality of the Khe Sahn punisher, angst and misery, saying the quiet part loud, the real Bolivian, Bocelli vs Kram, basi

tripping balls.366 Dedication to drugs and stupidity

Nov 21st, 2023 29m 58s

This week: Nirvana’s In Utero 30 years on, plus new albums from electronic veteran DJ Shadow and Montreal party-punks NOBRO. Also: in with the old, difficult second second albums, let’s get Bob Rocked, sometimes the label gronks are right, take

tripping balls.365 Past performance is not an indicator of future returns

Nov 8th, 2023 36m 34s

This week: new albums from The Kills, Stepmother and Clowns. Also: was I supposed to listen to this, family reunions gone wrong, bleeps and blurps, vibe matches, irrational likes, investment disclaimers, e-motion, this is the end, extremely lou

tripping balls.364 Started at the bottom now we here

Nov 1st, 2023 27m 18s

This week: new albums from Beastwars, Electric Six and the Rolling Stones.Also: daily doses, obeying the riff, Adam's questionable mic technique, anger > despair, America’s fault, the sensations, just here for the beer, we didn’t end the Fire,

tripping balls.363 I used to be fun

Oct 25th, 2023 32m 49s

This week: new albums from Olivia Rodrigo, Kylie Minogue and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers. Also: gurlz rock!, acknowledging greatness, too young to be this washed, resolutely Canberra, into the algorithm, forever caping for Seether, corporat

tripping balls.362 Henry Mancini was goated

Oct 19th, 2023 24m 14s

This week: new albums from Ash, The Wytches and Frankie and the Witch Fingers. Also: relevance through autotune, playing the hits of the 80s 80s and 80s, panther pride, dead air, perfect competence, keeping the lights on, surf sludge, all possi

tripping balls.361 The Super Jesus and Mary Lizard Wizard

Oct 12th, 2023 34m 31s

This week: new albums from Royal Blood, The Record Company and C.O.F.F.I.N. Also: comic timing, WWOS incidental music, not attending in order to fornicate with arachnids, the oil that protects all kinds of diesel engines, firing up them You Tub

tripping balls.360 Dubbo state of mind

Sep 28th, 2023 28m 53s

This week: new albums from Tash Sultana, Osees and The Chemical Brothers. Also: cold opens, no geography, parallel imports, Californian lizards, interesting messes, short stories, Annie and/or Fanny, Brexit through the gift shop, numerical orde

tripping balls.359 The acrid aftertaste of autotune

Sep 13th, 2023 25m 47s

This week: new albums from Jon Batiste and Killer Kin, and the new Dan Auerbach-helmed blues compilation Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound). Also: nine coronas, brain delays, radio interstitials, the MSG of mode

tripping balls.358 An album of track ones

Sep 5th, 2023 20m 41s

This week, live from Lantanaland: new albums from Jungle, the Hives and 3rd Secret. Also: 2pm whisky is for winners, Jackson 5 vocal filters, bedroom albums, doing what you’re good at, the best rock frontman of the last three decades, sweaty bo