A bag of fatigue in the loose configuration of a man

This week’s new albums: Puma Blue | VIAL | Yin YinAlso: You can dance if you want to, DOC triphop, getting icky with Tricky, the drugs don’t work, go be weirder, moving targets, diversity vs unevenness, engagingly naive, we’ve got enough Irish angst, ‘70s travelogues, 37 chambers, this hasn’t aged well, big label washed legacy stuff, cinearma, Doc reads Insta posts?, Robbie Burns riffs, Beeso’s anti-Pitchfork albums bracket, the benefits of relentless mediocrity, Save our Simz, Skypidi toilets, the twin paradox, West playoff matchups, in defence of momentum, Adam Silver is asking you to please unpack the dishwasher, signs of the apocalypse: the #10 seed in the East will finish over .500, LeBron’s travel tips, Nashville is in Texas?, non-playing captains and running up that hill (after a dog)1:53  Puma Blue7:08  VIAL11:02  The U2 comeback12:30  Yin Yin16:14  Next week’s albums 20:47  Beeso’s bracket26:26  After Dark - NBANext week’s new albums: Surfbort | Telenova | HellripperSpotify 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