Getting out-basslined by hold music

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