Incredibly clever and incredibly stupid

This week’s new albums: Trials | KNEECAP | Iguana Death CultAlso: Out of touch royalty, when catching up with high school mates goes wrong, Bad Boy Bubby vs Let’s Get Skase, your own private Wild Colonial, love something like Labour governments love criminalising protest, shouts to Genius.com, unexpected Dutchmen, Dave Callan joins Viagra Boys, hurting your own brand, celebrating valiant failure, art project or psy-op?, fake Canadians, cartoon realism, Beetle avoidance, bicoastal clashes of energies, popcorn and beer, podcasting no-sells, old British people stop hating trans people challenge (impossible), sim to end, turning your club off and back on again, it’s nice to win stuff, Wrex on deck, Koaching Korner, 1989 Easts vs Broncos and a tribute to Three Knees Hancock. 1:50  Trials6:42   Kneecap12:08  Iguana Death Cult16:15   Next week’s albums 27:00  After Dark - NBA playoffs, EPL relegation, 80s rugby league Next week’s new albums: Melanie Baker | ISTA | The Black KeysSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's 2026 mixtape | 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