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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