Episodes
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Some sort of weird pope thing
This week’s new albums: Radio Free Alice | Alchemical Sisters | BODEGA Also: election night fireworks, honk honk, being sad in England in 1987, velcro fails, one for the heads, the problem with democracy, a preview of a review, ‘pivot to video’ can sit and pivot, terrible owners having a terrible...
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Know your NME
This week’s new albums: Michael Kiwanuka | The Schizophonics | Mother’s Cake Also: resistance training, road rash, why are you here, glad to be here, this used to be a job, making good use of the things that we find, hanging palls, the RE, diverging directions, cooking with Floyd, Iggycore,...
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Technically I’ve listened to this all the way through
This week’s new albums: Office Dog | Drink The Sea | Tom Morello Also: excitable dunkers, Richie Benaud colour charts, aggressively boring, 2026 Beeso [handshake emoji] 1997 Roy Keane, making handgrenades somehow worse, the only boring road trip in New Zealand, ‘The Beach’ of albums, lefty boomer...
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Technically we were young when we started
This week’s new albums: Action Bronson | C.O.F.F.I.N | Chase & Status Also: get in the sea bin, keep out of reach of children, like and subscribe, beaten by cosplayers, geographical confusion, both kinds of loud, vocal production, sad bloke on a run of outs areas, Giants of Science timetravel,...
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We have never told a joke on this podcast
It’s EP Week! A tapas platter of new music from Night Swimming, Karen Dió, 16 Underground, The Gnomes, Sherif Boi & Tomahawk, Sonic Reducer, Public Figures, MOKOMOKAI & Troy Kingi, 7Horse and horse (no relation) Also: live Bledisloe updates, Bath/Bath, mansplaining Bandsplain, context and intent,...
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The last good Karen
This week’s new music: Team Dresch | Ty Segall | Satan Takes A Holiday Also: the two true paths of covers, recycled grease, Karens and Sharons, column compendiums, gas-powered internet, dreich in full effech, misled by first impressions, missing the deadline, the next good Karen, it’s ten louder,...
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You’ve managed to be wrong on multiple levels
This week’s new music: Mike D | Headie One | Airbourne Also: 2026 exceptionallism, brutalist flats, equilibrium opprobrium, saving graces, why are you doing this to people who care about you, song title nominative determinism, MCAI, context-specific albums, doing 7 AFL’s job for them, beer isn’t…
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Best (as a) Supporting Actor
This week’s new music: CZARFACE meets Frankie Pulitzer | Grandma’s House | Sailor Honeymoon Also: Blow up your video, schmedium fits, improvement items, acts of rebellion, open with your best stuff, pushing against the sugar, casuals and randoms, dropping entire loaves of bread, geometric means…
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You had two jobs
This week’s new music: Alabama Shakes | Wine Lips | Wolves of Glendale | K&D Live at AB Also: Beeso sings country classics, Glengarry Glenn Ridge, point/counterpoint, dinosaur extinction, ADHD medication, Kram-Janet hybrids, professors of neurobiology, the guy who curates Doc's Release Radar…
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The podcast that will never look pretty on a three-shot
This week’s new albums: Getdown Services | Stepmother | Dead Meadow Also: Coup de tarts, rescue dog metaphors, dubstep elevator music, wet sounds, narrative side quests, the Wil Anderson Appreciation Hour, NCIS all the things, panel shows, Birdman karaoke, a parody of a pastiche of a joke, not…
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The second parable of Glenn McGrath’s haircut
This week’s new albums: Jungle | Swapmeet | GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite Also: Beeso’ll Fix It, the elephant in the room, Reloaded Honey, Cleetus McFarland, set menus, Indie Temple fantasy bookings, oh-oh-oh-OHH-O’Broin, vice advice, don’t eat the blue snow, regretful binnings, self-own…
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You should see my back catalogue
This week’s new albums: Inspectah Deck | Maara | Twisted Teens Also: Mystery listeners, so very tired, albums you’d rather be making, forgettable new-age Euro dance of the 90s, ring culture, broken headphones, low-rent venues, tip-shop Springsteen, third wheels, belated crackdowns, reaching for…
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Another bad night at the Indie Temple
This week’s new albums: High Fade | Mary in the junkyard | Radkey Also: Crowbarred stings, single-sided podcasting, the opposite of jazz, the opposite of emo, one of every duo is having a worse time than the other, Weird Al without jokes, space-filling cheese, Tom Hardy’s holiday job, Wu as a...
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Watch out for swans
This week’s new albums: Nia Archives | Quicksand | Yard Act Also: Premature preamble, fast love, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePromoBumf, turtle power, Greek mythology, thematic confluence, tuatara albums, Lars slander, bad workout music, badly-animated Marshall stacks, Tom Waits for no man, having a...
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The hold music in Beeso’s brain
This week’s new albums: Jack White | Nubiyan Twist | Public House Also: Bog people, the project slash the excuse, unrelenting self-promotion, girl parts, legacy defined, planning permission, 80s precision, neurospicy rhythm method, tooting and tinkling, prejudgement night, Wolfgang & McClurg,...
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Geoblocked from Bristol
This week’s new albums: Alewya | Julez and the Rollerz | Crocodiles Also: You don’t need to get ready if you stay ready, the Molly Meldrum of this podcast, Arabian twists, #ContentOverAll, rich and stupid, disappearing bios, second hand Cars, Weezer (complimentary) vs Weezer (derogatory), the low...
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Have fewer thoughts
This week’s new albums: Boards of Canada | Mulga Bore Hard Rock | Dead Pioneers Also: Let it go, keeping score, Death Stranding 3 England 0, why do/are people like this, ancient culture, lived experience, multi-directional palate cleansers, uneven flow, old mate Sleafords, murder logs, the Jesus...
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Keep getting them cheques
This week’s new albums: The Heavy Eyes | Jon Spencer | The Scratch Also: Large medium effects, delayed drops, controlled explosions, bringing that high heat late in the game, let’s play two, hair and thrash, delusions of credibility, you got any more of that Bob Vylan, brown sets and brown suits,...
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Vocalize all the things
This week’s new albums: The Bobby Lees | Lee ‘Scratch' Perry x Mouse on Mars | The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore Also: Half melted heroes, thinking vs pounding, the Bob Marley Effect, still in the league, the RATM-Primus nexus, retiring from public life,...
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It’s a dangerous day to be a cold one
This week’s new albums: SLIFT | Modern Woman | Ben Kidson Also: The most important of the least important things, Highlander soundtrack fantasy booking episode 27, nobody wants that, stop hammertime, performative tantrum throwing, welcome to Gympie, jokeless musical comedy, leftover legacy slop,...
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You look professional
This week’s new albums: Little Barrie | Elder Island | Elder Also: Vibe restorers, three-act festivals, too big for small rooms, screen assists, whither hammock time, underproduction values, late night brown spirts albums, getting dragged to Woodford, Legacy Slop Watch, ghosts of girlfriends…
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The ultimate and inevitable triumph of mediocre washed-out pop
This week’s new albums: Friko | The Lords of Altamont | Harsh Riddims 5 Also: Failed HIAs, making a real difference, underground club nights, Substack music recs, false advertising, stale airport sandwiches, live listener counts, Celebrity Head updates, lorem ipsum lyrics, self-deleting albums,...
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Drink a whole carton of Tooheys Red and run into a wall
This week’s new albums: RJD2 & Supastition | Bloody Knees | EPs from Little Simz and Grocery Bag Also: confirmation bias in action, warm blankets, pen pal collabs, all the gear and no ideas, bucket hat dads, shooting down trial balloons, garbage bags, change-ups, who was the subject of...
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Getting banned from the Lilliput Library
This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | Melanie Baker | ISTA Also: Headbanging, getting dog’s abuse in book dedications, dingy downstairs sessions, that one tool that does that one job, that’s fairly interesting, possibly the longest unbroken monologue Beeso has ever delivered on the podcast,...
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Incredibly clever and incredibly stupid
This week’s new albums: Trials | KNEECAP | Iguana Death Cult Also: 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,...
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Poolside hold music
This week’s new albums: Hermitude | Angine de Poitrine | Abronia Also: earning a crust, Liam Ro-see-ya, last week Raye-visited, pre-emptive disappointment, made for TikTok, diluted chemicals, podcasting therapy, weird TV soundtracks, how did you get here, this year’s stalking-beetle, anti-buzz...
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Parking in a butchers
This week’s new albums: Courtney Barnett | Eaves Wilder | RAYE. Also: compromised assets, novelty Olympic single B-sides of the early '90s, the Rogers Continuum, winery tour nostalgia, Rumble vs Vulcanella, half a room of reverb, the rewards of low expectations, my skin is crawling, Find My…
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Soundtracks for unpleasant computer touching
This week’s new albums: Morgan Nagler | Truckfighters | Holy Funk* Also: Pointing and shouting, crossfit crossover, peaking on track one of album one, is the vibe still sick, expert knitting, a prominent advantage of subscription music streaming, Bandcamp's triphop revival, not wanting to be a...
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Time to be howled at by a weird Scotsman
This week’s new albums: Hellripper | Telenova | Surfbort Also: A pre-dusk after dark, physios in Mudgee, the Filo diaspora challenge, explaining black metal to kids, choose the form of the destroyer, BYO nostagia, rainy day electronica, Justine Frischmann erasure, how to lose a guy in ten hours,...
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A bag of fatigue in the loose configuration of a man
This week’s new albums: Puma Blue | VIAL | Yin Yin Also: 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…
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Standing behind the bins
This week’s new albums: Girl Scout | Blackwater Holylight | Automobile Club Also: Reaching an understanding, geometric averages, not wanting to be at the front of the mix, internet clothes purchases, Fleetwood Mac’s big muff, Purple.Monkey.Dishwasher, Jizz Witch, your flatmate’s girlfriend’s…
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Stream of conscience
This week’s new albums: GENA | Vegas Water Taxi | The Black Crowes Also: Darts real ones, icy cold cans of coke, getting a D on the group project, Cagey performances, you can’t see the join, albums that would have saved careers, Chris Robinson: Friend of Conan, breaking half of the Black Keys’...
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Unresolved internet trauma
This week’s new albums: GUM | Dub Pistols x Freestylers | THUMPER Also: Resurfacing the worst of the 19th century, engagement stalkers, old mate three names, 80s soundtrack slow jams, fax divorce, nice biscuits, push-pull factors, it’s fun to enjoy something, quadrant quotients, inherent…
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People want this?
This week’s new albums: Bruno Mars | Earth Tongue | The Stripp Also: Bad times on the bullet train, Wednesday night gigs, sweaty skeevy schtick, chasing the Latin zeitgeist, Anglo mild, AI art, stuff normies like, Ty one on, late night SBS movies, tell us what you really think, the bleeding edge…
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Apologising for yourself in advance
This week’s new albums: Karnivool | Sahara Hotnights | The Molotovs Also: Analogue brains, a bit of snippety-snip, all pre-apologies, a rush to judgement, Grafton TAFE copping strays again, getting kicked out of the club, can I push it, grown up teens, Double J winery tours, our bass player…
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The Radiohead singularity
This week’s new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails Also: Water is insidious, outsourcing your admin, work with what you have, not ready for prime time, bad with intent, Ed Cowan centuries, never go back, momentum killers, Pink Floyd (derogatory), female chicks, big stacks,...
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Play like you mean it
This week’s new albums: Playboy Manbaby | Gluecifer | Sargent Baker Also: Hardline weather, guitar flavours, bipolar oscillations, on the ‘Sky, Insta reels in audio form, brain downloads, inside you there are two EPs, bands you missed, shouts to Oslo, diatribing about the state of the world, Surf...
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Not another teen movie soundtrack
This week’s new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | Goldfinger Also: Mic checks, none of this is making the podcast, the Lexus nexus, midseason form, Cletus stolen valour, he was not actually sorry and was not trying to delete it, Mother Focaccia, old enough to know better, holding two...
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Stream of… something
This week we are live from Chateau de Godfather of Grime with new albums from Megadeth and Robbie Williams. Also: Drinking local, tuatara evolution, was it always like this, Leonard Cohen has notes, Care Bear picnics, many of years, inherent ridiculousness, halftime smoko, fat dancers, elaborate...
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Showing a bit too much crotch
Live from Lantanaland with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays. Also: Proudly uneconomic, judging books, what was that shot, Timberland flow, who is Frank Hoover, diversify your bonds, confirming your priors, the setlist, tripping balls talks to...
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Throwing shapes at the cops
This week: as a belated 10th anniversary special, we redraft our favourite albums of 2015-16, the first years of the music pod. Plus we put a bow on 2025 AOTY season before picking our first new albums for 2026. Also: streaming books, warped expectations, recurring characters, on the way to…
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Buying five albums and making them your entire personality
This week: for music ep 450, we revisit the music of 1996. In a Very Special Episode to mark 450 music episodes (Big Round Number!) and kick off season 2026, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft, snipe and gripe their way through a snake draft of the biggest and best albums of 1996, and discover that the…
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Garage bands on GarageBand and theatre nerds on acid: Album Of The Year 2025
This week: it’s Album Of The Year time. Doc and Beeso count down each of our five favourite albums of 2025, and talk near-misses, disappointments and trends from the year just gone. Also: Dead week revisited, yes-no-maybe, accepting your flaws, best releases vs best albums, immediately failed...
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The quick and the dead
This week: it’s Bring Out Your Dead week, our last chance to review new albums for 2025, featuring albums from Alien Weaponry | Alison Wonderland | Automatic | Bee Bee Sea | De La Soul | Erick Sermon of EPMD | Mini Skirt | Powder Chutes | ROMES | These New South Whales. No we’re not doing...
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Is this that other thing that I don’t like
This week’s new albums: Mungo’s Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | Pabst Also: 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,...
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The best possible opportunity to succeed
This week’s new albums: Avett Brothers & Mike Patton | Cheap Trick | Home Front | Dick Move Also, in a bonus-length holiday special*: 25% extra, country folk, now this is going to be fun, the wrong kind of WTF, it might be Tomahawk actually, tuatara evolution, big in Japan, five bands you’ve seen...
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A space for chaos
This week’s new albums: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers Also: Tech SNAFUs, more amateur dramatics, a million in prizes, unserious operators, live from Las Vegas, learning nothing and growing not at all, music to boomer to, Frenzal sledges, fictional 2002...
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What are we doing
This week’s new albums: DJ Premier twice over | The Vasco Era | Arseless Chaps Also: Interchangeable descriptions, throwbacks on throwbacks, the repeatability crisis, second verse same as the first, the two sweetest words in the English language, #ColesRadio, HAAY HAAY HAAY HAAY YEAH, Sizzletown...
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The Gallagher brothers business model
This week’s new albums: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | Mhaol Also: Add jingles, big hag energy, habitual lane selectors, Niamhe say Niamhe again, words vs music, no seriously the state of these lyrics, HJ Premier, singles night, our consensus (second) favourite album of 2017, albums that don’t...
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In clip and incoherent
This week’s new albums: Geese | GANS | The Pack A.D. Also: Listener feedback, mouse models, trying everything, dissonant shifts, the wisdom of crowds, it could even be a boat, old school 4ZZZ areas, liquid skin irritations, Kenny Beats strays, texting it in, greatest misses, first album energy,...
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