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, 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-Fi

5:18  Troy Kingi

18:39  Pabst

23:17  Bring Out Your Dead Week album picks

37:45  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 them

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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 live, hello there and/or goodnight ladies and gentlemen, going home, heaven knows I’m not miserable enough now, we fix punk, coherent social arguments, Simz timestamps, scheduled leave, rescheduled Wrappeds, forgotten February albums, podcast personas, RSA in India, Uz agrees with Doc, when all you have is T20 talent every game looks like a T20, the Arc of Ange, IPL rooting interests, threes versus fives, unexpected East teams, trying circumstances, blaming the Warriors PR guy, an unconvincing argument for why this is an interesting NBA season, does anyone want Ja or Trae, a long useful middle, mercurial superheroes, broadcasting technical difficulties and sympathy for robophobic quicks.

0:53  AVTT/PTTN

6:06  Cheap Trick  

11:45  Home Front

14:27  Dick Move

17:19  Next week’s picks

28:51  After Dark - cricket

49:53  After Dark - basketball

66:42  After After Dark - more cricket

*We’re on holiday next week, back in your feed mid Dec with the following albums - 

Next time: Mungo’s Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | Pabst

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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 girlfriends, painful and cringe, narrative throughputs, accidental fash, shouts to Canada, the most Beeso pick in the history of Beeso picks, happy 21st,  aided and avetted, oh beehive, two days in Perth is more than enough, drive to the conditions, that escalated quickly, bad balls, Trav’s D1NZ doppelganger, it’s golf’s fault, Boxing day plans foiled, India’s groundsmen: welcome to the resistance, and the nexus of NBA, EPL and skydiving.

0:52 Creeper

7:03 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets  

10:32 Teen Jesus & the Jean Teasers 

18:34  Next week’s picks

25:26  After Dark

Next week: Dick Move | Home Front | Cheap Trick | Avett Brothers & Mike Patton

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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 Extended Universe, literal joke joker albums, Christian or emo?, Minecraft tributes,  weirdest timeline Kingi, the white whale of modern triphop, actually it’s only 42 miles on the M5, AAA Advance Aardvark Assemblers Pty Ltd, music criticism is not a ten month a year job, every circus needs its clown, forgetting the Luka Mavs were a NBA finals side, things you can put through hot butter, who stops OKC, fit in or Fox off, #NeserMustPlayButProbablyWont, plane graveyards and blowing up big versus just blowing up.

0:56 DJ Premier

3:58 The Vasco Era  

7:10 Arseless Chaps 

10:47 Next week’s picks

22:15 After Dark 

Next week: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

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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 exist, getting away with it, running out of years, the best time to be beaten up, our first annual mention of the Efficiency Landscape, Knuckles Connolly areas, breaking: Morant, the NBA-poker nexus, the only other Blazers fan in Dunedin and the proliferation of anti-Wemby munitions.

1:34 The New Eves

4:53 Militarie Gun 

6:13 Mhaol 

11:35 Next week’s picks

19:09 After Dark 

Next week: DJ Premier x2 | Arseless Chaps | The Vasco Era

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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, best laid plans, the least worthwhile GoFundMe in history, finally a working definition of post-punk, massacring Gaelic pronunciations, one-week-late week-one overreactions, LinkedIn lessons for leadership, gambling podcasts, the house always wins, txt yr m8s see who’s keen, finding Jesus and reclaiming Rip City.

3:36 GANS

10:46 Geese

15:55 The Pack A.D.

24:39 Next week’s picks

31:37 After Dark (mostly NBA)

Next week: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | Mhaol

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This week’s new albums: The Southern River Band | The Superjesus | St. Paul & the Broken Bones

Also: Mineral extraction, late Foos, wasting heartbeats, knob and the attainment thereof, falling in the gutter, we have Airbourne at home, Greta drivebys, Gizzard drivebys, Thirsty Merc drivebys, hollow eyes, twenty years off, trapped in amber, going gangbusters, not looking for customer feedback, learn to swims, 1990s Lexuses (Lexii?), manufactured precisely to specification, live from Auchenflower platform 2, beer was a bad decision, active vs passive voice, free labour, the second best bit of rugbaloiging this year, Gold Coast $500 excess for damage, justice for photographers, around the grounds, early NBA overreactions, Zak Brown’s Boys, not watching people you don’t like win things and unprofessional broadcasters. 

4:31 The Southern River Band

11:46 The Superjesus

18:05 St. Paul & the Broken Bones

22:16 Adam’s gig guide

26:22 Next week’s picks

28:05 After Dark

Next week: Geese | GANS | The Pack A.D.

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This week’s albums: New Olivia Dean and Rocket | Old Skunkhour

Also: Byron piano fights, Shield chat, live from a grass hill at UQ, big label regret, festival mixtapes, non-existent albums, Stockdale discovers Grammarly, the best of the Grafton TAFE, sweet flat whites, soundtrack bait, aging rock chicks, chuck brick and two smoking barrels, your call is important to us, extended exposure to pop, Taylor avoidance, production house PTSD, mistaking the internet for people, stolen valour, ah! soul action, noisy scrollwheels, regional radio voiceover guys, and previously on tripping balls series 2. 

Then: for old time’s sake, you can have a little After Dark NBA season preview, as a treat. Or skip it entirely, as Beeso will.

Our judging rubrik/production notes

3:54 Skunkhour - The Go (2001)

12:09 Rocket - R is for Rocket

17:23 Olivia Dean - The Art Of Loving

30:28 Next week’s picks

40:22 After Dark NBA East preview

58:29 NBA West preview & season predictions

Next week: St. Paul & the Broken Bones | The Superjesus | The Southern River Band

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This week’s new albums: The Living End  | Say She She | Snõõper

Also: 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 End

13:36  Say She She

21:21  Snõõper 

24:27  Next week’s picks

31:03  After Dark

Next week: Olivia Dean | Rocket | old Skunkhour from back in the day

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This week’s new albums: Playlunch | Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of Death

Also: Beeso hates your children, the Aunty Donna effect, PNW climate soundtracks, vibe dependency, future JJJ faves, garage bands on GarageBand, stealth mic’ing, drops without builds, Spotify genre or new hop varietal?, more slide whistle, ten cent beer disco demolition night, stopped clocks, jetskis mitigate against creativity, the algorithm says you’re washed, DJ Napster, getting thrown out of Angus & Robertson, short notice offers, GC Indy > Singapore GP, the Bart Simpson defence, self-policing karma, Playlunch innings, era corrections and glory hunting fails.

1:01 Playlunch

6:52 Queen Rodeo

10:06 Bass Drum Of Death 

17:33 Next week’s picks

27:27 After Dark

Next week: Say She She | Snõõper | The Living End

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This week’s new albums: Faithless | TV Death | GHOSTWOMAN

Also: good old Collingwood forever, bring your kids to work day, Death Stranding 3 Juventus 4, chronological fails, Marmite vocals, unacquired tastes, big noise and big gestures, Jesus and the Mary Chain, it’s the vibe, haunting the group chat, annual assignments, get in on the ground floor, the very definition of a joker album, the future is in the future, Rash predictions, Ange vs Nuno, and just out here having a crack vs just out here cracking.

2:32 Faithless

7:40 TV Death

11.44 GHOSTWOMAN 

17:29 Next week’s picks

23:12 After Dark

Next week: Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of Death | Playlunch

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This week’s new albums: The Beaches | The Beths | The Hives

Also: homeopathy, chicks can be guys too, apologetic swag, Tarantino source material, Denny Green albums, straw polls, bad places to get music recs, Sons of Gallagher, on them things, depression diptyches, respectful listening, anti-social media, NFL Bluesky, festival acts vs stadium acts, never use an interlude, pub rock phylogeny, the Al Michaels Affair, Uncle Dennis, Beeso capes for management over labour, unhelpful defences, Ban Hammer v. Smoking Gun, failing at spotfixing, Belichick’s nepo era, and people of America: shoosh.

Timestampy goodness:

00:00 Intro

01:12 Beaches

08:56 Beths

15:22 Hives

21:27 Next week’s picks

28:00 After Dark

Next week: Faithless | Ghostwoman | TV Death

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This week’s new albums: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka Superfly

Also: the full Hetfield, legacy confirmation bias, outlap heroics, resolutely turn of the century, lamb chops play-along, jungle revivals, what killed triphop, big noises and teenage sneering, guiltiest pleasures, living through the worst versions of every ‘00s genre, great modern cover albums, volume shooters, celebrity karaoke vehicles, you can’t stop the music, Jerry A. of ‘80s Portland punks Poison Idea (not THAT much of a celebrity I will grant you), new horizons in boomer communications, orange you glad we didn’t pick this album, they have a lyric that is almost exactly this but somehow I'M the crass one, the enemy of creativity, a touch of the ‘tism, Beeso kills off 2000s TV actors, drama in Dallas (series 2), Eurobasket cases, shop windows, Lando v Oscar and qualified successes.

*One of said 'Moe problems' being it was actually Lenny who said 'please don't tell anyone how I live', but tbf misquoting ancient Simpsons bits is as core a tenet of gen X culture as complaining about the Hottest 100, this is how WE live

Next week: The Beaches | The Hives | The Beths

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This week’s new albums: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult Python

Also: make Australia 1982 again, written warnings, oversouled, don’t phake the phunk, recycling last week’s shownotes jokes, shouty chookpen renovations, tapas plates, forever 1996, House music, Britpop vibes, live fact-checking, newsletter rusted-ons, your gig guide for two weeks ago in Milton Keynes, sound of the funky drummer, second-level filtering, side-project side-projects, giving up after two weeks, Brentford’s big year, knowing your level, Maximising your final years, last week of school vibes and this week in poultry husbandry.

Next week: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka Superfly

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This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | As December Falls | NO CIGAR

Also: Mid maxing, the kids are alright, self-service, Marmite 90s U2, black and white comparisons, losing everyone early, punk phylogenetic trees, not that close, great truckin’ songs have a renaissance, binary scales, mid-oughts everywhere except where it should be, Find My Flatmate, coming up next: Tonia Todman, drummer exchange programmes, Vine Inch Nails, musical tapas, full Fab, EPL round 1, owning the owners and the weird accent Clasico.

Next week: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult Python

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This week’s albums: new Hotline TNT and Skinner Brothers | old (and new) Hilltop Hoods

Also: Minimal viable product, meaningless terminology, doing too much, like and subscribe, front-loaded nostalgia, Em bits, Uncle Beeso’s Story Time, growing old together, SIX60 drivebys, 25 years in, say no to (some) drugs, shouts to Koolism, being objective vs being objectionable, on the cusp of a nosebleed, why try, protect the algorithm, we have Max Martin at home, dust cover blurbs, MKG > MGK, preloading in Nottingham, emo is not a dirty word, Lantanaland Clasicos, and the lowest-imaginable rent version of World Series Cricket.

Next week: The Black Keys | NO CIGAR | As December Falls

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This week’s new albums: Public Enemy | Kokoroko | NODEGA

Also: wintering in Beenleigh, that JJJ Australian all-time H100: it could have been worse?, Oz hiphop’s diversity hire, failed segues, the disease of more, never go full Duckett, the rise and fall of activist hip-hop, offline translation, only getting what you give, conversation stoppers, prioritising the bit, self-explanatory vibes, the first Foos approach, not enjoying not enjoying things, MS Paint covers, before they were famous, stuff you could do with CDs, the Patton-Hutchence nexus, Kaden Groves: destined to be more than just a dude who looks like a ripped Young Mendo, Montmartre forever, the art of racing in the rain, unpaid Defector promotions and failed second endings.

Next week: new Skinner Brothers and Hotline TNT | old Hilltop Hoods (so old it’s out of print and not on streaming)

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This week’s new albums are from Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship.

Also: who he play for, VPLs, neurodiverse ranting, it’s over for Beeso, overpromising and underdelivering, Brett Suede, dead climbers and deranged bikers, salt and vinegar chips, two wrongs make a wronger wrong, distrusting Substack, revenge of the colonised, Brooklyn Vegan recs, American country slush, Triple J’s engagement bait hundred, DDOS’d by normies, go listen to early Sabbath, deleting unnecessary sequels from your head canon, Trey Parker: welcome to the resistance, the Simpsons renaissance noone saw, Tour jerseys, that’s in Queensland, Athletic v Defector, going full Merckx, ice cream for dinner, good writing gets you into sports, three weeks of pointlessness and Dame Home Time.

Next week we are joined by: NODEGA | Kokoroko | Public Enemy 

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This week: new music from Loaded Honey and Wet Leg | an underground classic from Danger Mouse and MF DOOM | remembering Mu from Fat Freddy’s Drop

Also: overcommitting in relationships, coaching trees, third wheels, old mate bangers, heavy ‘Flo, it’s 2025 and tedious indie music purity tests are somehow still a thing, horny on main, unexpected theme weeks, the Janet English Finishing School, random genre generators, ignoring all recommendations, cultural zeitgeist dodgers, missing the references, young DOOM was a PROBLEM, a tall tree falls, force amplifiers, long-awaited albums, avoiding the neighbours, riding up hills on inappropriate equipment, the Mongoose flies, time for an opener-off and the undefeated, unmitigated loser energy that radiates off New Zealand cricket fandom .

Next week’s new-new: Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship

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This week’s new music: LPs from Zig Zags + Teen Mortgage | EPs from Roxferry + Polish Club

Also: time dilation, enjoying Rockhampton, a degree of riffage, how do you do fellow kids, you can take the girl out of Lismore, albums of the century, getting off the gear, upsetting metaphors, Warish-ish, schlock horror, dudes rock, through the fame vortex, we want to get loaded, on the job with Mike Patton, Danger Mouse’s ruining other people’s stuff era, everything should be 80s thrash and burning sports reckons.

Next week: Wet Leg | Loaded Honey | an underground classic from DANGERDOOM

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