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

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