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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