group's second album, My Volcano (September 2010). BMA Magazines Katy Hall opined, "their unique blend of surf-pop and psychedelic lo-fi marks an important revival, one that not only seems to have gained gigantic momentum in recent times, but also one that clears through the often obscure genre-mixing styles of other bands of the moment." Spod reissued their first album as 'Taste the Radness: the 10 Years of Radness Edition in August 2013, with bonus material on a second disc. The following year, Spod released Taste the Sadness''' (2014), an album that took the songs of Taste the Radness and reinvented them from the perspective of a person having a midlife crisis. Whereas the original album celebrated youthful partying and sexual excess, the updated album was about being weighed-down by the baggage of adulthood: mundane jobs, parenting, mediocre relationships. The Guardian's A.H. Cayley described Taste the Sadness as: Jasmine Crittenden of Concrete Playground noticed, "SPOD's getting old. And slightly blue on occasion. And he's not afraid to admit it. Back in the early noughties, he thought that happiness was all about aiming champagne corks at innocent bystanders, tossing streamers around and cranking the odd slow-grind. But the combo just isn't cutting the mustard these days." She felt the album, "tells the story of rushing headfirst into the autumn of existence as though you were still a spring chicken, only to dislocate your hip and find yourself in an ultra cosy armchair. From that vantage point, you spend your time telling the world how much better everything was when you were able to enjoy it more." It was issued via Rice Is Nice Records and according to FasterLouders Darren Levin, "[he] has decided to quit being a 'computer deadshit' and record a real-life album with real-life instruments in a real-life studio with real-life producer Owen Penglis (The Straight Arrows)." Spod issued a single, "Boys Night", in December 2016. Discography Albums Taste the Radness (29 September 2003) – Architecture Label/Shock Records Taste the Radness: the 10 Years of Radness Edition (expanded version, 22 August 2013) – Rice Is Nice Records Superfrenz (22 September 2008) – Rice Is Nice/MGM (MGM V102) Taste the Sadness (22 August 2014) – Rice Is Nice Adult Fantasy (19 July 2019) – Rice Is Nice Extended plays Eternal Championz (September 2004) – Shock Records Quan and Spod Present Blox (by Blox) (6 October 2007) – Valve Records Animals'' (1