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Indiecast

A Big Day For New Releases + Pitchfork's Best Albums Of The 2020s So Far List

Indiecast

Amazon Music

Music Commentary, Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock

4.6621 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian begin this week's episode by discussing Ian's upcoming trip to London, which is quickly interrupted by a quick rant by Steven about the (improving!) state of tour T-shirts (4:06). Then the guys commence a conversation about Pitchfork's recent list of the best albums of the 2020s, and what some notable exclusions and slights say about the changing critical narrative for the decade (12:23). After that, they take stock of a big release day for albums and review the latest from Wild Pink (30:59), former Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep (37:12), and the new supergroup The Hard Quartet fronted by Stephen Malkmus (45:41).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks up the emo band Ceres and Steven reps for the fine indie-heartland rock group Trace Mountains (51:04).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.

0:13.5

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.

0:16.0

On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.

0:21.2

This episode, we talk about the pitchfork half-decade albums list, as well as new

0:26.9

records by Wild Pink, Giordi Grie and the Hard Quartet.

0:31.9

My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.

0:34.6

He's going to London this week, so I'm speaking in my British accent.

0:39.0

Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, but next week's episode, just to give everyone a little preview,

0:45.3

I do plan to come back for my UK trip, you know, doing a kind of a talk singing thing about the

0:50.8

absurdity of modern life. So I might not do the accent. Maybe that's going to be my

0:55.2

innovation in the post-funx sphere to like just do the same thing except it's American.

0:59.7

Well, I, because you have to decide like what accent. And I'm trying to decide what I was doing.

1:05.3

That was sort of cockney. Because it was like the London accent. You got the Cockney accent.

1:12.2

You've got maybe like the more sort of like Northern England accent.

1:14.4

I know we do have British listeners, so if you want to write in and tell me what you thought

1:18.9

of my accent, I would appreciate it.

1:22.6

Do you have any plans for England?

1:25.6

I'm actually, I think I'm going next summer. So maybe you can do some

1:30.2

recon work for me and let me know, like, where to get the best fish and chips and all that,

1:35.3

and the best spot of tea. Right. And that whole thing. But do you, do you have any plans yet?

1:40.8

I can't, I mean, less than you'd expect, I've been like very, uh, particularly planning out the 10 hour flight. Uh, I am like way more concerned about how I'm going to pass that time than a week in London. Uh, I've got Mr. McMahon downloaded. I mean, the deer hunters on Netflix, that'll kill some time, but, ooh, have you seen that? Uh, so long ago, though. Oh, man. But, yeah, the thing about like, whenever my wife and I travel, like, we're not really night owls and neither of us drink. So, like, we don't really go out to bars at night. I mean, we got a couple of, we're going to see Hades Town, that musical and also the Mean Girls musicals just, you know, because it's London. and we're going to see Hades Town, that, uh, musical and also the Mean Girls musical, just,

2:18.6

you know, because it's London.

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