A New Rock Opera By Car Seat Headrest + The Best 'CD Album' Albums

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian open this week with a conversation about financial woes at the LP subscription service Vinyl Me Please, and what this says about the "Big Vinyl" industry (1:16). They also talk about Steven's recent column on the most "CD album" albums, and why certain records work better on compact disc (9:38).

In the Fantasy Album Draft update, they talk about new records by Model/Actriz and Jenny Hval (22:13). Then they review The Scholars, the latest album by Car Seat Headrest, along with discussing the band's career (29:28). In the mailbag, a reader asks about albums made by comedians, including a recent effort by Kyle Mooney, as well as a "yay or nay" verdict on They Might Be Giants (44:08).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talk about the new album by Club Night while Steven goes for the latest from The Convenience (56:17).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:13.8	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.8	On this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:21.4	In this episode,
0:29.1	we talk about the new album by Car Seat Headrest and some old CD album albums. My name is Steven Heiden and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He's still waiting for his vinyl copy of
0:33.6	Bleed American from Vinyl Me Please? Ian Cohen.
0:38.2	Ian, how are you?
0:43.8	Okay, so that's not entirely true because I actually, like one of the few albums I did buy on vinyl was Bleed American.
0:45.5	I bought it at Coachella in 2011.
0:48.1	It was like a, it was like a triple disc like Coachella exclusive.
0:52.0	I bonded with the band Colts over it.
0:54.9	What I am waiting for is my very rare vinyl copy of the Jimmy Eat World self-titled album,
1:02.2	which got its name changed after 9-11 before they changed it back.
1:07.1	Well, we could talk about this in a minute, but I would argue that Fleet American is definitely a CD album, not a vinyl album.
1:13.4	Oh, absolutely.
1:14.4	We can have a disagreement about that.
1:16.3	But my little intro there was referencing a story that came out this week, and maybe some of you are aware of this because you're a customer at Vinyl Me Please.
1:26.6	But Vinyl Me Please, the popular LP subscription service,
1:31.8	you pay $44 a month, and they send you hopefully more than one record.
1:38.1	I hope you're getting more than one record for $44.
1:40.8	I'm guessing you get two, like $22 per. But anyway, they've been having some
1:47.1	business problems, apparently. There was a story. This was picked up by aggregators, but the
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