Billie Eilish + Foxing

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

During last week’s episode, Steve and Ian took some time to theorize that Billie Eilish’s new album Happier Than Ever might be heading in the direction of a sophomore slump. However, the latest effort from the young superstar is a good example of an LP featuring a handful of underwhelming singles that misrepresent and otherwise pretty good album. Happier Than Ever seems to share some inspiration DNA with the new Clairo album, in that they are both reactions to fame records, but instead of going abrasive they’ve gone even quieter and more hushed. Overall, the new album from the young superstar feels very much apiece with how people listen to music now, and a thoroughly enjoyable affair.

Next up on the docket is Draw Down The Moon, the latest opus from St. Louis band Foxing. It’s the follow-up to the band’s third studio album Nearer My God — which Ian is quick to name the best album of any genre of the last five years — and goes to places even grander and enveloping. Long story short, it can either take the band to completely new heights in their career… or destroy them entirely. Only time will tell!

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Steve is recommending No Medium, the new album from Rosali that was released a few months ago. Ian has been vibing with Lantlôs, the German “post-black metal” band that dropped their latest effort Wildhund last week.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.0	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.5	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.7	In this episode, we review new albums by
0:21.8	Billy Elish and Foxing. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen.
0:29.0	Ian, how are you? All right, so I just got to warn our listeners, if, like, my voice sounds a little
0:33.7	bit like huskier and lower today. It's not because I'm trying to do kind of like a soft-spoken Billy Eilish thing.
0:40.2	I've actually been homesick the past couple of days, like, which is, yeah, it's like,
0:45.5	I've gotten like two COVID tests in the past four days, both negative.
0:50.0	But like, this is, this is just how spooked I am by the whole deal.
0:53.9	But, yeah, like, I mean, being homesick, like, unlike being homesick from school, like, this is not fun, creates more work for me. But what I... You know, I was sick a few weeks ago, and I was wondering if I had committed. But I don't think... But, you know, if I did, it was totally fine because it wasn't that big of a deal. You know what I mean? I mean, do you think we're all going to get COVID at some point? It seems inevitable. It seems like getting the flu. And as long as you're vaccinated, you should be okay, but... Feel good episode of Indycast. We're all going to get COVID. Well, I don't, you know, I just feel like, again, if you're vaccinated, it seems that it's not that big of a deal. You'll just feel sick for a few days and you'll move on. Yeah, we're going to have to have like a warning on this episode. Like, Ian and Steve are not doctors. Yeah, I'm just'm just you know I'm trying to look on the bright
1:45.9	side here if that happens yeah I do think we have to like adjust to the new reality but um you know
1:52.5	there there there are only two upsides to being homesick like the first is which you know I don't drink
1:57.4	I don't do drugs the closest thing I get is like what the rare times when I'm sick where I can take
2:02.6	DayQuil and listen to my morning jackets at dawn.
2:05.5	Oh, man.
2:05.9	That is the closest thing I can get to a psychedelic experience these days.
2:11.6	And secondly, like, I don't know, like I'm not healing, but nature is because, you know,
2:16.9	when I'm home all day, I can be on
2:18.4	Twitter more and I can be up on the discourse. And, you know, this week's disc, do you have, like,
2:24.4	the director of the Woodstock 99 docs like email or like a home address? I need to send
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