Idles + Courtney Barnett, Plus: Astroworld Tragedy

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode of is dedicated to two of the greatest indie rock success stories over the last decade. First up is Idles, whose new album Crawler follows up 2020’s Ultra Mono and continues down a musical path toward what Steven Hyden recently called “the mix of political righteousness and musical bluntness that once caused people to call The Clash ‘the only band that matters.'” Does Idles actually pull of the tightrope walk on Crawler?

Next on the review list is Courtney Barnett, whose new album Things Take Time, Take Time is her first in a little more than three years. While Barnett isn’t necessarily as consistently discussed on music publications and music writer Twitter as a band like Idles, her albums are always well-received and her touring business is consistently growing and lucrative, making for an ideal situation for indie rock stardom. Things Take Time, Take Time is surely to continue Barnett’s trajectory and build her fervent fan base.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging the latest release from SeeYouSpaceCowboy, and Steve is enjoying A Way Forward, the second album in two years from Brooklyn trio Nation Of Language.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.4	Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast.
0:15.5	On this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.1	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.5	In this episode, we review
0:21.6	new albums by Idols and Courtney Barnett. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend
0:26.9	and co-host, the person who misspelled Japan droids on the shaky knees festival poster, Ian Cohen,
0:33.1	Ian How Are you? I'm saying, man, you cannot buy the kind of publicity. Like, the fact that
0:37.2	they have Japan droids playing Celebration the kind of publicity. Like the fact that they have
0:37.7	Japan droids playing Celebration Rock is one thing, but the fact that they spelled it wrong has
0:44.0	put this festival in the limelight in a way that properly spelling it couldn't. They should do
0:49.5	this stuff more often, just especially with like these ones that look like eye charts.
0:55.1	Like, I don't know if you saw the Tree Fort music festival poster.
0:58.9	Oh, yeah.
0:59.5	And that, like, that's really hard to read.
1:01.0	Yeah, I look at that and wonder, are we on this?
1:03.8	Like, did Uprocks go a little bit like outside of our scope to like say, hey, we're going to
1:10.3	expand our live footprint to
1:12.0	the the mountain time zone you know you've you've been hitting the Midwest and the and
1:18.5	Canada really hard but like the the Boise footprint like that is indie cast territory to be
1:24.6	conquered well I feel like we should be booked at shaking news.
1:28.4	Oh, yeah.
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