Indiecast's Favorite Albums Of 2025
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian begin this special episode with a quick rundown of the new Charli XCX mockumentary and whether it potentially represents the end of millennial cultural dominance (0:56). They also do a quick Sportscast after the recent Packers win and Eagles loss (11:11). After that, they discuss the latest album from This Is Lorelei, a kind of greatest hits release for the promising singer-songwriter's Bandcamp era (19:30). Then they discuss their favorite albums of 2025 (30:59).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:16.2 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. In this |
| 0:21.6 | episode, we discuss our favorite albums of 2025. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my |
| 0:28.4 | friend and co-host. He can't wait for the new Charlie XX mockumentary. Ian Cohen. Ian, |
| 0:34.8 | how are you? Yeah, I'm worried that they're going to find probably a tweet that I did in 2011 or something like that |
| 0:41.4 | when I first saw Charlie XX perform at Trubidor in L.A. |
| 0:45.3 | And I said she dances like a girl at her bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah. |
| 0:49.3 | Sorry, I have to use the proper terminology. |
| 0:51.5 | I hope I'm just outside the scope of what this mockumentary might bring up. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, okay, so the trailer for this movie was dropped the morning that we're recording, |
| 1:01.0 | which is Thursday, what, December, is December 11th, I believe it is. |
| 1:06.3 | The movie's called The Moment. |
| 1:07.9 | It's coming out in January. |
| 1:09.0 | Like I said, it's a mockumentary, and it's focused on the, uh, the, the Brat arena tour, or as I like to call it, the Brat, uh, arena tour. Uh, that's how we say it in Wisconsin. Um, so it looks like from the trailer that there are clips of her performing on the Brad |
| 1:30.7 | tour, you know, footage of her backstage and limousines and green rooms, but also there |
| 1:37.1 | is a fictional element being introduced into it. |
| 1:41.3 | One of the Scarsgaard Brothers is in it. |
| 1:44.1 | He plays like a choreographer maybe. Of course, |
| 1:47.7 | like Rachel Senat is in it. A lot of people in the Charlie X, the X, the world. The trailer is a little |
| 1:55.4 | much. Can I say that? I don't want to judge a film preemptively. I guess I am doing it a little bit |
| 2:00.7 | in the case of |
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