Is The New Big Thief Album A Letdown? Also: Radiohead Returns To The Road For The First Time In Seven Years
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian begin with a cute story about Michael Stipe logging into Bluesky and clarifying commonly misstated lyrics for R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," the latest stop on the band's world-class old-guy retirement (1:43). They also talk about news that Radiohead is going back on the road for the first time in seven years (8:13).
Steven also does a quick Sportscast on the Packers acquiring Micah Parsons, and what this means for the team's Super Bowl chances (13:16). From there, they do an update on the Fantasy Albums Draft, which looks very close (18:33). Then they review the new Big Thief album, and discuss where one of the most acclaimed indie bands of recent years stands now (26:15). After that, they do a "yay or nay" segment on Slipknot (43:36).
In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about post-hardcore band La Dispute and Steven goes for '90s-style country singer Zach Top (47:43).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecasts. On this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, we review albums and we hash out trends. In this episode, we talk about the new album by Big Thief. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He's been singing, It's the End of the World as we know it. Wrong at karaoke this whole time. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? I mean, it's true. At least since 2021, I've been inserting lyrics from RXK nephews, the real Lil Reese, |
| 0:40.2 | and you'd be surprised how well it works. |
| 0:43.1 | Wow. |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah, I mean, I don't know what that song is, so I'm just going to like nod my head and pretend. |
| 0:49.0 | Like, that is one of the blind spots between you and me. |
| 0:53.4 | I guess that's the equivalent of like the |
| 0:57.1 | pontoon boat country records that I talk about on this podcast. That's what that, what is it, |
| 1:03.4 | RXK Nephew? RXK Nephew. I think it's more like the jam band stuff because a lot of his songs are also |
| 1:09.8 | 11 minutes long and he just goes off on |
| 1:12.0 | these riffs so uh you know the first person who yeah we're the first podcast it's like going to cover |
| 1:17.8 | goose and rxk nephew going deep in their bag to make 14 minutes song so that's why that's why we |
| 1:23.9 | survived this long goose though is maybe too big i got to start digging into like Eggie. You know, Eggie is coming up now. They've taken like the spot that Goose used to have because Goose is now full-fledged Arena Rock jam band. But Eggie now is the upstart. So I have to dig into them. So I was referring to in the introduction there, a story that was reported this week. |
| 1:47.3 | Not really reported. |
| 1:48.2 | It was just observed. |
| 1:49.6 | Michael Stipe went on Blue Sky, which is just perfect. |
| 1:54.4 | That is the Michael Stipe social media platform. |
| 1:58.9 | He went on Blue Sky this week week and he clarified some lyrics from, |
| 2:03.7 | it's the end of the world as we know it, |
| 2:05.5 | that he says people have been getting wrong the whole time. |
| 2:08.8 | And he started, |
| 2:10.3 | I don't know if you saw this, |
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