Kanye West's 'Donda' + Guilty Pleasures

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What’s your biggest fear as a concertgoer? For Steve, it’s having to do a Number 2 at a show — even nice venues with good toilets seem like a terrible place to spend any significant amount of time. This is perhaps the exact thought that went through the head of the person who had an unfortunate bowel movement in the mosh pit at a Turnstile show last week. Will people now feel empowered to do the same at upcoming Turnstile shows, like how Barenaked Ladies got Kraft mac and cheese thrown at them?

The meat of this week’s episode comes in the form of a discussion about Donda, the oft-discussed, perhaps anticipated new album from Kanye West. The thing about Kanye is that the music media once gave him the benefit of the doubt, and now they don’t. Nonetheless, like everything Kanye does these days, Donda has this huge gravitational pull, yet it feels somewhat marooned from what’s actually happening at large, with a narrative set almost entirely on planet Kanye. There’ss callbacks to some Yeezus and 808s-style electronic music, a lot of Jesus (the curses are bleeped out!), but rather than create trends, it turns away from them. Donda just sucks all the air out of the room.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging Jail Socks, who just released the new album Coming Down while Steve wants to spread the good word about Other You, the latest LP from indie guitar god Steve Gunn.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:12.9	Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast. On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.2	We review albums and we hash out trends. In this episode, we review
0:21.8	the new album by Kanye West. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host,
0:27.8	the original certified lover boy, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Well, I mean, on a day where,
0:35.1	what, like New York's underwater, Joe Rogan's telling his listeners to eat horse paste, all sorts of terrible things going on in Texas.
0:43.6	I mean, I'm just glad that we have some feel-good stories to share with our listeners like, you know, the guy who took a shit in the turnstile mosh pit.
0:50.9	I mean, yeah, this has been a big story this week.
0:53.5	And I want to get your take on this.
0:55.8	And by the way, we're really throwing our listeners into the deep end right away in
1:00.2	this episode.
1:00.9	I hope people are not grossed out by this.
1:03.3	We'll talk about this important story as delicately as we can.
1:07.9	But I want to get your take on this because I saw people talking about there was this
1:12.5	guy, yeah, this was a show in California. Santa Cruz. I believe you, Santa Cruz, I believe you saw
1:18.1	the show right before this. Yeah. Is there like a German word for like the disappointment you
1:23.5	feel when you went to the show the night before someone like made history by taking a shit
1:28.9	in the turnstile pit well someone might have taken the shit at your show you just didn't know about it
1:34.4	it was outdoors so it would probably be hard to tell yeah it was maybe more low key but yeah anyway
1:38.9	there was uh the show in california and santa cruz and it was this there was this dump discovered it wasn't in the
1:47.5	pit I think it was originally in the pit and then someone threw it on stage is that is that
1:50.5	you know what like right now it's it's just this like Roshaman like tale where people are
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