Kurt Vile, 100 Gecs, BTS vs. Built To Spill, And An Indie Rock Twitter Skirmish

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Despite his prolific releases, Kurt Vile has oftentimes been pinned with a slacker reputation. Maybe it's his "chill dude" persona or his wandering ballads, but on Vile's latest album Watch My Moves, the former War On Drugs guitarist proves his music has evolved over the last few years. On the latest episode of Indiecast, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen share their thoughts about Watch My Moves (35:12), Vile's latest effort since 2018.

This week in indie music also saw some great new releases and some Twitter faux pas. The Conor Oberst/Phoebe Bridgers supergroup Better Oblivion Community Center sent a very snarky tweet at musician Kississippi, calling her music "boring" in response to a very mild joke about Oberst's shoes. Steven and Ian discuss the blowback (6:18) and reminisce on times they learned the hard way that everything on the internet is permanent. Indiecast also delves into Built To Spill's latest album When The Wind Forgets Your Name (1:48), the return of 100 Gecs, and wonder if the hyperpop duo sound a little too 2019 at this point (14:07).

In this week's Recommendation Corner (48:09), Ian shows love to Prince Daddy & The Hyena, whose self-titled album is out today. Meanwhile, Steven spotlights Wet Tuna's third studio album Warping All By Yourself, which veers into '70s funk and jazz fusion territory.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.8	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:14.9	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.1	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.2	In this episode, we review the new album by
0:21.2	Kurt Vile. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He was the first
0:26.1	person ever to make a BTS built-to-spill joke. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Yeah, I'm also
0:32.1	the first person to propose the Jimmy Eat World Gang of Youth's Jew Goit tour. Or just to bring, you know, it's funny because Jimmy E. World has no Jewish people in. And I think Dave from Gang of Youth is kind of Jewish. So it's kind of ironic, those two have those names. But, um, see, I feel like you could make that joke. I can. I don't think I would feel comfortable even, like if that was a tour. I don't know if I would be comfortable just saying the name of the tour.
0:57.8	Yeah.
0:58.5	As a Gentile, I feel like I would need to be respectful of my Jewish brothers and sisters and not referenced that.
1:07.2	But that would be a great tour even beyond the comedy aspect.
1:10.4	Yeah, absolutely. It's better that than like the acronym you get from the Jimmy
1:14.0	World Saves the Day tour. So, yeah, I mean, I'm sort of just, I'm hoping that, you know,
1:22.9	maybe there's like a K-pop mastermind who's, or maybe just like a movie where they make another
1:28.6	boy band with like a you know a name like YLT or GGBV just to just to really push the
1:36.9	envelope of like enervating like 45 year old indie dudes that would be amazing if there was a
1:43.4	K-pop group called GV. My head would explode.
1:48.4	You know, we're talking about Built to Spill because they have a new album that they
1:52.5	announced this week as all of the 36 to 45-year-old indie fan community. You already know that
1:59.5	there was an alarm that went off in uh, in all of your homes. Uh, the new record is called when the wind forgets your name. It's out in September. Uh, which, you know, look, when, look, built a spill. They're, uh, I think we would both agree. They're one of the all-time greats. We love them. I don't know. I feel
2:19.6	like I dabble in whatever new albums they put out, and I always enjoy them, but then I don't
2:25.5	revisit them. But I'm glad they're making records. I'm glad they're on the road. They're always a good
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