Let's Look Ahead To Upcoming Albums In 2025 Q2

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian open this week's episode with a question: Was the first quarter of 2025 a little disappointing, in terms of album releases? Seems like it was (1:51). So why not look ahead to the second quarter? The guys go over new-release teases for music this week from a bevy of stars, including Wet Leg, Turnstile, and WU LYF (3:24). Then they do the Fantasy Albums Draft for the second quarter, discussing upcoming records from Lana Del Rey, Bon Iver, Billy Woods, Tunde Adebimpe, and more (26:01).

In the mailbag, they discuss the newly announced arena tour for Brand New, and whether the emo band has faced appropriate consequences for allegations against singer-songwriter Jesse Lacey (49:42).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks up "Altered Zones"-core act OHYUNG while Steven stumps for the dreamy neo-grunge band Momma (with extra shouts to Craig Finn and The Waterboys) (1:04:30).

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.8	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast on the show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out those trends.
0:22.4	In this episode, we look ahead to the second quarter of 2025.
0:26.7	That means fantasy albums, draft.
0:29.4	That's what it means, basically.
0:31.5	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:34.7	He's dying to talk about the new Woo Life song.
0:55.2	Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? You see, like, typically, Steve's intro line is a bit of a joke, but I actually am dying to talk about the new Wu Life song. We were just like, no subtext, no joke, no irony. A new Wu Life song came out. That's why we started a little later than usual. Steve was maybe saying something about his kids. It's like, no, we got to listen to the new Wu life song,
0:59.7	at least twice. It's six minutes long. That's a good sign. Most of the songs on Go Tell Fire to the
1:05.6	mountain were also like five or six minutes long. So yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready to talk about it because, like, we talk of Woo Life.
1:14.8	You know, we name drop Woo Life, but I don't know if you like that.
1:18.9	Yeah, I know I do, but I think Steve does to humor me.
1:21.5	And by the way, I should have known better than to mention Wu Life in the intro because I knew that would trigger you into like a Woo Life monologue.
1:31.9	And we're not quite ready for the Woo Life monologue yet.
1:34.2	We have to wait a few minutes.
1:36.1	Can you hold off like a little bit on the Wu Life take?
1:39.2	I waited 14 years for a new Woo Life so I can wait about a couple minutes.
1:43.3	Yeah, we're waiting.
1:49.3	Yeah, I'm like 140 seconds at the most, or so, or so.
1:55.7	Yeah, there were a bunch of like new music announcements or new music teases this week, and we're going to do a quick run through all of those here in a second.
2:00.7	Can I just say, you know, we're entering the second quarter now of 2025.
2:06.3	We're going to be doing our fantasy albums draft here in a few moments.
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