Let's Talk About Coldplay + Mitski's New Song, Plus: Pitchfork Re-Scores Itself

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week marked the long-awaited return of Mitski, who has been more or less quiet since the Be The Cowboy tour wrapped nearly two years ago. Now, the acclaimed songwriter is back with “Working For The Knife,” bringing with it the always-insane discourse around her music.

The meat of this episode revolves around one of the biggest bands of the 21st century, Coldplay. With billions of streams on Spotify, Coldplay is almost a perfect poptimism-era rock band, in that they have no qualms with being a super pop band and doing whatever it takes to remain relevant (see: doing a song with BTS). After being nominated for Album Of The Year in 2019 with the double album Everyday Life, the band’s new Max Martin-produced album, Music Of The Spheres, is due out next week.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging Illusory Walls, the epic new album from emo legends The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die. Meanwhile, Steve is enjoying Seventeen Going Under, the new album from English singer-songwriter Sam Fender.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape.
0:14.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast.
0:16.5	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:19.0	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:24.9	In this episode, we talk about one of the biggest bands of the 21st century Coldplay. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He was a 9.5 and
0:31.4	now he's a 7.0. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? It's just like that Japanroid song. It's like it's like, I used to be turned on the bright lights and now, I don't know,
0:40.9	Elpintore or something like that.
0:43.2	I don't know, 7.0 is not that bad.
0:45.3	I mean, if we're talking about, I think that's the highest score Cole has ever gotten
0:48.9	at Pitchfork.
0:49.7	So, uh, oh, yeah, a good, good way to integrate it into our topic this week yeah so that point oh's good the people
0:56.6	the people on twitter are right it's like no it's it's not a c plus it's like uh it's like a b plus
1:01.6	it's three and a half stars like look i i want to be someone 7.0 for you know i want to be a 7.0 to
1:08.2	somebody for you know eternity rather than like a 9.5 that gets demoted.
1:12.6	Well, okay, so we should fill in for people who don't know what we're talking about.
1:16.5	Oh, come on. Who doesn't know what we're talking about? Who's listening to Indycast?
1:21.1	There's the folks out there, some of the folks out there, they don't live online. They have jobs. They have live families. They might not be on top of every
1:29.2	controversy that comes up. That's why they listen to our show. They're catching up by listening to the show.
1:35.8	Pitchfork ran a feature this week as part of their 25th anniversary. They've been rolling out a bunch of big retrospective features.
1:43.8	And the one that got the most attention is that they revisited, I think, 19 reviews from the past or so.
1:51.1	And they rescored them.
1:53.0	So albums that were lauded in the past, some of them got demoted, whereas other albums that were slagged in the past, they were
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