Low + Favorite Fall Albums Of All Time. Plus: Certified Lover Boy!

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Steve and Ian are getting ready for festival season. Pitchfork Festival is finally here, featuring sets from Dogleg, Oso Oso, and Bartees Strange and marking the tripling of the fest’s notorious “token DIY/emo” acts. This year, festival season arrives in the fall, which leads into a question from a listener asking which albums are indicative of the changing of the leaves for our two hosts.

This week’s episode is centered around Minnesota trio Low, who has been regularly releasing music over the last 30 years or so. Recently, Low’s consistent catalogue was starting to feel like they were tapering off, but their thirteenth studio album, Hey What, has them back in the saddle for their best collection of songs in recent memory. Perhaps this is the result of the prominence of the vocals on this album — where the voices were frequently buried amid the glitchy instrumentation on previous efforts, Hey What has the dual vocalists front and center, often cutting through the musical mayhem behind them.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging 2012, the new album from Pittsburgh band Brightside. Meanwhile, Steve wants to bring your attention to the forthcoming album from Irish post-punk band Silverbacks.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:03.1	Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast.
0:15.8	On this show we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.5	We review albums and we hash out trends. In this episode,
0:21.7	we review the new album by Lowe. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host,
0:27.9	the new mayor of Chicago, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? You know, you're going with the spoiler
0:33.8	alerts in your introductions these days. Well, yeah, I like to shake it up.
0:38.1	I mean, well, because you're, we're recording this pod a day earlier that we normally do because
0:42.5	you are going to hop a plane.
0:45.0	You're going to Chicago to see some Chicago blues, I think, because you're a big blues guy, right?
0:49.9	Is that why you're going to Chicago?
0:51.0	Yeah, going to Chicago, the Big Easy, as it's called.
0:56.1	Have some deep dish, some deep dish pizza and have some Goose Island beer.
1:03.0	I'm trying to think of other Chicago cliches.
1:05.8	Go see the bean, take a picture for my Tinder account.
1:08.9	Now, I'm just playing.
1:09.9	I'd be old style light. That's the Chicago here. Not Goose Island. That's too,
1:14.2	that's too niche. Yeah. But shout to the Fay Webster collaboration with Goose Island.
1:21.4	I hope many people get drunk off that shit at Pitchfork Festival. But yeah, you know, every episode that we record in some way
1:30.2	feels like a transmission from the future because we record it, you know, a day or so before it
1:34.7	actually airs. And, you know, by the time this one airs, I'll have gone on my, you know,
1:39.8	been on my first flight since the pandemic. I'll be going to see my first festival since the pandemic,
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