Mailbag: CDs, Emo, And Jeff Mangum’s Icon Status

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Steven and Ian are once again taking questions from listeners. One listener was interested in exploring the place of CDs in the modern music industry, both in terms of audio quality, as well as the best method of listening. The result is a spirited conversation about how CDs compare in quality to that of streaming and vinyl, and the sense of ownership that comes with holding in your hand a physical manifestation of music. Is there anything quite like gathering a stack of CDs to take on a road trip?

Of course, an episode of Indiecast wouldn’t be complete without a chance for Cohen to sing his praises about emo bands, this week focusing on 'Ground Aswim,' the latest from Sinai Vessel. The record hasn’t been getting much mainstream attention this year, which begs the question of what it really means for an album to be “slept on” in 2020.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Cohen is recommending new albums from Soul Glo and Record Setter, while Hyden can’t get enough of the latest from David Nance.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:14.9	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.8	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.2	In this episode, we'll be answering
0:21.4	questions from you, the Indycast listener. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend
0:27.1	and co-host, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? Steve, I'm doing all right. And, you know, one week
0:33.6	later, the people just want to know, will Joeiden make punk rock great again i i love how that's
0:41.2	like been i love how that's been the consideration of like the past week or so like what's going to happen
0:47.4	you know ostensibly if joe biden takes office like what's that going to mean for indie rock because
0:52.4	the way we rationalize in 2016 it's like
0:55.3	well Donald Trump's going to make punk rock great again uh people are like I don't know perhaps
1:00.4	hoping that uh when Joe Biden takes office you know CMJ will come back and stuff will start
1:06.7	sounding like Matt and Kim again. And I don't know.
1:15.4	I'm like kind of ready to revisit like late 2000s blog rock.
1:22.9	Yeah, I think if we take like kind of the total package, maybe we get like recession era Obama comeback.
1:23.9	I'm open. Well, I was going to say like it's not going to be punk rock.
1:26.4	It's going to be like beardy indie folk. I mean, I think of that as being the music of the first Obama administration. We're going to, I mean, we've already had the Fleet Fox's return. That's true. Bonnie Bear's going to drop a new joint. We got to have, you know, maybe Mumford is going to come back. He's going to make Mumford and Suns great again.
1:44.3	Yeah, all those bands, all those bands of that nature who went like electronic and started like collaborating with hip hop. They're just going to go right back to the acoustic guitars, beards, like, we're going to have like flight of the Concord type bands. Absolutely. Moving to cabins. Cabins. If you own a cabin, sell it now because it's going to be worth a ton of money.
1:44.0	Indie rockers. type bands. Absolutely. Moving to cabins. Cabins? If you own a cabin, sell it now because it's going to be worth a ton of money.
2:04.4	Indie rockers are going to want to buy your cabin to record their masterpiece.
2:08.3	It sounds miserable.
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