New Albums by Lana Del Rey, Boygenius + The Hold Steady, Plus: The Best Sophomore Albums Ever

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

At the start of this week's episode, Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen try to come to terms with the fact that Ed Sheeran doesn't think music critics are necessary. Ultimately, they concede that the man has a point — after all, if music critics had any power, Ed Sheeran would not be a hugely successful pop star (:26).

In the banter segment, they talk about the upcoming tour by Smashing Pumpkins, Interpol and Stone Temple Pilots, which is like Pavement's "Range Life" come to life (7:02). They also talk about the new album by The Hold Steady, The Price Of Progress (14:17).

In the mailbag, a reader asks for their favorite sophomore albums. Can they interest you in a little record called Nevermind? How about The Bends? Actually, the letter writer stumps for Weekend In The City, because it is now Indiecast law that Bloc Party is mentioned in every episode (20:44). Finally, the meat of the episode reviews two big spring indie releases by Lana Del Rey (32:20) and Boygenius (44:11).

In Recommendation Corner (56:23), Ian talks about the American Football side project Lies, while Steve raves about the Irish folk (with a post-rock twist) band Lankum.

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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.
0:15.3	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,
0:22.3	we discuss new albums by Lana Del Rey and Boy Genius. My name is Stephen Hayden and I'm joined by
0:28.6	my friend and co-host. He wants Ed Sheeran to know that music critics matter. Ian Cohen,
0:35.0	Ian, how are you? In a very dark place, imagining some 48-year-old EMP music critic making a t-shirt, like
0:43.7	a Theereal Lives Matter or Angular Lives Matter or something like that.
0:49.1	Like clapping back at Ed Shearin in the most like cornball music critic way possible to show like
0:55.7	solidarity you know like because who are who what are what what is the music critic community
1:01.8	except like a notoriously solid uh front yeah so there was an interview this week that
1:08.8	rolling stone did with Ed Shearan and one of the
1:11.5	poll quotes was he was talking about how music critics don't matter in the age of streaming
1:19.0	because you can just listen to anything you want and make up your own mind you don't need
1:23.9	these pencil pushing uh poindexters dictating to you what you like.
1:31.8	And there was a reaction from the music critic community, of course, not pleased with this.
1:38.0	Because, you know, we're under siege anyway.
1:39.3	Yeah.
1:40.1	You know, publications, websites falling left and right.
1:45.6	You know, it's hard to find a job these days.
1:48.4	And now you're one of the most streamed artists in the world taking shots.
1:53.5	I have to say that if I were Ed Sheeran, I would feel the exact same way.
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