New Music From Big Thief, Mitski and... Post Malone?
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
After Ian hit up the Pitchfork Music Festival last weekend, Steven hits him up for a post-mortem in today's episode (6:31). Turns out Ian skipped out on Saturday — a day marred by weather delays — in order to eat custard in Wisconsin. Which means he missed out on the headline set by Big Thief, the weekend's most polarizing performance. Steven and Ian also talked about the band's recent single, "Vampire Empire," and whether it qualifies as a disappointment.
Another huge indie star who put out new music this week is Mitski (22:51). Ahead of her forthcoming album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, due out in September, she released a quality single, "Bug Like An Angel." After discussing the song, the guys try to place Mitski in the galaxy of reigning indie stars. From there, they pivot in a non-indie direction to Post Malone, whose new album Austin is out today. Does he deserve a yay or nay? They report, you decide (32:41).
In the mailbag, a listener asks Steven and Ian to stop making fun of Sublime (43:44). This, predictably, only prompts more Sublime jokes. Ian also pulls out his San Diego card to justify the mockery.
In Recommendation Corner (52:13), Ian talks about the latest effort from the long-running British band The Clientele, while Steven endorses a recent live album from Father John Misty.
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks's Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.1 | On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:17.7 | We review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.3 | In this episode, we talk about |
| 0:21.4 | Big Thief, Minsky, and Post Malone. What a trio. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined |
| 0:27.0 | by my friend and co-host. He can't wait to hear about my colonoscopy. Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? |
| 0:33.8 | You know, a couple weeks after we, you know, to appeal to us to a to a younger demographic i'm |
| 0:39.3 | glad we gave up any sort of pretense of that like i think we're getting inching that much closer |
| 0:44.8 | to my dream of having those like frank thomas and dug flutie dick pill commercials that i |
| 0:49.9 | always see on non-streaming tv air during indeccast. I think we're really coming into our own here. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, look, I bring this up. I had a colonoscopy. It was yesterday. We're recording this on |
| 1:00.8 | Thursday. I had it on Wednesday. And I'm bringing it up because, yeah, we're trying to appeal to |
| 1:05.7 | a younger demographic, but I know that we have the middle-aged indie rock fan who listens to this show. |
| 1:11.6 | And I want to do a little PSA out there that if you are 45 years or older, |
| 1:16.8 | that you should be screening for colorectal cancer. |
| 1:20.9 | It is a serious thing. |
| 1:22.6 | You need to do it. |
| 1:23.7 | I did it. |
| 1:24.9 | It wasn't that big of a deal. |
| 1:26.7 | You have to drink this solution that basically |
| 1:31.9 | cleans you out. So that's not that fun. And you can't eat for like an entire day before you do the |
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