Olivia Rodrigo + Black Midi, Plus: Fartlow

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Olivia Rodrigo released her highly anticipated debut album Sour. The full-length effort includes three absolutely massive singles, and sets Rodrigo as one of the biggest stars on the planet. However, some of the discourse online was criticizing the praise, questioning whether critics have any place reviewing “teenage” music. On this week’s episode of Indiecast, Steve and Ian dig into Sour, and this confounding divide.

Later in the episode, the duo also discuss Cavalcade, the new album from English experimental rockers Black Midi. In the midst of an era of music consumption that gives listeners exactly what they want, Black Midi is the rare rock band with a significant profile that is unafraid of irritating people. At a time when boundless musical comfort food is at our fingertips, the buzz around the group is equal parts confusing and exciting.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging I Won’t Reach Out To You, the new EP from Michigan punks Hot Mulligan. Steve wants listeners to check out his recent interview with Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, whose forthcoming Jubilee is a big contender for indie album of the year.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.
0:13.8	Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast.
0:15.8	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.3	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.6	In this episode,
0:21.3	we'll be talking about Olivia Rodriguez and Black Midi. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by
0:26.9	my friend and co-host Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? You know, on a day, how I'm doing on a day
0:32.6	like today, I'm just thinking of what my grandfather Ignaz Markovits told me shortly before his passing.
0:39.5	I know, yeah, he was full of wisdom.
0:42.3	I'm going to try my best to do a, you know, a Czechoslovakian two pack a day, unfiltered cigarette smoking accent here.
0:50.1	He's like, Ian, every day there's a main character on twitter and your job is to not be him you
0:57.8	know this guy full full of sage advice and then he and then he probably said something inappropriate
1:02.5	about the waitress at denny's when we were at the time but um you know i think i think about it
1:07.8	because like you know today like we are in historic times in that,
1:13.7	look, there are days where, like, a music writer is the main character on music writer,
1:18.4	Twitter.
1:19.2	Like, we talk about that a lot.
1:21.7	And now, you and I have, you and I have been the main character in music writer and Twitter
1:25.7	from time to time.
1:28.0	You know, in the interest of full disclosure.
1:30.0	Yeah, exactly.
1:30.9	And yeah, that's not the best day.
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