Our Favorite Albums Of 2023
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It's that time of the year again when critics try to think of every record they heard in the previous 11 months and determine their favorites. Steven and Ian are up to the challenge in this week's episode. But first they talk about the stock albums that seem to populate these lists — the "arty" and "obscure" hip-hop record with an unpronounceable name, the near-unlistenable "acclaimed" death-metal record, the "accessible" jazz album with indie cred. etc.
From there they do a quick Sportscast about Steven's recent love of college football (13:12). They also discuss Taylor Swift being named Person Of The Year by Time magazine and how the media was weirdly in the tank for her all throughout this past year (20:39). Finally, Steven and Ian each pick their five favorite albums of the year, and hash out the trends that defined 2023 (29:16).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:14.8 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:17.5 | We review albums and we hash out trends. |
| 0:20.2 | In this episode, we discuss our |
| 0:21.9 | favorite albums of 2023. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. |
| 0:28.8 | He's my number three emo album of the year. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? I'm glad you've got |
| 0:35.7 | your favorite emo list going, because I, you know, |
| 0:38.5 | our editor, Phil, always says, like, yeah, I always get update statuses from listening to Indycast about your articles. |
| 0:46.4 | And I'm still shaping my emo album list, but man, it's just really fucking tough to do this year. |
| 0:52.5 | And I think we're going to talk about my particular difficulties with list making of any sort in 2023. |
| 0:58.8 | But, yeah, I'm trying to think what's behind awake but still in bed and home is where. |
| 1:03.7 | Like, the three spot is very open right now. |
| 1:07.2 | See, I like that you communicate with Phil via podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | You know, we don't need Slack. |
| 1:15.1 | We don't need email. |
| 1:16.6 | You just record a podcast and that's how you communicate with your editor. |
| 1:20.4 | I think that's a great way to go. |
| 1:23.6 | My list just went up. |
| 1:25.8 | And when I say just went up, I'm talking about Thursday morning as we record this. |
| 1:31.9 | I said this last week, I had a great time making my list this year. |
| 1:36.0 | I got a little creative with it. |
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