Our Favorite Albums Of 2025 So Far, Plus: New Music From Lorde And Mac DeMarco
Indiecast
UPROXX
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian begin with a conversation about Virgin, the new album by Lorde out today (2:20). Judging by the singles, it's not clear if this is going to be the comeback she needs. They also talked about Guitar, the new album just announced by Mac DeMarco, his first "proper" record of songs in years (15:15).
Then they pivoted to a conversation about the weird state of music in 2025 (24:14), which already seems like a weaker year than 2024, before they each listed their five favorite releases of the past six months (30:26).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast. |
| 0:15.4 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:22.0 | In this episode, we talk about our favorite albums of 2025 so far. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and |
| 0:28.4 | co-host. I'm looking forward to seeing where Morgan Wallens, I'm the Problem, ends up on |
| 0:33.2 | Ian's year-end list. Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? I love when we start with a bit where it may or may not be a joke because, look, I mean, with this emo thing, with the book, I think I've taken that as far as it can go. And Morgan Wall and currently has three albums in the Billboard Top Ten. So I'm just going to roll with the winners. Maybe that's my next pivot. |
| 0:54.6 | He has three albums? |
| 0:55.6 | Because I know he has three singles in like the top 10 right now. |
| 0:58.9 | Does he have three albums too? |
| 1:00.7 | I'm the problem. |
| 1:01.6 | Number one. |
| 1:02.4 | Number two is A-T's. |
| 1:03.7 | I don't know who that is. |
| 1:06.3 | Number five is one thing at a time right between sOS by ciza and short and sweet by |
| 1:12.7 | Sabrina carpenter and number nine is dangerous the double album which is right between |
| 1:17.6 | g and x by kensiq lamar and the party next door and drake album uh brand someone named brandon lake |
| 1:23.7 | is number seven he seems like a kind of a country guy. Yeah. Yeah, that's the pop charts right now. |
| 1:30.7 | That's where I need to maneuver. Yeah, we're going to get into this later when we talk about |
| 1:36.0 | our favorite albums of the year. This is a weird year. It's a weird year in general. Very weird year for |
| 1:43.6 | music. Pop charts are cooked. I mean, it's hilarious |
| 1:49.3 | to me that, you know, the Poptimus won the war. And it's like, it's the post-apocalyptic |
| 1:56.3 | landscape that they get to rule over now. Like, you know, the wars of the, of the 2010s between the Poptimus and the Ruckus, |
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