Steven And Ian's Favorite Albums Of 2023 So Far

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Last week Steven and Ian had to bank an episode because Steven was on vacation. Which is why they did their first all "Yay Or Nay?" episode rather than address possibly the most annoying music story of the year (and maybe decade?) so far — the short-lived dating relationship between Taylor Swift and The 1975's Matty Healy, and the insane online reaction it sparked. Sadly, they do touch on this kerfuffle briefly this week (:25), but only to note that in terms of annoying music stories, this thing is basically Everything Everywhere All At Once, an unstoppable juggernaut that can't possibly be topped in the field of irritation.

Speaking of annoying stories: Steven and Ian also address the recent takedown of Hannah Gadsby's "It's Pablo-matic" art exhibit in the New York Times, and whether the cathartic reaction to the review speaks to a larger backlash against the "therapeutic" and prescriptive art of the Trump era, and how that might translate to the indie world (6:39).

Finally, Steven and Ian set about sharing their favorite albums of the year so far (16:21). While Steven shared an unranked list of 15 favorites this week in his column, here he and Ian each share their ranked top five lists for the first part of 2023. Incredibly, there were zero overlaps in our picks!

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.3	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.1	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.6	In this episode, we reveal our
0:22.3	favorite albums of 2023 so far. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:29.0	He can't wait to finally talk about the Taylor Swift and Maddie Healy breakup. Ian Cohen. Ian,
0:34.5	how are you? Yeah, I mean, I hope we realize how hopelessly behind the times we are just by mentioning
0:40.3	that relationship. Like, Twitter's moved on to Baby Gronk, the Drip King, the Orange
0:45.7	Sky, New York. It's like that Simpson's episode where Homer is about to plunge to his death
0:51.5	in his car, but like he gets saved by a big trash pile in the
0:55.9	ravine. That's the great part about the internet. Like no matter how annoying or aggravating a story
1:02.6	sounds, like there's always going to be a soft pile of trash, which we can make a landing.
1:08.2	But we, I mean, we got to, we, we just got to address this, you know.
1:11.7	We got at least acknowledge it.
1:13.0	Because, you know, we had our episode last week. We did our first yea or nay episode, which got a really good response. We had a bunch more yay or nays in our mailbox. Look, I don't know if we're going to do that very soon. You know, we can't, I don't want this just to become like the, the yay or nay show, but
1:28.9	that could be like the number one music podcast, you know, that could be like a million
1:33.3	dollar idea.
1:34.5	But we didn't do a show last week.
1:37.8	That was a banked episode.
1:38.7	So we missed out on the Taylor Swift, Maddie Healy business, which I think was advantageous for both of us.
1:48.8	You know, we were talking about what we're going to do on the episode this week. And like I said,
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