The Best Albums Of The 2020s So Far
Indiecast
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4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Before Steven and Ian get into this week's episode, they had to hash out a longer-than-usual Sportscast about their respective football teams (the Packers and the Eagles) making the playoffs and the absolutely insane and hateful video Stephen A. Smith dropped about Jason Whitlock this week. Sports media in general is melting down this year, and the guys can't get enough. After that, they revisit their predictions made at the beginning of last year about 2023, and check to see how right (or wrong) they were (11:05).
Then it's on to a new fantasy albums draft for the first quarter of 2024. Who landed the just announced Waxahatchee record, sure to be one of the year's most acclaimed? Who pulled the jazz record with mainstream appeal that critics are guaranteed to love? Did anyone dare draft the new Scott Stapp record ironically? Let's find out. (19:32)
Finally, the guys follow up on Steven's column this week taking an early look at the contenders for album of the decade from the first 40 percent of the 2020s. This is not a conversation about personal favorites — it's wild speculation on critical consensus based on what music writers have embraced so far. (44:59)
In Recommendation Corner (58:30), Ian goes for the hardcore band Infant Island while Steven plugs the forthcoming album (due in March) from Rosali.
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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. |
| 0:14.8 | On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week. |
| 0:17.1 | We review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:19.9 | In this episode, we do our fantasy albums draft |
| 0:22.4 | for the first quarter of 2024 and talk about the best albums of the 2020s so far. |
| 0:29.0 | My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. He just spent an hour |
| 0:32.8 | calling Jason Whitlock, a fat bastard on a different podcast. Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? |
| 0:38.7 | We don't body shame here over at Indycast. You know, I'm like thinking back till like |
| 0:44.4 | 2018 or whatever when you would read these articles saying like, hey man, like let's let's lay |
| 0:51.6 | off calling Donald, like making light of Donald Trump's physique, you know. |
| 0:56.5 | But I think I'm glad we got to talk about this Stephen A. Smith performance, like maybe one of the |
| 1:03.7 | most incredible dramatic readings I've ever seen. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah, yeah, we got to do a quick sports cast here, and maybe it's like |
| 1:14.4 | sports media cast. Sports media so far in 24 is incredible. I love sports media. People are airing it out. |
| 1:24.5 | You know, you got the Pat McAfee stuff. He's calling his boss a rat on his show. You |
| 1:31.1 | got the Aaron Rogers going on McAfee and him and Jimmy Kimmel going back and forth. You got |
| 1:36.5 | Shannon Sharpe's podcast. Got Cat Williams going on there calling Kevin Hart a industry plant. |
| 1:43.9 | And then the greatest thing so far, Stephen A. Smith records an hour-long podcast where he just |
| 1:53.5 | eviscerates Jason Whitlock. |
| 1:56.2 | Jason Whitlock, of course, a long-running troll in the sports media world. He was a newspaper columnist for a long time with a Kansas City star. Then he was on ESPN. Then he was on Fox News. Now he's on Glenn Beck's. Blaze TV. Yeah. I was going to call it a network. I don't know what it is. It's like an internet thing, I think? I don't know. Yeah, I felt like it was like that network that like Pete Diddy started like revolt or something like that back in the day. |
| 2:24.1 | It sounds like Vlad TV where he's just like interview rappers who snitch on themselves. |
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