The Hold Steady + Wild Pink

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, Steven and Ian are discussing two of the most exciting indie releases of the week. First up is a passionate discussion of Open Door Policy, the new album from veteran rockers The Hold Steady. Steven appreciates the band’s long-running arc and recent comeback, while Ian has never connected with the Beat-style of what he calls “dude writing.”

Next up on the docket is A Billion Little Lights, the new effort from Wild Pink’s. Led by singer-songwriter John Ross, who moved to Brooklyn after college to be a film composer, Wild Pink’s latest is undeniably cinematic and meditative, a stubbornly un-flashy affair that was originally intended to be a double album about the American West, but was eventually condensed to a lean 10-track affair.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is vibing with New Music And Big Pop, the debut album from Another Michael, while Steven is enjoying Call In The Mess, the forthcoming sophomore album from New York outfit Nervous Dater.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.4	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.4	On this show, we talked about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.9	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:20.0	In this episode, we're going to be
0:20.9	talking about new albums by The Hold Steady and Wild Pink. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by
0:26.8	my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? You know, Steve, as much as we are a music
0:33.3	podcast, I like to think of indie cast as more of like a conceptual piece about, uh, kind of Zen
0:40.2	ideas about impermanence and the flaws of memory and the inexorable march of time. Um, you know,
0:47.4	you know, one day you're here and the next year, remember in some guys. And I think that this past Monday
0:53.0	really, uh, made, made a point of that because
0:57.3	on the 15th, on the 15th actually of January, it was the 10 year anniversary of the release
1:05.8	of Frank Ocean's nostalgia ultra, which I could have sworn that came out in the summer.
1:11.7	Like, I, because I remember having like a strawberry swing, uh, inclusion on like an August
1:17.0	2011 mix.
1:18.2	So, you know, there's apparently six months of time where like the biggest, maybe the most
1:24.1	definitive artist of the 2011's was just not on my radar.
1:27.8	And secondly...
1:28.8	Well, and we didn't mention that in our Indian R&B.
1:33.1	We should have mentioned that the 10th anniversary of Nostalgia Ultra was on the horizon.
1:37.1	I think it was posted on Tumblr or something.
1:38.2	It wasn't like a proper release, so maybe that's a part of it.
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