The Killers + Bleachers

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a big week in the indie rock world, from the return of Big Thief to updated Covid policies across the live music ecosystem. Steve and Ian cover both of these topics in the opening minutes of the latest episode of Indiecast.

The meat of this week’s episode comes in the form of a discussion of new albums from The Killers and Bleachers. The Killers are back with Pressure Machine, the band’s seventh LP that comes almost exactly a year after their last full-length effort, Imploding The Mirage, and finds the band exploring new sonic territory that is markedly more downbeat and introspective. Bleachers, on the other hand, found Jack Antonoff trying to go as Springsteen as possible on his third solo release, Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night. How do both of these albums stack up in their respective catalogues?

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging the new LP from emo greats A Great Big Pile Of Leaves, while Steve wants to shout out the forthcoming LP from Baltimore experimental hardcore outfit Turnstile.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:13.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.9	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:18.5	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:24.5	In this episode, we review new albums by The Killers and Bleachers.
0:28.5	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Ian Cohen.
0:29.8	Ian, how are you?
0:35.4	Well, like most times we log on here, I'm thinking about, you know, the essence of Indycast.
0:40.1	What makes this podcast ours? And I think particularly today when we're,
0:45.5	I guess, stress testing what indie means by talking about killers and bleachers, I think we,
0:51.1	in some ways, we got to get back to the core of what we do, which is celebrate the underappreciated.
0:55.4	Would you say that's kind of what we do here, right? Well, we try to,
1:01.9	but, you know, some other times we're just making, you know, jokes about, uh, you know, big time pop stars. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's what, that's what, that's what, uh, that's what
1:07.6	fills the bank account. Am I right? I right but um I think this week you know
1:11.3	particularly in light of who we're covering uh I just have to give a shout out to
1:16.9	editors um you know in general okay first off got to clear out and like not the band not like
1:22.7	even though blood and Munich are two of the best two of the best fake Interpol songs that came out of that era
1:29.2	I thought you were going to like steer us toward
1:31.2	like an editor's appreciation episode
1:34.4	Maybe so because I mean with all these
1:37.2	UK post punk bands happening
1:39.0	I just want one band that sounds like that
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