The Most Underrated Indie Albums Of 2022 So Far

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Each week, Indiecast talks about new indie music and hashs out trends. But which albums released this year deserved more attention? In this week's episode, hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen walk through their favorite underrated releases so far in 2022 (31:26).

In terms of news this week, Indiecast goes all-in with The 1975 discourse after the band officially announced their upcoming album. Steven and Ian also share their thoughts on MUNA tattooing their Pitchfork score (17:11) and reactions to Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" cover resurfacing (24:34).

The Recommendation Corner (53:22) this week has Ian giving props to Short Fictons' power pop-leaning Every Moment Of Every Day while Steven shouts out Guided By Voices' new project.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:12.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:15.3	On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, we review albums, and we hash out trends.
0:20.7	In this episode, we are celebrating the exact midpoint of 2022 by honoring our favorite
0:25.5	Under the Radar albums.
0:28.2	My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.
0:31.4	He still can't get a best new music in spite of a 7.7 tattoo.
0:36.0	Ian Cohen.
0:40.5	Ian, how are you? You know, an episode of Indycast is destined for greatness when we begin with a joke that probably requires at least two minutes
0:46.4	of like backtracking to explain it to our listeners who maybe aren't well versed in the indie pop
0:52.1	universe. But yeah, we're going to get gonna get to that we have like we have a
0:55.5	ton of banter this week because so as you will remember i was on vacation last week we banked an
1:03.0	episode uh so we weren't able to respond to the news of i guess june 20th to the 25th, which I don't think much happened that week.
1:14.2	Was there?
1:14.6	I was checking the phone because I was at the cabin vacation.
1:17.9	I was on a boat.
1:18.9	It was great.
1:19.7	But I still, I'm addicted to the discourse, so I'll still check in Twitter.
1:23.6	I don't think a lot happened.
1:26.0	Yeah, I think it's good that both of us got our vacations in when we did because, I mean,
1:33.1	we are really like headed deep into like the regular season.
1:36.7	We just progressed past like pitchers and catchers and spring training and we're right
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