The Smile, Plus: Jack Antonoff's Indie Rock 'Minions' Soundtrack, Kendrick Lamar Discourse, And The End Of The iPod

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Nearly a year after Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood first teased The Smile, their side project with drummer Tom Skinner, the band's album is finally here. Indiecast hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen dive into their album A Light For Attracting Attention (31:47), a title that can be taken ironically seeing as the side project garners far less attention than an official Radiohead release.

After a fair amount of banter, Steven and Ian get into some of the relevant indie news from this week. Music discourse this week was mainly dominated by two very different album announcements: Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale And The Big Steppers (7:02) and the Jack Antonoff-produced Minions 2 soundtrack (2:20), which features groovy music by artists like Tame Impala and St. Vincent.

In this week's Recommendation Corner (51:17), Steven plugs Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's zippy guitar pop-filled album Endless Rooms. Meanwhile, Ian shouts out power pop band Hey, ily!

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:12.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Indiecast.
0:14.9	On this show, we talked about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.4	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.7	In this episode, we review the new
0:21.2	album by Radiohead's side project, The Smile. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my
0:26.9	friend and co-host. You can hear him covering the Steve Miller band on the Minions' Rise of
0:31.5	Gru soundtrack. Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you? Yeah, and I'm going to be covering The Joker,
0:36.9	but in the style of this cover band that I used to see at college all the time,
0:41.1	like they would play the Joker,
0:42.6	and they'd get the same lyric wrong the same way each time.
0:47.2	They'd say, I really love your peaches when to climb your tree.
0:51.4	So when you hear that, Benny Dodd,
0:53.9	if you're still out there kicking around in Charlottesville, that one's for you.
0:58.5	Has anyone ever covered the Joker as the Joker?
1:02.1	You know, like they sing it in the voice of the Joker.
1:05.6	This seems like an idea that's so obvious and yet no one has done it.
1:10.0	Like, none of the DC movies, they'd never had a scene, like, where the Joker is looking in the mirror. Like a real Jordan Peel, like, reverb slowed down version of the Joker. Like, this is like real 90 stand-up hour shit. Hey, hey, guys, I've been thinking, you know, what if the Joker cover the Joker? Am I right? But I'm just saying it's such a dumb idea. Like, you could see, like, the next iteration of Batman, there's like a slowed down, uh, gothy version of the Joker. And there's like a children, children's choir on it. Oh, man. And they're like, I'm a Joker. I'm a Smoker. I'm a midnight toker. It's very, and then it's like,
1:27.8	gunk gung, like very sinister. No, that or, no, the riddler's going to cover abracadabra. That's what's going to fucking happen. So we have, like, so much banter in this episode that we're not going to be talking about things that would normally dominate the banter.
2:01.3	Like there's a smashing pumpkins Jane's Addiction Arena Tour set for the fall.
2:06.2	That would be good material for us.
2:08.4	Sunny Day Real Estate is doing a reunion show.
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