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Which Albums Are Critics Going To Put On Their Year-End Lists?

Indiecast

Amazon Music

Music Commentary, Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock

4.6621 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Steven and Ian begin with a quick rundown of Thanksgiving fixins, and ultimately disagree on the utility of turkey (0:55). After that, they briefly assess the fantasy albums draft, which already seems like a wrap (10:51). Then they talk about gearing up to make their year-end albums lists (13:14), after which they make some educated guesses about what they think critics are going to rate highly this year (28:44). In the "yay or nay" segment, they discuss the new comeback album by Tobias Jesso Jr. (49:52).

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the emo band Ben Quad and Steven discusses the late singer-songwriter Todd Snider, who died last week (54:01).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indie Mix tape.

0:14.1

Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.

0:16.2

On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends.

0:20.9

In this episode, we talk about potential candidates for the critical consensus album of the year.

0:26.6

My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host.

0:29.8

He gives Turkey a 5.7.

0:33.0

Ian Cohen, Ian, how are you?

0:34.7

I mean, that is what I would give it.

0:36.4

It's kind of a C-tier meat.

0:38.1

Low floor, very low ceiling, strictly a vessel for gravy and or cranberry sauce.

0:43.6

I'm rolling with ham if I had the option. You know, I'm going to honey-baked ham and sit

0:50.4

outside of it for 10 hours like Usure Illusion 2 was dropping. That's how I get down. Why not just have a bowl of it for 10 hours like use your illusion two was dropping that's how i get down

0:55.4

why not just have a bowl of oatmeal for thanksgiving why not just have like a bologna sandwich

1:01.2

for for thanksgiving i i disagree strongly about this i look turkey as a food is not something that

1:08.3

i'm going to dial up most days of the year.

1:11.0

I'm not going to say, hey, what's buy a 10-pound turkey and throw it in the oven?

1:15.7

But I am a big proponent of the turkey on Thanksgiving as a tradition.

1:20.8

I love preparing the turkey.

1:23.2

I love how the turkey looks on the table before you cut it.

1:26.6

Now, granted, eating the turkey is a little bit farther down the list of things that I like about the turkey.

1:32.2

But I love the tradition.

1:34.7

In my household, we're going to do turkey.

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