WTF is Sombr? Plus: Yay or Nay on Freak Folk
Indiecast
Amazon Music
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Steven and Ian begin with a quick conversation about living in a time of political violence and horrific videos popping up freely on social media feeds (0:00). From there, they do a hard pivot to a conversation about the recent MTV Video Music Awards (which continue to exist for some reason) and the rapid ascent of the pop-rock singer Sombr, whose recent LP I Barely Know Her dropped last month (5:45).
After that, they do a "yay or nay" segment on freak folk (26:13). They also find time to finally dip into the mailbag, where they answer emails about the best "day" bands (32:02) and whether it's okay to wear a band T-shirt to that band's concert (39:33).
In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about emo band Algernon Cadwallader and Steven goes for the Michigan rock outfit Liquid Mike (45:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast. |
| 0:16.4 | On the show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. |
| 0:21.5 | In this episode, we talk about somebody or something called somber, and we, yay or nay, freakfolk. |
| 0:28.0 | My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host. |
| 0:31.3 | I hope he wasn't on social media accidentally watching horrific videos like I was this week. |
| 0:36.9 | Ian Cohen, Ian, Ian, how are you? I swear this isn't even a bit, but I was this week. Ian Cohen. |
| 0:38.4 | Ian, how are you? |
| 0:43.1 | I swear this isn't even a bit, but I was going to talk about at some point on this podcast how I've watched the video for Slipknot's duality, maybe 20 times this week. |
| 0:47.9 | It's so good. |
| 0:49.3 | I think that percussion was perfected with hitting a baseball, like hitting a beer keg with a |
| 0:55.5 | baseball bat. |
| 0:56.2 | If you haven't seen, I think you might like that song. |
| 0:58.0 | It's pretty radio rock. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah, you know, that wasn't the video I was referring to, but I'm glad you brought that up |
| 1:03.7 | because it is a moment of levity and a thing that I feel like we have to acknowledge, like, |
| 1:09.2 | the craziest thing that happened this week, which is right-wing influencer slash podcaster, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated, basically. |
| 1:19.9 | Like, I think it was in Utah this week. |
| 1:22.8 | And, you know, like a lot of people, I logged on to a social media platform innocently, and I looked at my feed, |
| 1:31.1 | and I was like force-fed this video of him being killed. |
| 1:37.7 | And it's incredibly graphic and incredibly disturbing and horrific. |
| 1:41.7 | And I don't want to get into the weeds about Charlie Kirk. |
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