Show Notes
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). New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 265 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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