A Rom-Com About An Indie Music Critic? Plus: New Albums By Nine Inch Noize and Friko cover art

A Rom-Com About An Indie Music Critic? Plus: New Albums By Nine Inch Noize and Friko

A Rom-Com About An Indie Music Critic? Plus: New Albums By Nine Inch Noize and Friko

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This week's episode opens with the first-ever Sportscast of the Amazon era (01:38) followed by a conversation about the week's new releases, touching on Foo Fighters, Failure, Metric, Noah Kahan and more (05:51). After that, the guys check in on the Fantasy Albums Draft (16:47), and then discuss new albums by the Chicago band Friko (21:38) and the Trent Reznor/Boys Noize collaboration Nine Inch Noize (28:54). Then they talk about the new romantic comedy "Mile End Kicks," a period piece about a young indie music critic living in Montreal in 2011 (35:32). Finally, they wrap with Ian recommending the latest New Pornographers album and Steven talking about the big essay in his newsletter on 2020s alt-country, with special shout-outs to recent albums by Brown Horse and Florry (54:34).


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