Our Favorite Albums of 2016
6/19/20261 hr 11 min
After a brief tangent on Steve's experience this week recording an audiobook and a review of the week's scant slate of new releases, the guys get into a deep conversation about the music of 2016, a fascinating year of transition in a tumultuous time. Steven and Ian talk about the year, what it meant for the future, and share their top five albums lists.
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First 90 secondsSteven Hyden· Host0:00
Indiecast is presented by Amazon Music. [rock music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indiecast. On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week, review albums, and we hash out trends. In this episode, we talk about our favorite albums of 2016. Not 2026, 2016. My name is Steven Hyden, and I'm joined by my friend and cohost. He'll be doing most of the talking today because my voice is shot, Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you?
Ian Cohen· Host0:36
All right, so we got two options here, the first of which is, uh, my plan to do a line-by-line analysis of RXK Nephews', uh, The Real Little Reef for the next five hours. Or we can get our, we can get our Amazon benefactors to get the Daniel Lanois mics going on, and we can have kind of a time out of mind sort of thing- Oh, man ... where, you know, the crags in your voice just give this sense of richness and an impending, uh, sense of mortality to our Indiecast today. Which one are you thinking?
Steven Hyden· Host1:08
Well, there's a new Lanois album out today. I don't know if you knew that- I did not [laughs] ... if you're making a timely reference, but Daniel Lanois, my man, new record, which we'll talk about here in a minute. You know, my voice is actually okay. I, I think I'll have a lot to say, and I think it'll hold up. I, I just made that reference at the top of the episode because I've been recording the audiobook