Kitschfork

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we take a trip to our neighbors to the north to look at the Toronto experimental/indie rock musical collective that may or may not encompass the entire Canadian music industry, Broken Social Scene. will you learn more than you probably ever wanted to know about the Canadian music scene of the 90's? probably. are they the "indie rock white people Wu Tang clan" as described by many? yes. was Broken Social Scene a harbinger of many more big Canadian indie acts to come in the 00's? also yes. anyway, enjoy.

for the third episode we finally get to the NYC post-punk revival scene of the 00's, covered in the book Meet Me In The Bathroom, via its earliest critical success - Interpol's debut album "Turn On The Bright Lights" from 2002. we talk about the history of the band and then dive in - and have some disagreements! is the album still a classic, or was Pitchfork right to retroactively downgrade their initial high praise of the album 20 years later in their recent "rescored" article? are the lyrics as bad as everyone says? why does Liz hate 00's post-punk revival so much? you'll have to listen to find out.

for the second episode we look at the inaugural album from the band which became a staple of 2000's indie pop new sincerity, The Shins. we discuss the band's DIY beginnings, their surprising (depending on whom you ask) popularity, the intersection of The Shins with the cultural zeitgeist of the early 00's (esp via the feature in the movie Garden State), and whether any of it is paraseable at all in the current moment. and of, course, we talk about the pitchfork review.

on our inaugural episode of the Kitschfork podcast, we talk about the much mythologized staple of early 2000's music criticism, Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". in order to understand the album's very complicated backstory behind its conception and release, we also discuss the documentary "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" which captures the band during this period.