Roundtable podcast: Tame Impala, Lily Allen, Dave, and 20 years of Madonna’s disco masterpiece
Once a month Stuart Stubbs, Sam Walton and Gemma Samways get together to discuss the new albums that everyone has been talking about over the last month. In October 2025 that’s been Tame Impala’s first dance record, Dave’s verbose third, and of course Lily Allen’s revenge opera West End Girl. We always reassess an anniversary record too, and this month ask if Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor still stands up 20 years later. And would people be as outraged by a 47-year-old woman in a leotard in 2025? Further reading/viewingPitchfork’s Confessions on a Dance Floor reviewPitchfork’s Deadbeat reviewThe Sophist on Lily Allen’s West End GirlFollow The Loud And Quiet Podcast on your favourite podcast app by visiting any Substack podcast post and tapping the icon of your preferred app. Sign up to a paid subscription to unlock all full episodes of the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit loudandquiet.substack.com/subscribe
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Roundtable podcast: Geese, David Byrne, Mark William Lewis, and a Grimes classic
As we leave behind the month of September, Gemma Samways, Sam Walton and Stuart Stubbs discuss new albums from Geese, David Byrne and Mark William Lewis. Plus a look back Grimes’ most successful record, but why aren’t we all still talking about Art Angels 10 years later?Support this podcast via our Substack page, for less than £4 per month! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit loudandquiet.substack.com/subscribe
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Roundtable podcast: Ethel Cain, Mac DeMarco, Water From Your Eyes and MGMT’s misfire
Back again for another look back at 3 key releases from the past month, Gemma Samways, Sam Walton and Stuart Stubbs discuss new albums from Ethel Cain, Mac DeMarco and Water From Your Eyes, with just enough time to reconsider MGMT’s willfully difficult second album Congratulations, release 15 years ago. Was it as bad as everybody said back then? Has it got better with age? And what’s it like to be a label who has to reject an album? Further reading/viewingDom Haley’s Water From Your Eyes interviewThe Guadian’s article on Terence Trent D’ArbyMac DeMarco on the Midnight Chats podcastMac DeMarco in AmsterdamFollow The Loud And Quiet Podcast on your favourite podcast app by visiting any Substack podcast post and tapping the icon of your preferred app. Sign up to a paid subscription to unlock all full episodes of the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit loudandquiet.substack.com/subscribe
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Karly Hartzman: death by bears and Wednesday’s new album
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit loudandquiet.substack.comKarly Hartzman started Wednesday in North Carolina (the only State she’s ever lived and, she says, will ever live it) as a solo project, until her sister made her put a full lineup together to play at her birthday. Things slowly grew, but 2023 was a supercharged year for the band when their forth album, Rat Saw God, became the year’s indie hit for all fans of indie- folk- and Southern-rock.Next month the band will release the even better Bleeds. A strange album for Hartzman and guitarist Jake ‘MJ’ Lenderman, it was written in the final months of their romantic relationship and recorded post-breakup. They agreed to keep their split from the band until Bleeds was recorded. Following a year of huge solo success in 2024, Lenderman remains a member of Wednesday when they’re in the studio, but will no longer tour with them.On this episode of the podcast – recorded in London last week – we discuss the split in the background of the band’s new album, how Karly has kicked social media with the help of a s**t phone, death by bears, and how Wednesday’s next album might be a hardcore punk record.Listen above or via your podcast app of choice.Further links and videos:Karly’s weird and wonderful websiteWednesday’s websiteGrizzly Man trailer
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Roundtable podcast: Turnstile, Addison Rae, AJ Tracey and a Kendrick classic
It’s the second installment of the Loud And Quiet Roundtable, where, this month, Sam Walton, Gemma Samways and Stuart Stubbs get the measure of 3 big albums released in June: Never Enough by US hardcore band Turnstile, Addison Rae’s shallow pop debut Addison, and Don’t Die Before You’re Dead by British rapper AJ Tracey.Back under the microscope, too, is Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. Heralded as a classic in 2015, how does it stand up a decade later?Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts.Further reading/viewing:Stu’s Beyonce reviewStu’s Lana Del Rey reviewAddison Rae on Jimmy FallonFollow The Loud And Quiet Podcast on your favourite podcast app by visiting any Substack post and tapping the icon of your preferred app. Sign up to a paid subscription to unlock all full episodes of the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit loudandquiet.substack.com/subscribe
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