rolling twee/indiepop 2k17

paramore are still indiepop in my heart

Pumarosa from London are not really twee but they seriously rule my world at the moment. They call themselves industrial spiritual, I'd say explosive hypnotic indiepop. Here is the mighty "Honey" live. The album "Witch" has been released last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PTj2DNcbM

saw this band in dublin last week and really liked them. 'olive' is particularly good

https://pillowqueens.bandcamp.com/releases

also peaness released an EP that collects some older songs and some new ones. 'seafoam islands' is still my favorite song of the year.

https://alcopop.bandcamp.com/album/are-you-sure

Not sure if you want only guitar jangle tweepop or if electronic tweepop fits the bill for this thread, but my gal Deerful just released her debut album and it is banging: http://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/album-stream-deerful-peach/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7ZDhfqPiY

new sweet baboo is nice

little songs directed at a young child, i think. some of the songs get me a little bleary eyed being a new father and all. nice stuff.

!!! ALERT ALERT ALERT !!!

Chickfactor 25 - 11/12 November at the Lexington, London:

11th:

THE PASTELS
LOIS
KICKING GIANT
KITES AT NIGHT (feat Rose Melberg)

12th

THE SOFTIES
STEVIE JACKSON (from Belle & Sebastian)
THE WOULD-BE-GOODS
THE CATENARY WIRES

I probably wouldn't have put a Kicking Giant reunion high on my list, but I'm unexpectedly happy about it anyway. I am however quite expectedly excited about seeing the Softies.

man i want to go to that show very badly. the new york ones a few years back were gr8

i like this song. also note the label name hah

https://keroleenrecords.bandcamp.com/track/free-the-burbs

also this has a very fuzzed-out liz phair feel

https://fperecs.bandcamp.com/album/suddenly-wednesday

and i like the simple-syrup guitars on this

https://personalbest.bandcamp.com/album/rollies

mid year reminder that the thread playlist has been updated.

ILM's Rolling Indie Pop Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

oh jeez, I forgot how good the Softies were

Thanks for the recommendations, Maura. I've been really out of the loop on indiepop for a long time. My wife found an online radio show called B0ardcast a couple of years ago and we got into some newer bands through that but the DJ changed style a year or so ago and doesn't play that kind of music anymore.

I'm really digging this album today:

https://star-tropics.bandcamp.com/album/lost-world. Bit of a jangle pop thing going on.

I'm really digging this album today:

https://star-tropics.bandcamp.com/album/lost-world🕸. Bit of a jangle pop thing going on.

Really loving the Katie Ellen record out today (equally apropos for the emo thread)

Would this be twee enough for inclusion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lguSVD7piyo

That's a great song, the video is terrible though. No lip synching, ridiculous costumes, totally over the top. But I don't feel that the music is twee. But it is very tuneful and danceable. In the end I always ask myself what twee is. The Field Mice, The Sundays, Everything But the Girl?

That groove cannot be twee. Too sexy to be twee.

I love that Matinée Records is still around and still plugging away. Here's a comp they put out a couple of months ago with an old-ish track from Catenary Wires (Amelia Fletcher's new band - they're playing the Chickfactor London gig in November) and some really fun new stuff. My picks are Last Leaves and Strawberry Whiplash.

Oh duh, forgot the link.

https://soundcloud.com/matinee-recordings/sets/matinee-idols

Also, this is a lovely song on Elefant:

https://elefantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/el-lado-bueno

Oh, and the Girl Ray album is out Friday. This song is very good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4a__Xz7Mu8

these are all great, maura. thank you! the La Bien Querida track!

IMPORTANT

Back - and sounding as great as they ever did based on the first single.

http://www.evenaswespeak.com

wow new even as we speak! that IS big news. and that star tropics album really grows on you.

TOPS remind me of Stars, the first record. Seems like the new album is going to be really good. It could be twee, Even As We Speak and the Orchids got a groove on once in a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnp7dF-YSA

Any Chorusgirl fans here? Their s/t album was one of my favorites from 2015 and I'm happy to see they've been recording album #2 this summer. Their website references Lush, Cure, Breeders, Bangles; also have seen comparisons to Dum Dum Girls and Veronica Falls, all of which I suppose are accurate, but the overall vibe of the first record reminded me most of the Aislers Set's "How I Learned to Write Backwards." Don't think they've released any of the new material yet but looking forward to it.

https://chorusgirl.bandcamp.com/track/no-moon-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKjLi8ZQgTQ

Oh boy, there's some good stuff out there now

new(ish) varsity!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxei4hgOBp4

this band is from la although they sound v british

http://blushhmusic.bandcamp.com/track/there-for-you

that Varsity video is funny!

Alvvays' album, Antisociaites, is easily one of my top ten albums released this year. There's nothing really revolutionary about their sound, it's just has a consistently-awesome indiepop sound embedded throughout.

Is Amy Linton still making music?

same, xpost. probably top 5 for me.

also, there is a thread for them, search the band's name

The Gurr album is one of my favorite things to go back to all year. Even though it officially came out last October, vinyl didn't drop until this past summer so it's in for 2017 on a technicality I think.

Anyway, this is the song that hooked me first, but the whole album is crazy good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3N8LW2srA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxfNuiXVPhA

rip van wanko, av linton released a split single featuring the aislers set and their collab with boyracer in 2015:

https://emotional-response-recs.bandcamp.com/album/linton-and-stewart-the-aislers-set

it's interesting how the folks putting on twee festivals are still mired 30 years in the past. there are good things being released still but it all seems very much by people wholly on their own and without the thrust of labels and without any unifying "scene" like it was in the past. somehow this person thelazylazyme on youtube finds all sorts of marvelous indiepop-ish things and most of them are from bandcamp.
the sound of arrows new record is lovely, of course they aren't indiepop and likely never were but they started on labrador, so i cheat.
most things posted on this thread are a bit depressing.
not sure about marty as a singer in the last leaves.
oh and i was terribly excited when i heard even as we speak released a new 10 inch but then, mostly, it was only mediocre, which seems to be the general trend.

thelazylazyme just posted a scott mannion song which is lovely and that is interesting because he was tokey tones and they were not so great really but they had nice covers. maybe it was the move to spain.

I guess this is where I voice a mild interest on the forthcoming Teleman EP

I'm probably part of the problem since I hardly go to indiepop gigs any more and haven't really kept up with new stuff that much (I do like some of the bands mentioned on this thread so far but I've only heard a few).

I saw a French band called the Soap Opera on Friday, they were OK. I am looking forward to the Chickfactor shows this weekend in London but that's mainly old bands reuniting or just have been around forever (the Pastels). I keep meaning to go through this thread at some point and check out all the recommendations but there's so much music in the world and so little time.

I'm looking forward to the Chickfactor shows too, and for the same reason (particularly excited to see the Softies, always excited to see the Would-be-goods). Are you going to all three shows, CP?

I'm going to both nights but not the matinee show on Saturday, it's 12:30-3:30 and the evening show doesn't start til 8, if I have to wait around 4.5 hours with nothing to do I'll probably be so drunk by the time the evening event starts I won't remember any of it!

It's a bit unfortunate timing for me because Static Shock Weekend is on this weekend as well, I have to miss the Saturday at SSW because of Chickfactor but luckily the Sunday at SSW is an afternoon gig and finishes at 7 giving me just about enough time to get something to eat and get to the Lexington in time for the Chickfactor gig. That will be day 4 of SSW so I'm going to be fucked by then but I've taken Monday and Tuesday off work to recover.

Crikey! Sounds like a busy time. I'm looking forward to the matinee show but that's partly because I know some of the kids involved. Anyway it'd be good to have a pint with you at some point in the weekend.

Yeah that'd be cool - I'm going to be on my own on Saturday and probably the Sunday as well by the looks of things. My wife was going to come on Sunday but I don't think she is now.

I’ll be one of the two baldheads playing terrible music downstairs at the Lexington from 4 if you want to say hello (please do).

I'm at static shock weekend at the moment, will probably get to Lexington about 8. I'll be the tall guy with glasses wearing a Confuse t-shirt

I have a ticket to the Chickfactor show tonight. I'm in Chicago. Anyone who wants it email me - maura at maura dot com - and I'll forward it.

Actually I also have a spare ticket for tonight, free if anyone wants it

Excellent to meet you CP; sorry if I was drunkenly talking rubbish. Sorry also that you couldn't make it, Maura.

That was a fun weekend - Softies, Would-be-goods and Numberz being particular highlights for me.

Only went to the sunday night but what a total joy

(wasn't CP at the lexington that time Geeta was there, the day lou reed died? i have vague recollections of being introduced briefly)

Amazed you guys hadn't met before, the Colonel used to be a regular FAPer.

I'm amazed Maura owns maura.com

i bought it 21 years ago

[applause]

rip bittersweets

It was great to meet you too, Tim. Did the Softies play much longer after I left (was during The Best Days iirc)? They had just played my favourite song by them (Goodbye) so I wasn't completely gutted to have to leave before the end but it's my fault really, I'd debated just getting a hotel for the weekend but figured a return train ticket was £23.70 and there was no way I'd get a hotel for that.

I was indeed at the Lexington when Geeta was there/Lou Reed died - I'd been at an afternoon gig upstairs that day - do remember meeting you Koogs, don't think we talked much though?

That was the first time I'd seen the Would-Be-Goods in about 14 years, I'd seen them supporting the Aislers Set in I think 2003? It was a good set though.

rose melberg and larissa loyva (fake tears) cover a song from NASHVILLE (!!)

https://lostsoundtapes.bandcamp.com/track/dues

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Indie Pop Thread Spotify Playlist

rolling twee/indiepop 2k18: sweaters never go out of style

jesus this is a kick in the nuts

https://pitchfork.com/news/patrick-doyle-veronica-falls-boys-forever-dead-at-32/?mbid=social_twitter

oh god :(

dang
rip :(