99% of indie pop is good- you just havent heard most of it yet

Are there any other recent indiepop albums to get excited about? I love both the Aisler's Set and Boyracer records (the Boyracer would have made my year end list if it wasn't for the fact that I was convinced at the time that a record with that many covers on it couldn't be great - I was in denial). That said, I have no clue what else, if anything (as suggested in the 'racer review) is worth seeking out.

Also, since the indiest of indies has said it's OK to like indiepop, I think it's time for everyone to step up and profess their love.

Those who do not respond hate fun.

It's mostly standouts and things around the fringes that get me now, non-indiepop bands in the indiepop world: the Chicago expatriate axis, which I keep trying to track down (Toulouse, I think, are particularly fantastic), some of the indie-synth-pop stuff (My Favorite, Figurine, etc.).

I loved Wolfie like I love my own mother.

(Re: Pitchfork -- I've been thinking over there that when indie rock enters a strongly "rock" phase, as it is now with post-punk grottiness, indiepop becomes more important. This is one reason I was very happy to big up Boyracer, who in my opinion have just made one of their first full recordings that people outside of the genre can prima facia love. Also the Marine Girls cover is ridiculously good.)

THEY CARRY IT AT FORCED EXPOSURE!!!!

(also: rocketship, rocketship, rocketship)

I'm playing Wolfie now. Makes me want to jump up and down on my bed. (damn you, low celings!)

Finally, I'm going to check out the jel recommendations. The Poison love baffles me and intrigues me and makes me want to hear everything else suggested.

Too many people posted before my finally. The world needs another Rocketship record!

ESOJ, have you heard of Sarah Sarah? Are they any good?

Also, I like the idea of "kittens!" but I don't like kittens in reality. Does this have anything to do with my relationship with indiepop?

That's not really an answer, I guess. I was trying to write to people who don't care about indiepop, in order to offer them some interesting new things to look into. A lot of people read Pitchfork, so I imagine a few of them will figure out how to order it. Plenty of them will find at least one copy in their local stores; maybe enough others will ask about it to get more store buyers to try and order copies. But yeah, a lot of them will just go through the next few years thinking "Boyracer ... I think I read a positive review once, but I've never seen their records anywhere."

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the boyracer album is just wonderful, something about the speed at which stewart strums his guitar is thrilling to no end. and the aislers set album is just incredible, amy linton is the smartest pop chick(oh no i said pop) on the block.

Well i like FLorian a lot have done it for a few years now...

The number one band in the indiepop list poll this year was the Funday Mornings, so me and a few others i know scrabled around to find their records. As Pete H. says on twee.net it's straightforward Fat Tulips esqe fun pop, and it's OK, but it's not mind boggling good. So I'm still waiting for a best new band to come along. And I've been signing on to the tape-swaps just waiting for them to jump out at me.

*drools* what an amazing song that is

I do not care if braindead indiepop fans do that david (free jazz threads only ever get 5-20 replies anyway). I have heard indiepop and most of it has nothing going for it.

Doesn't that approach kind of miss the point? I should really stay out of this.

-fh

I arranged their first live show, they are really nice 15 year olds
you can get their 7" from www.benno.com or maybe www.normanrecords.com
or maybe www.roughtrade.com

You´ll like it if you like the likes of Fat tulips, Talulah gosh, Twa toots...

(Plus i know one of their members so I'm loath to do my usual sight-unseen slagging)

I am curious about the Baskervilles.

It has been a quiet start of 2004 for indiepop.

The Architecture in Helsinki album is coming out in Europe and USA in April. It's really nice.

the magic whispers cd is great, kinda like a modern update of hunky dory but with two girls singing. the pipas ep is fantastic. new brunettes album is out soon.

And Orlando is hot, even though they are only a pretend indie band.

lightheaded who I’ve chatted with and seen (because they opened for Heavenly, go figure)

Lightheaded are on before Heavenly next Saturday as well

Yes! Heavenly invited them to open again, pretty huge honor in the indiepop universe

I recently heard the latest from Horsegirl, and I had a flashback to every single time I turned on college radio in the '90s and hit someone's indiepop show.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 July 2025 12:53 (fifteen minutes ago)

It's fascinating how authentically 90s they sound, isn't it? A lot of the 90s indie rock pastiche usually sticks out as otherwise modern for some reason or another - not them!

Similarly I've been going to see a band called Silk Cuts a fair bit, I really like them. They sound so much like bands from the 87-88 season that I realise it's ages since I've heard any other bands who really sound like that time, for good or ill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBZPy4Mxl-U

Separately, just saw about this reissue

https://circuitryrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/lyceum

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 July 2025 13:50 bookmarkflaglink

The Orchids are playing the Friday night, hopefully they'll have copies with them because I need this

Evan, you should put together a homemade box set of lost indie pop eventually, it would kick ass.

Thanks brimstead! Would love to... I am swimming around in the murky depths of the respective iceberg meme here. I've got deep cuts! Cloudberry-blog style digging and ravenous accumulating.

Some things I've been digging:

-An unreleased tape of music from short-lived Harriet records artist Shy Camp
-Flexi by pre-Clinic project called Jellystone Park
-Any tracks I've been able to snatch by awesome mid-90s Czech band called Tom Is My Sugar (more rockin than pop)
-Flowchart related project and 7" under the name Heroine
-Expanded reissue of lost mysterious Sarah Records band Christine's Cat
-Like three completely different bands all called Slumber. All good!
-Recently released Autocollants rarities
-Expanded reissue of Brain - Understand, called "Understood"
-Peru comp on Jigsaw
-Album She by the band Flywheel
-Forgotten Magnetic Fields sounding music by Kitty Vermont, alias of the one and only Mark Proksch (yes, really)
-New (2024 - not 90s) EP by The Cat's Miaow called Let's Pretend That We Are Someone Else which is streaming only which is bizarre to me!
-Sukpatch - Lite Hits reissue by Concentric Circles!
-Open Mind demo tape
-Demo tape by pre Camera Obscura iteration of the band from when they called themselves "Coolport" when the guy from California Snow Story was in the band
-Summershine #1 7" called We're All Trying To Get There by Ripe

Shit this list is never going to end so I'm arbitrarily ending there for now.

Have seen Lightheaded live several times and really enjoy them

-Forgotten Magnetic Fields sounding music by Kitty Vermont, alias of the one and only Mark Proksch (yes, really)

!!! how did i not know about this!?!

oh wow I have a Kitty Vermont 7" (split with Por Avion) and I had no idea

bizarrely, a love affair with nature by the cannanes has been by far my most frequently uploaded album on slsk for months now
did a song on it go viral on TikTok or what

Huh that’s interesting! Probably? Autocollants had the same kinda phenomenon happen recently

> Gentle Spring includes a Field Mouse

i was going to say that their name sounds like a mashup of two other Sarah bands

also Lyceum was, iirc, one of the first of the LTM Sarah reissues back in the day. not sure it got a vinyl release though but they did tack the early singles onto the end of the cd (which was handy as my copy of sarah 2 is rough)

oh,
https://www.discogs.com/release/567383-The-Orchids-Lyceum-Singles

20 tracks including first 3 singles and the caff 7", 2005, no vinyl

gentle spring also have releases on Skep Wax which is the Sarah band equivalent of Eastbourne

This cool tape comp comes with a download in the description!

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

This one's got a link too if you're like me and enough is never enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETX05SNHFSQ

gentle spring also have releases on Skep Wax which is the Sarah band equivalent of Eastbourne

so do all of the bands I listed fwiw, because the event I'm going to is Skep Wax Weekender

youtube recommendations on those tapes included The Corrupt Postman tape which i have a copy of around here somewhere and which i remember fondly. had a track by The Apple Moths who i remember liking and remember having exactly two tracks by, both on these these kind of tapes.

oh, there were actual releases, the latter only in 2017

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1084634-The-Apple-Moths

but listening again doesn't actually ring much in the way of bells.

Corrupt Postman is a great compilation, wish someone would reissue that

there was an archive.org link under the youtube video

Yeah Corrupt Postman is probably my favorite one! I mentioned reissuing it to the person who actually compiled it back in the day (name is escaping me) and he said it'd be a heckuva lot of work to get all the bands on board.

Apple Moths were fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRgdZN2KN8

And that song shows up on this particular comp (amongst others), which I also highly recommend:

https://archive.org/details/10IFellInLoveLastNight

Check this out too, whoever might care:

https://jigsawrecords.bandcamp.com/track/twisted-sister

Obsessed with this song

https://thetestoftime.bandcamp.com/track/girl-daredevil

oh I have that 7"!

Haha me too.

Because it's incredible!

How about the other couple of tracks I'd posted above? Excuse my hunger for engagement, I get a little nuts about this stuff.

I quite liked Panic Pocket tonight. Sassyhiya were more hit and miss. The Jeanines were very charmingly sloppy and I got their last album which I'm a big fan of, they have a new one out but I haven't heard it yet.

Tomorrow is Would-Be-Goods, Orchids, Swansea Sound so should be great

I don't post on insta much anymore, and it didn't occur to me that I could just share the browser version (in my universe ilx is browser-internet, insta is app-internet) of my reel from a little while ago showing off my indie pop haul so far (at the time) this year.

https://www.instagram.com/wrongtube/reel/DJc3y_ettRo/

bloody hell, some of those must've cost a few $$$

I've got several of those records but missing a lot more

Actually no… I didn’t pay more than $50 for any individual one, and only a small amount got as high as that limit. That’s mostly due to a hook up I have for the bulk of them.

Extra special too because I’m in the states and many of these are mighty tough to find over here!

super cool, i would listen to all these 7"s

Would host a listening party