Do we have a rolling indie/twee/jangle thread for 2021? This is comically generic, but the sun is out and it is pressing my buttons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3NPI1-s43I
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 10 June 2021 11:33 (three years ago) link
I have overlooked both Jay Som and Palehound to this point, but I like the Bachelor album. This one's especially catchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQihAil8-s0
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 June 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
i like both of them but after listening to this album ^ a bunch (for a review) i have decided that Ellen Kempner is a killer songwriter
― alpine static, Friday, 18 June 2021 04:31 (three years ago) link
After an 8 years hiatus, a new Freelove Fenner album:
https://freelovefenner.bandcamp.com/album/the-punishment-zone
― o. nate, Friday, 18 June 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
In love with the new Lightning Bug album, I think it belongs here? Seems their last album was more of a "show me a NEW shoegaze band" thing but this one sorta pulls a Mojave 3. "The Right Thing is Hard to Do" and "I Lie Awake" especially lovely.
https://lightning-bug.bandcamp.com/
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
and turns out the former has a pretty video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_06I-c73_8
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
really nice, thanks
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 03:11 (three years ago) link
really lovely album, reminiscent of talk talk, pygmalion, and last year's loma album
― ufo, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 08:16 (three years ago) link
really into this, thanks
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
― ufo, Tuesday, July 13, 2021 3:16 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Between the Weather Station and Cassandra Jenkins, Talk Talk references are having a year
― Indexed, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
this really reminds me a lot of Fear Of Men too
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Orange Peels are one of those bands I routinely forget about and then am very happy to rediscover (loved "Back in San Francisco" forever ago, then kinda lost track til Begin the Begone in 2015, then lost track again). Their new double album is sounding really good -- https://theorangepeels.bandcamp.com/album/celebrate-the-moments-of-your-life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-ArFC5PkA
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Monday, 26 July 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
Alien Boy
― alpine static, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
by that, I mean where do we want to talk about Alien Boy and their upcoming album, which comes out Aug. 20? here? in this thread? or should they get their own?
this band is amazing.
― alpine static, Thursday, 5 August 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
Thank you for posting this Lightning Bug album, geoffreyess, I'm on my first listen and I'm really enjoying it. <3
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 6 August 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
same ... a wonderful discovery
― alpine static, Friday, 6 August 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
i don't know where else to say this but someone should tell those LVL UP guys they're better together than apart
― alpine static, Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
wasn't sure where else to put this but i love this song by a side project of dave c from tops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FARX0350sHo
― flopson, Sunday, 3 October 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
I guess Shannon Lay is more indie-folk than folk-folk, wherever the distinction is. Obviously influenced by English folkies, but kind of her own hybrid of American and British styles. (Reminds me a little of Ryley Walker in that sense.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ18ZZznLZE
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 14 October 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
I like this Jordana/TV Girl track. Very '90s radio vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62ZQgnBO7Q
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
The Dummy record is really good and fun. Not really original and very Stereolab-y but this is high quality sruff imo.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
Wow, it's super Stereolab-y.
― juristic person (morrisp), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
I like this Nation of Language album. This song has kind of an Ultravoxy vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1sno-oy8-I
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 November 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
Three 15 year olds! Lost in The Woods is amazing
https://floridamanofficial.bandcamp.com/album/florida-man-ep
― Evan, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
indie soty noms? my vote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTTTEfurozI
― Indexed, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
sloppy jane album is a fun bit of intricate baroque pop, gleefully over the top (gong hits, string quartets, the works)
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FekEWAUKcho
the wednesday album is pretty solid comfort food indie rock, not doing anything special but quite good at its sound anyway
― ufo, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 10:27 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZstVTHCCcGs
posted this in the 2021 lists thread - discovered Indigo De Souza's Any Shape You Take via Said the Gramophone's SOTY list. Pop alternative/grunge that reminds me of Nilufer Yanya. "Hold U" (above) is lighter than the rest of the album and is infectious.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
I dig the next track on the album, "Way Out"
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
oh didn't know there's a new one! I loved the last one, will check it out.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
yeah the indigo de souza album is great
― ufo, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
i don't really hear the nilufer yanya comparison though, yanya's doing something much more distinct with her sade+pixies+post-punk thing while this is a pretty typical sort of us indie rock
― ufo, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
saw a p4k article on water from your eyes, checked 'em out, and they actually seem sorta great. ambitious fuzzbombs with sadier/melody echio's chamber-style vocals. the noisier they get, the more i like them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWJ11XodSlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6C3cRd0-zk
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
annoyingly, their 2021 album has songs called "quotations" and ""quotations,"" it's the former that i like, tho the latter is interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB6kbkgA31A
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
Doesn't look like there's a 2022 indie thread nor anywhere else it seems appropriate to post this, but the new Florist album is gorgeous and will appeal to fans of Big Thief, The Microphones, and presumably Emily Sprague's past work, though I've only dipped my toes in
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/florist-florist/
― Indexed, Monday, 8 August 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
Really like both of these quite different songs by Disq, a band I had never heard of before I heard Cujo Kiddies on the radiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3sYUKm2YK4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjCKeggYXk
― mizzell, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
anyone here dig flasher? punchy, easygoing, indie comfort food with some solid hooks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Hkt_KtleM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu2gxtXAoUA
― mr. weird al and the box squeezers (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 August 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
Flasher <3 <3 <3
Brilliant band. I don't think I like the new one as much as the punkier Constant Image but it's solidly enjoyable nonetheless.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 15 August 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
well of course there's no 2022 indie thread, indie died with trust fund
but then it came back!!!!!!
https://trustfund.bandcamp.com/track/capital?from=fanpub_fnb_trk
― imago, Friday, 30 September 2022 11:24 (one year ago) link
Love this song:
https://hazysourcherry.bandcamp.com/track/i-wanna-kill-your-girlfriend
― o. nate, Friday, 14 October 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
https://surfacetoairmissive.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-leap
Let's get our hearts broken again
― imago, Saturday, 29 October 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
also impossibly lovely and only 20 minutes long: this
https://denizenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mouth-a-jar
― imago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
shades of Scott Miller, Bob Drake and even Cardiacs in amongst the more regular power-pop sounds
― imago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 12:30 (one year ago) link
enjoying this new Sobs record. power pop forever
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's good... though except for a hyperpop-ish coda in one song, it's so explicitly 1990s-sounding that you'll feel the Crystal Pepsi make your teeth hurt (or whatever cliched metaphor you prefer).
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 10 November 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
We've been talking about the Momma album (Household Name) in the "Sounds that sound like the '90s" thread – but want to mention it here too, as I've been listening to it daily since discovering it there. Yes, they sing kinda like Veruca Salt (a stated influence), and reference a few Pavement and Smashing Pumpkins songs in the lyrix... but it's not just a nostalgia exercise, the songs are so good!! I'm really into this album.
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Monday, 21 November 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
(btw – Tracks 2 and 9 are the highlights)
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Monday, 21 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
I've been enjoying Vancouver band Dumb, who were mentioned in the Best-Of 2022 thread (for this year's album, Pray 4 Tomorrow). They are total early–Parquet Courts clones; their band name suxx; and they don't really have "songs" (more in the way of cool jams)... but they sound great!
Would appreciate recs of other bands on a similar tip...
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
They are definitely masters of their craft.
― o. nate, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Heard this playing in a store, looks like it came out last year; it's not really "indie," more just standard throwback rock, I guess... good tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rQuAWoRPM
The Heavy Heavy - Miles and Miles
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link