Hip™ for Basics

From the "High-selling singles that never entered the Billboard top 40" thread:

never heard the temper trap and two door cinema club songs before today and now am kind of fascinated by that genre of Hip Electronic-Infused Indie Pop-Rock that isn't critically acclaimed. feel like i have a soft spot for lots of stuff in that vein. like i found several of the songs i posted above from a last.fm "RIYL Passion Pit" page.

― jaymc, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:48 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like phoenix would the respectable version of this stuff. but someone make me a mix of temper trap, two door cinema club, foster the people, grouplove, etc.

― jaymc, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:51 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like it's Hip™ for basics

― jaymc, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:52 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the more mainstream end of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indietronica

― jaymc, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:55 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've never heard the two door cinema club song but the temper trap one was in a ton of commercials and movies (it plays in 500 days of summer like AT LEAST three times). hip for basics is an apt description lol.

― dyl, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:56 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hip Electronic-Infused Indie Pop-Rock that isn't critically acclaimed.

this is definitely a huge thing rn, really big on the festival scene afaict. kinda feel like that should be a thread tbh

― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:37 AM (1 month ago)

Use this thread to ID these bands, post videos, poke fun, express love/hatred, discuss this phenomenon, etc.

sorry, i meant to delete all the "(1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink" in the quote but forgot.

basically, any of the kitsune compilations from a couple of years ago.

All those "Blank the Blank" bands? Cage the Elephant, Foster the People, Walk the Moon, Jukebox the Ghost, Young The Giant.

Naked and Famous

Yes, "Blank the Blank" bands seem predestined to fall into this category.

Never heard of Walk the Moon but at least that sounds like an actual phrase that is a thing, unlike most of the others.

And would Fitz and the Tantrums fit in here somehow?

I also feel like Mother Mother might qualify, but they're more of a Canada only thing.

New Politics

I cut off my own comment in that thread above which is that this stuff is selling out big rooms all over the country right now. It's pretty crazy, imo.

*America, that is.

does hozier count or does he have enough press hype (and commercial success now) to be disqualified

I was just going to go listen to him for the first time. I had assumed this is what he sounds like to this point.

Atlas Genius, I think, is one of these bands.

Hozier seems like it's more in the Adele -> Sam Smith lineage to me?

yes i think you're right

Youngblood Hawke

like all the bands that ripped off MGMT that that bands' fans moved to when MGMT suddenly decided they only wanted to make wibbly tuneless psychedelia

― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:38 AM Bookmark

i feel like the capital cities hit from last year ("safe and sound") was kind of hip-for-basics

i like it but i am a basic :)

heard this on the radio and thought it might fit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSCzDykng4g

xp yahhhh I mentioned "Safe & Sound" in the original thread. I like that song too.

"basic" bothers me as a pejorative but I can't understand why. maybe because I have no problem with elitism in practice but don't like talking about it?

I was invited to a Grouplove/Portugal. The Man concert this summer that was uhh maybe in this genre?

I didn't really have any idea who these bands were. Still not sure. People seemed really into it.

i really like basically every grouplove single but yeah they might fit here

they covered "drunk in love" and it was really bad

other than that, pretty unobjectionable!

Atlas Genius, I think, is one of these bands.

― alpine static, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha this is the perfect name for one of these

i hate the term 'basic' a lot but there's definitely an aspect of ... eagerness to be synced that connects all the bands that can fall under this particular rubric

I want a canonical list, mostly to screen dates

Ha I love that this thread was started. (I was too lazy to do it myself.) I made a Spotify playlist that includes a few of the more critically loved -- but still widely popular -- acts in this vein: http://open.spotify.com/user/seaworthyset/playlist/1GA3uz7IjIEXBcF796L2Rk

And the fact that I called the playlist "H4B" signals my own discomfort with the term "basic" -- but I think I was high when I wrote the posts quoted at the top of the thread.

Catching up:

Grouplove definitely belongs.

Portugal. The Man kinda does, but really only by association. They're a lot proggier/weirder than a lot of these bands. Or at least they were the last time I paid attn, which was probably 5 years ago.

I liked "Safe & Sound" too, until I saw the video. The video kinda made me hate the song.

I feel like there are some big/obvious ones I've noticed but can't remember now.

like, Bastille / Kongos / Rixton ... do these bands fit? Or are they too unabashedly pop / not enough faux-indie?

the lines between Hip™ for Basics and Post-Arcade Fire Stomp 'n' Shout-along All Together Now (But Not So Rootsy Like Mumford Et Al) Faux-Indie Rock can be pretty blurry.

except for rare exceptions i.e. two door cinema club, british bands shouldn't count

the fact that most of these bands are american is v. key to their lack of critical acclaim imo

This is pretty much ubiquitous London pub-bar music 2006-2014.

"campfire stomp" genre as coined by uh, was it goole?

Yahhh this is v definitely a different genre from campfire stomp. I feel like Phantogram are ILX-approved but definitely in this nexus.

yeah this stuff is all i hear at bars these days

wait what is 'campfire stomp' it's turning up 0 results in ilx search

is that like mumford etc?

it returns tons of posts in ilx search?

relevant post:
GTFO rolling worst music of 2014

iirc The Lumineers and their hit single are the main example

Lumineers/Mumfords/Of Monsters and Men, that type of shit

does this qualify? it maybe kind of forgets to be hip™ after its merriweather post pavilion rip intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBTB54ty-tc

I can't tell the ironic ilxor threads from the normal ones anymore.

TM™

the "cake by the ocean" video was directed by gigi hadid, and the fat jew is in it

the youtube ad preceding passion pit's "take a walk" was for a charity that benefited with each bottle of 5-hour energy you buy

yes, Colony House counts. they look like Mac DeMarco made a baby with a Gap commercial

I have seen (not read) a couple of things recently that gave me the impression that Kongos is now considered (a) good and/or (b) credible.

True? False? Anyone know?

this "broken" song by lonelytheband (horrible name) is definitely this aesthetic. how cute that a song that would have been considered vaguely trendy in 2008 can be a hit a decade later