Rolling INDIE 2021

wow. that was lovely. just the type of pretty bedroom guitar indie I was looking for. if you liked the previous better then I think im going to go through the discography backwards now because that was great

I agree, nice album. I liked the EP last year too. It all sounds a bit the same imo, but it's a sound I like.

this is nothing I haven't heard before, but it is exceptionally comforting and really enjoyable

I was on the fence until the modulations at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvQCWX8w_Yw

The new Blair EP is good. Don't know much about them.

https://blair123xyz.bandcamp.com/album/tears-to-grow

Too sluggish and "wait, here's the loud part" for me, but in my old age I'm fine letting people like what they like.

This is from January, but I only found it about a month ago and it's been in constant rotation since

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fPik8hkSOw

The full Ethel Cain EP is out and is good, though I think the singles remain the standouts. I'm still not really sure how to classify her emo/shoegaze/SoundCloug/grunge with area aspirations, but she's pretty interesting. If she really releases the two-hour opus she tells Pitchfork she's working on, I'll listen at least once, maybe more.

Maybe SoundCloug is the right way to describe her ...

I don’t know if this belongs on rolling indie but I don’t really know which other of the rolling threads it may fit too:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3eZAhywJmUNwvJuiIvD0Nd

Dora Jar, really impressive debut EP. “Quiver” in particular is one of the songs I can’t stop looping.

the new half waif is a fuckin banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mgdrBbv8Lk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oq-lvTXf3s

love the new Faye Webster - there's some Rilo Kiley to it but the bass and synth flourishes are brawny

"Indie" is probably nowhere near the best category for this one, but since we don't have a rolling 2021 garage or psych thread and I don't think it's quite worthy of it's own thread just yet, I want to give a shout out to the Grave Flowers Bongo Band record on Castle Face. Produced by Ty Segall, it's a nice little burst of psych-pop garage rock with a tinge of krautrock tossed in.

For like the maybe three people on this board who've ever discussed The Preatures, Isabella Manfredi's first solo single came out this week. She still seems like the transglobal long-lost Haim sister, but song is a proper bop. I love the synth sound choices (wiggly and farty).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyn7L5KUoQ

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

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

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

After an 8 years hiatus, a new Freelove Fenner album:

https://freelovefenner.bandcamp.com/album/the-punishment-zone

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/

and turns out the former has a pretty video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_06I-c73_8

really nice, thanks

really lovely album, reminiscent of talk talk, pygmalion, and last year's loma album

really into this, thanks

really lovely album, reminiscent of talk talk, pygmalion, and last year's loma album

― ufo, Tuesday, July 13, 2021 3:16 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Between the Weather Station and Cassandra Jenkins, Talk Talk references are having a year

this really reminds me a lot of Fear Of Men too

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

Alien Boy

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.

Thank you for posting this Lightning Bug album, geoffreyess, I'm on my first listen and I'm really enjoying it. <3

same ... a wonderful discovery

i don't know where else to say this but someone should tell those LVL UP guys they're better together than apart

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

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

I like this Jordana/TV Girl track. Very '90s radio vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62ZQgnBO7Q

The Dummy record is really good and fun. Not really original and very Stereolab-y but this is high quality sruff imo.

Wow, it's super Stereolab-y.

I like this Nation of Language album. This song has kind of an Ultravoxy vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1sno-oy8-I

Three 15 year olds! Lost in The Woods is amazing

https://floridamanofficial.bandcamp.com/album/florida-man-ep

indie soty noms? my vote:

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

sloppy jane album is a fun bit of intricate baroque pop, gleefully over the top (gong hits, string quartets, the works)

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

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.

I dig the next track on the album, "Way Out"

sloppy jane album is a fun bit of intricate baroque pop, gleefully over the top (gong hits, string quartets, the works)

oh didn't know there's a new one! I loved the last one, will check it out.

yeah the indigo de souza album is great

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

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

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

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/

Really like both of these quite different songs by Disq, a band I had never heard of before I heard Cujo Kiddies on the radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3sYUKm2YK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjCKeggYXk