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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 25 April 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 April 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
the new half waif is a fuckin banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mgdrBbv8Lk
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
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
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 2 May 2021 06:14 (two years ago) link
"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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 27 May 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
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
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 28 May 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
really nice, thanks
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
really lovely album, reminiscent of talk talk, pygmalion, and last year's loma album
― ufo, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 08:16 (two years ago) link
really into this, thanks
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 20:55 (two 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 (two years ago) link
this really reminds me a lot of Fear Of Men too
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 21:11 (two 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 (two years ago) link
Alien Boy
― alpine static, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 22:56 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
same ... a wonderful discovery
― alpine static, Friday, 6 August 2021 20:48 (two 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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