Rolling INDIE 2021

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

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

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.

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

Love this song:

https://hazysourcherry.bandcamp.com/track/i-wanna-kill-your-girlfriend

https://surfacetoairmissive.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-leap

Let's get our hearts broken again

also impossibly lovely and only 20 minutes long: this

https://denizenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mouth-a-jar

shades of Scott Miller, Bob Drake and even Cardiacs in amongst the more regular power-pop sounds

enjoying this new Sobs record. power pop forever

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).

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.

(btw – Tracks 2 and 9 are the highlights)

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...

They are definitely masters of their craft.

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

dead meat by the tubs is really good - jangly but propulsive, angry but catchy. really like the vocals, which the bandcamp page compares accurately to richard thompson.

I like this new "Blondshell" album – apparently she's an L.A. local who was doing pop stuff under a different name, then shifted to '90s-style rock.

"Tarmac" is top track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71y4IS2dMa4

the description of an l.a. native who switched from indie to pop was not very inspiring, but gotta say i'm impressed with the blondshell album! some lovely melodies and production touches, like the high, ny dolls-esque piano that rings through "salad," and the choruse...well, they pop

Turns out she's actually an NYC native, and moved to L.A. to study music.

ok i guess that explains it

(I'm not sure if it explains anything, lol... just wanted to flesh out the backstory, as I had originally posted "L.A. local" and then learned more)

really like this new rvg record. well-produced, and well-written set of '80s alternative inspired rock music. it's post-punk at times, cure at times, sometimes will touch on psychedelic furs. the most striking song on the record is "squid," which is a fun and sinister bit of camp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAEevfmZSr4