Nu gaze track from supergroup, Minor Victories
"Minor Victories is a supergroup featuring Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite, Editors' Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club's James Lockey"http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/minor_victories_members_of_slowdive_mogwai_editors_announce_debut_album_sha/
The self-titled album is due out June 3 via Fat Possum in the U.S. (and PIAS in the rest of the world)
Minor Victories - A Hundred Ropes
https://youtu.be/0oz6nzPSZLg
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5oPIDN2f6qNKGBE1VVNcDh
― djmartian, Sunday, 28 February 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
obsest with this Lucy Dacus album brad reviewed on p4k pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21609-no-burden/
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
it's one of my favorites this year
new single by varsity (out of chicago) is a little more cure-moody than their last one, but i like it:https://varsity.bandcamp.com/track/eye-to-eye
― maura, Thursday, 3 March 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
trippy but stabilized phase rock from 2/5 of a sunny day in glasgow:https://thefantasticimaginaiton.bandcamp.com/album/margaret-is-a-witch
― calstars, Saturday, 5 March 2016 02:01 (eight years ago) link
This is amongst my favourite indie of the year. Three singles released so far and all pretty strong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0d8kA7Zh0M
Cullen Omori was previously the frontman of the Smith Westerns, if that means anything to anyone. Signed to Sub Pop. Speculated influences quadrant: The Shins, Elliott Smith, New Order, MGMT
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 10:14 (eight years ago) link
That Waveless "Spirit Island" e.p mentioned upthread is indeed awesome. Goth-y Sonic Youth vibes.
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link
The Cullen stuff is good! Is it similar to the Smith Westerns at all? Heard of them but never heard them.
― calstars, Thursday, 10 March 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
hazy pop / rock from Bergen, Norway band Great News
electronic psychedelic swirl / baggy / balearic
riyl: Horsebeach
Great News - Secretshttps://soundcloud.com/great-news/secrets-1https://open.spotify.com/track/4Q4eBCaGI0ILGcdsmdc6jX
Great Newshttps://soundcloud.com/great-newsThe Band is now working on their debut album, which is set to be released next autumn 2016.
― djmartian, Sunday, 13 March 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
Have we talked about Tancred yet? Because this song is super addictive. Seems a little punchier than anything on their previous two albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfwhQoyg7s
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 14 March 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
Playlist updated through March:
ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, totally missed this. I tried a Smith Westerns album (Die It Blonde), and while it has a couple of moments, I wasn't a big fan...it just seemed too absent and not very distinct. Since that band's split, two other members went off and formed Whitney, who imo don't possess the same flavour for layering and chord sequences that make Cullen interesting on his own.
― propaganda for the American springtime (tangenttangent), Friday, 8 April 2016 09:42 (eight years ago) link
Also, new Teleman out today! Can't find a YouTube or Bandcamp yet for my favourite track ('Melrose'), but this one is pretty good too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN7YA4FO7TY&nohtml5=False
― propaganda for the American springtime (tangenttangent), Friday, 8 April 2016 09:44 (eight years ago) link
Either Melrose or Glory Hallelujah my current favourite. It's a pretty strong follow-up throughout imo, and to think the previous poster played it down to me!
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 08:17 (eight years ago) link
What thread should Bleached go on? They are a retro Go-gos meets Primitives meets girl group pop-punk act.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 April 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
new eskimeaux EP
https://eskimeaux.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-rabbit
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 15 April 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
Psyched for the new BRONCHO. A couple of preview tracks out:
https://soundcloud.com/bronchoband/senora-borealishttps://soundcloud.com/bronchoband/fantasy-boys
― o. nate, Saturday, 16 April 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit, these are both stellar!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
What thread should Bleached go on?
Probably this one, but who even knows what's "Indie Rock/Pop" anymore.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:14 (eight years ago) link
Amazing double A-side by Moulettes. Weird rushing chamber pop indie: https://soundcloud.com/moulettes/sets/behemooth-underwaterpainter
I'm really enjoying that Flowers album that was mentioned here too. They released a lovely EP a few years ago (Cut & Run - it's got buried beneath ambiguous Flowers' in Spotify) and I hadn't heard anything for a while so I'm glad to see them surface again. That Ego Loss track is excellent.
― propaganda for the American springtime (tangenttangent), Monday, 18 April 2016 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Just heard "Easier Said" by Sunflower Bean, enjoying it:
https://sunflowerbean.bandcamp.com/
― Evan, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
this Hurry record is excellent. if you're a Teenage Fanclub fan, don't sleep:
http://thekey.xpn.org/2016/04/27/premiere-hurry-guided-meditation/
― alpine static, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:41 (eight years ago) link
Boo Hoo by Nite Jewelhttps://open.spotify.com/track/7wUKpTK2TH1cxWXSnfKHUu
― calstars, Saturday, 30 April 2016 02:23 (eight years ago) link
Does Thao & The Get Down Stay Down go here? Cause that album is very good.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 30 April 2016 04:04 (eight years ago) link
Playlist updated through April.
― ulysses, Saturday, 30 April 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
The Coathangers, Nosebleed Weekend: took me a while to get closer to the carefully distanced yet v. personal verses---pointedly addressed to whom it may concern, but let their present and former associates sort it out ("Does she me mean me? Or my roommate? Oh shit, g-r-r")---but always got the surging choruses: ceremonial, almost ornate, but totally functional mesh of bass and drums, with cogent comments by guitar, and even chanted semi[harmonies on the title track, though more often a thin, incisive, sly "girly" solo voice, with ruder, deeper one more occasionally. Not exactly hooks, but fascination in details and overall (turn it up, listen on headphones, give it several chances; took four times to sell me on every bit of almost all; could still live without "Dumb Baby" I guess).Seems like they've learned from the early Doors, maybe Pistols' "Submission": kind of a bluesy quality in the concision, prob learned much more from Sleater-Kinney, but not operatic; they've already developed their own variant. I wanna see their show.
― dow, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Seratones, Get Gone: commentator here mentions "blues" (well-assimilated), "classic rock," and even "punk": the latter two most relevant re Pretenders' s/t debut, which got a surprising amount of radio play, even on Top Forty or whatever that was called in the late 70s, here in the boondocks. So: smooth-then-sharp-edged vocals (minus Hynde's trademark touches of vibrato or melisma or whatever it is), even a little lush occasionally, but not wallowing in it, just self-confident (commentator says she started out in gospel, which I wouldn't have guessed, except for the bit about learning to sing without "amplification," which relates to the self-confidence). Fast strumming, lightning fills and solos, also making me think of Pretenders; they might well like Mother's Finest, Stone The Crows. Haven't got all the lyrics yet, but so far, don't *think* this will inspire essays about the dark drama lurking in certain lines---so not that much like Pretenders, re "Tattoo Love Boys" etc. She/they might have to change it up that way or some way (maybe something bold, re Alabama Shakes' second full-length), cos this seems fairly definitive in its approach. http://www.npr.org/2016/04/28/475594243/first-listen-seratones-get-gone
― dow, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah, and 11 un-skimpy songs in 39' 34", the way God planned it (gospel after all, hallelujah)
― dow, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Maybe a bit of Screaming Females too. I'm digging it.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 01:36 (eight years ago) link
Car Seat Headrest album has some good melodies but the songs are way too long
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
i'm digging itbetween this and the new parquet courts some good indie rock classicism
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 May 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Haven't been posting a lot lately. There is so much music mentioned on this thread to absorb. I will check out everything mentioned here in time. Wanted to comment on one thing:
The Cullen stuff is good! Is it similar to the Smith Westerns at all? Heard of them but never heard them.Sorry, totally missed this. I tried a Smith Westerns album (Die It Blonde), and while it has a couple of moments, I wasn't a big fan...it just seemed too absent and not very distinct. Since that band's split, two other members went off and formed Whitney, who imo don't possess the same flavour for layering and chord sequences that make Cullen interesting on his own.
I agree that Dye It Blonde is a bit hit-miss, but their 2013 album, Soft Will is fantastic throughout. If you are a fan of Cullen Omori's latest release, you definitely should check out that Soft Will album out as well.
As far as a slightly less-regarded indie-rock/pop albums go, Rogue Wave's latest, Delusions of Grand Fur album is taking up a lot of my listening time. I'll admit that I ignored the band's output the last decade or so, but I really enjoyed two albums released in the early-to-mid-oughts, Out of the Shadow and Descended Like Vultures. This new one hits a lot of those same sweet spots.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 30 May 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
I forgot rogue wave existed!
The new Steve gunn is pretty darned good
― calstars, Monday, 30 May 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
I've heard the Whitney album, it's gorgeous
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Monday, 30 May 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
the album came out last year and its only good in spots but this track moves like a heat-seeking missile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUf6vuLhm-o
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
yeah I like that album ^ but def was bummed that it isn't all closer to that track (and, to a lesser extent, Dream Date)
― alpine static, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
New Broncho streaming here in its entirety:
http://bronchoband.com/
I just ordered it.
― o. nate, Sunday, 12 June 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Moving a little slow this month, but the playlist is updated through today:
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
xp I'm torn on this Broncho album. The songs keep getting better with each album, but the singing keeps getting...worse?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Overcast dynamics of new Mogwai album's unblinking steady state search proving v. appropriate todayhttp://www.npr.org/2016/06/09/480591818/first-listen-mogwai-atomic
― dow, Sunday, 12 June 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
There is a bit of a hurdle to get over with the singing on a Broncho album. I adjust to it pretty quickly, but then again I listen to death metal, so adjusting to weird vocals is something I've gotten pretty good at. I do like the way everything has gotten hazy and smeared out on the new one - kind of like a stoned T. Rex, also maybe a bit of Radio Dept.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link
this whitney album has a nice relaxed summer happy vibe:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5yMCA6HdFAeL1aqUjxO3MO
― calstars, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 12:12 (seven years ago) link
So like Katie is a friend and I've had this album all year but I don't post about friendmusic unless it's absolutely warranted
http://www.stereogum.com/1882958/artist-to-watch-katie-dey/franchises/interview/
― fgti, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
I can't tell if this record is ILM-material or not but it's just.. really incredible
― fgti, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
I've seen her name mentioned before. Your cosign and the fact that she's from Melbourne is probably enough for me to check it out
― art baengels (monotony), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
unkillable from asdfasdf was nice, but Fear O' The Light is a big step up, really looking forward to this.
― ufo, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 07:50 (seven years ago) link
http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13501637_10157064222460597_2840708129212725108_n.jpg?oh=7f006a658d4e02c5521b14651de5a1ab&oe=580273D9
So if I am wrong about this band in this thread, blame Ned... :)
Big UpsBefore A Million universes(Tough Love / Exploding In Sound / Brace Yourself)Release Date: March 4, 2016
http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2016/02/Big-Ups-Before-A-Million-Universes1-640x639.jpg
http://explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/before-a-million-universeshttp://open.spotify.com/album/2SX7FMqNdK5eia2tMdXwXN
I saw Big Ups, a Brooklyn band, opening up for Perfect Pussy in a West philly basement right before Christmas last year. Liked 'em enough I picked up the vinyl of their 2014 debut Eighteen Hours of Static. And I still like 'em and I think you will if you like bands such as Slint or Polvo. The new one seems more expansive than the debut - more tempos, more vocal textures, more ideas. And most of them work pretty well.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 24 June 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
Will check, thanks Bri. Just finished my first listen to Deerhoof's The Magic(on promo, not First Listen, though that's linked below. Dunno how sound quality compares, FL's sometimes isn't as good). 15 tracks in 40' 29", and I know I haven't taken it all in, but plenty instant gratification---"Plastic Thrills" could've been the fitting title track---and I love the drumming throughout:http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/480602873/first-listen-deerhoof-the-magic
― dow, Saturday, 25 June 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah, ive never been a huge Deerhoof guy but i thought that new one sounded great...for the band's fans, is this their most "accessible"? or no?
― alpine static, Saturday, 25 June 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
Also, here's my 4th of July jam, to barbecue some fireworks & frie some freedoms: Hit Reset, by The Julie Ruin. Despite the title, it doesn't seem like retro; for one thing, the lines flying by seem like fine fresh fragments of a life being lived, different points and segments of the timeline still felt and in focus---refocus, reset---although there might also be some well-chosen presets on that vintage keyboard. Haven't got quite gotten into the first three tracks yet, compared to all the others' jamming hooks, which make me want to go back to college, ca. '79---8x, jam a chair against the door, and play this album about four times in a row, schooling the U. Not that it would take four spins to do that, because we also have here some early (lessee, K. Hanna's 47 now---) or at least definite assimilation of primetime BlondieCarsB-52sBanglesGo-Gos along the way:http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/480605934/first-listen-the-julie-ruin-hit-reset
― dow, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
Also need to dig up my Le Tigre sides---now, if they could get JD Samson to do a few club mixes of these---not strictly necessary, but I'm greedy.
― dow, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
"Skippool Creek" on the Ultimate Painting album does remind me of a slowed down version of Luna's "23 Minutes in Brussels"
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Thursday, 6 October 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't saying Ultimate Painting reminds me of those bands, I was saying the new LVL UP album does ... a lot.
Sorry, now I see that the confusion lies in the name LVL UP you thought UP = Ultimate Painting. In fact, there is a band called LVL UP and they have a record out on SubPop.
― alpine static, Friday, 7 October 2016 03:38 (seven years ago) link
many xposts: love the newest Slow Club album - just like I love all Slow Club albums. such a wonderful band.
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
yay!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 7 October 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
Enjoying Georgia Ruth's new album...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLcd70qx5jc
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 7 October 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
idk where else to put this:
https://wearecrying.bandcamp.com/track/there-was-a-door
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 14 October 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
Nice
― calstars, Saturday, 15 October 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Dunno if it belongs here, Fujiya & Miyagi motorik vibe from this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7P4NdmLKco
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
https://florist.bandcamp.com/album/holdly-ep
https://florist.bandcamp.com/album/the-birds-outside-sang
https://toldslant.bandcamp.com/album/going-by
https://bellows.bandcamp.com/album/fist-palm
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 24 October 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
Spotify playlist is updated through October. 74 tracks and five hours o' indie for you:
ILM'S Rolling Indie Rock Thread Spotify Playlist 2016
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Monday, 24 October 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Absolutely loving the album "Plaza" by Quilt. Male-female vox, great melodies, lightly psychedelic indie pop that doesn't feel in the least disposable.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 28 October 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
I became quite enamored with this year's 2 eps by Aussie band Babaganouj today, but particularly the song Would You Like Me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotni-QR_CQ
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 30 October 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
Crying album has its own thread: crying: beyond the fleeting galesI've been listening to it obsessively.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 October 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
Belatedly got around to listening to the Emma Pollock album, In Search of Harperfield; went into it more out of a sense of duty than anything, but as it turns out it's really good.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1cBJGe2GEkGlFb4NbKLHJ4 - highlights: "Cannot Keep A Secret", "Alabaster", "Vacant Stare" and "Old Ghosts".
― Jeff W, Sunday, 30 October 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
even though their name sounds like a generic craft brew, I'm all about this Alpha Hopper album: https://alphahopper.bandcamp.com/ shredded female vocals, weird angular guitars, but still hooks
― na (NA), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
new Votaries (a tt discovery) is really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duGmkNWQ44s
― imago, Monday, 21 November 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
for those willing to hear more, 'lucifer inverted' and 'rainbow death revisited' are stunning
― imago, Monday, 21 November 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
srsly
https://soundcloud.com/wharf-cat-records/09-rainbow-death-revisited
https://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/psychometry
― imago, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 02:26 (seven years ago) link
nice findit's almost like 1996 never happened.
― calstars, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Playlist Updated for November:
ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread Spotify Playlist 2016
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 24 November 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
there's no rolling singer-songwriter thread? anyway, I've been enjoying this John K. Samson track a lot lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvrm4FY-fag
― niels, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:26 (seven years ago) link
ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist - Final
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, March 13, 2016 11:55 PM (nine months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Listening to this album for the first time this morning and really enjoying it. Like late 90s Courtney Love or Liz Phair.
― how's life, Thursday, 29 December 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link