Rolling 2016 Indie Rock/Pop Thread

the LVL UP album is pretty good if you're OK w/ a band that doesn't try at ALL to hide its love of Pavement / Built to Spill / The Microphones / Neutral Milk Hotel

Nice one

Also sounds like Alex G and Neutral Milk Hotel

Yeah

re xpost Allo Darlin', had trouble w the album, but some of it was very fine, and here's hoping for more from Elixabeth Morris---my P&J ballot comments last year:

From a land down under, also from late ‘14, Allo Darlin’ ‘s We Come From The Same Place brings us the fetching (come hither, in a sunny way, unintimidating even to geek me) voice of Elizabeth Morris, with pleasingly creative turns in her accent and songs that don’t get in her way, yet demo-bare tracks that kinda do, in terms of distracting inertia, while others put ribbons on the slack---but when the whole band gets it together, pretty nice indeed.
Still, any Oz rock Svengali might well consider putting Morris in a whole new musical setting yadda-yadda, anyway it's worth checking out.

There's something very delicate and unassuming about the Ultimate Painting album that doesnt remind me of Pavement / Built to Spill / The Microphones / Neutral Milk Hotel at all tbh

"Skippool Creek" on the Ultimate Painting album does remind me of a slowed down version of Luna's "23 Minutes in Brussels"

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.

many xposts: love the newest Slow Club album - just like I love all Slow Club albums. such a wonderful band.

yay!

Enjoying Georgia Ruth's new album...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLcd70qx5jc

idk where else to put this:

https://wearecrying.bandcamp.com/track/there-was-a-door

Nice

Dunno if it belongs here, Fujiya & Miyagi motorik vibe from this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7P4NdmLKco

https://eskimeaux.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-rabbit

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

Spotify playlist is updated through October. 74 tracks and five hours o' indie for you:

ILM'S Rolling Indie Rock Thread Spotify Playlist 2016

Absolutely loving the album "Plaza" by Quilt. Male-female vox, great melodies, lightly psychedelic indie pop that doesn't feel in the least disposable.

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

Crying album has its own thread: crying: beyond the fleeting gales
I've been listening to it obsessively.

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".

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

new Votaries (a tt discovery) is really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duGmkNWQ44s

for those willing to hear more, 'lucifer inverted' and 'rainbow death revisited' are stunning

srsly

https://soundcloud.com/wharf-cat-records/09-rainbow-death-revisited

https://wharfcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/psychometry

nice find
it's almost like 1996 never happened.

Playlist Updated for November:

ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread Spotify Playlist 2016

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

ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist - Final

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), 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.