Rolling 2016 Indie Rock/Pop Thread

that eerie wanda song is on point ! it's got the vibe and the right dosage of wistfulness

also that Flowers song is beautiful

I stumbled on and became addicted to this song after checking out maura's recommendation of Flowers:

https://soundcloud.com/kaninerecords/beverly-crooked-cop

Yeah, pretty geeked about another Beverly album.

really enjoying this Great Thunder / Radiator Hospital split LP: https://stupidbag.bandcamp.com/releases

addictive guitar pop-rock from LA band, Blondfire

Blondfire - True Confessions
https://soundcloud.com/blondfire/blondfire-true-confessions
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5Th9qF4aR9PJRrSyukyGLx

Official video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNHCaf8v1c

reference points imagine the Killers with a female singer, some of the guitars sound New Order-ish (Leave Me Alone) and early U2, Garbage, Metric, Ladyhawke

I love the Waveless track "my agony" above...Johnny fever nailing it

"My apathy" oops

atmospheric dark guitar pop, from Bristol based artist She Makes War new track Drown Me Out. From a forthcoming album, Direction Of Travel 8 April (29 April physical)

riyl: Nadine Shah

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/strataentertainment/she-makes-war-drown-me-out

via
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/she-makes-war-mixes-dark-melodies-and-symphonic-percussion-drown-me-out

a great new track from Scottish artist, Eliza Shaddad

riyl: PJ Harvey

Eliza Shaddad - Run
https://soundcloud.com/elizashaddad/run

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6VH3vgoGm04oXiOdWLNxrW

dream pop track from London band, Wyldest - with sublime cascading guitars

Wyldest - Stalking Moon
https://soundcloud.com/wyldest/stalking-moon

spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6dHauIqHTlgtntm0eW1NPT

love this song https://feelingwarmer.bandcamp.com/track/the-narrative

the new Two Inch Astronaut album is the most pleasantly J. Robbins-y album that J. Robbins has yet produced. (besides the ones he played on.)

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

I dont know much about this band other than this is taken from their new debut record and theyre signed to Saddle Creek. Nice tune

New artist, Yonaka from Brighton. I was expected Yonaka to be American from NYC - as they sound like an American band in the vein of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Yonaka - Ignorance
https://soundcloud.com/yonaka-1/ignorance

via

Yonaka’s “Ignorance” is blissful dark pop with an alt-rock edge - Premiere
http://earmilk.com/2016/02/16/yonakas-ignorance-is-blissful-dark-pop-with-an-alt-rock-edge-premiere/#QxmYrKIVOAvOFtIm.99

German post-punk revival / dark pop artist, Drangsal with an infectious track, Allan Align

Johnny Marr type guitars on this track, whilst the vocals recall The Futureheads

Drangsal - Allan Align

you tube:
https://youtu.be/99o3AkxzTcQ

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4H7kZRFrapqUEK4cznpnwq

Playlist updated.

ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

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

obsest with this Lucy Dacus album brad reviewed on p4k pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21609-no-burden/

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

trippy but stabilized phase rock from 2/5 of a sunny day in glasgow:
https://thefantasticimaginaiton.bandcamp.com/album/margaret-is-a-witch

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

That Waveless "Spirit Island" e.p mentioned upthread is indeed awesome. Goth-y Sonic Youth vibes.

The Cullen stuff is good! Is it similar to the Smith Westerns at all? Heard of them but never heard them.

hazy pop / rock from Bergen, Norway band Great News

electronic psychedelic swirl / baggy / balearic

riyl: Horsebeach

Great News - Secrets
https://soundcloud.com/great-news/secrets-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Q4eBCaGI0ILGcdsmdc6jX

Great News
https://soundcloud.com/great-news
The Band is now working on their debut album, which is set to be released next autumn 2016.

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

Playlist updated through March:

ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

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.

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

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!

What thread should Bleached go on? They are a retro Go-gos meets Primitives meets girl group pop-punk act.

new eskimeaux EP

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

Psyched for the new BRONCHO. A couple of preview tracks out:

https://soundcloud.com/bronchoband/senora-borealis
https://soundcloud.com/bronchoband/fantasy-boys

Holy shit, these are both stellar!

What thread should Bleached go on?

Probably this one, but who even knows what's "Indie Rock/Pop" anymore.

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.

Just heard "Easier Said" by Sunflower Bean, enjoying it:

https://sunflowerbean.bandcamp.com/

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/

Boo Hoo by Nite Jewel
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wUKpTK2TH1cxWXSnfKHUu

Does Thao & The Get Down Stay Down go here? Cause that album is very good.

Playlist updated through April.

ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

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.

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

Oh yeah, and 11 un-skimpy songs in 39' 34", the way God planned it (gospel after all, hallelujah)

Maybe a bit of Screaming Females too. I'm digging it.

Car Seat Headrest album has some good melodies but the songs are way too long

i'm digging it
between this and the new parquet courts some good indie rock classicism

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.

I forgot rogue wave existed!

The new Steve gunn is pretty darned good

I've heard the Whitney album, it's gorgeous

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

He reminds me of...Blinker The Star? That's a weird influence for sure.

Allo Darlin'

Dear all,

After eight years of playing, laughing, driving, dancing, singing and generally having the time of our lives, we are calling it a day. We will be playing our last show at the Scala in London, December 11th 2016. (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/375604)

Wait, don’t be sad! Although we are generally a reflective and nostalgic bunch, this is not an overwhelmingly sad decision or twist of fate for us. Most bands have to stop actively recording and playing shows at some point, especially those like us who don’t have this as our day job.

As some of you may know, we now live in two different countries, and these days have enough children to at least field a five-a-side football team. Many years ago we took the decision that our friendship was more important to us than our ”career ”as a band. This meant that we didn’t tour relentlessly and didn’t let the music business get in the way of what brought us together in the first place: the joy of music and the thrill of playing with people you were lucky enough to call your friends.

It is hard to find the words to describe exactly how much fun it has been to be in Allo Darlin’, and what a privilege it has been to make records and play shows from Brisbane to Bern, Boston to Bristol. We feel extremely fortunate that we came along at a time where it was possible for a DIY bunch like us to make records and play shows without an enormous advertising budget or a proven business plan. We were incredibly lucky that the Field of Dreams approach seemed to work, but not without the help of some wonderful people, most of all Sean from Fortuna POP!, and in later years Mike from Slumberland. We had so much wonderful support from others in the indiepop community, like John Jervis from WIAWYA, Tom from Fika, Camilla from Weepop, Indietracks, and New York Popfest to mention but a few of the many.

Lots of people help to get records out and heard and they don’t always get recognition, so we’d like to thank Lucy Hurst and Daniel Gill for working so hard for getting press coverage for us, and Olli Dutton for helping us get on the radio in the UK. Other people we’d like to thank are Craig at Cargo, Jim and Nicole at Ground Control, and Joe at Angular Publishing. We would especially like to thank our soundman Al Harle, who taught us how to be a bit more pro when we were touring and generously gave his time when he could have been paid a lot more money by somebody more successful. We’re sorry we never got to be big Al! We’d also like to thank Simon Trought and Giles Barrett, who were always so helpful and fun to record with, and helped us find our sound.

Of course, none of this would have happened without the support and love from you guys, the audience, who came to our shows and bought our records, gave us your floors to sleep on and helped to set up shows. Your generosity and feedback was always inspiring and appreciated! Please keep on supporting the bands you love, telling them they played a good show and buying their records. You will probably never know how much this means to them.

We hope to see as many of you as possible at the Scala, and thank you so much for giving us the time of our lives.

Elizabeth, Bill, Paul and Mike

Never heard of em?

one of the great pop bands of the past decade. if yr gonna quit, might as well do so after releasing a near-perfect album:

https://allodarlin.bandcamp.com/album/we-come-from-the-same-place

I thought bout giving Slow Club their own thread (they're certainly deserving) but figured they're a better fit here. One Day All Of This Won't Matter has really grown on me - their least immediate album, but on balance maybe their strongest? The '70s-rock lilt is a more natural fit than the overt soul influences of the last album, and the relative lack of belting is refreshing (though Rebecca Taylor does have a pleasantly amateurish belt). Also, it has one of my favorite openers of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzFTRbn17bE

Lastly, I've yet to hear their RSD covers album from last year, but it has one of the more endearingly eclectic sets of cover choices I can recall: https://www.discogs.com/Slow-Club-I-Swam-Out-To-Greet-You/release/6919836

im digging the new Happyness song

https://soundcloud.com/happyness-4/friend-of-the-revolution

Ha, I didn't know about this thread. Would have been a better place to post about the new Thurston Moore single.

A-side of an upcoming single to benefit the Chelsea Manning Support Network. Moore's and Sedward's guitars sound really good on this. Not sure what I think of the vocal parts yet; something of a Lou Reed quality to them:

http://pitchfork.com/news/68462-listen-to-thurston-moores-new-track-for-chelsea-manning-chelseas-kiss/

really enjoying the new ultimate painting record. they cover a decent amount of ground with their pretty limited palette. guitars sound real nice

Coming up: Letters To Cleo, first release of new music in 17 years--- more info, download link for advance track here:
http://noisetrade.fanbridge.com/campaigns/show.php?id=1380592&sid=258258979

Ultimate Painting album is lovely agreed

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.