Rolling 2016 Indie Rock/Pop Thread

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

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)

New Broncho streaming here in its entirety:

http://bronchoband.com/

I just ordered it.

Moving a little slow this month, but the playlist is updated through today:

ILM's Rolling Indie Rock Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

xp I'm torn on this Broncho album. The songs keep getting better with each album, but the singing keeps getting...worse?

Overcast dynamics of new Mogwai album's unblinking steady state search proving v. appropriate today
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/09/480591818/first-listen-mogwai-atomic

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.

this whitney album has a nice relaxed summer happy vibe:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5yMCA6HdFAeL1aqUjxO3MO

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/

I can't tell if this record is ILM-material or not but it's just.. really incredible

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

unkillable from asdfasdf was nice, but Fear O' The Light is a big step up, really looking forward to this.

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 Ups
Before 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-universes
http://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.

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

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?

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

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.

https://soundcloud.com/sargent-house/russian-circles-mota -- holy crap

playlist is updated.

Shoulda put this here instead of that mostly-oldies What Are You Listening To thread

Adia Victoria, calls it "gothic blues", fan of Fiona Apple for unreals, pretty good so far:
http://livestream.com/accounts/1164825/events/5911922

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Pickathon, yall

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A lighter touch than FA (no vibrato!), which you might think would spoil it but no (not even on this Robt. Johnson cover)

― dow, Saturday, August 6, 2016

"Cain't get through, cain't get through, ah you're stuck in the, Souuu-uth, stuck in the South." Amen.

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.