Rolling INDIE 2021

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