Rolling rock and indie-pop 2024

In 2023 there was an emo pop punk 2023 thread and a metal thread but not one for other 2023 psych or whatever rock or indie art-pop so this can be that thread again 2024

Here's the 2023 thread

Rolling rock and indie-pop 2023

despite the band name and album cover, i'm into this album by yungatita: https://yungatita.bandcamp.com/album/shoelace-a-knot

the opening track is misleading, it's mostly solid catchy indie rock a la the beths or charly bliss but with more of a willingness to get noisy when needed

^ intrigued by your descriptions and first impressions, thanks for pointing this out!

idk if this is quite the right thread for this, but i am glad that the narcotix are back! twisty, turny, vocal-forward indie a la anjimile or ibeyi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJYn8v64zA

album of the year contender out today, straight outta the heart of the indie rock/pop universe: https://liquidmike.bandcamp.com/album/paul-bunyans-slingshot

Liquid Mike are great, yeah!

This album rules. Last years was great as well.

I know Blondshell doesn't have many fans here, but this is a nice new collab w/Bully:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if2juwy6T70

fans of the new waxahatchee album would do well to check out 'forgot about me,' the new album by pouty. my favorite track was "bridge burner"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILXD-MMswFs

Still House Plants latest is getting acclaim

you’d need a whiteboard to triangulate the various acts that come to mind listening to them – Bill Orcutt, This Heat, Tirzah, Zach Hill, Labradford; free improv, neo-soul, slowcore, post-rock, boom-bap hip-hop. But they wriggle free of comparisons, remarkable given they’re working with a simple, mostly unadorned vocals-drums-guitar setup...

Still House Plants are the most vital band in Britain today, in every sense, and we will be blessed indeed if we get a better album from these shores all year.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/12/still-house-plants-if-i-dont-make-it-i-love-u-review-inspiringly-fearless-and-free-art-rock

It's ok

That is quite the grab-bag of comparison points...!

Yep. I wish it on occasion got farther away from slowcore tempos. Freelancer Joshua Minsoo Kim is calling it a best of 2024 album too.

I kinda like the Reyna Tropical album more

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/reyna-tropical-malegria/

The hyperbole for the Still House Plants plus Pitchfork's recent 9.1 for Cindy Lee seem a bit too much

Lots of people who's opinion I usually connect with love that Still House Plants but it really didn't grab me. Great voice and the musicianship was great but the songs all kinda seemed bland to me. I'll keep trying maybe it'll grow on me.

Yep too samey, which people justify by saying oh the band has roots in slowcore

The new English Teacher album is really nice.

Curmudgeon, thanks for the Reyna Tropical tip. I'm really enjoying the music (sultry vocals, gorgeous rhythm section...) but I could really do without the interstitial blah blah blah. When I'm listening, do I really want to the singer to tell us how she used to be 'anti-singing'? It's like a movie that includes unexciting chats about directorial choices.

I found those interstitials charming, honestly

Really dig this album by Blue Bendy… they’re a UK band, but I feel it has kind of a Beauty Pill vibe(?): https://bluebendy.bandcamp.com/album/so-medieval

(I read about it in pitchfork… yeah, I’m basic)

Still really loving the latest from Ducks Ltd. — their best so far IMO. RIYL: Flying Nun, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Has a bit more craft and less pummelling drum machine than their first (still good IMO) LP

https://ducksltdband.bandcamp.com/album/harms-way

If you folks listen to one song from that Blue Bendy album, make it "Mr. Bubblegum"... damn, it's such a banger!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fiuGqNiT4A

really liked that album and agreed that it’s the highlight

beauty pill wasn’t a bad comparison, also kind of felt like ought

I don't know Ought, will check them out (I also thought, like, Long Fin Killie meets Wolf Parade...)

Still House Plants are on the cover of Wire magazine. I still like Reyna Tropical more

Ducks Ltd are great!

Been pretty into this Rachel Love track — not really up on their deal or backstory but heard it on a radio show and it really hits the "when Broadcast/Stereolab get poppy" pleasure center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_t1FAucP6Y

I think she used to be in Dolly Mixture!

She did!

I love Kindsight, best band in Denmark right now, and their new album is very good: https://kindsightkindsight.bandcamp.com/album/no-shame-no-fame-lp

From Alvvays-like pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OpwL1z69jo

To a final ten minute epic, which admittedly did sound better live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYIMvEP9nw

Oh wow had no idea about the Dolly Mixture connection! Makes sense but also feels like a sonic evolution? Very cool

English Teacher- This Could be Texas is good enough fussy artsy Brit pop

i love their song "only daffodils" but the record was waaaay too pretty and feathery and diffuse, really disappointing.

I can see that take, but some of it works for me, and some is good enough background music

can't believe people are discussing the still house plants album without talking about how incredibly grating the singing is. sounds like anohni but with no sense of melody or dynamics, just constant aggressive warbling

Yeah I checked out the Still House Plants after seeing Ryley Walker rave about the guitar playing, which was quite good, but I couldn't deal with the vocals.

it's decent yeah, but Dry Cleaning still have (by a margin) the best guitar in the current London post-punk scene

hadn't paid much attention to this band for a while but really dig this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10wN--7GxAY

new Les Savy Fav album is out. These 2 singles are pretty fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXrv6kEkgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qgo6HiMuX0

that kindsight album is quite good at what it is doing and i really like it, thx!

Yeah Kindsight is kicking it here too. Thanks!

really digging the first two singles from Good Looks' new album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbOtfn9-SxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZpsahjVgP0

terrific band. their last one was a major, major grower and one of the best albums of 2022, imo: https://goodlooksband.bandcamp.com/album/bummer-year

the title track is an all-timer

their last one is just fine imo

new one seems to be a major major step-up if the singles are anything to go by