Rolling Indie thread 2013

keep it here, girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7NKPvosj0A

the second part of this is pretty great

first track from Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside's new album, Untamed Beast (Partisan Records, Feb 19).

"They Told Me"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SpL5VekrRxs

This was sad news http://www.facebook.com/standardfare/posts/10151145234351213

shame about shrag too

digging the heck out of the new bleeding rainbow stuff

The hilang child first writings ep is beautiful.

i have just noticed that a new seerauber jenny release is imminent, which is a million times more exciting to me than a new mbv album, though slightly less exciting than a new outrageous cherry album would be

i mention it so often with no response that it's clear nobody but me cares but the seerauber jenny album is now free from their site (mainly due to the apparent withdrawal from the industry of the main member) and even before january is over it's clearly going to be one of my favourites of the year. it makes me very sad that we're unlikely to hear any more music from her anytime soon

Huh, apparently a Brighton person? Never seen or heard of her/them. The whole write-up looks a bit sickeningly twee but I'll give it a go, seeing as it's free.

I'm listening to it now, but since you like it so much I'll refrain from expressing my REAL TALK. xp

appreciated

OMG new speck mountain album out next week! holy shit i love 2013!

i am SO PISSED i have to like a band called fucking "foxygen" but this is pretty good

is there a thread about hating to have to love bands with stupid names?

haha i don't know

but yeah between this and parquet courts there are 2 indie rock albums i give a shit about already this year

The Foxygen Record is really good. Excited about this record and the Parquet Courts release as well.
Already a good year!

file the new buke and gase album under "albums i thought i would hate based on their description but i actually enjoy." the whole quirky homemade instruments thing is a red herring because it still just sounds like bass and guitar but it has a nice st. vincent-y artsy pop thing going on.

really do not get foxygen, way too pastichey for me

Foxygen makes me actively grouchy and I may, going forth, hold a lower opinion of you if you like it.

this is the first song on the new buke and gase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-vZEShtlJE

Not heard it yet but the new Veronica Falls got a glowing write up in the Guardian.

It's quite nice.

streaming on p4k i think

I liked that Buke & Gase record the 2 times I heard it on NPR.

Incidentally I just finished listening to that Buke & Gase album myself. It's OK, but a little samey after awhile. I like it enough to give it multiple listens.

I'm surprised how much I liked the Local Natives album after one listen. Their debut a few years ago did nothing for me at all.

Not a new track, but I really like the newest Youth Lagoon single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XpNwKPTA8

I assume I am the only person round these parts who is digging the new Free Energy? Streaming here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/free-energy-crank-out-sweet-riffs-on-love-sign-album-premiere-20130107

Only getting better after a dozen or so listens...

I saw Fear of Men the other night and they were amazing.

i listened to a couple of the free energy tracks and had a violently negative reaction to them

fear of men are absolutely tremendous on record, i would love to see them live..

Yeah I was really excited by the FoM records and was very much looking forward to the show, and they didn't disappoint. The new comp of the singles (+ just 2 new songs, oof) is handsome also.

It was the first time for ages that I found myself surprised by how young the band were. This really illustrates the kind of bands I go to see more than anything else. But still... so young!

Fear of Men are great, I agree.

the singer reminds me of The Cranberries. a problem.

Noooooooooooo you're going to ruin this for me aaaaaaaaaaaargh

lol sorry

very dolores

Haha I am delighted to say I don't hear that at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZf-c2-vdv4

dig this

the drummer for gbx's old band is currently drumming for that band, and they are playing in chicago tonight. i should go see them but i 99% probably won't.

The Multiple Cat still exists? A week ago, when I was getting rid of old cds, I looked at (I believe?) their first one and thought "should I keep this? nah."

The Multiple Cat still exists?

was going to be my question. i do quite like that song. nice drums.

yeah i got that from the guy that put out my old band's records (guilt ridden pop)

Sorry if I missed this upthread but does anyone else love the new Indians' album, Somewhere Else? A serious, admittedly early, EOY contender for album of the year so far for me.

gonna sound petty of me but i pretty much ignore anything with the 4AD logo on it these days

Just gorgeous songwriting and production throughout the album. Can't really think of a shorthand description of their sound. I read Bon Iver but I'm not hearing that myself.

^took me a few minutes to realize that was related to the Indians' album I was referring to. I'm sadly ignorant about record labels for anything released the past 10 years. I used to love 4AD. What have they released recently that's turned you off?

I'm liking the new Wild Yaks album a bunch, it's called "A Million Years" -- here's the title track.

https://soundcloud.com/brooklynvegan/wild-yaks-a-million-years

Not my favorite on the album (that would be "Angel Eyes") but you'll get the idea.

Messy noisy indie rock, I really like their shouty vocal thing, got this anthemic quality that sounds like a fun drunk sing-along w/ your bros.

^^^ upper mississippi sh@kedown would be into this I would predict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAU4qkB08qM

here's a live "Angel Eyes" ... sounds like demented doo-wop. they're pretty fun live.

terrible video, but very cool anglo indie pop imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNdSrIKYW_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNdSrIKYW_4

digging the heck out of the jacco gardner & maston albums on trouble in mind.. really nice 60s-era floyd / sunshine psych respectively, v highly riyl the chris cohen album etc

Sounds like Frankie Rose

I asked this the other week in the Compact Organisation/Tot Taylor thread but there weren't any replies, maybe this would have been a better place to ask? (Or maybe it was just that no-one was interested? Anyway)

Are there any record labels around at the moment who do the Compact/El records thing of a ultra styalised, mannered aesthetic across the line, elaborate sleeve design etc? It kind of seems like it would fit neatly into the etsy seller style, and those blogs of girls taking photos of their vintage outfits and stacks of old penguin paperbacks and so forth, but do the economics make it impractical in the downloading/spotify age?

Sacred Bones kinda has a running aesthetic, or did until a point, but I dunno if I'd consider any of their sleeves "elaborate".

I just looked for 'Compact Organisation' on GIS and the first result is someone selling this badge on etsy:

http://img0.etsystatic.com/005/0/5338237/il_570xN.393053344_bxiq.jpg

http://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/114383417/compact-organisation-1in-pinback-badge

http://img0.etsystatic.com/005/0/5338237/il_570xN.393053344_bxiq.jpg

ghostbox?

It kind of seems like it would fit neatly into the etsy seller style, and those blogs of girls taking photos of their vintage outfits and stacks of old penguin paperbacks and so forth

I want these people dead.

I love those blogs! I wish my life/surroundings looked as artfully composed and stylised as the people who have those blogs.
Everything seems to have a coherence, in the same way as when you look at old photos.
Like if I look at old photos taken in (say) 1981, everything in the pictures scream 1981, the hairsyles, the clothes, the fonts on magazines, the design of adverts on hoardings, it all looks like being in some beautifully designed movie. But if I look out into the street today it just seems like a terrifying incoherent mess with no order (although in a couple of decades time I suppose it will look equally ordered to someone looking back, everything will scream 2013).
I don't know, is this an inherently conservative way of thinking/experiencing the world?
Because the criticism of people who into retro clothes/music/whatever that always gets made is that the reason they longing after these pasts is a disguised longing for the gender roles/views on race of a past era, but I think some of it is not so much the 'content' of the era they are looking back at as much as the fact that looking back gives a kind of order and coherence? But maybe this is conservative in a different way/you can't make a meaningful distinction between this and the hankering after old social roles/relations, idk.

Does anyone know of any writing on this subject, and like, if the reason some people like films so much is that they like to spend some time fantasising about living in world that looks DESIGNED? Maybe connecting this to religion?

What the shit does your fantasia of design have to do with music, though? People like looking at attractive people pretending to have an interest in things they have an interest in, yes. So go wank off to your knitting blog, but don't pretend it has anything to do with anything else.

How was I pretending it has anything to do with anything else?

Do only attractive people feature in these blogs? How do know they are only pretending to have an interest in the things they apparently have an interest in?

You're writing this on the indie thread.

xp Yes, they do. And it doesn't MATTER whether they are only pretending, because the content doesn't matter AT ALL. It's purely the surface styling.

This is the reason why everybody denies liking indiepop even at indiepop festivals, btw. Because this culture is fucking gross.

Sorry for getting in the way of all the vibrant conversations about music on your indie thread that hadn't been bumped for two weeks.

It's not my thread. It is, however, meant to be a thread about music. Not about ogling girls standing next to books.

'This is the reason why everybody denies liking indiepop even at indiepop festivals, btw. Because this culture is fucking gross.'

I guess I'm not really immersed enough in the world of indiepop and this culture to talk to knowledgeably about this stuff, though.

if I stand on the high street tomorrow lunchtime and take like 50 photos of ppl walking past I guarantee you they will look extremely '2013' in five years' time never mind 30

'ogling girls standing next to books'

I think you are maybe thinking of something slightly different than what I was trying to describe?

but as this is rolling indie not rolling #totesindie I won't labour the point further xp

Wait, do people really deny liking indiepop at indiepop festivals? How do they account for the fact they are at an indiepop festival?

Emily is absolutely right about the winsome nausea of the beautiful people. Fake nazi youth fashion shoot shit is all it is, don't try and layer depth onto it when it is garbage.

Good stuff from Glasgow indie people Randolph's Leap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKX1eCwslRM

http://joannagruesome.bandcamp.com/releases

came up on the non-indie thread, good stuff, noisy squally indie-poppy guitar music made by people who clearly believe that there should be feedback in things

J-Grü rüle

Joanna Gruesome are wonderful. And really, really good live. Kinda fiercer than the recorded stuff suggests perhaps. Big love for them here, chuffed to see them getting some decent exposure for their great album.

the buke and gase record is so surprisingly great, still listening to it months later -- the singer has a level of vocal chops I'm not accustomed to in this sort of music

I saw them open for Tomahawk, which seemed like an odd combination, but they totally won over the crowd.

:( I don't love that Buke & Gase record, tempos are too slow and vocals EQ'd weirdly. I love the songs themselves and they are one of my favourite live bands though

weird vocal EQ = too shrill/bright?

People who like that Warm Soda album or the intersection of power pop and punk in general should check out the Radioactivity album: http://open.spotify.com/album/0eOaxUeIJ6CuL1LYZRoaR0.

That Radioactivity album is great. Thanks for the heads up. Reminds me a bit of Royal Headache

Perfect Pussy is obviously talented and getting a fair amount of attention based on this demo. This is some of the best guitar music you will hear all year. They are not fucking around.

http://prrfectpussy.bandcamp.com/

Swearin' - "Surfin' Strange" is pretty good in a very classically 90s revival kinda way

This band Literature is sooooooo nostalgic "indie rock" and is also really good: http://literature.bandcamp.com/ - they also have an anthology on Spotify that seems to have all the Bandcamp stuff in one album.

New Blank Realm album is good yes?

Listening to it as I write. It's a blast!

No Cloud Nothings thread? New song is really good

Is there no Rolling Indie 2014? Or does it have a wacky name or something?

Need to talk about this new Gold-Bears album.

hobbes fanclub album is probably the best indie-schmindie thing i've heard in an aeon

You check out Literature? Good c90 stuff

i thought their last album was excellent so i am keen

probs gonna get that literature LP for my wife, she needs a pick-me-up.

Anyone into Alvvays? One of the really good indie records for me this year, and their gig was quite special.

they have a nice sound and 'archie' is a good choice of single but it's yet to really sink in for me

Indie what I have been into of late:

https://soundcloud.com/deers-band/bamboo-deers-demo-1
https://soundcloud.com/slumberland-records/yeah-tonight
http://shop.fikarecordings.com/track/nothing-more-than-a-feeling

i just revived a month-old Alvvays thread to talk about Alvvays because I can't get enough of it, xposts

happy to talk about it here, though. Archie is so classic.

That Deers track is pretty rad - what's their story?

Dunno really, two teenagers from Spain I think.

They have an "official and unique" video for Bamboo that I find kind of annoying tbh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-5w3Di0jk