Are there any indie rock/pop bands that are in their primes right

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gizzard

there hasn't been a passable indie pop/rock record since 2009 with Girls' Album

King Gizzard, Mac DeMarco, Ty Segall, Deafheaven (yes, they're indie pop/rock), latter-day Strokes and LCD Soundsystem are all hot garbage

Car Seat Headrest

Rozwell Kid

>>73816092
I liked car seat headrests when they were blowing up. And the black lips. I think those are the only few current rock bands I’ve liked since like 2006. And the growlers a little.
Currently now? Nope don’t know of any

>>73816092
The term was overused until it became meaningless, so now everything and nothing is "indie". When Slanted and Enchanted and Pure Heroine somehow make it into the same genre you can be sure the genre designation is useless.

>>73816118
>>73816122
is car seat headrest really a sign of vitality and progression in indie rock music though? i don't think anyone would deny the possibility of making a good indie rock album in 2017, but i think a lot of people would contend (myself and apparently OP included) that there isn't really anything new coming out in the genre. i would never say it's impossible, but it seems increasingly unlikely with each passing year of blind lo-fi '90s worship and navel-gazing

>>73816122
>>73816140
>I liked car seat headrests when they were blowing up.
Teens Of Style and Teens Of Denial are hot garbage though

I am so glad indie's dead. Worst genre of music. Lazy faggots making repetitive music with little happening in it, then proclaim how much better they are than everyone else when they made the laziest shit imaginable. Fucking obnoxious unbearable personalities as well.

when Alex G and Affirmative Action: The Bands (Girlpool, that trans punk band) are the vanguard movement of your genre, your genre is stuck in the mud and never moving forward again

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmyHdQPQ738
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kGpywbnPMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em5qe9j9Oms
these guys are really good

>>73816092
>Are there any indie rock/pop bands that are in their primes right now?
alvvays
alex g
mac demarco
connan mockasin
frankie cosmos
mitski
julien baker
big thief


im sure /mu/ hates majority of these listed. but they have some fantastic stuff in their discogs.

>>73816172
i've never met an indie musician who was kind. the combination of affluent upbringing, nihilism, unintelligence, and lack of technical ability add up to some of the most entitled (to sex, money, praise) pricks on the planet for the two or three years they play music in college before they join daddy's hedge fund or the PR company he owns that got them to the Coachella stage

>>73816092
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykuu_pVZak
Sunflower Bean

>>73816196
so fucking plebbit/r/indieheads

>>73816203
t. bitter affluent white boy whose soundcloud project never got off the ground

indie has always been lame. its not just now.

>>73816236
i've never attempted to make music in my life. i just am pretty disgusted by the way many of my close female friends have been treated by band boys and revolted by how pseud they all are. seriously, have you ever had a conversation with some guy with messy hair, a rolled up white t shirt, black jeans, and vans who wants to explain why anarchism is the way in between bong rips? fucking worst situation imaginable. i'd rather talk to a missionary.

>>73816233
Indie bands are indie bands regardless of what demographic praises them. Not much exists outside of the r/indieheads bubble, I don't understand your criticism.

>>73816092
Girlpool, Beach Fossils, Adult Mom, Mac Demarco, Big Thief and Fazerdaze are all artists that have put out good solid albums this year, I'm expecting good albums from Alvvays and Japanese Breakfast too. They aren't strong enough releases to keep a genre thriving and whatnot, but indie isn't dead.

>>73816489
lol none of those are good and beach fossils hasnt been relevant in 10 years. i liked them when i was a tween before they ever released an album

>>73816110
hahahahaha

>>73816233
what's your favorite album of the year so far

>>73816564
Felicia Atkinson's Hand in Hand is pretty good

>>73816489
I mean yeah some good/decent indie albums have been coming out but they're still all pretty forgettable, the genre doesn't seem to be moving towards anything or going anywhere. I don't think anyone's going to be talking about the new Adult Mom album in 5 years

>>73816606
i mean fuck look at White Denim. Gorilla vs Bear held out for so so long trying to promote rock music and was obsessed with that band and they're a literally who? now

>>73816092
There is a decent amount of serviceable indie rock around if you are willing to sift through some Bandcamp artists music. What I can't stand to this day is all the hooks-are-for-squares-man "songwriting" going on in a lot of these tuneless/wannabe/hacky flavor of the month drivel that gets hype from Pitchfork/Spin magazine then forgotten the next week.

>>73816606
>>73816625
all the talent is in electronic music.
sorry whiteys nobody wants to hear you revive dead genres anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hXQhle7M5c

>>73816528
What are your favorite indie albums?

>>73816654
>sift through Bandcamp
i'd honestly rather submerge myself to my eyeballs in sewage from an Italian cruise ship than sift through Bandcamp to find my newest musical interest

So who were the old indie kings?

Arcade Fire? Animal Collective? The Decemberists?

>>73816661
this kind of stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzJQ7EF_ti0

>>73816657
>electronic music
>talent

There's no talent in indie or electronic music.

>>73816692
lmao keep lying to yourself
the groundbreaking stuff is happening in electronica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybzSWlpgJOA
this bitch is getting a phd at stanford

>>73816682
Yeah, I can't think of any current releases that sound similar to this, so I understand your criticism. What are your thoughts on artists like Stereolab and Girls?

>>73816680
Death Cab For Cutie? Seems every 20 something college girl loved them.

>>73816745
>What are your thoughts on artists like Stereolab and Girls?
good

>>73816108
Why are these guys so overrated on here?

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>>73816270
We beg to differ.

>>73816792
who

>>73816787
it's summer and teenagers are obsessed with this band

>>73816489
Japanese Breakfasts album has leaked senpai

>>73816110
>King Gizzard
They're psych rock. The only thing indie about them is that they're on an indie label.

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Favourite buttindie album?
>pic related

>>73816869
Guess I'll go check it out then.

>>73816831
Yo La Tengo.

>>73816680
Yeah and even basic stuff like MGMT, starfucker, of montreal, fleet foxes etc. That stuff is memorable and distinctly late-2000's, whereas the stuff paraded on /r/indieheads and pitchfork like car seat headrest and whatever 80s-nostalgia semi-ironic tumblr bandcamp synthpop flavor of the month band are boring and lifeless

>>73816110
>deafheaven
>in any way "indie pop"

are you retarded?

>>73816939
it just seems like the genre's stagnated and nobody's innovating or pushing anything forward and it all washes together

>>73816881
>The only thing indie about them is that they're on an indie label
That's literally what the genre is you dip

>>73816979
Come on. You gonna call some buttrock bar band's CD of Springsteen rip-offs "indie rock" if some asshole's cousin puts the record out?

Don't be dense. You know what I'm talking about. I take exception to King Gizzard because, unlike indie psych contemporaries like Of Montreal, Animal Collective, etc., they're doing straight up period-focused heavy psych with no indie pop affectations like the former.

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I miss this

>>73816666
Quads of despair. Bandcamp isn't bad

>>73816714
what does getting a phd from stanford have to do with anything?

stupidest thing i've read on here. also this is dog shit. this isn't groundbreaking either.

>>73817107
>this isn't groundbreaking either.
post something better
oh wait you can't

>what does getting a phd from stanford have to do with anything?
academia has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to music. they themselves know what is the future.

stay mad child

>>73817122
you're delusional if you think stanford is influencing culture. more like following behind by a decade.

>>73817163
>you're delusional if you think stanford is influencing culture.
the delusional is on you to think otherwise. but none the less hs dropouts always act like they know it all.
enjoy your "Knowledge"

>>73817163
>posting on a website using a computer designed by someone at Stanford
>thinks Stanford is trailing the culture

>>73817122
since you requested this is atonal, has a visual accompaniment, and is groundbreaking and it actually is culturally significant unlike the stupid trying to be 90's cgi in your video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfk9u2ZEg8

>>73817235
someone who graduated from stanford designed my computer, not wrote music i listen to.

>>73817236
this is better than that crap you just posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr9iwfH4VGA

>>73817296
That's because you're a pleb, not because Stanford isn't progressive

>>73817296
can't listen to music without a computer dummy!

>>73817317
genuinely laughed out loud

>>73817306
are you in high school trying to get in? i would never expect an adult to ride the dick of stanford this hard.

>>73817399
post your college grades right now.

>>73817407
>caring about gpa in college
wew lad. middling iq detected.

I want everyone who has posted in this godawful thread to die

>>73817431
t.failure

>>73817399
No, I go to an Ivy League grad school. I just like watching inadequate people get triggered

>>73817442
as long as your gpa isn't retard low it literally doesn't matter.

>>73817452
i'm mostly amused you thought it relevant to post that a musician has a phd. it's sort of ridiculous. you definitely have an authority/academia complex.

>>73817529
That wasn't me. I was dogpiling for fun

>>73816092
I'm surprised that "indie" is still used.

>>73817589
your mom is indie

>>73817589
CHVRCHES is indie pop

Good Up & coming, currently touring bands
>Palm
https://youtu.be/oIBmiSWSSLk
>Hop Along
https://youtu.be/JCZKC6x9zlU
>Pinegrove
https://youtu.be/95hGO8ZI_zw
>Charly Bliss
https://youtu.be/7FAVrWqnCdo

>>73817028
>some buttrock bar band's CD of Springsteen rip-offs
AKA the Hold Steady

>>73817983
Pinegrove on Audiotree is amazing

>>73816092

Built to Spill already perfected the genre everyone else should give up and go home

>>73816528
>beach fossils hasnt been relevant in 10 years

aren't you fun?

Alvvays is pretty damn good
>>73816179
>Affirmative Action: The Bands (Girlpool, that trans punk band)
Are they even very popular? Never heard of them myself

>Alvvays
>Floatation Toy Warning
>Mac DeMarco
>Alex G
>Car Seat Headrest
>Cvches
>Sufjan Stevens (arguably)

Adult Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2rPHqj-9ss

These guys are one of few indie bands that I've heard in that last few years that are actually innovative and bringing some vitality to the scene

I think you are just asking what Dave fridmann has been working on. And I'm not sure why mgmt got mentioned in a thread about indie pop. Pretty certain all 3 of their major releases were on Columbia with exception to their early stuff... all of which is titties.

>>73819448
Major label band

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Why is no one mentioning Chaz Bundick? He's almost entirely self published outside of the Toro Y Moi project and Carpark is a tiny label anyway.

>>73819924
fuck off chaz

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>>73819942

Yeah chaz fuck that shit

>>73819924
We mentioned Toro y Moi. Just as pointless as talking about Will Toledo or Molly Rankin.

>>73820120

read the thread again faggot, nowhere to be found but my post and now yours

Indie rock tag is hijacked. That shit is fake. Everyone is enslaved to the conglomo cloud services now and they all slut it up for views.

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>>73819918

>he doesnt realise indie as a term extends beyond labels now

>>73819537
Girlpool got BNM and that trans band whatever they're called keep getting coverage on p4k and Fader and all those

>>73820222

In the same retarded way that people use "aesthetic" as an adjective instead of a noun. It doesn't matter.

>>73820301
>Fader
they are the Polygon of music, they'll jump on anything hard-left

>>73820366
>they are the Polygon of music, they'll jump on anything hard-left
not true. they trashed pc music

>>7382000

>>73816666
you're a fucking pleb. how are artists supposed to start out? do you think they just magically come out of nowhere with 9/10 music? oh thats right you wait until the melon and P4K introduce them to you.

>>73820000

No it's just in a transition state. Also, the true redpill is that the future state of indie rock can be in your hands at the moment if you tried contributing since things are at a down low. But you're all lazy pathetic and un-creative dickheads.

>>73820222
Duh. Indie hasn't actually meant anything since crooked rain, crooked rain. It's as useful a label/tag to describe the sound as "rock". FYE never even stooped that low...

>>73820435
i don't follow p4k or the melon. i listen to electronic music, so i go on soundcloud. i listen to classical, so i follow journalists, both local so i can see smaller ensembles showing composers who are up and coming from the area and national/global so i can hear great recordings. i would never in my life set one foot in the cesspool that is bandcamp where all these fucking hack bands are who are best relegated to happy hours when people can get drunk and forget about what they're hearing

>>73820222
>not realising "indie" means the music must embody a DIY aesthetic

>>73820614
You are clearly a dumbass.

>>73820634
>not realizing "indie" is a marketing label that's applied to bands with massive budgets, including for choreography of how to act on the coachella stage

jesus, summerfags are so new they haven't even read or listened to chris ott. what a bunch of tools.

>>73816120
Underrated band saw them with Jeff Rosenstock. Good live performers.

>>73820652
every bar act i've had the misfortune of being in with some person clambering away on a fucking guitar grinding my eardrums into oblivion while i try to enjoy a gin and tonic and company has ended their set by saying to check out their fucking bandcamp. i want nothing to do with that.

>>73820691
seeing* this was originally phrased as "every bar i've been in with..."

The xx?

>>73816120
Just checked them out and they're pretty good. I'll have to listen to more to get a full impression but so far I like em

>>73821009
absolute shit after their first album.
Jamie is the only talented one of the bunch

Just slept through an entire movie in the theater and then lost my flashing red bicycle light on the ride home...god damn killer klowns from outer space bullshit. How about the Chilean band Denver anyone? They are back together touring China I believe

...or
*fog lake
* cemeteries
* men I trust
You all follow David dean burkhart on YouTube? Best source of new stuff...

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How Sad. Their first EP, 'Indian Summer', kicks ass, but their full length album, 'Everything Happens', is even better. Check out the songs "Grow Up" and "Stockholm Syndrome". Kind of a lo-fi bedroom pop sort of deal. Check out Pictures of Vernon too.

>>73816092
Their new material is incredibly divisive, but I would say the current incarnation of Joan of Arc are in a sort of "prime", even though they've been around for 20 years

Really unique stuff but you just have to be prepared for lots of quirkiness

>>73816092
Foster the People. Their first album, Torches, was published in 2011 and it's not bad.

indie doesnt mean anything

hi op,

everyone downloaded those albums, no money was generated. it was deemed a failed experiment

>>73817983
Charly Bliss are really good, I hope they blow up

>>73816092
jljl

Theres a great indie rock scene going on in China right now

>>73823205
spoon feed me some bands

>>73823205
Sorry desu, I like understanding my music

>>73823291
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbcBq8KOXYE

Indie-rock stopped being a thing in the late 90s/early 00s. You guys are mostly talking about indie-pop, which is mostly garbage and not worth anyone's time.

>>73823328
Indie rocks still a thing. Maybe less of one and it's overshadowed by indie pop but it's still there