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Is Phoenix indie? They're on boutique labels, played for NPR, and a surprising number of people I know haven't heard of them. Anyways what I want to do is to complain that they've gone from tracks to which you want to dance & bittersweet ballads to recent albums being (serious?) takes on technology and religion. Every other song has been hearing John Lennon saying "Number Nine" in my head.
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M83 sounds like if Beach House were obsessed with nostalgia. By this I mean Hurry Up, We're dreaming is a very fun album.
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Bismack Billabongo posted:And the title track. Also it’s far from my favorite but But it's by far the funnest song on the album! Makes me smile. e: Also feeling Sunny Boy Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Mar 24, 2023 16:57
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Nightmare Cinema posted:It's whatever he's making up on the spot in Poker Face. Can't find this. Link please.
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Kids call it an arc now.
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Oh, pop talk? I wonder what Carly Rae Jepsen is up to these days.
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Nihonniboku posted:The New Pornographers and Broken Social Scene When do these stop being Indie and start being Classic Rock?
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At this rate we'll never get all the States. There'll be new ones faster than he can churches the albums out.
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Beach House EP warrants a listen. Several in fact.
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What is it about Brooklyn Steel and KEXP that make every performance fire? Of course acoustics and technical factors like equipment play a role. And they are just well recorded. But it seems that every act brings their A game. Highly recommend searching for these recordings of your favourite big name indie artists. KEXP performances often make the album version sound like a mixtape. The quality is that high. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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It's always nice to see someone who posts both in this thread and the rap thread
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BonoMan posted:KEXP... Soooo good (it's also my primary source of discovering new bands) I just discovered Phoebe Bridgers. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9-xN6dCW4 It starts off as a typical ballad and not particularly special. You can play it in the background while browsing. Then a couple of minutes in it becomes something else entirely. A minute after that it becomes Come on Feel the Illinoise! Sadly I think this is only song where PB channels Sufjan Stevens. And you know how I said you can let it play in the background? Well you can. But know that the top comment on YouTube as of right now is "didn't expect to see phoebe bridgers dressed as a skeleton while she passionately kisses an elderly woman but here we are". Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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I played a boygenius video and YouTube sensibly put on other boygenius videos and songs by one of the trio. Then about six or seven videos in autoplay starts playing Twenty One Pilots songs. Not like I particularily hate 21 p and it's normal for autoplay to switch up artists after a handful of songs. But what is going on with the AI? Or does YT get paid by the big labels to do this? Or is YouTube like 'bitch, you've spent enough time being melancholy and twee and pretentious Ima put on some normal people music'? Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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"Oh man" right back! Thank you for this! From what I've seen so far it seems none of the trio really switch up the lyrics in different performances but the delivery is tweaked. Like just the way she pronounces the word "mean" elevated the verse. My only quibble is that the scream is too short. e: Also it's worth noting that Phoebe's collaborator Julien Baker sometimes, not always but sometimes, comes off as one of the most effortless cool persons I can think of off the bat. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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MGMT song came on autoplay and this one top comment was all 'Hey did you that know the band has said their earlier work was a joke and parody poking fun at bad taste?'. The responses were arguing what was meant. If remotely true what I have to say to that is this: Buddy(s), you made a music video themed around the Bacchae, you don't get to turn around and say you were doing it to show indie fans are dumb. That itself would be incredibly pretentious. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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Cemetry Gator posted:I hate that whole "our aesthetic was actually a parody of this thing that we were." It's just the laziest justification for anything. Oh yes but I *like* early MGMT so for me it's not about them excusing something bad. So for me this would be less than the examples you give and more like a novelist publishing their debut rated by both readers and critics then years later saying they were making fun of the reader. If you tell a joke and everyone thinks it's decent poetry you're a poor teller of jokes and the joke is on you. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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Pitchfork is a series of concerts and sometimes a venue; it's not a worthwhile music publication change my mind Nihonniboku posted:I think everybody is misremembering what they said 16 or 17 years ago or whatever. They said they started the band as a joke to annoy their fellow classmates at whatever elite private college they went to, and it ended up turning into a real thing. Pewn. Because I'm listening autoplay stirred something and I'm listening through O S right now. It's easier to like it without thinking the artists are condescending jerks even if I could probably swing enjoying it extra hard out toof spite. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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oh god oh gently caress posted:Man...cmon I don't think it's super cool in this thread to call people out for liking things so I'll just say I don't know what that is. But it would never play in a Starbucks and it's certainly not NPR approved.
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Hahahaha I'm so happy I was wrong.
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You're sounding like teenagers, which is ironic since that's the demographic she writes for and they love her
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Henchman of Santa posted:Like most polarizing artists, she's actually just fine to pretty good.
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Ambitious Spider posted:butt if forced to rank, it’s Dacus, baker, bridgers) Dacus - Best voice of the three by far. And at least a few of her songs are upbeat? e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzI7bWaEBA Baker - Best instrumentalist of the three by far. And as I mentioned so awkward it wraps back around to being unimaginably cool on stage. Bridgers - Best overall solo body of work, so far at least. And a gateway to the others for new fans. Also goes at Eric Clapton and John Lennon on an album with at least some minimal Cream and Beatles influences. (Don't look that last one up it's incredibly disrepectful and I listen to battle rap.)
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Radiohead or at least Thom Yorke refused to meet Miley Cyrus way back in the day; I wonder if they'd be the ones asking for a quick chat after an awards show now.
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I liked the old title. It was a summary of the ethos of this thread. But it's kind of lame to petition to change it back. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_fh0OouLo I almost thought of posting this in the jazz thread but it's here by a hair. I forget that many people don't know about this group at all even though they had some press years back.
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Oh yes bisexual people in straight relationships aren't queer go gently caress yourself. And stay away from straight shows. And bisexual shows. And asexual shows. Since you're none of those things as whatever you are. Just to be on the safe side stay away from shows with artists you do identify with. Just all shows entirely.
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Sign at arena entrance: You must be *this* lesbian to attend the boygenius show. Sorry no exceptions.
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I tried to enjoy this new single and sadly did not. It had nostalgia going for it coming in but it's much less easy listening than the AC I remember my childhood.
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This one is either indie or pop depending on the year of release. As it is, it's indie. I heard this on WFMU and thought it was a track from decades ago but it's a 2023 release. The whole album is this kind of surf-rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9aAs0VUlVs And this one is Monocle approved. But I only like some of the album, maybe because I'm not a real aristocrat (although plenty of people think the magazine lies about its subscriber surveys to attract ads for private islands and Patek Phillipes lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9aAs0VUlVs
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Not indie but Starbucks themed: I got nostalgic and put on a Coldplay Tiny Desk. I was not prepared to learn that a set from years ago, where they play their hits, contained no songs from when I still listened to them as a teenager and twenteenager.
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I am surprised. I actually thought Sufjan was married to a woman with whom he had kids. He'd been guarded about his private life but I think there were some pictures of him at home with a woman and some wee ones who bore a resemblance. Maybe he's an uncle?
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Also, I keep hearing that two-note riff from the beginning of Sprained Ankle everywhere now. Is it being copied? Did Julien copy somebody else? I mean it's just two notes, high then higher, with a pause in between. But it's pretty distinctive.
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Did the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ever make an album as approachable as It's Blitz! ? I know they never made an album as popular. And I don't think they made one as critically celebrated. But is there anything else they made that you can just find, well, good, right from the start?
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I don't spend much time listening to Arcade Fire. Not because I dislike them. But whenever they come on I realize I could be listening to The Suburbs. And then after listening to the solid openers, I realize I can skip to the magic outro run of We Used to Wait/Sprawl/The Suburbs Continued. I do spend time listening to Apologies to the Queen Mary because it is ace. e: boygenius tax. I like Graceland Too but cannot stand hearing about how it's written as a love song to one of the Phoebe's bandmates. She has had to, on several occasions, remind people that it's a song about doing drugs. In general and on a specific occasion. It's a reverse Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds situation. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Nov 25, 2023 |
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e: Wheeeelp (based on post below) I'm not getting the vitriol against Arcade Fire. I've seen it before on here even in GBS. It's just a band. They didn't do sex pest stuff as far as we know. They didn't proclaim they're the best. They didn't trash-talk Sufjan Stevens or Joanna Newsom. They didn't make a string of inspid records that got overly promoted. They didn't influence others to the degree everyone sounded like Arcade Fire. They just made some albums. Like I said I don't really listen to them but I don't get it. Brock Samson posted:win more like lose butler lmfao Emptyquote Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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 With a very few celebrities it's a tad bit complicated. Like one who I know but won't name because this isn't the thread for it. The woman who said he abused power dynamics wasn't even trying to get him charged or sue him. He apologized and said something like 'I showed up to our date in a rented Camry. We met on Bumble. This was before I had a big special. And I begged with puppy dog eyes for her to come back to my place and spend the night. It really didn't hit me that she could have thought I was the one in control. Nobody ever told me about enthusiastic consent.' And I think a slight majority believed him. But I can most certainly see a Montréal indie rock collective frontman playing up how important he is for plausibly intoxicated undergrads (aka children in all but legal terms). Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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This might not be your cup of tea, but it's certainly indie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXE2WceZCsQ I think, that, in order to enjoy this song you need to remember that the lyricist is a spoken word poet and not an indie artist being different for the sake of being different.
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I have mentioned Apologies to the Queen Mary once or twice before, without anybody pitching in. Not sure if that's because people are familiar with the album but have just moved on from this style of music or are unaware of the Wolf Parade debut. If you're the latter, listen to the full thing asap. Ideally with videos. There is a reason why it's considered one of the OG parents and grandparents of the indie music that came after. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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So the only one other than Sufjan I recognize on that list is Feist. In other times this would mean I have a lot of cool new music I want to check out! Not this year. Straight off they left me hanging after describe Julien Baker's forte being 'anthemic choruses'. lol. Yeah she has an okay voice but she's the instrumentalist of the trio. Lucy's the anthemic chorus gal. But might that Marvin Gaye tribute at the top be worth checking out? MG/rap crossovers can be fire. MG/rock, why not?
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