indie
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Twenty One Pilots take their catchy songwriting, genre blending, and emotional lyricism up a few notches on Trench.
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Kero Kero Bonito make their Polyvinyl debut with a pretty radical departure from the signature sound cemented on Bonito Generation. Thankfully, Time ‘n’ Place is every bit as good as that album.
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Be the Cowboy is arguably Mitski’s most mature release, but most of the songs feel like a faint breeze.
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Back to being a band, Dirty Projectors squanders a fair bit of potential on Lamp Lit Prose.
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Snail Mail’s debut album is a pretty plain indie rock affair, though Lindsey Jordan’s potential as a singer-songwriter is apparent.
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Not only is Wide Awake! better performed and written than any Parquet Courts album thus far, but on it the band consistently manages to make interesting artistic statements on some very difficult topics.
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Courtney’s vocal performances aren’t much less humdrum on Tell Me How You Really Feel than they were on her debut, but the slightly brighter and more aggressive instrumentation this time around offers a welcome change of pace.
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Indie rock singer-songwriter Mitski has announced her new album, Be the Cowboy and released a new single, “Geyser.” With a runtime of just under two-and-a-half minutes, “Geyser” gets right to the point. It starts slow but builds quickly, ending with an explosion of drums, guitar and synths. In an interview
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Snail Mail is the indie rock solo project of Baltimore singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan. Following the promising 6-song Habit EP from a few years back, Snail Mail has released two singles ahead of her upcoming debut album, Lush, which will be out June 8 via Matador. The newest is “Heat Wave,
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Hop Along’s song structures and storytelling mature on Bark Your Head Off, Dog.
