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Posted by: Bjork 17th December 2019, 01:46 PM

only 3 allowed whats your top 3 inside songs of the year? very curious to see
2 of mine were actually released in late 20q18 but only clicked this year, mine are:

1 Boygenius - Me and My Dog


2 Ex:re - Romance


3 Bon Iver - Hey Ma

Posted by: WhoChristmassy 17th December 2019, 02:31 PM

1. The 1975 - People
2. Blossoms - Your Girlfriend
3. Neck Deep - She's A God/Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles/Foals - The Runner (really torn between these 3!)

Posted by: Harve 17th December 2019, 04:21 PM

Jai Paul - He
Blanck Mass - House vs. House
Sharon Van Etten - Jupiter 4

Posted by: Severin 17th December 2019, 05:05 PM

1. Bambara - Serafina


2. Desperate Journalist - Satellite


3. Soeur - Do What I Want

Posted by: ___∆___ 17th December 2019, 05:24 PM

1. Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles (Really hope the album and singles get ALOT of end of year love and Brits nominations)
2. Tame Impala - Borderline
3. The 1975 - Frail State Of Mind

Posted by: Liаm 17th December 2019, 06:25 PM

Pvris - Hallucinations
Grandson - Oh No
Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles

Posted by: Michael Bubré 17th December 2019, 08:50 PM

Depends to some extent what you class as 'indie' but I'll go:

1 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
2 The National - You Had Your Soul With You
3 Sam Fender - Play God (or Bon Iver - Naeem if that doesn't count since it wasn't actually originally released in 2019)

Disgustingly mainstream choices ik xx

edit: I forgot about the even more disgustingly mainstream 'Daddy' by Coldplay which would probably be either 1st or 2nd if it counts but I kind of hesitate to consider Coldplay to be an indie act these days anyway, although I'm not sure what other genre that song would count as.

Posted by: FKA Twiglets 17th December 2019, 09:48 PM

I'm not totally sure but these are the three that spring immediately to mind...

Brittany Howard - Stay High
Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
Lower Dens - I Drive

Posted by: Doctor Blind 17th December 2019, 09:53 PM

In no particular order..

Caribou “Home”
The Comet Is Coming “Summon The Fire”
Ride “Future Love”

I would put Sampa The Great “Final Form” there if it was considered 'indie' enough.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 17th December 2019, 11:09 PM

Your Girlfriend and Borderline are pretty close for me but il post the official top 3 when I check my charts.

Posted by: Michael Bubré 18th December 2019, 12:44 AM

My #1 of 'songs that were/would be posted in this forum' would quite easily be 'Death Stranding' by CHVRCHES but I really wouldn't consider that to be an indie song at all.

Posted by: Jonjo 18th December 2019, 12:50 AM

01. Lana Del Rey - The Greatest
02. Sam Fender - Will We Talk
03. Sea Girls - Damage Done

Posted by: WhoChristmassy 18th December 2019, 01:06 AM

I guess it would come under the 'alternative' in the forum's name.

Posted by: Dircandydircane 18th December 2019, 05:52 AM

tbh what does indie even mean if not an intangible genre mostly applied to dudes with guitars, even those who sell millions of albums through major labels? There's always a weird tinge of elitism in it that feels like it should have died in the 2000s.

Anyway I will plump for some Aus baroque/art pop because if I don't, who will ~

Ainslie Wills - Mountains
Methyl Ethel - Trip The Mains
Olympia - Hounds

Posted by: ___∆___ 18th December 2019, 11:29 PM

This! It’s always been present with indie music but literally anyone who plays venues more than 300 or gets a whiff of a hit is suddenly a mainstream outcast.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 19th December 2019, 12:22 AM

Yeh they're all desperate for a hit.

Posted by: Bjork 20th December 2019, 09:12 AM

I know the term "indie" is outdated and mis-used, a bit like using urban,
but it's an easy way to identify what's in this forum

personally artists like Lewis Capaldi or Coldplay are just pop

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 20th December 2019, 11:54 PM

I would argue Coldplay are indie/rock simply because the are a band who play instruments(now and again)!

Posted by: WhoChristmassy 20th December 2019, 11:58 PM

That's not what makes them indie/rock. Maroon 5 play instruments and they wouldn't be classed as such other than their first album!

Clean Bandit are also a band who play instruments.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 21st December 2019, 12:04 AM

True I guess, I just always class them as this when adding the genres to my personal playlists.

Posted by: Severin 21st December 2019, 01:34 AM

The term 'indie' has literally lost all of its original meaning. At the risk of sounding like an old git, when I was young the term had no relevance to genre or sound. It was about manufacture and distribution. Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Motorhead were every bit as much Indie acts as The Smiths or The Fall, and later on Erasure, The Shamen or KLF were happily included. It was only after the start of Britpop ('90/91) where it began to be pushed as a style of music and suddenly by 1994, the whole nature of what we called The Indie Wars changed. It became guitar bands vs pop and it killed the scene eventually.

We got left with this idea that Coldplay or Travis were 'indie' when they're about as far removed from the original spirit of independent music as you can get.

And personally, what are they an alternative to? They're the very definition of a mainstream band

Posted by: Dircandydircane 21st December 2019, 04:39 AM

Yeah, you've basically got competing perceptions where indie can mean literally independently distributed to some, and for others it's a vague proximity to the sound associated with that, which no one can agree on anyway, and therefore the phrase is meaningless. Adele is signed to an independent label, while Radiohead released 6 albums on a major label. Tones And I is with Sony now, but originally released "Dance Monkey" independently on triplejunearthed https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/tones-and-i. I do find it amusing that the OCC fence sit, as they put their https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/independent-singles-chart/ chart under the 'Rock & Alternative' tab, but the content is mostly anything but.

I always come back to this phrase. So often the artists that are bandied about with this tag are the ones who get their paychecks from having their songs used in trendy ads, which, fair enough for them, people need to get paid somehow, but something's gone wrong when the #1 song on US Alternative Radio in 2015 was literally written as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegades_(X_Ambassadors_song)#Background. The only thing that's an alternative to is good taste.

Posted by: Bjork 21st December 2019, 08:07 AM

playing instruments making you a band, not a rock band
you can be pop, rock, anything