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

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!)

Jai Paul - He

Blanck Mass - House vs. House

Sharon Van Etten - Jupiter 4

1. Bambara - Serafina

 

2. Desperate Journalist - Satellite

 

3. Soeur - Do What I Want

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

Pvris - Hallucinations

Grandson - Oh No

Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles

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.

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

 

 

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.

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

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.

01. Lana Del Rey - The Greatest

02. Sam Fender - Will We Talk

03. Sea Girls - Damage Done

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.

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

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

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.

 

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.

Yeh they're all desperate for a hit.

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

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

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.

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