The artists on this list lean in varied directions, gaining inspiration from forbearers across the last few decades – post-punk sounds, the original UK 'indie-pop' scene, dream-pop, stylish pop hybrids (e.g. As the dominance of guitar rock has faded among indie-leaning audiences, there has also been a spreading into the mainstream of sounds that would have been easily described as indie-pop a decade ago. There's a no-wave anxiety pulsing through French Vanilla's sound -- through the punchy saxophone and bass, and singer Sally Spritz's vocal delivery -- but also California sunshine. ReddIt. This is music for every day: mellow pop songs for the pleasant melancholy we all carry around in our own minds as we go about the business of life. One of the eight digital singles they released in 2019 was called "A Kick in the Face (That's Life)", which as a title seems to capture what the music ruminates on.

Stereolab), melancholic singer/songwriters, 1980s top 40 superstars, etc. Enjoy this playlist of dope tracks!The tracks that made it into this playlist came from the following posts from Albania Away, the latest six-track E.P. Below are our staff's 100 favorite songs of 2019 -- a mix of cultural events, personal favorites and everything else that tattooed itself inside our brains in the last 12 months. Parsnip's been around just a few years, and seems to be having a blast. The veteran musician shows no sign of letting up with the latest opus, Jazz trombonist Nick Finzer shines with his compositions on this mainstream jazz sextet release, Australian rockers Datura4 take inspiration from the never-ending coastal landscape of their home country to deliver a well-grounded album between blues, hard rock, and psychedelia. Pinterest. December 31, 2019. In 2019 "indie rock" felt more like a guitar-led free for all with artists drawing from an ever-widening musical well. WhatsApp. Off-kilter, absurdist, dream/nightmare, 1960s pop forms form the basis for Parsnip's sound.
Facebook. Their music is shoegazer-y, but with a forward propulsion that's pure pop, not about to drift too far off into the ether. WhatsApp. The album's packed with melodies and harmonies, of the perfectly formed sunshine-pop sort; the music's noisy atmosphere is a countervailing force of weight, adding texture and depth of feeling to songs that could lift off into the sky if allowed to. Share. The 50 Best Indie Songs of The Decade. None are content with replicating those inspirations wholesale; there's a pervasive sense of gleeful messing-about along with the reverence for the magic spark they felt when they heard their own favorite music the first time.

The Melbourne band Twerps had a solid near-decade run as a melancholic, melodic guitar-pop band.

2019 -- the 14th year I've attempted to summarize the year in indie-pop -- again brought a wealth of music within this segment. Pinterest. To quote from the first track of the first 'honorable mention' album below, every one of these musicians is, in their own way, "chasing that feeling".

There is nothing purer than the perfect song. The songs quietly ask questions of themselves, about the past and what we're all up to, day by day. NME. Gather round the crackling hearth and turn your radio machine to Indie 88 as all of your favourite Indie 88 hosts recap the highlights of the last 365 days. Instead of diminishing the importance of "indie pop" as a separate category, those trends do the opposite. These are our top 10 picks for the year. The melodies and grooves carry within them a general sense of unfulfillment and a simultaneous, perhaps contradictory, unbridled joy. As the dominance of guitar rock has faded among indie-leaning audiences, there has also been a spreading into the mainstream of sounds that would have been easily described as indie-pop a decade ago. Enjoy this playlist of dope tracks! The Stroppies' self-titled 2017 EP was a great rough-around-the-edges work of experimental pop, with an air of Flying Nun Records to it. It’s the Great 88, counting down your favourite songs of the year, airing Boxing Day to New Years Day on Indie 88. John Lewis and C.T. The fresh Melbourne quartet's debut album is a fun, funky jaunt that seems all about creative mixing-and-matching, in a minimalist style riddled with quirky organ and singy-songy, art-school nursery rhymes. Clifford possesses one of those singing voices that will echo and linger in your head long after the record is done, which fits these songs well, considering how much they resemble the dance-party-life we each imagine for ourselves. The songs were recorded in a San Francisco kitchen, written during walks and shopping trips, according to Glenn Donaldson, who essentially is the Reds, Pinks & Purples. Copyright ©2007-2020, IRC Media, All rights reserved. Best new indie rock music, songs, bands, album reviews and playlistsThe top 10 indie songs playlist for June 2019 includes songs from exceptional artists and bands like Australia’s Strangejuice; Canada’s Culture Reject; Chicago’s Engine Summer, among many others. Let's join the party. Linkedin. From across the world, Melbourne, Australia seems like a city filled with youthful bands breathing new life into old formulas of melodic guitar-pop. In the middle songs like Twitter. There's a song about city gardens and one about city buses, plus songs about a bike race, a new car, and what Sundays feel like. Take the music world as a whole, and 2019 seemed marked by the continual movement towards genre agnosticism or at least purposeful genre blurriness. Not to mention exuberant group singalongs, all four women seemingly joining together for a chorus of delightful weirdness. In case you missed… Australian Harriette Pilbeam, aka Hatchie, croons and beckons while layering allusions to decades of pop-music history upon each other.
2019 -- the 14th year I've attempted to summarize the year in indie-pop -- again brought a wealth of music within this segment. Andrew Hanson. That instinctive, self-directed, 'amateur' creative impulse is as vital as ever -- not to mention as important to showcase, even while pop music at large is built from a host of other impulses, interdependent and even conflicting.