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The best indie music of the 1980s was made by brothers Hamish and David Kilgour in a series of shitcold student flats at the bottom of the world. Founded in 1978 in Dunedin, New Zealand, The Clean’s jangly pop melodies and scruffy punk-ish instrumentation pioneered the Dunedin Sound, a term which came to refer to the cultural and musical scene that coalesced around them and their contemporaries The Chills, The Gordons, The 3Ds, Straitjacket Fits, Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, and the Dead C. Running on Speights and homegrown, The Clean pumped out rippers for over a decade, recieving (to the mild disbelief of everyone in NZ) modest international acclaim, signing to Rough Trade Records and being cited as an influence by such bands as Pavement and Yo La Tengo. Alongside ‘Tally Ho!,’ also on this record, ‘Anything Could Happen’ is anthemic of a unique set of bands that bubbled up from the back of beyond to create some just really fucking great songs.
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Honestly tho indie Aussie bands really slap, but if you wanna listen to something extra cool I also recommend checking out The Australian Voices choir
May 3, 2024
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Forget "Indie Sleaze"-revival...when are we getting plain old "Indie" revival?
When I think of "indie" music, I think of bands like The Shins, Death Cab, Arcade Fire, and like Rilo Kiley or something lol. For me, this was my entrance to it all! I don't think I would be who I am now if my snapback-wearing beiber-bang-rocking hockey-playing self didn't hear "New Slang" at a very impressionable point in my life.
Until recently I thought I was an Oh, Inverted World guy but it turns out I may actually be a Chutes Too Narrow guy. I still love that album of course, but I think songs like "So Says I" and "Kissing The Lipless" distill their specific style of bright rock music & James Mercer's vocal delivery better than the others.
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the kids can still rock. thank god. and some of them are kids and some of them are definitely not. this week...
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In 35 minutes I will wake up in a new place to a photo of me sleeping with my mouth open.
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sometimes you gotta stick to the classics
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