The effect quite literally places humanity at the margins, which befits the album’s theme about the abstract toll of brutality, emotional and physical. The Duluth band lay their devices out in stark, separated detail: minimalist and distorted drum loops, metallic clashes and guitar tremors tend toward the left-center channel, while all lead vocals are panned hard-right. – Patrick Pilchĭrums and Guns is the sound of drastic measures. and skintight snares of Fabrizio Moretti. Tracks like “You Talk Way Too Much,” “I Can’t Win” and “Reptilia” feel as if they were primed for arenas, stocked with hooks from the hairpin guitars of Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. With their sophomore effort, The Strokes crank out clean and catchy three-minute ditties, too big for their garage rock britches. Doubling down and creating an album that dwells in the same realm as an instant classic is impressively daring, considering the potency wielded by the eleven tracks on Room On Fire. There’s room for debate over how “indie” or “rock” or whatever they are, but our list of the 100 best indie rock albums of the ’00s nonetheless comprises some of the greatest sounds to come out of a thrilling, if broad and intangible, movement.įollowing up a debut like Is This It is no small task. Indie rock is more about a feeling than anything, and these 100 albums capture it better than most. Some artists didn’t seem indie enough (Beck, Radiohead), others didn’t seem “rock” enough (M.I.A., The Knife), and some artists just seemed to be in a category all their own, not mainstream necessarily but too much of a legacy to belong to a certain landscape (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). And when we decided it was time to survey the best indie rock albums of the decade, we had to set some terms to try to narrow it down. Indie rock was a big deal in the ’00s, even if it was particularly difficult to define.
In 2017, ’00s indie club nights have become commonplace, and LCD Soundsystem selling out an almost counterproductive number of nights in one solitary venue doesn’t make us blink. And sure, we can probably thank a particular website for spreading the word (no, not us, though we probably converted a few listeners). In the ’00s it was a go-to genre for a generation combing Soulseek and Limewire. Indie rock in the ’80s and ’90s was a well-kept secret. The difference, then, was that more people were starting to catch on. Much of the best indie rock of the ’00s was still defiantly independent, experimental and non-commercial, from the K Records canon to the long-running institution that was (is?) Fugazi. Indie rock, much like “alternative,” was a challenge to the mainstream. It hadn’t been about independent release and distribution for a long time then, but the attitude remained. Indie rock has always been a nebulous term, but the ’00s found indie’s definition broadening.
Indie rock going mainstream, and as a result going major label, sort of negated what made it “indie.” Yet the reference points-punk, post-punk, the Our Band Could Be Your Life canon, ’80s-era Athens, Georgia-remained the same. The weird thing about “indie rock” in the ’00s, however, was that it seemed to be a contradiction of itself. And soon enough the phrase “indie rock” was becoming a household name (I remember a boss of mine in college telling me about how she learned about it from her daughter). When The Strokes and Interpol crashed the nu-metal choked shores of alternative radio, the game changed. Seven years is surely plenty of time to develop nostalgic pangs for a particular era and style of music-if you can say such a thing about indie rock from 2000 to 2009.
Vincent…sure enough, we were starting to see the makings of a trend. Yet shortly thereafter more names began to come out of the woodwork with new music to share: Spoon, The New Pornographers, Jens Lekman, Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Ted Leo, St.
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After 2016’s series of crushing disappointments, that’s the least we could have hoped for. The year began with a simple but promising prospect: A new LCD Soundsystem album, their first in seven years to be exact.
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