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Aug 17, 2018 · 23. Snail Mail - Lush. 24. Foxwarren - Foxwarren. 25. Public Access T.V. - Street Safari. ... The Best Indie Rock Albums of 2018. View reviews, ratings, news & more regarding your favorite band.
- Lucy Dacus – Historian
- U.S. Girls — in A Poem Unlimited
- Ohmme – Parts
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
- Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
- Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel
- Mitski – Be The Cowboy
- Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
- Jeff Rosenstock – Post-
- Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
“The first time I tasted somebody else’s spit / I had a coughing fit.” It’s a line that will go down as one of the greatest openers of all time, and yet, the song just gets better as it plays out, building to the roaring crescendo as Dacus bellows, “You’ve got a nine to five / So I’ll take the night shift / And I’ll never see you again / If I can h...
U.S. Girls began as a solo lo-fi bedroom-to-Bandcamp project by Meghan Remy before she got picked up by 4AD in 2015 and subsequently assembled a backing band. Leaning into the moniker, the group now creates music that both celebrates and interrogates the role of women in American pop music from yesteryear. This year’s In a Poem Unlimited draws on t...
Indie rock continues to slough off all the chillwave vibes from the early 2010s; digital delay and suave detachment are ‘out’, while guitar-forward styles like grunge and ’90s alt-rock are ‘in’. Meanwhile, Chicago’s OHMME have been following a guitar rock sound that’s all their own, one that flows from the unique creative partnership of main member...
Following on from two critically acclaimed EPs, Hope Downs sees Melbourne quintet Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever deliver an exhilarating concoction of jangly guitar, spoken-word lyricism, and hook-laden Americana. Just as 2017’s The French PressEP brought the band comparisons with the Blue Aeroplanes and a host of other beat-poetry-spewing indie r...
Frances Quinlan’s reputation proceeds her. As a vocalist, she is unparalleled among her peers, a full-throated punk howler who, somehow, splits the difference between Joni Mitchell and Johnny Rotten. As a songwriter, she is literate and nimble, capable of cohesive story arcs, mosaic abstractions, and first-person firestorms. Because of this, it’s e...
If Courtney Barnett struggled to follow up a hugely successful debut album full of startlingly original lyrics and propulsive guitar hooks, it certainly isn’t evident on Tell Me How You Really Feel. On her second LP, the Melbourne singer-songwriter demonstrates that she has lost none of her bite and not a bit of her caustic wit while adding to her ...
Despite what her scrappy live performances and guitar-driven early albums would suggest, Mitski has always been an artist who pays careful attention to production. While her 2014 breakthrough, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, often sounded like a noisy rock record, it was actually deliberately crafted, with programmed beats, discreet synth pads, and cleve...
Every few years, the music press anoints a new crown prince of fuzz-rock. Prolific garage rocker Ty Segall wore this mantle for a few years, as did Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi, whose knack for making pop-punk sound “cool” again made him a (mostly deserved) critical darling. Praise for these artists has been, at times, rapturous; they’ve been labele...
In the Trump era, the political album is a gamble. With every TV, smartphone, radio, and newspaper spewing out a real-time play-by-play of the current administration, the media landscape has never been more saturated with political content. It’s nearly impossible to get away from the noise, and music, for many of us, offers a much-needed safe haven...
There are many forms and styles which reside under the broad umbrella of indie rock. But perhaps the most important trait of this umbrella is its melting pot nature which allows artists to stretch and experiment with harmonies, timbres, and tempos so varied and unique which combined create something truly masterful. It’s the trait which allows New ...
Dec 17, 2018 · Like pop and R&B, indie and rock are huge, diverse fields overlapping and extending outward to countless iterations, a reality reflected in our picks for the best albums of the year below. You ...
- The 1975, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The 1975 doesn’t exist to revive glories of rock ‘n’ roll’s past or to do an aw shucks, low-risk play at indie rock’s present.
- Mitski, Be the Cowboy. Whether mining the moody melodrama of-late ‘90s hard rock on album opener “Geyser,” mixing Fiona Apple with Squeeze on “Me and My Husband” or giving us straight-up disco pop on “Nobody,” Mitski’s latest proves she’s an assured enough talent to keep an irrevocably distinct vision even as she ventures further from Lo-Fi Land on Be the Cowboy.
- Foxing, Nearer My God. Nearer My God, the third studio album by St. Louis rock band Foxing, is a massive artistic statement that doubles as a moving elegy for those that the band have lost.
- Twenty One Pilots, Trench. Twenty One Pilots faced a tough task following its last album, 2015’s best-selling Blurryface, which earned the genre-fluid duo a No. 1 album, a pair of Hot 100 top 5 hits, and a graduation to arena status as a live act.
The best in indie rock and pop includes the return of Cat Power, Beach House's highlight-packed 7, and the debuts of Soccer Mommy, Snail Mail, and the Orielles. Additionally, albums by Superchunk, tUnE-yArDs, Julia Holter, and Thalia Zedek sought to reckon with the strange state of the world.
Jan 27, 2016 · 1. Pavement. The most ineffably indie-rock band of all time, and not just because pretty much every indie band that picked up a guitar after 1992’s Slanted and Enchanted was copying them on some ...
