Here are the best indie/rock albums of 2018. Each song shows a different side of a many-sided soul: "Cute Thing" is an anthemic eruption of teenage lust; "Beach Life-in-Death" follows Toledo through 13 minutes of fulsome self-derision; and "Stop Smoking", perhaps the best composition here, is short, sweet, and transcendent. The Philadelphia quartet's third LP shows a band at the height of its powers; each song crackles with the unmistakable dynamism of young, agile musicians who are totally in sync with one another.

What feels like celebration is also exclusion, necessarily. [Clayton Purdom], Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally have spent more than a decade mining the depths of their sound as Beach House, a narcotic keyboard-guitar blend so visceral and transportive it can feel perverse to try to put it to words. Windish is always beguiling as Quattrone constructs a symphony of mutated samples that juxtapose shadowy industrial clamor, raw noise and Cramps-like garage-rock extremism. -- from the '80s). The album's 14 tracks run the gamut of pop music styles, from country and singer-songwriter to Top 40 and disco. [Clayton Purdom], Madonna. 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 members Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart. Parquet Courts have perfected that balance here. 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. As punks were looking for some potential pathways out of the cul-de-sacs of their limited soundscapes, they saw in funk a way to expand the punk palette without sacrificing either their ethos or idea(l)s. The Reign of Kindo's Joseph Secchiaroli delves deep into their latest single and future plans, as well as how COVID-19 has affected not only the band but America as a whole. Now shorn of their major label and newly signed to Ignition Records, the Worcester indie types are currently putting the finishes touches to the follow-up to 2015’s Happy People. And it's all cut through with glorious Nirvana-esque guitar, #MeToo allegiance, and trademark conversational vocals, such that the female perspective on the side effects of popular success has never sounded so compelling and effortless.

"Savage is my name because savage is how I feel when the radio wakes me up with the words 'suspected gunman'," Andrew Savage sings on the scathing "Violence" which asserts that "Violence is so omnipresent / You forget to notice it happens every day."

Read on for tracks by MGMT, Arctic Monkeys, Sports and many more. Frances Quinlan's reputation proceeds her. You might’ve been looking for Jeff Rosenstock on our punk and hardcore list, or Neko Case among our top 10 country albums, but they, like several other artists listed, have evolved into a grayer space and thus feel more at home here. B.B. Snail Mail, who turned 19 eight days after her first full-length was released on Matador Records.

This year's In a Poem Unlimited draws on the darker sides of '60s girl-group pop and '70s disco, sounds from other eras of unrest, to make an album that's both upbeat and chilling, poppy, and political.

There are many forms and styles which reside under the broad umbrella of indie rock. Title: Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life. With the release of Car Seat Headrest's "Something Soon", it seemed like a new standard-bearer had arrived. The album sees the band embrace a rawer sound, taking inspiration from classic country and 1970’s folk.

Real talk: year-end list-making is unfair, even cruel. Though the album definitely peaks on this first track, there is so much to unpack throughout the album as Dacus' storytelling just oozes relatability, vulnerability, and nonchalance, all of which pair perfectly with crunchy guitars and minimalist bedroom rock flavorings (as can be heard on "Timefighter"). and. It's the trait which allows New York punk group Parquet Courts and producer Danger Mouse to add shakers, police whistles, and funky bass lines fit for Funkadelic to the tongue-in-cheek titular "woke" anthem which more serves to make fun of white people's self-proclaimed "wokeness" and less to claim this "wokeness" for themselves. Here are 10 of the best, plus a few honorable mentions. As a songwriter, she is literate and nimble, capable of cohesive story arcs, mosaic abstractions, and first-person firestorms. 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 grunge-indebted sound an element of world-weary introspection. Even while weaving complex lyrical poetry, Case is at her most restless and economical as a songwriter here, hanging around a melody or arrangement only as long as it suits her before masterfully making a left turn into a part of the song only she could see coming. 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. Andrew Leavitt and Kenji Kitahama (aka Brent Kenji) shouldn't be new names for indie-pop fans – their group The Fairways released numerous daydream-pop records back in the late '90s/early '00s; and there have been fine related bands like The Young Tradition and Friedrich Sunlight since then. Having done Blue, Green, Red and White, now we get the chance to hear the band go Black…. Be the Cowboy reminds us that indie rock can be conceptual, complex, produced—even over-produced—and no less personal for it.

On Waiting Out the Storm, Jeremy Ivey apologizes for present society's destruction of the environment and wonders if racism still exists in the future and whether people still get high and have mental health issues. -- from the '80s). With a generation of women singer-songwriters at her back, Jordan’s guitar-driven indie anthems are uncommonly confident and preternaturally polished.

Here are their albums, spanning 29 years, presented from worst to best. 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. In turning the camera on himself, even in his most vulnerable moments as a sick and dying man, filmmaker and activist Marlon Riggs demonstrated the futility of divorcing the personal from the political. 6. Because of this, it's easy to consider Hop Along as nothing more than a Quinlan vehicle — a collective of no-names bashing out melodies behind a charismatic, preternaturally talented frontwoman. If anyone thought that The Gaslight Anthem’s hiatus would be a short fix, they’ve been proved wrong as frontman Brian Fallon prepares to deliver his second solo album. All of these albums feel at once brand-new and heartwarmingly familiar. Boldly propelled by its own idiosyncrasies and obsessions, Parts is an album that accomplishes something that seems ever harder to do in our reboot culture gone rampant—it suggests something new. Listen to "How Simple", the album's opener, and you can hear this vision in full force. What CBD Can Do For Parents During These Unprecedented Times, Minimalism Is Growing Increasingly Popular — Here’s Why, Scenes from the All Black Lives Matter March, Councilman Herb Wesson on What Replacing LAPD in Non-Emergencies Would Mean, LAUSD Board Votes Against Defunding School Police, Beaches Closed, Firework Shows Banned for Independence Day, L.A. Public Health Explains Why Bars had to be Closed. We will publish a few essays daily while we develop the new site. Drummer Jason Cordero pummels out the goofy songs and morbid spells alike with a nonstop, straight-ahead fervor. Gee’s enchanting vocals soar across such shimmering California-pop landscapes as “Seven League Boots,” in contrast to Laughlin’s urgently groovy “Purple Heart Magic,” which erases the line between mod and garage-rocking psychedelia.

"What I found most frustrating was that no one would utter the word 'lie'.".

Bishakh's Som's graphic memoir, Spellbound, serves as a reminder that trans memoirs need not hinge on transition narratives, or at least not on the ones we are used to seeing. With their second album the Goon Sax again take a youthful dive right into the sort of classic indie-pop from the '80s and '90s that music fans and collectors hold dear, cherish as 'their music'. Just as 2017's The French Press EP brought the band comparisons with the Blue Aeroplanes and a host of other beat-poetry-spewing indie rock bands from the '80s, so this long-awaited debut album aligns them with the likes of Television, and the War on Drugs (oh, and I.R.S.-era R.E.M. San Diego's Kimm Rogers taps into frustration with truth-masking on "Lie".

There are many forms and styles which reside under the broad umbrella of indie rock. Peter Guralnick's homage to writing about music, 'Looking to Get Lost', shows how good music writing gets the music into the readers' head.

Will Toledo's deft blend of Pixies-indebted dynamics, tongue-in-cheek wit, and DIY scrappiness shot him, seemingly overnight, into the media spotlight.



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