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Home Page | Genres | Archive by category "Indie Rock" (Page 9)

Archive for the Indie Rock Category

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27 Apr 2018
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Categories: Dr. Dog, Folk, Indie Rock, We Buy Gold

Dr. Dog “Critical Equation” (We Buy Gold)

Dr. Dog will release their 10th studio album Critical Equation via Thirty Tigers on April 27. The Philadelphia-based psychedelic pop act also announced a lengthy North American Tour – their first in two years – in the support of the record. The new album follows-up 2016’s Abandoned Mansion. Featuring 10 […]

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27 Apr 2018
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Categories: ATO, Indie Rock, Okkervil River

Okkervil River “In The Rainbow Rain” (ATO)

ATO Records release Okkervil River’s In The Rainbow Rain, the group’s most immediate – and meaningful – album to date. On it, bandleader Will Sheff makes a startling left turn from the their critically-lauded and inward-looking 2016 album Away, crafting an exuberant declaration of hope. In place of Away’s somber […]

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20 Apr 2018
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Categories: Experimental, Grouper, Indie Rock, Kranky

Grouper “Grid Of Points” (Kranky)

Not long after recording her tenth album Ruins, Liz Harris traveled to Wyoming to work on art and record music. She found herself drawn towards the pairing of skeletal piano phrasing with spare, rich bursts of vocal harmony. A series of stark songs emerged, minimal and vulnerable, woven with emotive […]

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20 Apr 2018
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Categories: Indie Rock, Mount Eerie, P.W. Elverum & Sun

Mount Eerie “Now Only” (P.W. Elverum and Sun)

Now Only, written shortly following the release of A Crow Looked At Me and the first live performances of those songs, is a deeper exploration of that style of candid, undisguised lyrical writing. It portrays Elverum’s continuing immersion in the strange reality of Geneviève’s death, chronicling the evolution of his […]

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20 Apr 2018
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Categories: Folk, Indie Rock, Lord Huron, Polydor

Lord Huron “Vide Noir” (Polydor)

Lord Huron, the folk-adjacent rock band helmed by Michigan-born singer and guitarist Ben Schneider, release their third LP Vide Noir. Written and recorded over the past two years at Lord Huron’s Los Angeles studio and informal clubhouse, Whispering Pines. The album was mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips / […]

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20 Apr 2018
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Categories: A Place To Bury Strangers, Dead Oceans, Indie Rock

A Place to Bury Strangers “Pinned” (Dead Oceans)

A Place To Bury Strangers have announced their new album, Pinned. Their fifth full-length finds them converting difficult moments into some of their most urgent work to date. It’s their first since the 2016 election, and their first since the 2014 closing of Death By Audio, the beloved Brooklyn DIY […]

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20 Apr 2018
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Categories: Indie Rock, Last Gang, Stars

Stars “Heart” (Last Gang)

Stars celebrated sophomore album Heart was recorded in the bedroom of keyboard player Chris Seligman on Avenue Mont-Royal in Montreal. The album was originally released in 2003. A description at the time pinned the band as more New Order and Saint Etienne. The New York Times praised the album as: […]

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20 Apr 2018
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Categories: Indie Rock, Music From Memory, Pop, Synth

Various Artists “Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe, 1980-1991” (Music from Memory)

Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe, 1980-1991 is compiled by record connoisseur Raphael Top-Secret and label man Jamie Tiller that brings together twenty one tracks from across the continent; exploring the more unusual and unexpected sides of pop music produced during that period. Printed Inner sleeves… Drawing material from cult […]

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20 Apr 2018
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Categories: Drag City, Drinks, Indie Rock

Drinks “Hippo Lite” (Drag City)

The latest from CATE LE BON and TIM PRESELEY as DRINKS. “A month spent in an old mill in the under belly of France. River swimming thrice a day. Hot nights soundtracked by the rattle of randy frogs. Scorpion fear. In the sheets, on the face. Hours of bird watching—no […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: ATO, Indie Rock, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Psych

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Gumboot Soup” (ATO)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s new album Gumboot Soup. Gumboot Soup follows February’s Flying Microtonal Banana, June’s Murder of the Universe, August’sSketches of Brunswick East, and, finally, November’s Polygondwanaland, for which the band shared the masters and tasked listeners with pressing the recordings themselves. In an interview with Consequence […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: Garage Rock, Indie Rock, King Tuff, Sub Pop

King Tuff “The Other” (Sub Pop)

When asked to describe the title track from his new record, Kyle Thomas—aka King Tuff—takes a deep breath. “It’s a song about hitting rock bottom,” he says. “I didn’t even know what I wanted to do anymore, but I still had this urge, like there was this possibility of something […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: Garage Rock, Hinds, Indie Rock, Lucky Number

Hinds “I Don’t Run” (Lucky Number)

Spanish quartet Hinds – Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrotte, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – release their long-awaited second record I Don’t Run. The new album shows a bigger, better, faster, funnier, more dexterous Hinds. Co-produced by the band and Gordon Raphael (The Strokes, Regina Spektor), and engineered by Shawn Everett […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: Indie Rock, Mono-Tone, Xyz

Xyz “Artificial Flavoring” (Mono-Tone)

XYZ = a Trans-Atlantic American/French project featuring IAN SVENONIUS (CHAIN & THE GANG, MAKE-UP, ESCAPE-ISM, et al.) on vocals and MEMPHIS ELECTRONIC (of the groups NON!, DUM BUM BOYS, DIE IDIOTS, et al.) on instruments. Twelve dancefloor rockers and sexy glam numbers with fuzz guitars, drum machines, and analog synths […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: Howlin Rain, Indie Rock, Silver Current

Howlin Rain “Howlin Rain” (Silver Current)

Never before issued on vinyl, Silver Current presents Howlin Rain’s selt-titled 2006 debut album, originally on CD only on Birdman Records! Formed in 2004 in San Francisco, the band features Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Heron Oblivion), John Moloney (shaman leader and percussionist for Boston’s Sunburned Hand Of The Man) and […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: In The Red, Indie Rock, LTD

LTD “LTD” (In the Red)

What happens when you put King Khan and Sean Wood from The Spits together? The results are Louder Than Death aka LTD. This mini-album is the first collaboration between the two titans of garage-punk and the results are as bonkers as you’d hope. Sci-fi inspired punk meets weirdo synth damage […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: Indie Rock, Merge, Wye Oak

Wye Oak (limited Edition) “The Louder I Call, the Faster it Runs” (Merge)

The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs—the triumphant fifth album by WYE OAK—begins with an explosion. For a few seconds, piano, drums, and a playful keyboard loop gather momentum; then, all at once, they burst, enormous bass flooding the elastic beat. The moment declares the second coming of Wye […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: Castle Face, Indie Rock, Punk, Uranium Club

Uranium Club “Live At Arci Taun- aka Live for the Very First Time” (Castle Face)

“Nothing like a carb-load Italian pre-show feast and table wine to grease the gears of some live action in Fidenza, Italy. A land-locked classico right where you would pinch to hike up the boot. A club packed tight with handsome men and women abused by sonic marauders. “Have you seen Uranium […]

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12 Apr 2018
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Categories: Indie Rock, Moondoggies, Sub Pop

Moondoggies “A Love Sleeps Deep” (Sub Pop)

A Love Sleeps Deep’s bones rattle with all the seismic changes of the last five years since the release of The Moondoggies’ Adios I’m a Ghost. While the Washington band got lumped in early on with the woodsy folk-rock/Americana movement that sprung up in the Pacific North- west in the […]

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09 Apr 2018
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Categories: Goth, Indie Rock, King Dude, Vàn

King Dude “Tonight’s Special Death” (Van)

Reissue of 2010 debut album, originally released on CDR in 2010 on Disaro and on vinyl in 2011 on Avant! Records. Trad-apocalyptic ballads immersed in satanic and pagan symbolism mixing the dark touch of Death In June and :Of The Wand & The Moon: with the classic folk by Dylan, […]

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05 Apr 2018
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Categories: Electronic, Indie Rock, Sacred Bones, Zola Jesus

Zola Jesus “Okovi- Additions” (Sacred Bones)

Zola Jesus’ Okovi: Additions LP offers a new angle on her 2017 album, Okovi. The collection pairs four previously unreleased songs from the Okovi sessions with four remixes by a diverse cast of artists. Johnny Jewel turns “Ash to Bone” into a late-night cinematic torch song, Tri Angle composer Katie […]

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05 Apr 2018
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Categories: Indie Rock, Jagjaguwar, Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Unknown Mortal Orchestra “Sex & Food” (Jagjaguwar)

Sex & Food is the most eclectic and expansive Unknown Mortal Orchestra release yet, from the light-footed R&B of “Hunnybee” to the stomping flange of “Major League Chemicals.” “If You’re Going to Break Yourself” and “Not in Love We’re Just High” chronicle the effects of drugs and addiction on personal […]

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05 Apr 2018
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Categories: 4AD, Ambient, Cocteau Twins, Indie Rock

Cocteau Twins “Head Over Heels” (4AD)

4AD are repressing two more Cocteau Twins records on vinyl this coming March, the albums Head Over Heels and Treasure. Using new masters created from high definition files transferred from the original analogue tapes, both albums are being pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl and come with download codes.  Digital HD audio versions of both […]

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05 Apr 2018
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Categories: 4AD, Ambient, Cocteau Twins, Indie Rock

Cocteau Twins “Treasure” (4AD)

4AD are repressing two more Cocteau Twins records on vinyl this coming March, the albums Head Over Heels and Treasure. Using new masters created from high definition files transferred from the original analogue tapes, both albums are being pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl and come with download codes.  Digital HD audio versions of both […]

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29 Mar 2018
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Categories: Amen Dunes, Indie Rock, Sacred Bones

Amen Dunes “Freedom” (Sacred Bones)

With every record, Damon McMahon aka Amen Dunes has transformed, and Freedom is the project’s boldest leap yet. Enlisting a powerful set of collaborators that included Parker Kindred (Antony & The Johnsons, Jeff Buckley) on drums, keyboardist Jordi Wheeler, Chris Coady (Beach House) as producer, and Delicate Steve on guitars, […]

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