[Robinski]

Sleigh Bells are my hipster band and I f*cking love them. I found them quite a way back, and after a while their songs have been popping up everywhere: Windows phone ads, Kopparberg ads and now apparently they feature on SR3's soundtrack. I love it though, hopefully all the licensing money and sh*t means they're hard at work on a second album of fantasticness.

[The Killa]

Sleigh Bells was a bit of an acquired taste. The excessive amount of distortion being used is becomes gradually less annoying and evolves into a good sound.

On the subject of hipster man / women combinations from New York;

[Cheat]

I see someone already posted some Chan VanGaalen, and it may actually have been you, Tyler, who posted this in the Lounge once. Anyways, shamefully enough I heard of him the first time back then, but I love his stuff, especially the 2011 release Diaper Island.



Also, Bon Iver.

[Canofceleri]

I really dislike the term hipster, and find indie to be a lacking catchall. Some of the bands I like I found on Pitchfork, which seems to be the defacto "hipster" site. In what way is Sly Stone, Grizzly Bear, This Heat, Dizzee Rascall, Fennesz, Parliament-Funkadelic hipster? It's just good music to me. Maybe with some of these bands I can see it as they do seem to conform to a certain "Pitchfork-hipster" aesthetic. I don't know that Dirty Projectors are the most typified example of that aesthetic, but I certainly enjoy several of their albums including the highly-lauded-by-hipsters Bitte Orca.

All that being said, I took a liking to Sleigh Bell's Treats album immediately. I got it, it was great. Maybe the new album will be great to me too, but there was such a novelty in the very particular dichotomy of Treats. The whole uber-hardcore stupid-bitch-pep rally thing is pretty appealing for some reason. However, I do find some of the post-verse chatter on Kids to be grating.




This is a song that I find really does the trick. Really hard not to feel like a badass en route to a drive-by while this comes on, especially when dude who sounds like a Yardie comes on.



Holy sh*t!--what year did this come out! f*cking 1979?

[[CTD]LaBan]

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[ska]

I suppose you could classify this band as indie-pop, even though they lean towards a more electronic sound, Depeche Mode-esque. The lead singer has a really kick ass voice.



Also, I've been really been into this band called Cut Copy lately, Need You Now being one of my recent favorites from them.



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[Tyler]

QUOTE (Cheat @ Monday, Jan 2 2012, 05:07)

I see someone already posted some Chan VanGaalen,

Indeed it was, my friend. I caught the Vangaalen wagon pretty early on about last year, and have slowly been pumping GTAForums with his music throughout my posts. Gotta admit the guy's pretty legit. His sound is refreshing and he always tries to keep the ball rolling with new music.

[[CTD]LaBan]

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[The Killa]

Figure I'd bump this with Sleigh Bells as touched on earlier in this thread. This one is off their Reign of Terror album, which I haven't given too much of a listen to. But I'm in love with this song.

[interpolfan11]

One of my favorite songs of 2011:

[OH NO]

Agreed about LCD soundsystem. Sound of Silver drove me scatty, in a good way.




new albums great too.








theres so much potential sh*t to post my minds gone into a funk

[The Killa]

It's a shame that James Murphy decided to call it quits in regards to LCD Soundsystem. I have no clue what his future plans are - if any. But if he decides to make collaborations like this, then I can live with that.



It's something that can't necessarily be categorized as "indie" I suppose, though because Murphy played a part it's well worth a listen regardless.

[The Killa]

Double post bump.

Deserves a good listen:

[Ronmar The Only]

Oh, Indies. I have several indie loves and could have plenty more. Indie is almost the only music I buy these days, save for a few select majors.

Here is Jon Nicholson's Grandma:





Here is Space Capone's I Just Wanna Dance:





And next is their P.F.O (Peach Flavored Optimo):





Here is Gary Clark Jr.'s Bright Lights:





And his Things Are Changing (which seemingly was on Mob Wives, hahaha):





Here is John West's Umbrella:





And his Loved You Tonight:

[reform]

Mmmm, yes, this thread is tastey.

Califone


The Dø


eaststrikewest


Fang Island


maybeshewill


Mew


Pony Pony Run Run


the snake the cross the crown


soap&skin


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