discuss the best indie rock albums that came out the last decade Alligator, The Ugly Organ, Left & Leaving, and Transatlanticism make for good competitors
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights Sufjan - Illinoise from the top of my head
Liars - Drum's Not Dead Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out Spoon - Gimme Fiction Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy I could go on... very broad tag... :S
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Death Cab For Cutie - Plans Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare The National - Boxer
So glad someone mentioned AM. Their debut would be my pick, but those first two albums are stellar pieces of indie rock
I honestly just need to spend more time with their debut! I have it but never gave it much attention, I'll have to fix that haha
Listening to The Ugly Organ and Cursive in general for the first time right now. Pretty cool. Not what I thought it would sound like, a lot more intricate instrumentation than I expected, unsure why.
Some of my favourite 00s indie rock albums would be: Autolux - Future Perfect Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl: Volume 1 & 2 The Antlers - Hospice Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You The 00's was every bit as good as the 90s and 80s when it came to indie rock. In ten or fifteen years time this will become more obvious.
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest Franz Ferdinand - s/t My Morning Jacket - Z Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (since Funeral's already up there) edit: I can't type on my cell phone
I agree with all the MM, Death Cab, AM, P.TM albums mentioned above. I'd add; Person L - The Positives The Starting Line - Direction/Based on A True Story Steel Train - Trampoline Weatherbox - American Art/Cosmic Drama Manchester Orchestra - Virgin/METN The Matches - Decomposer/A Band In Hope Dear & The Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times/Small Steps, Heavy Hooves (Forgot about these, gonna spin them today) Deer Tick - War Elephant Envy On The Coast - Lucy Grey Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Dust of Retreat/Animal Wild Sweet Orange - We Have Cause To Be Uneasy (I think this album needs attention by everyone on this site) Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell Tickle Me Pink - Madeline Thrice - Beggars/Alchemy Index Say Anything - IARB/IDOTG Note: I'm really bad at determining the correct genre
It's a brilliant little punk tinged indie rock album. And what Cody said, that closer is among the best ever
Honestly I think Dino Jr's 200's output is some of their best stuff yet and beats out like half of their 80's/90's material. New album is grrrrreat