I'm not very indietastic. What albums should I pick up?

[LemonMelon]

Are Fleet Foxes actually any good or just the latest "indie" band to wank to? I might download a track or two.

I like to wank and listen to Fleet Foxes, though not necessarily at the same time.

 

[No spoken words]

I like to wank and listen to Fleet Foxes, though not necessarily at the same time.

What about at the same time?

 

[No spoken words]

What about at the same time?

Fucker.

 

[UberBeaver]

Are Fleet Foxes actually any good or just the latest "indie" band to wank to? I might download a track or two.

They sound like Simon and Garfunkle with a splash of the Shins and the Beach Boys. To me, anyway.

 

[LMP]

They sound like Simon and Garfunkle with a splash of the Shins and the Beach Boys. To me, anyway.

That's like adding sugar and cocaine to sweet tea. You're making something good even mo' betta.

 

[LemonMelon]

They sound like Simon and Garfunkle with a splash of the Shins and the Beach Boys. To me, anyway.

That sounds about right. Basically, Fleet Foxes sound like a group of baby boomers who recorded a folk album in the back of a cave in the mountains of Tennessee.

 

[impy13]

Recent-ness notwithstanding, that's a mostly solid list with some spectacular recommendations, apart from pretending that Kings of Leon is an indie band. Still, that little sentence right there is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Canonized bands, by definition, cannot be underrated--they become canonized by being overrated, from time to time, but never by being shit on or ignored. Hilarious. When an indie band is recognized as essential by as "mainstream" a publication as Rolling Stone, you can't talk about being underrated, anymore.

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One is a brilliant record, too! To hell with new records, I say. Just look for good ones. You'll find precious few as deep, rewarding, and multifaceted as the one in question.

YLT is underrated around these parts, I meant. I've not once seen them discussed around here, not even after their recent, stellar ...Beat Your Ass.

And I admit the KOL thing was a bit of a reach, but I actually do enjoy that album. And it came out when they were quasi-indie.

I regret not including an H in that last. Rest assure if I did, it would have recommended Happy Songs for Happy People.

 

[lazarus]

They sound like Simon and Garfunkle with a splash of the Shins

Is this another wanking reference?

I have a decent amount of hair on my legs so that would suck.

 

[LeafsNation]

...anything from Sloan (a Halifax band)

YouTube - Sloan - Believe In Me

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and Celine Dion took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the Pavement album.

that is awesome