Posts tagged "indie"

Spin Cycle: Neon Indian’s “Era Extrana”

Hailing from the Denton, Texas, Neon Indian is the brainchild of Alan Palomo.  Sometimes labeled as “chillwave” (whatever the hell that means), Neon Indian is an interesting brand of electronic music – perhaps too poppy for the avant-gardists, perhaps too abstract for the mainstream.  I happen to find it a perfect marriage. Neon Indian debuted in 2009 with their full-length Psychic Chasms.  That album’s low-fi electronic grooves garnered the band a good amount of buzz on the blog/college radio circuit, […]

Spin Cycle: Bon Iver’s “Bon Iver, Bon Iver”

Reams and reams of paragraphs, enough (and steeped in enough mythology) to ink dozens of dead sea scrolls, have been devoted to Bon Iver’s 2007 debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, and not without reason; indie lovers and avid Pitchfork readers seem to flock to rootsy acoustic-slinging troubadours with gusto, special hipster points granted for being lo-fi. It doesn’t get much more lo-fi than a heart-broke woodsman holing up for the winter in a Wisconsin cabin and writing and recording his […]