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Legendary! :-)

mmm...very interesting...

Yes, it's true... One could add that one of the elements that indie has borrowed from classic singer-songwriter rock of the 60s/70s is perhaps the revival of the song form (which early Sonic Youth literally tore apart, with dissonances, digressions, harmonic dissolutions...). In the Meat Puppets, in Dinosaur Jr, in some tracks of the Replacements or Huskers, one can glimpse, among the chaos of guitars, the melodic lines and the linear structure of country-rock (so Fest was right to talk about a Young adapted to the "post-hardcore" aesthetic).

This album is beautiful. This review flows smoothly like fresh water.

I give it a 3. Not more. Teetering between post-rock and indie, it fails on both fronts. No, come on, it doesn’t actually fail... but it’s boring, that’s for sure. So much noise for nothing. (I really went hard there. Now, Fester is going to get really pissed, though! :-DDD)

No, I don't know: you tell me.

Oh, Easycure has unleashed itself! Well, come on, as promised, I’ll break the ice and outline my (quirky) thoughts... My idea is that indie rock is a musical movement that developed in the 80s (mostly in the U.S.) which combines a noise/post-hardcore component with a singer-songwriter/melodic component: Wipers, MOB, certain Meat Puppets, certain Huskers, Mats, Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr, the late 80s SY, Pixies, Superchunk, Unrest, Yo La Tengo, certain Bitch Magnet, certain Squirrel Bait, Polvo, Built To Spill all respect, beyond their respective peculiarities, the concept of a rock that, while being aware of the accomplishments of the 80s (noise, dissonances, etc... in short, everything that followed punk, hc, new wave, no-wave, etc...), retrieves certain characteristics of the classic rock and singer-songwriter tradition of the 60s/70s (like intimacy, catchiness, the ballad structure). So it is (if you think so). I think so. What do you say? :-)

Just to see if it’s just me who's got a crazy head. :-) No, seriously, tomorrow when (perhaps) I’m clearer-headed, I promise to lay out my UNDISPUTABLE theory on the musical characteristics of that branch of rock music that can be defined as "indie."

They preceded the indie.

Come on, it's easy, there was only one group in Portland in the early '80s... :-)