Indie music has grown to include so much. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it. Every week, Uproxx is rounding up the best new indie music from the past seven days.
Fortunately, the music itself transcends it. Lonnie Holley has spent his storied career blurring the line between songwriting and oration.
The way he weaved the innocence of youth through the horrors of child labor and racism struck a deep chord. Hardcore rides hard for Scowl. The Santa Cruz punks broke through after an immediately classic show in at a Sonic Drive-In β and shot on film by hardcore documentarian hate5six β catapulted them to the uppermost echelons of their scene.
Love, for instance, relies on a sense of mystery. Hannah Cohen suggests as much on her forthcoming fourth album, Earthstar Mountain , a paean to the inscrutable and how that inscrutability presents itself in the places and people we love.
Here, the singer-songwriter posits the idea that love is as natural as the blue sky and towering trees above us. It must be impossible for Real Lies to make a bad song. After breaking through with their second album, Lad Ash , in , the English electronic duo has kept up a steady stream of singles and EPs. Its throttling four-on-the-floor bass and atmospheric synths swirl around you like smoke in a dark room. With their new single, Real Lies maintain their impressive track record.
