The first single for Smith Westerns, “ Weekend,” is so fun you hardly notice it only has about nine different lines of lyrics to it.ĥ.
Though if you are looking for fast-paced Ramones hyper mania I’d turn to The Vaccines. It is by no means boring, since shoegazer certainly implies such things, no, their latest Dye It Blonde is all but yawn-worthy. “Still New” has the exact partial guitar rift of LS’s “Free Bird,” while “All Die Young” would be under shoegazer music in the hypothetical sub-genre dictionary. This Chicago trio epitomize lo-fi, which makes it all the more confusing.
How Smith Westerns manage to sound like both The Jam and Lynyrd Skynyrd, well let’s say Blitzen Trapper is beyond me. Most of these contenders formed fairly recently and released CDs this year, with the exception of Emerald’s Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Floor.Ħ. I can only hope that “Little Lion Man” will be replaced by the Sonic-Youth influenced sounds of Yuck, or the experimental wailings tUnE-yArDs or the retro jazz clap ‘n snap of Caro Emerald, whose early 2010 debut has yet to even be released officially in the U.S. Also Mumford & Sons, Metric, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Phoenix and Bon Iver, all very known in the indie community previous to 2010, were the talk of award shows, and varying esteemed music lists of last year.Ģ011 is another story, not only are there the usual hoards of bands trying to make it, some of them have a LOT of potential for the same sort of indie sellout glory that Mumford & Sons achieved. This held true for Florence & The Machine, whose album actually debuted in mid-2009. Besides Broken Bells, not many emerged, and it was mostly about semi-established bands being rediscovered by the masses.
Let’s face it, 2010 wasn’t the greatest year for indie bands.
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