This is awesome. Also timely as I realize (to my absolute horror) that it's Night Ripper's 20th anniversary. It makes sense that this genre is seeing such a sustained resurgence, but it's clearly an escape or a kind of role play now -- there's such a cavernous gap between what that music represents and the post-COVID introverted reality. "Back in our day" (sigh) it was just satirized life. I'm still having fun listening to the new stuff, though. And unlike the retro purists, I'm happy to have a name for it now.
My cousins were on Tumblr. A longtime Discord friend was on Tumblr. I was taught about its music scene and my life hasn't been the same...wished I had musical knowledge from when I born so I could witness some rising stars.
I don't remember Pitchfork being excessively kind to this music the first time around. Maybe because I was pitching it. But it's nice to relive it again.
While I hear and love the sleaze on Slayyyter's album, I'm not sure about the indie. But it's always weird when an era or genre is retroactively tagged to codify the revival. However, if it leads to more fun albums like hers, I say, "Viva!"
This is awesome. Also timely as I realize (to my absolute horror) that it's Night Ripper's 20th anniversary. It makes sense that this genre is seeing such a sustained resurgence, but it's clearly an escape or a kind of role play now -- there's such a cavernous gap between what that music represents and the post-COVID introverted reality. "Back in our day" (sigh) it was just satirized life. I'm still having fun listening to the new stuff, though. And unlike the retro purists, I'm happy to have a name for it now.
My cousins were on Tumblr. A longtime Discord friend was on Tumblr. I was taught about its music scene and my life hasn't been the same...wished I had musical knowledge from when I born so I could witness some rising stars.
On my cousin's birthday, I gave her a playlist containing songs from the "blog era" (it sort of overlaps with indie sleaze). Check it out. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71Y3lfv5K5gNAOl1fUWD7i?si=bobsy7jNT8S281pKhF46pg
Lovey!
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I don't remember Pitchfork being excessively kind to this music the first time around. Maybe because I was pitching it. But it's nice to relive it again.
This is a great analysis of some good music, and makes sense of sounds on the last Zheani album , ie Naked, Lobotomy, Something I'm Not
While I hear and love the sleaze on Slayyyter's album, I'm not sure about the indie. But it's always weird when an era or genre is retroactively tagged to codify the revival. However, if it leads to more fun albums like hers, I say, "Viva!"