Instant Indie Classic

Instant Indie Classic: The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs

By on December 27th, 2008

I don’t know if there is a more roundabout (yet beautiful) way to tell someone you love them than there is in the song “Asleep and Dreaming”. Love triumphs over the physical attributes of one’s person? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Of all the lyrics of all the songs I’ve heard in [...]

Instant Indie Classic: Lagwagon – Let’s Talk About Feelings

By on November 21st, 2008

When it comes to musical genres, the words “pop punk” often mean bad news, a sugary yet poisonous concoction that causes most music critics to shudder in their Pavement shirts, and for good reason. For every Green Day there are a thousand Good Charlottes. For every Bouncing Souls fan, there are millions of teenagers blasting [...]

Instant Indie Classic: Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People

By on August 30th, 2008

When a band releases a new album and a good one at that, often times the band’s back catalog, the primary reason we fell in love with them in the first place, can easily go forgotten, at least for a time being. While understandable, once you rediscover those old favorites, dust off those masterpieces, it’s [...]

Instant Indie Classic: The Black Keys – The Big Come Up

By on August 24th, 2008

Few rock bands these days have been so successful at reviving a musical style that is older than the genre itself. Before Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis made rock and roll what it is today, there was a period of musical history in the delta south taking place [...]

Instant Indie Classic: The Flaming Lips – Hear It Is

By on July 5th, 2008

Of everything the “rock gods” have blessed us with, nothing compares to the modern psychedelics that filter The Flaming Lips. While the 80’s have been most noted in pop culture for cheesy pop and hair metal, it did produce a few gems that only recently have shown their influence. Even though most of those influential [...]

Instant Indie Classic: Death Cab for Cutie – Plans

By on May 10th, 2008

On the eve of the release of Narrow Stairs I’ve decided to take a look at Death Cab for Cutie’s last album Plans. While technically not an independent release, it was their major label debut, and something of a culmination of their previous four releases on Barsuk. Their fifth album didn’t just have to stand [...]

Instant Indie Classic: The Decemberists – Picaresque

By on March 22nd, 2008

“Instant Indie Classic,” Consequence of Sound’s newest feature, is Jon Slusar’s look at some of the our generation’s best indie albums, which may already deserve to be deemed as “classics”. In Jon’s first article, he looks at The Decemberists‘ 2005 album Picaresque… Forbidden love, espionage, lost lovers, protest and of course, revenge. No, I’m not [...]