Category Archives: Electronic Indie

September 14

Young Galaxy – Pretty Boy (Peaking Lights Remix)

Title: Pretty Boy (Peaking Lights Remix) Artist: Young Galaxy Album: Pretty Boy Year: 2013 Genre: Electronic Indie, Dream Pop, New Wave, Psychedelic Pop “Pretty Boy” by Young Galaxy is an us-against-the-world sing with lines such as “When we were lost we found each other” and “We were each other’s only family.” It’s romantic, nostalgic and has a British new wave […]

September 10

Mount Eerie – Lone Bell (Pre-Human Ideas Version)

Title: Lone Bell Artist: Mount Eerie Album: Pre-Human Ideas Year: 2013 Genre: Electronic Indie, Lo-Fi This is a toned down auto-tuned version of “Lone Bell” from Clear Moon. The track will be released on the forthcoming Pre-Human Ideas (November 12). The track focuses more on vocals this time, while being surrounded by a distorted James Blake-y haunting electronics. “Mid day, […]

August 28

Animal Collective – My Girls

Title: My Girls Artist: Animal Collective Album: Merriweather Post Pavilion Year: 2009 Genre: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Dream Pop, Electronic Indie Leaked in late 2008, right in the middle of an ongoing economic meltdown, “My Girls” was perfectly of its moment, decrying materialism for simpler joys: “I don’t need to seem like I care about material things […]

August 26

Toro y Moi – Say That

Title: Say That Artist: Toro y Moi Album: Anything in Return Year: 2013 Genre: House, Synthpop, Electronic Indie, Psychedelic Pop Chaz Bundick can take on many different personas. Beatmaker in Causers of This, a serious songwriter-producer in Underneath the Pine and a dancefloor expert on sexy music under the moniker Les Sins. On “Say That” he does the perfect […]

August 24

Roosevelt – Elliot

Title: Elliot Artist: Roosevelt Album: Elliot Year: 2013 Genre: House, Electronic Indie, Psychedelic Pop The beautiful title track of Roosevelt‘s Elliot soon to be released on Greco-Roman Records. I’ve got to hand it to them. They’ve exposed many young talents in the recent years including Disclosure and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. This is for Caribou‘s “Odessa” lovers.

August 24

Caribou – Odessa

Title: Odessa Artist: Caribou Album: Swim Year: 2010 Genre: Psychedelic Pop, House, Electronic Indie, Folktronica Dan Snaith has managed to change several times in his career and succeed in each of them. The perfect example for this is his 2010 release Swim, and more specifically this track, under the long time alias Caribou. Reminiscent to the […]

August 22

Jai Paul – Jasmine

Title: Jasmine Artist: Jai Paul Album: Jasmine (Demo) Year: 2012 Genre: Electronic Indie, Post-Dubstep, Future-Pop, Neo Soul “Jai is a wizard…the way he’s going about things is, I think for many, baffling. But…he’s going about things in the most Jai Paul way you could possibly go about things. And who knows where that may lead.” […]

August 21

Baths – Miasma Sky

Title: Miasma Sky Artist: Baths Album: Obsidian Year: 2013 Genre: Electronic, Future-Pop, Electronic Indie “The songs and lyrics all came out of a pretty fucked and arduous process of trial and error,” Baths says. ”But I hope people understand that I’m not the depressed, suicidal, and death-obsessed person the record may paint me as being. […]

August 21

Grimes – Oblivion

Title: Oblivion Artist: Grimes Album: Visions Year: 2012 Genre: Electronic Indie, Synthpop, Dream Pop, Experimental, Dark Wave This is the leading single that was the power force behind Grimes‘s extraordinary 2012 record Visions which won hear both the Webby Award for Artist of the Year and the Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year.

August 15

LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends

Title: All My Friends Artist: LCD Soundsystem Album: Sound of Silver Year: 2007 Genre: Dance-Punk, Electronic Indie

August 05

CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share

Title: The Mother We Share Artist: CHVRCHES Album: The Bones of What You Believe Year: 2013 Genre: Electronic Indie, Synthpop Recover is still my favorite CHVRCHES song but this deserves a gander!…only minutes fresh from the VEVO oven, enjoy…