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Led by alliteration-acceptable Ben Birdwell, Band of Horses remains to be indie rock's greatest letdowns. Like all great indie bands, they came out of the woods of rural Washington sometime in the middle of the decade, and all grew bears and had plaid BUTTondown shirts tattooed to their bodies. Hearkening back to the Carolinas, Band of Horses is the latest rendition of indie-Americana that would spawn countless copycats in the vein of Fleet Foxes, Calexico, etc. Birdwell frequently ascends into his falsetto amongst crashing cymbals and crunchy guitars. Prepare to hear a lot of Fender Rhodes and lap steel guitars. Their first major effort, Everything All Of The Time is one of the most cherished records of the indie community, and features 10 tracks of Birdwell's high tenor and their signature rich, full, warm sound. Major cuts are "The First Song," "Our Swords," and "The Great Salt Lake." Everything soon got major recognition and "The Funeral" was featured on an episode of The OC. Thousands of shitty assholes flocked to Band of Horses concerts looking to youtube a live performance of this song to get a bunch of hits and have people subscribe to their channel. This caused Birdwell to lose his shit, and he fled to the East coast to write the epitome of the Sophomore Slump, Cease To Begin. Cease is absolute garbage and I hate them for producing it. It's poppy nothingness and I hope they never fucking play anything off of it again.
In the end though, they totally made Seattle.
Band Of Horses - The First Song
Band Of Horses - The Great Salt Lake
Runners up!
Broken Social Scene. Another mega-band from Canada, but instead of producing weird music that makes you feel like a disgruntled Austrian novelist, these guys make great shit. I wish I knew more about them, but me seeing them was enough to get my picture into the SF Chronicle (no joke). Members include Feist and Kevin Drew, the two most notable members who went off to form less-than-great solo projects, as well as Torquil Campbell and the lovely Amy Milan, who went on to form Stars, perhaps the foundation of Dream Pop genre. They love trumpets, several guitars, delay pedals, Fender amps, being Canadian, and putting on the best show ever. They made the album You Forgot It In People, probably the best album of the indie 2000's. Get it.
Broken Social Scene: 7/4 Shoreline
Battles. The greatest "math-rock" band to exist because it includes members of Don Caballero. They made their entire album in a fucking glass box and then launched it into space, where they did coke off of each other's dicks until they got sucked into a black hole and no one ever heard from them ever again.
Battles - Atlas (from the album Mirrored)
Bon Iver. This fag recorded a great album in Agent of Oblivion's trailer using only a Shure SM57 mic and probably some stupid tape shit because we all know how good analog is and how much digital is shit. The quintessential "guy with a guitar" band. He's sad as shit and you'll want to kill yourself when you hear it, but at the same time not feel bad about it because it's not fucking Bright Eyes.
bon iver - skinny love
In the end though, they totally made Seattle.
Band Of Horses - The First Song
Band Of Horses - The Great Salt Lake
Runners up!
Broken Social Scene. Another mega-band from Canada, but instead of producing weird music that makes you feel like a disgruntled Austrian novelist, these guys make great shit. I wish I knew more about them, but me seeing them was enough to get my picture into the SF Chronicle (no joke). Members include Feist and Kevin Drew, the two most notable members who went off to form less-than-great solo projects, as well as Torquil Campbell and the lovely Amy Milan, who went on to form Stars, perhaps the foundation of Dream Pop genre. They love trumpets, several guitars, delay pedals, Fender amps, being Canadian, and putting on the best show ever. They made the album You Forgot It In People, probably the best album of the indie 2000's. Get it.
Broken Social Scene: 7/4 Shoreline
Battles. The greatest "math-rock" band to exist because it includes members of Don Caballero. They made their entire album in a fucking glass box and then launched it into space, where they did coke off of each other's dicks until they got sucked into a black hole and no one ever heard from them ever again.
Battles - Atlas (from the album Mirrored)
Bon Iver. This fag recorded a great album in Agent of Oblivion's trailer using only a Shure SM57 mic and probably some stupid tape shit because we all know how good analog is and how much digital is shit. The quintessential "guy with a guitar" band. He's sad as shit and you'll want to kill yourself when you hear it, but at the same time not feel bad about it because it's not fucking Bright Eyes.
bon iver - skinny love