2000s indie rock

discuss the best indie rock albums that came out the last decade

Alligator, The Ugly Organ, Left & Leaving, and Transatlanticism make for good competitors

 

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Sufjan - Illinoise

from the top of my head

 

Funeral
I'm Wide Awake It's Morning

 

Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

I could go on...

very broad tag... :S

 

MOON & ANTARCTICA

 

THE WRENS - MEADOWLANDS
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

I'll stop here

 

I prefer LCW but ya that's a really good one

 

I agree but 1997

 

Wolf Am I - Lead The Way

 

Yeah exactly but it's in the 90s indie rock thread!

 

Is This It
Room On Fire

 

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
The National - Boxer

 

So glad someone mentioned AM. Their debut would be my pick, but those first two albums are stellar pieces of indie rock

 

I honestly just need to spend more time with their debut! I have it but never gave it much attention, I'll have to fix that haha

 

it's such a fun record. one of the best closers of all time

 

one immense last one

Destroyer's Rubies

such a fucking masterpiece

 

Listening to The Ugly Organ and Cursive in general for the first time right now. Pretty cool. Not what I thought it would sound like, a lot more intricate instrumentation than I expected, unsure why.

 

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Sky Blue Sky

 

Some of my favourite 00s indie rock albums would be:

Autolux - Future Perfect
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl: Volume 1 & 2
The Antlers - Hospice
Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

The 00's was every bit as good as the 90s and 80s when it came to indie rock. In ten or fifteen years time this will become more obvious.

 

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Franz Ferdinand - s/t
My Morning Jacket - Z
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (since Funeral's already up there)

edit: I can't type on my cell phone

 

Fever To Tell

Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots

 

I agree with all the MM, Death Cab, AM, P.TM albums mentioned above. I'd add;

Person L - The Positives
The Starting Line - Direction/Based on A True Story
Steel Train - Trampoline
Weatherbox - American Art/Cosmic Drama
Manchester Orchestra - Virgin/METN
The Matches - Decomposer/A Band In Hope
Dear & The Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times/Small Steps, Heavy Hooves (Forgot about these, gonna spin them today)
Deer Tick - War Elephant
Envy On The Coast - Lucy Grey
Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Dust of Retreat/Animal
Wild Sweet Orange - We Have Cause To Be Uneasy (I think this album needs attention by everyone on this site)
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Tickle Me Pink - Madeline
Thrice - Beggars/Alchemy Index
Say Anything - IARB/IDOTG

Note: I'm really bad at determining the correct genre

 

It's a brilliant little punk tinged indie rock album. And what Cody said, that closer is among the best ever

 

Honestly I think Dino Jr's 200's output is some of their best stuff yet and beats out like half of their 80's/90's material. New album is grrrrreat

 

a real shredder