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Black tambourine: complete recording (1999)
Black Tambourine didn’t have to release a proper album to become iconic. The line-up of the band from Silver Spring, Maryland were indie music heavyweights in the 80’s and his 90’s. slumberlandbeloved gin co-founder Pam Berry tick factorArchie Moore and Brian Nelson, who also played on Velocity Girl.Fortunately, in the 1999’s complete recording collects a handful of songs they recorded between 1989 and 1991. His one of those tracks, “Throw Aggi Off the Bridge,” would go down in indie-pop history as the genre’s premier diss his track, with Berry calling Steven of the Pastel’s Like He Toss Pastel. I begged. bandmate (and former girlfriend) Annabelle “Agi” Wright enters the river (“purely for the purpose of emphasizing the professional Stephen Crash”, Berry later clarified). Less scenic, but equally exhilarating is ‘For Ex-Lovers Only’. This delivers a cacophony of blissful shoegazerdoes ’60s girl groups at her best of the decade. – Quinn Moreland
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Advantage Lucy: Fanfare (fanfare) (1999)
While cardigan-wearing indie pop exploded in America and England, Japan was quietly building its own world within that genre. Standing out on the scene was Advantage His Lucy, a Tokyo quartet that fused his harmonies with sunny jungle his pop and horns, jazzy drums and retro vocals. After discarding the original peanutsLucy Van Pelt releases fanfare with a name inspired by (Fanfare), the debut album as Advantage Lucy, was released in 1999. Like her pop at the best indie of the era, this album welcomes fans who reconsider her life’s drab life with optimistic curiosity. “Katakuri no Hana” floats over a dreamy guitar melody dotted with glockenspiel and recorders, while fan favorite “Solaris” is the most frenetic ode to milk ever heard. Decades later, the album still attracts a new generation of fans at home and abroad. –Nina Corcoran
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magnetic field: 69 love song (1999)
rear Melon Collie and Infinite Sorrowbut before Sufjan Stevens promised to write an album after every state, the most ambitious musical project known to indie heads was 69 love songThe album delivers exactly what the title suggests, in the style of cowboy ballads, folk songs, synth pieces and countless other genres, all tied together with Stephen Merritt’s devastatingly clever lyrics. . Merritt claims it’s not an album about love, it’s about love her songs. he’s a pop music scholar love song is his thesis. But it’s easy to forget all that once you’re immersed in the world of the album itself. It wouldn’t be a love song if they didn’t take us to our feet, suddenly feel dazzlingly new, and drive us through familiar scenes that leave us swooning. –NM Mashroff
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