Classics: 00's indie/garage.

The '00 indie/garage movement was both brilliant and bad. Brilliant because of some masterpieces and the fact that rock music was played more frequently in the radio, for example. Bad because of the massive load of crappy rock bands that had 3 chords and some skinny jeans and thought that now was the time to take over the world - simply, it was very easy to be productive but the quality filter almost disappeared. Nevertheless, as before mentioned, it brought some really, really, really brilliant albums with it. Here's some of the essential must-haves from the 00's indie/garage movement:

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Quite simply probably the best garage rock album I've ever heard and the artistical highlight in Jack White's career. Childish energy, monstrous guitar sounds and fantastic melodies go hand in hand here. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground is simply THE tune of the garage rock movement.




Arcade Fire - Funeral

In my opinion, Funeral is THE must have of the 00's indie rock movement. INCREDIBLE melodies mixes with sincerely clever instrumentation and more feelings than I've heard on many other albums. Each single number is so strong on itself it's almost unbelievable. It's honestly one of my favorite albums.



Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Even though Bloc Party aren't as lo-fi and simple as most of the other indie bands they are considered a part of the indie rock movement, probably because of their ridiculous energy and twangy guitars. Electronic bleeps drop by and say hello sometimes as Bloc Party deliver sophisticated and clever melodies. Helicopter still remains an absolute killer single today.



The Black Keys - Magic Potion

Magic Potion was the perfect middle-of-the-road-album for The Black Keys between their early really lo-fi bluesy albums and their newer, more melodic ones. Here, feeding lo-fi guitars mix with cool melodies and more soul than on any other garage rock album, highly because of Dan Auerbach's amazing voice.




Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards

Robbers & Cowards makes crappy and brilliant mix in such a special way - just take the two first tunes as examples: We Used To Vacation is such a fantastic melody but lousy instrumentation and the worst guitar solo I've heard makes it so twisted and brilliant. Hang Me Up To Dry is another amazing melody that contains an incredibly bad piano solo that anyone could have played. SO much nerve on this album you won't believe it.


Jakobinarina - The First Crusade

A fantastic and valuable pearl on the very bottom of the indie ocean. SO overlooked, but so fantastic. These Icelandic guys sound unlike anything else I've heard. A very, VERY powerful record but still with nerve and vulnerability just underneath the soaring noisy guitars and badly pronounced English lyrics. Seriously an album you must hear and probably haven't.



Alright, I realise that there are shit loads of cool indie and this is just the very surface of it all. I might have to make a part 2 of this with Interpol, Deerhunter, The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings Of Leon and.......... Yeah, I think you get the point.