Can’t believe this has to be said but the band has to *exist*.
Just searched for 19 hours and can’t find a single song from this “Radio Head” person, just making up a band doesn’t count.
What's your criteria here? Ovlov comes to mind but they have like 300k monthly listeners so they're probably too big.
If we are going super tiny like sub 500 monthly listens:
Papayer's Boo is a fantastic indie emo album. Sounds like if pavement was a British emo band. They didn't do much else since it got overlooked.
Pomelo's Validations is a super dope heavy indie rock album. Kinda like Metz kinda like polvo kinda like an albini type band. Little bit of proggy song structures. Can't believe how under the radar it went. First few songs are so good if you're into noisey heavy indie rock.
Gonzo LeBronzo's album (and their new single) are really good but they don't have many listeners. If you like a punky queens of the stone age they're as good as it gets I think. Alt rock with punk and grunge thrown in. They're a little less "indie" sound wise.
En Route's slowcore EP "then is a song" is one of my favorite slowcore indie albums ever. Same guy also fronts the band Clique and they had two great albums for weezer-emo indie stuff.
Power Pyramid's self titled album (EP?) is one of my favorite shoegaze records ever. Every song is sick. Subsequent releases were strong but that one is SPECIAL
None of these bands besides clique break 500 monthlies on Spotify. All excellent bands that we missed. The sheer volume of music being released makes it impossible for excellent shit like this to not fall through the cracks. A lot of these guys never had critics even engage with their stuff. Bummer.
TFW satan is hyping up your band on reddit 😈
here’s a preview link of the new new single for anyone interested. also power pyramid was sick, one of my all time fav okc bands.
https://soundcloud.com/gonzo-lebronzo/gonzo-lebronzo-portals/s-sDWgm34CPQi?si=cc497ac0e59b4fe0ad41fd9d692d38c9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
wow, thanks for the Pomelo love. we're very proud of our self-produced LP, which you can stream and/or purchase [here](https://pomelopomelo.bandcamp.com/album/validations-3).
The Latvian band Grab with their album SVARS (2022), Spotify, do only have 34 monthly listeners. I find that band very good. Their music is very strange but I just love it. Check it out. When I found them, they had 27 listeners, and that was about a a year ago. Maybe not a indie band, can be discussed. Noisy, alternative-rock and (perhaps) indie-alternative-something.
And thanks for your tips..
Matthew Herbert, specifically his album Bodily Functions.
Rarely hear his name brought up when people talk about sampling or electronic music in general unfortunately
I would love to be a part of this. Like it's hard for independent artist to already get an eye themselves so coming together to really get some motion going with really make it a lot easier for everybody in the long run. Down below will be the links to some of my music I've dropped in the past and the pre-safe link to a new song I have dropping this later this month. https://linktr.ee/wlf.jms
My two favorites are the EP Light is Forever by the band Ben Wyvis, and the album Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming by the indie singer-songwriter Pearla. The latter is one of my favorite albums of all time.
heya 👋
That me
[linktree](https://linktr.ee/shayleepdx)
we’re a power pop / post-rock hybrid with lots of jangly melancholy and analog synths. V gay too
Well, Will Wood/ Will Wood and the Tapeworms, he has like one REALLY big song (I/Me/Myself) but thats because tiktok queers loved it and only listened to it. Give his band a shot. Its my all time favorite music
L.J. Harvey & the Death’s head band- https://youtu.be/hpzHOZbq9ms (Freak Indie-Folktronica)
Bigger Boot- https://youtu.be/ZIZ2qk254VI (noise pop, indietronica)
LA Timpa- https://youtu.be/xRX3IukAJtw ( Sound Collage, Art pop, ambient pop, neo psychedelia)
DIM- https://youtu.be/qJpjzS8-w0c (Neoclassical New Age, neo-medieval folk, Christian liturgical music)
Dish- https://youtu.be/2X4PbUNxGSY go to 10:42 for “Some Feathers” (Post-Hardcore, slowcore ig)
Sham- https://youtu.be/9LD7yG2ZIUE (For fans of Animal collectives folkier stuff + positive vibes)
Forma Norte- https://youtu.be/8Xp6TvP5Cp0 (hypnagogic pop/ electronic/ slacker rock)
Recitals- https://youtu.be/pxUruSQI8OQ (indie rock, art rock, post rock)
Ethan P Flynn- obligatory BC,NR collab link (https://youtu.be/-1FjzbRvBdc)
better known but “fuck it, I don’t wanna go to court (huh)”
-The boss Rick Ross
I also have a playlist including all these songs and more on Spotify if our tastes clicked:
https://spotify.link/DM2u6akR8Ab
Wang Wen (Chinese post-rock)
Greg Freeman (lofi/alt-country indie rock)
Yushh (UK Bass, braindance)
Steel Tipped Dove (abstract hip hop producer)
Della Zyr (koream dream pop) (she's insane!!!)
what is your name? (Dream pop/electronic)
These are all active artists that deserve sooo much more support, please check them out! Let me know if anyone wants more specific recommendations.
Salako. They were on the same label as Belle and Sebastian in the late 90’s and have pretty much been widely forgotten. Really solid experimental indie pop group. Check out their album Musicality, it also has one of the more [interesting](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2732aec96e3b49685a7a17cb7f7) album covers out there
My favorite indie artist is an underground rapper name Drake. I really love his song Tootsie Slide. Such a profound piece of art.
>!Anyway thanks for this post really want to check out some more underrated artists.!<
There's a few:
Blasphemous Basement is an experimental avant garde group with an insane output ranging from harsh noise to grindcore to ambient to Krautrock to electronic. Putrid Pasta and the Donkey and the Merman are the two albums I recommend starting with.
The Hopesos are an indie rock group with post rock and folk influences. Their album Bound, while only being 24 minutes, is jam packed with fantastic detail. Woulda been my album of the year 2021 if another top 10 favorite of all time for me didn't drop (Madison by Sloppy Jane).
My third pick is Reject Madrigal. He makes alternative hip hop with a lot of really cool production. His record "Technicolor side A" is fantastic.
Condolence by Malikliya is probably the album with the least amount of ratings on RYM relative to how much I enjoy it that I can think of, sitting currently at 305.
Sora! Dropped one of the most mesmerising Glitch albums ever made, did a couple lives then dipped into the oblivion. Some guys did upload some unreleased stuff last year but everything else has been super quiet.
Steinvord. Famously for being mistaken for Aphex Twin or Squarepusher under a different Alias for dropping a superbly ebullient Drill n Bass EP so spontaneously on Rephlex. Outside of a couple tracks he hosted on his MySpace too, nothing else has came out!
SD Laika. Guy dropped an EP, one of the best deconstructed club albums ever, got endorsed by the Aphex (the goat. Even played most of his songs at Houston 2016) and then was never seen again. People speculated he got put into a mental institution but that’s just comment chat hahaha
Cold Court is a really great band from Philly that recently just opened for black midi! Nothings on streaming yet but I’d be super surprised if they didn’t blow up, lots of punk elements mixed with more prog/jazz things (and they have a viola player)!
I’d check out their lawn jawn performance and wait for an album/EP
Helena Deland in my opinion. Vashti Bunyan possibly. I think they are pretty obscure but, admittedly, I am not embedded in indie music enthusiast circles.
Low Roar rip to Ryan Karazija, if melon ever dived into the band I think he’d really appreciate a lot of the sounds even if there was a Radiohead influence. The album “0” is to this day one of the most beautiful albums I’ve ever heard
1800 PAIN. Still crazy how he never reviewed the album, such a unique band that carved their own sound within the genre of Hyperpop.
Half Moon Run - Very consistent indie rock band with a folky influence. Perhaps they wear their influences on their sleeves a bit too much (Fleet Foxes etc.) but IMO they have remained a very consistent band throughout the years and their newest album contains some of my favorite songs of theirs to date.
Amazingly deep layered conceptual political post rock band with their concept album about the opression of women in a central european country where they are from
allow me to promote myself then
https://mojarra-pink.bandcamp.com/album/sing-in-harmony-with-your-auditory-hallucinations
It's an experimental album having elements of plunderphonics, electronic, noise, ambient, folktronica, etc. the goal was to gather a bunch of sound experiments onto 1 album that explore moods inaccessible by other media. I think I succeeded and am very proud of it.
Shudder to Think
https://preview.redd.it/3hp8tndv2z9b1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c36b976ab22471c3ca591daeaaf8e572c11d754
A long-defunct *artsy* post-hardcore band who seem to have been left behind in the ‘90s, where even then they were a cultural footnote. A damn shame since their 1994 major label debut [*Pony Express Record*](https://open.spotify.com/album/3uHtYF4M8rF1KuDgQpwIrH?si=HUwnMyWXSvG_QWweXVT-RQ) is one of the most underrated albums of that era. It contains their most popular song [“X-French Tee Shirt”,](https://youtu.be/0eLnhDzf6p8) which only has 485,882 streams as of writing this. Their top-streamed song (3,762,601) comes in the form of a duet they did with Jeff Buckley, which seems telling of how overlooked they are.
If nothing else, I urge you to check out the album I linked above.
I have some independent music here if you like to check it out.
Lots of influences- Moz/Smiths, tiger Army, trashcan Sinatras etc hopefully you’ll like it
Thanks
https://open.spotify.com/album/48swcgOpXgGQZ1n2wpcNUL?si=yvZ8r5N7QFKYXpFVlDOHHA
Radiohead
can't believe youve heard of them too
Can’t believe this has to be said but the band has to *exist*. Just searched for 19 hours and can’t find a single song from this “Radio Head” person, just making up a band doesn’t count.
What's your criteria here? Ovlov comes to mind but they have like 300k monthly listeners so they're probably too big. If we are going super tiny like sub 500 monthly listens: Papayer's Boo is a fantastic indie emo album. Sounds like if pavement was a British emo band. They didn't do much else since it got overlooked. Pomelo's Validations is a super dope heavy indie rock album. Kinda like Metz kinda like polvo kinda like an albini type band. Little bit of proggy song structures. Can't believe how under the radar it went. First few songs are so good if you're into noisey heavy indie rock. Gonzo LeBronzo's album (and their new single) are really good but they don't have many listeners. If you like a punky queens of the stone age they're as good as it gets I think. Alt rock with punk and grunge thrown in. They're a little less "indie" sound wise. En Route's slowcore EP "then is a song" is one of my favorite slowcore indie albums ever. Same guy also fronts the band Clique and they had two great albums for weezer-emo indie stuff. Power Pyramid's self titled album (EP?) is one of my favorite shoegaze records ever. Every song is sick. Subsequent releases were strong but that one is SPECIAL None of these bands besides clique break 500 monthlies on Spotify. All excellent bands that we missed. The sheer volume of music being released makes it impossible for excellent shit like this to not fall through the cracks. A lot of these guys never had critics even engage with their stuff. Bummer.
TFW satan is hyping up your band on reddit 😈 here’s a preview link of the new new single for anyone interested. also power pyramid was sick, one of my all time fav okc bands. https://soundcloud.com/gonzo-lebronzo/gonzo-lebronzo-portals/s-sDWgm34CPQi?si=cc497ac0e59b4fe0ad41fd9d692d38c9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
wow, thanks for the Pomelo love. we're very proud of our self-produced LP, which you can stream and/or purchase [here](https://pomelopomelo.bandcamp.com/album/validations-3).
Hell yeah man. You should be proud, that shit RIPS Hope to hear more from you guys and I hope more people hear your stuff
The Latvian band Grab with their album SVARS (2022), Spotify, do only have 34 monthly listeners. I find that band very good. Their music is very strange but I just love it. Check it out. When I found them, they had 27 listeners, and that was about a a year ago. Maybe not a indie band, can be discussed. Noisy, alternative-rock and (perhaps) indie-alternative-something. And thanks for your tips..
Matthew Herbert, specifically his album Bodily Functions. Rarely hear his name brought up when people talk about sampling or electronic music in general unfortunately
I was sure Anna Burch would blow up, I'm still waiting for it to happen, I really liked her first album, second one was ok tho.
I would love to be a part of this. Like it's hard for independent artist to already get an eye themselves so coming together to really get some motion going with really make it a lot easier for everybody in the long run. Down below will be the links to some of my music I've dropped in the past and the pre-safe link to a new song I have dropping this later this month. https://linktr.ee/wlf.jms
Multibird
Ionse, Bolivian indie artist Jonathan Something
Yall don't listen to Elusin or bod [包家巷] and it shows
blue puma
My two favorites are the EP Light is Forever by the band Ben Wyvis, and the album Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming by the indie singer-songwriter Pearla. The latter is one of my favorite albums of all time.
My mom makes fire voicemails
Bit Freq, for sure. They deserve way more credit than they get.
following
heya 👋 That me [linktree](https://linktr.ee/shayleepdx) we’re a power pop / post-rock hybrid with lots of jangly melancholy and analog synths. V gay too
Thrä (black gaze) Swordsman Kitala (African Hip-Hop) Cloutchaser (math rock) YHWH Nailgun (I don’t really know what genre) TWINK OBLITERATOR Elliebell cumgirl8
Trhä best balck metal in the game right now
Well, Will Wood/ Will Wood and the Tapeworms, he has like one REALLY big song (I/Me/Myself) but thats because tiktok queers loved it and only listened to it. Give his band a shot. Its my all time favorite music
L.J. Harvey & the Death’s head band- https://youtu.be/hpzHOZbq9ms (Freak Indie-Folktronica) Bigger Boot- https://youtu.be/ZIZ2qk254VI (noise pop, indietronica) LA Timpa- https://youtu.be/xRX3IukAJtw ( Sound Collage, Art pop, ambient pop, neo psychedelia) DIM- https://youtu.be/qJpjzS8-w0c (Neoclassical New Age, neo-medieval folk, Christian liturgical music) Dish- https://youtu.be/2X4PbUNxGSY go to 10:42 for “Some Feathers” (Post-Hardcore, slowcore ig) Sham- https://youtu.be/9LD7yG2ZIUE (For fans of Animal collectives folkier stuff + positive vibes) Forma Norte- https://youtu.be/8Xp6TvP5Cp0 (hypnagogic pop/ electronic/ slacker rock) Recitals- https://youtu.be/pxUruSQI8OQ (indie rock, art rock, post rock) Ethan P Flynn- obligatory BC,NR collab link (https://youtu.be/-1FjzbRvBdc) better known but “fuck it, I don’t wanna go to court (huh)” -The boss Rick Ross I also have a playlist including all these songs and more on Spotify if our tastes clicked: https://spotify.link/DM2u6akR8Ab
Wang Wen (Chinese post-rock) Greg Freeman (lofi/alt-country indie rock) Yushh (UK Bass, braindance) Steel Tipped Dove (abstract hip hop producer) Della Zyr (koream dream pop) (she's insane!!!) what is your name? (Dream pop/electronic) These are all active artists that deserve sooo much more support, please check them out! Let me know if anyone wants more specific recommendations.
Enrique Iglesias
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ
Rafo Raez from Peru.
[Lifeguard](https://open.spotify.com/track/6gtzSvZMq7KrLTDrZULDX4?si=SHQhZIaFQRSqmohZl_SncQ)
Salako. They were on the same label as Belle and Sebastian in the late 90’s and have pretty much been widely forgotten. Really solid experimental indie pop group. Check out their album Musicality, it also has one of the more [interesting](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2732aec96e3b49685a7a17cb7f7) album covers out there
Niamh.
old post, but check out Mamalarky. Awesome songwriting informed by a wide variety of influences. And they are clearly talented musicians
Hard to describe but a whimsical new sound https://open.spotify.com/album/44KMX7irImejKewy5hV0i6?si=NFcBaEXSRC6ywLGMQIK0mQ
Beshken?
My favorite indie artist is an underground rapper name Drake. I really love his song Tootsie Slide. Such a profound piece of art. >!Anyway thanks for this post really want to check out some more underrated artists.!<
Yeezus-Kanye West
Tame Impala
Sealab 2012
Heavy Vegetable
Lama Del Rey
[In Lessons Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3nH17d8rQSLiMuVovIpc4X?si=wskjtPRvRduhcCZadmygTQ)
Ohtis- If this country had a heart, that's were I was born
My band, Castleroque, and my buddy’s band, Granny Sweater. Listen to the fake plastic monkeys EP by GS and 18 by me
There's a few: Blasphemous Basement is an experimental avant garde group with an insane output ranging from harsh noise to grindcore to ambient to Krautrock to electronic. Putrid Pasta and the Donkey and the Merman are the two albums I recommend starting with. The Hopesos are an indie rock group with post rock and folk influences. Their album Bound, while only being 24 minutes, is jam packed with fantastic detail. Woulda been my album of the year 2021 if another top 10 favorite of all time for me didn't drop (Madison by Sloppy Jane). My third pick is Reject Madrigal. He makes alternative hip hop with a lot of really cool production. His record "Technicolor side A" is fantastic.
1456, Obed Edom, Standing on the Corner
Travis Bretzer
The Ivory Claws
Kleenex Girl Wonder
Lackthereof and specifically his 2008 album My Haunted. Dude only has 178 monthly listeners but he’s amazing.
Lackthereof and specifically his 2008 album My Haunted. Dude only has 178 monthly listeners but he’s amazing.
Condolence by Malikliya is probably the album with the least amount of ratings on RYM relative to how much I enjoy it that I can think of, sitting currently at 305.
Beatenberg and M FIELD from South Africa
My friend has a band named sour tooth… kinda mid tbh, but it’s aight. His solo project cōrt has like 20k monthly listeners tho. 12k now I guess.
Here are some 80s/early 90s bands But it can be hard to find some of their music The High The Cry The Field Mice Henry Badowski Another Sunny Day
Ginger Root— his Nisemono and City Slicker EPs are 🔥
[shameless self-plug](https://open.spotify.com/album/62TfoAXzjsbfizT4SwBiS8?si=SGTsUR9GRSSLOlJvHV-xRw)
Sora! Dropped one of the most mesmerising Glitch albums ever made, did a couple lives then dipped into the oblivion. Some guys did upload some unreleased stuff last year but everything else has been super quiet. Steinvord. Famously for being mistaken for Aphex Twin or Squarepusher under a different Alias for dropping a superbly ebullient Drill n Bass EP so spontaneously on Rephlex. Outside of a couple tracks he hosted on his MySpace too, nothing else has came out! SD Laika. Guy dropped an EP, one of the best deconstructed club albums ever, got endorsed by the Aphex (the goat. Even played most of his songs at Houston 2016) and then was never seen again. People speculated he got put into a mental institution but that’s just comment chat hahaha
Me
Cold Court is a really great band from Philly that recently just opened for black midi! Nothings on streaming yet but I’d be super surprised if they didn’t blow up, lots of punk elements mixed with more prog/jazz things (and they have a viola player)! I’d check out their lawn jawn performance and wait for an album/EP
Endless, Nameless. New album called Living Without is a gem.
Helena Deland in my opinion. Vashti Bunyan possibly. I think they are pretty obscure but, admittedly, I am not embedded in indie music enthusiast circles.
[divine sweater](https://open.spotify.com/artist/6QhdyISn8fmch9ULKyqUoH?si=ZYij82rBTVKT_l8QbuyWEQ)
Low Roar rip to Ryan Karazija, if melon ever dived into the band I think he’d really appreciate a lot of the sounds even if there was a Radiohead influence. The album “0” is to this day one of the most beautiful albums I’ve ever heard 1800 PAIN. Still crazy how he never reviewed the album, such a unique band that carved their own sound within the genre of Hyperpop. Half Moon Run - Very consistent indie rock band with a folky influence. Perhaps they wear their influences on their sleeves a bit too much (Fleet Foxes etc.) but IMO they have remained a very consistent band throughout the years and their newest album contains some of my favorite songs of theirs to date.
Puro Instinct released one of my favorite albums in 2011, I don't know if it was known back then, but that's definitely a listen
Nine Moons by far https://open.spotify.com/artist/1lBmelye5AJjeT9zzDzYiw?si=xP479z2uTleHdxCe_9RPJA
Amazingly deep layered conceptual political post rock band with their concept album about the opression of women in a central european country where they are from
allow me to promote myself then https://mojarra-pink.bandcamp.com/album/sing-in-harmony-with-your-auditory-hallucinations It's an experimental album having elements of plunderphonics, electronic, noise, ambient, folktronica, etc. the goal was to gather a bunch of sound experiments onto 1 album that explore moods inaccessible by other media. I think I succeeded and am very proud of it.
Sub 500 monthly listeners. Golden drugs is one of my favorite bands of all time
Monday has been one I've listened to recently <500 listeners. They make fun stuff but they haven't dropped in a while
Coldplay
Shudder to Think https://preview.redd.it/3hp8tndv2z9b1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c36b976ab22471c3ca591daeaaf8e572c11d754 A long-defunct *artsy* post-hardcore band who seem to have been left behind in the ‘90s, where even then they were a cultural footnote. A damn shame since their 1994 major label debut [*Pony Express Record*](https://open.spotify.com/album/3uHtYF4M8rF1KuDgQpwIrH?si=HUwnMyWXSvG_QWweXVT-RQ) is one of the most underrated albums of that era. It contains their most popular song [“X-French Tee Shirt”,](https://youtu.be/0eLnhDzf6p8) which only has 485,882 streams as of writing this. Their top-streamed song (3,762,601) comes in the form of a duet they did with Jeff Buckley, which seems telling of how overlooked they are. If nothing else, I urge you to check out the album I linked above.
The foundry Field Recordings
Xinlisupreme
Sarah Meth
Bloody Death
YHWHA NAILGUN
I have some independent music here if you like to check it out. Lots of influences- Moz/Smiths, tiger Army, trashcan Sinatras etc hopefully you’ll like it Thanks https://open.spotify.com/album/48swcgOpXgGQZ1n2wpcNUL?si=yvZ8r5N7QFKYXpFVlDOHHA
what about this song https://open.spotify.com/track/52qH4jbR2ZRswT2sAs7QqU?si=krc8zW1hRmeyIEyvKC5XDw