The Thousands

When I was growing up, indie rock was everywhere. You couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a feedback drenched guitar solo, distorted, jangly guitars, and whiny vocals. Pavement was on MTV. Built To Spill were always touring. We slept on plaid flannel sheets and were all like, ‘yeah, indie rock will always be around. Eh. Whatever’.

Then everything got weird. Fluoro shoelaces came along and funny haircuts and dangly necklaces.

Sydney’s Line Drawings resurrect those halcyon days of indie rock. Plowing through chunky fuzzed out pop, they’re bringing back the slacker sound, alongside Bearhug and I Was A King. They’re all shrugs and soft-spoken brilliance, choppy guitars and laconic vocals. Yeah whatever, right? Wrong! This shit is RAD!! I promise never to take you for granted again, indie rock.

My favorite track ‘Mundane’ encapsulates this perfectly, with slow-mo Grandaddy opening, start/stop Polvo rhythms, Dinosaur Jr. hooks, and Teenage Fanclub harmonies. Produced by Wayne Connolly (You Am I, Josh Pyke) and Bob Weston (Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf), Take/Over will go great with your winter coffee.