Indie sad lads: rock's millennial men show they have feelings too

A new wave of male indie artists, such as Car Seat Headrest, Palace Winter, Kevin Morby, Alex G and Whitney are not afraid to show their sensitive sideAs pop’s foremost females furiously demolish all in their path – think Beyoncé, walloping the windows of parked cars with a baseball bat on Hold Up, or Rihanna, gunning down her boyfriend in a strip club on Needed Me – pure melancholy hangs over their male counterparts. Sorrow seeps from songs by Yung Lean and Zayn Malik, R...

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