Notes on the noughties: Clearing up the indie landfill

At the start of the noughties, indie was seen as the rubbish dump of contemporary music. But by the end of the decade, it had produced some of the most impressive sounds"Landfill indie" was one of the decade's great memes. Coined by Andrew Harrison of The Word magazine, it captured that sense of alarming overproduction, the gross excess of supply over demand. All these bands! Where did they come from? Why did they bother? Couldn't they tell they were shit? Once upon a time, long long ago, the s...

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