Meaning of landfill indie | Babel Free

Definitions

A genre of British indie rock music in the late 2000s and early 2010s, typically defined by high-energy guitars, realist lyrics and use of regional accents; indie rock music perceived as unambitious, stale and commercial.

derogatory, uncountable

Examples

“These have focused variously on the abysmal quality of its 'landfill indie' variant, its alleged takeover by privately-educated nu-folkers, and its almost total failure to respond to an increasingly harsh rightwards turn in British politics”

“For example, Robinson writes that the 'Godfathers of landfill Indie', like Razorlight, the Pigeon Detectives and the Wombats, are doing for the new generation of indie-guitar bands what Menswear and Sleeper did for Britpop.”

“The View were a Libertines-adjacent landfill indie band from Dundee with a few hit singles. Although music buffs will no doubt recoil in horror here, their hit single, “Superstar Tradesman”, really resonated with me.”

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