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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