To my ears, a lot of mid-to-late 2000s indie rock and pop, while not necessarily homogeneous in sound, shared this very specific quality of unabashed earnestness, a bold willingness to be as emotional and intense as it wanted to be, even if that meant being more than a little melodramatic at times. It balanced rich, sunny melodicism with deeply cathartic lyricism in which...
Okay, I meant for these posts to be a way for me to highlight music I've freshly gotten into outside of new releases. (Just like I meant to post something a little different between this and the last Top Ten Tuesday, but it's still in the works. I'm trying really hard to have it ready for next week.) But the problem is I...