Majorie? & t.E.S.S.I.M.: t.B.U.Ed.

Indie (often mentioned with its evil sidekick, Pop). Some people hate it, some love it, some just don't care ("if it sounds good, I'll get it"). Basically what pitchfork built its fame on, it seems to be an extremely vivid and rapidly evolving microcosm of the music industry, with its unknown heroes, pioneers, over-anticipated releases, add infinitum ...

If I were to attempt a semi-intelligent remark, I'd say that it also has a vast potential market, because one thing fans seem to have in common is the willingness to spend a ridiculous amount of money on it, even if they'll illegally download enough to fill their hard drive, their mother's hard drive, and their mother's uncle's college roomate's grandson's best friend's hard drive at the same time.

Notice also that indie doesn't mean anything: "indie" comes on major labels, and not all independent labels release "indie". That being said, I'll be the first to argue that most genre names (if not completely senseless) are, by the time they become accepted, somewhere between inappropriate and incorrect.

But to be honest, it's hard to escape whatever we ended up conveniently calling indie. And why would you? If you look hard enough anywhere, you're bound to find something good (at least in music, indie is no exception). If most thing labeled indie have in common, it's to have catchy melodies. And if you go with that criteria, you'll find some catchy shit indeed.
 
Moving on.

This mix was quickly thrown together in a time of packing and leaving beautiful places/people for this godforsaken overheated summer. It is a random combination of things I've mostly found in the past year. Probably haven't digested all of it, but you tell me what you think.

The Elephant Space Snowstorm Catchy Indie Pop Mix (The Barely Underground  Edition)

1. Wake Up - Arcade Fire
2. Psychic City - YACHT
3. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend 
4. Ring Ring - Sleigh Bells
5. For Reverend Green - Animal Collective
6. Red Sock Pugie - Foals
7. Postcards From Italy - Beirut
8. Lit Up - The National 
9. While We Go Dancing - White Rabbits
10. Jumping Jack - tUnE-yArDs
11. Jodi - The Dodos
12. Zebra - Beach House
13. Beach Comber - Real Estate
14. Borderline - The Flaming Lips With Stardeath & White Dwarfs
15. All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem

 "I'm outta here"

And I'll do another album review very soon. Not that I think any of our 3 readers (that's you! thanks for reading! please comment!) misses them, but probably because you're annoyed by Flavio and myself mostly using this blog as an opportunity to throw mixes at each other over the internets.

Hope the summer's going well for you all,

JNCT

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