| Landfill indie | |
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 British indie rock band Razorlight performing in 2009, described as the embodiment of landfill indie. | |
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Early 2000s, United Kingdom |
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Landfill indie is a style and era of British indie rock. The term was coined by music journalist Andrew Harrison in 2008 to describe a wave of guitar bands that emerged in the mid-2000s that were influenced by the commercial success of the Libertines.
The landfill indie era has been retrospectively associated with the indie sleaze aesthetic,[1][2] a term coined in 2021, to describe the fashion and visual style of landfill indie bands,[3][4] New York's post-punk revival and electroclash scene,[5] as well as early online blogosphere related music scenes such as blog rock[6] and bloghouse.[7][4][8]
Notable acts associated with the movement were Arctic Monkeys,[9] the Wombats,[10][11] the Cribs, the Kooks, Hard-Fi, Pigeon Detectives, Babyshambles, Scouting for Girls, the Vaccines, Razorlight, Milburn, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, the Fratellis, Courteeners, the Maccabees, Little Man Tate, the Enemy, Holloways, Mystery Jets, Sunshine Underground, the View, the Twang, the Rifles and Kaiser Chiefs.[12][13]
- ^ "How Indie Sleaze Went High Fashion". Elle. 5 May 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ Cosslett, Rhiannon Lucy (26 January 2022). "Gen Z are bringing back 'indie sleaze', and I suddenly feel ancient". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ Cunningham, Katie (17 December 2021). "'Everyone was partying for their life': Bang Gang, bloghouse and the indie sleaze of the mid-2000s". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ a b "The Kooks on growing up and the indie sleaze revival — 'It was very debauched'". hungermag.com. 29 April 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ Hunt, El (15 February 2022). "'There was a sense of optimism': how '00s indie sleaze made a massive comeback". NME. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ Tenreyro, Tatiana (13 October 2022). "Welcome to the Year of Indie Sleaze". Spin. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ Slone, Isabel (12 January 2022). "The Return of Indie Sleaze Style". Harper's Bazaar. Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "Indie Rock's Future is Female". ODDCRITIC. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ Beaumont, Mark (1 September 2020). "The term 'landfill indie' is pure snobbery from people who don't know how to have fun". NME. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ "The Wombats Prove They're Still the Kings of Landfill Indie". Catalyst. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ "The Wombats reject AI and prove indie lives on with 'messy and charming' 'Oh! The Ocean'". headlinerhub.com. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ^ Akinfenwa, Jumi; Joshi, Tara; Garland, Emma (27 August 2020). "The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time". Vice. Archived from the original on 11 November 2022.
- ^ Power, Ed (10 March 2023). "Interpol made one decent album – so why do we revere New York rock and sneer at British indie?". The i Paper. Retrieved 8 July 2025.