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landfill indie

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

Noun

landfill indie (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) A genre of British indie rock music in the late 2000s and early 2010s, typically defined by high-energy guitars, pretentious lyrics and use of regional accents; indie rock music perceived as unambitious, stale and commercial.
    • 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 politics2013 March 11, Rhian E. Jones, Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 1994
    • 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.2013 January 28, Professor Andy Bennett, Professor Jon Stratton, Britpop and the English Music Tradition, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 165

Origin of landfill indie

Coined by English music journalist Andrew Harrison in a 2007 review in The Word magazine, suggesting the indie music scene as a large expanse of rubbish.

Questions about landfill indie

What does landfill indie mean?
Landfill indie means a genre of British indie rock music in the late 2000s and early 2010s, typically defined by high-energy guitars, pretentious lyrics and use of regional accents; indie rock music perceived as unambitious, stale and commercial.
What part of speech is landfill indie?
Landfill indie is a noun.

Words near landfill indie in the dictionary

  1. landfalling
  2. landfalls
  3. landfarming
  4. landfast
  5. landfill
  6. landfill indie
  7. landfill of history
  8. landfill site
  9. landfill sites
  10. landfillable
  11. landfillcore

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