Indie Catchup With Destroyer, Spellling, Julien Baker/Torres, Panchiko, & DIrty Projectors: Rapid Fire Reviews
It's time to loop back around on some indie music. At one point or another I absolutely LOVED all 5 of the artists we're going to talk about today, but in an already extremely busy 2025 so far, their newest material fell by the wayside. To amend artists who have made music I love so much, I'm covering them all here instead. Dan's Boogie - Destroyer In the early to mid-2010s Dan Bejar, AKA Destroyer, released a pair of albums that really should serve as benchmarks for indie pop and sophisti-pop. Kaputt and Poison Season are both staggeringly good albums that till sound as delightfully fresh and lush today as they did when they came out. Since then Dan has shared a few records I liked, most notably his darker 2020 record Have We Met , but hasn't quite reached the same highs he once did. That wasn't helped when the lead single "Bologna" was a huge letdown for me and one of my least favorite Destroyer singles ever. Thankfully, the era bounced back from...