Underlined Passages – ‘Landfill Indie’ [Album Review]

Baltimore’s Underlined Passages’ new album Landfill Indie is, according to the band, “a bit of a sleeper protest record. Reacting to the fickle dismissiveness of modern indie rock critics and the relegation of contemporary alternative music to a million subcategories and enclaves.” Produced by Frank Marchand, who has worked with Bob Mould, War on Drugs, and The Thermals, the sound of Landfill Indie is tinted with shoegaze surfaces that reveal savours of emotive nostalgia. Made up of songwriter Michael Nestor, Roger Stewart (drums), and Joe Markus (bass), Underlined Passages has shared the stage with Explosions in the Sky, The Stills, Now It’s Overhead, The Octopus Project, Matt Pond PA, Joan as Police Woman, Grandaddy, Q and not U, Laura Burhenn, Laura Viers, and Karate. ...

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