NTS Guide to: Indie Sleaze 2k24 28th November 2024

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FRACTAL MEAT ON A SPONGY BONE w/ Rutger Zuydervelt

An audio scrapbook compiled by sound artist and musician Graham Dunning, comprised of sonic art and experiments, improvised music, textures and rhythms, as well as selections from Dunning's archive of found home tape recordings, and a variety of regular features.

NTS Guide to: New Weird America

"New Weird America" emerged in the late 90s and early 2000s, blending folk, psychedelic rock, and experimental music. Popularized by journalist David Keenan, this movement showcased American musicians embracing DIY ethos and drawing inspiration from folk traditions, avant-garde, and outsider art. Delve into bands like MV & EE, Chalambides, and Fursaxa, alongside influential acts like Sun City Girls and Jandek, in this guide exploring the genre's innovative sound.

Leftfield Pop Electroclash

Lurid, trashy, 00s: indie sleaze. A phrase coined by fashion magazines to reference a contemporary reimagining of noughties fashion, a resurgence of interest in Hedi Slimane’s era-defining drainpipe denim and the angular guitar music associated with it.

The actual sound of the ‘indie sleaze’ revival extends well beyond the tired guitar music tropes from which it gets its namesake. Like new rave did before it, this loose set of producers and bands bring together a disparate set of influences from 21st century styles: turn-of-the-century electroclash, low brow Eurodance and the moody inflections of 2010s witch house.

This guide features some lesser known but deserving artists associated with the sound, including boysinblush, NEW YORK, Snow Strippers + more