Indietronica

Indietronica emerged in the late 1990s as a delightful collision of indie rock's pretensions and electronic music’s relentless beat; it’s almost as if someone fed a laptop a steady diet of vintage synths and emotional angst. Characterised by melodic hooks, lush production, and the occasional ironic lyric, it sounds like your mate’s mixtape if they discovered what a sequencer does, whilst still being unashamedly heartfelt. The genre has given rise to a slew of hipster anthems, ensuring that every indie film soundtrack now sounds vaguely the same, just with better haircuts.