Hello,
Well, i haven't said i didn't like this song and Indie rock. Moreover my mix is using Indie mixing approaches, which in my oppinion still need to be developed among engeneers...
What makes Indie rock different from just Rock in my oppinion is a DELAY Layer on guitars and more ambient mixes with Reverb. Also Cymbals have special treatment and usually have reverb and delay also.
What makes Indie Rock musically different is a:
1) Drums Playing non straight patterns: for example "I. I. I"
2) Live feeling in play.
3) Playing inner melodies (guitar arpegios) which rytmically comping with piano and with drums.
4) Harmony vocabulary is much broad then in Rock music.
for example 4 note chords come into play, so all theory
about rootless voicing, tritone substitution, taken from
Jazz music comes into the play now.
NEW: All this means what Indie musicians should be quite skilled, of couse if they want to produce something interesting.
I don't feel arranging of this song was following this.
It is more easy to drop some garbage on track (like we have at the end) then trying comping rytmical elements.
Is a Live playing synonym for Sloppy playing?
I don't think.
My drums just swing aroud, thats i don't like.
My guitar makes much mess in Delay layer, because if you apply delay to something plaed very loosely, then this will take very much attention.
I'm still wont edit anything, because editing is boring process:)))
Is this track Indie rock?
Well i don't know: It can be Indie rock or Plain Rock or just piece of garbage, this all is depending on Engeneer in this case...
What engeneer cannot do, is to make it PERFECT indie rock.
What i like in songs with few tracks what they are more challenging because every track should sound perfect.
What i don't like:
With few tracks we don't have arranging choise and cannot select Arranging functions(Foundation, PAD, Rytm, Solo) among the tracks... Moreover in this case we are lucking well defined functions in song arrangement.