Baltimore indie rock heroes Underlined Passages have had the honor of sharing stages with the likes of 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, and more. Founded in 2014 by Michael Nestor of The Seldon Plan, the project has gone through a number of lineup changes over the years, with Nestor being the band’s primary driving force the whole time. With four full-length albums already under their belt, they’re well on their way to being classified as scene veterans.
Today, they’re debuting their latest album called Landfill Indie. With a sound reminiscent of early Jimmy Eat World, particularly in the debut single off the album called “brkn,” it turns out that the band were trying to give the album the sound of a late-90s/early-2000s emo mixtape. “This is on purpose,” Nestor says “to underscore the irony that the recent corporate digital fractionation of indie rock into a million clades is also currently basking in the glory of a late 90s/early ‘aughts revival.”
The band calls the album “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.”
Check out the album below.
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