Sauna Youth

This week in the Indie Basement: Bill's favorite albums of 2018, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.

the breezy, enjoyable new album from The Coral; Brooklyn scuzz-punks Brandy (they're a fine band); a new Field Music side project; shouty UK indie-punks Sauna Youth; a lost record from high-concept subversives PFFR; and Fresh & Onlys frontman Tim Cohen.

London band Sauna Youth formed at the start of the decade and since have been cranking out hooky, shouty music that straddles the line between indiepop and punk. They'll be on their first tour of the States in September.

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc...

Sauna Youth's album Disctractions is one of my favorite albums of the year, the kind of shouty, strident indie punk (punky indie rock?) played with maximum snarl and energy...

We're happy to announce that BrooklynVegan is part of Spotify's "In Residence" series where we'll not only curate a monthly playlist, but premium users can hear us talk about it too...

It's that time of year again when folks start publishing their End of Year Best-Of lists. Almost always first out of the gates is UK-based Rough Trade Shops who dropped their 100 Best Albums of 2015 list today...

London band Sauna Youth formed at the start of the decade and since have been cranking out hooky, shouty music that straddles the line between indiepop and punk...