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No one should be doing indie rock at 43: Band of Horses's Things Are Great reviewed

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

Grade: B

That thing, ‘indie rock’, is so well played and produced these days, so pristine and flawless, that it has become almost the antithesis of what it was back at the end of the 1970s, when the term was invented. Then it referred to bands who released stuff on small independent labels because the big labels wouldn’t take them on.

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