Recommend some indie albums

[CrunchBerries]

I went to a buddy's house and he threw a few records on his turntable last weekend. One Smashing Pumpkins album and another from an underground grunge band I had never heard of. Both were of stellar production and the sound was surprisingly awesome for 45's. Nothing was overproduced, the bass sounded like a fucking bass, and the singers sounded like fucking singers and the guitars were layered the old fashioned way for thickness.

I am looking for a newer solid heavy grunge band, somewhere between Smashing pumpkins to Nirvana.. looking more for something with intelligent writing and riffs vs cookie cutter catchy tunes.

Thanks in advance

[jnurp]

The exies fit that bill. Although, Not a grunge band, they are a bit on the melodic side but great songs, great vox and great hooks. For sure one of my favorite bands from the last 20 years.

[Ostinato Rubato]

Friends don't recommend friends indie.

[Ry Manchu]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take them On, On Your Own and Eponymous
Hot Hot Heat - Make up the Breakdown
Phantom Planet - The Guest
The Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World, Chutes Too Narrow
Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
Spoon - Girls Can Tell, Kill the Moonlight, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Gimme Fiction
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish?
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
The New Pornographers - Electric Version, Mass Romantic, Twin Cinema
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan, Illinois, Seven Swans
Eels - Blinking Lights and other Revalations
Built to Spill - You in Reverse
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin, Everything All The Time
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive, Seperation Sunday
Metric - Fantasies
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am, That is what I am Not
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math, Mean Everything to Nothing
Portugal, The Man - The Satanic Satanist
The Postal Service - Give Up
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas..
Tegan and Sara - The Con
. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Source Tags & Codes
Fleet Foxes - Eponymous
Passion Pit - Manners
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves, At Dawn
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Ween - Quebec

[CrunchBerries]

Sweet, thanks buddy I will check those out. Probably with beer on friday lol.

[Ry Manchu]

Sweet, thanks buddy I will check those out. Probably with beer on friday lol.

You're welcome. Start with The Dandy Warhols, Fountains of Wayne, Eels, and The Hold Steady.

[maggotspawn]

Ferment and Chrome by Catherine Wheel are great albums.