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i heart twee
KharBevNor:
It's pop that is, like, baroque. Man.
nescience:
--- Quote from: The Wikipedia Entry on Baroque Pop ---
Baroque Pop as a style originated in the mid 1960s as the flipside of Sunshine Pop. It used similar orchestrations but was infused with a melodramatic edge which differed. Much of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds would fall into this category, as would a lot of the later work of Phil Spector. Scott Walker is another important figure in the genre.
Popular Baroque Pop artists today are The Divine Comedy, Rufus Wainwright, Badly Drawn Boy, Sondre Lerche, Kings of Convenience, Elliott Smith, The Postal Service, and Iron & Wine.
--- End quote ---
It's a very elastic genre. I would call the Beatles' original (ie, Phil Spectorized) Let it Be the classic example of Baroque Pop: lush instrumentation, perhaps slightly psychedelic, lots of emotional range.
McTaggart:
Do we count Ben Lee as twee?
MilkmanDan:
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/viewtopic.php?t=8098
I don't know what the hell nickyandthefuture is playing at. He's the goddamn Tsar of Twee round here. That thread, and the article it linked, look pretty useful. Just ignore all the posts with 'opinions' on pitchfork.
Other than that, I got nothing. My Knowledge of twee indie pop stuff is extremely limited, and I really, really disliked what I heard.
Mark7:
Have you tried www.indiepages.com? They have pages of links to more indie bands and labels than you could shake a perigosto stick at. :)
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