Indie Rock originated from the UK in the 1990's and is a genre of alternative rock. It is very diverse with a variety of sub genres such as indie pop, jangle pop and lo-fi among many others. Indie Rcok was used to describe 'acts the retained an outsider and underground perspective' the term was also used interchangeably with alternative rock.
The term indie rock which comes from the word "independent" depicts the small, low budget lables on which it is release and the 'do-it-yourself' attitude of the bands or artist involved. Aesthetically speaking, indie rock is characterised as have a careful balance of pop accessibility with noise, experimentation with pop music formulae, sensitive lyrics masked by ironic porturing, and concern with 'authenticity' and the description of a simple guy or girl.
"Allmusic" states that indie rock is "varying musical approaches not compatible with mainstream tastes"
The indie rock movment encompasses variety of styles from hard-edged grunge bands through the do-it-yourself experimental bands. Indie rocj is also noted for having many female artists.
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