landfill indie (uncountable)
- (derogatory) A genre of British indie rock music in the late 2000s and early 2010s, typically defined by high-energy guitars, realist lyrics and use of regional accents; indie rock music perceived as unambitious, stale and commercial.
2013 March 11, Rhian E. Jones, Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 1994:These have focused variously on the abysmal quality of its 'landfill indie' variant, its alleged takeover by privately-educated nu-folkers, and its almost total failure to respond to an increasingly harsh rightwards turn in British politics
2013 January 28, Professor Andy Bennett, Professor Jon Stratton, Britpop and the English Music Tradition, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 165:For example, Robinson writes that the 'Godfathers of landfill Indie', like Razorlight, the Pigeon Detectives and the Wombats, are doing for the new generation of indie-guitar bands what Menswear and Sleeper did for Britpop.
2023 February 14, Dan Evans, A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:The View were a Libertines-adjacent landfill indie band from Dundee with a few hit singles. Although music buffs will no doubt recoil in horror here, their hit single, “Superstar Tradesman”, really resonated with me.
