Indie Popper playlist brings you into the vibrant world of indie pop! This playlist is your go-to collection of catchy melodies, uplifting vibes, and fresh sounds from the indie scene. The first Indie Pop list features 50 beautiful, heavy, joyful, sad, and everything in between pop songs.

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From this first Indie Pop list, we want to highlight a few songs in particular.

Pulp: Common People

First of all, the divine masterpiece of all pop songs is Pulp’s ”Common People”. You can’t listen to this song without wanting to dance— not even if you’re driving on the highway when it starts playing on the radio. So if you ever see a dancing driver speeding down the highway at 120 km/h, you know that ”Common People” is playing on their car’s stereo.

Teddybears feat. Iggy Pop: Punkrocker

As fans of clumsy humor, it makes perfect sense that Mr. Pop, Iggy Pop, is of course featured on the Indie Pop list. The godfather of punk makes an appearance on the pop list with Teddybear’s song ”Punkrocker,” of course.

Iggy Pop and Punkrocker might not immediately sound like indie pop, but give the song a listen. It’s a beautifully heavy pop track.

Desparete Journalist: Unsympathetic parts 1 & 2

One of my most beautiful new song discoveries is Desperate Journalist’s ”Unsympathetic parts 1 & 2”. The track takes you into the vibes of post-punk. The atmosphere of the song faintly reminds me of Siouxsie and the Banshees mayby The Cure too.

If Desperate Journalist is a new discovery for you also and you think they’re a fresh newcomer, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to hear that they’ve already released five albums. There’s plenty of this delightful music to enjoy!

Kemopetrol: Are You Coming Home?

If Kemopetrol isn’t familiar to you, now is the time to correct that mistake in the world. This is a band which soundscape in the ’90s was something that is now considered some of the coolest stuff in 2000s indie pop.

They have consistently been ahead of their time, so if you wish to experience a sound reflective of the future, you should definitely listen to Kemopetrol. Their innovative approach and genre-blending style have positioned them as influential figures in the music scene, making their work essential for anyone interested in the evolution of contemporary pop.

What’s exciting right now is that after a 10-year break, Kemopetrol is set to release a new album in January 2025. The single ”Are You Coming Home?” from the list is a delicious preview of what’s to come on the album. ”How many decades ahead of its time will Kemopetrol’s sound be this time?”

The Odorants: Car Radio

One strong candidate for the best pop-punk song of the year is definitely The Odorants’ ”Car Radio”. It approaches pop-punk perfection.

It’s so perfect that I wonder why the singer of this Finnish band still lives in northern Finland, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by reindeer.

If the world were fair, he would be a millionaire just from this song, living in Los Angeles among other pop-punk millionaires. Or, if northern Finland is where he wants to live, he would own the largest herd of reindeer in the world, bought with the royalties from ”Car Radio.”

Ist Ist: What I Know

Oh my, simplicity is beautiful.

Ist Ist song What I Know features a driving beat and a rich soundscape, creating an effortlessly relatable vibe. The emotive, layered vocals add depth to the overall mood, making the song both captivating and thought-provoking.

Vallilan Unelma: Lohtukeloja

At the end of the list, there are six songs sung in Finnish. We apologize that the world’s population, minus the 5 million Finns, won’t be able to understand the lyrics of these songs. However, music is universal, and the atmosphere of these tracks can be felt in Los Angeles, Cape Town, or Tokyo or where ever you are.

Lauma’s songs ”Ota mut kyytiin jos sä lähdet” (Take me along if you’re leaving), sounds more like a British band than actual British bands do.

Anna Eriksson: Jos mulla olisi sydän (if I had a heart). Hopefully, you’ll get at least a small glimpse of that heart through the atmosphere.

Then there’s Olot. When I need THE sound, I dig Olot from my Spotify cave.

The very last song on the playlist is Lohtukeloja by Vallilan Unelma. What an incredibly beautiful atmospheric piece, whose opening line asks if you know that a blue whale’s heart is the size of a small car. The lyrics and atmosphere of the song are so beautiful that it truly deserves to be the closing track on the list.

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