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They sound pretty generically American to me.

Hard to look past Foals really. Three top ten albums, improving signifiantly each time, decent live. Get quite a bit of press coverage and attention, but then that wasn't the question, really.

I've seen them live for a number of years and they were a nervous live act early one. Their new album is probably the best of the year for me and they've grown to be a very strong live act now.

Think there's definitely an argument to be made for each album being better than the last. In Our Heads is definitely my fave anyway.

Have slowly grown as a band and now, having finally ditched that silly 'dance music for geeks' tag, are in possession of an incredible catalogue of work, hopefully with their best to come.

but I reckon they're not quite OP was looking for

incredible body of work,7 albums in they've released a classic.starting to get namechecked by younger bands.tons of critical acclaim.
for a younger band id have to say hookworms.

frightened rabbit
Errors
Twilight Sad

Anyway, my interpretation:

Frightened Rabbit, Wild Beasts, Field Music, Django Django, Bat for Lashes, Twilight Sad, Lone Wolf to name a few.

Belle & Sebastian
Field Music
The Pastels

1. Wild Beasts
2. Frightened Rabbit
3. The Maccabees
4. Metronomy

but I'd add Los Campesinos! to the growing list (agree with many of these other suggestions, too)

care to clarify?

By far the best and they haven't released anything for a couple of years. Not sure if this is a reflection on their greatness or the sad state of British indie rock at the moment.

My favourite indie record of the last few have been...

Darkstar - News From Nowhere

Are they indie now that they have been compared to Animal Collective cos if not MPP will have to be whiped off the indie map and put next to Four Tet or something.

But yeah Darkstar, James Blake, Mount Kimbie sound more indie than Hot Chip to me and they're in this thread so...

Oh and Micachu & The Shapes they're ace. Are Hookworms indie or just rock?

that i've liked one album by
so them

been the best band around for a while

been better then Dingus Khan and everything

Here to give the UK music scene a good kick up the arse with proper music for the bloke in the street who puts the lottery on every week.

Hookworms
Public Service Broadcasting
Plank!
Mugstar
93millionmilesfromthesun
She Makes War
Two Skies

Edinburgh-based, recently signed to Fortuna Pop, did a cover of Greased Lightning (https://soundcloud.com/spookschool/greased-lightning-dandelion)

And I believe album number 4 should be out this year...so they're pretty much sticking to a decent, album every two years schedule.

indie = everything

The xx then. They're ace.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4356930

naaaaah. would like to know your parameters of what indie means

Their live set up is like a small two man band. They even have vocals in the new stuff. Hot Chip are like an electronic dance band with more emphasis on singing they dont sound as indie as Mount Kimbie who have the odd guitar twang and a more mellow energy in general. I dunno never thought of Hot Chip as indie. The tag just feels right for Mount Kimbie, I mean they use dance music ideas but they haven't ever been a dance band of any kind, they're electronic but use live instruments and the general vibe is one of indie, electronic leanign indie but indie all the same.

http://youtu.be/-1aeKFyr4SQ

stick to the end with the vocals, they sound like Foals.

but i always thought of it as more of a post-rock/shoegaze vibe that you could hear, even with the sketch on glass/maybes eps. i dunno it's a confusing word these days, indie. i suggested Errors below but they're more electronic than guitar-based

an electronic one yeah but still feel like more of a band than Hot Chip somehow. I think its the more dancy thing. Errors dont feel like a dance band so I'd stick them in indie but Hot Chip are kinda dancy or in the ballads like a synth band rather than an indie one. But then Darkstar sound really indie to me on the new one, there isn't a dance side at all there on this one. And James Blake's live thing is just a band innit, an odd sounding one but its set up exactly like one, maybe even more so than The xx who don't have drums do they? But they're mega indie. Dunno I like the bluring lines and move to slightly odder band structures.

made me realise they're more clinical and technically brilliant then anything else. They lack any emotion behind their music, which is kind of a shame (don't get me wrong I do still enjoy them but I find myself completely disconnected from the music)

Do Thumpermonkey count as indie?

tunes, lads and haircuts?

I'm seeing them in a few weeks; a mate said I might like them. What can I expect?

Btw best British indie band has to be These New Puritans

and actually have a body of work that we can judge. I wouldn't argue with Foals, Hot Chip or Wild Beasts though and if the next These New Puritans album is great I would add them to the potential list.

Particularly given the likely quality of the new album - had it been another Valhalla we'd be on weaker ground (not a diss on that album, but they don't need another one like it for a while).

but technically Irish (apart from bilinda and debbie)

jesus fucking christ you guys

heard that album, gave it away. Just like Vaccines. Stop yanking my chain.

Can any of the bedwetters on here say the same?

(although they are largely Bulgarian).

Part of that is being up to date on the latest bands like The Kooks and Dennis Sheeran and wearing jeans. Try to keep up if you want to be anywhere near as indie as me, I'm probably the indiest.

Hidden is post-rock as post-rock is meant to be done.

Sure it technically means nothing...but just about everyone on DiS knows what you mean when you say it, so it has it's uses.

Feel free to tell me I'm wrong again, everyone.

I would add to the list.

Just can't put a foot wrong at the moment. Tall Ships are on their way. British Sea Power would be the more established answer though.