OUGD505: Indie Folk

LIST OF ARTISTS

• Noah And The Wale
• Future Islands 
• George Ezra
• The Lumineers
• Regina Spektor
• Arcade Fire
• Laura Marling
• Fleet Foxes
• Mumford & Sons
• The War On Drugs
• Of Monsters and Men
• Kodaline
• Manchester Orchestra 
• Bombay Bicycle Club
• Edward Sharp And The Magnetic Zeros
• Bon Iver
• Ben Howard
• Tom Odell
• First Aid Kit
• Bear's Den
• Daughter
• Vampire Weekend

These artists are some that were on the everynoise.com page that fall under this micro genre. A lot of these artists and bands I have seen live myself so I have experienced their music first hand, I think this works as a positive because it means I can fully understand their style of music and the sort of sound they all create. 

WHAT IS INDIE FOLK?

Where folk meets indie... These are two different genres merged together to form this new micro-genre, it's basically modern folk with lots of country and rock influences. Although indie folk is acoustic to nature along with story-telling elements, its not quite the traditional folk music. Indie folk, mixes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation. 

Indie folk has been around since the 90's, this was when some singer-songwriters began playing music influenced by both folk, country and rock music. However, it wasn't until the following decade when the genre of music fully took off, this was when artists from the indie rock genre began taking cues from folk music.

Common Instruments:

Acoustic guitar

Double bass

Piano

Harmonium

Mandolin

Banjo

Drums

Violin

Electric guitar