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Baltimore, MD’s Underlined Passages has released a new album entitled Landfill Indie via Mint 400 Records. Songwriter Michael Nestor wrote the record to play like a late-’90s / early 2000s emo mixtape. The band teamed up with their longtime producer Frank Marchand (Bob Mould, War on Drugs, The Thermals), “to create hopeful-yet-skeptical perspectives on maintaining purpose, questioning relationships, and reexamining oneself in light of our culture’s movement squarely into a digitized, avatar-centric reality.”

Landfill Indie goes back sonically to Nestor’s roots as an influencer in the early ‘aughts Baltimore DIY indie rock scene, one heavily invested in technicolor recordings with solid melodies and recognized in 2008 by Rolling Stone as a scene that produced Future Islands, Wye Oak, Beach House, and Dan Deacon, among others.

According to the band, it’s:

“… a bit of a sleeper protest record. Reacting to the fickle dismissiveness of modern indie rock critics and the relegation of contemporary alternative music to a million subcategories and enclaves.”

Stream Landfill Indie in full below and keep checking back for more from Underlined Passages!