DARK COLOUR: Animal (Kitabu) — ’90s-style sample-ridden indie dance rock. Catchy as hell. Above video is “Be Your Man”, which is pretty representative. You can also tell the main guy, Randall Rigdon, did a pile of indie film soundtracks. It feels like the sleeve picture looks.
THE WAR BETWEEN: Goth Beach — not actually goth. Amateur punkish indie pop. The songs are short, catchy, to the point and lots of fun. Particularly nice tracks: “Take My Time” (the Fischerspooner showing), “All My Mind”, “Helpless”. The vinyl version looks gorgeous.
THE NURSERY: Digital Ashes EP — no relation to In The Nursery. ’90s kids writing catchy melodic pop songs in an indie band with synths. The B-sides are also worth your time, “Oceans Of You” being a particularly flashy number.
SELVES: Aura — Americans doing a reasonable attempt at simple and straightforward ’90s Britpop. Sticking to the Blur end, thankfully. This is headed in the right direction.
Of course you had to namedrop In The Nursery. (I thought the same thing…)