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Indie Folk
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What Indie Folk Means and How It Sounds
A plain guide to what indie folk is, how it sounds, what it sings about and where it came from.
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Indie Folk Music: A Complete Introduction
A plain-English guide to indie folk music: its sound, roots, instruments, subgenres, lyrics and where to start listening.
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Indie Folk or Folk Rock? Telling Them Apart
Folk rock plugs folk into a rock band in the mid-1960s; indie folk is acoustic-first and grew from 1990s indie…
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Indie Folk Subgenres Explained
Freak folk, chamber folk, folk baroque and folk-pop: what separates the main indie folk subgenres, and how to hear the…
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Common Lyrical Themes in Indie Folk
A guide to the recurring ideas in indie folk lyrics: nature, solitude, loss, nostalgia and the search for connection.
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The Instruments Behind the Indie Folk Sound
A guide to the acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin and other instruments that shape the indie folk sound.
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Indie Folk Festivals Worth Knowing About
Newport, Green Man and Cambridge show three sides of indie folk festivals. Here is how to choose and plan yours.
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How Indie Folk Grew From Folk Revivals to Today
Where indie folk came from, from folk revival arguments to 1990s crossover artists and the labels that followed.
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Freak Folk: What the Label Really Describes
A plain guide to what freak folk means, where the label came from and why its artists disliked it.