The Promise Ring - Stop Playing Guitar

The Promise Ring - Stop Playing Guitar from Wood/Water (2002) So if I had a dime for Every time I should have stopped playing guitar, and put my ...

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The first thing to do before presenting a best indie album list is to define “indie”. In this list maker’s mind the term has more to do with the degree of independence from influences than how an artist’s work is distributed. In other words, the originality of the work is the thing. So, without further ado here goes a list of the 10 best “indie” albums of the decade

10. The Promise Ring – Wood/Water

For just about anybody that was in love with the raging youthfulness of The Promise Ring before Wood/Water was released, this album was a heavy disappointment. In fact it ranks poorly among many well respected critics. But for some of us, this record became a soundtrack for the time when we realized simultaneously that we couldn’t always be raging youth nor were we anywhere close to being grown up. It is lo-fi at times and hook heavy pop at times, but the constant is Davey von Bohlen’s heartfelt vocals that crackle over the peaks and the silences in between.

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