Hypes come and go, but rattling indie pop will always remain. What started with and , continued with post-punk ( , ), became popular in the 90s mainly thanks to slacker band and even mainstream with rattling indie chick . Singer / guitarist Sadie Dupuis played in a Pavement cover band before founding Speedy Ortiz on the campus of the University of Massachusetts. She studies poetry and literature
… and sings, just like , as if pop music is actually a bit too small for her: with irony but not devoid of melancholy. Her three accompanists rattle it happily in bouncy and dynamic songs. The melodic vocals invariably discharge in tidy dissonant guitar eruptions. And that again sounds cross and fresh, as if the aforementioned bands never existed and Speedy Ortiz invented it all himself. (MR)more
