How Gen Z fell for and reinvented quiet-loud indie rock

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They sound like the jumbled web of emotions that we’ve all tried to unravel at some point.” Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up The embrace of 1990s indie by musicians often barely in their twenties – all of HotWax were born in 2004 – is, some commentators believe, part of a wider rediscovery of the decade by adults too young to remember it first-hand. I remember seeing Babes in Toyland, who had reformed.” Bleach Lab’s Jenna Kyle only has her tongue slightly in cheek when she says that she “remembers” the 1990s as the “good old days”. And then you go back and you’re like, ‘Wow – we do sound like that.’” open image in gallery HotWax Not all artists are at ease with the association. open image in gallery Nirvana performing in 1994 “I don’t think it’s ever an intentional thing,” agrees Bleach Lab’s Kieran Weston.