Landfill indie

Landfill indie (also known as indie landfill or The Deleted Years) is a loosely defined trend in British indie rock and pop rock. The term was first coined as a pejorative label by music journalist Andrew Harrison in 2007, where he used it to disparagingly describe the proliferation of formulaic and uninspired British guitar bands dominating the mid-2000s music scene. Music regarded as being part of the indie landfill was prominent in the UK singles charts in the 2000s and early 2010s, seeing commercial success and drawing ire from music critics. It has been retrospectively associated with the indie sleaze aesthetic, a term coined in 2021, to describe the fashion and visual style of landfill indie bands and other contemporaneous developments in alternative music.