2016 Top 10 Portland Indie Rock Albums

1. Radiation City - Synesthetica

Heading out after fully realizing their breathtaking potential. So many layers of awesomeness.

2. Candace - New Future

Just packed with killer dreamy shoegaze. And as you'd hope, it's fantastically noisy live.

3. Summer Cannibals - Full Of It

Damn, these songs are explosive. Feeling this righteous anger more than ever.

4. Minden - Sweet, Simple Things

Their tightest, funkiest, and most dynamic songs to date. And so silky smooth.

5. Mo Troper - Beloved

Youthful, testy, and dimed out power pop, reminiscent of Superdrag classics.

6. Y La Bamba - Ojos Del Sol

Libre's buoyant bilingual harmonies inspiring basking in the warm Saturday morning sun. Glad Y La Bamba are back with their gorgeous indie folk.

7. Landlines - Problems 24/7

Long anticipated and stellar collection of slacker surf pop.

8. Aan - Dada Distractions

Kicks off with a killer one-two punch of anxious catchiness.

9. Blowout - No Beer, No Dad

Messy, boisterous, beer-drenched, and coed - basically, the party you once always aspired to incite. Channeling frustration through harmonized yelling.

10. Rod - Pretty Sure

What it lacks in fidelity, it makes up for with in-the-red passion and hooks.


Other favorites: Wave Action, Pynnacles, STRFKR, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Bombay Beach, Thanks...