These are my favorite independent/local/self-funded albums I can think of today. While I was making the list, I realized that independent and indie are not the same thing. Also, Radiohead’s self-released material doesn’t count. Here they are in random order:
- Triple Lutz – Vampire Screenplay* (Dallas, TX)
- Centro-matic – Love You Just The Same (Denton, TX)
- Pedro The Lion – The Only Reason I Feel Secure (Is Because I Am Validated By My Friends)
- David Gray – White Ladder (Self-Funded)
- Caedmon’s Call – My Calm, Your Storm (Houston, TX)
- galleryCat – Bi-Polaroid* (Dallas, TX)
- ENIAC – All That’s Left of Us (Denton, TX)
- Spilling Poetry – Invisible (Lubbock, TX)
- Mexico – If You Wanted to Go* (Dallas, TX)
- Flat People – Flat People* (Dallas, TX)
- The Promise Ring – Wood Water (Jade Tree)
- Gone Since Five – This Is How You Felt* (Lubbock, TX)
- Pedro The Lion – It’s Hard to Find a Friend (Seattle, WA)
- Astronautalis – This is Our Science (Fake Four)
- Primitive Radio Gods – Rocket (Self-Funded)
- Centro-matic – Navigational
- Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle (IndieGoGo, Murpheesboro, TN)
- Spilling Poetry – Microphonic
- The Wishlist – Life’s Design of Mind* (Dallas, TX)
- Three Car Garage – ThRe3 CaR GaRagE* (Luboock, TX)
- Centro-matic – Fort Recovery
- Sorta – Strange and Sad but True (Dallas, TX)
- TW Walsh – Blue Laws (Boston, Seattle)
* I played on these records.
Rich Williams 