Editing Indie rock (section)

====Proliferation====
[[File:Alex Turner and Nick O'Malley Roskilde 2014.jpg|thumb|150px |[[Arctic Monkeys]] are one of the most commercially successful indie rock bands.]]
The impact of the Strokes, the Libertines and Bloc Party led to significant major label interest in indie rock artists, which was then exacerbated by the success of the Arctic Monkeys. In the years following ''Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'' there was a proliferation of bands such as [[the Rifles (band)|the Rifles]], [[the Pigeon Detectives]] and [[Milburn (band)|Milburn]], who created a more formulaic derivative of the earlier acts.<ref name="vice.com">{{Cite web |last1=Akinfenwa |first1=Jumi |last2=Joshi |first2=Tara |last3=Garland |first3=Emma |date=27 August 2020 |title=The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-top-50-greatest-landfill-indie-songs-of-all-time/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111203505/https://www.vice.com/en/article/bv8a8w/the-top-50-greatest-landfill-indie-songs-of-all-time |archive-date=11 November 2022 |website=Vice}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/features/landfill-indie-snobbery-2741199|title=The term 'landfill indie' is nothing but musical snobbery|website=Nme.com|date=1 September 2020}}</ref> By the end of the decade, critics had taken to referring to this wave of acts as "landfill indie",<ref>{{Cite web|last=Power|first=Ed|date=28 July 2019|title=How landfill indie swallowed guitar music in the mid-Noughties|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/landfill-indie-kaiser-chiefs-album-razorlight-kooks-ricky-wilson-a9022051.html|access-date=29 August 2020|website=Independent.co.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Beaumont 2020">{{Cite web|last=Beaumont|first=Mark|date=4 May 2020|title=From Britpop to 'landfill indie', lockdown forces us to face our musical pasts|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/britpop-landfill-indie-razorlight-nostalgia-2658671|access-date=29 August 2020|website=Nme.com|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="T. Walker">{{Citation |last=T. |first=Walker |title=Does the world need another indie band? |date=21 January 2010 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/does-the-world-need-another-indie-band-870520.html |journal=Independent  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304122059/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/does-the-world-need-another-indie-band-870520.html |archive-date=4 March 2010 |url-status=dead}}.</ref> a description coined by [[Andrew Harrison (journalist)|Andrew Harrison]] of ''[[the Word (UK magazine)|the Word]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=S. Reynolds |title=Clearing up the indie landfill |journal=Guardian.co.uk |date=4 January 2010 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2010/jan/04/clearing-up-indie-landfill |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117025019/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jan/04/clearing-up-indie-landfill |archive-date=17 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A 2020 ''[[Vice Media|Vice]]'' article cited [[Johnny Borrell]], vocalist of [[Razorlight]], as the "one man who defined, embodied and lived Landfill Indie" due to his forming of a "spectacularly middle-of-the-road" band despite his close proximity to the Libertines' "desperate kinetic energy, mythologised love-hate dynamic and vision of a dilapidated Britain animated by romance and narcotics".<ref name="vice.com"/> In a 2009 article for ''[[the Guardian]]'', journalist [[Peter Robinson (journalist)|Peter Robinson]] cited the landfill indie movement as dead, blaming [[the Wombats]], [[Scouting For Girls]], and [[Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong]] by stating "If landfill indie had been a game of ''[[Buckaroo!|Buckaroo]]'', those three sent the whole donkey's arse of radio-friendly mainstream guitar band monotony flying high into the air, legs flailing."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/17/florence-and-the-machine-indie|title=Peter Robinson on the death of landfill indie music|date=17 January 2009|website=The Guardian}}</ref>