Landfill indie

Landfill indie (also known as indie landfill or The Deleted Years) is a loosely defined style and era of British indie rock. The term was first coined as a pejorative label by music journalist Andrew Harrison in his 2007 review of Jens Lekman's Night Falls Over Kortedala, where he used it to disparagingly describe the proliferation of formulaic and uninspired British guitar bands dominating the mid-2000s music scene. The style dominated the UK charts in the 2000s and early 2010s.

The landfill indie era 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.

Notable acts associated with the movement were Arctic Monkeys, the Wombats, the Cribs, the Kooks, Hard-Fi, Pigeon Detectives, Babyshambles, Scouting for Girls, the Vaccines, Razorlight, Milburn, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, the Fratellis, Courteeners, the Maccabees, Little Man Tate, the Enemy, Holloways, Mystery Jets, the Sunshine Underground, the View, the Twang, the Rifles and Kaiser Chiefs.