There’s a really interesting lane opening up where

There’s a really interesting lane opening up where Christian indie and alternative music sounds less like a separate industry and more like the wider DIY scenes around it — warm guitars, synth textures, basement-show energy, honest production. The artists catching my ear right now feel closer to the lineage of alternative rock and indie experimentation than the polished CCM machine, and that shift could actually give the music room to breathe again.