What’s striking now is that younger indie bands aren’t

What’s striking now is that younger indie bands aren’t “reviving” the Cure/Joy Division/Strokes lineage so much as treating it like the default language of guitar music. You hear it in records like Man/Woman/Chainsaw’s debut — the post-punk scrape, the dreamy detours, the tension-and-release dynamics — and it doesn’t feel retro at all anymore, just native.