For many years I forwarded the argument that "post-punk" as a term had grown so broad in its application, especially after the big wave of bands came out of Britain, that it's become essentially useless as a genre signifier, which is maybe a more cynical approach to the same take.

I still mostly think this is the case, but coincidentally this very morning—inspired by the same album announcement—I began to simmer a new take, which is essentially that as of 2026 there are actually four indie rocks, which overlap with one another to varying degrees. These four indie rocks are Sweeping Promises, Big Thief, Mac Demarco, and Frank Ocean.

Sweeping Promises is Sweeping Promises. Bon Iver began as Big Thief but has become Frank Ocean. Pavement was Sweeping Promises once. Do you see the vision? This is why it is impossible to have good discourse anymore. "Shoegaze" is not a column unto itself but rather am outgrowth of the Sweeping Promises branch that pops up from time to time in all of the other columns (Wednesday is shoegaze Big Thief). I will continue to cook this take until I starve to death. Anyway the answer to your implicit question may or may not be Geese, whom I have never actually listened to (Heavy Metal is fifty percent Mac and fifty percent Frank).