So much of early 2000s ‘indie’ music was nothing but a backward-looking rerun of movements past So much of early 2000s ‘indie’ music was nothing but a backward-looking rerun of movements past Each artist … fits the mold of a bygone trope. Ryan Adams was the self-professed ‘wannabe beat poet guy,’ fitting the chain-smoking mold of folk predecessors like Bob Dylan; LCD Soundsystem saw James Murphy fusing rock sounds with electronic elements as had been covered ad nauseum [sic] through the 80s;