Indie Soul
Indie soul is a label for soul and R&B made outside the major-label mainstream, mixing classic soul feeling with indie, lo-fi and jazz touches.
It is not a movement with one birthplace but a tag that streaming services and writers apply to independent artists working between neo soul, alternative R&B and indie pop. The singing tends to be gentler and more understated than in mainstream R&B, and releases are often self-made or put out on small labels. What separates it from neo soul is mainly scale and attitude: smaller releases and a looser, do-it-yourself approach.
- Family
- R&B & Soul
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A label Spotify coined
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 10%
About 7,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have indie soul among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Indie Soul artists
Olivia Dean
Ravyn Lenae
Jungle
Mk.gee
Solange
D'Angelo
Cleo Sol
Kelela
Parcels
The InternetThe indie soul artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Neo soul
- Wikipedia: Alternative R&B
- Refinery29: This Rising Generation Of Black Indie Singers Is Lit
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.