Indietronica
Indietronica is indie rock or indie pop made with electronic tools, mixing guitars and songwriting with synthesizers, samplers and drum machines.
It emerged in the 1990s and became widespread in the 2000s as cheap software put electronic production within reach of small bands. Tracks keep the verse-and-chorus songs and human-sounding vocals of indie but add programmed beats, glitchy textures or danceable synth lines. It is more song-based than electronic dance music and more electronic than standard indie rock.
Artists it is known for: The Postal Service, Hot Chip, Passion Pit.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States and Europe, 1990s
- Also called
- indie electronic
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 11%
About 9,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have indietronica among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Indietronica artists
Ellie Goulding
Crystal Castles
Empire Of The Sun
Glass Animals
MGMT
Phantogram
Grimes
Two Door Cinema Club
LCD Soundsystem
M83
The indietronica artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.