Love as Laughter - Dirty Lives

What this video is

Released April 26, 2005 on Sub Pop Records, 'Dirty Lives' arrives at the apex of the mid-2000s indie rock revival, when guitar-driven independent music was reclaiming cultural space from post-grunge and pop. Love as Laughter, led by Sam Jayne — a veteran of the Olympia, WA mess-rock scene who had previously worked with Beck and collaborated within the Modest Mouse orbit — recorded Laughter's Fifth in a friend's…

Why it matters

Represents the Sub Pop second wave of the early-to-mid 2000s — a lineage from Pacific Northwest grunge and lo-fi indie into a more retro-inflected garage rock sensibility informed by Thin Lizzy, T. Rex, and early Tom Petty. As the album's most radio-friendly track, 'Dirty Lives' exemplifies how…