IRVING “JEN, NOTHING MATTERS TO ME” OFFICIAL VIDEO - IRVING “JEN, NOTHING MATTERS TO ME” OFFICIAL VIDEO

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Irving emerged from the Los Angeles indie underground in the late 1990s and reached their critical peak with Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers in April 2006 — a period when the mid-2000s indie boom was in full force, with acts like Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, and Rilo Kiley transitioning from underground cult status to wider recognition. The band operated on Eenie Meenie Records, a small Los Angeles…

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Irving represented a strand of mid-2000s Los Angeles indie pop that drew from 1960s British Invasion melodicism, new wave keyboards, and the Elephant 6 collective's chamber pop sensibility — earning comparisons to the Beatles, The Kinks, The Cars, and Death Cab for Cutie. Their work sits at the…