The Microphones, Low, Sonic Youth, and Modest Mouse are some pretty good ones, but overall indie is too empty of a term for this thread imo. I suppose you could make the case that artists who self-identify as indie music typically make the weakest music that the "genre" has to offer.
I also think that ambient and drone are easy answers for those who don't know much about either genre because they certainly open themselves up to being incredibly boring. The best of those genres take that platform to make something interesting, which is what brings them to that status.
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