You're not seriously asking for an "indie recommendation"...

People devote entire lives to trying to find the good indie out there. Plus, it's such a large umbrella of a genre, it contains a lot of stuff I personally guarantee you won't like.

In any case, welcome to your new favourite website.
http://pitchfork.com/
Look at their decade and year album lists. Start tackling it one cursory album listen at a time until you get more of an idea of what you like, then you'll figure out where to go from there.

Crystal Fighters-Star of Love

 This album contains lots of great tracks, no fillers IMO.  Ranges from Indie/Alternative to electronica.  The 1st youtube link is electronic and the 3rd more Indie based.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZbIZRAUM4&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmvOQNBkCxA 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9n7DMqbwgU&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=ML4oVf-d_DwKDboV7VW-cB8xzEYSnE-ebG 

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Originally Posted by Zida 

The New Pornographers are one of the poppiest pop bands you'll ever pop into your CD player. I agree with the previous recommend for Mass Romantic as a jumping off point, but there's really no going wrong with any of their first three albums

 

Fake Headlines is the catchiest indie pop anthem ever written. I wish I wasn't so burned out by it to still enjoy the song.

An album that I'm really digging at the moment is The Golden Year by Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. It's more synth pop than indie but some of you may enjoy it, considering the great taste in music on display here.

I want to rebump a couple recommendations that might have been skipped over-

Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary would be pretty regularly regarded as a relatively quintessential indie pop/rock album, particularly of the Montreal explosion era, with a huge following (If you at all like it... or if not because you feel it's not "smart" enough you then need to move on to Sunset Rubdown)

The New Pornographers are one of the poppiest pop bands you'll ever pop into your CD player. I agree with the previous recommend for Mass Romantic as a jumping off point, but there's really no going wrong with any of their first three albums

Metric is sort of Toronto's "it" band, and has been for years. My favorite of theirs, Old World Underground, gets huge bonus points for what I'd consider a very audiophile friendly production.

Then I feel I should just re-mention Andrew Bird (virtuostic violin, but keeps it light and smart), throw in some Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest (Probably the biggest indie album of it's year, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIrY4Kh-CU4) and some Yeasayer to round things back out a little bit (http://www.rockpeaks.com/video/y/Yeasayer/Late-Night-With-Conan-OBrien-2008/2018)

I'll leave you with that, I hope you enjoy all or most of it!