The document analyzes and compares the websites of three indie bands: Catfish and the Bottlemen, Twenty One Pilots, and The Neighbourhood. For Catfish and the Bottlemen, the website prominently features the band's logo and images of their albums for sale. Twenty One Pilots' minimalist website uses intriguing graphics and colors consistent with their album artwork. The Neighbourhood's site immediately draws attention with background images and prominently features their new album for purchase or download.

1. Website Analysis

2. Catfish and the Bottlemen
Black and white theme,
similar to their digipack.
Artist’s logo, shown on
digipaks, and all
merchandise associated
with the band, takes up a
large proportion of the
page, which shows the
importance of the band,
and showing who’s it is.
It has images of their
digipaks, showing them
for sale.
There’s ways to contact
the band at the bottom,
with links to their social
media, and other
important information.
At the top, there’s
links to important
parts of the band,
such as videos, shops,
lyrics and photos,
making it easy to find
more about the band.

3. Twenty One Pilots
This is a very basic website,
with little information on
the front screen, however,
scrolling down gives you all
the information you need. It
has an intriguing look to it.
There’s an image of the
two artists, with an
arrow to tell you to scroll
down. This is bright, and
interesting, giving a
different look to the
website than to other
artists websites.
There’s the generic font
twenty one pilots use
for all their items
related to their most
recent album
‘blurryface’, similar to
catfish using the same
font.
There’s the same colours
that are related to twenty
one pilots, with red, black
and white.

4. The Neighbourhood
At first glance, this website is
very interesting, with what
looks like men laying in the
background in black and white.
It automatically makes the
viewer look and take interest in
the website.
The first thing that is seen is
their album, which is firstly
central to the website, making
it the first thing seen. There’s
also links to buy it, and a link to
enter the site, but hidden so
you look at buying the album
before anything else.
It’s has an obvious black and
white theme, however the
green on the link draws you in,
which makes you look at it, and
go to buy/download the album.
The font is easy to read, and
the italics/non italics at the
top match those in the
album.

5. Conclusion
• The best indie websites are in black and white, it looks more
interesting.
• They also have easy to read text, however it should match those that
are on a digipak/common font the artist usually uses.
• A website is more interesting with images.
• There should be an obvious link to the most recent album/EP.
• It’s good if there are links to social media.
• A different layout to most websites make the website more
interesting.