The Best Indie Songs of 2014 - RAC

RAC (Remix Artist Collective) has mixed some melancholy beats that suck you into this song only to cast you adrift.
 

 

 

Alex Ebert is the singer from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and he seems to have channelled his inner Bryan Ferry on this one. So RAC's Tear You Down Ft Alex Ebert (March’14) is a mesmerising, super chill, electronic song with enough momentum to elevate it above the sum of its parts. Like the best magic trick.

RAC is Andre Allen Anjos. He first appeared in Portugal but is now showing in Portland, USA. Since 2007 he’s been sprinkling the fairy dust on a variety of indie bands tracks including: Tokyo Police Club, Kings of Leon, Foster the People, Two Door Cinema Club, Bloc Party and so on. Tear You Down is off his first march to world domination Strangers (April’14). It’s his own caper with all different guest vocalists, not remixes.

Andre played in metal, punk and indie rock bands. He credits a Japanese artist Cornelius for the providing the inspiration to make remixes that focus on broadening the appeal of a song not just so fuck heads can dance to Indie. He likes sparse, moody and beautiful tunes.

You want to know more, I know you do, I can read your mind. So the really wizard tracks are Let Go, Hollywood and Cheap Sunglasses. Sure, you’re welcome.

 

The second act must of course be Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes Home (2009) the bloody original, no funny business going on here.