The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Prides

Prides Higher Love sticks to ya like stink to an axe wound. It’s another dose of mainstream indie pop, drum and synths, que sera sera. It screams big 80’s pop influences like Tears For Fears while still being a millennial beast of its own.

 

 

There’s a mild sense of urgency to the epic, singalong chorus, juxtaposed with the mildly brooding verses in a track about having belief in yourself and others, and something about love’s enabling qualities too. And for that sentiment and those sticky choruses, it makes Higher Love one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“When they said I would never, you said that I would,
That I would do something good”

Prides are a trio from the mean streets of Glasgow who have been avvoiding a bottling since 2013. Higher Love comes off Prides’ second short player of the same name, Prides (Feb'15).
Shit you need to know:

Prides have been compared to Bastille and British 80’s pop like Tears For Fears and Simple Minds.

Prides have performed fluffing duties for their childhood heroes Blink 182 and Twenty One Pilots and RAC.

They love Katy Perry.

The press have bandied about words like ‘anthemic’ and ‘arena ready’ and on the stength of Higher Love they might be right. This tune is fucking world class.

 

 

Stirring the porridge goes to LA indie rock dance band Decorations and Girls (2014).

Just because the dude is showing strong commitment to a world class mo and Girls rocks hard and yet dances soft as a buttercup.