The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - High Tyde

High Tyde’s Talk To Frank (Jan’15) opens with a hint of menace belied by the finger snaps and pop soul sound. It’s the set up for a tight bass and percussion driven indie rock chorus with gravelly vocals that bring some big swinging ones to the task. Talk To Frank has bounce.

 

 

A quintessentially English song with a variety of flavours from contemporary English pop, perhaps a dash of The 1975 in particular, that's all about seizing the moment and anything else. Talk To Frank is one of the best indie songs of 2015 signed, sealed and delivered, chapter and verse.

“Honey won't be long till you singing my song
Right here, right now
Why don't you go out loud?”

 

Talk To Frank is the second single off the short player Fuzz (March’15) from a talented young four piece rolling out of Brighton, England. High Tyde have been making music together since they were thirteen years old and have four short players to their roll of honour.

Shit you need to know:

High Tyde are named after a lyric in Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds song, The Death of You and Me.

The likely lads have mentioned some love for Jimi Hendrix, the Stones, Kasabian, Kendrick Lamar and Disclosure.

High Tyde released a covers E.P. with a taint crushing version of the Police’s Message In A Bottle  and a guitar solo the Police could only have wished for.

They have described their music as a bit of everything while others have thrown around adjectives like “gritty” and “shockingly young.”

High Tyde have been touring the UK with Little Comets and Peace.

High Tyde have said that if the band had a motto it would be “Fuck it, we’ve got beers, it’ll be fine.”

Some other ball busting tracks from them are Mustang Japan and Get Up Tonight.

 

Hollywood auditions goes to a band High Tyde have been playing support for, English indie rock geniuses Little Comets.

Music with a conscience and a heartfelt jibe at modern politics with gentle minders of Billy Bragg here is A Coalition Of One (2014).

“Someone better offer me their salient thoughts
On a welfare state denied
Someone better smother me in disregard
So I’ll make it through the night”