The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Kid Astray

Kid Astray It’s Alright (March'15) is fucking good times brilliant. Good enough to make a dead man dance. It starts with the perfect set up. Thirty seconds of near unaccompanied laidback singing, a little guitar plucking and synth build up then the rhythm section give it some tits and at the one minute mark the climatic all in. Arses are shaking and pussies aching. Choruses like this need to be carved in marble for future civilisations to understand the unalloyed joy of using up all the oil. Bag this tune and sell it on the corner. It’s instant happy.

No shortage of synth but it ain’t too soft Goldilocks. Just enough guitar to edge the tune close enough to indie rock that you won’t lose your street cred blasting it from your car stereo. A tune about overcoming the demons of your past, Elizabeth Wu’s voice is nigh on angelic, and provides a superb counter point to Benjamin Giortz’s more earthy lead. All told this banger is as sticky as a pre-schooler’s hands after going to the toilet and dimes to dollars you can bet this is one of the best fucking indie songs of 2015.

“You keep blinding me, with your own stupidity

It makes me curious, how you get so furious,

But it’s alright, you are gonna make it alright…”

 
Kid Astray are an indie pop band from Sandvika, a town close to Oslo, Norway. They started making sweet music in high school and this is the second offering off their debut album Home Before Dark (June’15).

Shit you need to know:

Kid Astray’s  main influences are Passion Pit, Foster the People and The Wombats. Kid Astray also wouldn't kick Michael Jackson out of the bed for getting frisky and like 80's and 90's synth pop.

The drummer’s mom’s punk band are an inspiration.

The band met and started playing together in high school. One was a Vogue model, another a junior golf champion and another a piano prodigy.

If you're looking for another Kid Astray cracker try Still Chasing Nothing.

 

I would have doubled up with another Norwegian indie pop band Team Me and the rocking wonder of Did We Lose Something Here (2014). But the band removed their song from my blog. Fucking dicks. So to remind them what a sense of humour is here is the Australian indie funk rockers Bluejuice and I'll Go Crazy (2014).