The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Al Bairre

There is a bit of a ska rag to Al Bairre’s Bungalow (March’15). It’s in the keyboards and it’s in the singer’s phrasing. And it works big time. Bums are bopping and necks nodding. There’s a can’t-take-this-shit-seriously big summery feel good vibe to it.

A song about feeling a little flat after banging a bird in a bungalow, it's all a good laugh. A piece of whimsy. Shits and giggles. But some really nice vocals drive this tune into a mindless bliss that makes it one of the best indie songs of 2015.
                                                                                                    

“I’ve had a little bit too much of her
Feeling like a lover
Never gonna be another”

 

Al Bairre are an indie pop band from Cape Town, South Africa who got started in 2012. Bungalow is off their self-recorded short player When I Was Tall (March’15).

Shit you need to know:

The band are influenced by Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Ra Ra Riot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. The Maccabees, The Cure, Bombay Bicycle Club and Fleetwood Mac have also been tossed on the influences salad.

Indie Shuffle said Al Bairre sound like Jungle Giants, San Cisco and Short Straw.

Al Bairre have been described as a symphonic indie rock band because of their slightly offbeat instrumentation of cello, violins and ukulele.

Al Bairre feel having an African influence is popular these days in indie with bands, for instance Vampire Weekend being influenced by African music and their work with bands like The Very Best.

The singer has described Bungalow as, “…very sassy”. Fucking spanker. That’s like adults who, “have a poo”.

The Al Bairre songs to crank up on the sound system are We Move On and Right Here In July.

 
The double dip is from American indie pop duo and producers extraordinaire Royal Tongues. Higher (Feb’15) is on the playlist because it’s a sex on the beach song and I fucking love it.

“When you feel like you got it right.”