The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Mating Ritual

Mating Ritual’s Hum Hum (March’15) intro minded me first up of old acid house band KLF’s Doctorin’ The Tardis. Which is cool because KLF are the fuckin coolest cats to ever rock’n’roll. No qualifications. In 1991 KLF were the world’s number one single selling artist when they burned one million pounds and “...in 1992, they fired blank machine gun bullets at the Brit Awards audience, dropped a dead sheep outside the aftershow party, and then quit the music industry." Cool cats.

 

 

So back to Hum Hum. It’s a bit of glam rock and the singing sounds like a cool Phil Collins. Assuming that were possible. A song about the end of a relationship, the powers turned up full and this epic is hands down one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“But it doesn't matter if we are miles apart
I can still see the crazy on your face.”

Mating Ritual is an indie pop solo project of Ryan Marshall Lawhon started in late 2014. He comes surging out of Los Angeles and this is his fourth song.

Shit you need to know:
BuzzBands thought Hum Hum is “...a good ol’ new wave rocker, stardate 1986 or so.”

Mating Ritual's record company ho hummed that the tune was “a game changer” and had “driving guitars, unrelenting drums and anthemic vocals” while comparing Mating Ritual to Jay Z. No word of a lie.

Mating Ritual songs have been described as having a "...dynamically epic digi-pop soundscape."
Some dude on Indie Shuffle compared him to Big Data, Joywave and (of course he played in them) Pacific Air.

As mentioned Ryan Lawhon was in a band with this brother called Pacific Air that garnered attention supporting the likes of Passion Pit, Two Door Cinema and Walk The Moon.

Ryan Lawhon has talked about growing up listening to New Age music and being influenced by it. Other than that I’m thinking he might not hate Nine Inch Nails.

If you need to know what the big man's listening to check out his Spotify playlist.

Other Mating Ritual tunes worth a gander are Toxins and Game.

 

 

Stirring the porridge is the industrial rock band, from Cleveland, Ohio, Nine Inch Nails. This is their biggest hit, and deservedly so, the killer Closer (1994).

“You can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything”