The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - The Van Jets

The Van Jets are a Belgian garage pop-rock band who began by following in the glam-rock footsteps of David Bowie and T.Rex but evolved into synth driven 80’s pop and funk that minds me of Alcoholic Faith Mission and Joywave a little. Two Tides of Ice (April'15) has been called “ just plain contagious” and “a little darker than what we're used to, but... catchy as hell.” The Van Jet's were influenced by listening to Kanye West's Yeezus while making the new album.

Two Tides of Ice is expansive electronic space rock in the realm of Galaxie with a hiphop-esque delivery in the verses. It's as funky as a Bangkok rent-boy’s taint at four in the morning. Epic lyrics, “All the way from Babylon all the way to Mars” tells it loud and proud, these fuckers aren’t bothering the small stuff and they ain’t taking prisoners. This is what I’d want to be listening to if I was in the German army when the Allied invasion of Normandy woke them up and death was landing on the beaches. This is total surrender. The Van Jets have exploded into 2015 with one of the best indie songs of the year.

“I drink and I lie and I cheat,

Get your fuck me boots”

Shit you need to know:

Two Tides of Ice is the first single from The Van Jet's fourth album Welcome To Strange Paradise (April’15).

Welcome To Strange Paradise was produced by Leo Abrahams who has done the hard yards for Paolo Nutini, Oscar and the Wolf and Wild Beasts.

The mixing of the long player was done by T’Chad Blake who has worked for Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys and Pearl Jam.

The album contains songs that explore environmental issues with an ironic Pop Art twist.


The band’s main squeezes are David Bowie, Grace Jones, Beck and Gorillaz.

Someone thinks that The Van Jets are similar to Balthazar and Oscar and the Wolf.

Other Van Jet songs that don't suck donkey dick are Here Comes The Light and WelcomeTo Strange Paradise. But Two Tides Of Ice is the bolter in the pack.
 

Slippery seconds comes courtesy of English indie rockers The Kaiser Chiefs and their best barn-burner I Predict A Riot (2005).

“Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible either..”