The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - 10 Of The Best (Part Four)

These songs didn’t make it onto the blog. They should have as these are some of the best indie songs of 2015 so prepare to have your socks knocked off in this New Year special!

1.   Beirut – No No No

The title track from their fourth album No No No (Sept’15). Beirut  are an indie folk rock band with a side of world music and No No No (June’15) is a cool gin and tonic with lime as you lounge on a yacht skipping over the water on a blue sky summers day. Mellow yet upbeat.

 

 

2.   Teen Men – Hiding Records (So Dangerous)

 

Teen Men are an electronic pop band from Delaware. Hiding Records (So Dangerous)(Nov’13) is the lead single from their debut album Teen Men (June’15) that obviously got a delayed release. It’s got a timeless, ethereal, vocal flow over a big ass bass and guitar groove and able assistance from the synths. It’ll make you feel dangerous.

 

 



 

 

3.   The Amazons – Ultraviolet

We’re back to guitar rock, British indie style, with The Amazons. A big vital sound for an anthemic track from the band from Reading, England. Ultraviolet (Oct’15) comes charging off their debut short player Don’t You Wanna? (Oct’15) and will have chests pounding and vaginas gushing all over England.

 

 

4.   Priory – Mother Mary

The title is a tip off but this really is a soulful, spiritual, exhortation for peace of mind and builds the musical textures layer by layer to a handclap beat. Beautiful. Mother Mary (April’15) flies off the Portland, Oregon indie electronic pop band’s second album Need To Know (April’15). This song is a piece of under appreciated genius and will bring a tear to any eye.

 

 

5.   COIN – Holy Ghost

Back with some fluffy middle-of-the-road indie pop nonsense. Amusing to follow a song called Mother Mary with one called Holy Ghost but, religious conotations aside, that’s where the similairities end.  COIN are an indie pop rock band with the ever present synths and Holy Ghost (July’15) plays like that song you like on your playlist but forget the name. Fun but. From the Nashville, Tenessessee band’s debut album COIN (June’15).

 



6.   Nonaphoenix – Already Gone

Indie pop from Cleveland,Ohio. From the EP Alive (June'15). Already Gone (June'15) is more paint-by-numbers indie pop that you'd never admit to liking in a crowd... but you know you do... a guilty pleasure.

 

 

7.   Panic Is Perfect – The Mailman

 

More middle of the road indie pop with girly man vocals and synths. This time the band have are from San Francisco, The Mailman (Jan’15)  is from their debut short player  Behind Your Eyelids and is as jaunty as a man the morning after a threesome.

 

 

 

 

8. Joywave – Somebody New

 

From Rochester, New York, Joywave's debut album How Do You Feel Now? (April'15) featured four singles and shot the indie rock band into fame and fortune. Somebody New (Feb'15) was the second single and it is a belter with a lashing of industrial electronica to keep you honest.

 

 

 

 

9. Harriet – Irish Margaritas

 

More synth madness from Los Angeles indie electronic band Harriet. Irish Magaritas (May'15) is the lead single from their second self-titled EP. Quirky synths, girly man vocals, you know the drill... now get marching...

 

 

 

 

 10.   Gregory Pepper and His Problems – Welcome To The Dullhouse

 

Welcome To The Dullhouse (July'15) bounces off the Toronto indie rock man's seventh album Chorus! Chorus! Chorus! (Aug'15) and sounds like a lost Weezer song. Fucking brilliant. Rocks as hard as a prison rapists shit pipe plunger. End of story.