Bastille - Good Grief

1.    Who are they? 

Bastille are a popular, and commercially successful, indie electro-pop band from London, England. They have been playing together since 2010 and both of their albums have been U.K. number ones and sold more than six million worldwide. Good Grief (June'16) was the lead single from their second album Wild World (Sept'16). 

2. What kind of tune are they peddling? 

Good Grief is sweet, catchy-as-fuck, pop with backing falsetto vocals, a jaunty beat, and juxtaposed with maudlin lyrics. Hard to hate.

3. Who do Bastille sound like? 

Imagine Dragons, Two Door Cinema Club and Depeche Mode. 

4. What have the press said about Good Grief? 

“Catchy enough” – A Bit Of Pop Music.

“Bubbly tune” – AXS.

“One of the hits of the year” – DIY.

5. Which bands have influenced Bastille?

The Smiths, Regina Spektor, Simon and Garfunkel and Bat For Lashes.


6. Why should I give Good Grief a listen? 

Because you like well-crafted pop songs, choruses with more than one hook, and obvious contrasts. 


7. What are Bastille's best songs?

Good Grief and Pompeii.  


8. Any more words?

The singer Dan Smith is a big Twin Peaks fan. 

“Caught off guard by your favorite song”

The Great Communicators are an indie post-rock band from Amsterdam, Netherlands. They have been making music since 2012 and sound like Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, The Bombay Bicycle Club and Autolux. They are influenced by bands like The Mars Volta, Broken Social Scene and Blood Red Shoes. From their debut album Lucky Horse (Sept'16) came two phenomenal minutes of indie; Old Car. The song is like the title; it might not be love at first sight but you'll become slowly endeared with it until you never want to part. 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - To Kill A King

Love Is Not Control (Jan’15) is an indie rock song that starts with a light weight groove and sounding like Bahamas. The guitar gets a few flicks in the verses and builds up in the hypnotic choruses. There are a few changes of pace, in particular an intense breakdown, but all told the repetitive singing is the bump of this song.

 

 

Love Is Not Control is a no frills chippy indie rock tune with a take home message about the nature of love. The verses pop like an elderly nuns cherry and the chorus bites like pubic crabs and so it passes muster as one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“You tripped her in, you clipped her wings
Forced her sing and the gage that brings
No love, no joy, no can, no soul”

Love Is Not Control is the first single off their second self-titled album To Kill A King (March’15). The English indie rock band came kicking and screaming into the world in 2010 and call Leeds and London home.

Shit you need to know:

The new long player was recorded with Mark Crew, famous for doing the hard yards with Bastille and Rag’n’Bone Man.
 

The bands aim in recording the new album was to create something,“…more optimistic and life-affirming”.

Gig Slutz discussing the album threw around words like “anthemic indie”, “the passion shines through,” and called it “stadium ready”.

The Guardian called the new album To Kill A King, “instantly, insanely catchy, with feverish rhythms and call-and-response routines.” They also mentioned it didn’t reinvent the wheel.

To Kill A King have been described as similar to The National, Grizzly Bear and Frightened Rabbit. Or a blend of the Black Keys and Fleet Foxes.
The band are bossom buddies with Dan Smith lead singer of Bastille and you can find tunes they play together and a Batille remix of one of their tunes Bloody Shirt.

One of the band members, Josh Taffel,  had a hard night on the piss with a couple of oil workers in Texas and ended up with a tattoo of Texas on his back.

More murderous tracks from To Kill A King are Compare Scars and Cold Skin.
 

Poking a hole in the smoke is left to the English lads Bastille and their worldwide indie pop hit Pompeii (2013).