The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Rabbit!

A hit tune isn’t easy but Rabbit A Year In The Life (Jan’15) not only have a fucking ripsnorter on their hands here, they are a band to fall deeply in love with. This tune is emblematic of how they do. It isn’t happy, it’s delirious and brimful of optimism.

Released on New Year’s Eve it’s a song with a head nodding piano intro and boppy verses that set up a Kinks-esque chorus made of unicorn dreams and my little pony wishes. All the while with a touchdown pass from the drums and a little 'I got your six' from the guitar.

A Year In The Life revives an innocence found in music made at the dawn of pop while making it essential to a modern audience and thats what makes it one of the best indie songs of 2015.

 

"With a little love, a little hope,

we’ll find a way to rewrite,

all our fractured fairy tales" 

 

 

Rabbit! are an indie pop rock band from Mount Dora, Florida. They burst into glorious fruition in 2007.

A Year In The Life is a free New Year download from the Rabbit! facebook page. Rabbit! have two absolute gems of albums to their undying credit, Go For It and Connect the Dots.

Shit you need to know:

Rabbit! are genuine good guys having toured in support of art and music programs in schools and other laudable causes.

People tend to love or hate this band, check out their YouTube comments for corroboration. I particularly like the one on “Sun and Moon” where some dude compared the dislike bar to Justin Bieber's penis. That person got told.

Rabbit! songs are popular for advertising having been used for Mott’s Juice, Telus and Zappos among others.

Rabbit! have been described as TweePop, simple, sweet, do-it-yourself, indie rock that has convoluted origins.

Rabbit! do a ‘fuck yeah, of course it’s better’ cover of Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling.
 

Feeling Twee as fuck? More tunes fuck full of fantastic are  Great is Better, Magic, Together, Pea, Best Thing That I've Found and that’s just a taster bag.

 

 

So sloppy seconds today is reserved for these ska punk legends fighting out of Seoul, South Korea since 1996, the Korean mythical beasts that are No Brain.

This is their, pat your pockets down, adjust your love package in the crotch of your jeans and get ready for it, mosh pit favorite. It'a a fucking stormer, hold on tight for Party Like Crazy (2006).
 

 

Gaze on the majesty of these cunt punting rock gods.

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - The Score

The Score's Oh My Love (Jan’15) sees grown men banging on about love and they “feel my heart beatin out my chest” in this self-described ‘carefree Sunday Cali’ song. It'll either make you want to chuck chunks or singalong.

 

Oh My Love is cheesier than your neglected granddad's dick-flap. Yet with the happy factor dialled up to, wait, that's off the fucking charts, and a dose of big drum, this song totally pulls it off, thanks in main to a bit of a gospel ring to the vocals.This song should have been a sunshine and cool breeze summer radio classic.

“Oh my love let me be your fire
We're a thousand miles up and about to get higher
Feel my heart beating out my chest
You're the only prayer I need to make me feel blessed”

 

Eddie Anthony and Edan Dover are a crafty pair of musical careerists with big press behind them, “Everything about this band tells us they are on the verge of exploding…”.

The Score have two E.P.’s and this stand alone single to their name. But all things being equal, this is the hit.

Ingredients in The Score's potpourri include playing pop punk tunes by the likes of Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy. One of the dudes is into jazz piano and they both like soul music.

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Both men were quite successful in New York City but gave it all up to find the big time in Tinsel Town. Oh the derring-do of these bold two. Bet they are enjoying the beaches.

Are you feeling the love? Are you looking to score more? Try this goody, Catching Fire (Mar’15).

 
What I can offer you after that aperitif is the main fucking course. One of the chosen few, one of the greatest punk bands to ever grace the earth, the Korean ska-punks and heroes of the republic, Crying Nut. This is their run for cover, fan favourite Ride The Horse (1998).

These big bosses have plenty of high calibre in the case if you want to go dipping in their well of goodness.

 

Good bastards to a man and rock legends all.