The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - WIN WIN

WIN WIN are a production collective, long time bros, and an indie-electronic band from New York. Waster (May’15) is a B-side from their single release Couch Paranoia and a bonus track on their third album Primaries (Jun’15). The tune was called “a debaucherous psychedelic anthem for the rebellious youth”  by Turntable Kitchen and “...pure hedonistic pleasure-center music” by Stereogum. The bands influences are classical to no-wave to trance and psych-rock.

Waster is a feel-good slacker soundtrack with psych-rock stylings. There are handclaps and dirty glam guitar married to a shout it out chorus and a sense of urgency in the driving drum beat. No fucking doubts about it, this is a track that will have you smiling like a masturbating retard. Waster is one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“Find another lover

Take another pill”

 

Shit you need to know:

The band are based in Brooklyn, New York.

WIN WIN’s music has been described as  “grafts rock music to dance music...rooted in pop.”

The bands record label spouted this verbal diarrhoea about the new album Primaries, “an elastic and hyper-modern album of seductive pop permanence and psychoactive electronics.” Inner Speaker were much more precise “...a somewhat confusing mix of electro and psych-rock.”

WIN WIN have remixed tracks for Thom Yorke, Björk, TV On The Radio and Kylie Minogue.

Roofeoo of TV On The Radio is friends and has collaborated with the band.
 

The singer from Hot Chip, Alexis Taylor, sang on one of their tunes.
 

The band fluffed for The Cribs in September in Montreal.
 

Another WIN WIN tune that doesn't felch from a dead hobbos arse is Been So Long.

 

 

Stirring the porridge is English indie rock greats The Cribs and their finest rocker Come On, Be A No-One (2012).

“I was trying so hard to enjoy everything
that i ended up enjoying nothing”

 

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2014 - Calling All Cars

Calling All Cars Standing In The Ocean (Jan'14) is a lovely little pop rock song.  It's good for the jogging playlist. A "let's leg it, it's the Bill" type tune. Almost dance rock, but not, with alternating menacing and angelic vocals hovering over a heartbeat fast and all pistons cranking beat. It might just get your blood racing and your arse shaking.

"You're the one who told me to take chances,

You're the one who lead me to believe"

 

Calling All Cars are from Melbourne, Australia, and have been playing music together since 2005. Standing In The Ocean (Jan, 2024) is the second single off Calling All Car’s third album Raise The People (July, 2024).

Calling All Cars were named after a Sopranos episode and have opened shows for the gods of rock, AC/DC, Green Day, and the The Foo Fighters.

While QOTSA, The Foo Fighters and Silverchair are obvious influences the band have said their latest direction has been driven by more diverse sounds from old blues to hip-hop.

Other belters from Calling All Cars include Raise Me To The People and Throw Me To The Wolves.  

 

 

Standing In The Ocean has some similarities to TV On The Radio’s Wolf Like Me. TV On The Radio are an indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. They are somewhat similar to Wolf Parade or my favorite The Walkmen. Some of their influences are Talking Heads and The Cure. Wolf Like Me was the lead single from their second album Return To Cookie Mountain (2006). It is their most popular song.

"We could jet in a stolen car,

But I bet we wouldn't get too far"