Bronze Radio Return - Nowhere To Be

1.    Who are these bards?

Gaze on the majesty of Bronze Radio Return. They are an indie roots rock band from Hartford, Connecticut. These stone cold legends have been at the controls since 2007 and have four fantastic long players to their legacy. Nowhere To Be (Nov'15) is an album track from the fourth, Light Me Up (Nov'15).

2. What’s the gist?

Nowhere To Be has a folky acoustic and ukelele intro with a quiet piano and keys assist. A thigh slapping, foot tapping jig with haunting vocal harmonies that maintains tension by never letting go of the clutch. Top tier.
 

3. Who have they been compared to?

Daily Campus compared Bronze Radio Return to alt-J, Milky Chance and The Lumineers. Great Caesar are close.

 

4. What have the venerable citizens of the fourth estate said about the album Light Me Up?
 

“Filled with big choruses, catchy melodies and a spirit that is palpable” – The Prelude Press.

“Pop music that is the fathest thing from hollow – there is a real heart” – Daily Campus.

“Always infectious and upbeat style but a splash of roots-pop mixed in” – The Morning Hangover.

 

 

5. Who are the band’s influences?

Bronze Radio Return's early influences were blues, jazz, country and American folk music. Specific influences are Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howling Wolf, Ben Harper, Elliott Smith and Ryan Adams.

 

6. Why press play?

Nowhere To Be incapsulates spontaneous, carefree sing-along fun, with immaculate production and earnest vocals. Turn it up and shuffle shoes.

 

7. Do Bronze Radio Return have any more bolters?

No doubt. Hi-fi title track Light Me Up will do just that. Golden. Shake, Shake, Shake is a beautiful folk pop stomper. Actually they are all good.

 

8. Any more words?

Light Me Up was mixed by Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons, American Authors)  and also F. Reid Shippen (Cage The Elephant, Switchfoot, Death Cab For Cutie).

Bronze Radio Return are on their first European tour this April with The Dunwells.

 

“Now I’m taking off and cutting loose”

 

 

 

 

The Dunwells are an indie pop rock band from Leeds, England. They have recorded two full length albums and three short players. The Dunwells are influenced by Bon Iver, Elbow and Damien Rice. Hey Now (Sept'15) was the lead single from Light Up The Sky (Feb'16) and is a tune Clash Music called “a gospel-driven piece of indie folk.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Mini Mansions

Mini Mansions Freakout! (Feb’15) has a rock dance vibe. Yeah in that order. If you don’t like Mini Mansions let me assure you there’s a damn sight more crackle and pop in this track than their usual limp wristed wank. A bit like Death Is A Girl and a bit David Bowie-ish in parts. Ziggy Stardust to be precise.

There’s a bass and drum stomp that marches the song jauntily forward, in juxtaposition to some maudlin lyrics, toward a crescendo of a chorus. A track about social unease it’s got a strong dose of something outside the box and is, fuckin easily, one of the best indie songs of 2015.

Mini Mansions are an indie pop three piece from Los Angeles making music since 2009. Freakout  is the second single off their second album The Great Pretenders (Mar’15). The bass player is from Queens of the Stone Age.

Shit you need to know:

Mini Mansions have been described as akin to the Beatles and Beach Boys. The tune Freakout! has been likened to the Cars or Soft Cell.

Mini Mansions have said their main influences are 60's and 70's psych pop and especially The Beatles, Elliot Smith and Devo.

Mini Mansions collaborated with Alex Turner, who basically is the Arctic Monkeys, on the track Vertigo (Mar’15) and with Brain Wilson, who basically is the Beach Boys, on the track Any Emotions (Jan’15).

Mini Mansions ent touring with the New Pornographers last year and Royal Blood in February and March. They are supportingAustralian psych rockers Tame Impala touring the US in May.

The band murder a cover of Blondie’s Heart of Glass.

Two of the band members met in a basketball game they played when 11 years old and formed a band they played in through to ninth grade.

Ordinary Man and Death Is A Girl are the Mini Mansions songs that don’t blow chunks.

 

The tag team today is Canadian indie rock band the New Pornographer’s cover of Your Daddy Don’t Know (2002).

Fuck yeah it rocks as hard as having a brick laborer finger fuck your cock hole.

“Making your move

You come down as fast as lightening”