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"