The Best Indie Tunes of 2014 - Strand of Oaks

Strand of Oaks Goshen’97 (Apr’14) is insistent, raw and emotive. Wailing guitars provide the intro and then it's more guitar galore, more rock than indie and more story-telling than big chorus indie pop. Think The Hold Steady, The Gaslight Anthem or The Airborne Toxic Event and The Boss most obviously.

Music for the top six inches not the six between your legs.

 

 

Strand of Oaks are singer/songwriter Timothy Showalter’s project, fly out of Phillie and have four albums on their ticket. This missive is from the fourth album HEAL (June’14).

Showalter declares himself “so into U2” and there are a lot of folk influences in there too.

Other tunes worth a crack are Shut In and Same Emotions.

 

 



 

 

 

And just cos I’m minded of them for some reason, something U2 ish in common, here is The Airborne Toxic Event and Numb (2011).