The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Satellite Stories

Satellite Stories The Trap (Dec’14) comes bursting out of the traps with brass, a military drum beat and the chorus upfront. There’s a ska feel to the verses and a few changes of pace in the third minute but on the whole song is like an Eskimo having sex outside. Hard pumping to the finish line.

 

 

 

The Trap is a song about staying true to your heart in a relationship against the pressure to conform to societal norms, the horns are what make this song stand out from the others. And it does stand out from the others. The Trap is the best Satellite Stories song and one of the best indie songs of 2015.

 

 

“See the only road I know and off I go"

  

 

Satellite Stories are from Oulu, a progressive university city in Northern Norway. They have been on the job since 2008. The Trap is the first single off Satellite Stories third album Vagabonds (March’15).

Shit you need to know:

Indie Shuffle said The Trap sounds like Two Door Cinema Club and Walla. These characters called it , “...a blaring call to arms.”  I was thinking of Of Monsters And Men but I’m simple so of course I am.

The new album was produced by Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott who has previously worked with the Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Bombay Bicycle Club and The Preatures.

Satellite Stories have mentioned a fondness for The Wombats, Vampire Weekend and Two Door Cinema Club. One of the bands favourite bands is The Royal Concept.

The band describe their music as, “always danceable indie rock” while others have said it is “upbeat, enthusiastic in nature”.

In 2012 Satellite Stories were the second most blogged about band in the world.

The special Satellite Stories songs are Heartbeat,  Lights Go Low and Vagabonds.

 

The dodgy double dip comes courtesy of Swedish indie rock band The Royal Concept as Satellite Stories mentioned they have a hard on for them and their anthemic singalong track On Our Way (2013).