Yeasayer - Silly Me

 

 

 

1.    Who are these lads?

Yeasayer are an experimental rock band from Brooklyn, New York. They started there journey together in 2006 and have delivered four albums. The fourth long player Amen & Goodbye (April’16) delivered the third champion single Silly Me (March’16).


  2. What kind of cow are Yeasayer milking?

More indie pop than rock, and more ‘hit the nail on the head’ than experimental, Silly Me is a bouncy electronic pop number more contagious than a kindergartener’s hands during a flu epidemic.
 

3. Who do Yeasayer sound like?

Passion Pit. Indie Shuffle think Silly Me sounds like Wolf Parade, Animal Collective and Menomena. DIY were thinking Beck.


4. What do the brigands in the press have to say about Silly Me?

“A starry-eyed, energetic synth-rocker” – Stereogum.

“Ruffled-hair guitar line soon meets up with heart-stopping drum parts, wild instrumentation and synth lines” – DIY.

“Upbeat and energetic” – Pigeons and Planes.

 

 

5. Who puts the sparkle in Yeasayer’s eyes?

 

Yeasayer are influenced by classic sixties rock and 90’s alternative rock like Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana and Beck. Yeasayer have also talked about having love for Bollywood soundtracks from the 70s, Mapfumo records, and Celtic music. On a prior record they mentioned mad love for Ace Of Base.
 

6. Why should I give Silly Me a rattle past the ear holes?

 

Silly Me is fabulous fun, instant pop gratification and a dance floor filler. Hot love and no tease.

 

 

7. Do Yeasayer have any more crackers?

 

 I Am Chemistry the first single off Amen & Goodbye is a bit of a tripper but fits the bill.

 

 

8. Any more eddifying facts and figures to share with the masses?

Amen & Goodbye was produced by Joey Waronker from Atoms For Peace and ex-drummer for Beck, Smashing Pumpkins and R.E.M.

 

“Need to practice my apologies,

Swear not to disagree anymore”

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Slippery seconds is served courtesy of Youth Club an indie dance pop band from Southend, England. Starting in 2013 the band have two E.P.'s to their name and two singles. One of the singles, a double A side with Pressure, is DTLA  (Nov'15) and it's a killer track. Described by Indietronica as mixing “guitar licks, electronic keys and R’n’D vocals to create crisp, dance oriented pop.” Not just popping harder than a nun's cherry DTLA has a bass string guitar undercurrent and is as smooth as a Compton pimp. Get some love.

 

“If it rains that can only mean there will be rainbows”

 

 

  

 

 

 

King Charles - Gamble For A Rose

1. Who is this deluded muppet?

King Charles is Charles Costa, an indie folk pop rocker from the big smoke, London, England. He’s been making sweet ear juice since 2007. Gamble For A Rose (Nov’15) is the second single from his second album Gamble For A Rose (Jan’16).

2. What kind of tune is Gamble For A Rose?

Gamble For A Rose is a gentle, thoughtful, passionate, swaying love ballad with acoustic guitar picking and soft piano accompaniment. It builds up the musical textures piece by piece; layered vocals, drums, guitar, bass and violins increase the intensity. Gamble For A Rose is as sweet as a sixteen year old wearing pink pyjamas and holding a cup of hot chocolate.

 
3. Who does King Charles sound like?

Imagine Guns'N'Roses November Rain played by an indie pop band. A slight sense of maudlin tempers the optimism. 

More generally King Charles is similar to Spector, Air Traffic Controller, Avalanche City, Stornoway, Edward Sharpe and the Magnificient Zeroes and Noah and the Whale.

4. Who are the barber dodgers influences?

Charles Costa was a big Bob Dylan fan as a school kid and still professes his love for the legend. King Charles has also confessed to idolizing Charlie Fink the singer/songwriter for Noah and the Whale. One assumes the man has some love, probably physical in nature, for Mumford and Sons.

5. What have the press got to say about King Charles?

Clash Music called King Charles first opus, Loveblood (2012) "swaggering, defiant and inspiring" and were enthusiastic about the new tune Gamble For A Rose saying it is a "soaring, passionate return."  Bitter Sweet Symphonies reckoned the new song "captures the wondrous, magical feeling of first loves" and that King Charles can "describe matters of the heart in such vivid colour and with such breadth of sentiment is what makes his music so powerful."
  

6. Why should I listen to Gamble For A Rose?

Gamble For A Rose encapsulates both the doubts, fears and loss of ego that falling in love with another brings and the joy of travelling on one of lifes biggest adventures. It's passionate, universal and layers musical textures to perfection. Hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck raising stuff.

7. What other good tunes does this chap have?

 Bam Bam bounces like a buggerer's bum and is a classic slice of snappy indie pop. Loose Change For The Boatman is the first single from Gamble For A Rose and is just as intense with a greater sense of urgency. Last but not least Mississippi Isabel pops like a nuns cherry.

8.  Anything else I should know?

The new album was produced by Marcus Mumford, yep that dude from Mumford and Sons. Mr Mumford sang and played drums on most the tunes. Charlie Fink from Noah and the Whale was also involved.

King Charles is mates with Spector and they did swappsies with their new tunes to get advice.

King Charles has been on fluffer duties for bands like Panic! At The Disco, Mumford and Sons and Noah And The Whale.

King Charles did a British cover version, with way better lyrics, of We Didn't Start The Fire.

King Charles plays the guitar, piano, and cello. He is also a classically trained singer and sang in the school choir.

“Oh did you see love in my eyes or were you gazing through this disguise

I guess you could call this my gamble for a rose”

Slippery seconds comes from King Charles’ idols, the English indie folk pop band Noah and the Whale and their brightest gem, L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N (2011).

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Boxed In

Piano driven. Big bubbly bass. Funky as a leper’s love muscle and a smidgeon quirky. I mean outside the box. No guitars. A mite transcendental in part. Those are just a few of the reasons to love Boxed In's Mystery(Jan’15).

 

 

Mystery is an indie pop song about exploring the depths of a romantic relationship, it’s jiggy as a porn stars tits when she's on top and as much fun as a ferret down your pants, and dollars to dimes one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“Complicated sighs but in all the right directions
I look this way, and there you are”

 

 

Boxed In are a four piece band with Oli Bayston, a singer slash songwriter and producer, at its creative centre. Boxed In popped out of London in 2013. Mystery is one of a few singles from their debut album Boxed In (Jan’15).

Shit you need to know:

Lonely is the motherfucking blogger who didn’t punch plastic after hearing this ditty.

Click music described Mystery as “electric funk”. Sounds like what robot girls swallow. Stereogum said Mystery has, “atmospheric sweeps which swell and recede".

Clash music called it, “psychedelic,” fucking adjective of the year for the English, “idiosyncratic” and “whimsical.” Others mentioned "classical undertones" and a "craftsmanship and complexity worthy of a Thom Yorke or Aphex Twin".

Finally Barry Gruff opined Mystery has “an undeniably infectious groove and more than a hint of electronica.” Which does sound better than ‘stickier than a Gypsy’s gash on dole day’.

Oli Bayston played in a Manchester band Keith for years and has done grind for many bands or singers including Lily Allen.

The big man says hepitches a tent for 70’s motoric Kraut rock and House and likes The Bohicas, Little Cub and Zola Blood.

Oli has written tunes for 2 Bears, produced The Voyeurs and The Bohicas.

Boxed In's music has been described as similar to 2 Bears and poppy Hot Chip tunes.

The band have performed fluffer duties for La Roux and Django Django this year.

 

 

 

 

 

The double dip is Kiwi indie folk band Avalanche City and their New Zealand number one song, Love Love Love (2011).

Which is as happy as the title sounds. Superb video too.