Bombay Bicycle Club - Eat, Sleep, Wake

 

1. Who are they?

Bombay Bicycle Club are a successful indie rock band from London, England. Active since 2005 Eat Sleep Wake (August, 2019) is the lead single from their fifth album Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (January, 2020).

2. What kind of song it it?

Eat, Sleep, Wake is a meditative dark guitar groove that may or may not work it's way into your consciousness.

3. Who do Bombay Bicycle Club sound like?

Bombay Bicycle Club are similar to The Maccabees, Foals, and The Wombats.

4. Which bands have influenced Bombay Bicycle Club?

The band have mentioned some love for The War On Drugs, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and David Bowie.

5. What have the press said?

“Guitar driven track”- Billboard.

“Invigorating hooks and wistful attitude”- Pitchfork.

“Familiar yet distant”- KTSW.

"Eat, sleep, wake, nothing but you"

The Amazons - Stay With Me

1.    Who are these fine gentlemen of rock’n’roll?

The Amazons are an indie rock band from Reading, England. These hard chargers are one short player and a single or two to the good. Stay With Me (March’16) is a stand alone single.

2. What gifts do The Amazon’s come bearing?

Stay With Me is proto-typical English guitar indie rock. It fits in a space inbetween Oasis and Royal Blood. Stay With Me rocks hard but is not hard rock. Concise, full throttle, melodic rock'n'roll that flows like a street riot being chased by the police and it is just as pumped full of adrenaline and unforgettable.


3. Who do The Amazon’s sound like?

NME were feeling Oasis and The Indie Rock Broadcast were put in mind of Sundara Karma and Catfish and The Bottlemen.


4. What have the plastic punchers said about Stay With Me?

“A gutsy guitar rock lament to young love” – NME

“A raucous and propulsive new track” – Shoot Match Day.

“A fantastically addictive guitar breakdown” – The Student Advertiser.

5. Which bands have put the fire in The Amazon’s belly?

The bands who impress The Amazons are Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, The Vaccines, The Arctic Monkeys, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Killers, Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire, Tame Impala and Ponds.


6. Why should I give Stay With Me a blast?

Stay With Me is another essential track in the recent English rock'n'roll renaissance and the sound of one of England's most exciting bands, top of the crop, hitting their straps. Hitting them hard. Stay With Me will be The Amazon's breakthrough hit if there is any justice in this world.

7. Have The Amazon’s graced us with any more of these belters?

Ultraviolet doesn't bang as hard but it is bloody fantastic. No fucking about.


8. Anything else to add?

Stay With Me is produced by Tom Dalgety who has sprinkled the gold dust on tunes for Royal Blood, Broken Hands and The Maccabees.

The Amazons are hitting the road and supporting The Strypes on a UK tour in March and fluffed for The Kooks last year.

“But being alone is being without you,

So stay with me”

The one two punch is delivered, hard, by Crows an alternative rock band from London with a single from their new short player Unwelcome Light (March'16). Pray (2015) is packed brim to the warehouse rafters with grainy garage riffs and a snarling vocal and is love at first lashing. BraceYourself called Pray “bloodthirsty and blunt like a fist wrapped in barbed wire.”

“His bloodshot eyes, his jagged teeth”

Sundara Karma - A Young Understanding

1.    Who are these men of impeccable taste?

Sundara Karma are an indie rock band from Reading, England, who started in 2011 and have a debut album for release (March’16).  A Young Understanding (Feb’16) is a single from the new album.


2. What kind of gem is on offer from A Young Understanding?

A Young Understanding is an astmospheric indie rock belter with big English pop stylings.

 

3. Who do Sundara Karma sound like?

Sundara Karma are not unlike a band they have shared the stage with, Zibra. The Guardian were feeling Bruce Springsteen and made mention of “Driving, rousing anthemia.”


4. What do the goon squad have to say about A Young Understanding?
 
“Perfect, cinematic rebellious track” – Outlet Mag.

“Anthemic chorus and driving verses” – Notion Magazine.

“Sundara Karma look to be unstoppable” – Clash Music.

5. Who put the rock in Sundara Karma’s roll?

The old school Sundara Karma influences are The Doors, The Cure, The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Marilyn Manson, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Die Antwoord and Pink Floyd.

Sundara Karma are obsessed with Die Antwoord and have mentioned mad love for Grimes, Sunflower Bean, The Smiths and The War On Drugs.

 

6. Why should I give A Young Understanding a swish past the ears?

Sundara Karma are part of the recent renaissance of British indie rock’n’roll and A Young Understanding is their best song and biggest hit; a powerful rock song that oozes festival favorite and mainstream appeal.


7. Do Sundara Karma have any more belters?

Absolutely. Flame is the leader of the pack.


8. Any more words of wisdom?

Sundara Karma have been out on the road supporting The Wombats and Circa Waves.

Gigwise have declared, “Sundara Karma are going to be the next big thing.”

“Cruising round in a friends new car”

 

 

 

BORNS is Garrett Borns an indie musician from Grand Haven, Michigan who fights out of Los Angeles. His debut album Dopamine (Oct’15) holds three big hits 10 000 Emerald Pools, Electric Love and American Money that are responsible for what Sputnik Music called “a meteoric ascension.”  American Money (2015) got the least press or listens out of all three songs. American Money is the best BORNS song, a song Indie Sound said, “has a repetive chorus anyone can sing that goes great next to a tantalizing beat.”

“You taste just right,

Sweet like Tennessee honey”

 

 

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Carl Barat and The Jackals

Carl Barat and the Jackals have a fucking belter here with A Storm Is Coming (Jan’15). There are crunchy rhythm guitars, straight out of The Clash's London Calling days, and a killer chorus to a very English indie rock track.

 

 

 

Not just punky A Storm Is Coming bears the hallmarks of the greatest hits of ‘Cool Britannia’.

 

“I don’t mind, I know a storm is coming

Things won’t ever be the same again

I won’t run this time, it has to be now or never”

 

 
A Storm Is Coming is off the Carl Barat and The Jackal's debut album Let It Reign (Feb’15). Yes Barat does have a few under his belt.
Let It Reign is an album NME described as crackling“with delinquent fervour and lyrical punch” as they wiped come off their sycophantic chins with relish. Rolling Stone said it was a "call to arms" while they beat themselves off in a frenzy. While other cynics have said it's a bit 'meh'.

Shit you need to know:

The drummer was in a Swindon wedding band before he got the call up into the band.

Carl Barat supported the Sex Pistols back in his Libertines days.

The Black Keys drummer once said Carl Barat looks like a prick and there was no one else he would rather “punch in the face”.

Carl Barat is good friends with one of the godfathers of punk Mick Jones, who produced both of the Libertines albums, the first a debut UK number one.

Carl Barat rips them off to the Velvet Underground, The Clash, Nirvana and The Doors. With the usual caveat, to name but a few.

You mustn’t go past Glory Days if you are looking for more crackers from Carl Barat and the Jackals.

It's Glory Days end of fucking story.

 

Stirring the porridge goes to the London indie rock band The Rifles and the genius of Heebie Jeebies (2013). Heebie Jeebies  is as English as clinging onto former triumphs and yet at the same time inspiring straight up, couldn't happen anywhere else in the world, transcendental fuckin magic.

Here is an ode to getting pissed.

 

“Get a call from Tel and I don't know your brother
Said we met last night about ten to three
And put the world to rights in a minute on an empty street”