Broods - Free

1.    Who are they?

Broods are an indie electro-pop band from Auckland, New Zealand, who fight out of Los Angeles, California. Playing since 2013 they have one long player in the vault. Free (April'16) is the lead single from their as yet unnamed second album.


2. What kind of tune is on offer?

Free is a pure pop ego booster led by Georgia Watts varied vocals and a bombastic, yet brooding bed of synths.


3. Who do Broods sound like?

DIY compared Free to Chvrches.


4. What is the good word from the press?
 
“A big burst of synth-pop, wrapped in meaty chords and dark undertones” – Indie Current.

“Broods go straight for the jugular” – Clash Music.

“A turbo-charged banger” – DIY.

5. Which bands put the passion and prance in Broods’ pop?

Broods influences are Bat For Lashes, Imogen Heap, Lykke Li, Banks, Danger Mouse and Gnarls Barkley.


6. Why should I give Free a twirl?

Free is a pop banger co-written and produced by Joel Little who put his shoulder to the wheel for Lorde. Everyone loves Lorde right? You know what Swifty says, don't be a hater.


7. Do Broods have any more blinders?

Free is the best.


8. Any more words fool?

Broods will be supporting Ellie Golding on some of her North American dates later this year.

Brother and sister Caleb and Georgia Nott grew up in a musical family that played in an ABBA tribute band.

 

“Don’t want your opinion or your fee”

 

North Shore Pony Club are from Auckland, New Zealand. Starting in 2005 the indie electronic dance-pop duo have only one self-titled EP to their name, North Shore Pony Club (2006) and a couple of singles. Sex, Drugs & A Drum Machine (2010) is a party anthem, a chaotic dance floor filler and eblematic of North Shore Pony Club's off-kilter genius. The Corner called North Shore Pony Club, “sassy as hell” and “decent”.

“Yeah bitches I’m living the dream”

 

Freedom Fry - The Words

1.    Who are Freedom Fry?

Freedom Fry are a married couple, French Marie Seyrat and American Bruce Driscoll. An indie pop band playing out of Los Angeles they have a string of short players and singles behind them and have made stacks of dirty coin out of advertising licencing. The Words (Feb'16) is a stand alone single.

2. What are the angles on this gem The Words?

Marie Seyrat's retro sixties vocals open The Words and are swapped with the proxaic vocals of Bruce Driscoll before the tune picks up with a disco beat. Like a good root; a touch of the exotic, simple, repetitive and yet so infectious you should double glove the condoms.

3. Who do Freedom Fry sound like?

The radio. Indie Shuffle say The Words sounds like Starfucker, The Light House and Whaler. KRCW are feeling Air and Turin Brakes.

4. What have the high priests of the press to say about this pop marvel The Words?

“The infectious track pivots between psychedelic hauntings and folk pop over consistent disco beats” – Free Bike Valet.

“A beautifully bouncy groove laid down over consistent disco beats, electronic pulses and jangly hooks & sing-along choruses” – Barry Gruff.

“Combines a retro-futurist electronic pulse with jangly hooks & sing-along choruses” – KRCW.

5. Who puts the slick in Freedom Fry’s music?

Freedom Fry are influenced by The Ventures, The Beatles, Beach House, The Bee Gees, The Sufaris and Serge Gainsbourg.

6. Why should I listen to The Words?

The Words has an intriguing slice of exotic in the vocals of Marie Seyrat and a fat slice of disco to make it one of the best indie songs of 2016.

7. Do Freedom Fry have any more of these pop marvels?

Do the French consider themselves a great nation? Check out Shaky Ground for the outstanding sample of Freedom Fry magic.

8. Any more knowledge to impart dear scribe?

Freedom Fry have said The Words is “written from the perspective of a boyfriend or girlfriend who just needs to hear that they’re still wanted.”

 

“Just say the words”



Slippery seconds is brought to you by Hunter Hunted, an indie pop band from Los Angeles with one album Ready For You (2015) to pin to their flag pole. Hunter Hunted have gone out on tour performing fluffer duties for rock gods Weezer and lesser luminaries like Fitz and The Tatums, The Mowglis and American Authors. Absolute Punk called Hunter Hunted “a gold mine just waiting to be found” and todays song Keep Together (2013) “jittery, buzzing and bubbly.”

“Leave me be and finally see all the reasons why, why”

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Mini Mansions

Mini Mansions Freakout! (Feb’15) has a rock dance vibe. Yeah in that order. If you don’t like Mini Mansions let me assure you there’s a damn sight more crackle and pop in this track than their usual limp wristed wank. A bit like Death Is A Girl and a bit David Bowie-ish in parts. Ziggy Stardust to be precise.

There’s a bass and drum stomp that marches the song jauntily forward, in juxtaposition to some maudlin lyrics, toward a crescendo of a chorus. A track about social unease it’s got a strong dose of something outside the box and is, fuckin easily, one of the best indie songs of 2015.

Mini Mansions are an indie pop three piece from Los Angeles making music since 2009. Freakout  is the second single off their second album The Great Pretenders (Mar’15). The bass player is from Queens of the Stone Age.

Shit you need to know:

Mini Mansions have been described as akin to the Beatles and Beach Boys. The tune Freakout! has been likened to the Cars or Soft Cell.

Mini Mansions have said their main influences are 60's and 70's psych pop and especially The Beatles, Elliot Smith and Devo.

Mini Mansions collaborated with Alex Turner, who basically is the Arctic Monkeys, on the track Vertigo (Mar’15) and with Brain Wilson, who basically is the Beach Boys, on the track Any Emotions (Jan’15).

Mini Mansions ent touring with the New Pornographers last year and Royal Blood in February and March. They are supportingAustralian psych rockers Tame Impala touring the US in May.

The band murder a cover of Blondie’s Heart of Glass.

Two of the band members met in a basketball game they played when 11 years old and formed a band they played in through to ninth grade.

Ordinary Man and Death Is A Girl are the Mini Mansions songs that don’t blow chunks.

 

The tag team today is Canadian indie rock band the New Pornographer’s cover of Your Daddy Don’t Know (2002).

Fuck yeah it rocks as hard as having a brick laborer finger fuck your cock hole.

“Making your move

You come down as fast as lightening”

 

 

  

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - AWOLNATION

Aaron Bruno sounds like someone pissed in his cornflakes in the verses of AWOLNATION’s Hollowmoon (Bad Wolf) (Jan’14). He’s positively rabid, slamming down lyrics like “Motherfucker I’ll be back from the dead soon” and sounding just short of being eviscerated when screaming “They will never find me here” in the breakdown.

 

But that’s all in stark contrast to a pretty sweet, melodic, bouncy chorus, with just a slice of kookiness. An addictive pop chorus to get your arse shaking and keep you coming back for seconds. AWOLNATION have produced a noisy, intense, electric rock number that both rocks out hard and it jives. A single just as strong as anything off their debut Megalithic Symphony (2011) and dead set to become a fan favourite and garner more.

 

 

 

AWOLNATION’s home base is Los Angeles. They have been creating the greatest electric rock the world has ever seen since 2009. Hollowmoon (Bad Wolf) comes screaming off their second long player Run (March’15).

Shit you need to know:

The band are named after the singers high school nickname ‘Awol’. Aaron Bruno had a penchant for leaving without saying goodbye.

Aaron Bruno recorded two albums prior to AWOLNATION, one as Home Town Hero (self-titled, 2002) and one as Under The Influence Of Giants(self-titled, 2006).

Aaron Bruno formed both bands with AWOLNATION’s current guitarist Drew Stewart.

Aaron Bruno has confessed to mad love for The Beatles, Prince, Michael Jackson and Nirvana. He was also into hard-core punk as a youngster.

The stellar AWOLNATION tracks without which life would be meaningless are Guilty Filthy Soul, Jump On My Shoulders, THISKIDSNOTALRIGHT and Not Your Fault to name but a few.

 

 
In 2011 AWOLNATION found stardom with Sail and this Kentucky alternative rock band Sleeper Agent brought out this gem Get It Daddy off their take no prisoners debut album Celabrasion (2011). Good vintage.

 

 

 

 

 

 



The Best Indie Songs of 2014 - Parade of Lights

Parade of Lights are an indie dance band aiming for a rebel without a pause moment in Burn (Sept’14). With incendiary lyrics like “Common let’s ride, we’ll take on the world tonight” it’s clear ‘the man’ everywhere is shiteing it, bracing for worldwide social revolution.

 

But just like Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It if you’re up for some bedroom rebellion, up for the ride, it can be all good anthemic fun. A rock drum beat and some indie guitar keep this song grounded while the synths and vocals send it soaring.

Parade of Lights describe themselves as an electronic rock band and bound out of The City of Angels. They’ve been lighting up the place since 2012. Burn is the fourth track beaming off their second E.P. Golden(March’14).

The band have been compared in favourable light to Imagine Dragons, MGMT and M83. The band have expressed a like of My Bloody Valentine, Failure and Depeche Mode.

Didn't need turned on to more? You're gonna miss out on Golden and We’re The Kids in a flash.

 

 

 

Slippery seconds go to AWOLNATION THISKIDSNOTALRIGHT (2013) because it's a fat cock song.

If you don't like it .  Well you know.