Mother Mother - Get Up

Mother Mother are a popular indie rock band from Vancouver, Canada. Get Up (Sept'18) is the first single from their seventh album Dance Cry (Nov'18). Mother Mother have a radio-friendly indie pop/rock sound similar to Grouplove and WATERS. Mother Mother's influences are The Pixies and Dirty Projectors. Get Up is a fierce, seize-the-day song, that walks a perfect line between their pop sensibilities, indie quirkiness, and rock rage. Another vital installment from a band that brought us classics like Love Stuck and Get Out Of The Way.

Mother Mother - Love Stuck

1.    Who are they? 

Mother Mother are a popular indie rock band from Vancouver, Canada. They have been serving up the red hot tunes since 2005. Love Stuck (Nov'16) is the second single from their sixth album No Culture (Feb'17). 

2. What's the song like?

A marching beat, a chant-along catchy chorus and upbeat bounce. Standard issue, radio friendly, indie rock.

3. Who do Mother Mother sound like?

Grouplove, WATERS and Tokyo Police Club.

4. What have the mutts in the press said about Love Stuck?

“Bright and charged” – U Music. 

“Music underpinned by the belief that love wins” – Skope Mag.

“This is so optimistic” – YouTube Comments.

 

5. Which bands have influenced Mother Mother? 

Their main influences are The Beatles and The Pixies. They have mentioned some love for The Dirty Projectors and Little Dragon. 

6. Why should I listen to Love Stuck? 

Love Stuck is innocuous indie pop. 

7. Do Mother Mother have any other good songs? 

Get Out Of The Way rocks harder and is all the better for it and so does Bit By Bit. Monkey Tree has a more expansive melancholy synth-pop groove.

8. Any more words? 

Nah. 

“I’ve got my love stuck in my thoughts, in my thoughts”

Saint Motel are a popular dreamy indie pop band from Los Angeles, California. They have been playing together since 2009 and Move (Aug'16) is the lead single from their second album saintmotelevision (Oct'16). Saint Motel sound similar to Walk The Moon, Young The Giant and Local Natives. They are influenced by bands like M83, Cage The Elephant, Animal Collective and The Kinks. Move marries 70's soul and disco elements to an indie pop song and is the kind of inspirational song you put on your jogging playlist.

“Gotta get up, I gotta get up,

Move”

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Great Lake Swimmers

Great Lake Swimmers' Zero In The City (Feb’15) is a mood maker.  A melancholy mood maker. The underlying drum beat and plucked guitar strings move along at a fair clip like winter wind blowing through city blocks. But it’s the despairing vocals, the lyric and the surging violins that create the malancholy milieu of this tune.

A desperate milieu in fact. A vision of emotional desolation. A man alone in a diner staring out on empty snow covered streets in early morning hours. A heartbroken man. The countdown of the temperature is unnerving. It creates an internal tension to the song. A slow slide into tragedy. Something is being lost in every passing moment. There is no way this is one of the best indie songs of 2015. Yet it is.

“Minus one, split and it’s done

Getting up every day

Minus one in every way”

 

 

 

Great Lake Swimmers are an indie folk rock band from Toronto, Canada. They have been inspiring wonder since 2003. Zero In The City is the first single off their sixth album A Forest of Arms (April’15).

Shit you need to know:

The singer Tony Dekker said of Zero In The City, “It takes a reading of internal and external weathers, and lands somewhere in the place where those psychic and physical landscapes overlap.”

The bands press says  Zero In The City has “ …a surging rhythm section, razor sharp violin, and flourishing banjo and guitars…”

Of the new album the band say it resonates with many themes but particularly the beauty of the natural world and they feel this album has some of their most dynamic songs ever.

The new album was mixed by Howie Beck known for his work with Canadian indie pop artist Feist.

Of the new album this site opined it was emblematic of “…one of Canada's very best roots-based bands” while another thought it “seems dated.”

The band have been compared to Neil Young's acoustic work, Sufjan Stevens and Nick Drake.

The singer said his main influences are Hank Williams and Gram Parsons. He also mentioned he loves Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash.

Their singer and songwriter Tony Dekker is a big tree hugger. He helps out the World Wildlife Fund and other goodly environmental activities including going to Antarctica.

Great Lake Swimmers do a haunting cover version of Neil Diamonds Song Sung Blue. Well worth the time of day.

More superb Great Lake Swimmers tunes to make you realise the world is a wonderful place are Easy Come, Easy Go, just stop right there, that tune is gold, Great Lake Swimmer's apogee, a folk rock Wild Thing with meaningful lyrics. And of course Pulling On A Line.

 

 

Slippery seconds is another Canadian band. Mother Mother are an indie rock band from Vancouver, Monkey Tree (2014), is a song about the wild animalistic and cut-throat society we live in. An indie Welcome To The Jungle then.

“I'm looking for an angel
Found a bird of a different breed, yeah”