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 Tunes of 2014 - The New Pornographers

 

 

 

 

The New Pornographer’s Dancehall Domine (Oct'14) has a rolly chorus to make you bop along. Keyboards reminiscent of The Doors and indie guitar of The Killers. It’s contradictory, both an eclectic and by the numbers indie rocker and a song Slant Magazine called an "unabashedly classic-rock sound rave up."

 

The New Pornographers and been mixing it up since 1999 and  Dancehall Domine is from their sixth haymaker Brill Bruisers (Aug’14). The New Pornographers fight out of Vancouver, Canada.

The New Pornographers are influenced by ELO and wanted this album to emulate the comic greatness of Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

The New Pornographers greatest victories are War On The East Coast, My Slow Descent Into Alcoholism, Twin Cinema, Sing Me Spanish Techno and Your Daddy Don’t Know. All orgasmic tracks.
 

Sloppy seconds goes to British new wave band Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Rocket Miss USA from their debut album, and only album that matters, Flaunt It (1986). Sigue Sigue Sputnik were famous for their cypber punk fashion, synth inspired techno beats and punk riffs. 

Flaunt It is an album New Noise Magazine said is "a groundbreaking release that anticipated the rise of sampling and the eventual marriage of rock and high tech." But I have included it here because it's funny as a facial and they inspired the latest New Pornographers album.

 

"Ladies and gentlemen,

There are seven wonders in the world,

You are about to witness the eight one"