The Creases - Everybody Knows

1.    Who are they?

The Creases are an indie rock band from Brisbane, Australia. They started playing in 2013. Everybody Knows (Jan’17) is the lead single from their debut album Tremelow (2017). 

2. What kind of song is Everybody Knows? 

Sunshiny, revivalist, pop-rock with a foot in both English pop from the sixties and English indie rock from the 80's and 90's. The chorus is sugar. 

3.  Who do The Creases sound like? 

Pop Cult, Primal Scream and The Happy Mondays. 

4. What is the good word from the press? 

“Incredibly infectious” – Mushroom.  

“An instant classic” – Liberation.

 “Contagious energy” – Best Before.

5. Which bands have inspired The Creases?

Some of The Creases' main influences are The Beatles, Pulp, Echo & Bunnymen, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Blur. 

6. Why should I give Everybody Knows a listen? 

Because you love English indie rock from the late 80's and 90's. 

7. What are The Creases best songs?

Impact is the best one; like Everybody Knows but with a killer choral chorus and some brass.

8. Any more words? 

The Creases are signed to Rough Trade and have supported Franz Ferdinand, The Preatures, PEACE, The Jungle Giants and Ball Park Music. 

“I’m getting out of this place”

The Cat Empire are an Australian ska, jazz, funk, rock fusion band with Latin influences. They are from Melbourne, Australia, and formed in 1999. The Cat Empire have six albums pinned on their battle honors. Bulls is the third single from their sixth album The Rising Sun (2016). The Rising Sun debuted at number one in the Australian charts and the critics favorite song was Bulls, a song Faster Louder described as “a super riffy festival number with a punk-hoe-down outro.”

A bedouin told me,

‘The Bomb is a rhythm’ ”

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”

 

 

  

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - The Van Jets

The Van Jets are a Belgian garage pop-rock band who began by following in the glam-rock footsteps of David Bowie and T.Rex but evolved into synth driven 80’s pop and funk that minds me of Alcoholic Faith Mission and Joywave a little. Two Tides of Ice (April'15) has been called “ just plain contagious” and “a little darker than what we're used to, but... catchy as hell.” The Van Jet's were influenced by listening to Kanye West's Yeezus while making the new album.

Two Tides of Ice is expansive electronic space rock in the realm of Galaxie with a hiphop-esque delivery in the verses. It's as funky as a Bangkok rent-boy’s taint at four in the morning. Epic lyrics, “All the way from Babylon all the way to Mars” tells it loud and proud, these fuckers aren’t bothering the small stuff and they ain’t taking prisoners. This is what I’d want to be listening to if I was in the German army when the Allied invasion of Normandy woke them up and death was landing on the beaches. This is total surrender. The Van Jets have exploded into 2015 with one of the best indie songs of the year.

“I drink and I lie and I cheat,

Get your fuck me boots”

Shit you need to know:

Two Tides of Ice is the first single from The Van Jet's fourth album Welcome To Strange Paradise (April’15).

Welcome To Strange Paradise was produced by Leo Abrahams who has done the hard yards for Paolo Nutini, Oscar and the Wolf and Wild Beasts.

The mixing of the long player was done by T’Chad Blake who has worked for Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys and Pearl Jam.

The album contains songs that explore environmental issues with an ironic Pop Art twist.


The band’s main squeezes are David Bowie, Grace Jones, Beck and Gorillaz.

Someone thinks that The Van Jets are similar to Balthazar and Oscar and the Wolf.

Other Van Jet songs that don't suck donkey dick are Here Comes The Light and WelcomeTo Strange Paradise. But Two Tides Of Ice is the bolter in the pack.
 

Slippery seconds comes courtesy of English indie rockers The Kaiser Chiefs and their best barn-burner I Predict A Riot (2005).

“Watching the people get lairy
It's not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It's not very sensible either..”