WILD - Vagabond

1. Who are WILD?

WILD are an indie folk pop band from Los Angeles, California. Vagabond (Oct'15) has been re-released in February and is one of a handfull of single releases from the self-titled album WILD (Sept'15).


2. What kind of magic is Vagabond? 

Vagabond is a stirring middle of the road indie folk pop tune with a gang chorus as sticky as a frat boy's communal wank mitt.


3. Who do WILD sound like?

Of Monsters and Men. Indie Shuffle add The Lumineers to the mix.


4. What have the cut and paste bandits got to say about Vagabond?

“A stirring anthem built on indie rock intensity and folk-pop vitality” – Free Bike Valet.

“A stunning new track” – We Found New Music.

“There’s something rather infectious about that road-song chorus” – Press Play OK.

5. Which bands put the sparkle in WILD’s pop?

No knowledge available. WILD's Spotify playlist includes tunes by St. Lucia, Young The Giant, Band Of Horses, Panic! At The Disco, Bryce Fox and The Dunwells.


6. Why should I give Vagabond a swish past the earholes?

Vagabond embodies a search for meaning indie pop song and is sweet and bouncy with a huge singalong chorus and is instantly addictive.


7. Do WILD have any more of these emblematic champions?

Not yet but it shouldn't take long.


8. Any more words?

SYFFAL reviewed the album WILD and said,“Are these shitstains plagarizing or are they just fucking brilliantly combining every style, strum and female sung whimper on the radio today?” They concluded that WILD, “should be crowned kings and queens of the music already.”

“Tell me where do I belong,

Tell me where to go from here”

  

 

The Naked And The Famous are an indie electronic rock band from Auckland, New Zealand, but fight out of Los Angeles, California. They have released two albums to critical and popular acclaim. Their debut album Passive Me, Aggressive,You (2010) contained the band's NZ number one, and breakthrough international hit, Young Blood. Young Blood sold over half a million copies and is a song The NZ Herald called “inventive, rousing and uplifting.”

 “The bittersweet between my teeth”

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Flor

Get Behind This (Jan’15) is a synth driven indie dance tune that starts out a mite melancholy over the ashes of a fire. But by chorus time its hands in the air, let’s get retarded, happy good times and that transition is gold. Sure as shit you’ll find your head nodding and toes tapping of their own volition. This bauble is as infectious as chlamydia’s dick and that’s enough to make it one of the best indie songs of 2015.

 

 

An ephemeral track with the nutritional value of cotton candy, yet it captures the zeitgeist of West coast indie synth pop; uplifting, joyful, all drum machine, synths and girly man vocals. While some may rail against the pussy nature of this tune and dimes to dollars no one out there is carving ‘Flor4real’ into their arm with a knife after the life changing experience of hearing this indie dance pop tune, that doesn’t mean this is anything less than top shelf indie.

“I guess I never thought,

anything good could come from the dead and gone”

 

 

Get Behind This is the third track off Flor’s first short player Sounds (Feb’15). The band sing out of Los Angeles by way of Hood River, Oregon and got started in 2014.

Shit you need to know:
 

Flor are currently touring with Young Rising Sons.

People have made comparisons to Passion Pit and Two Door Cinema.

Broods, Smallpools and Oh Wonder all have songs they love.
 
Heart and Back Again are the other Flor songs that don’t suck hairy balls even if they do.

 

Well seeing as you’ve been warmed up goes to one of the greatest Canadian indie rock bands of all time Sloan and this fucking great rocker Unkind (2011). Bit of a manly palate cleanser.