PARTYBABY - Your Old Man

1.    Who are these bright new things?

PARTYBABY are Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman and they fight out of Los Angeles, California. Your Old Man (Oct'15) is the second missile fired from these musical marvels.


2. What flavor of wonderful is Your Old Man?

Your Old Man is instantly lovable garage punk that reeks of gut punching honesty. At turns chill and sweet and noisy with an epic chorus that soars free into the stratosphere on gritty glam rock wings.

3. Who have PARTYBABY been compared to?

The consensus is FIDLAR. PARTYBABY are hitting the road in April with SWMRS and The Frights so that is the kind of pool they swim in. A fucking great one.


4. What have the pundits in the press said about Your Old Man?

“Snarling punk rock with a tab of anthemia” – DIY.

“An intoxicating blend of frazzled punk and impossibly infectious melodic refrains” – The Fat Angel Sings.

“Melody and hard rock edge” – Pigeons and Planes.

5. Which bands brought the favors to PARTYBABY’s party?

Everclear, Primal Scream, Fatboy Slim, Sparklehorse, SWMRS and more.

6. Why should I give Your Old Man a spin on the turntable?

Your Old Man brings a fresh, savage, attack to garage punk rock elevating it above and beyond the current crop of fine fucking soldiers battling for a righteous cause. Your Old Man packs the whallop of a steel-capped kick to the taint and is just as satisfying as collecting some sack with the follow through. It has a rich tapestry of musical textures, rhythms and blinding production too.

7. Do PARTYBABY have any more of these blinders?

The debut single Everything's All Right brings the pain and blows out the cobwebs.

8. Any more words fool?

Noah Gersh was a member of Portugal. The Man and Jamie Schefman is a producer and engineer and put his genius to shine on 30 Seconds To Mars last two long players.

“Do you ever talk to your old man?

Does he understand what we do on the weekends?”

It would be rude to ignore 30 Seconds To Mars for the follow-up seeing as how Jamie Schefman shared engineering duites on their last two albums. The alternative rock band roll out of Los Angeles, California and have been on the job since 1998 and sold over 15 million albums. This Is War (2010) screamed off the album of the same name that sold four million albums and a million singles. This Is War is bombastic nonsense but it is fun.

“Raise your hands into the sky,

The fight is done, the war is won”





The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - WIN WIN

WIN WIN are a production collective, long time bros, and an indie-electronic band from New York. Waster (May’15) is a B-side from their single release Couch Paranoia and a bonus track on their third album Primaries (Jun’15). The tune was called “a debaucherous psychedelic anthem for the rebellious youth”  by Turntable Kitchen and “...pure hedonistic pleasure-center music” by Stereogum. The bands influences are classical to no-wave to trance and psych-rock.

Waster is a feel-good slacker soundtrack with psych-rock stylings. There are handclaps and dirty glam guitar married to a shout it out chorus and a sense of urgency in the driving drum beat. No fucking doubts about it, this is a track that will have you smiling like a masturbating retard. Waster is one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“Find another lover

Take another pill”

 

Shit you need to know:

The band are based in Brooklyn, New York.

WIN WIN’s music has been described as  “grafts rock music to dance music...rooted in pop.”

The bands record label spouted this verbal diarrhoea about the new album Primaries, “an elastic and hyper-modern album of seductive pop permanence and psychoactive electronics.” Inner Speaker were much more precise “...a somewhat confusing mix of electro and psych-rock.”

WIN WIN have remixed tracks for Thom Yorke, Björk, TV On The Radio and Kylie Minogue.

Roofeoo of TV On The Radio is friends and has collaborated with the band.
 

The singer from Hot Chip, Alexis Taylor, sang on one of their tunes.
 

The band fluffed for The Cribs in September in Montreal.
 

Another WIN WIN tune that doesn't felch from a dead hobbos arse is Been So Long.

 

 

Stirring the porridge is English indie rock greats The Cribs and their finest rocker Come On, Be A No-One (2012).

“I was trying so hard to enjoy everything
that i ended up enjoying nothing”

 

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Galaxie

 

 

Galaxie Robot Lynx (Jan’15) is a spaced out glam rock stomp. Big synth and airy layered vocals in the chorus gives this rocket wings but the verses are pure shit kicking grime. Robot Lynx has  an honest to god lead break too. It is heaven as space battalions prepare for the last ditch offensive in an all out war for intergalactic domination.

It’s French so I don’t know what the songs about. Just try it out for fucks sake. It’s brilliant and no fuckin doubt one of the best indie songs of 2015.

 

Galaxie are a French Canadian indie garage rock band from Montreal. They have been hard marching since 2002. Robot Lynx is the lead single off their fourth album Zulu (Feb'15).

Shit you need to know:

Galaxie were known as Galaxie 500 from 2002 -2010 before shortening the moniker because of confusion with the American band.

This concert review says the new album Zulu mixes mix African rhythms with hard rock. Sounds good to me. Anyway they gave the gig four and a half stars out of five.

The lead singer slash songwriter said for the last album he, “...listened to a lot of T. Rex and Bo Diddley”.

About the bands last album this reviewer said it’s, “...rough-edged (hard-hitting riffs) with a soothing presence (discotheque bass and semi-psychedelic vocals)...perfect balance of pace and lightness that gives “Tigre Et Diesel” its regal, electronic, intergalactic presence.

Galaxie played support for Alvvays this year.

Dragon is another Galaxie cracker, Interstice  bangs as hard as a Bangkok hooker and Piste 1 is the shit too.

The  double dip is as random as Donald Trumps hair. It’s a beautiful song from London alternative pop singer Layla. This is her sweet masterpiece Oh My Love (2013).

Hit the two twenty mark for the all in if you have no patience.