The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Kid Astray

Kid Astray It’s Alright (March'15) is fucking good times brilliant. Good enough to make a dead man dance. It starts with the perfect set up. Thirty seconds of near unaccompanied laidback singing, a little guitar plucking and synth build up then the rhythm section give it some tits and at the one minute mark the climatic all in. Arses are shaking and pussies aching. Choruses like this need to be carved in marble for future civilisations to understand the unalloyed joy of using up all the oil. Bag this tune and sell it on the corner. It’s instant happy.

No shortage of synth but it ain’t too soft Goldilocks. Just enough guitar to edge the tune close enough to indie rock that you won’t lose your street cred blasting it from your car stereo. A tune about overcoming the demons of your past, Elizabeth Wu’s voice is nigh on angelic, and provides a superb counter point to Benjamin Giortz’s more earthy lead. All told this banger is as sticky as a pre-schooler’s hands after going to the toilet and dimes to dollars you can bet this is one of the best fucking indie songs of 2015.

“You keep blinding me, with your own stupidity

It makes me curious, how you get so furious,

But it’s alright, you are gonna make it alright…”

 
Kid Astray are an indie pop band from Sandvika, a town close to Oslo, Norway. They started making sweet music in high school and this is the second offering off their debut album Home Before Dark (June’15).

Shit you need to know:

Kid Astray’s  main influences are Passion Pit, Foster the People and The Wombats. Kid Astray also wouldn't kick Michael Jackson out of the bed for getting frisky and like 80's and 90's synth pop.

The drummer’s mom’s punk band are an inspiration.

The band met and started playing together in high school. One was a Vogue model, another a junior golf champion and another a piano prodigy.

If you're looking for another Kid Astray cracker try Still Chasing Nothing.

 

Here is the Australian indie funk rockers Bluejuice and I'll Go Crazy (2014).

The Best Indie Songs of 2014 - CRUISR

CRUISR have been touring with The 1975 and it’s not hard to see why. They are reading from a similar script without any danger of CRUISR out shining the other.

 

All Over (Aug’14) prances along without a care in the world in the verses but has more dash in the choruses. Positively noisy in the choruses in fact. It’s new indie pop rock standard but being as how it’s their first bite of the apple they throw crisp punches.

 
CRUISR are from Philadelphia and began creating happy vibes in 2012. All Over springs off their second E.P. of the same name (Sept’14).

What tunes keep the guys so upbeat? I don’t fucking know. I’m thinking they might not hate some of what The 1975, Young Rising Suns, Cage The Elephant or Walk The Moon have to offer but that’s pure speculation me old mucker.

Looking to keep cruising? Try these bubbles of joy Kidnap Me or Go For It.

 

 

Silly seconds goes to Len and Steal My Sunshine (1999) just cos listening to CRUISR’s big bubbly joy put me in mind of it…