Keston Cobblers Club - Almost Home

1.    Who are Keston Cobblers Club?

Keston Cobblers Club are an indie folk-pop band from Bromley, England. They started playing together in 2009 and Almost Home (Feb’17) is from their third album of the same name, Almost Home (March’17). 

2. What's the vibe on Almost Home? 

Almost Home is a knee-slapping, singalong folk song chock full of chest-bursting joy and nostalgia. Whoops abound, drums pound, acoustic guitars are plucked and tambourines rattle rambunctiously. 

3. Who do Keyston Cobbler's Club sound like? 

Van Susans, The Strumbellas and The Lumineers. 

4. What have the rags said about Almost Home? 

“Intricate melody and a nostalgic sweetness that proves inescapable” – The AU Review.

“Catchy, folk-infused” – Graffiti Punctuated. 

“Poignant optimism” – Folking.       

5. Which bands influenced Keston Cobblers Club?

Some of the band’s influences are Mates Of State, The Shins, Beirut, Bon Iver and Paul Simon.

6. Why should I press play on Almost Home? 

Because you like indie-poptism. Because you like boozy, infectious, late night singalongs. 

7. What are Keston Cobblers Club's best songs? 

Almost Home, You Go and Won't Look Back.    

8. Any more words? 

Keston Cobblers Club are a band formed by brother, sister and best friend. They are festival favorites and big Fleetwood Mac fans. 

“And I’ve never tried to hide where I belong”

Beirut are from Santa Fe, New Mexico but fight out of Brooklyn, New York. They play world, electronic, indie folk/pop music. Grooving since 2006 they have four albums on their roll of honor. Beirut is similar to Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleet Foxes and Noah and The Whale. Their influences are The Beach Boys, music form the Balkans and Mexican music. Gibraltar was the second single from his fourth album No, No, No (2015). Gibraltar is an infectious indie pop tune with bongos, jaunty keys and whimsical vocals.

“Who laid a line?

Say you’re like my kind”

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Vita Bergen

There’s a symphonic feel to Vita Bergen’s Curtains (Oct’14). It's an epic trip from more than slightly sad to ecstatic. And that's just the opening bars. And the song in it's entirety too is cerebral and passionate and magnificent.They’re definitely a bit of strange on the side and they make it hard to love because they don’t put out easy. Something in the singers voice calls to mind Ian Curtis of Joy Division, not the timbre of voice but because of the searching question without an answer.

That answer is out of reach until it's right fuckin there. Curtains is two full minutes of building, introspective tension before the climatic all in. And three minutes before the joyful bounce. And it is a joy, a sublime, sweet release. An electric indie rock song with variations; massive rewards are here for the patient.

 

 

Vita Begen are a Swedish electronic indie band that have been composing masterpieces for more than three years. They are two friends, two brothers and four more onstage musicians. Curtains comes from their self-titled short player Vita Bergen (Oct’14).

 

Shit you didn’t need to know:

Vita Bergen translates as White Mountain and refers to a park in Stockholm.

Vita Bergen have been compared to Arcade Fire and My Morning Jacket by fucking lazy journos.

Need another movement? Try Run, A Picture of Before or Mirror Blind.



 
Awesome Swedes huh? Just the fuckin excuse I need to give these funny fuckers a listen.

A Swedish garage rock band with no small dose of Americana this is Get A Little Lovin' (1990) off their most successful and accessible album Blue Tomato. And it's glorious.