MisterWive’s Best I Can Do sounds a bit like the ska band Save Ferris’s cover of Come On Eileen. Pretty damn good in other words. Brass pulls us into a verse where the singer coos over soft guitar pop and then the chorus where she gives it the tits accompanied by fantastic trumpets. Lovely jubbly.
Best I Can Do is a light, bubbly, sunny-day song about the pain caused by trying to live up to others expectations. Regardless of the melancholy lyric it’s a song to get your arse bouncing and, fuck me Frank, undeniably one of the best indie songs of 2015.
“I am down on my knees
Begging for release...”
Begging for release...”
Shit you need to know:
Best I Can Do was called the album’s most, “…chaotically appealing,” song.
Billboard were on something when they described the album Our Own House as having, “…panels bursting with rock 'em, sock 'em action.”
This reviewer said the album was, “...a collection of rousing anthems that have showy vocal hooks, crisp production and choruses packed with youthful enthusiasm.”
The long player Our Own House was produced by Frequency, best known for his work with Eminem.
The band have been often compared to Ellie Goulding and Taylor Swift. Others have mentioned Chic and Capital Cities.
Popped Music thought, “...their sound borrows heavily from the 80s pop era but it’s injected with a syringe full of optimism.”
The band’s influences include No Doubt, ABBA, The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, The Police, Walk the Moon, Regina Spektor, Sublime, Radiohead and Of Monsters and Men.
Misterwives topped the chart on Billboards emerging artists and were MTV's Artist To Watch for 2015.
The band do a good cover of old eighties singer Cyndi Lauper’sbiggest hit Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
The singer studied international opera.
Let’s crack on with some Sublime seeing as they influenced MisterWives. This is one of the legendary Californian ska bands greatest hits Caress Me Down (1996).
“Mucho gusto, me llamo Bradley,
I'm hornier than Ron Jeremy”
