Vita Bergen - Replace

 

1.    Who are these fellas?

Vita Bergen are an electronic indie band from Gothenburg, Sweden who formed in 2010. Replace (Jan'16) bubbles off their debut album Disconnection (Oct'15).


2. What do Vita Bergen have on offer?

Replace is a dark atmospheric dance rock tune that casts a glance to days gone by.


3. Who do Vita Bergen sound like?

Tape TV are sure Replace sounds like Mando Daio and a consensus led by Clash Music think Vita Bergen are generally like Arcade Fire.


4. What have the press said about Vita Bergen's music?

“Driving bass and urgent tempo” – The Revue.

“Grandiose soundscapes sometimes closing in on the bombastic” – Meadow Music.

“Large extravagent instrumentation with a driving rhythm section” – Bedroom Disco.

 

5. Who are Vita Bergen’s influences?

Vita Bergen's main influences are Wolf Parade, Bright Eyes, Okkervil River, Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Pink Floyd and Neil Young.


6. Why should I give Replace a listen?

Replace is a new take on an old electronic goth sound and it does it well. Good for a change of pace.


7. Do Vita Bergen have any more great songs?

Curtains is the best thing Vita Bergen have ever done and was one of the very best indie songs of 2014. Absolute, knock me down dead, brilliance.


8. Any more information about Vita Bergen?

Vita Bergen means white mountain but is not a reference to the park in Stockholm. It is a reference to the mountains of Gothenburg and an allusion to their purity.

Vita Bergen drive a big black Chevy that gets three miles to the gallon.

“We replace ourselves, because the past is binary”

 

 

The Mission are a gothic rock band from Leeds, England, who started in 1986 and are still going strong. They have produced eleven albums in their long history. Carved In Sand (1990) is their most popular. The album had a handful of singles but Deliverance is the fucking killer. Go to the one and a half minute mark for the start of the song. Mental live. Goes right off.

“Surrender to the wisom of age and the spirits of time”

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - We Are Z

We Are Z Airbrush (Nov’14) starts all throbby bass and drums then builds to all in for the chorus. It’s plenty dance in the bridge with synth doodles and falsetto vocals. But this beauty ain’t short on a bit of punk rock neither with the shout together chorus and guitars joining the fray.

 

A tasty little musical mixture to accompany a track that takes a solid crack at cosmetic surgery and people’s need for visual perfection. Worthy themes good sir. A top class potpourri that makes Airbrush one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“We get the picture you'll be zero thin,
white out the teeth, cut the bingo wings”

 

 

 

 

We Are Z are indie pop rockers from London and Paris. They have been preaching in the streets since 2013 and Airbrush is their second single.

Shit you need to know:

We Are Z  are influenced by 80’s new wave like XTC and Devo. But Vampire Weekend and Metronomy will also do the trick.

We Are Z have been described as reminiscent of Foster the People, a Foals gone mad and anthemic Arcade Fire.

We Are Z’s dream collaboration would be with The Clash. Mine too gents.

If you want some more of Z try Knucklehead.

 

Sitting in reserve with the big guns goes to this Australian indie rock punchfucker by Apes.

Pull The Trigger (July’14) is a real indie rock stomper. A ‘teeth on the gutter, boot to the back of the head, turn the body around pop out and eye and give it a skull fucking cracking’ track. Pretty good I reckon.