Tom Prior - Voicemail

1.    Who’s the chappie?

Tom Prior is an indie pop rock musician from North London making tunes since 2005. He has two short players to his name. Voicemail (Dec'15) rolls off the second EP Paint The Ceiling (Dec'15).


2. What’s spinning?

Voicemail has a slacker indie rock atmosphere. A meandering tune that crackles to life with sporadic guitar riffs.


3. Who does Tom Prior sound like?

Indie Shuffle are feeling The Arctic Monkeys and BORNS.


4. What have the venerable scribes of the fourth estate said about Voicemail?

“My favorite track” – Indie Shuffle.

“Blends rock influences with electronic synths” – The Playground.

“Seems to get under your skin” – Clash Music.

5. Which bands have had a hand in Tom Prior’s sound?

Mr Prior’s main influences are The Kinks, The Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Kanye West and The Verve.

6. Why should I give Voicemail a fair crack of the whip?

Voicemail is catchy in a low-key kind of way.

7. Does Tom Prior have any more good tunes?

Take It All has a fat beat if that's what you're into.

8. Any more words? 

Nope.



Team Me were a Norwegian indie pop band from 2010 - 2015. They released two sizzling hot albums. Did We Lose Something Here ripped off the second album Blind As Night (2014) and was a stand out album track that Nordic Music Review called "a stomping anthem."

"I love to death and wait for mine"

Coast Modern - Animals

 

 

 

 

1.    Who are these likely looking lads?

Coast Modern are an indie pop band from Los Angeles, California, that started in 2015. Animals (Feb’16) is Coast Modern's second single.


2. What kind of treat are Coast Modern offering?

Animals is a relaxed slow burner with a campfire sing-along vibe that grows on you while the tune has a sly dig at our base instincts.


3. Who do Coast Modern sound like?

Indie Shuffle compared Animals to BORNS, Generationals and The Little Ones.

4. What have the press said about Animals?

“Anthermic and boisterous” – Indie Shuffle.

“Light hearted bounce and a soaring melody” – Pigeons and Planes.

“Clacking percussion and synth excitement” – Consequence Of Sound.

5. Who puts the bubble in Coast Modern’s pop?

Coast Modern’s influences are Weezer, T. Rex, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Mozart and sixties girl groups.


6. Why should I give Animals a lash?

The loosey goosey, carefree musical atmosphere grows on you. Repeat lashings are in your future.


7. Do Coast Modern have any more goodies?

Animals is the gold standard.


8. Any more words?

Coast Modern said, “ ‘Animals’ poses questions I think we all ask ourselves about what we’re doing with our lives, and explores the struggle between animal desires and actualization of a higher self.”

Coast Modern are fluffing for BORNS this May.

“I’ll be an animal ‘till I die”

 

 

Dessert is served by The Sam Roberts band. A Canadian indie rock band from West Mount, Quebec, Sam Roberts has six long players on his roll of honor and his debut album The Inhuman Condition (2001) was one of the biggest selling independent releases in Canadian history. The Last Crusade (2011) was the first American single from Sam Robert’s fourth album Collider (2011) and was described as “a jammy bassline and some 70’s riffs”.

“Gotta keep on, gotta keep on,

Till the ghosts of war come marching in”