WILD - Vagabond

1. Who are WILD?

WILD are an indie folk pop band from Los Angeles, California. Vagabond (Oct'15) has been re-released in February and is one of a handfull of single releases from the self-titled album WILD (Sept'15).


2. What kind of magic is Vagabond? 

Vagabond is a stirring middle of the road indie folk pop tune with a gang chorus as sticky as a frat boy's communal wank mitt.


3. Who do WILD sound like?

Of Monsters and Men. Indie Shuffle add The Lumineers to the mix.


4. What have the cut and paste bandits got to say about Vagabond?

“A stirring anthem built on indie rock intensity and folk-pop vitality” – Free Bike Valet.

“A stunning new track” – We Found New Music.

“There’s something rather infectious about that road-song chorus” – Press Play OK.

5. Which bands put the sparkle in WILD’s pop?

No knowledge available. WILD's Spotify playlist includes tunes by St. Lucia, Young The Giant, Band Of Horses, Panic! At The Disco, Bryce Fox and The Dunwells.


6. Why should I give Vagabond a swish past the earholes?

Vagabond embodies a search for meaning indie pop song and is sweet and bouncy with a huge singalong chorus and is instantly addictive.


7. Do WILD have any more of these emblematic champions?

Not yet but it shouldn't take long.


8. Any more words?

SYFFAL reviewed the album WILD and said,“Are these shitstains plagarizing or are they just fucking brilliantly combining every style, strum and female sung whimper on the radio today?” They concluded that WILD, “should be crowned kings and queens of the music already.”

“Tell me where do I belong,

Tell me where to go from here”

  

 

The Naked And The Famous are an indie electronic rock band from Auckland, New Zealand, but fight out of Los Angeles, California. They have released two albums to critical and popular acclaim. Their debut album Passive Me, Aggressive,You (2010) contained the band's NZ number one, and breakthrough international hit, Young Blood. Young Blood sold over half a million copies and is a song The NZ Herald called “inventive, rousing and uplifting.”

 “The bittersweet between my teeth”

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Friska Viljor

Firska Viljor are an indie pop duo from Stockholm, Sweden who started in 2005 and have six long players under their belt. My Boys (Jun’15) comes snapping off their album My Name Is Friska Viljor (Jun’15). My Boys was reviewed as “...like a hurricane whipping a legion of musical elements and nostalgic moments up into the eye of its melodic storm.” More succinctly Friska Viljor's music in general has been called “shambolic, euphoric indie pop.”

Ironically My Boys song is a whinge about how to overcome angst brought on by fatherhood. Though you know they found the answer in this upbeat piece of malarky. It pops like a fourteen year old girls cherry and bounces like you flipped her over to do her like a fourteen year old boy. The verses snap and pop but the chorus is a violin assisted choral all in that charges like a racing horse. A white horse. Pure joy. You’d have to be broken inside not to love it.

“No weight upon my chest

Now I'm sleeping through the night

And I know its my final choice

And I owe it all to them my boys”


 

 

Shit you need to know:

Friska Viljor have vowed never to compose songs while sober.

They describe their music as “sauna rock with poppy elements and folky instrumentation.”

According to the Friska Viljor the new album has “...energy, horns, strings and big epic choruses.”

Friska Viljor have been compared to Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes, The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men.
 
The band name means “healthy mind” but is meant to be ironic.

More brilliant Friska Viljor songs that will re-affrim your love for life are Bite Your Head Off and In My Sofa I’m Safe.

 

The dodgy double dip comes courtesy of American alternative rock band R.E.M today and their 1994 hit What’s The Frequency Kenneth. Because it’s as solid as Dwayne Johnson’s hard-on.

“You said that irony was the shackles of youth”

 

 

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Freedom Fry

There is a vaguely tribal feel to the percussion in Freedom Fry’s Shaky Ground (Hey Na Na Na)(Jan’15) that was fashioned by beating on the floor and furniture. Whatever works. The tune minds of Katie Herzig if only because of the title and with Marie Seyrat and Bruce Driscoll swapping vocals it reminds me also of Of Monsters and Men. Not a bad starting point. It’s definitely middle of the road indie pop with enough talent to elevate it above the plebs.

 

Shaky Ground (Hey Na Na Na) is a loose, playful and joyful tune with drum and vocals leading and enough stomp in the chorus to get toes tapping and crowds singing. A song with that ‘everything will be alright’ optimism exemplified in lyrics like “Everyone’s time will come” and “Nothing in my world is wrong”. But y’know how seriously can you take a song with Hey Na Na Na in the title and that sounds suspiciously similar to one of their other outings, Wilder Mile? Just sit back and enjoy one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“Nothing in my world is wrong, oho
At least I'm not the only one, oho”

 

 

 

Freedom Fry are an American/French husband and wife duo from Los Angeles making music together since 2011. Shaky Ground is a single and so far they have only singles and short players to show for their efforts, albeit many of them.

Shit you need to know:

This ball sack called Shaky Ground a “Cowboy pop song” while The Revue preferred to call it, “Pure audio sunshine”.

Freedom Fry's influences are 60’s surf rock, The Ventures and Serge Gainsbourg. Their favorite bands are The Smiths and Sia.

It’s been said Freedom Fry sound like Of Monsters And Men (super sleuthing Watson), The Lumineers and Beach House.

Indie Shufflecalled them, quite accurately,“whimsical and uplifiting folk pop”.

Freedom Fry's music is making money, being used in various commercials, TV shows and franchise playlists.

The Freedom Fry songs that don't suck coke dick are Yeah You, Wilder Mile and Earthquake.

Next up is American folk rock singer/songwriter Katie Herzig because she is the best.

And of fucking course it's Hey Na Na (2009).