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"

Sticky Fingers - Outcast At Last

1.    Who are these crackups?

Sticky Fingers are a reggae rock band with psych stylings and they roll out of Sydney, Australia. The band have two long players in the vault and Outcast At Last (March’16) is the lead single from their third album due this year.

 

2. What’s shaking the foundations?

Outcast At Last is a massive reggae rock tune with a side of the Manchester Sound as practiced by The Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and others of that ilk. Outcast At Last bubbles along like big farts hammered out in the bath and it oozes stomp and swagger.


3. Who do Sticky Fingers sound like?

The new tune Outcast At Last is a little bit Arctic Monkeys-esque say Music Feed.


4. What have the muppets in the press said about Outcast At Last?

“A stanking groove” – ABC.

“A big wall of sound” – Project U.

“Packing a stomping groove riff” – Music Feeds.

5. Which bands have put the bobble in Sticky Fingers’ hip shakers?

The bands that influenced Sticky Fingers are Fat Freddy's Drop, Gorillaz, Pink Floyd, King Tide, Cold Chisel, You Am I, Arctic Monkeys and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sticky Fingers have expressed mad love for The Clash's sprawling masterpiece, the triple disc, Sandinista.


6. Why should I give Outcast At Last a whirl?

Modern Mancy gold from an Ocker reggae rocker. What's not to love! Outcast At Last is as funky as James Brown's dick cheese in his crazy days.

 
7. Do Sticky Fingers have any more of these bouncers?

Gold Snafu is the place to start and How To Fly is, as they say, so laidback it's horizontal. There's plenty to crack on with.


8. Any more words fool?

The new third album is being mixed and produced by Dann Hume from Evermore who has done same for Lisa Mitchell.

“It’s the mystic that surrounds her enema she can’t control”

It would be rude not to crack on with some of New Zealand’s Hallelujah Picassos. Started in 1988 as a garage punk band they embraced a wild variey of styles including punk, reggae, rap, ska, thrash, jazz and pop. Leaving four long players as their legacy Hallelujah Picassos are most famous for their reggae tune Rewind (1994) but Clap Your Hands (1989) is a crazed gospel, punk, dub, slice of glittering gold their fans love best.  

“Shoot it up, shoot it up, shoot it up for Jesus”