The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Palma Violets

One of the best indie songs of 2015 is Palma Violet’s Danger In The Club (Feb’15). Any song you can imagine becoming an English football chant has frightening potential. And this chorus shout-along “ …for you a… you… a…” has Seven Nation Army size boots.

This song reminds me of some old punk band like the Strangler’s, although Palma Violets have said they listened to a lot of pre-punk before making the record and others have compared the new album to the Sex Pistols.

“Weight in my voice, such a man

Change the sound of a distant screaming”

 

Danger In The Club is the title track from Palma Violets' second record of the same name (May’15).

Palma Violets are an English indie rock band from Lambeth, London. The lads have been leading the sing alongs for five years now.

Shit you didn’t need to know:

Palma Violets have been called punks and have mentioned a fondness for The Clash, Nick Cave and The Gun Club.

Palma Violets have described themselves as a ‘moment’ band and capturing their ‘yoofullness’.

Palma Violets have said they liked touring the States because it was sunny and there was more free beer.

Jeez they are not ugly are they. Bastards.

Do you have a need for more of the Palma Violets? You can't go past Best Of Friends, you really can't.

Harrison. What a sterling fucking picture of these four hard fucking chargers. Not a looker among them. Real men. Men's men. Barber dodgers.
 

 

 

Silly slappers goes to Harrison and Dear Constable (2007).

Dear Constable is a standout Joe Strummer-esque track from these English indie rockers, four horsemen who rode out of Sheffield, England. Stout.

Dear Constable is a raucous piece of rebellion and if St Joe were still alive I am sure he would approve.

“I can see the lies, dancing in your eyes,

you’re not an honest man…”

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2014 - Circa Waves

If Circa Waves' Get Away (Dec’13) was a one hit wonder… no fucks given. Not even wristy’s. You could die happy after making a song like this. The riff in the intro calls to mind the Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK and that's never a bad thing. While the band bring the fury the singer is letting slip a heartfelt, proper, love song.

 

There’s pop, rock, punk, garage and indie in this song so nobodies been left out. Comparisons are moot, analysis pointless. It’s the dog’s bollocks, guitar rock at its best. As she said last night, it doesn’t come better than this.

 

 

Circa Waves are banged up in Liverpool and have been ducking and diving since 2013. Get Away flew the coop as a stand-alone single and they have one EP, Young Chasers (June’14) to their credit.

Circa Waves would blag a copy of John Lennon, The Replacements, The Strokes and The Damned.

If you need to go on the lam, purloin a copy of T Shirt Weather, Young Chasers, Fossils and So Long before you go.

 

Sent down for another stretch? Fear not my friend we have some more dodgy critters on the roundtable. The Vaccines and Norsgaard (2011).