Oh Bummer! – Mirrors
Genre: Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Oliver Tree, Hobo Johnson, Still Woozy
Oh Bummer provides the gallows humour on the indie-rock number Mirrors.
Most writers are down and out. In fact, if you read the biographies of the majority of the really good ones, it seems that this is almost a rule. Does misery come after choosing a career in the arts? Or, is it the other way around?
Downbeat, clever writers let us leave out our fantasies. You don’t have to be successful to have the world love you. All you need to be is clever. A few words can make the world right. Nothing’s too bad, provided that you have a good story to tell.
Oh Bummer! comes from the bad tracks of that fantasy. This is obvious from the catchy, defeatist anthem of Mirrors. This is not simple speech by a man with a black eye either. It’s got a great hook too. The net time you consider a life of misery, consider the rewards.
The Peach Stoners – Capitol Hill
Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Similar artists: The Killers, The Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Portishead
The Peach Stoners channel indie-rock and trip-hop on the single Capitol Hill.
You can’t make good songs about liking the government. Some have tried. Communist dictatorships, for example, focused on their own little niche of pop songs about the success of the government. Nobody seemed to enjoy them, but everybody clapped.
Rock is dance music. And, it’s protest music. You don’t really need to know how to dance or be sharp on your politics to play it. But, you need to pretend at the very least. Start out angry, and with a good hook to rely on, and you might be going places.
The Peach Stoners are all about coolness. Their sound exudes it. They take their major inspirations from the top sounds of Sheffield and Bristol, cool rock capitals of the world, on the rock meet trip-hop single Capitol Hill. It might not help topple the world’s most prestigious democracy, but it should get some booties shaking at the very least.
