Wild Child - Fools

So you ask me how I'm on fire
All I do is turn around and smile
Baby girl not everyone can fly

I'm not sure if Wild Child has lived up to their past hype yet, but they're a damn fine band making damn fine indie/pop/folk music. Their latest 2015's Fools, is one of those albums that you can just put on and expect everyone to enjoy. For me, it the complex arrangements and upbeat vibes. Terrific first thing to kick off your week music. Happy Monday!

RYIL: Lucius, The Head and The Heart, Ra Ra Riot, Company of Thieves

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Trashcan Sinatras - All Night

Outside, I dig up the dance floor
Inside, raising your hands up
Fire sign, holding an inner flame
Water sign, you can be swept away

Come on DJ, earn your money
'Cause I need to work on Monday

You don't get more stalwart an indie band than this Scottish pop group, formed in 1986 outside of Glasgow and still (occasionally) recording and touring with new (if not widely played) music in 2017. "All Night" is my favorite track off the Trashcan Sinatras sixth and most recent album, Wild Pendulum. 

RIYL: Teenage Fanclub, Aztec Camera, Crowded House

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Best Coast - Fine Without You

Sometimes I feel like I've been living a lie
I always try
But it was never enough
It got so tough out there without you
And now I pace alone in my room
Wondering how to be fine without you
Fine without you

It's Saturday and we've been whale watching just of the far southern part of the best coast (the west coast) all day. Hope your day is as good as ours is. So, it was a bit hard to pick a song from Best Coast's California Nights. It's such a good feel good record. I went with the Go-Go-esque "Fine Without You", although, now that I think of it, most of their songs are Go-Go-esque. Ha. Anyway, happy Saturday!

RIYL: The Go-Gos, Dum Dum Girls, Tennis, Wild Nothing, Bleached

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Surfer Blood - Matter of Time

How’s the stroke of someone’s pen gonna change us?
You have my love for free.
You have everything that I have to offer.
We’ll know when we are ready.

With the second track off their forthcoming album Snowdonia, Surfer Blood take some groovy surf rock, a heavy-handed pour of sugary 50's-esque pop and finish it off with some terrific guitar work.

RYIL: Cloud Nothings, Best Coast, Wavves, Car Seat Headrest, Wild Nothing

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Christine and the Queens - Tilted

I'll die way before Methuselah
So I'll fight sleep with ammonia
And every morning, with eyes all red
I'll miss them for all the tears they shed

But I'm actually good
Can't help it if we're tilted
I'm actually good
Can't help it if we

The other day I featured a band with a singular name, today it's a solo artist with a band moniker. Héloïse Letissier is a French singer and electronic music producer. She was picked as one of the 100 Women of 2016 by the BBC, and performed this song for the Christmas special edition of Top of the Pops. "Tilted" was originally written in French and released in 2014 under the title "Christine" and I dig both versions. 

RIYL: Charlie XCX, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou

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