“Next to You” by Bumblebeez featuring Maria

A few months ago, I was served a YouTube pre-roll ad by Lacoste. I’m not very fond of the alligator polos, but I really loved the song in the background, which turned out to be “Next to You” by Bumblebeez featuring Maria.

While “Next to You” is a more sensual, lounge-y electro track, some of their other songs fall more into the lo-fi punk style – giving them a broad musical reach.

“Youth Bird” by MT WARNING

Add yet another band to the Australia list – MT WARNING with their track “Youth Bird.”

While a lot of the Australian bands and musicians BoxSpeaker’s been reviewing lately have leaned more toward the electropop and nu-disco portions of the music genre spectrum, MT WARNING has more of an indie rock (with a tiny bit of a rugged alt-country feel). Think of MT WARNING as Australia’s Pete Yorn with some synths/keyboard notes.

Mikey Bee even recorded all the instrument for the song by himself in one night – similar to how Pete Yorn is credited for almost every instrument in his studio-recorded albums.