Bikeride
- Raspet
EP
Artist: Bikeride
Title: Raspet EP
Catalog#: AHA!016
Price: 10" vinyl $8.50 
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Tracks on this CD: |
| New Year's Girl |
| A Summer Song |
| Grady Moseley |
| Fine And Dandy |
| Country Driving |
| El Roy |
| Being And Nothingness |
| You're Coming With Me |
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Another
10" vinyl to kick
your late summer smile into ear-to-ear high gear, all new,
all unreleased pop breeziness and West Coast attitude from
Bikeride. These indie-pop chameleons are fulla surprises! "New
Year's Girl" is a brilliant single-on-the-make, happiness
thrives in major key, and you get a groovy piano solo then
a groovier keyboard solo. There's a sweet, smiling cover
of Chad & Jeremy's dreamy classic "A Summer Song" and
then you'll freak when Bikeride delves into their Stiff Records
boxset for inspiration. Ian Dury meets The Stranglers for
the gritty, growling "Grady Moseley", a rootsy
raga romp, "Fine and Dandy" is an acoustic singalong
drawler about a girl with a nice bottom, among other things, "Country
Driving" finds Tony taking a turn as a Woodstock folk-singer, "El
Roy" is a radical new-wave/white-funk zodiac opus, unbelievably,
like Steely Dan meets Led Zeppelin meets The Charlatans, "Being
and Nothingness" is a spastic surf-rock instrumental,
guitars turned up to eleven and the closer, "You're
Coming With Me" takes root as a loungey piano ballad,
the breeze on the boardwalk is nice this time of year. Sure
there're frantic guitars and nimble bass lines and crazy
drums and spot-on helium-boy vocals, Beach Boys harmonies
and audacious home-production values, plus there's unique
and antique instrumentation like the Moog Rogue, a theremin,
the Hammond M-3, a Farisa Compact, real pianos and toy pianos.
Plenty of ivory tinkling to go around, a certified overdose! Enthusiasm for BIKERIDE:
"(Bikeride) is going to continue
planting seeds in a sunny garden patch of its Southern California
backyard, fertilize it with fish emulsion and a few shakes
of powdered Apples In Stereo and Smile-era Brian Wilson and
see what comes up."-Magnet
"The pop renaissance of the
'90s owes much of its success to talented, young indie artists
like Tony Carbone…a zany but effective mixture of Beach
Boys, Burt Bacharach, Prince, Squeeze and the Pixies..."-Amplifier
"Creamy Anglophile indie
jazz pop, with Moog, Wurlitzer and Latino beats."-MOJO
"The boys at Elephant 6 should
check out this sunshine jamboree right away."-Rockpile
"Bikeride have fun and it's
infectious."-Bucketfull of Brains |
