When it comes to Bike, know that my thoughts are very subjective, because I worked on the mastering of How Is That Possible (Mr. Furious‘ release today – 23 December) and I like Nate’s album. The requirements of full disclosure satisfied, some thoughts on How Is That Possible:
– My favorite tracks: My Little Town (2), Bad Attitude (4), Out Of Control (9).
– Though opening track “He Came To Steal Your Children” gets me imagining playfully murderous toy mechas, don’t let it dominate your idea of the rest of Bike; it is an introduction, and the album is somewhat different. I know from watching mrfuriousrecords.com’s web stats that the first track of any album gets more downloads than others, so this is on my mind.
– Bike is quite listener-friendly in that the songs are a good length. Sometimes in beat- or atmosphere-oriented music, artists are tempted to stretch ideas out too much; Bike never falls into that trap.
– Bike’s artist photo and How Is That Possible‘s cover can tell you a lot about Bike. I’m attracted; I laugh, and recoil a bit, and finally composure fails – I’m on, hook, line, and sinker.
– “Smalley Mollusk Topocentric” was the subject heading of a piece of spam emailed to me a few days ago, and I like how it rolls off the tongue.*
* not even remotely Bike-related.
I am a virgin to blogging. I really didn’t have anything to comment on, but I did download the BIKE album. It’s pretty rad so far. I’ll post my two-cents after I listen to it some more.
HEY Mr.Furious!! How can I become a CONTRIBUTOR??? You know who I am, so don’t act like you don’t. When you lived in that house with stairs, I slowly crept up to your room and played tic-tac-toe with the bones of fetuses. You awoke in great fear, but after a cup of warm _____ you felt much better. We played for hours, laughing and tickling each other. I will never forget that Mr. Furious. If you don’t make me a contributor I will let the world know where your name came from! HA HA HA HA AAH?
Franz – looks like you figured out the comments pretty well. Keep it up.
Finally hit up my first listen of the Bike album, and so far I really like it. First impressions: it’s music to just listen to, to think to, to read to. I get the same feeling (through a different sound) as I do when I listen to bands like Audioslave, Dominic Gaudious, Enigma, Faithless, Gorillaz, or Pink Floyd. I think the most apt correlation is with Gorillaz, but again, that’s merely on my first glance.
-JT
So happy you’re listening JT. In the first 24 hours, we’ve seen about 40 song downloads on Bike, which is great. I forgot to check on your random music list before commenting, so I’ll see if you looked at my guesses in a second. Merry Christmas! -h