back to
Flying Nun Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Bike EP

by Bike

supported by
Wendy
Wendy thumbnail
Wendy Always preferred Andrew’s SJF songs to Shayne’s (shhh, don’t tell him that because I really like Shayne’s music too). I wanted Andrew to sing more in SJF but when he left I stopped listening to them for a long time. Grateful to have found Bike and I love them so much. Thank you. I think about Andrew a lot and hope his family are OK after his passing. ❤️ Favorite track: Save My Life.
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

      $4 NZD  or more

     

1.
Save My Life 03:28
2.
Old and Blue 03:17
3.
Undone 04:51
4.
Don't Cry 03:39

about

Bike made things easy in this introductory stage of their relationship with the music consuming public by calling their debut record Bike. But like all introductions to relationships of a lasting nature (as we're certain this one will be) you'll be asking for a little background first.

Best to start with the guy who write the songs. That's Andrew Brough, for five years a member of Straitjacket Fits, only one of the greatest guitar pop bands of recent years. Andrew's steady reverbed guitar strum held down the rhythm on the Straitjackets' debut EP and first two albums, Hail and Melt, to which he also contributed a string of timeless pop classics, from "Sparkle That Shines" to "Take From The Years", "Such A Daze" and the group's biggest single in New Zealand and Australia, "Down In Splendour".

The pieces should fall into place pretty quickly then, when you put on Bike's new recording. Opening salvo "Save My Life" just has to come from the pen that brought forth the melodic heartache that was "Down In Splendour". Bike follow that with a surprise by upping the guitar voltage on second cut, "Old & Blue", where Andrew's voice is literally drowned in the swell of guitars courtesy of York St producer, Malcolm Welsford. With a similar sense of menace, "Undone" crashes on like Piha surf in its opening and the crunch of its electrostatic end. "Don't Cry" winds up the four song EP, wrapping a vocal lament in a cosy blanket of acoustic and electric guitars.

Throughout the four songs, Bike's three-piece line-up - Andrew on guitar and vocals, Tristan Mason on bass and drummer Karl Buckley - work to add lean power to the often brittle emotional skeleton of Andrew's pop songs. Through those chiming, rocket-powered guitars and timeless melodies, Bike's debut then hints at the blend of delicacy and grandeur of groups like the Byrds who have always been close to Andrew's heart.

credits

released December 5, 1995

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Bike New Zealand

Andrew Brough’s abrupt departure from Straitjacket Fits in late 1991 paid dividends for fans of his soaring, sixties-kissed pop ballads – a vital element of his previous group’s sound – when he re-emerged onto the national stage in the mid-1990s as BIKE. ... more

contact / help

Contact Bike

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Bike, you may also like: