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pyt Presents:
Artist: Bunky
Title: Born to Be A Motorcycle
Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
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Ripped Date: 03/02/2005
Street Date: 03/01/2005
Genre: Indie
Ripper: str
Source: CDDA
Grabber: EAC
Encoder: Lame 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard
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Release Information
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Sufjan Stevens once said of pop music, "I don't think
we're pushing ourselves enough." Of course, that was
before UK six-piece The Go! Team stretched and smooshed
up the pop song like so much Silly Putty for last year's
Thunder, Lightning, Strike. Recent Stevens signees
Bunky, with their own Saturday morning trumpets and
laughable sobriquet, hopscotch conventions at a nearby
playground.
When I was a child, I dreamed of being Joe Montana. This
San Diego duo strive toward a Vice guestlist of rock
('n') role models: singer/drummer Emily Joyce's sultry
vocals croon "Karen O."; her ambiguous relationship with
singer/guitarist Rafter Roberts is a matching wardrobe
shy of the White Stripes; their fuzzy, disjointed song
structures were left off the Ark while trading pogs with
the Unicorns. "Funny Like the Moon" jackhammers
absurdist Magnetic Fields-cum-Chet Baker verses with
garage-punk choruses, "Lipstick Life" sips absinthe in
outer space with Air's Moon Safari, and even failure
"Gotta Pee" manages to juxtapose fidgety indie rock with
Wolf Eyes vacuum noise.
Such broad ambitions could be a lot to swallow, but Born
to Be a Motorcycle is as playful as it is high-reaching.
It's "Cute Not Beautiful", as the title to a
surprisingly touching ballad explains. Amid the lo-fi
simian squeaks of avant-garde love song "Boy/Girl",
Roberts intones, "Girl, you know you look so pretty in
that dinosaur outfit"-- a line the cool kids will soon
be dropping on potential amours in place of "I caught
you a delicious bass." On "Glass of Water", basic thirst
becomes fodder for a screeching speakeasy sing-a-long.
Even the album's most accessible track, sexily
swaggering rocker "Chuy", keeps its tongue close to its
cheek.
And, uh, the name's Bunky. (Apparently "Bunny" and
"Monkey" were Joyce and Roberts' pet names for each
other. Aww.) Members of other San Diego bands like
Castanets, Rockets From the Crypt, Black Heart
Procession, and Pinback also lend their support to the
recording, but it's not clear they're needed. While Born
to Be a Motorcycle falls just short of the masterpiece
the group's core twosome likely intended, it pushes
pop's boundaries enough to hope Bunky might slip its
surly bonds by their sophomore outing. "The future's
now," Joyce demands on burly opener "Baba", "so when the
hell's the future?" -pf
bunkymusic.com
Enjoy!
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Track Listing:
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No. Time Track Title
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01. 02:08 Baba
02. 02:13 Yes/No
03. 05:04 Funny Like the Moon
04. 02:33 Gotta Pee
05. 03:30 Boy/Girl
06. 03:21 Chuy
07. 04:35 Cute Not Beautiful
08. 04:33 Glass of Water
09. 03:31 Heartbunk
10. 04:57 Lipstick Life
Total time: 36:25 .. Total Size: 51,2MB
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