ARTIST: Bikeride
TITLE: The Kiss
LABEL: Shamm! Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 214kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-03-06
RIP DATE: 2007-02-16
Track List
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1. There's Something Odd About 2:57
Elizabeth
2. She's Radioactive! 3:31
3. Your Lips And You 3:42
4. Trouble 2:18
5. A Dancer's Feet Are Not So Neat 1:55
6. Podiaphobia 5:15
7. Hole In My Eye 3:00
8. The Mystery Of Magnet Power 3:34
9. Hideaways 3:03
10. And We Will Come Back As Dogs 3:24
11. Destinitis 5:59
12. Siamese Twins 3:45
13. The Statue Theif 3:37
Release Notes:
Here's some press-
LA TIMES- ôMorning Macumba is a collection of gorgeous, fully formed æ60Æs
international vocal popà How such grand, embraceable vocal harmonies have flown
so long under the radar is a bit of a mystery.ö
AMPLIFIER- ôThe pop renaissance of the 90Æs owes much of its success to
talented, young indie artists like Tony Carbone.ö
MOJO- ôBest stick with BikerideÆs 37 Secrets I Only Told America, creamy
Anglophile indie jazz pop, with Moog, Wurlitzer, and Latino beats.ö
CMJ- ôSatellite photos from high above California have revealed a strange and
wonderful new talent with the unlikely, Scorsese-character-like name of Tony
Carbone. As leader of the unwieldy Bikeride collective, CarboneÆs assembled the
latest in a line of uncategorizable Golden State pop masterpieces.ö
OC WEEKLY- ôBack to Morning Macumba for a sec: this was the album that moved us
from "TheyÆre not bad" Bikeride fence-sitters to drooly-faced, bug-eyed,
heavy-breathing, pom-pom shaking Bikeride cheerleaders.ö
POP MATTERS- ôFakinÆ Amnesia is one of 2002Æs best songs, really.ö
COMFUSION- ôMorning Macumba is one of the stangest, most uplifting album of the
year.ö
IN MUSIC WE TRUST- ôBikeride covers the pop spectrum, a vast undertaking, and
somehow makes each song unique and different, while retaining the Bikeride
æsoundÆ throughout. IÆll give it an A.ö
THE BIG TAKEOVER- ôNot everyone can be Brian Wilson or Phil Spector, regardless
of how lofty their aspirations may be. So what is a would-be wall-of-sound
popsmith to do? Maybe take a lesson or two from Long Beach, CAÆs Bikeride.ö
NEXTPLANETOVER- ôFor the past month IÆve been playing a cd by a band called
Bikeride so often that my need to hear it probably qualifies as an addiction.ö
AVERSION- ôUnlike Beck, Fatboy Slim, or most of the other polyester-flag waving
retro revivalists, Bikeride approaches its journeys into æ70Æs pop without the
affected cooler-than-thou sense of kitsch marking the bulk of its
contemporariesÆ work.ö
EYE- ôRegardless of how many goodies the band tosses into the stew, what keeps
it so succulent is the never-faltering earnestness of it all.ö
SOUND AFFECTS- ôWhat do you get when you throw every dazzling moment from the
pop highlights reels of the last 35 years into a blender. Bikerideà If itÆs at
all possible to actually wear out a CD the way you could wear out the grooves of
old LPs, then IÆll be in the market for a new copy of this disc very soon.ö
EXCLAIM- ôCarbone delivers his own State of the Suburban Union Address in
Thirty-Seven Secrets, a frequently wonderful product of low-budget ingenuity and
a big, soft heart.ö
INDIE SCENE- ôTony CarboneÆs voice pulls you in with its distinctive charm.
Gutsy, flirty and vaguely childlike, he sounds like the boy version of Gwen
Stefanià I canÆt overstate the joyful vigor of this album. ItÆs smart, itÆs fun,
itÆs sharp, itÆs bodacious and itÆs just a little bit sloppy. In other words, a
perfect pop record.ö
SPLENDID- ôMorning MacumbaÆs most transcendently melodic moments seem like pure
serendipity û one hundred percent luck, zero percent studio trickery. Their
successes are exhilarating.ö