THE BICYCLES
The Good The Bad and The Cuddly
Fuzzy Logic Recordings
· Paging Lorelai and Rory Gilmore – magic elixir for instant happiness that doesn’t easily rub off.
Channelling every great pop songwriter who ever wrote a dreamy song for a girl, The Bicycles have their instruments tuned to the winsome key of totally crushed out. They’ve penned the score to one excellent daydream, where the guy gets the girl and it’s the listener who gets the butterflies in their stomach.
Few albums of any generation are as consistently catchy as The Good The Bad and The Cuddly. Comprised of 17 multicoloured, candy-coated tracks, Cuddly is consummate pop sonic bliss. It overflows with rich melodies that make hearts freefall.
The Toronto quintet cite the Kinks and bubblegum pop hit makers of the ’60s as their main tutors, but their music is thoughtfully embellished with notes from other eras as well. "Ghost Town" features old-fashioned horns that dance in a predominantly ’70s AM radio tune like apparitions from a ’40s big band slow dance. Other songs sound right out of the canon of a younger Paul McCartney.
An action-packed debut mostly co-written by vocalists Matt Beckett and Drew Smith, Cuddly was expertly arranged, recorded and mostly produced by the band. It was mixed by pop mastermind Jose Contreras (By Divine Right), producer/mixer of The Meligrove Band’s debut on V2 Records. (Meligrove’s Andrew Scott is also a Bicycle). Engineered by Dan Bryk and Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five), Cuddly features guest stars from The Hidden Cameras and a host of others. It’s an impressive all-star team dead set on making you The Bicycles’ main squeeze.
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