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Take in the Sun
Bike →1,016 listeners14,697 plays
indiemarch recordsjangle popindie rockdream pop
about this album
With two brilliant singles, "Save My Life" and "Circus Kids", already recognised as bright spots on the New Zealand musical map, the impending arrival of Bike's debut album Take In The Sun was an eagerly awaited event on the local calendar. Adding to that expectation is the fact that Bike's classic misty-eyed pop is all the product of songwriter Andrew Brough. His superb voice and songs came together in sublime moments for his former band, Straitjacket Fits - we still chill to songs like "Down In Splendour" and "Sparkle That Shines" - but these were all too rare. When Bike's 1996 debut single, "Save My Life", was a finalist for the APRA Silver Scroll songwriting award it was a sign that this new band delivered more of the Brough goods. Take In The Sun is the first time we see that talent in full flight over the length of an album. Eleven tunes are collected into the album's forty minutes and the production, by Malcolm Welsford and Andrew Brough, lets the heavenly swirl of chiming guitars and the perfectly-pitched vocals do most of the talking on the impressive Take In The Sun. While the ballads show the obvious melodic strength of Andrew's writing in "Tears Were Blue" and "Sunrise", there's room for a rockier edge in "Keeping You In Mine" and the surprising "Anybody Know". At the heart of what makes Take In The Sun so good is the album's spine-tingling pop quotient, provided by the title track and singles "Circus Kids", "Save My Life", and the latest, "Welcome To My World"
