Ears Wide Open: Bikos
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Bikos sounds like the most fun you can have without getting sponsored at happy hour, or without selling your soul to the synth devil. The Los Angeles art-punks new album “Make Your Sound Sound” binges on the pummeling rhythms and ecstatic licks of the B-52’s, Talking Heads and other bands who made the clamorous glamorous. Whether they’re shouting or singing, banging the drums or clanging the glockenspiel, the sextet of Gabriel Pearlman, Austin Wester, Jaron Halmy, Daniel Hur, Dave Jones and Michaella Burton pack their debut album with electric moments. “Make Your Sound Sound” (out this week) was made in concert with producer Dean Nelson, who’s done studio work for Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Thurston Moore and Jamie Lidell, among others, and who took a shine to Bikos after his wife was passed the band’s demos. The results: Spazzy, smart songs that’ll hook you from head to toe.
||| Download: “You Want It”
||| Live: Bikos celebrates its album release with a show Thursday night at the Silverlake Lounge. They also do an in-store at Origami Vinyl on Nov. 20.
||| Also: After the jump, check out the video for “You Want It”:
Sounds more like the most fun you can have without having any fun. You’ve officially gone senile, Bronny. Welcome to the club.
and don’t think i haven’t noticed you duckin me. i know i know…..ignore the trouble-maker!! I get it. But things were truly dull before I surfaced, so praise the Dark Lord for that!! Jeez, try to do a guy a favor by interviewing him and what happens? You get the snub. My frothing throng of minions want to hear what you have to say!!! Don’t deny them.
it *was* an exceptionally well-crafted questionnaire you sent me.
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[…] “Bikos sounds like the most fun you can have without getting sponsored at happy hour, or without selling your soul to the synth devil. The Los Angeles art-punks new album “Make Your Sound Sound” binges on the pummeling rhythms and ecstatic licks of the B-52”²s, Talking Heads and other bands who made the clamorous glamorous. Whether they’re shouting or singing, banging the drums or clanging the glockenspiel, the sextet of Gabriel Pearlman, Austin Wester, Jaron Halmy, Daniel Hur, Dave Jones and Michaella Burton pack their debut album with electric moments.” -Buzzbands […]