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Try Me Bicycle… OK I’ll be honest, it was purely the name. Yep, I took one look at the name and decided that I wanted to hear them. I had this whole weird vision of what they would sound like and I wasn’t disappointed.

No they didn’t sound anything like what I thought they would… they were better, so much better. My immediate reaction was (pure delight) “Cool, they remind me of Jose Gonzalez” and let’s face it, that’s a good thing. The song I heard was “Big Small” with it’sdeceptively simple piano and guitar lines that just float on the air and drift behind the three-part harmonies singing melodies that are full of attentive and careful craft. Head over to www.myspace.com/trymebicycle and click on “Big Small” and be captivated.

Mark Rivera of Phoenix Metropolitan Magazine wrote…

Try Me Bicycle is a trio whose quiet, organic music evokes the feeling of day-tripping, long drives at twilight,and the recollective course of the vagabond on holiday. The band emerged from the longtime musical collaboration between singer and guitarist Andy Naylor and bassist Jay Novak. Working on a core collection of songs composed by Naylor, the duo was eventually introduced to pianist Jacob Koller, who would become the band’s third core member…. The twelve songs on “Voicings” are hushed, nocturnal, dreamlike. The stories they tell evoke memories both happy and sad, full of commonplace things whose very everydayness is transformed by Naylor and Novak’s whispered vocals and the trio’s shimmering melodies.

The dreamlike is spot on. This is music you will keep on your MP3 player for longer than three minutes. Highly recommended.

Websites at www.myspace.com/trymebicycle and trymebicycle.com/

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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