Godspeed member Aidan Girt's latest full-length as 1-Speed Bike is this compilation of tracks from two 12" EPs and new material. Despite coming from different sources, the tracks are blended seamlessly together into one long crazy mix tape and are surprisingly uniform in style and feel.Broklyn Beats
The few tracks with vocals stand out as the most engaging of the bunch. The often-political spoken word vocals add interest and texture the instrumental tracks are lacking. I loved Girt's stream-of-consciousness and his rambling ranting delivery, but the music itself is rather samey; each track seemed to be variations on the same theme of electronic chatter, blasts of static, and drum machines at a frenetic pace. Toward the end of the album I found it was getting rather tiresome. Other than the vocal tracks I just did not find much to sink my teeth into. The penultimate track, "Will Death Stop Lenny Kravitz's Ego," breaks the mold somewhat with jarring rhythmic bursts of samples distorted to the point of being almost unrecognizable as music is easily the most engaging instrumental on the release.
The track titles alone though provide a fair bit of entertainment; perhaps they're just a gimmick because most have nothing to do with the music that I can tell, but titles like "Vanilla Ice Corrals his Pet Wallaroo, Bucky, into a Trailer After it, and his Goat Pal Honcho, Escaped from a Relative's Home" and "My Dick is this Small Because it's -40 Degrees F" are undoubtedly attention-commanding. Ultimately Someone Told Me Life Gets Easier in Your 18's is more suited as a backdrop than as the main attraction.
samples:
- El Gallito Intro
- My Dick is This Small Because it's -40 Degrees F
- Will Death Stop Lenny Kravitz's Ego?
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