BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB: Shuffle

I started listening to this band about a year ago when I accidentally found their acoustic live version of Dust On The Ground on Youtube. This song was kinda ear-catching for me, and I know this is what they call eargasm. This melodic, guitar-driven indie rock band from North London had switched their band name between various aliases, such as Mumbai Tandem Organisation and The Canals, until they named the band after the chain of Indian restaurants in London, Bombay Bicycle Club.

The band were formed in 2005 in Crouch End and became one of two winners of Virgin Mobile’s “Road to V” along with The Holloways a year after. They released their first debut EP, The Boy I Used to Be, in February 2007 and released another two EPs and few singles from 2007 until 2010. Their first album “I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose” was released in 2009 and became #46 of The UK Albums Chart, while the first single of the album “Always Like This” reached #97 of The UK Singles Chart.

Now Bombay Bicycle Club are back. Their follow-up album “A Different Kind of Fix” is assumed will be released on 29 August 2011 under Universal Island Records label. It includes 12 tracks and one bonus track, titled Beg. Their first single of this album “Shuffle” has been released in this june and reached #69 of The UK Singles Chart. Bombay Bicycle Club got few compliments for the early maturity of their intelligent music, fyi they’re only about 19 when they released their first album.

From their music, we can hear that they adapted The Strokes’ agitated energy and also some of the shoegazey blurriness of My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth; Their blending together sensual, reverb-slicked post-punk sensibilities with the kind of quirky, rhythmically adventurous bubbliness also reminded us of Orange Juice, Bloc Party, and Vampire Weekend. (Niken/Wikipedia)