{"id":9178,"date":"2014-06-30T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9178"},"modified":"2014-06-30T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:45:13","slug":"bike-for-three-so-much-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/06\/30\/bike-for-three-so-much-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike for Three \u2013 So Much Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/06\/30\/bike-for-three-so-much-forever\/bike\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bike-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"bike\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bike For Three is a collaborative effort between Rich Terfry (Buck 65) and Joelle Le (Greetings from Tuscan).<!--more--> On paper this is a collaboration that should be a fine pairing. However, as one goes through this album one can\u2019t help that the literal distance between the duo \u2013 they\u2019ve never met in person \u2013 somehow contributes to the emotional distance heard here. Terfry has recorded some deeply emotional songs and evoked powerful feelings through his quiet, calm expression or gruff growl, but that emotion is lacking here. \u201cHeart as Hell\u201d is a good example of this, and also an example of a song that retreads old ground conceptually. For a wordsmith as talented as Terfry, there\u2019s not a lot here. Similar to the vocals, the instrumentals here \u2013 often a moody electronica \u2013 are similarly plain. \u201cSublimation\u201d takes this darkness and brings character to it, in contrast to other downtempo tracks on the album. There\u2019s some good stuff here \u2013 \u201cFull Moon,\u201d a more energetic but still somewhat dark track \u2013 is a showcase of the duo at its most accessible. Bike For Three has done good work in previous releases, and some of that can be seen here. The handful of great tracks here make it worth listening, but there\u2019s enough middling material here to hold the album back as a whole. (Fake Four Inc, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakefourinc.com\/\">fakefourinc.com<\/a>) <b>Devin King<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike For Three is a collaborative effort between Rich Terfry (Buck 65) and Joelle Le (Greetings from Tuscan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}