Try Me Bicycle - Voicings

Try Me Bicycle
Voicings
Self-released
Grade: A-

The breathy acoustic opener “Two Stern Feet” and follower “Lessons on Love and Junk” doesn’t do much to make Try Me Bicycle’s Voicings set well in your ear and mind. Yet, when this Phoenix outfit offer the Simon & Garfunkel-style “Of Things Sworn,” your ears take notice and you begin to get chills. With some shoegazer elements pressed into lush and graceful vocals and well-present rhythms, Voicings takes off for me when comparisons to uber-crooner Sondre Lerche are present. You hear a mix of both Lerche and S&G on “Big Small,” but the big take occurs on lounge piano “April Sky,” “The Hard Line,” and “R Brown.” When you sound like classic crooner Lerche who is channeling classic lounge sounds, you got something terrific going for you. A smattering of more uptempo numbers should allow Try Me Bicycle to crossover to a wider audience.