“Evening/Morning“
from the single Evening/Morning
2008
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For ones so young, Bombay Bicycle Club seem to have been around for ages. Still only 18, the North London quartet already have a fearsome live reputation spread mostly by word of mouth. After two years of hard gigging, “Evening/Morning” is their third single.
The song twists and turns in on itself, mixing up all kinds of strange time signatures and boasting some terrific guitar riffs. Lead singer Jack Steadman has obviously been studying hard at the Paul Banks school of vocal phrasing — and while there are a fair few bands around at the moment that sound like Interpol, there’s always room for a couple of others.
B-side “You Already Know” couldn’t be more different, sounding almost summery and folky. It’s two sides of a band who could well become very big news soon.