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Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

Posted by Vish Khanna on Sep 09, 2009

Yo. Hope all is well for you on 09/09/09. I'm sick and it shows. Sorry! My Album of the Week is More Heart Than Brains by Nova Scotia's Buck 65 and Brussels' Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê. They call themselves Bike for Three!

While he's mingled folk, country, and post-rock with hip-hop in the past, Buck 65 (a.k.a. Rich Terfry) has never really explored electronica to such a great extent. A chance encounter online with electronic music artist Phuong Minh Lê (she friended him on MySpace and offered to send him some music; he took a risk) has led to a stirring collaboration of romantically-rich rap tracks about love and its perils. And the two have never ever met! It's kinda weird and sweet all at the same time.

Mr Rich Terfry joins me on the show today to discuss this new Bike for Three! record and spills some beans about his new solo album, which he's making with Charles Austin in Halifax. Stay where you are!

UPDATE: BUCK 65 INTERVIEW CLIPS ARE NOW UP!

On Bike for Three:

On the new Buck 65 record:



Have you heard this new Bike for Three project? Old or new, Canadian, Belgian, or otherwise, what is YOUR album of the week?

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  1. MikeV
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    Good Morning,

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by MikeV
    Sorry to hear you are under the weather Vish. As for your album of the week I haven't listened to it but ever since I have heard about this album a few months ago I have been intrigued.

    As for my album of the week it would have to be Fortresses by Octoberman. It is just an amazing album!
  2. TheRadioHead
    02

    Oh Maria

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by TheRadioHead
    By Jon Rae Fletcher, is what I am listening to this week.

    It has touched me like no music has in a very long time. Passionate, pure, simple, beautiful.
  3. tb3
    03

    Hope you haven't got the stomach bug that's been floating through this house

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by tb3
    I've heard snippets of it and I am quite intrigued to hear the rest. It's interesting in the same way Black Mold is — a departure from what you're used to with an artist.

    My album of the week, has been The Wheat Pool's "Hauntario". It's not for release till Oct 6th, but I have a review copy for nxew.ca and I have listened to the album no less than six times start to finish since getting it on the weekend.

    Very lush, and great lyrics: It feels like an album to travel across this country with it's sentiment and introspective feel. I highly recommend this album when it comes out.
  4. suckamc
    04

    sick

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by suckamc
    I'm home from work today, sick as well. bleh!

    Last week I picked up Share's album, but haven't had much time to listen to it yet, perhaps it will be a future album of the week for me.

    I also picked up Mother Mother's Oh My <3, and I love it. I don't know why it took so long for me to get it!

    @TheRadioHead, I agree, what a great album. I have it on vinyl, I need to get a rip of it so I can listen at work!

    Martin
  5. dawn.h
    05

    Re: Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by dawn.h
    I didn't know this album existed.. how cool.

    Vish: When-ish might one hear a song off the album?
  6. dawn.h
    06

    Re: Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by dawn.h
    And good morning my fellow Vish breakfast friends. I have to say I do enjoy our time together.
  7. Vish Khanna
    07

    @dawn.h

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by Vish Khanna
    Very soon now Dawn. Very soon.
  8. KidGotham
    08

    My album of the week is...

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by KidGotham
    Hayden's The Place Where We Lived. I am finally getting into this album. I picked it up on vinyl when it was released, but Hayden is not summer music unless you are at a cottage.
    I think music would be better accepted if the artist thought about the season it is being released. It may not matter in Texas, as they don't really get any snow, but in Canada, we have four distinct seasons. I think people will be much more receptive to new music if you can catch them with a song that fits the mood of the season. Hayden=Autumn. He always has to me.
  9. dawn.h
    09

    Re: Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by dawn.h
    *puts off blow drying her hair*
  10. KidGotham
    10

    Re: Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by KidGotham
    The other thing I have been listening to a lot lately is The National's Boxer. The more I listen to it, the more I realize it may be one of my favourite records of the past ten years.
  11. dawn.h
    11

    @KidGotham

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by dawn.h
    I always thought the same thing.

    You know who else is Autumn? Hawksley Workman.

    I have a BUT for you though. Once you're in love with the album, it opens up to other seasons. I find. Hayden's like that for me, especially.
  12. dawn.h
    12

    Re: Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by dawn.h
    I totally forgot to answer the day's question.

    My album of the week is Kensington Heights.. again. But I'm crossing my fingers that my friend will buy (and share) the new Two Hours Traffic.

    In the meantime, a online comic reminded me of Polvo (hee) so I'm listening to that in the car today. Anybody listen to em?

    And Vish.. and Martin.. and tb3 and family: Feel better soon, buddies.
  13. KidGotham
    13

    @dawn.h

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by KidGotham
    Agreed. Once you are in love with a record, it can be listened to year round. I think I just am not as receptive with new music, even from artist's I love, outside of whatever season I have associated them with.
    My main exception to this would be The Weakerthans. I could listen to them whenever, when, logically, they seem more of a winter band to me. I have always been able to listen to them year round. They don't fit the mold I guess.
  14. keydive
    14

    Album of the week

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by keydive
    I'm looking forward to getting a copy of this album and I'm rather excited that it is being sold on vinyl. Been a big fan of Buck 65 for a very long time.

    Also I think this is the first time I have heard the Wrath of Khanna in a long time. Damn these early morning deadlines.
  15. keydive
    15

    Coffee

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by keydive
    I have decided that I should not be the first person in to the office in the morning I make rather gross coffee.
  16. tb3
    16

    @dawn.h

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by tb3
    Chapel Hill made some great great rock and/or roll in the 90's! As did Touch & Go.

    Polvo.
    Yes, I absolutely remember them!

    Good call, good call.
  17. MikeV
    17

    @keydive

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by MikeV
    You have to put the coffee IN the coffee maker!
  18. teamquentin
    18

    Re: Wrath of Khanna's Album of the Week: More Heart Than Brains by Bike for Three!

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by teamquentin
    Just found out that Jay Z bumped up the Blueprint 3 release date, so I'll be picking that up after work.
  19. keydive
    19

    @MikeV

    Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by keydive
    Ah I new I did something wrong what do you do with the beans then.
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