Bombay Bicycle Club is a very unique—and uniquely complex—pop group. A series of three albums over as many years, supplemented by a handful of singles and EPs, brought BBC a slow rumble of appreciation in its native England. By rights, the band’s fourth album ought to be the one that brings it the recognition that’s so far eluded it in the U.S., because So Long, See You Tomorrow (Vagrant) is, even on first listen, an LP that announces a sea change in a group’s approach, in the vein of Revolver or Pet Sounds. That’s high praise, but So Long is, among other things, the most sonically complex of all the band’s records. BBC—guitarist/vocalist Jack Steadman, guitarist Jamie MacColl, drummer Suren de Saram and bassist Ed Nash—will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on the band.
Steadman: I love nothing more than speeding through the countryside on a train, looking through the window and listening to my iPod. If I had the time and money, I would take the train everywhere. A lifelong dream is to travel to India completely overland. The train is a great place to listen back to music I have written. I was once asked to do a remix for someone, and I took the fee and spent it on a first-class sleeper to Penzance, and by the time I arrived in the morning the remix was finished!
Video after the jump.
