Memory Tapes, a fusion of two earlier identities Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes, is the latest recording alias for New Jersey-based Dayve Hawk (although after hearing this song if you told me he came from Sweden I would not be surprised). 'Bicycle' is from the first Memory Tapes’ full-length album “Seek Magic.” It is a dreamy electronic pop spin, celebrating both the joys of night-time cycling and the romance of being in love:

Like a bike ride it covers different terrain, moving from quieter to louder passages, from gentle free-wheeling interludes to intense surges. The opening is gentle electronica meets melodic (Swedish) indie-pop: dreamy, gliding synths suggest rising and falling to a delicate electronic rhythm track. The emotionless, almost spoken word vocals are low in the mix. Just as you catch the sense of the words, the song enters its next passage: the beats and their volume intensify accompanied by electronic dashes and human sighing for one of those intense sprinting surges. This then drops into blissed-out quiet before slowly picking up the pace to return to that verse and chorus opening.

The overall mood is effortless and soothing but with occasional hints of something darker going on: “this town is wearing me down, let’s take off…no-one would know we’d gone” are the final sung lines. 'Bicycle' is celebrating escape and freedom of a different kind now and this leads into the final two minute instrumental outro with piano, handclaps, massed choir and a stolen New Order guitar break (it’s such a blatant steal I am surprised ‘Wanted’ posters haven’t been issued). It’s a glorious 80s euphoric pop rush moment that crowns this perfect and celebratory fusion of dream-pop indie, electro and dance beats. Switching aliases so freely suggests trying to evade recognition; but on the strength of this single, Memory Tapes will need to work even harder to avoid the public eye.