The Poplist: Biking with Julia and Kyle of the Ladybug Transistor

This week the Ladybug Transistor release their newest album Clutching Stems and it may just be their best yet. Filled with heartbreaking songs, sweeping melodies, perfectly calibrated arrangements, and the deeply felt but drop-deadpan vocals of Gary Olson, it’s their best since The Albemarle Sound anyway and that’s saying a whole lot! You can read more about it here, but before you slip away….Julia Rydholm & Kyle Forrester (the bike crew from the band) submitted a list of songs that should inspire you to go biking, but both were careful to point out that one should never listen to music while biking.

Kyle’s choices:
The Kinks – “Mindless Child of Motherhood”
It’s got that chugging, moving type thing, and you can’t possibly pedal hard enough to keep up with the intensity of that one part.