One of the more anticipated groups to emerge from the Capital Region in some time, Bruiser and Bicycle’s brand of folk-weirdness will subtly slip into your mental landscape. While initially uninvited, you will begin to fall in love with their unpredictable and exciting songwriting that is layered with colorful instrumentation and arrangement.

The core duo, Bruiser and Bicycle. Which one’s which? We’ll never tell!

While their last release arrived in 2019, they play out fairly often; the editor of Times Boredom wrote me:  “I went to see them last night and those bastards played ON TIME!  I know, I couldn’t believe it either, but the show started at 8 (which in my long punk rock experience means bands don’t play until 10 at the earliest) and they started at 8:15 and were done at 8:45.” Their live shows are as equally enigmatic as their recordings, and allegedly, according to our fearless leader, they are so good-looking, everyone wants to f*ck them, but not after getting mind-f*cked by their delicate, yet sophisticated music.

Bruiser and Bicycle full team!

You can listen to their latest release here: Woods Come Find Me

Cover of Bruiser and Bicycle’s latest release, ‘Woods Come Find Me’

-Drew Wardle

Stay tuned for the rest of the top 10 of 2022, to be published over the course of the next few weeks one at a time! Is your band one of top 10? Nah, you suck. Don’t take it personally, my band is way worse.

-‘Our fearless leader’, Scott Koenig