Afternoon Bike Ride Afternoon Bike Ride

Montreal based trio Afternoon Bike Ride blend alluring dream-pop vocals, lo-fibeat music, sensitive acoustic instrumentation and leftfield production tocreate an irresistible post-genre signature sound. Set for release on 09/24/21,their self titled debut album is a sonic hug that collects 15 tracks conveyingmessages of self-love, kindness, community and hope. These songs lyricallyflurry over instrumentals meant to incline the listener to pause their innermonologue and take a moment to breathe. Musician-producers David Tanton (aka Rhoda/Tender Spring), Éloi Le Blanc-Ringuette (aka Thomas White), and Lia Kurihara (aka Lia) who also writesand sings for the group; met in Montreal and formed Afternoon Bike Ride in2018. Originally intended as a creative, collaborative aside to their own soloprojects (collectively they’ve amassed 100’s of millions of streams), they foundthe music progressing. They say “We each felt like it was a space toexperiment with different sounds than we were typically used to making. Aswe crafted our songs, we realized that our sound progressed into a morerefined and intricate version of our beginnings, letting vocals take center stageon some tracks, involving different instrumentalists, spending more time onsound design, incorporating facets of unexpected genres wherever we can.”