More Heart Than Brains

More Heart Than Brains
Studio album by Bike for Three!
Released	May 26, 2009 (2009-05-26)
Genre	Alternative hip hop, electronica
Length	49:23
Label	Anticon
Producer	Greetings from Tuskan
Bike for Three! chronology
More Heart Than Brains (2009) So Much Forever (2014)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(82/100)[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Drowned in Sound	(8/10)[3]
Pitchfork Media	(7.5/10)[4]
Planet Sound	(8/10)[5]
Robert Christgau	[6]

More Heart Than Brains is the debut album by Bike for Three!, a collaboration between Canadian alternative hip hop artist Buck 65 (born Rich Terfry) and Belgian electronica producer Greetings from Tuskan (born Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê).^[7] It was released on May 26, 2009 on Anticon.^[8]

During the recording process, the two never met face-to-face.^[9][10]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82% based on 5 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[1]

Pitchfork Media rated the album 7.5 out of 10, praising Terfry's "sharp lyrical details and storytelling" and calling Phuong Minh Lê's production "exquisite, shimmering landscape that rarely plays by the rules."^[4] XLR8R magazine called the track "All There is to Say About Love" "impressive", with "sharp rhymes falling over 8-bit-style electronics."^[10]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Beginning"	1:08
2.	"All There Is to Say About Love"	3:57
3.	"Lazarus Phenomenon"	2:46
4.	"Nightdriving"	3:32
5.	"There Is Only One of Us"	3:03
6.	"No Idea How"	4:17
7.	"Always I Will Miss You. Always You."	3:20
8.	"The Departure"	3:28
9.	"First Embrace"	3:36
10.	"Can Feel Love (Anymore)"	4:06
11.	"One More Time Forever"	3:38
12.	"MC Space"	3:14
13.	"Let's Never Meet"	3:50
14.	"More Heart Than Brains"	3:37
15.	"Ending"	1:48

References

1. "More Heart Than Brains - Bike For Three!". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
2. Anderson, Rick. "Bike for Three! - More Heart Than Brains". AllMusic. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
3. Tudor, Alexander (June 23, 2009). "Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
4. Clarke, Mia (April 28, 2009). "Bike For Three!: More Heart Than Brains". Pitchfork Media.
5. Planet Sound review
6. Robert Christgau review
7. Buck 65 Announces Bike For Three Album Details^{[permanent dead link‍]}, CBC Radio 3, 2009-05-05. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.
8. Anticon records online store - Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains Archived 2010-02-07 at archive.today, Anticon Retrieved on 2009-05-28.
9. Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains - Free MP3, Tim Chester, NME, 2009-05-27. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.
10. All There is to Say About Love Archived 2009-05-03 at the Wayback Machine, XLR8R, 2009-04-30. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.

External links

• More Heart Than Brains at Discogs (list of releases)