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Combining the musical energies from the founding members of Austin’s A Pocketful of Deng and The War Against Sleep, SuperLiteBike emerges as the up and coming super group in the world of progressive and alternative rock. Lead singer Patrick Husband, keys and DJ Chris Heckendorn, lead guitarist Travis “Frenchie” Larrew, bassist and vocals Jackson Ellis, and drummer Rob Edmiston create a fusion of sounds that when met with your ears, you can do nothing less than “let your body imitate what you hear…”

Promising to deliver originality to your musical taste and electricity to your live concert experience, this band is the band to see if you are hungry for something new and curious as to what will happen if you take your hands off the handle bars. Hop on .

Reviews

Jupiter Index:

Originally called A Pocketful of Deng, the band changed its name after a small line-up change with the addition of Chris Heckendorn of The War Against Sleep and All My Friends, an LCD Soundsystem tribute band. Away We Go is their redefinition as a band and a document of the plaintive realities of adult life.

The Onion, AV Club:

Radiohead's early guitar-based records removed the genre shackles from a lot of rock-oriented minds, five of which clearly belong to the members of Super Lite Bike. But though the band often blurs the lines of songwriting conventions while frontman Patrick Husband sings in the same disquieting upper register as Thom Yorke, Super Lite Bike puts a greater emphasis on rhythm than those lads from Oxford, with songs like "Unbelievable Party Cool" and "Raise The Colors" moving along basslines a touch more nervously funky than what Colin Greenwood usually commits to tape.

Austin 360:

The Mohawk offers a uniquely Austin triple bill Wednesday evening, with headliners SuperLiteBike bringing the guitar-saturated,hook heavy progressive rock. Bouncy, groovy and eclectic, they offer plenty of evidence- if anyone needed it- that rock can be intriguingly experimental and accessible at the same time.

Austin Monthy:

"Known for high energy live shows, SuperLiteBike debuts its reported sound with concept album, Away We Go. In order the songs sell “the story of a girl leaving the planet only to come back and realize that’s her home,” which serves as a metaphor for the offical launch of the band. Do yourself a favor and forget the back story just listen to the album. It’s good. The quintet mixes rock, indie and progressive/experimental sounds for a musical journey that may remind you of Radiohead, down to singer Patrick Husband’s vocals." 4 out of 5 stars

The Onion, AV Club:

Local five-piece SuperLiteBike doesn’t suffer for a lack of ideas. The band’s music flits freely among various electronic-tinged alt-rock styles, while its members have made a habit of promoting upcoming shows with non-sequitur-filled video flyers that transform frontman Patrick Husband’s hands into guns and the Music Lab into an endless hallway of haunted rehearsal spaces. The forthcoming Away We Go is the band’s first attempt at arranging all of its creative energies under one full-length banner, and for all its jittery rhythms, hushed balladeering, Queen-esque stacked vocals, and bizarrely claustrophobic party anthems, SuperLiteBike shows it has enough restraint over its eccentricities to keep the record from pulling itself apart.