Released on April 28, 2023, “You Wanted the Bike” is the Vancouver post-punk band’s third release and follows up on their 2022 EP, “Sharp Left Turns”. Building on the EP’s foundation, “You Wanted the Bike” showcases the band’s ability to contrast jagged post-punk guitar lines with hard-hitting post-hardcore passages. Aversions has a sound that mixes American post-punk and ’80s post-hardcore. Comprised of modest East Vancouver work-a-days, the band strives to live the adage of art interlacing with life. Their music features muscular riffage, left-turn basslines, and sledgehammer drumming, while lead vocalist Sam Coll offers acidic takes on various topics, both big and small. The band’s lyrics alternate between exalting and di...