Blake Jones & the Trike Shop is a group with two separate entities, a Beatles/XTC-style power pop side and a Vintage/experimental side. Band frontman Blake Jones grew up with an older brother and sister who introduced him to a wide range of music. He learned from them the importance of researching what one's heroes listen to in order to better understand how they make their music. It is this defining characteristic of thorough background research that sets both the band's Vintage-style music and their power pop apart from that of their contemporaries.