Artist : The Boats
Title : Live At St. James Priory, Bristol
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2013
Date : 08/2013
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 02
Catalog : OTRC001
Label : Other Ideas
Source : TAPE
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 67:42 min
Size : 141,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Live At St. James Priory, Bristol 01 33:51
02.Live At St. James Priory, Bristol 02 33:51
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67:42 min
*Edition of 80 copies* Leave your
preconceptions at the door for this
awesome document of The Boats' first
live show in over five years. Whilst
best known for their tear-jerking
pastoral ambience, this recording - made
at St James Priory, Bristol on saturday
April 13th, 2013 - manifests Andrew
Hargreaves and Craig Tattersall's taste
for the rawest techno, vaulting between
Autechrian acrobatics and ductile techno
with a mean streak of overdriven noise
and distorted scrabble. It's like
someone spiked their nettle tea and they
ran with it, taps aff and fists pumping
against a backdrop of blazing strobes
and gushing smoke machine. Well, OK,
maybe that's a fantasy we shouldn't let
on to, but the transformation is
astounding for anyone familiar with
their usual MO, careening away from
meadowed melody and dusty attic
atmospheres to a brutal and
uncompromising basement sound somewhere
between Leyland Kirby and Caustic
Window. Of course, there's still traces
of their former selves (their same
selves) in the secluded breakdown and
the oversaturated tape FX (Craig's
really gunning with their patented Boats
noise trigger) but the end results share
more in common with the recent live show
by Happa and Al Gill or even Alberich
records than any of the home listening
lot. We reckon a many of you will be
shocked in the best possible way, don't
sleep on this!
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