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The Boats - We Made It For You
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Year :: 2005
Label :: Moteer
Cat No :: moteer:: 005cd
Genre :: Lo-Fi
Tracks :: 14
Size :: 46,3 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 17/09/2005
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Last year's 'Songs By The Sea' from The Boats was
undoubtedly one of the albums of 2004. This year's
'We Made It For You' by The Boats is undoubtedly one
of the albums of 2005. Released on, and featuring
members of The Remote Viewer (and Hood) curated
Moteer label, 'We Made It For You' is an absolute
delight from start to finish, possessing a gentle
charm that quietly instils itself deep within your
core. Made up of skeletal fragments (dusty piano
through to scuttling electronica), The Boats then
allow the various elements to grow incrementally
until you're waist deep without having noticed you'd
even got your feet wet. With each track a dedication,
songs such as 'Sarah Alice' and 'Darren' could easily
have taken on the guise of eves-dropping a private
conversation and it is to The Boats formidable credit
that instead you feel as though you're amongst
friends. Lacking the vocal focus of 'Songs By The
Sea' allows the gently ebbing loveliness of 'Sarah
Alice' and 'Chris Elaine and Lucy' to become
expansive well beyond their limited foundations.
Flecked with Jen Jelinek, flirting with Satie,
Michael Nyman and Ryuichi Sakamoto, 'We Made It For
You' is an album you'll want to fully submerge in
again and again. Amazing music.
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[01] The Boats - Jumble [01:26]
[02] The Boats - Sarah Alice [04:27]
[03] The Boats - Mum and dad [03:50]
[04] The Boats - Miles, Sean and Bodie [01:19]
[05] The Boats - Andrew and Lynsey [02:40]
[06] The Boats - Donna, Paul and Grace [03:03]
[07] The Boats - Nicola H [01:02]
[08] The Boats - Annabel [03:32]
[09] The Boats - Darren [01:01]
[10] The Boats - Chris, Elaine and Lucy [03:49]
[11] The Boats - Bob, Ben and Kipper [05:26]
[12] The Boats - Bobbin [02:44]
[13] The Boats - Jonathan and Rob [04:45]
[14] The Boats - Nicola [01:06]
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