ARTiST: Dartz!
TiTLE: This Is My Ship
LABEL: Xtra Mile Recordings
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 44:59 min
SiZE: 62,1 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jan-28-2007
RELEASE DATE: Feb-12-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Network! Network! Network! 02:16
02. A Simple Hypothetical 02:57
03. Once, Twice, Again! 03:15
04. Cold Holidays 03:16
05. Prego Triangolos 03:09
06. Laser Eyes 03:13
07. St. Petersburg 02:15
08. Harbour 03:53
09. Documents 02:40
10. Fantastic Apparatus 03:22
11. Teaching Me To Dance 02:47
12. The Lives Of Authors 11:56
Release Notes:
Teesside trio DARTZ! release their debut album æThis
Is My ShipÆ on 12th February 2007 through Xtra Mile
Recordings Ltd.
Recorded with Mark Williams (Fightstar,
Yourcodenameis:milo, Million Dead) at Criterion
Studios in the legendary Battery Studios complex in
North West London, æThis Is My ShipÆ documents the
sounds DARTZ! have been creating since their first
gig back in March 2005. From æTeaching Me To DanceÆ,
the first song they wrote together as a band, to
more recent offerings such as æSt. PetersburgÆ, the
album offers up twelve energetic, intelligent and
exuberant tracks showcasing William, Henry and
PhilipÆs ability to produce genuine, clever and
exciting pop.
If you ask DARTZ! about their influences, Philip is
likely to start referencing authors such as
Hemingway and Dostoevsky or visits to New York City
and Prague. ItÆd certainly be fair to say that
DARTZ! are influenced equally as much by the places
theyÆve visited, the books theyÆve read and their
life experiences as by the music that they listen
to. Guitarist Henry isnÆt quite as literacy
orientated as William and Philip, in fact, æOur Band
Could Be Your LifeÆ by Michael Azerrad is pretty
much the only book heÆs read from start to finish
for quite some time. However, neither his nor his
band mates love of the American Indie Underground
ends in 1991 like the aforementioned book, with
Washington DC greats like Q and Not U, The
Dismemberment Plan and Faraquet all being relevant
sources of inspiration.
For a band that initially started as a one gig joke
between a drummer and a guitarist who thought itÆd
be funny to swap instruments, the last two years
havenÆt exactly stuck to the script. Within 6 months
of their first gig and just 9 months after Henry and
Philip first picked up their new found instruments,
DARTZ! played an explosive set at ManchesterÆs In
The City event alongside iForward, Russia!, The
Fratellis and The Maccabees. It wasnÆt long before
Steve Lamacq was singing their praises and making
them his ôUnsigned Band Of The Weekö on BBC 6 Music
whilst XFMÆs new music guru John Kennedy was
regularly playing their demos on his show and
championing them at every available opportunity.
Much of 2006 was spent on the road with the likes of
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Rumble Strips, Stapleton
and The Research, as well as one off dates with such
luminaries as The Futureheads and 65 Days Of Static
and a couple of critically acclaimed performances at
the inaugural Great Escape festival in Brighton.
DARTZ! kick off 2007 supporting their good friends
Hot Club De Paris in January before heading out on
their own headline tour in February and March.
ItÆs looking like being an exciting year for DARTZ!
with Rock Sound Magazine putting them in their æHot
100Æ for 2007, Big Cheese Magazine picking 'This Is
My Ship' as one of the æBig Ones of 2007Æ and new
music juggernaut James Jam recently proclaiming that
DARTZ! are his new favourite band.