Artist.......: Boats
Album........: Intercontinental Champion
Label........: indie
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: May-31-2007
str.date.....: May-12-2007
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.yeahboats.com
track title time
01. 500% 04:13
02. Scenic Gorges 03:37
03. Arms as Straight as Cedar Trees 03:02
04. Breakfast Combo 04:18
05. Dream of a Dentist 02:11
06. Our new Contestants 04:21
07. O ye Coffee Tables 02:49
08. You Have Nothing to Lose Except Your Arms 03:12
and Perhaps Your Legs
09. Bear/Fence 02:48
10. Two of Every Animal 03:58
11. Classic Rock Weekend 02:47
12. March of the Sandbaggers 04:58
13. Attack!!! 03:26
14. River Creek Lake 02:17
Runtime 47:57 min
Size 67,4 MB
Release Notes:
Boats play music songs in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada with lyrics about dismemberment (the good
kind), excellent posture, and orthodontic surgery.
A junky indie-pop band with high-end hopes but
low-end equipment (total net worth of keyboard
section: $40, all thrift store finds), Boats
started playing in Winnipeg sporadically as just
"Boat" in 2001. Since then they have shared stages
with bands like The Waking Eyes, Novillero, The
Weekend, The Paperbacks and Sixty Stories, which
isn't too shabby considering until recently they
only averaged roughly 2 shows a year.
Over the years there has been a rotating cast of
Winnipeg musicians who have played in Boats, but
the current version has a pack of Winnipeg
all-stars surrounding singer-songwriter Mat
Klachefsky. These can include, but are not limited
to, members of The Western States, Half Court
Prayer, The Details, and Transistor Sound &
Lighting Co.
And now... a metaphor:
If music was exactly like regrettable experiences
when you were seven years old then Boats would be
the time you went to the farm and your older cousin
let you ride his mini-motor bike all by yourself
against your parent's better judgement; it was fun
for the first few seconds but then you crashed into
a steel wire fence and cut your knee. Whatever. It
was still pretty fun.
Boat plans to release their very first full length
CD called "Intercontinental Champion" sometime
around Spring 2007.
P.S. I am aware that that was a simile, not a
metaphor.
Instrumentation
Mat Klachefsky - Guitar, Lead Vocals; Britt
Hainstock - Bass; Ashley Roch - Keyboards; Jason
Churko - Multi-instruments; Shaun Gibson - Drums
ripper notes: this album fucking kicks ass