- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Boat
Album: Setting the Paces
Label: Magic Marker
Playtime: 38:16 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/boatmusic
Rip date: 2009-11-11
Street date: 2009-10-27
Size: 56.11 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 193 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
BOAT's third album, Setting the Paces, sticks to the formula the band had
previously utilized. Short, snappy tunes with rambunctious vocals and
humorous lyrical content, with debts owed to Pavement, Television
Personalities, and the Banana Splits, and with a bouncy energy that makes the
album very easy to like, even when the words stray over the line from clever
to silly. This time out, the band has tightened up the sound; the guitars
have more bite, the beats are more propulsive, and the overall feel is more
rock than pop. It was a move that could have backfired -- trampling over the
quirky charm of D. Crane's vocals just for the sake or rocking out a little
more would have been a disaster. Instead, the elevated intensity and energy
give the songs some added impact. Check "God Save the Man, Who Isn't All That
Super" or "Interstate 5" for examples of how this new approach really pays
off. It's like the band all of a sudden decided they were for real, and
decided to make a real rock & roll record. The songs that dial back the
energy and get spacy ("100 Calorie Man"), jangly ("Calcium Commuter"), or
gently acoustic ("Reverie") work as nice contrasts to the rest of the record,
and show that BOAT is growing quite nicely as a band. The only possible
caveat is the lyrics. If you are inclined to find songs about stalled
minivans, muscular friends, and math skills kind of ridiculous, you may have
trouble getting into the album. Anyone else will find the lyrics to be
refreshingly off-kilter and occasionally moving in an odd sort of way. It's
not easy to pull off this kind of humorous indie rock, but on Setting the
Paces, BOAT come through like champs.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Friends Since 1989 ( 2:31)
02. Lately (I've Been on My Back) ( 3:11)
03. Tough Talking the Tulips ( 2:36)
04. Interstate 5 ( 1:53)
05. 100 Calorie Man ( 2:03)
06. We Want It! We Want It! ( 3:25)
07. The Name Tossers ( 3:55)
08. Jeff Fell Dream ( 1:41)
09. Prince of Tacoma ( 2:43)
10. God Save the Man, Who Isn't All That Super ( 3:04)
11. (Do The) Magic Centipede ( 2:07)
12. Calcium Commuter ( 2:50)
13. Reverie ( 2:34)
14. You're Muscular ( 3:43)
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