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the boats - Faulty Toned Radio
Japanese label Flau have lured Andrew Hargreaves and Craig Tattersall away from their traditional home on Moteer for a brand new album of unclassifiable electronic and acoustic song fragments. The jokey song titles almost seem like a distraction, as if The Boats are trying to distance themselves from how honestly sentimental and unwaveringly lovely their music is. Of course, titles like 'Get Folk Outta My Face' really doesn't reflect the tone of the music's achingly beautiful content, and certainly by the time you arrive at the chiming glockenspiel tones and shuffling scratchy beats of 'It's Not A Folk, It's A Knife', the punning stretches some way beyond the absurd, and the veil of humour can't obscure the intricately crafted warmth of these compositions. While genre classifications have never applied to The Boats' melodious electronic discharges, there are certain points of Faulty Toned Radio where you can hear the beats bulking up, and making strides towards the dancefloor (albeit a very quiet dancefloor) on 'Cars, Bikes, Boats, Babes', which combines the plaintive, unassuming electronic hum that underpins so much of the duo's work and imposes a folksy 4/4 micro-house template. It's a gorgeously direct piece of music from a band who've previously made their very own language out of low-key, headphone-friendly electronics. That's not the only example of this either: counterbalancing the bitcrushed piano outings like 'This Is For You To Read' you'll encounter playful acid-influenced basslines on 'Hemihorn' and tuneful, uptempo music on 'As For Substance'. In any case, all these pieces remain staunchly within The Boats' distinctive idiom, but their vocabulary just got that little bit broader. Gorgeous music - Highly recommended.
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The Boats deliver their debut album for the 12k label...
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A career-spanning collection of previously unreleased and rare tracks from the prolific electronica group
Home Normal
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Career highlight from the magnificent 'The Boats' - pure layered micropop/shoegaze/electronic bliss.
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Making obvious but respectful nods to Tri Angle's Holy Other, o0o00 and Balam Acab. Recommended.
Flau
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**Suite of beautifully fragile, minimal solo piano compositions released on Japan's Flau imprint**
Flau
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Tender electronic pop music from the Far East, courtesy of Cokiyu and the lovely Flaü label. '
Flau
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31 different artist contribute to this charity album on the Flau label.
COLOPHON (JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA)
Flau
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Magical lost album of sublime miniatures and lovelorn loops from Tarentel's Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Flau
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Beautiful electrionics, mixed by Aoki Takamasa and Pole's Stefan Betke
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Flau
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Appealing Japanese electropop co-produced by Domotic and O. Lamm
Flau
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Japanese experimental pop in the vein of Tujiko Noriko, mixed by Aus
Flau
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Complex electronica beat programming and detailed sonic constructions on Flau
Preservation
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'Early Songs' is one of the most effortlessly beautiful, life-affirming albums you could hope to find.
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