Another week and another one of R&S/Apollo’s much-feted new generation of post-dubsteppers delivers their debut album. Up to bat is Cloud Boat, the London duo of Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke, delivering a vision of post-rock-accented, quasi-emotive steppers' drift that ranges from the inoffensively pretty to the downright absurd: you’ll have to stifle a laugh when you hear the pitched-down vocal lament of ‘Bastion', and 'Wanderlust' is mawkish enough to make a five-year-old blush. As song-led electronica for doleful adolescents goes, it’s accomplished, and the cinematic flourishes on, for instance, ‘Godhead’ are perfectly pleasant; to be honest, though, you wish they’d shed the de rigeur UK bass affectations and just make the folk-pop record they clearly really want to make...
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Another week and another one of R&S/Apollo’s much-feted new generation of post-dubsteppers delivers their debut album. Up to bat is Cloud Boat, the London duo of Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke, delivering a vision of post-rock-accented, quasi-emotive steppers' drift that ranges from the inoffensively pretty to the downright absurd: you’ll have to stifle a laugh when you hear the pitched-down vocal lament of ‘Bastion', and 'Wanderlust' is mawkish enough to make a five-year-old blush. As song-led electronica for doleful adolescents goes, it’s accomplished, and the cinematic flourishes on, for instance, ‘Godhead’ are perfectly pleasant; to be honest, though, you wish they’d shed the de rigeur UK bass affectations and just make the folk-pop record they clearly really want to make...
Another week and another one of R&S/Apollo’s much-feted new generation of post-dubsteppers delivers their debut album. Up to bat is Cloud Boat, the London duo of Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke, delivering a vision of post-rock-accented, quasi-emotive steppers' drift that ranges from the inoffensively pretty to the downright absurd: you’ll have to stifle a laugh when you hear the pitched-down vocal lament of ‘Bastion', and 'Wanderlust' is mawkish enough to make a five-year-old blush. As song-led electronica for doleful adolescents goes, it’s accomplished, and the cinematic flourishes on, for instance, ‘Godhead’ are perfectly pleasant; to be honest, though, you wish they’d shed the de rigeur UK bass affectations and just make the folk-pop record they clearly really want to make...
Another week and another one of R&S/Apollo’s much-feted new generation of post-dubsteppers delivers their debut album. Up to bat is Cloud Boat, the London duo of Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke, delivering a vision of post-rock-accented, quasi-emotive steppers' drift that ranges from the inoffensively pretty to the downright absurd: you’ll have to stifle a laugh when you hear the pitched-down vocal lament of ‘Bastion', and 'Wanderlust' is mawkish enough to make a five-year-old blush. As song-led electronica for doleful adolescents goes, it’s accomplished, and the cinematic flourishes on, for instance, ‘Godhead’ are perfectly pleasant; to be honest, though, you wish they’d shed the de rigeur UK bass affectations and just make the folk-pop record they clearly really want to make...
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Another week and another one of R&S/Apollo’s much-feted new generation of post-dubsteppers delivers their debut album. Up to bat is Cloud Boat, the London duo of Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke, delivering a vision of post-rock-accented, quasi-emotive steppers' drift that ranges from the inoffensively pretty to the downright absurd: you’ll have to stifle a laugh when you hear the pitched-down vocal lament of ‘Bastion', and 'Wanderlust' is mawkish enough to make a five-year-old blush. As song-led electronica for doleful adolescents goes, it’s accomplished, and the cinematic flourishes on, for instance, ‘Godhead’ are perfectly pleasant; to be honest, though, you wish they’d shed the de rigeur UK bass affectations and just make the folk-pop record they clearly really want to make...