Boats | ar

Winnipeg indie pop outfit Boats makes impossibly hooky pop songs about death, being old, girls, glowing bears and escaping the spectral plane of existence and reappearing at a football game — all of which can be found on the band’s sparkling third album, A Fairway Full Of Miners, due out Feb. 5, 2013 via Kill Rock Stars (Corin Tucker Band, Elliott Smith, Decemberists, Deerhoof). Recorded in the spring/summer of 2012 by Ryan McVeigh at Prairie Recording Studios/UMFM and mixed by David Carswell in Vancouver (Destroyer, New Pornographers), A Fairway Full Of Miners comes as the follow-up to Boats’ acclaimed 2010...

There are two successful bands called 'The Boats'. One is the UK-based band and the other is Australian Instrumental/Post-Rock outfit 'The Boats'. The Boats (UK) 'Songs by the Sea' (released 27/09/2004) is the first release from the Boats, a collection of songs that the band claim where written by a band called the sea but songs that they recorded for them after 'finding' the songs in a box on a beach. 'We Made It for You' (released 19/09/05) is the second installment from the boats, a collection of 14 piano tracks all derived from one original song. In 2006, Moteer...

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New Rules for Boats are a country influenced indie pop band from Perth, Australia. They deal in sweet melodies and harmonies, swaying guitar-based music and flippantly substantial lyrics spread right across the territory of pop, country and rock to lay out a hammock of sugar-coated disquiet. Their influences start at bands such as Whiskeytown, Pavement or the Decemberists and end at Wilco, the Shins or Neko Case. After forming in 2004, they release two EPs, All At Sea and The Skips On My Record, before releasing their debut album Thousands in 2007. Band members: Sean Pollard - Vocals, Electric Guitar...