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Crowdfunding: The Boats

The Boats are crowd funding their next album ‘2 Bears’. This time the band will be pressing a beautiful double vinyl album. There are some wonderful rewards for supporters, including t-shirts, signed albums and much more.

Please get behind this special album project and become part of the making of 2 Bears.

You can listen a track from "2Bears" here: https://soundcloud.com/the-boats-music/sets/warmgun

And support their crowdfunding project here: https://pozible.com/project/the-boats-2-bears

The Story

 "We are a dying breed ..  one of several Melbourne post-rock bands who can proudly say ‘we’ve been around forever’, ... well not quite forever. The Boats have been together for 14 years, and although we have not been playing a lot of shows of late, we have continued to create great music. The gap between our debut album ‘Los Musicos Periods’ and our followup record ‘Segundo’ (released in 2014) was way too long, 8 years to be precise. We like Segundo, as many others do, but the hiatus in between made us feel like we were trapped in a time bubble. So we vowed to keep 2 promises to ourselves: the next album would be produced and mixed by someone else (not in the band), and we would not wait another 8 years - it would be recorded this year. We are sticking to our promise!

We have been really hard at work, locked in rehearsal studios all year, gradually picking the tracks that stand out, slowly moulding and forming the material. One thing we can say about the new music: it’s back to the basics, back to what we are - a trio, and that means a wonderful mix between bass, guitar and drums and clever live overdubs (a touch of electronica), not to mention some wonderful guest players coming in to record and join us on new live shows in 2017.

So about that recording. Well, we will be recording with reputable engineer and producer, Neil Thomason. Neil gets it, he comes from that old school world of power rock, he loves analog tape and spent his 90’s playing guitar in rock outfits. He is the perfect choice to record our next album … "If a band asks me to be involved in making a record with them, the first thing I ask is 'What kind of record do you want to make?'  I see my job as one that involves ascertaining in as much detail as I can what it is the band wants to achieve with their recording, and then advising the best way I know about how the band can do that."

We like his approach and it’s a relief for us to have someone like Neil step in and take the helm, and allow us to be a band again ... to just kick back and play."

How The Funds Will Be Used

"First off, there is the actual recording process. We will spend 2 days with Neil @ Headgap recording to wonderful 2" analog tape. With a warmth and natural saturation that can only be afforded by analog recording, we will be caught in our element - a raw Melbourne three-piece post-rock band, enthused and emphatic with a story to tell the world. Naturally we need to pay for Neil's time and studio space, and the mixing that will follow.

We will then need to master our new record with a professional mastering engineer - and mastering for vinyl is a true art in itself.

Finally the album needs to be wedded to its natural physical format, irreplaceable, beautiful, tangible double vinyl.

All the while, we will be busy organising glorious artwork, creating and printing t-shirts, and preparing other goodies for you all to help celebrate the release of our third full-length offering.

If you feel like giving more than our target, we will deeply appreciate it, and not forget it."

The Challenges

"The biggest challenge we face is pulling off an album in two days of which we can be proud. Full stop.

With all the work that we've put into the songs over the past year, we are confident that our new material, combined with Neil's production skils and creative input from some special guests, will create a special and timeless musical gem.

We can't wait to share our new songs with you all!"

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Recommendation: Cranial - Dark Towers / Bright Lights

Band: Cranial
Album: Dark Towers / Bright Lights
Label: Moment Of Collapse
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Dark
02. Towers
03. Bright
04. Lights
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Cranial is a post, black metal band from Germany formed in 2014 from the ashes of Omega Massif.

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Recommendation: Gloson - Grimen

Band: Gloson
Album: Grimen
Label: Art Of Propaganda
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Prowler
02. Fabulist
03. Antlers
04. Cringe
05. Specter
06. Embodiment
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In the summer of 2012 in Sweden, a group of individuals came together with a solitary goal in mind - to create dark music offset with the smallest glimmer of hope. Instead of being inspired by political or religious themes, the band turned to their own personal and internal wastelands; to see what would manifest from their subconscious, writhing within this very cruel world.

It's nice to discover new bands and if that band's album is a punch in the face from start to finish, with a pause ("Specter") to let you take a breath and realize what's happening, before closure with the longest track of the album, then you can talk about the discovery of the year so far and definitely an early AOTY contender. 

Mastered by Magnus Lindberg Productions.

For fans of Cult Of Luna.

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Streaming: Autism - Film Noir

Band: Autism
Album: Film Noir
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Alive And Torn
02. In Anger
03. Humanity - Crescendo
04. Brittle Bones
05. Your Loudest Sound Is Change
06. 918
07. Film Noir
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Autism is an instrumental post-rock / post-metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania.

"This album, sharing the same name as a cinematic genre, is driven by a mood of pessimism and menace. While working on this album, we decided to explore even more disturbing and uncomfortable topics. Alcoholism, drugs, physical and psychological abuse, manipulation…it is all a part of our everyday life. We have used real samples of some actual tragic life events to create a greater emotional impact to the listener and make him aware. This is not a casual album to listen to, but we believe that “Film Noir” will succeed to deliver the message we wanted to communicate." - Autism

Artwork by our friend Sagby, Engender Art For Hope​.

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Recommendation: Ravenna - Laocoön

Band: Ravenna
Album: Laocoön
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016







Tracklist
01. Teraphim
02. Valta
03. Unnok
04. Carrion
05. Laocoön
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Ravena is an American post-rock band from California, formed in 2012. With lengthy compositions from ethereal movements to ominous epilogue. As a three piece, Ravena have worked to build, destroy and rebuild an album that spans over the past 4 years. The first full length album, Laocoön, features 4 movements that encompass a spectrum of beauty and destruction.

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