A Fairway Full Of Miners, by Boats

A Fairway Full Of Miners

by Boats

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Kiefer Hollis So much emotion about random objects and visual representations. Favorite track: We Got Pillows And Blankets.

Mick This album makes me want to give some one a high-five. Favorite track: Great Skulls.

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1.	The Noodle Mountains 00:06	buy track
2.	Animated GIFS 05:52	buy track
3.	Great Skulls 05:15	buy track
4.	Advice On Bears 04:22	buy track
5.	Sad Legs 04:37	buy track
6.	O Telescope 01:56	buy track
7.	Advice On Bioluminescent Bears 02:50	buy track
8.	We Got Pillows And Blankets 03:00	buy track
9.	We Got Tables And Chairs 04:24	buy track
10.	O Jumbotron 03:26	buy track
11.	Getting Worst.jpeg 04:51	buy track
12.	The Salteen Coast 04:14	buy track

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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.

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 sophomore album, Cannonballs, Cannonballs — named the No. 1 album of 2010 by Winnipeg college radio station 101.5 UMFM and hailed by critics for its inventiveness and mega-watt charm. But if Cannonballs, Cannonballs was all about giddy exuberance, A Fairway Full Of Miners is about growing up and finding yourself bored. There are still plenty of manic, sloppy-on-purpose junk-store pop tunes that burst with pop-rocks-and-Coke energy (O Telescope), but the new record also sees the band stretch out over more ambitious epics (Animated GIFs) and heartfelt ballads (Advice on Bears). It’s eclectic, but not unfocused; the whole thing is unified by frontman/band leader Mat Klachefsky’s helium-high yelp of a singing voice.

Maturity has become almost a cliché when it comes to describing albums — especially third albums — but A Fairway Full Of Miners has a focus to it that comes with relentless touring (Boats has done eight North American tours) and a sophistication that comes with refining a particular sound over the span of three albums). But don’t confuse mature with boring; Boats albums give you that thrilling feeling of being on the verge of spinning wildly, dizzingly out of control.

Boats is:
Mat Klachefsky – Guitar/Vocals
Ashley Roch – Keyboards/Trumpet
Rory Ellis – Guitar/Other Stuff
Louis Levesque-Cote – Bass
Luke Bergen – Drums

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released February 5, 2013

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