The Boats - Lost Ideas Expanded (2019)

Boomkat Product Review:

The Boats finally relinquish a standalone CD of the ‘Lost Ideas (Expanded)’ piece of their super ltd and sought-after boxset, ‘The Boats Archive’

Touted as “a collection of forgotten fragments, abandoned building blocks, loops, live recordings, rehearsal tapes and orphaned songs 2003-2014”, it’s effectively a treasure trove of impossible-to-find material by the Lancastrian small sound specialists, spanning ephemera from their inception and up until they turned industrial circa ‘Abstraction’ [2015].

The piece plays through as a single, hour long collage of half-thought melodies, heavy-lidded murmurs, and burbling electronic pops where each part blurs or bleeds into the next, forming a tremulous cats cradle of sentimental gesture and quiet whims to get utterly wrapped up in.