I Worked On The Ships, by Ballboy (CD on Pony Proof)

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Label:	Pony Proof
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Catalogue number:	PPR001
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Rating: happy This record left our Phil feeling happy.

Ballboy are back with a new album.'I Worked On The Ships' is their 4th or 5th album... I lose track of these things. I'm amazed I can get out of bed unscathed sometimes..... though there was this hilarious incident when I ended up in hospital after ripping the skin that holds my toes to my feet and falling unconscious and needing to have a brain scan. That was just getting out of bed. I fear more complicated chores. Fortunately this Ballboy album isn't a chore. I've never really sat down and listened to them before but I'm enjoying this new on. Immediately I think its very honest sounding singer songwriter folk inflected indie music. This is proper indie music. None of your kaiser Chiefs nonsense. It's very Scottish sounding indie and Brian reckons they sound a bit like Lucky Luke (or the other way around...). Beautifully paced gentle music which sounds like it would be happy on Fence as it's not a million miles away from the recent King Creosote gear. Decent indie pop music. I like it!!

What the label says:

Over the last 7 years Edinburgh's BALLBOY have released 4 albums and numerous singles. The band's dry wit and imaginative story telling combined with the use of strong bold images, and depth of emotion poured into each song, have gained them a devoted fan following, not least of whom was the late John Peel, who invited the band to record sessions for the show five times. Over the years the band have had 11 tracks featured in his legendary Festive Fifty.
BALLBOY recorded "I worked on the ships", in a cottage in the Scottish Borders. The idea was to move out of a standard studio environment and work on the recording of the songs in a new way. In some vague and not very important conceptual way the lyrics and sounds are related to boats - hence the album title. The album was produced by Gordon and enhanced by the addition of electronic orchestration and other bleeps and blops.
"McIntyre's forte is mining that particularly Scottish brand of gallows whimsy, depositing lyrical barbs, half-spoken, half-sung, in a musical landscape" -The Scotsman