"hi Joe,
thank you very much for your order!!!
will send the single today.
enjoy the music.
best
markus"
^i choose to believe that it was actually MARCUS
ps, did anyone else feel weird ordering a 7" black vinyl from the sexual objects? i mean, seriously!
Somehow this has the easy-going of earlier AIR-tracks. Some kind of retro sound.
I only heard it on myspace, but to be honest, I prefer the part without the vocals.
Did you notice, the 2 second sample they used at 4:19 and again at 4:28? I've heard them in another track, I'll go searching now.
I don't know the Fire Engines or any of his other work* but I've heard of him and he get's a lot of props especially from the Scottish indie scene. I reckon BOC probably see this as a bit of an honour actually and fits with their general policy of working with independent artists and like-minded folks - especially as he's from Edinburgh.
It reminds me of Aztec Camera and Belle and Sebastian (a bit). It sounds like Scot's indie basically and you can be pretty sure Mike and Marcus have a fair bit of that in their collection.
Who knows why they don't mention this stuff on their website. I guess they just like people to find their stuff naturally and don't much like shouting about things.
I've listened to the MySpace a couple of times and compared with the other track and I think I can detect a bit of BOC sheen in there. Ordered the 7" anyway so we'll see.
* Win's 'We've GoThe Power' was used on an advert for Scottish brewery McEwans which was on TV for many years (and the cinema too, I think) in the UK. It was quite popular being a well made effort thoughtfully done - and the music was good too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qQqUDQwRV0&feature=related
Yeah it's alright. It just sounds like a well produced indie track to me, nothing more nothing less. I think it's a good indicator of their musical judgement that it doesn't sound like a band playing over a BoC backing track, it's sympathetic to the overall sound.
Interested to hear the other track "Outta Place Again" aswell..is that also produced by BOC? Imagine this track with a "better" singer! like James Taylor