I have a bit of sweet tooth. I like to ladle cream onto puddings that are sweet enough already. I can’t manage my coffee without two spoonfuls. And don’t even get me started thinking about jelly beans…Don’t get me wrong, I don’t always indulge it (how else do you think I maintain this svelte figure?).
But I’ll just get on with the link, eh? The analogy I am trying to suggest is that this is also born out in parts of my record collection, particularly in my reggae section. I love dub records, the wackier and sicklier the better. I love all that King Tubby and Mikey Dread queasiness. Can’t get enough of it. I like a good dose of unhealthy psychedelia too (ever noticed how many of the great psychedelic bands have sugary names? Prunes, strawberries, chocolates – not many crisp flavours there…)
Flotation Toy Warning
Anyway, I came across this band on Myspace yesterday, and immediately started thinking in these terms, although you'd immediately think Mercury Rev or Grandaddy, rather than Freedom Sounds. Flotation Toy Warning are another London band, but they sound pretty American to me, all operatic chords, kooky loops and lush dramatic vision.
You get a better idea if you look at the bands line up, as listed on the Pointy Records website:
Paul Carter - vocals, domingotron; Ben Clay – Guitars and Bass; Nainesh Shah – guitars and slides; Colin Coxall - drums, octopad; Vicky West - keyboards, samples, vocals, buttons & dials
Damn! I knew I should have kept going to my domingtron class!
It’s all pretty giddy stuff really and the “biog” section of their website is also rather disorientating too, relying as it does on an elaborate story about eighteenth century polar explorers and nuclear experiments. I suspect there may have been some artistic licence exercised somewhere.
But that’s OK; the music is a bit like that, too. To be honest it’s best not to worry about it all really. There are times when you don’t want to dance or think, you just want to curl up on the sofa with your quilt, toss jelly beans in the air and catch them like a dog…
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Flotation Toy Warning's (as yet) only album Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck is available on Emusic...
5 comments:
Weird - I love this band, but always had them filed alongside The National, Mercury Rev and so on, never occured to me they might be from my own country..
There are times when you don’t want to dance or think, you just want to curl up on the sofa with your quilt, toss jelly beans in the air and catch them like a dog.
I know the feeling. I lie down in my hammock and toss live insects into my mouth.
I have the Flotation Toy Warning album and I think it is wonderful. I wish they'd release another one.
Just to say that the official name of the portuguese band is: BAR.
If you would like to receive more information about the band, you can just contact all members in:
www.myspace.com/baraberto
www.baraberto.hi5.com
www.sellaband.com/bar
www.gsessions.com/bar
www.purevolume.com/baraberto
e.mail: maildosbar@gmail.com
Thank you for supporting our music!
BAR
Sorry about that, I was a little confused!
Will have a look at your sites...
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