Sea Shanties for Spaceships

Sea Shanties for Spaceships Artist: Snowpony
Label: Dead Pan Alley
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 805520210287
EAN: 0805520210287
ASIN: B00005NNMN


Release Date: 2002-03-12

Sea Shanties for Spaceships


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Tracks:

  1. Crumpled 10
  2. Pirate's Gold
  3. Amsterdam
  4. A Car I Didn't Own
  5. Into The Heart Of Dalston
  6. Starfish
  7. Naked Twister
  8. Brown Hotel (II)
  9. My Brother
  10. Monkeys Versus The Universe
  11. Pleasure Gardens

Tracks:

  1. Naked Twister
  2. Crumpled 10
  3. Chocolate (In The Sun)

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  1. Slow Motion World of Snowpony

Album Description

2001 album featuring Katherine Gifford (Stereolab), Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine) & Debbie Smith (Echobelly). A gothic version of Garbage, but without the multi-million pound varnish. Digipak.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars 9% Stereolab, 3% My Bloody Valentine, 100% Kitsch.......2007-01-24

Snowpony's first release was adorned with a cute, little sticker that essentially read that they were a culmination of former members of Stereolab and My Bloody Valentine. Fans of either (or both) bands should have been tickled to find Snowpony's "The Slow Motion World of Snowpony" sitting on the shelves waiting to be bought, heard and enjoyed.

...and in some ways, there certainly was enjoyment to be had! Well, a little, maybe.

Stereolab's trademark lounge-pop intermingling with experimental electro-pop was there, as was My Bloody Valentine's staticky fuzz. ..but together, the final product seemed less like those two bands and more like a band who was merely mimicking the two.

With "Sea Shanties for Spaceships," the formula was repeated. No funny sticker to remind us where they came from, but the sound remained. More goofy pop and fuzz thrown together with fairly monotone female vocals. Not looping and heavenly like MBV or even sophisticated and "Frenchy" like Stereolab, just monotone. No singing, really. Is this Snowpony's legacy? A by-product of two successful bands, but with a generally boring singer instead?

Not fair, but sadly true. "Sea Shanties..." doesn't impress much. Aside from a very few stand-out tracks that haphazardly sound like accidental hits instead of misses, the album is easily forgettable.

The band should spend more time developing their own sound and not try so hard to play the role of chemists and try to combine unrelated styles of music.

4 out of 5 stars

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