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  3.   Artist:      Boat
  4.   Album:       Setting the Paces
  5.   Label:       Magic Marker
  6.   Playtime:    38:16 min
  7.   Genre:       Indie
  8.   URL:         http://www.myspace.com/boatmusic
  9.   Rip date:    2009-11-11
  10.   Street date: 2009-10-27
  11.   Size:        56.11 MB
  12.   Type:        Normal
  13.   Quality:     193 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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  17.    BOAT's third album, Setting the Paces, sticks to the formula the band had
  18.    previously utilized. Short, snappy tunes with rambunctious vocals and
  19.    humorous lyrical content, with debts owed to Pavement, Television
  20.    Personalities, and the Banana Splits, and with a bouncy energy that makes the
  21.    album very easy to like, even when the words stray over the line from clever
  22.    to silly. This time out, the band has tightened up the sound; the guitars
  23.    have more bite, the beats are more propulsive, and the overall feel is more
  24.    rock than pop. It was a move that could have backfired -- trampling over the
  25.    quirky charm of D. Crane's vocals just for the sake or rocking out a little
  26.    more would have been a disaster. Instead, the elevated intensity and energy
  27.    give the songs some added impact. Check "God Save the Man, Who Isn't All That
  28.    Super" or "Interstate 5" for examples of how this new approach really pays
  29.    off. It's like the band all of a sudden decided they were for real, and
  30.    decided to make a real rock & roll record. The songs that dial back the
  31.    energy and get spacy ("100 Calorie Man"), jangly ("Calcium Commuter"), or
  32.    gently acoustic ("Reverie") work as nice contrasts to the rest of the record,
  33.    and show that BOAT is growing quite nicely as a band. The only possible
  34.    caveat is the lyrics. If you are inclined to find songs about stalled
  35.    minivans, muscular friends, and math skills kind of ridiculous, you may have
  36.    trouble getting into the album. Anyone else will find the lyrics to be
  37.    refreshingly off-kilter and occasionally moving in an odd sort of way. It's
  38.    not easy to pull off this kind of humorous indie rock, but on Setting the
  39.    Paces, BOAT come through like champs.
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  43.   01. Friends Since 1989                                                ( 2:31)
  44.   02. Lately (I've Been on My Back)                                     ( 3:11)
  45.   03. Tough Talking the Tulips                                          ( 2:36)
  46.   04. Interstate 5                                                      ( 1:53)
  47.   05. 100 Calorie Man                                                   ( 2:03)
  48.   06. We Want It! We Want It!                                           ( 3:25)
  49.   07. The Name Tossers                                                  ( 3:55)
  50.   08. Jeff Fell Dream                                                   ( 1:41)
  51.   09. Prince of Tacoma                                                  ( 2:43)
  52.   10. God Save the Man, Who Isn't All That Super                        ( 3:04)
  53.   11. (Do The) Magic Centipede                                          ( 2:07)
  54.   12. Calcium Commuter                                                  ( 2:50)
  55.   13. Reverie                                                           ( 2:34)
  56.   14. You're Muscular                                                   ( 3:43)
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