Fjord Rowboat - Saved the Compliments for Morning
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Name: Fjord Rowboat Album: Saved the Compliments for Morning Released: February 23, 2007 Members: craig gloster ian mckay kevin mckay justin grant matt collumWebsite: www.fjordrowboat.com Record Label: Roxton Records Favourite Song: Shootin’ The Breeze [track 3] |
Wow. I have an exact date for the release of the album. I rock, because I was at the CD release party :D. And I should have written about it already. Writing about music does have it’s perks. I totally didn’t expect the invite, and Justin being the main person I’ve been e-mailing, has been more than nice to me, so kudos to you!
So this is my first introduction to what the band self-proclaimed as “Shoegazer” music. Now my friends in bands (not this band though) explained to me that shoegazer music is where the band doesn’t move a whole lot on stage and play while staring at their shoes. Ah, that’s where the classification comes from. Alas, it doesn’t help me any since when I saw this band there were very little staring at shoes, but this is what they call themselves, I’ll trust they know what they play.
Most of the songs on this album are pretty slow, I generally listen to stuff a bit faster than this, so it’s a welcome change. Again, with my inability to really look beyond the face value of lyrics most of the time, I’m not sure if there’s much deeper meanings behind the words being sung, but I do enjoy hearing them. What I get out of the music is there is still a hope in the world.
It’s a laid-back, chill-out kind of album, so where would you lay back and chill out? I’d do such laying and chilling whilst on a patio on a summer day, or maybe on a patio at a bar/pub on a summer day, or … lots of patios and lots of summer day combinations it looks like. It’s mellow, it’s non-offensive, you can pretty much listen to it everywhere.
