Dollboy
Label: Static Caravan
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Beautifully warm Summery English folk with a hint of glitch.
Having already created a stir in the late nineties remixing the likes of Shed 7, Elastica, Terrorvision, and Alabama 3, Oliver Sheer took a step away from the big beat rock of his previous NME tipped Cooler and began working on a project with the humble intention of creating music to bathe to. As Dollboy, his gentler more atmospheric offerings began to appear on a number of independent compilations eventually getting picked up for airplay on XFM ultimately leading to his debut album "Plans for a Modern City".
His latest offering "A Beard of Bees" on Static Caravan is a departure from his previous work and a great leap forward into a more accessible realm. Less ambient mood pieces and more songs of typical structure. It’s a real mix of acoustic and electric guitars, three part harmonies, old radiophonic burbles and squawks and Germanic synths all bashed together into a sort of oddly English peg-leg dance in the dark with Long John Silver, Syd Barrett and a parrot.
Title track "A Beard of Bees" opens with crisp acoustic guitars interlaced with uplifting 3 way vocal harmonies, sounding like the Beatles re-recorded Norweigan Wood with hypnotic percussion loops and a string arrangement. "Hello Sailor" is hazy, summery English freak folk - with just a hint of glitchy "tronica" running along side. As The Guardian said "the perfect advertisement for sozzled picnics in the woods". And lest we not forget an earlier extremely limited offering on Static Caravan (but none the less brilliant) Dollboy's "Preulde No.1" is an homage to the original compostition by Bach. Played out on an electric piano over a sparse glitch beats Dollboy re-invents and re-juvenates the original with a childlike magic and charm.
Releases we represent:
- A Beard Of Bees | Album | Static Caravan | March 2009
Quotes:
"Exquisite pastoral sound-sketches with a series of sung meditations on subjects as disparate as tea drinking and Moby Dick." The Times
"A consistent and rewarding listening experience. Sublime." Flux "Oliver Cherer is giving Tunng a run for their money at the top of the folktronica tree." Boomkat "The perfect advertisement for sozzled picnics in the woods" The Guardian
Tracks included on the following samplers:
- Static Caravan Sampler Download sampler here
- Christmas not Christmas Download sampler here
- Christmas not Christmas USA Download sampler here
