I Worked on the Ships
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I Worked On The Ships is the fourth studio album by Scottish
group Ballboy, released in the UK on 25 August, 2008. The album is the first to be recorded on the band's own label, Pony Proof Records.
newspaper commented that the album showed the band's "most beautiful, wistful storytelling to date, encasing his whimsical, witty, yet sometimes stark lyrics in some of their folkiest arrangements yet."
Listings magazine The Skinny gave the album 3 out of 5, saying that "this delicious long-player will merely rekindle wanting desire in long-term lovers, never eliciting the advances of fresher faced admirers".
Music Week
review said "Alex Turner’s fondness for taking mundane subject matter and transforming it into something poetic may well have won him plaudits on Arctic Monkeys records, but McIntyre has been doing it for years... a little gem of an album."
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
group Ballboy, released in the UK on 25 August, 2008. The album is the first to be recorded on the band's own label, Pony Proof Records.
Track listing
- The Guide to the Shortwave Radio
- Songs for Kylie
- Cicily
- Godzilla Vs The Island of Manhattan (with you and I somewhere in-between)
- Disney's Ice Parade
- A Relatively Famous Victory
- Empty Throat
- We can leap buildings and rivers, but really we just wanna fly
- Above the clouds the sun is always shining
- Picture Show
- Absent friends
Critical reception
The ScotsmanThe Scotsman
The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
newspaper commented that the album showed the band's "most beautiful, wistful storytelling to date, encasing his whimsical, witty, yet sometimes stark lyrics in some of their folkiest arrangements yet."
Listings magazine The Skinny gave the album 3 out of 5, saying that "this delicious long-player will merely rekindle wanting desire in long-term lovers, never eliciting the advances of fresher faced admirers".
Music Week
Music Week
Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as Music Week . On 17 January 1981 the title was again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to Music & Video Week...
review said "Alex Turner’s fondness for taking mundane subject matter and transforming it into something poetic may well have won him plaudits on Arctic Monkeys records, but McIntyre has been doing it for years... a little gem of an album."