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Sightings: Dream Boat: “imissu”

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

imissu from Dream Boat on Vimeo.

The ever-mysterious male-female duo that is Dream Boat is dropping a second full-length on AMDISCS next week, and it’s full of the sinewy vocal loops and dexterous beat programming that first caught our attention around this time last year, when we posted the Providence producer’s “Your Beaches” single, and they came back at as with a video response. “Imissu” locks into a prickly, walking-pace groove until it gets stuck on a drum machine trill and kicks into another song entirely– a misshappen club banger with beefy bass drones on the low end and pitched up, sing-songy vox on high. Chromatic melodies can just sound so taunting sometimes.

Dream Boat: “imissu”

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Words: Emilie Friedlander

Widows LP is out July 28th via Amdiscs, on clear vinyl. Dream Boat Summer European tour dates here

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Sightings: Dream Boat, “Young & Fine”

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Providence’s Sina Sohrab does not mess around. Dreamboat’s Visions LP, out today on AMDISCS, is chock full of “horror scores for the dance floor” — a bit too unwieldy to actually get down to, but devoid of the baroque arpeggios and ’80s nostalgia that are swiftly turning contemporary dark wave into an academic exercise. Unlike dark wave, Dreamboat’s music is actually creepy, combining beats and disembodied voices into nightmare soundtracks that don’t hide under a veil of goth romanticism. Visions may remain in dialogue with the clichés that structure our understanding of the macabre — minor-key chorus, Addams Family organ hooks, arcane lyrics about visions that keep people up at night — but these are never ends in themselves. Just words in a language that attempts to contain the horror, but can’t help failing.

Dream Boat, “Young & Fine”

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Visions is out today on iTunes via AMDISCS. A physical release is slated for December.

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Sightings: Dream Boat, “Your Beaches” Video

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Your Beaches from Dream Boat on Vimeo.

I woke up today to one of the biggest surprises in my two and a half years as a music blogger: an (appropriately) late-night missive from Dream Boat’s Sina Sohrab, whose unbearably haunting electronica made we wax pretty poetic last week on Visitation Rites and Altered Zones. Inspired by the nocturnal scenario her music conjured for me, Sina spliced up some footage Jack Cadiff’s The Girl On A Motorcycle and made an equally spine-tingling video to accompany the track. It must be true that an image speaks a thousand words, because this video captures everything I succeeded in saying about this song and everything that will forever remain on the tip of my tongue. It is hard, for example, to describe the fact that even the most harrowing of dream experiences can be mixed with the exhilaration of complete freedom. In fact, the only thing that I can say with certainty here applies to what occurs off-screen: the woman in this video will wake up in the same bed, next to the same man, regardless of where she went and what she did and whomever she danced with in the unremembered blue hours.
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Sightings: Dream Boat, “Your Beaches”

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Dream Boat’s Fevers EP may be painted in the off-color shades of ’70s smut, but this mystery project from Providence couldn’t possibly be the soundtrack for whatever trouble the two ladies on the cover are up to. The space between “dream” and “boat” here is key: Sina Sorab invites aboard a sampler and guides us across the REM seas, on the condition that we sleep four hours past our cellphone alarms so we can access the flashing nightmares that tell us something about ourselves. “Your Beaches” rides the vertiginous contours of the hour-less slow-burn that is sleep; it’s the bleach that burns your hands long after you’ve left the bathroom, the threat of the gas stove you forgot to check twice.

Dream Boat, “Your Beaches” (Fevers, Amdiscs)

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Fevers is available for free download via Amdiscs

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