Blake Paterson, aka Melbourne’s very own Boats recently released his stunning six track EP titled Release. 

The Release origin story is charming in it simplicity, Paterson moved into a bright blue bayside shack, picked up the guitar and started writing.

Boats wanted to incorporate the ‘repetitive-strong energy elements’ of dance music from his earlier DJ influences and got in touch with Joshua Delaney (Rat & Co, SMILE) to produce the EP which was then mastered by Andrei Eremin (Chet Faker, Oscar Key Sung).

Now out and receiving well deserved praise for stripped back gems such as ‘Shallow’ and ‘Spiders Soul’ the EP is jam packed with Boats’ unique brand of wistful folk that will no doubt make him a ‘must know’ local act but the end of 2015.

To celebrate the release of the new EP Boats has given us a track by track run down of the impressive release. If you like what you hear be sure to pop by www.boatsmusic.com for more info and music.

Intro

This was made experimenting with various vocal elements from the EP. It also features a sax, which I hadn’t played it since I left school. I mostly spent this time laughing at myself.

Spider’s Soul

I wrote this song quite quickly, once we were in studio I added the hook and it was pretty much done. The demo was recorded in a storage shed in the middle of nowhere on the Mornington Peninsula. It seems now that I think about it, that the spaces these tracks were written and recorded in where mostly in small intense spaces.

Shallows

This was one of the first songs I ever wrote and looking back I can really tell. I wrote it in a pool shack I was living in at the time. I actually miss being in that room, it had warm acoustics. A friend of mine Joel Hanna really helped shape the final feel of the track.

Rabbits

For me the most interesting of all the tracks, also the track I think matches my original idea the most. Most of these songs came from pretty vivid scenes imagined in my head usually emanating from life experiences. Rabbits was an especially strong one. Josh Delaney who produced the EP helped a lot with this track, it was on the way out before we started working on it.

That’s The Way

Was written around the same time as Hold The Knife, both of these songs came in the same week. I was experimenting with various tunings on my guitar and it suited my mood at the time.

Hold The Knife

Probably the most violating track to play live. Super simple in its makeup but hard to deliver because when I was writing it I was habituating a pretty desolate space.

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