BOLTLP006:
MINT - Cardboard Rocketships
Release date: 30th April 2009
Format: CD + Digital
Price: £7.99 GBP (+ FREE DELIVERY)
"the finest examples of glitchy playful electronica I have heard in a long time" Crumbs in the Butter
"Close in spirit to the likes of Isan, Gimmik or Benge, Mint delivers here a rather engaging and fine collection of beautiful and warm electronic music." The Milkfactory
Boltfish Recordings co-owner MINT presents an album of beautifully emotive tracks ranging from playful and cinematic to crunchy and beat-driven.
Tracks such as Grace and Dorothy’s Song combine warm electronic sounds and playful nursery rhyme melodies with intricate stuttering beats, while I Don’t Kvetch, Keiji’s Dream, Aquarius and Shoes Too Big for Her Feet frame the artist’s melodies within a heavier, more IDM and electro-inflected style, with euphoric synth lines, soaring string pads and crunchy drums.
Personal Spaces and Tricycle Days exhibit a more nostalgic bent through the use of vintage keyboard tones and evocative childlike melodies. System Cost and Dead Pixel are darker tracks with a brooding, melancholic feel. Musicbox Skit provides an exquisite interlude of chiming music box samples and vinyl crackle, and closing track Whispering Gallery explores a more cinematic, beatless side of Mint’s production style with a delicious slice of widescreen atmospheric ambience, gently floating strings, softly pulsing chords and arpeggios, and twinkling melodies. Also included is a remix of Shine by Ulrich Schnauss.
This release is presented in a Digipak.
Also available in a limited edition, you can purchase a bonus DVD. The DVD is available for only £2.00 and includes specially commissioned videos for "Tricycle Days", "Keiji's Dream" and "Musicbox Skit", as well as additional video material.ALL DVDs NOW SOLD - MAY BE AVAILABLE VIA OTHER RETAILERS!
A free desktop wallpaper is available for this release. 
