BOLTLP006: MINT - Cardboard Rocketships
Release date: 30th April 2009
Format: CD
Price: £7.99 GBP

"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!

See more on this release at Last FM:
http://www.last.fm/music/Mint/Cardboard+Rocketships

Tracklisting:

1. I Don't Kvetch
2. Grace
3. System Cost
4. Keiji's Dream
5. Personal Spaces
6. Aquarius
7. Shine (Mint Remix)
8. Musicbox Skit
9. Tricycle Days
10. Shoes Too Big For Her Feet
11. Dorothy's Song
12. Dead Pixel
13. Whispering Gallery

All tracks © mint/Boltfish Recordings 2009

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Tricycle Days
The official video for "Tricycle Days" - featured on the limited edition DVD available with this release.