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FLOTATION TOY WARNING - Biography Album "Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck"(Tal-012) - French release date: august 17th - Under exclusive licence from Pointy Records. Following two critically acclaimed EP's, the London five piece have been winning people over with their accessible baroque pop. It has already been made album of the week by Rough Trade. And they are headed for big things in France too with a support slot with Air at The Route De Rock Festival in St Malo in August. PRESS "swirls of guitar, looped samples and beautifully bereft vocals to beguiling lo-fi effect, recalling both DIY Flaming Lips and the glitchyside of Sparklehorse……Buckled but beauteous, psychedelic Victoriana with beats" Time Out "... a halfway house between Grandaddy's space-boy dreaming and Tindersticks ennui….we demand they be included on the Flaming lips' tour now!" NME " fine, atmospheric delights that sparkle like the aurora borealis and are rare treats and more proof that Flotation Toy Warning are one of the most beguiling delights of the year." Music Week " Flotation Toy Warning sound like an afternoon where you're laid on the sofa playing some old country records whilst through the window wafts the noise of lazy beats and electronica played by the woman next door who's digging out her old DJ Krush and Broadcast singles, punctuated by snatches from passing cars playing Kraftwerk, BBC Radio Three and opera. Listening to Flotation Toy Warning is a deeply rewarding and fascinating journey that I urge you all to take at the first opportunity" Tangents " woozy, starry eyed alt, unquantifiable magnificence…..if you take your "rock" in elegant, maudin aural shapes, replete with elevating choral arrangements, luxurious harps and comical pastiches on ego-dazzled actors...the album is going to blow your head off." Dot Music SHORT BIOG Flotation Toy Warning formed in 2001 after enigmatic frontman Donald Drusky, a former flying machine test pilot, met drummer Don LeCannes at the unveiling of his latest invention, a new musical instrument called a Stair Horn, at L'Iononso d'Italia (Italian Institute For Innovation) in Venice. Soon after, LeCannes introduced Drusky to a rival inventor by the name of Magnesi Rich, who was at the time embarking on a project to notate and translate Chinese wind shapes with colleagues Benedict L.Maidsaver and Victoria W.Vest. Discussing rare butterflies over dinner, the five discovered a common interest in astrophonics and decided to become a musical item. In expressing a liking for The Iron Rugs, Pigfinger and Taller Trees, flotation toy warning differ from other bands, who often cite 'our parents', 'things on T.V.' and 'what we've seen older children doing' astheir main influences. When asked, Drusky said that the project was a means of documenting human feelings to a degree of realism not thought possible, set to a soundtrack created from previously unknown instruments, but to be honest, the whole thing had been so complex and demanding that he now wished they'd simply formed an accapella five piece to perform wasp covers. Flotation Toy Warning's debut album 'The Bluffer's Guide To The Flight Deck' is to be released on the 17th of august in France (and in october 04 in Poland / South Africa / Israel) on Talitres records and on the 6th of September on Pointy Records.
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