Released 2008 Release date 2008 Genre Independent music | Artist Ballboy Label Pony Proof Records | |
Similar A Guide for the Daylight, Club Anthems, The Sash My Father Wore and | ||
I Worked On The Ships is the fourth studio album by Scottish group Ballboy, released in the UK on 25 August 2008. The album is the first to be recorded on the band's own label, Pony Proof Records.
Contents
Track listing
- The Guide to the Shortwave Radio
- Songs for Kylie
- Cicily
- Godzilla Vs The Island of Manhattan (with you and I somewhere in-between)
- Disney's Ice Parade
- A Relatively Famous Victory
- Empty Throat
- We can leap buildings and rivers, but really we just wanna fly
- Above the clouds the sun is always shining
- Picture Show
- Absent friends
Critical reception
The Scotsman newspaper commented that the album showed the band's "most beautiful, wistful storytelling to date, encasing his whimsical, witty, yet sometimes stark lyrics in some of their folkiest arrangements yet."
Listings magazine The Skinny gave the album 3 out of 5, saying that "this delicious long-player will merely rekindle wanting desire in long-term lovers, never eliciting the advances of fresher faced admirers".
Music Week review said "Alex Turner’s fondness for taking mundane subject matter and transforming it into something poetic may well have won him plaudits on Arctic Monkeys records, but McIntyre has been doing it for years... a little gem of an album."
Songs
1The Guide to the Short Wave Radio4:09
2Songs for Kylie4:37
3Cicily3:55