Winnipeg Indie Pop Outfit Boats Makes Impossibly Hooky Pop Songs About Death Being Old Girls Glowing Bears And Escaping The Spectral Plane Of Existence And Reappearing At A Football Game — All Of Which Can Be Found On The Band’s Sparkling Third Album A Fairway Full Of Miners Due Out Feb. 5 2013 Via Kill Rock Stars Corin Tucker Band Elliott Smith Decemberists Deerhoof . Recorded In The Spring/summer Of 2012 By Ryan McVeigh At Prairie Recording Studios/UMFM And Mixed By David Carswell In Vancouver Destroyer New Pornographers A Fairway Full Of Miners Comes As The Follow-Up To Boats’ Acclaimed 2010 Sophomore Album Cannonballs Cannonballs — Named The No. 1 Album Of 2010 By Winnipeg College Radio Station 101.5 UMFM And Hailed By Critics For Its Inventiveness And Mega-Watt Charm. But If Cannonballs Cannonballs Was All About Giddy Exuberance A Fairway Full Of Miners Is About Growing Up And Finding Yourself Bored. There Are Still Plenty Of Manic Sloppy-On-Purpose Junk-Store Pop Tunes That Burst With Pop-Rocks-And-Coke Energy O Telescope But The New Record Also Sees The Band Stretch Out Over More Ambitious Epics Animated GIFs And Heartfelt Ballads Advice On Bears . It’s Eclectic But Not Unfocused The Whole Thing Is Unified By Frontman/band Leader Mat Klachefsky’s Helium-High Yelp Of A Singing Voice. Maturity Has Become Almost A Cliché When It Comes To Describing Albums — Especially Third Albums — But A Fairway Full Of Miners Has A Focus To It That Comes With Relentless Touring Boats Has Done Eight North American Tours And A Sophistication That Comes With Refining A Particular Sound Over The Span Of Three Albums . But Don’t Confuse Mature With Boring Boats Albums Give You That Thrilling Feeling Of Being On The Verge Of Spinning Wildly Dizzingly Out Of Control. Look For A Fairway Full Of Miners In Early February. A Three-Song Cassette Tape Will Be Released This December. Boats Is Mat Klachefsky – Guitar/Vocals Ashley Roch – Keyboards/Trumpet Rory Ellis – Guitar/Other Stuff Louis Levesque-Cote – Bass Luke Bergen – Drums