### Baltic Fleet: Baltic fleet

#### 02/02/11 || Love Lagerkvist

Just so we are clear before anyone gets disappointment and starts throwing chairs, Baltic Fleet are not extreme metal. Actually, they’re not really metal at all, but rather krautish ambient post-rock. Sounds like pretentious dickmockery, right? Well, it probably is. After all, Baltic Fleet is a one man band that consists of a British dude whose hobbies include standing in open fields with unusual lightning, as well as cooking up 43-minute long dices of entrancing music goodness.

For tonight our appetizer is le “Baltic intro”, small plate consisting some spazzing drums and sweeping electronics. While tasty in it’s own right, it’s actually pretty misleading, as the general ingredients for the rest of the meal are as following:

- One subtitle kraut tingled rhythm for the drums

- Two guitar spiced with equal parts surf- and post-rock

- Smoothing electronics taken directly from a Icelandic indie kind’s hallucinatory trances

- A piano for that extra taste of class

- Deep, resonating basslines

- Numerous samples and odd instruments

Mix for two to four minutes and let get slightly brown from a couple of minutes in the owen. Rinse and repeat until satisfied.

Just like with bread and homosexual intercourse, it’s quite amazing what a skilled chef can do with these simple ingredients. Despite having the same groundwork, every track on “Baltic fleet” is a unique experience that still manages to seamlessly blend into the rest of the albums continuity of near lucidity. The good kind of lucidity that is, not the kind you get when attempting to sleep after digesting 3 pounds of the chewdrug kat.

- Information
- Released: 2008
- Label: Blow Up/Cargo
- Website: Baltic Fleet MySpace
- Band
- Paul Fleming: cooking

- Tracklist
- 01. Baltic intro
- 02. Black lounge
- 03. 3 dollar dress
- 04. Castellon theme
- 05. 48 hour drive (Boston)
- 06. Reykjavik promise
- 07. Pebble shore
- 08. Double door
- 09. Red skies and factories
- 10. Hammer blow
- 11. Berlin 8mm deep
- 12. To Chicago
- 13. The design