{"product_id":"hydroplane-a-place-in-my-memory-is-all-i-have-to-claim","title":"Hydroplane - A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim\u003c\/em\u003e is an album by Australian atmospheric pop trio, Hydroplane - the storied ‘offshoot’ formed by three quarters of independent pop group, The Cat’s Miaow. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn this, their first music after two decades plus of radio silence, Andrew Withycombe, Kerrie Bolton and Bart Cummings return to the gentle, close-quarters musical world they shared around the turn of the century. A beautiful collection of drowsy, sleepy pop, humble and quiet, but resolute in its craft, \u003cem\u003eA Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim\u003c\/em\u003e is dream work in practice; a lovely reintroduction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome back, then. Maybe you can draw some connections between Hydroplane and their sister group, The Cat’s Miaow, while fellow travellers might include Empress, The Ah Club, and further back, Young Marble Giants, Veronique Vincent (the muffled, ticking drum machine also makes me think of Robin Gibb’s Robin’s Reign). There’s also an umbilical to the bedroom-crafted electronica doing the rounds in the late nineties and early noughties. Hydroplane hint at this through their approach to songwriting, which often builds creatively around loops as structural devices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough all this, the trio achieve an effortless, organic weightlessness across these nine lovely songs. Many feature Bolton’s clear singing voice, drifting along, while guitars, keyboards, drum machines and loops ticker tape away. The constituent parts fit together, but they also have a curiously detached quality – think of abstract cloud formations sharing the same sky. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHydroplane and The Cat’s Miaow often dealt in emotional ambiguity and uncertainty, and the uncertainty of the nostalgic. This was always one of the most appealing facets of their music, and \u003cem\u003eA Place In My Memory…\u003c\/em\u003e is thus named perfectly. I couldn’t dream up a better title for the album and its reflections on history, lived experience, and the inevitable tangle between these two phenomena. These reflections variously address such concerns as human cruelty, flight, space travel, adventurism and spiritualism. There’s also “To the Lighthouse”, not a direct reference to the Virginia Woolf book, but a great title, nonetheless. (They’ve always had excellent titles, often borrowed, for songs and albums.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EFFICIENT SPACE","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":53021498999126,"sku":"MRM-01467","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/8e4295351cd5fe039c98bf4d2e19a3c6.jpg?v=1775193939","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/hydroplane-a-place-in-my-memory-is-all-i-have-to-claim","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}