autocity ep

          Mini CD released on Timshel Records, TIM002

Released December 2002.
Sold Out

Handmade packaging in individually numbered envelopes.

Tracklisting:

1. Driscoll
2. Bad Day
3. Innes
4. Farstar

“...4 pulsating tracks on a 3” cd which somehow mimic engine noise, while samples of crash death statistics interplay in a cursory warning on the evils of the automobile...so spooky that it seems it would soundtrack a space shuttle crash..." - Is This Music?

“...a lovely thing to look at...very pretty beautiful sounding stuff and well worth a punt..." - Norman Records

“...beautifully packaged 3"CD..." - Rough Trade

AIRPLAY:
Played on John Peel, Radio 3's Late Junction, Beat 106's The Beatscene & Radio Magnetic's Fallout.

REVIEWS IN FULL:

Norman Records
"Calamateur released a single last year I think it was which you seemed to like.... we did. Now just in this fat morn we have a 3" CD single ltd to 200 copies in a porn style brown paper bag (more like an envelope actually) with little inserts and that. A lovely thing to look at indeed. Tis called the Autocity EP you know. It's atmospheric floaty type music with samples from news reports (by the sounds of things) of war and carnage. Very pretty beautiful sounding stuff and well worth a punt me thinks.”

Rough Trade
"Beautifully packaged 3" CD limited to just 200 copies from Calamateur who come from the suburbs of Glasgow. The four tracks are total bleak soundscapes with spoken word samples on top. This could reasily sit on Constellation or on a Clientele single."

Is This Music?
"The second concept record about driving this month but this one is clearly not in favour of our mechanical friends. 4 pulsating tracks on a 3” CD which somehow mimic engine noise, while samples of crash death statistics interplay in a cursory warning on the evils of the automobile. Snippets of radio chat on traffic build up through the CD – ‘Bad Day’ features a description of the state of a collided car until the inevitable ‘Farstar’ is reached – actually so spooky that it seems it would soundtrack a space shuttle crash until an American statistician (of course) kicks in equating highway death tolls to those in ‘nam.”