"It’s a masterfully produced, lush, layered album; it’s dynamically varied, brilliantly arranged, and totally unique....Flotation Walls exhibit a musical seriousness that gives the album real heft. There are no throwaway tracks."
"...unpretentious and accessible, and lots of fun even when it's breaking your heart....This disc will have you tapping your feet along to your own mortality - and that alone is worth the price of admission. Flotation Walls have produced a serious contender for 2009's indie album of the year."
No. 1 Comfest Saturday Highlight: "Flotation Walls proved their masterful, orchestra-infused CD release show was no fluke by conjuring just as much splendor with the core four-person crew. The future looks bright yellow."
"Flotation Walls have enough of an anthemic, larger-than-life sound...Nature [is] an album that has the breathtaking beauty and operatic scope of a far more experienced band." "After an impressive decade of wonderful music, Carlos Avendaño and company have come into their own."
"A very special talent indeed....Avendano has obviously listened to a lot of British psychedelia of the, shall we say more whimsical nature, but he has brought that style bang up to date and firmly stamped his own unique identity on it."
"The hope intrinsic to tragedy and the horror involved with dreaming. It's an album that celebrates the affinity of opposites and the beauty that comes with realizing that life is complex and full even in its simplest instants."
"Apollo and the muses are crying: If Os Mutantes never recorded, if Scott Walker never put out I - IV, if Giorgio Moroder didn't buy a keyboard and the Boredoms never left Osaka at least we would still have this beautiful masterpiece of an album."
While we listen to tons of music, big influences on NATURE include Ennio Morricone, Scott Walker, various folk music from around the world, French pop of the 60s, Aphex Twin/Boards of Canada etc. (in concept more than in sound), Os Mutantes and other tropicalia, Leonard Cohen, Debussy/Satie and other classical music.
Some non-musical influences are the Visual artists such as Maurizio Catalan and Henry Darger, Prisoner (TV show), The Wicker Man (70s version), National Film Board of Canada shorts and early Disney.
Flotation Walls is an experimental pop group. We are always evolving and interested in creating new musical hybrids or new styles altogether. Currently we play choral/orchestral pop from our 2009 record NATURE. It was five years in the making and grew to involve over 25 players. It's got strings, horns, harp, slow motion dream choirs, animatronic worms, fuzzy 70's nature specials, angel orgies, and a whole bunch of other stuff that you thought about when you were an embryo.
We quit our jobs and we're touring full time, so if those things sound nice to you at all, please...
We've been playing as a four piece for a long while now and we're very happy doing so, but we all agree that a fifth member would be a nice addition (if nothing else just to give Ryan a break from playing 94,528 instruments all at once). So we're posting a standing open call for anyone interested. We're looking for someone who...
- wants to tour full time for a living.
- plays piano and can sing well.
- is female. (Just about all of our songs have second female vocal parts that we miss very dearly.)
- is interested in contributing creatively, having lots of fun and - you know - being an important part of the band and all that stuff.
We have a ridiculously good time together and are open-minded and friendly, creative people. Interested? Contact us!
ehh yea, i just deleted my facebook and only have a Myspace, because it says that i need a password that i dont remember anymore to delete it, so whatever, im still here! haha but yea, when are you guys coming back to good OL' Michigan??
You guys have always been great, but seriously, we were floored by your performance last night. The road has done you guys well. Keep rocking...it's only a matter of time before you BLOW UP. Love you guys...peace!
