Cloud Boat

As teenagers, north London-based producers Tom Clarke and Sam Ricketts played in metal bands and were also into post-rock. While attending separate universities, they got into electronic music, with Ricketts particularly taken by cutting-edge London club nights such as FWD>> and DMZ. Once they finished their studies, they worked as a duo with new inspirations. As Cloud Boat, they made their debut in 2011 on the reactivated R&S label; the Lions on the Beach 10" offered a hybrid of downcast dubstep and melancholy folk, somewhere between Burial and Hood. Their lone recorded activ...