Hydroplane - (1998) When I Was Howard Hughes 7''

A-side's very much like the Wurlitzer Jukebox single, a placid love song, the other side's a sad yet hopeful song about the end of an affair. Not quite as pure and stark as Low, but the same sort of sound.

Riverrun Singles Reviews
It used to be clear that Hydroplane was the dreamy, semi-ambient alter-ego of the Cat's Miaow, but the Cat's Miaow's The Long Goodbye/Bliss Out EP, which consists of gauzy and ethereal reworkings of a handful of their pop songs, messed up that sharp distinction. The complement would be Hydroplane doing jangly pop, but for this single of covers (the Shapiros' "When I Was Howard Hughes" and the Creation's "If You Spoke to Me, I Wouldn't Know What to Say") they stick to the old formula, bathing Cat's Miaow singer Kerrie Bolton's breathy vocals in sourceless reverberation and murmurs of unidentified noise. Excellent music to sleep to, provided that you don't mind getting up to flip the record every four minutes