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 False Maps/Radical Scouts EP
Digital
(TRR074)
Downloads:
Still Human (mp3)
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 Silver Age EP
Digital (TRR066)
Downloads:
Telescopic Man (mp3)
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The World Inside EP
Digital (TRR059)
Downloads:
Lost in Dreams (mp3)
Buy at iTunes
Music Store
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 Future
Factory
DOUBLE VINYL LP (TRR080)
WHITE, 180g
Downloads:
Olivia Odyssey (mp3)
We (mp3)
VINYL PURCHASE INCLUDES FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD!
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Music Store
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TRR080 Press One-Sheet
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Our Paths Related
VINYL LP (TRR060)
Downloads:
Teenage Gears (mp3)
Mountain Magic (mp3)
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TRR060 Retail
One-Sheet
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America is still number one in space and time exploration
now that San Francisco’s The Society of Rockets has its fourth
album, “Future Factory.” The band’s singer and
cosmonaut leader, Joshua Babcock has proclaimed the 21-track psych-pop
album as being “designed to function as an hour-long sonic
map of utopias that never were and have yet to be.”
The Society of Rockets are currently docked out in San Francisco’s
industrial Dogpatch neighborhood, where Babcock’s team of
musical chemists includes Adam Dobrer on bass, David Isbister on
piano and keyboards, Steve Wertheim on drums, Robin Wageman on guitar,
and multi-instrumentalist Lorelei David on theremin, flute, and
xylophone. Longtime associate Ben Tinker also joined in, contributing
all of the freshly unearthed analog synth tones peppered throughout
"Future Factory," the follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed
"Our Paths Related."
The lab results for “Future Factory” have tested positive
for a kind of Faust (Krautrock) meets Unrest (90s Indie) meets Milton
Nascimento (post-Tropicalia samba) concoction. Since the band’s
studio is called “The Advanced Institute For Interspacial
Harmonic Research,” it comes as no surprise that “Future
Factory,” is descanted with gorgeous harmonies – which
always makes the biggest blast in a ‘Rockets song. The dense,
communal vocals are anchored by the trio of Babcock, Wageman, and
Wertheim (with others occasionally joining in), recalling the choral
arrangements of both the cocktail sci-fi of Esquivel-by-way-of-Stereolab
and the eternal grace of the Beach Boys.
Babcock’s original hypothesis was to take the songs from the
“Future Factory” sessions and find a way to make them
play in a different order on every listen, creating an audio jigsaw
puzzle that would constantly rearrange itself. In the end, the band's
enduring vinyl obsession prevailed, resulting in this lovingly crafted
180-gram white vinyl double album. Uploading the mp3s (free with
purchase of vinyl!) into an iPod shuffle will have to do. For now.
“Future Factory” was engineered by Christopher Cline
(…Trail of Dead, Scrabbel), Eli Crews (Beulah, Deerhoof, WHY?),
and Ben Tinker. Mixing by Cline and the band. Mastering was completed
by Gary Hobish (Willie Nelson, Dr. John, Creedence Clearwater Revival).
The Society of Rockets have shared the stage with Dominique Leone,
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, and Hard Place among others.
Reviews for Future Factory: "...the
best album of their career."
- Pitchfork Media, 7.4/10
"...continues the evolution of a truly
terrific band hell-bent on making some of the most interesting,
satisfying rock today."
– Jambase (Album of the Week)
Reviews for Our Paths Related:
"Stacked with high-octane rock and irrepressible
melody..."
- Pitchfork Media
"This group has the spirit, even when it
heads a few thousand light years from home."
- Steve Hochman, L.A. Times Music Critic
"A wall of chicken-fat grooves... highly
delectable and hand-crafted."
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
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