Rocketship - Certain Smile A Certain Sadness [Colored Vinyl] (Wht) Soft Rock

Rocketship - Certain Smile A Certain Sadness [Colored Vinyl] (Wht) Soft RockOne of the clearest examples of an album that crafts a strange and beautiful world not quite like any other is Rocketship's 1996 full length debut "A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness." Even upon arrival, this was an experience unto itself, and 30 years later, these eight songs of bittersweet bliss still feel new. Rocketship spiked their deliciously melodic indiepop with buzzing organs, spacey interstitials and motorik repetition, aligning them with

Pleasure and revulsion blend throughout

Undulating feedback gives rise to insistent calls from the organ before yielding to a tragic cello motif

under names such as Trio Valore

The Young Offender's Mum

504 "Prague": III

This pressing contains some never-before-seen photos from the Undoing Ruin era with a printed insert and four extremely limited vinyl variants

and their 1996 album Perfection

and Disturbed

Tansman / bruchViviane Hagner

The Cincinnati-based duo cut their teeth as teens busking on Market Square in Knoxville

Malibu was the moment the world met the "Cheeky Andy" persona in full-a virtuosic drummer

their music followed Cocteau's artistic principles