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- Date Released: January 1, 2004
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Underpop Records / Hidden Agenda Records
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California dream pop collective the Society of Rockets -- formerly known as Shimmer Kids Underpop Association -- may sound like a hobo version of Spiritualized, but their reverb-drenched odes to loves both won and lost never descend into isolationist art rock excess; rather they wait patiently for the cheap bottle of whiskey to return, thankful that they're among friends -- however few. Sunset Homes is an apt title for their debut, as each track unfolds slowly, languishing in the cradle of its sonic peaks and valleys without a care for the rest of the world. Sustained organs give way to bright accordions while heavily-delayed guitars swirl around Joshua Babcock's soft vocals on the delicate and lonesome opener, "O, Sing Transformer." It's a winning formula that repeats itself throughout the record's entirety, so when the band picks up some much needed speed on the rollicking "Too Many Thorns in Your Bed of Roses" -- complete with Theremin -- it's like a tornado ripping the roof off of a church luncheon. Sunset Homes is part Americana, part chamber pop and all corn silo atmosphere, and its charms, though often buried beneath a mountain of analogue echo, are blissfully un-pretentious, sweetly understated and many.
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O, Sings Transformer |
3:00 |
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| 02. | |
Untitled |
3:44 |
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| 03. | |
Cure for Cancer |
5:32 |
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| 04. | |
Little Road |
2:33 |
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| 05. | |
Too Many Thorns in Your Bed of Roses |
5:00 |
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| 06. | |
Never No Fences |
4:08 |
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| 07. | |
Friends and Enemies |
5:31 |
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| 08. | |
The Flood |
4:38 |
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| 09. | |
Let's Make a Scene |
3:07 |
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09 Total Tracks, 37:13 Total Length
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