The Gold Red Rocket
Millsted is breathing new air with their second
full length album The Great Adventures of
the Gold Red Rocket.
The album is paired up with a pseudo children’s book
of the same name, sure to please art enthusiasts and
audiophiles alike. The band’s ambition and sound have
finally caught up to one another, having courted
surf rock, tinges of 60’s soul and dashed it with
their controlled noise forte to produce a sonically
explosive record that will leave your central
nervous system heightened and your heart
fluttering from its bombast, all the while
interweaving a conceptual children’s book
and the music into one multimedia package.
The band has crafted its most mature
work to date, etching lucid piano driven triumphs
“Belgium” and “The New Japan”, all the while tearing the skies open and searching for danceable lighting on tracks “
The Gold Red Rocket” and “Coffins of Love”,
all of which have been stamped with crafty
vocal sweets.
The band has set leaner melodies to meander
over the potency of the rhythm section’s new found less-is-more-is-better mentality. The guitars on The Gold Red Rocket
have also become a seamless one-two punch of
raucous hooks and twitch happy riffs,
nothing short of entertaining and clever.
As inspired by the children’s book bearing
the same name, The Gold Red Rocket
takes place in a favela, or “shanty town”,
and tells the tale of a young dreamer and self
proclaimed inventor by the name of Cloudy Lumin,
as he struggles to realize and manifest his dreams of
traveling the universe. Cloudy dreams of building a
gold and red rocket and while nearing completion of
his rocket, the town becomes increasingly apprehensive
and set out to destroy it. Amidst humiliation, ridicule
and the naysayers in his town,
Cloudy’s story is one of perseverance in the face
of adversity.
The music of The Gold Red Rocket comes
from that same perseverance. This is where the record
and book have raised the bar nothing
short of leaps and bounds.
The band’s sound has shifted in scope
and dynamic as well as their writing, echoing
Sgt. Pepper-esque grandiose scheme
incorporating horn sections and focused conceptual ideas.
If London Calling was the last important rock
record to be released, then The Gold Red Rocket will
at least make rock music viable once more.
Nothing short of fresh and clever,
The Adventures of the Gold Red Rocket
will leave you in awe, it will leave you intrigued
and it will leave you wanting more.
Look for the album and book release in the fall of 2009.
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