Millsted

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.