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The Age Of Rockets
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Out of 11 votes - Similar Artists: Her Space Holiday, the Postal Service, Mï¿?m, Sigur Ros
Out of 11 votes
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Indie Pop
Editor's review
With its dreamy synths, lasertronic FX, and tender lyricism, Andrew Futral's space-pop project might detail another engagement in the larger war against the pink robots. But not all time is spent as Yoshimi's mercenary; Age also accrues major debts to the subsuming keyboards of "Kid A"-era Radiohead.
Biography
Andrew Futral, the caffeinated thrust behind The Age of Rockets, began the group in 2003 after a small nervous breakdown and impromptu trip to Montreal, Canada. His previous band, after being together for 7 years, had dissolved less than 24 hours beforehand in a glorious explosion of fists and infidelity.
Futral stumbled across a sound that is both soothing and terror-stricken by accidentally crossing his chronic heartache with his functional alcoholism. The result is The Age of Rockets, a combination of pop melancholy melodies, ambient synth and glitch electronic programming, pocket orchestras and acoustic guitar.
The Age of Rocketsï¿? influences include: Mid-era Radiohead (Kid A & OK Computer); Indie darlings The Postal Service and Dntel; Icelandic minimalist pop bands Mï¿?m and Sigur Ros; as well as pre-ï¿?Jessieï¿?s Girlï¿? Rick Springfield, Erik Satie, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, Red Wine, Dinosaurs, (his soul mate) Lisa Loeb.
The debut full-length synth pop CD ï¿?The Drive Homeï¿? serves as a requiem to the end of college and the very real, very imminent end of the world. It began as Andrew's final senior project as a student at the music conservatory at Purchase College, and, after winning the 2005 song of the year in pop music category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, he was given the funds to properly publish and release it.
In the remaining 6 years before the world is destroyed in 2012 AD, Andrew hopes to release many more albums and play many more shows, try every food there is and perform his freeform dance / spoken word rendition of the classic James Bond film, ï¿?From Russia with Love.ï¿?
