Watch Out for Rockets

Aaron from Austin band Watch Out for Rockets hit me up the other day on the release of their new album 'Beasts with Hearts of Gold'. Its a great piece of varied lo-fi and well worth a listen over at their myspace. Some songs like 'Lift off Cloud Controller' have a shoe-gazey sort of feel while tracks like 'Heart Popper' have a definite indie twang that reminds me of something Modest Mouse would have done in one of their early albums.



Great Bio too (shamelessly poached from their myspace) which is no doubt 100% true:

"In 2007 David T. Jones journeyed to a small village in Nicaragua to teach Dadaist art to the village children. On his third day there a war between rival drug cartels erupted. Afraid for his life, Jones found shelter in an abandoned church. For two weeks he hid out in the church, surviving only on wafers and wine. His meager diet, vast amounts of alcohol and isolation soon led Jones to suffer severe delusions and hallucinations.

As luck would have it his brother Aaron Rimbey, and friend Lucas Urbanski were touring Spanish architecture in South America at the same time. In a strange twist of fate they came upon Jones in the abandoned church, finishing the very last of the wine.

Rimbey and Urbanski nursed Jones back to health, but the drug war had once again made it too dangerous to leave the church. One day they stumbled upon a 4 track tape recorder and instruments that had been left behind by the church band. To fill the endless void of their days they began recording impromptu songs. Two weeks later they had a collection of 17 songs which make up their debut album-Let Me Levitate.

Three months after the American Embassy learned of the plight of Jones, Rimbey, and Urbanski they came to the rescue and put them on a plane headed to America. In September of 2008 they released the album, and Jones headed to The United Arab Emirates to teach scream therapy to political prisoners."


So head on over and check them out.

And if you like it - BUY IT