Portland indie-pop veterans Rocketship recently reissued their essential 1996 album A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness for its 30th anniversary and reunited for their first tour in eight years. This is not a strictly nostalgic enterprise, though. Rocketship have a new album called Hurt Feelings on the way, and its lead single maintains the band's standard of excellence.
"New Threats" (not from the soul, AFAIK) is a dreamy and sophisticated update on the band's classic style, steering their fuzzed-out and demure guitar pop in an eclectic direction that reminds me of '90s contemporaries from Stereolab to Olivia Tremor Control. Whisper along to it below. TRACKLIST:01 "Lovers"02 "Passing Clouds"03 "The Fresh American"04 "Hotwired for Love"05 "Still Illin'"06 "Hurt Feelings"07 "New Threats"08 "Dewy-Eyed Doe-Nix!"09 "More Tearz"10 "O Grande Amor" Hurt Feelings is out 10/30 on Darla.
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