Remembering The Rockets

On its third full-length Remembering The Rockets, Strange Ranger continues to excel attranslating the way intimacy can feel so overwhelmingly gigantic. With a dozen releasesacross its 10 years as a band, the Philly-via-Portland-via-Montana group has traversedgenres, moods and textures while maintaining one important throughline: an explorationof closeness.2016s double-LP Rot Forever was a 72-minute freakout that paired Built To Spill grandiositywith early Modest Mouse intensity. On the 2017 follow-up Daymoon (Tiny Engines), StrangeRanger hung up the distortion pedals and traded caustic yelps for Alex G-esque croons. Itwas a synth-adorned, insular bedroom-pop record that floated rather than soared, and theband opted for lyrical impressionism over the hyper-specific outbursts of the debut.Farontman Isaac Eigers writing style reads like a loose assembly of quotes from conversationshes had with others spliced with his own, private introspections. He is a modern masterof conveying the anxiety and uncertainty of growing older through a mixture of childhoodnostalgia and interpersonal tidbits. Theres plenty of that on Remembering The Rockets , butafter all of these years of singing about Eigers own coming-of-age story, the album approachesthe quandary of whether hell ever be able to impart that processthrough which hes reaped somuch artistic joy and curiosityonto someone else.For a topic as severe as ecological collapse affecting his own parental aspirationsas wellas other melancholy

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Format: Cassette
Artist: Strange Ranger
Release Date: 26 July 2019
Genre: Rock
Label: Redeye/Tiny Engines
Distributor: MGM Music