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Rocketship

City of Origin: Sacramento, CA, USA

Period of Activity: 1990s, late 2010s

Members: Adam Bayer, Angie Fritz, Ellen Osborn, Dustin Reske, Heidi Barney (former), Verna Brock (former), Jim Rivas (former)

Related Artists: Beanpole, Holiday Flyer

Discography:

• "Hey, Hey Girl" (1994, single)
• "Honey I Need You" (1995, single)
• A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (1996)
• "All the Pleasures" (1997, single)
• Split single with Capsule Giants (1998)
• Garden of Delights (1998)
• Split single with Henry's Dress (1999)
• Split EP with Trace (2003)
• Here Comes... Rocketship (2006)
• Thanks to You (2019)
• Split EP with The Cat's Miaow

Social Media: Bandcamp | Instagram

Rocketship sometimes will get called shoegaze-adjacent or tweegaze or things like that, but it's really not true. They don't do that much with distortion, at least not the way I usually think of them sounding. Instead, they've got this really loud organ blaring over everything which I think is a lot of it. Overall they kind of sound like Stereolab's album Mars Audiac Quintet to me, except again, with a louder organ. Basically, if you really love the organ then this is the band for you, and if you don't then it's really not.