Artist Profile

Millsted

Millsted is breathing new air with their second full length album The

Great Adventures of the Gold Red Rocket. The band’s ambition and

sound have finally caught up to one another, having courted surf rock,

tinges of 60’s soul and dashed it with their controlled noise forte to

produce a sonically explosive record that will leave your central

nervous system heightened and your heart fluttering from its bombast.

The band has crafted its most mature work to date, etching lucid piano

driven triumphs “Belgium” and “The New Japan”, all the while tearing

the skies open and searching for danceable lighting on tracks “ The

Gold Red Rocket” and “Coffins of Love”, all of which have been stamped

with crafty vocal sweets.

The band has set leaner melodies to meander over the potency of the

rhythm section’s new found less-is-more-is-better mentality. The

guitars on The Gold Red Rocket have also become a seamless one-two

punch of raucous hooks and twitch happy riffs, nothing short of

entertaining and clever.

The band’s sound has shifted in scope and dynamic as well as their

writing, echoing Sgt. Pepper-esque grandiose scheme incorporating horn

sections and focused conceptual ideas. If London Calling was the last

important rock record to be released, then The Gold Red Rocket will at

least make rock music viable once more. Nothing short of fresh and

clever, The Adventures of the Gold Red Rocket will leave you in awe,

it will leave you intrigued and it will leave you wanting more. Look

for the album release in the fall of 2009.