More hot press for Rocketship Park, this time from AM New York and the blog Big Diction

Oh man, the 'ship is taking flight. The debut record Off and Away is hot like hot fire!

Earlier this week New York #1 free daily newspaper AM New York ran a little blurbie about the record. They called it "perfect chillin' in the summer music." Hell yeah! And they put it in there right next to the hotly anticipated new Silver Jews record so that alone is exciting.



And here's a sweet write up from an excellent music blog called Big Dic-tion. Read the wonderful words John Michael Cassetta wrote about Rocketship Park, and the song "Birthday Death Wish" in particular. Here's a quick excerpt: "I thought I’d heard some of the best string arrangements of the year on Shearwater’s new album Rook, but Rocketship Park have been equally impressive, if in a different way... The strings aren’t this song’s only qualities. “Birthday Death Wish,” off Off and Away (which came out earlier this year on Serious Business Records), is a soft melodic sampling of Josh Kaufman’s songwriting. Kaufman, who heads up the project, has a voice that compliments the style well, rising up out of the atmospheric tones of the strings and pedal steel to croon a few melancholy lyrics, like the one that leads the song: “In a little while no voice is recognized / We struggle with ‘Hello’ mingle and say goodbyes.” On top of that, the whole song reverberates with the air of good old country rock, a quality that rarely leads a listener astray." Read the whole big hot wonderful piece right here. Well said. Thanks! Way to focus on the strings. That is Karen Waltuch playing the viola on that track. She's completely incredible. Her hands are the same ones who played all the stings on Wilco's "Jesus Etc." and lots of other Jim O'Rourke productions. Support her work because it is amazing. Fans of the strings on the Rocketship Park record can look forward to hearing the lovely Ms. Waltuch playing Mr. Kaufman's arrangements on future SBR releases from Higgins and Secret Dakota Ring.

DOWNLOAD: "Birthday Death Wish" [MP3]
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