The Society of Rockets

About the Band’s Latest Release

Veteran SF indie rock outfit The Society of Rockets returns with a sumptuous set of spiritual pop hymnals, in the tradition of George Harrison, Richard Hawley, Spiritualized, and Gene Clark. Painstakingly assembled from over two years’ worth of recording sessions and augmented by a heavenly host of horns, strings, analog keys, chiming guitars and a makeshift choir.

'Tough Trip Through Paradise' is the Rockets' 8th full-length LP. It marks 20 years from the band's first album, "Sunset Homes", and 25 years from the inception of the band on the San Francisco scene as the kaleidoscopic-pop collective Shimmer Kids Underpop Association.

Recorded and mixed in San Francisco's legendary Hyde Street Studios, the LP was recorded live by the band with minimal overdubs. In keeping with the live feel of the LP, the band mixed the album by hand with producer Chris Cline (...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Scrabbel, STEREO IS A LIE), manipulated faders, pots, and switches in real time. The album was then mastered for vinyl by Gary Hobish (Willie Nelson, Dr. John, Creedence Clearwater Revival).

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The video above is From the Society of Rockets album "Unearthed" (January 2022) Video directed and hand animated by Lorelei David. (c) Monotreme Publishing 2022.

“Up until 2003, the Society was known as the Shimmer Kids Underpop Association. The core personnel remained mostly the same, but the tone of the band's music changed, or at least it did for their first two releases under the name. Whereas the Shimmer Kids records had a bright, poppy tone characterized by Beach Boys harmonies and whirring theremin, the initial Society of Rockets albums were slower and more subdued.” - Pitchfork