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Outside of garage rock, lo-fi’s no longer all the rage, but Watch Out for Rockets has some fun with it. Led by Murdocks drummer David Jones, the local trio’s sophomore outing is a kaleidoscopic, 20-song trip of carnival beats (“Cattle Prod”) and rough-draft pop songs (“Lift Off Cloud Controller”) that one-ups the minutemen antics of the Coke Dares.
This article appears in July 24 • 2009.
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