THE ROCKET SUMMER: Stuck Inside Your Light Friday, 20 January 2023 19:20 by madseason
The Rocket Summer - Stuck Inside Your Light

The Rocket Summer has returned with his new single, Stuck Inside Your Light today. Extracting bits of trip hop, electro and shoegaze, the track swirls around like a cyclone around his trademark epic chorus. The track arrives alongside an abstract, VFX heavy music video. Watch it now clicking on the image.

"Stuck Inside Your Light started with a burst of auditory illumination in my studio," says The Rocket Summer brainchild Bryce Avary. "Within minutes of picking this simple, darkly-ominous-but-happy melody, I played a quick swung groove on an MPC drum machine and my Minimoog bass synth, and blasted it on loop… I felt like I was being pulled upwards and hovering in this multi-colored spaceship of positivity."

Capturing similar earthy soundscapes that were featured on previous single M4U and injecting rhythm-based trip hop textures, Stuck Inside Your Light showcases steady, hip-hop tinged drums and sparse looping guitar patterns that give Avary's vocals room to breathe during the verses and soar during the uplifting chorus. This all coalesces into a sudden symphony of psychedelia guitars in the bridge, before finalizing with one last chorus as the synths and guitars squeal louder and louder. "I hope this song lifts people. It was fun for me to create a story within the instrumentation that sounded like the chain of events of being abducted and beamed up in flight. Living within the bright sparks of writing a new song has always been my main vice," says Avary.

The accompanying mesmerizing music video depicts a mercurial being witnessing prismatic lights and kaleidoscopic displays explode into desert blooms. The hypnotizingly gorgeous video complements the music's circular melody. "Originally I had been writing fictional stories to release as short films and/or comics and it was a massive catalyst for the music I made for this season," says Avary. "I was essentially making soundtracks to these unreleased films stuck in my mind. While ultimately the music became the king for me, that practice of writing completely separate fictional stories really opened creative floodgates musically that I'd never really experienced before. Last year I met Seth Ringger, a visual artist, and asked him if he wanted to make a video. I lightly touched on some of the themes of the stories I was originally working on and I was amazed at what he came back with on his own. It was life giving for me to see some hints of those original ideas that informed the sonic nature of this music come full circle with this project."

100,000: the new video for THE ROCKET SUMMER Monday, 17 September 2012 22:05 by madseason
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Clicking on the image on the left you can watch the official music video for "100,000", the new single for The Rocket Summer, the solo-project of the Texan indie pop-rocker Bryce Avary.

"100,000" is from TRS's fifth full-length studio record, "Life Will Write The Words", released last June and recorded during August and September of 2011 in Dallas/Fort Worth at producer/engineer Steve Rokks' personal studio as well as Harbor House Studios. As with previous albums, Avary wrote and performed every note on this album.

Free ROCKET SUMMER Wednesday, 25 May 2011 12:51 by madseason

 

The Rocket Summer is the alternative rock solo-project of texan singer/multi-instrumentalist Bryce Avary.

His last studio album, "Of Men And Angels", held the #1 Top Album spot on iTunes upon its release on February 23, 2010.

On October 19, 2010, Avary released a 5-track Ep called "Of Men And Angels: B-Sides": it contained songs that didn't make the cut of the full-length.

Now he's back with an acoustic live album, simply titled "Bryce Avary, His Instruments And Your Voices". You can have it for free with a "Click to Download" on the image on the left.

 

THE ROCKET SUMMER – OF MEN AND ANGELS Saturday, 6 March 2010 00:54 by maxare

the rocket summer of men and angels front cover

  • Release Date: 23 Febbraio 2010
  • Etichetta: Island Def Jam
  • Produttore: Stephen Bryce Avary, CJ Eiriksson

 

  • Stephen Bryce Avary - lead vocals and all instruments

 


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Dietro il discutibile monicker di The Rocket Summer si cela una sola persona, il ventisettenne texano Stephen Bryce Avary. La sua voce è stata spesso paragonata a quella di Michael Jackson ma, personalmente, ritengo che sia piuttosto una copia di Taylor Hanson, lead vocalist degli Hanson, il cui timbro vocale ha molto più in comune con the King of Pop di quanto ne possa avere quella di Avary.

Non conosco gli inizi della carriera di questa one-man band e non so il motivo per cui non abbia messo insieme un gruppo vero e proprio; indiscutibilmente il ragazzo ha del talento, ma non così tanto da poter fare tutto da solo sempre ad alto livello. Il suo è un pop rock gradevole, ha una bella voce e le melodie sono piacevoli, ma gli arrangiamenti (soprattutto della chitarra) lasciano talvolta a desiderare; un vero chitarrista professionista e un aiuto in fase di stesura dei brani (Stephen scrive tutto da solo!) potrebbero dare una marcia in più a queste canzoni, togliendo qualche partitura sgraziata.

Penso all’opener "Roses", dove una sei-corde più pulita donerebbe maggior eleganza ad una canzone altrimenti grezza. Oppure alla title track, in cui l'utilizzo di una chitarra quasi punk rovina una delle più belle canzoni dell’album. Belle così, invece, risultano "You Gotta Believe”, la pianistica "Let You Go" (potrebbe benissimo essere una hit degli Hanson), "Japanese Exchange Students" o l'appassionante "Nothing Matters".

Insomma, date ad Avary qualche compagno di avventura che lo faccia crescere e potrà diventare un grande artista; al momento rimane uno in mezzo a tanti, senza infamia e senza lode.

Detto questo, onestà critica impone di evidenziare come il mio parere non trovi tutti concordi: pensate che i numerosi fan del nostro texano hanno permesso a "Of Men And Angels" di esordire al numero 1 della classifica di iTunes, mentre su Billboard l'album ha fatto la sua prima comparsa ad una dignitosissima 38ma posizione.
Segnalo, inoltre, che a breve i Rocket Summer accompagneranno due star del calibro di Goo Goo Dolls e OneRepublic in un mini tour di due settimane negli States: mica male!


Tracklist di Of Men And Angels

  • 01. Roses   3.46
  • 02. You Gotta Believe   3.16
  • 03. Hills And Valleys   3.45
  • 04. I Want Something to Live For   3.59
  • 05. Walls   4.48
  • 06. Pull Myself Together (Don't Hate Me)   3.34
  • 07. Of Men and Angels   3.45
  • 08. I Need A Break…But I'd Rather Have A Breakthrough   3.27
  • 09. Nothing Matters   3.25
  • 10. Japanese Exchange Student   3.37
  • 11. Tara, I'm Terrible   3.01
  • 12. Hey!   2.43
  • 13. Let You Go   4.26
  • 14. This Is A Refuge   3.49
  • 15. Light   4.02


Discografia dei The Rocket Summer

  • The Rocket Summer EP (2000 Independent Release)
  • Calendar Days (2003 The Militia Group)
  • Hello, Good Friend (2005 The Militia Group)
  • Do You Feel (2007 Island Def Jam)
  • Of Men And Angels (2010 Island Def Jam)


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