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Liftoff - Sunday Morning Airplay - CD instores Feb 7
Fort Knox Recordings presents “Sunday Morning Airplay”, the debut release from Washington DC’s, Liftoff.
On the album, Liftoff take flight on a blissed-out journey drenched in acid-soaked melodies and 808 beats. Escape into the void and join them on their infinite quest for endless summers and higher states.
Featuring 13 songs for the new flower power generation, Liftoff invites you to sing along with their psychedelic campfire songs amidst strawberry fields and marshmeadows.
Guitar/Singer/Songwriter Steven Albert (Fort Knox Five and Thunderball) leads the band with vocal pipes so tender and true they send one’s astral projection straight to the year the music died. Coupled with the haunting harmonies of Johnna Raskin (aka Miss Johnna M of Thunderball and Speedy Consuela), you’d swear they were a brother/sister act, if not The Mamas and The Papas!
But that’s just the icing. The cake is layer upon layer of textures, lo-fi samples, drum loops, acoustic instruments & sound effects, played, produced and mixed by the inimitable Steve Raskin (Fort Knox Five and Thunderball) who, for this album, seems to have been working from a higher plane.
Throw in Rob Myers (Fort Knox Five, Thievery Corporation, Thunderball, See-I and International Velvet) for a little mood filtering, string strumming, the obligatory sitar riff, and you have a recipe for one heady trip.
Interestingly, this is an album that almost never was! All of the tracks were started with such innocence, daring, and musical curiosity that little attention was paid to data protection. Drives were lost, entire systems were wiped clean; nothing but a stereo mix remains of the entire recording session!
The songs were built, dreamt and tracked in the dawn of the new millenium, and finally realized this year. The result is nothing less than Fort Knox Recordings’ very own version of “Smile”.
So light up and tune in to “Sunday Morning Airplay” and lose yourself in the dreamy lo-fi glow of Liftoff.
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“I had Saint Etienne dreams of chillwave proportions. The band is a new collaboration of Steven Albert, Steve and Johnna Raskin (of Speedy Consuela), and Thievery Corporation’s Rob Myers. Together they don’t just create sounds; instead, they lay out rich soundscapes that recall the aforementioned Etienne,
Calexico (by way of Ennio Morricone), and Portishead.” – The Vinyl District
“Sunday Morning Airplay is a gorgeous record that breezes on by whether its with vocals of ambient passages, sitars or beats. This is an album that washes over you and soothes your mind as it progresses through each of its thirteen songs.” – Pop Stereo
“Creating psychedelic soundscapes that move between various altered states, Liftoff is not to be missed.” – Brightest Young Things
“Impressive and expansive soundscapes, trippy vibes, and a diverse sound palette all contribute to making Liftoff’s Sunday Morning Airplay a great record. A perfectly named band with a perfectly named album; it’s almost as if this was all supposed to happen.” – First Coast News
Tracklisting
Autumn
Summer’s Shown
Off Yer Feet
Shine
High Sis
EmilyMaryAliceKatherine
Kool It Man
The Morning
Nothing is Something
Right on Track
Marshmeadows
Feathered Up
Song for Sharon
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