Transition

Sad Rockets is actually one man, the not-very-sad-at-all-really Andrew Peckler, an American who resides in Germany. What Sad Rockets is about is more difficult to tell you, since the music here sways gently from trance to jazz to hip-hop and just when you think you’ve got a handle on it a Hammond organ drifts by and whoosh, it’s gone.

‘Boogie Electronic’ is a piece unique in my experience in that it’s a hysterically funny dance track, (and no I wasn’t). ’Twenty Six’ is a soundtracky slice of musique-noir that sounds like the theme from Taxi on heroin, while ‘Winters Over’ hints at the artists American roots with an evocative piece that made me think of squinting eyes and Arizona deserts. Transition is a dreamy, and unexpected, aural pleasure. It’s the sort of album that makes you regret you’ll never hear all the music everybody’s ever made, because you know you’re missing some beautiful stuff. Like this. Treat yourself.