Your toes are invited to tap along with a webcast of our second album.
Mudpuddle Park is available everywhere from our dear friends at Indiepages.
Compact discs are $10 and cassette tapes from Best Kept Secret are $6 postage paid.
"Mudpuddle Park is filled with pop ditties that shuffle along
with both a classic Tin Pan Alley sound and a psychedelic 60s vibe.
The lyrics are emotion-packed yet offbeat.
They're portraits of times, places and nature that contain as many
non-sequitors and puzzles as they do feelings.
Nature seems to play a decently big role in the album,
yet it's always dealt with more as a mystery than something pat and easy to box in.
Musically it's a very upbeat, fun album, yet there's always a sense
of something deeper going on, something beyond what we see."
Dave Heaton
Erasing Clouds
Issue #12
"Mudpuddle Park is an album full of influences from 60s,
with strong aspects of early R.E.M. and Pink Floyd of Barrett's age...
Honestly, it was a long long time and I didn't come across songs made like these ones
-- it seemed that everybody had forgotten the lessons of the 80s psychedelic revival,
but Sauvie Island Moon Rocket Factory didn't.
GREAT!
Put your hands on Mudpuddle Park."
Komakino
Italy
Issue #10
"Listening to their first Best Kept Secret cassette, Mudpuddle Park,
I was often reminded of 60s pop-psych, perhaps a lá Olivia Tremor Control,
and the Rocket Factory's arrangements are sophisticated
given the relative simplicity of the music.
Among my favorites are the trippy 'Cathedral Glass' and spacey 'Lower Macleay.'
'Magicubism' is similar but has a strong Beatles feel,
kind of like a valium laced 'Baby You're A Rich Man.'
And the boys even get a little cosmically experimental on 'Airplane Trap.'
If you dig a good song, well executed within the confines of the basement,
then you should definitely check these folks out."
Jerry Kranitz
Aural Innovations
Issue #22
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