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The Quaker City Night Hawks Sam Anderson and David Matsler on vocals and guitars, Pat Adams on bass, Aaron Haynes on drums are a Southern band, to be sure. But its not the South weve come to expect from rock & roll. Equally influenced by ZZ Top and science fiction, the Dallas Observers Best Band Of 2015 write of landscapes both familiar and foreign and they deliver their El Astronauta debut on Lightning Rod Records.
Eras collide in every aspect of the album, from the title which merges Texas Spanish and Mexican roots with its role at the centre of the modern space race to its pop art cover, which depicts a classic 70s hot rod thats been modified into a spacecraft hovering over an exotic desert landscape.
Mockingbird plays out as a classic-rock road warriors tale souped-up for the 22nd Century, while Liberty Bell 7 re-imagines current-day border issues through the eyes of a space coyote smuggling illegal immigrants on and off the planet. The track, engineered by Centromatics Matt Pence, is named from a real NASA mission from 1961.
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