The Rocket Summer: Do You Feel

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After releasing two mildly successful indie albums, lead Rocket Summer songwriter Bryce Avary signed to the same major label as Fall Out Boy. And in 2005, along with a string of corporate handlers, he began trying to replicate the pop-star status that has thus far only greeted him in Japan, perhaps because the infectious mall-emo sing-alongs and delicate indie-pop guitars of his 2003 debut, Calendar Days, were often too unfocused to truly move the stateside masses.