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Scotland alternative pop band We Were Promised Jetpacks appeared on the indie music radar last year when the band went on tour with indie rock band Frightened Rabbit. Now the buzz around We Were Promised Jetpacks is getting louder thanks to their new debut album These Four Walls. The album features a mixture of alternative rock, post punk and indie pop music, at times reminiscent of the Editors, The Strokes.No good explanation can be found online for the origin of the band's name, but it does, and yet also does not, seem to fit. Prefix Magazine put it nicely: "Their name, though quite clever, indicates that they might traffic in the nerd rock of They Might Be Giants or the hipster pop of Phantom Planet. When the earnest voice of Adam Thompson first cuts through the thin veneer of dissonance that blankets nearly every song on These Four Walls, it is almost disorienting."
In addition to Thompson, band members include Michael Palmer (guitar), Sean Smith (bass) and Darren Lackie (drums). The Glasgow band was 'discovered' when folks at Fat Cat Records - label of Sigur Rós, Múm, Animal Collective, The Twilight Sad - had heard some of We Were Promised Jetpacks music on MySpace while browsing the friends section for Frightened Rabbit (who, by the way, are also signed with Fat Cat).
As one of the best debut albums so far this year, These Four Walls, demonstrates that We Were Promised Jetpacks are a band to watch.
"Quiet Little Voices" - We Were Promised Jetpacks from These Four Walls (2009)
"Conductor" - We Were Promised Jetpacks from These Four Walls (2009)
Labels: Bands to Watch 2009, Scottish Bands, We Were Promised Jetpacks
11:07 AM
July 24, 2009
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7 Comments:
Excellent review...Quiet Little Voices has been stuck in my head all month.
Fantastic album. If you haven't heard it already buy it -you won't regret it.
Conductor has to be one my favourite tracks of all time. Brilliant!
great album, great review.
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I listened to "Quiet Little Voices" and "Conductor". The first thing that I noticed was that the same two-note riff appeared in both,This suggests a somewhat limited musical ability. This may not be the case, but this suggests it. The lyrics in the first were a bit repetitious. And both had the same inward-looking self obsessed mood permeating them that I detect in so many indie songs. Now I am being very subjective here, but the vocals SOUND adolescent. The Beatles/Stones etc were very young when they started, but they did not sound it. This bands sound immature. Now as I said, I am being very subjective, and the girls m ay love it.
Excellent, first time hearing them and I'm quite impressed with everything on the new album. Love it.
Great review, think I may look into their other tracks before making the purchase decision. Conductor is much more mature than quite little voices.
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