We Were Promised Jetpacks made what has become probably my favourite record of 2009 in “These Four Walls” (yes I know I should do a full review), and to finish the year they are releasing a double A-side “It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning”/ “Ships With Holes Will Sink” which are two of my favourites off a consistently fantastic album.
In a year that has been dominated by the resurgence of folk and synth-pop, it is always good to have such undeniably talented indie rockers reminding us of quite how good they can be.
It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning drives through from start to finish with rushing, distorted guitars, which is broken by soft Edinburgh-accented vocals, with the whole song rising to a wall of sound crescendo. A song that is beautiful as it is brutal.
Ships with Holes will Sink pulls in double-time beating drums, held guitar chords and a more aggressive vocal line. The song continually builds and then falls back to a beat and bass led verse, which then get pulled back by the force of singer Adam Thompson’s vocals.
The AA single is released on 30th November, and whilst I can’t share the MP3s of that, here we have a great live version of Ships with Holes will Sink recorded at The Mill in Glasgow (find more live MP3s here)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Ships with Holes will Sink (live)
…and then another of my favourites from the album, and a past single “Quiet Little Voices” (buy the 7″ here)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
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We Were Promised Jetpacks LIVE
Nov 25th – Manchester Roadhouse
Nov 26th – Liverpool Korova
Nov 27th – Sheffield Leadmill
Nov 29th – Glasgow King Tutts
Dec 31st – Edinburgh Hogmanay Street Party
…and here we’ve got them playing “Conductor” live at the Borderline on 17/11/2009
i LOVE the song Quiet Little Voices. It’s probably my favorite of theirs. I didn’t know they were from Edinburgh – that just makes them so much better. :) thanks for the post.
I thought they were from Glasgow for ages until a friend put me right – they just moved there early on.
There’s barely a bad track on the whole album – it’s an absolute gem in my opinion. I’ve not managed to catch them live yet though which frustrates me as I imagine it to be quite an impressive live sound.
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