We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls (From Salisbury Journal)

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

10:09am Thursday 25th June 2009

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Artist - We Were Promised Jetpacks
Album - These Four Walls
Label - FatCat

Into the space between Frightened Rabbit and Maximo Park jump We Were Promised Jetpacks, which must go down as one of the more inspired band names of recent years.

The four piece band are uncannily close to their Glaswegian mates in approach - dour humour and brooding intensity - and approach, an anthemic acoustic-y rock.

Like them too, this is fantastic stuff - spiky belligerence and dynamically exciting, with an acid wit and dry observational lyrics.

There is a wonderful slate-y tone to the whole album, which is comfortable with the more-indie-than-Snow-Patrol style, the occasional modern jagged guitar break and the use of anthem.

We may have been promised jetpacks when we were younger, but instead we have a resurgence of great guitar-based indie rock from our own shores, and at least one of those things makes the journey to work a whole lot easier.

Songs like It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning and Quiet Little Voices should make the band significant in the UK scene.

Rating 8/10
Mike Rea

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