Artist: We Were Promised Jetpacks
Title: The Last Place You'll Look
Label: FatCat
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 193kbit av.
Time: 00:19:33
Size: 28.55 mb
Rip Date: 2010-03-15
Str Date: 2010-04-12
01. A Far Cry 4:52
02. Short Bursts (Alternate Version) 3:37
03. The Walls Are Wearing Thin 1:52
04. With The Benefit Of Hindsight 4:12
05. This Is My House, This Is My Home (Alternate Version) 5:00
Release Notes:
Featuring rewrites of tracks from 2009Æs glorious debut album æThese
Four WallsÆ alongside new pieces, this new mini-album from ScotlandÆs
We Were Promised Jetpacks û titled æThe Last Place YouÆll LookÆ û
demonstrates a heartbreakingly tender side of a band that might
otherwise be crashing guitars and cymbals into a frenzied, exhilarating
thunder. Intended to occupy the musical space between the volume of
æThese Four WallsÆÆ highest peaks and its quietest plateaux, this EP is
the sound of a young band exercising the breadth of their own
songwriting voice.
æThis Is My House, This Is My HomeÆ û a track taken from the
full-length û is slowed, subdued and accorded a breathtaking, beautiful
string arrangement, while æShort BurstÆÆs new vocal harmonies and
lamenting finale yields a result very different from the album version,
a result that is gripping and stirring in an entirely new way. Three
new tracks, also musically removed from the bandÆs last recorded work,
are closer to The National, Low, or even Labradford than to The
Futureheads/Gang of Four references that trailed æThese Four WallsÆ.
Driven by a cinematic brass arrangement and piano and the familiar,
building structure that also features in much of the bandÆs musical
output thus far, æA Far CryÆ demonstrates the height of vigour and
noisiness found on this EP - sinewy guitar lines filling out a busy
rhythm and almost military-style drumming û while the greater body is
enveloping, poignant and on the same vast emotional plane as bands such
as Sigur R≤s or Explosions In The Sky.
Tellingly, æThese Four WallsÆ was a summer release, full of huge
choruses and of an intrinsically raw, youthful passion bursting from
every track. æThe Last Place YouÆll LookÆ, contrastingly, was written
and recorded by the band during the depths of winter, and a wistful,
longing melancholia resonates through the record like a translation of
that immediate environment.
Recorded with the bandÆs sound engineer Andrew Bush (partly in his
studio and partly in his kitchen), this EP marks a creative departure
from the songwriting techniques that marked æThese Four WallsÆ. The
recording of the bandÆs full length was a process of translating
completed compositions into accurate representations. Working on this
EP, working within a tight two-week deadline, the band were given the
demanding (but ultimately rewarding) task of entering the studio
without finalised form or structure. With rough sketches and older
versions of tracks as starting places, the band assembled new pieces of
music and, with Bush, new orchestral arrangements that bemoan and pique
in lush unison.
sire@hush.ai