Awesome Scottish indie rock band We Were Promised Jetpacks had the pleasure of playing the Daytrotter Sessions this week. The band is made up of Adam Thompson, Michael Palmer, Sean Smith and Darren Lackie. During the session, they played songs off their album These Four Walls. From Daytrotter: “The band [...] makes its music feel as if there’s nothing like a good catharsis, something to jar the system – as if the smelling salts had been brought out and, suddenly, things are different. There’s nothing quite like getting those personal injustices off of a chest, just rearing back and letting loose with some pent up rustling, trying to push the moon further back in the sky by a couple hundred feet. It’s an emotional stream of thought that [singer] Thompson taps into and his bandmates execute, bringing to life all of the feelings that were already feeling very lively within them, hurting them a bit as they simmered and grew into meaningful assignments of blame. There’s a desire and a yearning on the group’s last full-length, These Four Walls, that want for just a little something more, any kind of replacement of the stagnancy for something that’s charged, something that’s a bit scary. It’s a plea for youth again and it’s a plea for such things that make us choke on our breaths again, anything that will get us worked up.” Listen to their session here.
Daytrotter is known for selecting unique and impressive artists, so this is quite an accomplishment for Jetpacks. They now join the ranks of fellow IODA artists that have played on the Daytrotter Sessions such as Frightened Rabbit, J. Tillman, Alela Diane, Brother Ali, Deastro, Andrew W.K., Christopher Denny, David Karsten Daniels, Sean Hayes, The Papercuts, Nina Nastasia and more.
We Were Promised Jetpacks
“Ships With Holes Will Sink” (mp3)
from “These Four Walls”
(Fat Cat Records)
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Frightened Rabbit
“Head Rolls Off” (mp3)
from “The Midnight Organ Fight”
(Fat Cat Records)
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Brother Ali
“Us” (mp3)
from “Us”
(Rhymesayers Entertainment)
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Alela Diane
“The Rifle” (mp3)
from “The Pirate’s Gospel”
(Holocene Music)
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Christopher Denny
“Gypsy Into A Carpenter” (mp3)
from “Age Old Hunger”
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