Review Summary: Let There Be Rock
We Were Promised Jetpacks. By far one of the most original and coolest names for a band... ever! It takes me back to the early 90's and reminds me of the movie called The Rocketeer, feeding a desire that has been haunting man for forever... flight.
When the album starts with It's Thunder and It's Lightning you can't help but stop what you are doing, and listen. Once the vocals start during the triumphant build-up one very apparent fact does pop into your head, these guys are Scottish, very Scottish, and they know exactly how to grab a listener and suck them into a wall of Indie Rock majesty!
We Were Promised Jetpacks are from Scotland, with their roots in Edinburgh. Started by four friends from school in 2003, their first gig was the school's Battle of the Bands competition, which they won. The perfect boost to any band's morale I would say. After school they moved to Glasgow to try their hand at the bigger clubs. And now that they were all above the legal drinking age they could get into, and play in many of the finer drinking establishments in Scotland, the ones where they do check the age of their patrons. Now they are proving their worth and have toured all over the world, making a name for themselves, and well deserving too.
I am a huge fan of Indie music, the sound, the feeling the memories, it really does invoke a certain spirit in me. One that lives in a smoke-filled, questionable clubs with sticky floors, cheap drinks and easy temptations. But you someone always had a great time, an usually you remember the music and the bands who played, if nothing else. We Were Promised Jetpacks tick all the right boxes for a really class act, many Indie do fade away into obscurity, or just get lost in the back room of the iffy nightclub. But I firmly believe We Were Promised Jetpacks are here to say, they remind me of a younger Biffy Clyro, but are in no way in their shadow. These boys have their own sound and will gain their own successes. Not that I wouldn't want to see them tour together, think they could be a great compliment to each other.
We Were Promised Jetpacks have arrived and I here to stay, and if the members get a chance to read this little blog of mine, then I can say I really look forward to the next album, and will be getting hold of the new EP as soon as possible.
