We were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder and It’s Lightening/ Ships With Holes Will Sink

• 25th Nov 2009

There is so much soul, suggestion and sympathy intended in this E.P that at times it sounds like a script from a gritty Channel 4 drama.

Apologies, social context and violent desire trigger the themes in this E.P and backed up with melodiously bleak segments of music, We Were Promised Jetpacks show all the signs that they could follow in the tradition of Biffy Clyro, Twin Atlantic and Glasvegas, the Last Kings of Scotland and forge thier own destiny, a drooping and dense destiny; standing alone in the rain.

To do that however, they will have to add some magic to their melodrama, as although “It’s Thunder and Its Lightning” and “Ships With Holes will Sink” are deviant stabs at the indie pop world by being both mean and morose, a riff that makes you shuffle and shake feels needed. Once they have that though, the Franz Ferdinand swagger, they will be ready to join their countrymen and proclaim that there is more than the Proclaimers in Scottish history.