Currently on a sold out USA tour and on the eve of a run of European dates that will conclude their debut album campaign, We Were Promised Jetpacks have announced the release of an EP/ mini-album entitled ‘The Last Place That You’ll Look’ through FatCat on 12th April. The tracks will be available digitally with a physical version sold exclusively at the shows.
Featuring rewrites of two tracks from 2009’s thunderous debut ‘These Four Walls’ alongside new pieces, this new EP demonstrates a heartbreakingly tender side of band that might more usually be found crashing guitars and cymbals into a spirited, exhilarating cacophony. Intended to occupy the musical space between the volume of ‘These Four Walls’’ highest peaks and its quietest plateaux, this EP is the sound of a young band testing the breadth of their song writing skills.
‘This Is My House, This Is My Home’ – a track taken from the full-length – is slowed, subdued and accorded a breathtaking, beautiful string arrangement, while ‘Short Burst’s new vocal harmonies and lamenting finale yields a result very different from the album version, both gripping and stirring in an entirely new way. The three new tracks, are also musically at a distance from the band’s last recorded work, closer to The National, Low, or even Labradford than to the Futureheads/ U2 references that trailed ‘These Four Walls’.
Driven by a cinematic brass arrangement and piano and the familiar, building structure that also features in much of the band’s musical output thus far, ‘A Far Cry’ demonstrates the height of vigour and noisiness found on this EP - sinewy guitar lines filling out a busy rhythm and almost military-style drumming – while the greater body is enveloping, poignant and on the same vast emotional plane as bands such as Sigur Rós or Explosions In The Sky.
The European dates as follows:
15 Apr - Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London
16 Apr - La Fleche D'or, Paris
18 Apr - Knust, Hamburg
20 Apr - Gleis 22, Muenster
21 Apr - Werkstatt, Cologne
22 Apr - Schlacthof, Wiesbaden
23 Apr - Beatpol, Dresden
24 Apr - Lido, Berlin
26 Apr - Melkweg, Amsterdam
We Were Promised Jetpacks is:
Adam Thompson (vocals, guitar), Michael Palmer (guitar), Sean Smith (bass), Darren Lackie (drums)
Featuring rewrites of two tracks from 2009’s thunderous debut ‘These Four Walls’ alongside new pieces, this new EP demonstrates a heartbreakingly tender side of band that might more usually be found crashing guitars and cymbals into a spirited, exhilarating cacophony. Intended to occupy the musical space between the volume of ‘These Four Walls’’ highest peaks and its quietest plateaux, this EP is the sound of a young band testing the breadth of their song writing skills.
‘This Is My House, This Is My Home’ – a track taken from the full-length – is slowed, subdued and accorded a breathtaking, beautiful string arrangement, while ‘Short Burst’s new vocal harmonies and lamenting finale yields a result very different from the album version, both gripping and stirring in an entirely new way. The three new tracks, are also musically at a distance from the band’s last recorded work, closer to The National, Low, or even Labradford than to the Futureheads/ U2 references that trailed ‘These Four Walls’.
Driven by a cinematic brass arrangement and piano and the familiar, building structure that also features in much of the band’s musical output thus far, ‘A Far Cry’ demonstrates the height of vigour and noisiness found on this EP - sinewy guitar lines filling out a busy rhythm and almost military-style drumming – while the greater body is enveloping, poignant and on the same vast emotional plane as bands such as Sigur Rós or Explosions In The Sky.
The European dates as follows:
15 Apr - Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London
16 Apr - La Fleche D'or, Paris
18 Apr - Knust, Hamburg
20 Apr - Gleis 22, Muenster
21 Apr - Werkstatt, Cologne
22 Apr - Schlacthof, Wiesbaden
23 Apr - Beatpol, Dresden
24 Apr - Lido, Berlin
26 Apr - Melkweg, Amsterdam
We Were Promised Jetpacks is:
Adam Thompson (vocals, guitar), Michael Palmer (guitar), Sean Smith (bass), Darren Lackie (drums)
